Regulars - what motivates you to answer questions here?

A question for the "regulars" :
What motivates you to answer questions on this particular site, as against say the Oracle technical forums (metalink)? The quality of questions posed there are generally a tad better. Not as often do you see a "I can't read the manual" or "I don't want to read" or "I can't google/technet" type of questions.

Again, I'm not a regular there, nor am I an Oracle employee. I was on it today, and happened to notice some decent stuff - that's all.

Don't get me wrong - I've both benefitted from and contributed a little here. Obviously, it is a good thing that folks are willing to help out, no matter how mundane the question (or response). I'm just wondering about the motivation of folks with over a 1000 posts. What motivates you to answer questions like "fix my tnsnames.ora" "how do I perform a hot backup" etc? Quite remarkably, Tom still gets some of those on his site too!

Okay, back to work now..

Boredom, and the delusion that someone might offer me a new job.

Personally I'm a real cherry-picker when it comes to answering questions -- most of them I'm just not interested in.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by slimdave
Boredom, and the delusion that someone might offer me a new job.

---

Man, you're brutally honest! :)

Personally, the reason I don't spend more time on the Oracle technical forums is - I hate the UI.

For me it's a kind of gym where I get a workout. These are (usually) real-life problems which give me a chance to test my skills (if any).

The ones I like best are those that are at the limit of my capabilities - where I react with "I should know the answer to that!". Five minutes searching around perhaps fixes a problem and I've learned something - and Dave or Tamil will gently put me right if I stray (or pando will blast me out of the water, Jeff doesn't bother coz he only does ABW ;)).

P.S. agree about Meatlink

For me it helps me to test my skills. I'm in a job where they don't require all that much of me, and its nice to have a distraction when I need it. I'm not at 1,000 post yet, but I'm one closer now. ;)

When you have my amount of knowledge, tact, humanity, and overall concern for others it would be a crime to keep this all to myself.
I see myself as the forum humanitarian.

With Love, Peace, and Understanding.

MH

Mr. H's post breakdown:

Code:

---

Category                Count
----------------------- ------
Shoot the developers      1043
It's Friday                618
Use a parfile              43
Other                      19
                        -----
Total                    1723

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
When you have my amount of knowledge, tact, humanity, and overall concern for others it would be a crime to keep this all to myself.
I see myself as the forum humanitarian.

With Love, Peace, and Understanding.

MH

---

Somethings are best kept to one's self.
You above all else should know that Mr. Hanky. ;)

Quote:

---

Originally posted by slimdave
Personally I'm a real cherry-picker when it comes to answering questions -- most of them I'm just not interested in.

---

Me too. I used to answer a bunch questions across the board, but now I pick and choose in areas I am interested in, areas I can make a unique contribution, or correcting something when it's obviously wrong. (I'll have to keep a closer eye on Dapi, though...)

Quote:

---

Originally posted by gandolf989
For me it helps me to test my skills. I'm in a job where they don't require all that much of me, and its nice to have a distraction when I need it.

---

Admitting you have a problem is the first step! :D

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
When you have my amount of knowledge, tact, humanity, and overall concern for others it would be a crime to keep this all to myself.

---

Mr.H you left humility out of the list!

I will never be accused of NOT having a self deprecating sense of humor.

;)

In all honesty and with great humility I must thank Jeff for all of my dbasupport achievements. He is my hero and mentor, any success on my part is a direct reflection on him.

MH

Quote:

---

Originally posted by marist89
Admitting you have a problem is the first step! :D

---

Problem?!?!?! No problem at all!!! :D

Here's a reason for avoiding the technet forums ...

Quote:

---

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected]ess and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Oracle-HTTP-Server/1.3.28 Server at web112.oracle.com Port 7777

---

They seem to have an issue with managing their own software.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by marist89
Mr. H's post breakdown:

Code:

---

Category                Count
----------------------- ------
Shoot the developers      1043
It's Friday                618
Use a parfile              43
Other                      19
                        -----
Total                    1723

---

---

I thought you were exaggerating at first..

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Axr2
I thought you were exaggerating at first..

---

I am proud of those stats!

One can never over-emphasize the importance of shooting developers!!

MH

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
I am proud of those stats!

One can never over-emphasize the importance of shooting developers!!

