serverguide methodology

Brian Shumate bshumate at openmindshare.com
Sun Dec 18 05:55:38 UTC 2005


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Rock On Mr. Cole!

What a lively, if not overly religious discussion!  Holy Book of  
Server, indeed.  St. IGNUcious, and all! LOL ;-)

All we need now is for His Holiness The Dalai Lama to drop the  
science on his text editor of choice, and we can call a wrap on this  
little discussion! ;-) ;-)

Visualize Whirled Peas,

Brian Shumate
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On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:03 AM, Kevin Cole wrote:

> P.S. I also favor using nano as the example editor.
>
>      Also, I wanted to address the bit about anticipating the  
> audience:  You
>      can try, but this is "Linux for Human Beings (TM)" and as  
> such, assuming
>      that only techno-geek high priests should lay eyes on the  
> "Holy Book of
>      Server" isn't an approach I'd recommend. Stating up front  
> "Here be
>      dragons" is fine, but glossing over stuff because "readers  
> should already
>      know x, y and z" is a tough call.  If there are prerequisites,  
> and the
>      server guide cannot cover them all, they should be clearly  
> stated up
>      front, and if possible, there should be a list of documents  
> presented in
>      the order which they should be read.
>
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