Hi,
MichaelPetch wrote:
Schol-R-LEA wrote:
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Does Sewage Overflow discourage users from checking the dates before replying?
</snark>
On a more serious note, a lot of this is in the OSDev wiki, as already stated. Still, any additional sources of information, I guess, and better late than never...
Although you were being *snarky*, I was well aware that this thread was many years old. I'm not the one who dug up this code from this forum and then asked a question about it on Stackoverflow.
Please don't. People are encouraged to search the wiki (and add information to the wiki) for anything that has been already covered; and the forums are more for "short term" (for things that haven't made it to the wiki yet, people asking things like "Where is the bug in this code" that aren't useful for other people and aren't suitable for the wiki, etc).
MichaelPetch wrote:
One might ask the question - If this Forum is so good why don't people actually ask questions here? Maybe because responses like yours are a problem? (whether being funny or not).
The act of asking that question proves that the question is based on a false premise (the assumption that people don't ask questions).
If someone asks "I have a splinter in my finger and want to chop my arm off, so what is the best way to chop my arm off?"; on SO the correct advice ("I refuse to give you the answer because there are better ways of solving your actual problem") is virtually impossible.
MichaelPetch wrote:
It is rather unfortunate that a site like OSDev's Forum has so many egotistical, narcissistic douche bags responding that users feel compelled to use the services of a better run, better maintained site like Stackoverflow to get answers to questions related to information on the OSDev Wiki and Forum.
It's equally unfortunate that SO is worse. Any question that is even slightly off-topic or might lead to a real discussion is quickly downvoted, locked and deleted without a trace; without any concern for the original poster and without any concern for whether or not the answers/discussion could benefit people. There's also a tendency towards "yes men" - people that only tell you what you want to hear for the sake of getting points (and won't find out what you need to know because that requires some discussion, and won't tell you what you actually need to know because they don't want to be downvoted).
Also note that "deleted without a trace" leads to deluded fan-boys that assume everything is fine because
reality is hidden.
Cheers,
Brendan