Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 01:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: However, on the web page at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting , under the heading 4.8 - Multibooting OpenBSD/i386 is Only one of the four primary MBR partitions can be used for booting OpenBSD (i.e., extended partitions

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-15 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:01:39AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan

BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages!  It doesn't cover everything, but it does

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many others. There has recently been some chatter on their general mailing list to overhaul how they

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Well, the thing about FBSD is that it's users are pretty much all hobbyists, so the length of a manual is a good thing. If Debian had documentation of equal or greater length I can only see that as a strength, not a weakness. If you count folks like Yahoo as hobbyists. Last time I looked,

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many others. There has

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package system, I found it to be a pain (especially the

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:27:03PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Peace. I wish for it every day, my friend. You have no idea. Whereas in a previous post … I am serious, and I have access to automatic weapons. -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-01 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Fri, 1 May 2009 20:55:09 +1200 Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:27:03PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Peace. I wish for it every day, my friend. You have no idea. Whereas in a previous post … I am serious, and I have access to

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Paul Johnson wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: I also feel that google tends to rate *.debian.org sites high so you are likely to see these more than any random blog posts with good reasons (especially if you have debian in keywords). I just wish i could get google to stop giving me useless

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Patterson
* Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net [2009-05-01 09:52:58 -0400]: As much as I'm a proponent for good manuals, vs. google... you can always add -ubuntu to your search query Good point. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Osamu Aoki wrote: I also feel that google tends to rate *.debian.org sites high so you are likely to see these more than any random blog posts with good reasons (especially if you have debian in keywords). I just wish i could get google to stop giving me useless answers I can't use revolving

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Patterson
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2009-04-30 08:41:14 -0700]: If I wanted Ubuntu answers, 1) I'd be special in the head to start with Agreed. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
Actually, since I hadn't  even heard of Zim, I did  a zim linux google Images search and it looks like something I should get acquainted with. Great app with a very active developer who is happy to receive bug reports and feature requests. Zim has literally changed the way I work and store

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-28 Thread David Fox
oops. I wanted this to go to the list. darn gmail :( On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:13 AM, David Fox dfox94...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Miles Fidelman It's a reference manual, not a getting started book - and like any reference manual it tries to have everything you might

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:39:18PM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: [..] You must be using one of the M$ Windows clones as your desktop. KDE 4.2 at the moment, which is acceptably quick. KDE 3.5.10 on the same hardware (2 GB RAM, 2 GHz dual core processor, 7200 RPM sata drive) was sluggish

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,27.Apr.09, 10:24:39, H.S. wrote: Sure there is, but one has to keep the audience in mind. A beginner or a person just starting to find introductory information regarding current linux distros and related applications and programs is best served by google (the search is very fast and

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:59:01PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,27.Apr.09, 10:24:39, H.S. wrote: Sure there is, but one has to keep the audience in mind. A beginner or a person just starting to find introductory information regarding current linux distros and related applications

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:10:15PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. This has to be a joke. Win 98 wasn't even an operating system. It was an application that ran on top of DOS for pete's sake. That was a different

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create something new, that's great and the more the merrier. But if one _must_ go through the docs to

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create something new, that's great and the more the merrier. But if one

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:57:40AM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: SNIP I'm one to read the 1000 page book cover-to-cover. That way, I'll rememeber a significant amount and know exactly where to look when I need something I don't remember. Now a days google is a *huge* help

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create something new, that's great and the more the

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread H.S.
Miles Fidelman wrote: H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create something new, that's great

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:10:13AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Now a days google is a *huge* help in this. There's still something awfully useful and compelling about a serious

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
H.S. wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: There's still something awfully useful and compelling about a serious reference manual, all in one place, with a comprehensive table-of-contents, detailed index, and embedded references. Sure there is, but one has to keep the audience in mind. A

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread H.S.
Miles Fidelman wrote: H.S. wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: There's still something awfully useful and compelling about a serious reference manual, all in one place, with a comprehensive table-of-contents, detailed index, and embedded references. Sure there is, but one has to keep the

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 49f5c5dc.8070...@meetinghouse.net, Miles Fidelman wrote: - for Debian, the documentation page (http://debian.org/doc/), lists a reference manual (http://debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/), detailed maintainer and developer references, and pointers to general Linux manuals for Linux Installation

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
Honestly, I thought Dotan wrote the above in jest and forget the :-). I certainly did not post in earnest. I meant it. Two years ago I had to maintain a Win98 machine that ran some library software - nothing else, no internet - on 64 MB RAM on a 433 MHz processor. The thing flew. It would

