Re: How to find out the main memory capacity

On Thursday 14 August 2003 19:42, you wrote:
Steve, 

Please allow me to tender my apologies, if you think I have been an 
insensitive boor. I have been gently notified offline by another regular 
poster that I might not have taken all the points into consideration when I 
posted my reply. 

I agree, wholeheartedly, that one condition of membership on this group is to 
have read *and* understood the Eric Raymond's "How to ask a smart question".

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Once again, my apologies.

Warm Regards
Narayanan


> Narayanan,
>
> I am also more of a lurker than a poster here myself.  I don't typically
> ask many questions.
>
> When I said YOU, I mean the people who are posting these questions.  Sorry
> if I offended *you*, but my statement was not directed specifically toward
> you, and I'm sorry you thought otherwise.  I have seen your postings here
> and I appreciate your contributions to this list.  After reading others'
> opinions of my original post, I realized that I made a mistake by even
> sending it.  I apologize for my lack of sensitivity here.
>
> I certainly don't want to discourage people from asking newbie questions. 
> I just get so frustrated when I see so many of them coming from offshore,
> given the current state of American IT jobs (or lack thereof), and
> sometimes I just have to vent my feelings.  Next time I'll just compose a
> message and send it to a couple of my friends who share my view of this
> situation insteading sending it to the list.  This way I can get it off my
> chest without pi$$ing off anyone on the list.
>
> The point I was really trying to make was about those who feel that they
> can just come here and ask a dumb or open-ended question before first doing
> their homework.  This is probably the third or fourth time that I have
> vented about this topic.  Too often I have just answered these questions
> when I should have posted a link for them to search and some hints so they
> can find the answer to their own question.
>
> I guess you have heard the saying:
> "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, Teach him how to fish and
> you feed him for a lifetime."
>
> Maybe I should just point out that he should have asked a more specific
> question, instead of such an ambiguous question as:
>
>  "How to find out the main memory capacity of an AS/400 box?
> Any commands?"
>
> This question could have multiple meanings (and some people don't
> distinguish memory from disk storage):
>
> 1) How much memory (physically) can you put in an AS/400?
> 2) How much memory does my AS/400 currently contain?
> 3) How much auxiliary storage (physically) does my AS/400 contain?
> 4) How much auxiliary storage does my AS/400 currently contain?
>
> These questions could also lead to the following questions, such as:
> 1) What model of AS/400 or iSeries system do you have?
> 2) What type of processor does your system have?
> 3) What sizes of memory sticks does your system have in it currently?
> 4)  Do you have an expansion chassis for your system?
>
> and so on.
>
> When I ask a question, I usually try to be very specific about my problem.
>
> See my recent question here:
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200308/msg00541.html
>
> When I found the answer to my own question (after a couple of hours of
> searching and testing), I posted posted it here:
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200308/msg00640.html
>
> Have a nice day
>
> Steve Landess
> Austin, Texas
> (512) 423-0935