wikihow.com/Category:Linux

[mike havens]

look up 'brandy' on wikipedia.... see if you can find my edit:!)

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Rob Goelz <robgoelz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>
>   Thanks for posting this -- it seems to have a lot of excellent
> information (especially for a relative Linux n00b like me).
>
>   Wiki sites are great for information sharing but I inherently distrust
> them due to the ability of *anyone* to edit the page. From the main page:
> "*written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers*."
>
>   I suppose that the same is true of most forums in that someone could take
> bad advice and damage their system, but at least on most forums, people have
> to register and can be held accountable. On wikis, unless you choose to
> register, the only thing tracked is your IP address. So far the stuff that
> I've read seems to check out though. :)
>
>   What does everyone else think?
>
> -rob
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Maybe it's just me,
>> (having been in a cave, lo these umpteen years),
>> but when I came across this:
>>    http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Linux
>> recently,
>> it was news to me.
>> --
>> Mike Schwartz
>> Glendale  AZ
>> schwartz at acm.org
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