Yeah, this is unfortunate in my eyes. I'm not trying to be a post-aholic, and I am definitely not posting merely to increase post count.
The unfortunate part is the people who look at the numbers alone and think that that's my goal. Or when xoot thought it was okay to be an "insane poster" because of the number of posts I have.
As I mentioned in one thread (don't ask me to find it, I'm tired
), I learn a lot by helping people out with their OS issues. I learn best when I don't know the answer right away, and I can do some diagnosis of the problem. It helps me understand how things are set up, because I don't run into nearly as many problems as the total of the people here do. That sounded kinda funny -- I mean to say that since I am only one person, I only run into so many problems. Since there are thousands of users on the site, I'll see a much wider variety of problems. Because of my Unix background I can sometimes figure out exactly what the problem is. Or at least point the user in the right direction. Kind of like when I know it's probably a permissions problem, or an ownership problem, et cetera.
The other real advantage to this is that the other user gets to see how I diagnose problems, and can usually apply that process to future problems. It's a formula that has worked very well for me in the past (I worked for about 3 years as a lab assistant in the community college computer lab).
So, enough about me. How about I talk about my hike? I just got back from hiking. Man it was hot. I brought almost 3 liters of water, and had no water by the time I got back. I hiked up a local canyon, and went in about 3.5 miles (5.6 km or so). That's a round trip of 7 miles (11.2 km) for the mathematically challenged.
I saw a bunch of lizards (no surprise), a cool green snake, and a cardinal, as well as some incredible geologic formations. Er, uh, those would be rocks.
It was very interesting... It ws especially nice since I went alone, I could go at my own pace, which is usually slower than everyone else.
OK, I'll shut up now...