And I understand your complaint about people who don't. I just personally am someone who has no life and googles all night anyway, so putting those in my post I don't mind. However, after putting those in several different threads - even I get annoyed. Usually, I start by telling them to google with hints. Then I'll direct the next inquisitor to use the forum search and link back to the thread where I offered google with hints. After that, I will either ignore the post completely.. or shorten it to "search the forums". Doing the same thing over and over again is no fun for me. This is not a 1:1 ratio, it's usually entirely up to my mood when I move from one mode to the other.

So as a user, tell me - which is the preferred solution: if I tell you the answer is around, because I have seen it, several times, I just don't remember exactly where and I'm not in the mood to search, yet again, for that location - or if I tell you nothing? If everyone that's ever had to repeat themselves say nothing.. Well - I'd hate to become the Ubuntu forums.

Well yes, and googling for Linux commands will inevitably produce fdisk, but as someone who just got an N900 and I google "linux commands" and I read "This command will repartition you hard drive..".. if I have an IQ at all I'll be like "Ok, I'll come back to that."