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godofthedevil · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: Need Help with my new website

Will anyone like to help me modertate my new forum / website im setting up.. over the weekend i have had a lot of spam and i cant cope with it on my own.. would love ppl to help me with the wiki site as well..

the website is www.linuxinformation.co.uk i know it looks a bit crude at the momement cos its still new.. but all help would be cool

cheers Smile

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Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2353

To be honest, I don't know what your wiki adds to the ever increasing number of Linux websites. It doesn't seem to have a specific purpose, or target audience. I'd advise you to rethink your wiki and it's purpose.

godofthedevil · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 11:50 am Post subject:

damn everyones a critic..

the reason i set up this website is a little project to help me pass the endless hours of being out of work.. as there is so much you can do in terms of looking for work. i set it up to be a wiki cos i couldnt think how to do the layout.. all i want is help with setting it up not just plain criticism which will just put me off and break another dream and something to do.
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towy71 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

I'm thinking of setting up a wiki of wikis where every pointless gibberer can set up yet another wiki with sub-wikis as well Razz

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M-Saunders · Moderator Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 pm Posts: 2881

I think Towy71 has just invented Web 3.0!

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pootman · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:

towy71 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject:

It's probably already been patented by Microparp Confused

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godofthedevil · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

well everything has been done.. so im just doing it

there might be a lot of linux wiki's and other wikis

but how meny blogs and myspace profiles are out there.. if ppl visit edit or break my new website i dont mind.. least it will give me something to do after all linux started off as a students hobby didnt it?
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www.shopforlinux.co.uk <- Linux CD shop
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pootman · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject:

Take these comments as constructive criticism. As DM says, you need a direction, and why not a linux wiki wiki? There are plenty of sites out there with howto's so far out of date it's really not funny.
Why not have wiki index to say who's on-the-ball and who's installing Red Hat 5?

Needless to say, it will have to be updated frequently.
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nelz · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

Linux started out as a computer science student's project, not a hobby.

As others have said, work out what you want to do, then ask for help. How can people help you do want you want when you don't know what it is?
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1slipperyfish · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject:

yeah us noobs would really appreciate a howto on howto get lame to work in kaudioreator?? i can run lamed from command line but not in kac??? also how to get a hp1410psc to scan documents????
paul
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Rhakios · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject:

If it's connected locally via USB it's simple, if you're trying to do it over a network connection, forget it.
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1slipperyfish · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

the psc is over usb to colin only but i can't get it to work???
paul
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Rhakios · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject:

USB1.1 port or USB2? My experience with an HP Photosmart 2575 is that it won't work at all over a USB1.x connection, but works just fine coonected to a USB2 port.
When you plug the device in, you should run dmesg in a terminal to verify the device has been identified correctly before moving on to configuration.
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