MH

---

MH, why do you hate developers so much? You dwell on the point easily and often. There must be some psycholigical aspect to this hatred. Perhaps Freud would call it developer envy. :D Was your father a developer, and is your real name Oedipus Rex? I think you should delve into these issues further. :D

Nice, psychoanalyzed buy an X-developer give me a break Jung. My guess is that you are still sleeping with someone from your old department, now that we are attending forum group therapy. In fact, one would speculate that this is the sole reason behind your changing departments in the first place. Apparently you are the only DBA I know that is so sympathetic to the swine.

MH

:D

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
Nice, psychoanalyzed buy an X-developer give me a break Jung. My guess is that you are still sleeping with someone from your old department, now that we are attending forum group therapy. In fact, one would speculate that this is the sole reason behind your changing departments in the first place. Apparently you are the only DBA I know that is so sympathetic to the swine.

MH

:D

---

I am currently a PL/SQL developer. Whether I am acting as a DBA or PL/SQL developer, it doesn't matter as long as I get paid.

Were you teased by developers when you were a lad? :D

I guess there is a thin subspecies - independent of developer or dba's.
But comes up with, always, just problems. And no solutions !

Quote:

---

Originally posted by DevangP
I guess there is a thin subspecies - independent of developer or dba's.
But comes up with, always, just problems. And no solutions !

---

Are you calling us FAT!?

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
Are you calling us FAT!?

---

No, he's calling you big boned.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
Are you calling us FAT!?

---

thin := small_segment ;

Well what inspires me is the fact that there's a lot to
-- share
--exchange
--discuss

These things are always so hard to find within your own organization(no matter how cool the staff is).
There is always issues, egos and god knows what not, here you can share and be selfless. I guess one of the good vices of not knowing and seeing each others.

I guess I'd despise most of you guys if i saw you.....lol

But seriously like today i managed have my wireless care work at home on my wireless network(WI-FI) on fedore core 2 with WPA-PSK TKIP encryption(with an excellent wrapper NDISWRAPPER and WPA SUPPLICANT--for wpa). After you've fixed it , you're more than happy to share it with others.

Cheers...

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Tarry
But seriously like today i managed have my wireless care work at home on my wireless network(WI-FI) on fedore core 2 with WPA-PSK TKIP encryption(with an excellent wrapper NDISWRAPPER and WPA SUPPLICANT--for wpa). After you've fixed it , you're more than happy to share it with others.

Cheers...

---

Hi Tarry,
Which driver do you use? i am trying driver from http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ on my RH9 laptop but no luck yet.

Hi

I am a liar when i was in search of a job and went to companies pretending as a DBA (when i didnt even own a computer), where do u think i got the answer to the question like tell me some problems you have faced on the job.

I come here for my own selfish reasons..thats how i became a DBA :-D
and many youngesters who want to be a DBA and who do not have a computer at home or cannot afford one thats this is the way to become a DBA.

regards
Hrishy

Quote:

---

Originally posted by hrishy
Hi

I am a liar when i was in search of a job and went to companies pretending as a DBA (when i didnt even own a computer), where do u think i got the answer to the question like tell me some problems you have faced on the job.

I come here for my own selfish reasons..thats how i became a DBA :-D
and many youngesters who want to be a DBA and who do not have a computer at home or cannot afford one thats this is the way to become a DBA.

regards
Hrishy

---

That's funny, they way that I became a DBA was very similar to that. I was hired by someone to be a DBA. That person had no idea what a DBA is or what they do. I was their only computer person, so I had no one to hide behind. I didn't have DBASupport.com, all I had was metalink and the ability to create Tar's.

Yeah yeah yeah and in my day we used to walk 20 miles in the snow in our barefeet just to log in.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
Yeah yeah yeah and in my day we used to walk 20 miles in the snow in our barefeet just to log in.

---

Wow, you really are old. Were you logging into an eniac or a univac? :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
Yeah yeah yeah and in my day we used to walk 20 miles in the snow in our barefeet just to log in.

---

With a punch card no doubt :D

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
Yeah yeah yeah and in my day we used to walk 20 miles in the snow in our barefeet just to log in.
Originally posted by OracleDoc
With a punch card no doubt :D

---

There you see what really motivated data compression: with compressed data you have fewer cards to carry and, what's more, they have more holes in them, so each one weighs less.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by SANJAY_G
Hi Tarry,
Which driver do you use? i am trying driver from http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ on my RH9 laptop but no luck yet.

---

Sanjay,

You can use the *.inf, *.sys and *.cat file that came with your driver for xp(i presume).That's all you need.
Hang on just read my success story lol...

Cheers