{"id":342,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:26:17","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-175","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=342","title":{"rendered":"Other Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\nOther Sources<\/title>\n<p>\nAlthough, as I said, there is no such thing as a free lunch, you can\nget pretty close sometimes. For about less than a $30 start-up fee and about\n$10-$20 a month, you can get support that is comparable to the tech support of a\nsoftware vendor. The only problem is that it might be several hours (rarely\nlonger) before you get an answers. I am talking here about things like mailing lists, forums\non company web sites and so forth.\n<p>\nIf your problem is general, such as getting <glossary>DNS<\/glossary>\nto work, or you need help with a shell script, this is not a bad place to start. Despite the delays that are\ncaused by the very nature of this media, responses are fairly quick. Unless your\nsystem has crashed and you are loosing thousands of dollars an hour, this is an\nexcellent source of information.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne valuable source are the\nUSENET newsgroups. To gain access, however, you need a “news feed,”\nthat is, some other site that will provide you with the newsgroups, because\nUSENET uses “store and forward.” Turn around time can be days,\ndepending on where you get your feed. Compuserve, on the other hand, stores all\nof its messages in a central location. The minute your message is posted, it is\navailable for everyone. Talk to your <glossary>ISP<\/glossary>\nabout finding a news\nserver.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMailing lists are another way of getting information. The\ndifference between lists and newsgroups is that you receive <i>all<\/i> of the\nmessages posted to the list. Therefore, you need to be careful about what you\nsubscribe to. I subscribe to just a few and I have <i>hundreds<\/i> of messages a\nday to wade through. With many, you can subscribe directly from the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>\nThroughoutthis site, I made references to several other works that I feel would be very\nhelpful if you want to learn more about a particular subject. Aside from books,\nmany magazines provide useful information. One of my favorite magazines is the aptly named\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-magazine.com\">Linux Magazine<\/a>. In addition to English, it is available in a number of other languages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother place to check is the Internet. Unfortunately,\nits hard to be more specific than that. Thousands of resources are out there for\nevery conceivable topic. Most major computer companies have a Web site. Often\nall you need is to add “www.” to the company name to get access to the\nWeb page. I have done this to get to Intel (<i>www.intel.com<\/i>), Conner\n(<i>www.conner.com<\/i>), and even CNN (<i>www.cnn.com<\/i>). Here you can get\nproduct information, as well as press releases. Many of these sites have links\nto other sites, so it’s easy to bounce from site to site.\n<\/p><p>\nAlso, several\nsearch engines have already done a lot of research for you. The one I use most\nfrequently is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a>. There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/linux\">special search function<\/a> just for Linux information.\nHere, you can input search strings to help you find what you are looking for. If you\ninput a phrase that’s fairly common, you can end up with thousands of matches, so it often takes a lot of practice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo<\/a>, which also links to other search\nengines, breaks down the information by category, which makes browsing easy. However, it sometimes\nmakes searching a little more difficult if you are not sure how Yahoo categorizes the information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other Sources Although, as I said, there is no such thing as a free lunch, you can get pretty close sometimes. 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