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On a 650Mhz with 384 MiB RAM laptop, Windows 98 was NOT flying by any stretch of the imagination.. it was.. hmm.. tolerably sluggish. Unless you went crazy started opening windows by the handful, of course. If you did, MTBF was about two hours. I have seen it run very well on much less

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
Especially when the problem is that the computer won't boot, or can't get on the internet to run google... Keep a LiveCD handy. It's gotten me at least far enough to Google what I need at least three times in recent memory. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il --

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
They call it progress.  95% of what I do with my computer is the same as what I did on my 486.  Progress means that I now need a computer a thousand times more powerful with five-hundred times more drive space to do exactly the same thing. +5 Insightful I would be very happy with Debian

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Dotan Cohen wrote: Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. It wasn't. It was still a 32-bit multitasking hack sitting on top of what amounted to a 16-bit version of an 8-bit single-tasking operating system with no cohesive security controls. It was obsolete when it was

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/4/27 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org: Dotan Cohen wrote: Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. It wasn't.  It was still a 32-bit multitasking hack sitting on top of what amounted to a 16-bit version of an 8-bit single-tasking operating system with no cohesive

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Chris Jones wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages! It doesn't cover everything, but it does cover a lot. They also

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread H.S.
Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages! It doesn't cover everything, but it does cover a lot. They also have other books and articles at

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 87zle4497u@thumper.dhh.gt.org, John Hasler wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: That sounds more like a problem than a solution. I would not try an OS that had a 1000 page manual. I want simple, not comprehensive. Then you'd better give up computers. It takes more than 1000 pages to properly

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
That sounds more like a problem than a solution. I would not try an OS that had a 1000 page manual. I want simple, not comprehensive. Then you'd better give up computers. It takes more than 1000 pages to properly document any operating system. Try ls /usr/share/man/* | wc. Document it all

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
I don't know about their more recent consumer-grade offering but you may want to take a look at Windows '98. When I got the laptop, it came with a 20-page or so manual. But then considering the capabilities of the OS that was probably overkill anyway. That wrongly assumes anything Windows is

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Paul Johnson wrote: Chris Jones wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages! It doesn't cover everything, but it does

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread JoeHill
Dotan Cohen wrote: I don't know about their more recent consumer-grade offering but you may want to take a look at Windows '98. When I got the laptop, it came with a 20-page or so manual. But then considering the capabilities of the OS that was probably overkill anyway. That

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:12:03AM EDT, Paul Johnson wrote: Chris Jones wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages! It

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 04:31:17AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: I don't know about their more recent consumer-grade offering but you may want to take a look at Windows '98. When I got the laptop, it came with a 20-page or so manual. But then considering the capabilities of the OS that was

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Petrus Validus
Because MS-bashing on a Debian-centric list does wonder for promoting the usage of FOSS software, right? I'm not promoting anything. A bit of anti-M$ trolling is always fun and could get the party going. :-) I was a Windows admin for a number of years, that company drove me to

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages!  It doesn't cover everything, but it does cover a lot.  They also have other books and articles at http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html. That

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,23.Apr.09, 00:13:54, Javier Barroso wrote: It would be awesome seeing all the questions asked here (in this list) solved with a pointer to our wiki (this would mean there would be a team which extracts resume from the list and put conclusions in the wiki, but sure nobody has time for

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages!  It doesn't cover everything, but it does cover a lot.  They also have other books

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu,23.Apr.09, 00:13:54, Javier Barroso wrote: It would be awesome seeing all the questions asked here (in this list) solved with a pointer to our wiki (this would mean there would be a team which extracts

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages!  It doesn't cover everything, but it does cover a lot.  They also have other books

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen wrote: That sounds more like a problem than a solution. I would not try an OS that had a 1000 page manual. I want simple, not comprehensive. Then you'd better give up computers. It takes more than 1000 pages to properly document any operating system. Try ls /usr/share/man/* | wc.

