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Originally Posted by teastman
One of the reasons people go to user forums is to bounce ideas off people who have "been there and done that". In this case it is an office Department server which has been dropping offline periodically and I needed answers quickly.
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I did not see a lot of "idea bouncing" in your message. Just very general questions on the very basics. And, forums are not the best place to go when you need an answer "quickly" since it may take a day or two to get your replies. Spending 5 minutes looking it up on the internet and another 30 minutes reading the info you looked up is much faster in most cases, as I showed you in my first reply.
Quite often, people mistake a forum as a place to go get information spoon fed to them that they were just too lazy to look up, which is exactly what you were doing. How do I know that? Simple. The information you were asking for was easily found in less than 3 minutes on a search engine for the words "load balancing" and "failover" and the information those searches provided your answers in les than 5 minutes of reading. Meaning, you didn't even bother to try to find the information before you asked it or you would have found it pretty quickly.
Further, look at your own first two messages in this thread. Where in there did you tell anyone what the probem was so they could give you possible solutions? If you want to "bounce ideas off of people who have been there done that", maybe you should tell them the problem that needs solved. DUH!
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Originally Posted by teastman
So Phoenix - when you first started out you knew all there ever was to know about Snap servers and how to best use them in an office environment huh?
Of course you did.
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Nope, but then I did a little research on the subject for the basics before I started asking questions and sounding like an idiot. Also, it is pretty obvious my learing curve is much steeper than yours because I seek knowledge in an efficient manner by looking up and reading the tons of material easily found on the internet.
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Originally Posted by teastman
Thank you very much for your help.
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You are very welcome. I hope my short lesson on how to gather information on a subject witht he internet will be helpful now and in the future. Always happy to help those who need it.
Just curious, has anyone reading this figured out yet that this is one of my pet pieves after being an active member of this forum for a long time? And while I am way more vocal about it, I can assure you David and some others feel the same way. We get bombarded with questions in the message threads, PMs, and emails where the answers have been given a hundred times already.
Most of the time, the answers can be found with a simple search on the adaptec/overland knowledge base, in the WIKIs provided here, in past message threads here on the forum, or a simple search engine lookup. It can become quite annoying after a while when you know the question you are answering could have been looked up in less time that it will take you to type the answer you are giving for the 100th time. This is one of the reasons my activity on this forum is slowly but surely fading away and why some others have quit coming here as well. I am just not interested in wasting my time spoon feeding people who are too lazy to help themselves on the basics.