From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 13:27:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03551 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03534; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07741; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35E863D8.86ACA284@dal.net> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:26:00 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0827 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: flygt@sr.se CC: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running /etc/weekly References: <19980829095417.A6275@sr.se> <19980829101323.A6328@sr.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG CC'ing this to -newbies because it may be of interest there as well. Please trim followups. :) Gunnar Flygt wrote: > How come one has to send a question to questions@freebsd.org to be able > to answer it by oneself? ;-) I realize that you are being humorous here, but there actually are good reasons for this. In no particular order, there are two main reasons. 1) You are switching from primary focus on the objective (solving the problem) to a different primary focus (describing the problem) which gives your tired conscious brain a break and gives your relatively refreshed sub-conscious a chance to work on it. 2) The act of describing the problem to an imaginary objective third party can help you organize your thoughts along different lines, thereby prompting your brain to see a solution it might otherwise have missed. I often compose a "help me" message about a problem, then file it away to send later if further tinkering doesn't actually solve it. In other words, don't feel bad, we've all been there. :) Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message