Please realize many newbies don't always know what they're supposed to know ahead of time. (hence the term 'newbie') Instead of this habit you seem to have developed to 'welcome' many new members to our site with a RTFM-type answer, why not assume best intentions were made and just stick to pointing them in the right direction.

I have no problem calling someone out on trying to use the site as a coding service but I don't see that here and, frankly, I don't see it in a lot of the threads you respond to with your well thought out snarky remarks.

Last time I checked, this site was a community that encourages sharing and learning. One that welcomes it's new members. If that is difficult for you to do in a non-abusive way then maybe consider sticking to threads from more experienced members.

In reply to Re^4: (OT) Get the number of blocks per second by reading the proc diskstats file by Anonymous Monk
in thread (OT) Get the number of blocks per second by reading the proc diskstats file by haavard82

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