Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread William Park via talk
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 01:23:23PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > I use dokuwiki for everything else. If I have odt content, I export it as a > pdf. You can install the PDF.js dokuwiki plugin to view the pdfs directly > from within dokuwiki. > > Is it just you who will maintain your knowl

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread Mike via talk
On 2020-10-30 3:34 p.m., David Thornton via talk wrote: 3. Mediawiki - my personal fav only because 1. OSS 2. plugable such that I can get neat semantic stuff to work. I use categories a lot, I use REDIRECT alot. I'm a firm believer in loose pluralism to start and rigorous lexicography as time

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread David Thornton via talk
Hi, I feel old because I can say that I have worked with most of the systems mentioned so far: I have a personal professional policy of spending the energy to get good at a given tool before I critique it. If I have not "gone deep" with tool X I'll say so. 1. Confluence - I agree that the search

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread Michael Galea via talk
On 2020-10-29 10:17 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: How do you or your company maintain group "knowledge base"? I guess, wiki for internal stuffs. I'm using Words/Excel files. A chapter (Word) or worksheet (Excel) for different subject or project. You can insert screenshots, tables, etc. S

Re: [GTALUG] Virtual console 1 frozen..

2020-10-30 Thread Michael Galea via talk
On 2020-10-30 10:00 a.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:01:51PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F1 used to reach a login prompt on the console, but my debian testing based box simply shows the booting process up to the "/dev/sdb1: clean, . " message, and is

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
William, I did a fifteen month contract at Christie Digital in Kitchener. They maintain a software system called Christie University to provide on-board and upgrade training. They also have a cloud directory where people store notes on stuff. They found the article on my website on Calcul

Re: [GTALUG] Right to Repair Article in NYT

2020-10-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 04:19:53PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Male cattle are bulls (or steers, if castrated). > Female cattle are cows (or heifers, if young). > > OT: "mankind" includes females. "Cows" is often used in a way that > includes males. Well most of the time when peo

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread David Collier-Brown via talk
Confusance uses the same search library we did at brainhunter, and it's horrid! There is a chrome add-on that does google-like searches, "Confluence Quick Search". --dave On 2020-10-30 9:44 a.m., William Witteman via talk wrote: At the Very Large Company that I am currently on furlough with,

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:17:23PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > How do you or your company maintain group "knowledge base"? I guess, > wiki for internal stuffs. > > I'm using Words/Excel files. A chapter (Word) or worksheet (Excel) for > different subject or project. You can insert scr

Re: [GTALUG] Virtual console 1 frozen..

2020-10-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:01:51PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > Ctrl-Alt-F1 used to reach a login prompt on the console, but my debian > testing based box simply shows the booting process up to the > "/dev/sdb1: clean, . " message, and is unresponsive. > > All of the other virtual co

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread William Witteman via talk
At the Very Large Company that I am currently on furlough with, we've been using Atlassian's Confluence. It is not better than a wiki, but since we're using Jira, the integration with that plus the fact that it's a vendor we already have a relationship with won the day. Any web-based solution wit

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2020-10-29 10:17 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: How do you or your company maintain group "knowledge base"? I guess, wiki for internal stuffs. When I was at IBM, we used Lotus Notes.  However, these days, don't companies use HTML and whatever goes into making web sites?  There are a l

Re: [GTALUG] Group knowledge base

2020-10-30 Thread mwilson--- via talk
> How do you or your company maintain group "knowledge base"? I guess, > wiki for internal stuffs. We did this in a small (3-person) team with a largish project. Moved to Mediawiki after a trial with a small, obscure, slightly weird wiki package. It was a big advantage to have a consistent ver