One of the under-appreciated areas of writing systems documentation istesting it. And I don't mean proofreading it (although that's necessarytoo); I mean making sure that it is things like comprehensible, clear,correct, and complete.

Testing is vital, because documentation that is incomplete or incorrectis often worse than no documentation at all. Documentation createsconfidence, which means that bad documentation lets people go wrongwith confidence, turning a small mess into a much bigger one. ('Butthe

In another nutshell :

# apt-get install fvwm...Suggested packages:  fvwm-themes m4 menu wm-icons imlib-progsRecommended packages:  fvwm-icons imlib11...

So I abort the apt-get when offered the chance, because I wantthe useful bits too.

# apt-get install fvwm fvwm-icons imlib11 fvwm-themes m4 menu wm-iconsimlib-progs
[...]
Package fvwm-themes is not available, but is referred

The idealist sees events as the result of grand strategies and grandmovements, while the realist sees events as the result of local,lower-level tactical decisions.

Most conspiracy theories are necessarily idealist. Theaphorism 'never attribute to malice that which is adequatelyexplained by stupidity' (sometimes called Hanlon's Razor ) is a realist position.

This says nothing about who is right; sometimes there are conspiracies,but sometimes there are not. (And sometimes there are both local tacticalreasons for things and grand plans;

We got asked this in email recently, so I am going to throwmy answer up here: the quick secret of making bootable USB keys is to know that USB keys are hard drives.

The person who asked the question described what they'd done as:

In short, I've copied the files from the isolinux directory on theinstallation CD to the USB drive, renamed isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg,erased isolinux.bin, unmounted the USB drive, and runsyslinux /dev/sda1