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 pa

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 wrote: > On Sun, 3 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> >> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: >>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, May 0

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 wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tou

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 wrote: > > On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > > So, if BSD

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 wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> >> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty 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 >

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 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 ot

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 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 recently been so

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, the

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 the

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 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 availabl

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 c

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Patterson
* Miles Fidelman [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

2009-05-01 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 an

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 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 automatic

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

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

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Patterson
* Paul Johnson [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 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 revolvin

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 applic

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 an

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 slugg

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 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 possibly need,

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/4/27 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 control

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 stil

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 De

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
> 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

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 woul

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 Install

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

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 beginn

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 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 so

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 merrier.

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: > > > 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*

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 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 t

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 differ

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

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

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 >10

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. >

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 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

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". > Docume

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 >prope

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 http://www.freebsd.

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 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.

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" s

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 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

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 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 resume from the l

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 othe

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 fo

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. >

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." 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 > >> r

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
"H.S." 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 >> person

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 pack

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 woul

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"

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 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 an

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

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 tr

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 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

2009-04-22 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:52 PM, 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

2009-04-22 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.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

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 u

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 cor

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 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.

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 20:01, 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? In gmail in particular, it can be easy to miss the subject line once you clic

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 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...@

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

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!

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

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 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

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 vis

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 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 germai

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 vis