Hang on here a minute please. Don asked for a peer review of his efforts.
it is in regards to Open source and linux so there are two items that i would think are valid topics. He asked and from what I've seen here tonight got comments back which is what he asked for (good bad or indifferent). now if don (and he has forums setup at his bowenvale site) placed this matter on his site how many who have commented on this topic would have? would you Chris? how about you Nick? Don came to this List because he knew there where people about who had opinions about what he is doing (these might be for or against) and he was seeking them to help him better present and crystallise his ideas. maybe he should have put it in the wiki as a page for comment and so accessible to the community or maybe in the original posting made a suggestion that respondents reply in a particular forum in his website (something for you to think about don next time). I don't know and maybe next time if there isn't too much of a do he could think about this that way it's not only his ideas that put in there but those who have an opinion to help make the "project" become "live" or help Don see what problems he faces (eg interference) and realise that it's not going to fly. Perhaps by putting a notice up on the front of the clug site informing folks that if they're requesting some feed back on a matter that's not really Linux OS focused then the wiki (a page referral given) is more suited to the placement of such items as clug members visit the site frequently and so the request for advise will be seen and comments given but not appearing on the list. these are just some ideas for the list to think about because there might be others who will follow with similar matters and so by saying to future posters please go to the clug wiki and add to the page XYZ you can get help for members who visit the page will the poster another avenue to get help without murking the list with messages not solely related to Linux OS or Software configuration problems is in my opinion a positive way around Don's dilemma of seeking peer review from the members of this list. sorry for the rant and hope no one takes offence to this but hope something good comes out of this post. dave. On Tuesday 25 July 2006 20:16, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tuesday 25 July 2006 14:54, Don Gould wrote: > > > The users will then get service from a corporate entity which is of > > > sufficient size to be able to actually provide a 'dial-tone' level of > > > reliability. > > > > I wish that were true, but it's not. > > You should be more careful what you say in a public forum such as this. > Since Telstra arrived in Christchurch, I have had 2 unscheduled breaks in > Cable Internet service, one fixed in about half an hour and the other in > about three and a half hours. That's close enough to 99.999% to be > a 'dial-tone' level of reliability as far as I'm concerned. > > It's certainly very much better than what you will ever achieve with a > bundle of s/h computers and wireless links competing with microwave ovens > and cordless 'phones on the 2.4GHz band. > > Apart from the use of Debian as the o/s for the routers in the net, this > thread has no content whatsoever about the use of Linux. That makes it > unacceptably OFF TOPIC. > > Don: Please set up your own list server. It's not difficult. Mailman or > Majordomo, and a standard mail server such as either Sendmail or Postfix > are all you need. If you cannot do it for yourself there are many list > members who will, I'm sure, help you.
