Thanks for the help on the port topic everyone.
I agree these forums are getting a bit ridiculous lately. I once thought of these forums as the best and most helpful. And stated this in many other distro forums.
In fact the reason I considered the SME over something like Clark Connect was exactly because of the arrogant and rude responses you get in the Clark Connect forums. I received similar in the PClinuxOS, and Mepis,Ubuntu,Slackware and SME appeared to be the most pleasant at the time.
But I could not seriously recommend this type of treatment to anyone I know currently in any forum.
I mean now days you ask for directions thinking it's much simpler to ask someone who already knows and has precise directions since they possibly live in the area;and it would seem some people in this forum lately will tell you it's time to buy a map piss off. lol.It's really becoming a joke.
If you don't like tourists asking for directions then you should not live in a predominantly tourist/vacation type of neighborhood.
Regardless of whether they buy a map or not they still have to get where their going, and that means asking for directions.
I think it's quit elementary really.
If you consider an open source community which people will continue to test out the multitudes of distros in many cases just for kicks and fun.They join forums to ask questions and to help others if they want to.But I've said it once and I'll say it again. If people don't want to answer a question, or are fed up with answering the same question over and over,or perhaps they are just simply burned out and need a vacation then I beg you please don't answer the question and just move on.Stop telling people to learn all that is learnable; that you won't be bothered. Stop telling them they need to learn something. Stop telling them they need to by a map or take some Linux classes. Stop telling them that if they searched the forums, or looked into it they would have found the answer already.
I could say the same type of thing in return such as: if the manual and the help menus were so simple to understand and so easily found then you would not even need forums to begin with and obviously you would not receive these same questions over and over again. Why not make the manuals simpler to understand so that no one will have to waist your time asking questions etc etc.
But saying that is rude, and I would not want to insult the hard work that was put into all of this because I believe that hard work was done and I can respect the effort and what is actually there, not concentrating on what might be lacking instead.However, I would like to point out ever so nicely that most of the time the search does not find what your looking for, because honestly the search does not work very well. I searched for text related to the 3128 unknown port, such as (3128 unknown port), or (port 3128 unknown) and you get nothing found or nothing helpful.By the way the search appears to be directory specific so if you go to a forum looking around, and then try to search you are not actually searching the whole forum your only searching the section your in which returns no results in many cases or only a few results.So the results of the search will vary for each person depending on where they are located in the forums which is not very good. Perhaps this is a bug.I searched other text related to port 3128 also.I search google and returned and abundance of information so much so that I could not really decipher which was related to my topic. It was not until someone suggested a search criteria of only 3128 that I got back some better search results.So perhaps if someone could fix the search engine in the forum then this might solve some of your annoyance as well. You probably never considered that most people might search as they would with google or yahoo etc. And if your search engine only works with a one word text or one string text/numbers then this could be part of the problem with the repetition in questions which appear to be creating a sort of forum rage in the responses I'm seeing here lately.
Anyhow thanks to those who tried to help. I do appreciate the help.
Happy Hacking.
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