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread green
Steve Kemp wrote at 2009-04-24 09:08 -0500: Were my site not already present I'd not start it now - instead I'd post to the wiki, or other sites. (The wiki is nice, but it isn't a perfect medium because people cannot post questions, leave comments, etc. I do think that forum-like sites

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread machiner
Reply to: pob...@fuzzydev.org Original Message Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:08:29 -0400 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] You misunderstand me. Hearing people say that they would rather contribute to another source, esp one where they may have

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread machiner
Reply to: hs.sa...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:25:39 -0400 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] Indeed. The Gentoo documentation is the best that I have ever seen as well. - On Fri

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
Indeed.  The Gentoo documentation is the best that I have ever seen as well. I think that you could leverage this. _Don't_ be a documentation site. Find some other Debian information to specialize in, such as CLI humour, comparisons between the Debian Way and the Ubuntu/Fedora/Gentoo/* Way, and

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 08:14:52 -0400, machiner wrote: This list is not exclusive to developers. Many people read it. Sure, I'd love a dev or 2, and I clearly asked, to contribute to the site. Why wouldn't I? But, I'd be just as happy, and I think the community the site serves would be

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:13:54AM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: www.debian.org/usr/share/doc/ or usr.share.doc.debian.org/ where you could find all docs from debian packages. It would be nice (I think) aptitude install dwww Now look at http://localhost/dwww A site providing that to all

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com writes: Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: I thought I asked you a question. There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of running your own site, why not contribute to a pre-existing site? I'm

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:27:32PM EDT, Carl Johnson wrote: H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com writes: Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: I thought I asked you a question. There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of running

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:40:11 -0400, machiner wrote in message 20090422174011.4719e...@lapbox: I'm laughing as I write thisOh my. ..once you're done, Javier Barroso has an excellent proposal. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-23 Thread machiner
Reply to: a...@c2i.net Original Message Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:13:28 +0200 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] I thought I asked you a question. - On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:13:28 +0200 a...@c2i.net wrote

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: I thought I asked you a question. There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of running your own site, why not contribute to a pre-existing site? I'm personally hoping that one day I can say that Debian's Wiki

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-23 Thread H.S.
Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: I thought I asked you a question. There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of running your own site, why not contribute to a pre-existing site? I'm personally hoping that one day I can say

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
debiantutorials.org is 4 years old, the blog aspect is new for new Debian users to write about their experiences. The site may have been available, but it was unknown until now. I'm hearing a lot that the web is already saturated with Debian documentation, and you may be right.  There

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 04:01:57 H.S. wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: If you are seeking help, it might be worth supplying a URL. The truth of your Isn't that in the subject line? Or am I missing something here? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:22:29 +0300, Dotan wrote in message 880dece00904212322r17423bees4ef602e95f033...@mail.gmail.com: debiantutorials.org is 4 years old, the blog aspect is new for new Debian users to write about their experiences. The site may have been available, but it was unknown

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-22 Thread machiner
Reply to: a...@c2i.net Original Message Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:42:04 +0200 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] AYKM? http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtoforge.comcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=Inlinegroup=0user

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-22 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Michael Pobega pob...@fuzzydev.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote: Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in particular is going gang-busters!

debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread machiner
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:42:02 -0400 RE: Hi, Some of you are familiar with my little tutorial site as I have seen references from some of you to articles on the site in my logs. (Thank you for the confidence) Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in particular is

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
I seek recommendations for improving the site 1) Under the site name there is not one, but _two_ corny taglines. Get rid of them until you find a single tagline that is witty and on topic. 2) Maybe I should have the site translated to Australian? What is that? Maybe you should, but I as a

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote: Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in particular is going gang-busters! I would like to expand the site to include any of you that can muster up an hour a week or so to write tutorials or articles germain to

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread machiner
Reply to: andreimpope...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:45:43 +0300 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] Fair enough. Thank you for your reply. --machiner - On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:45

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
In a way the OP is spamming the list, but really ... Is is etiquette to be so nasty about it? He is clearly a private citizen with a desire to comtribute. That his attempts fall short of your standards, merely indicates that his request is justified. I also find a dynamically changing clock a

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
In a way the OP is spamming the list, but really ... Is is etiquette to be so nasty about it? No, it is not etiquette to be nasty. I was helpful and gave him my suggestions, and further refined ideas with the OP off list. But I do not want other list members to say hey, Brian got away with it

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 13:58:13 machiner wrote: I seek recommendations for improving the site as well as new authors, whether one article or many.  Please consider it.  The site does very well in the search engines and it could use some new blood.  I would be thrilled, as would the site's

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote: Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in particular is going gang-busters! I would like to expand the site to include any of you that can muster

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:52:05PM EDT, Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote: Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in particular is going gang-busters! I would

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread machiner
Reply to: cjns1...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] - On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400 cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:59PM EDT, machiner wrote: Reply to: cjns1...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400 cjns1...@gmail.com wrote

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread H.S.
Lisi Reisz wrote: If you are seeking help, it might be worth supplying a URL. The truth of your Isn't that in the subject line? Or am I missing something here? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 20:01, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: If you are seeking help, it might be worth supplying a URL.  The truth of your Isn't that in the subject line? Or am I missing something here? In gmail in particular, it can be easy to miss the subject line