documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
rant I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc just to find out that the documentation is wrong! Worse, tons of people know it's wrong, and no one, not the document maintainer, or anyone who's already gone through the process of finding out it's wrong, has bothered to

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
Michael P. Soulier wrote: /rant Are you talking about one or two HOWTOs in particular? Which ones? Could it be that these HOWTOs are distribution-specific?

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya yes and no on the out of date howto... if there's particular problem you are trying to solve... i find it 10x easier to use google for those keywords and go thru the mailing lists... if there is one for those particular issues c ya alvin ( and yes...the autofs-HOWTO is out of date

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread aphro
rant I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc i agree that many times the howtos and stuff are outdated. very rarely have i referred to them. most often i use www.alltheweb.com to search and read/join mailing lists .. ive very very rarely read howtos, been using

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread John R Lenton
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:10:37AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc just to find out that the documentation is wrong! Worse, tons of people know it's wrong, and no one, not the document maintainer, or anyone who's already

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread David Purton
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: rant I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc just to find out that the documentation is wrong! Worse, tons of people know it's wrong, and no one, not the document maintainer, or anyone who's already gone through the

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:52:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rant I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc i agree that many times the howtos and stuff are outdated. very rarely have i referred to them. most often i use www.alltheweb.com to search and

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:22:50AM -0300, John R Lenton wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:10:37AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc just to find out that the documentation is wrong! Worse, tons of people know it's

Re: documentation rant

2001-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:52:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i agree that many times the howtos and stuff are outdated. very rarely have i referred to them. most often i use www.alltheweb.com to search and read/join mailing lists .. I prefer google myself, but point taken. It's