RTFM and STFW: How To Tell You've Seriously Screwed Up

There is an ancient and hallowed tradition: if you get a reply that reads “RTFM”, the person who sent it thinks you should have Read The Fucking Manual. He or she is almost certainly right. Go read it.

RTFM has a younger relative. If you get a reply that reads “STFW”, the person who sent it thinks you should have Searched The Fucking Web. He or she is almost certainly right. Go search it. (The milder version of this is when you are told “Google is your friend!”)

In Web forums, you may also be told to search the forum archives. In fact, someone may even be so kind as to provide a pointer to the previous thread where this problem was solved. But do not rely on this consideration; do your archive-searching before asking.

Often, the person telling you to do a search has the manual or the web page with the information you need open, and is looking at it as he or she types. These replies mean that he thinks (a) the information you need is easy to find, and (b) you will learn more if you seek out the information than if you have it spoon-fed to you.
You shouldn't be offended by this; by hacker standards, your respondent is showing you a rough kind of respect simply by not ignoring you. You should instead be thankful for this grandmotherly kindness.


If you don't understand...
If you don't understand the answer, do not immediately bounce back a demand for clarification. Use the same tools that you used to try and answer your original question (manuals, FAQs, the Web, skilled friends) to understand the answer. Then, if you still need to ask for clarification, exhibit what you have learned!


IM very tempted to say right now.... GOT IT?

The one about the.Girlz

Being girls in an world that it's rather well known to be composed by a vast amount of male population is challenging in many more ways that can be expected.

Mostly because we are generalised as a rare item (never to be seen as a good thing in the beginning) but there are a lot of misconceptions surrounded our capabilities to achieve a certain amount of work being done due to, what appear to be "clear" : "we are just girls"

Yes, I admit that overall the acceptance of female creatures into this world [I'll refer to it as the IT-world] it's a process that that takes some time to settle. and a s*** load of patience to endure.

Sometimes it's certain challenges from the inside of a team, sometimes it's from outside of the direct employment environment, that does not mean nevertheless that it hurts or bothers less, it gets to us the same way. Those "masters of the universe" how I like to call them, seem so proud when a little comment of THAT nature is being done, mostly because they know that with that futile sentence [she is a girl, she is technically challenged. She won't make it!], they will inflict some pain. And the result it's quite easy to foresee. The sensitive person we never knew we had inside comes bursting out against our will and they believe they have conquered the universe one more time.



**** (beep  sound) WRONG! (beep  sound) ****



Yes. we might run into cover to hide both angers, the visible one materialised to tears and the pride one, firstly because we could not stop this emotion on time and secondly, while being hurt, we swear at that time we will get back to make this "master" swallow his own words in normally a very short time afterwards. [ we NEVER forget... bitch alert!]

Talking would seem appropriate,  but that just sums up our problems more, because "men don't speak about feelings", so it's quite tricky to get a straight answer from them. So I used my golden opportunity to check back a few months later after the "incident". We had to present ourselves as "smurf" character and I remember picking the "Smurfette" as both representation of a girl and a blond ... After exposing me theory, 2 out of the 4 male teammates categorically dismissed the "crazy ideas"  and claimed that it's not the case. That little reception made my ego swell up slightly for a while, that in fact the male chauvinist pigs were being outrun by persons with brains ;) YAY!! Since that meeting the.Girlz have been taking into account slightly more, at least that's what I talk myself into... Or is it perhaps because we put our foot down more often? I must confess that it has become "easier"


Even though clashes will become a part of the daily activities, there is a very famous proverb that fits these situations greatly: small step for man - big step for humanity. It's a fact that a machine can not be changed into a human being, or that an little-asshole can change his mind overnight, but we can put them in the right lane for them to follow our directions. As you might guess, It's all about baby-steps dear reader, and LOTS of patience!!

Perseverance it's one of the God-given gifts we have embedded into our OS, so if you see the.Girlz smiling it's because they are up to something ;) So, fasten your seat belts, put your seats in the upright position and prepare yourself for one hell of ride!

About what gets to my nerves

For years I (we) have been listening to the same "oopsies" about the differences of Boyz as opposed to GiRLZ. Yes, we know that there are big anatomy related differences, but we are speaking about the one brain.


What did we mostly did last year? we had just to sit there for countless hours [extended in weeks] hearing Mr Anderson exposing the theory of why man are wiser, stronger, more capable of tackling technically complicated situations on a more advanced level, because it's in their system... cuz that's the way nature wanted it. To much Big words, for a certain someone!! Because that was the clear situation: that Eva was created from Adam, because of the last centuries women are the ones to remain home to worry about home-tasks such as being in charge of the home-order, raising children, while HE, the great, needed to get out to provide for them...


And all we could comment to ourselves was "not one of THIS stories AGAIN!". Thank god for the applyiences of the Bypass. What does that consist of? Mainly just saying a word here and there... a wise "no" or yep" or "really" do the trick and allow them to o on for hours and hours while we just are on "keep on going mode"... [they claim its a pure a technical Issue]


But that its implemented as a preventive measurements other known as either i do that or there will be manslaughter soon!


Saldy for him , in our girls minds, the most offensive facts stay in our head... not to be forgotten anywhere near the future...


But here the first question raises... Are men supposed to be listening to everything we say?


"feminist answer" should be yes!


My opinion its the safest one... not always! Come on lets admit it! we do not always listen to what he is saying just because its not worth it... "i pretend to be hearing what your are saying, but due to own selimposed limitations we choose to ignore YOU as a measurement of sanity...


Outraging when a man does not entirely listens to a woman talking?? This is a slight different case because A) YES THEY SHOULD (idiallistically) & NO, THEY DON?T! (generations have proven, no man can listen to all a woman says, they shut down when the conversation is to long...)


So as a principal we are doing the same thing plain and simply, only they erase the so called "conversation" form their mind completely as many other aspects and bifurcations of the one talk while we always remeber the time that he logged of the conversation...


Even with this little details... we show that we retain more information that then - even if not all!


Eva might have been created after Adam, but only because she is a better version of him ;)