Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 5, 2000, 13:35, when Jeff Malka keyboarded: >The mandrake sites are great, but there is a lot more information than what >they cover and most of it is not even in books. True. But the alternative is not good... Putting the heads of all the Unix guru's on stakes? ;) Paul -- Three thi

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Larry Marshall
> How 'bout just using the Mandrake sites existing digests...don't they already > have tons of info in text format, easy to search by keyword? Just a thought. Keyword searches are generally not sufficient to yield up true answers to questions. All the do is generate a bunch of stuff you can l

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Malka
gt; Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base > Michael wrote: > > > > There have been several stabs at such a project. The hard part is getting > > people to contribute. It might work fairly well to copy the PHP manual > > approa

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Michael
You can search text but that is messy and tends to give messy results. Having a more structured approach tends to return more precise data. At the same time it is useful to have direct links from the structured results to more generic discussions as you catch bits and pieces that haven't ever made

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Michael wrote: > > There have been several stabs at such a project. The hard part is getting > people to contribute. It might work fairly well to copy the PHP manual > approach where people write/correct the real manual in CVS but each page > of the manual can have comments attached by anyone. So

RE: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Johnson
diagnosing and fixing a problem. I haven't nearly the required amount of neurons and synapses in my head do what you suggested. -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux know

RE: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Mark Johnson
I want something a little more ambitious; I want to automate the docs. -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base There have been several stabs at such a project

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Larry Marshall
> > It seems like by leveraging perl or python and the rpmfind.net mechanism we > > could build an infrastructure to capture all this know-how and create "guru" > > utilities that formally gather and try all the diagnostics gleaned from Simple text parsers are easy...idea parsers (find the ho

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Michael
There have been several stabs at such a project. The hard part is getting people to contribute. It might work fairly well to copy the PHP manual approach where people write/correct the real manual in CVS but each page of the manual can have comments attached by anyone. So have each HOW-TO owned by

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Michael
Use PHP. It is probably the easiest wo work with. I wrote a pretty powerful general knowledge base in less than a day in PHP. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- R

Re: [newbie] Linux knowledge base

2000-10-05 Thread Vic
Dude that would totally kick butt, a Linux howto search engine! On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: > It seems there is a lot of personal knowledge locked up in a vast amount of > heads just here on this list. Significant trivia that just passes day in and > day out you can't really concentr