[ale] Question

[Shane McKinley]

"there is IME about a 90% chance that they really know what they are
talking about."

Should we trust this guy? :o

-----Original Message-----
From: JK [mailto:jknapka at kneuro.net] 
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:21 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Question

Terry Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been running CYGWIN on Windows 2003 for approximately three 
> years and it has worked beautifully.  I have a question that I am not 
> sure is appropriate for this group but I hope it will be accepted 
> since I am running CYGWIN. I turn to you out of exasperation. Is there

> a group like ALE that is a Windows group where I can get answers to 
> questions like I am able to here?


I suspect the answer to your question is, "No".  ALE is a remarkable
list: it's populated by people who, in general, run Linux by choice, and
are interested and clueful about the platform.  If someone offers an
opinion on the ALE list, there is IME about a 90% chance that they
really know what they are talking about.  Few fora devoted to "popular"
technologies are going to have such a favorable S/N ratio.

One promising site is stackoverflow.com, which is a reputation- driven
technical Q&A site founded by Joel Spolsky of joelonsoftware.com.
I've browsed around a bit there, and the quality of discourse seems
relatively high. YMMV.

-- JK (proudly representing the 10% in ALE's .9 S/N)

--
I do not particularly want to go where the money is -
  it usually does not smell nice there. -- A. Stepanov
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