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