Manual - Blinkers

[Whiteley]

Hans,

I'm one of the guys who gave you some pain a few weeks back, I had however already copied your manual to a USB-stick and run off to Office-Depot to have a copy printed.  I really like reading your stuff but at the moment I'm still trying to run Gordon's WiringPi to drive some hardware so I'm back in C.  I have managed to punch tape on an old teletype but even that's giving me trouble.

In some respects I think we all have blinkers on, I find myself loading all sorts of Pi packages, hunting the web for solutions, working up to midnight, too weary to wirewrap but on my way to bed still able to send off one last e-mail giving a progress report or asking for help.  I'd think it very frustrating at your end to be receiving bags of wacky queries or worse.  I'd suggest not replying for a week (except mine :), maybe they'll have cooled off by then; for sure I've often slept on a problem and come up with a another tack the next day. 

One thing I've started to do is include my compile line as a comment at the start of the program, which at the moment I'm able to copy and paste into a terminal window.

Another recent problem, on another site, was the font used, there was very little difference between "1", "I" and "l", as in -I/www -L/xxx -lyyy   Instead of  -I/www -L/xxx -lyyy.   I'm all for going 'back' to Times Roman but no doubt it has it's own problems.

Something I read today "God doesn't owe you anything, He was here first!"  You could add that to your tag line.

My thanks again, keep on trucking,

David Whiteley

[Hans Bezemer]

On Sunday 07 April 2013, Whiteley wrote:
Hi David!

> I'm one of the guys who gave you some pain a few weeks back, I had
> however already copied your manual to a USB-stick and run off to
> Office-Depot to have a copy printed.

Don't worry about it. You were nice, polite, asked a question. I was just
worried I'd missed something. Packaging is always a difficult job, always
afraid I'm missing something that could get people in trouble.

> I really like reading your stuff
> but at the moment I'm still trying to run Gordon's WiringPi to drive
> some hardware so I'm back in C. I have managed to punch tape on an old
> teletype but even that's giving me trouble.

I really don't mind if people leave 4tH for a while or even permanent. Like
the Dutch say - good friends, as always.

> In some respects I think we all have blinkers on, I find myself loading
> all sorts of Pi packages, hunting the web for solutions, working up to
> midnight, too weary to wirewrap but on my way to bed still able to send
> off one last e-mail giving a progress report or asking for help.

Having been on the receiving part, I sympathise with you ;-) Without the 4tH
community, I think I would have thrown in the towel ;-)

> I'd think it very frustrating at your end to be receiving bags of wacky
> queries or worse. I'd suggest not replying for a week (except mine :),
> maybe they'll have cooled off by then; for sure I've often slept on a
> problem and come up with a another tack the next day.

Well, at least I've cooled off. Feeling still a bit guilty though because I
lost my cool.

> Something I read today "God doesn't owe you anything, He was here
> first!" You could add that to your tag line.

In FOSS you're never God, because God can fork in this universe. (Just
paraphrasing, no intention to hurt any religious feelings).

Thanks for your support and understanding guys! I needed that!

Hans Bezemer

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