Max Hetrick wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
- The Title of the article says "How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5"
- My successor is a real HK bred and born person so his command of the
English language is like most such persons; that is to say, very poor. 3) Regarding not letting him within ten feet of a production server, well, that is not my business anymore. When I was there, I was the lone ranger and so is my replacement. I guess it serves my previous boss right who felt he could just pick anybody of the street to replace because I only have high school education. Too bad he had to wait for over six months to get what he has now. 4) Max, I actually agree with you but hey, the world is not perfect. There will be clueless people given jobs they are not really suitable for but we cannot just tell them to get lost can we now? Posted too to centos-docs for any further discussion.
Someone added a very bright disclaimer, so all should be good in the future. I do agree with others that using /dev/sdX would probably be wise as well in documentation, but that doesn't fix the true root of the problem. People really should watch cutting and pasting, or typing, commands on a Linux root without understanding what it is that the commands are doing.
Some rather explicit warnings or enough obfuscation could have made him come begging for help again rather leaving a major mess.
Is it possible you could help him with some basic Linux lessons then, and/or point him to some beginner material so this doesn't happen again.
Have tried...I can only take that so far. Unfortunately, experience seems to be the most memorable teacher.
I just had a problem with blaming the author of a document, (I didn't even write it) when the user did not read the document. If he doesn't speak or read English well, then that doesn't help that, nor does adding warnings help either if he can't read English well.
Bye bye data ought to be clear enough. I am just saying writers of HowTos should perhaps consider certain people that they are not targeting as possible readers. My incomplete vpopmail howto has no commands that will mess up a system whether package wise or data wise.
I'm not certain what languages the page has been translated to, but perhaps look into that for him as well. Or can you translate the page?
No can do. I am not a typical HK person. Not bred in Hong Kong (and therefore not racist like most locals) but bred in Sierra Leone. So I am illiterate in Chinese characters nevermind whether it is the traditional or simplified system. I cannot help out much with the local LUG. The few who do have a fair command of English are also the ones who help the others out - in Chinese. I will try asking them.