Working on the OS FAQ [Mega-Tokyo Wiki]

[Candy]

Pro-POS.org is going down in the foreseeable future. :-[

Virtually everything that was valuable information has been transferred to the OS FAQ some time before; but one thing has not yet been done.

I still don't see your ideas and concepts on the OS faq so there is still a lot to transfer.

Any volunteers? (Traffic isn't heavy on this one.)

*volunteers* - since I'm using my domain for anything I can, I'm not going to cancel it any time soon. it's pretty darn low traffic, and since the smallest amount of traffic I can get is 500M (and I'm currently paying for 2G/month) it's pretty obvious I've got space. Find it back at http://www.atlantisos.com/pro-pos/grub_disk.zip - not protected against deeplinking or whatever, on a stable server. If you'd like to transfer your ideas anywhere I'd be more than willing to host them too, they're good.

PS, is the pro-pos project going anywhere?

[Solar]

I still don't see your ideas and concepts on the OS faq so there is still a lot to transfer.

Those are mainly designs, which don't really belong on a technical FAQ.

PS, is the pro-pos project going anywhere?

I will keep my ideas and concepts stored away somewhere nice and warm. Actually, I will even keep the Wiki and the code repository at my personal homepage, but it won't be public, and it won't go under the ambitious title "Pro-POS" anymore.

What's discontinued is the project itself - neither the belief that I was on the right track, nor the occassional line of code written for it. I'm just too disenchanted to push it any more.

Should I win big in the lottery, Pro-POS would return full-force the next day. Until then, it's just another failed dream.

Damn. :-\ Going nostalgic again. Sorry for the rant.

[Solar]

First come, first serve - I adjusted the Wiki to point to the Clicker download section. Thanks for the offer, Candy!

[distantvoices]

Wha'd'ya think I am doing to drive BlueIllusion forward? ;D

The occasional lines of code are mosta time all I can afford for having a life is way more than sitting behind the computer and I am longing for long trails on the bike in some wild landscape.

And there is a faery in my life.

And right you are: keep it rather private. And don't speak of *failed* dreams. Dreams never fail. It is just that one needs to *work* to fullfill a dream.

stay safe/ha en bra dag

[Candy]

First come, first serve - I adjusted the Wiki to point to the Clicker download section. Thanks for the offer, Candy!

You're welcome . Beaten by 18 seconds :-[... PS, possibly an alternative link?

[Solar]

PS, possibly an alternative link?

Nobody stops you from mirroring the archive.

[Pype.Clicker]

dude, i just realized i could have the 'recent changes' for the FAQ in my sidebar ...

now *that* is what i call technology

[Pype.Clicker]

i've started a categorization of pages.
http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/Category

When editting a page, if you can stick the category names you feel it should have ...

[Solar]

Do I see it correctly that you have admin rights in the Wiki, Pype? There's quite some stuff piling up in the To-Do page that requires an admin to do...

[Pype.Clicker]

Do I see it correctly that you have admin rights in the Wiki, Pype? There's quite some stuff piling up in the To-Do page that requires an admin to do...

not to my knowledge ...

[Solar]

Thought so because you are listed as "Authorized User" in CategoryHomePages...

[Solar]

Proposal replacement for the "How to ask questions" sticky thread placed in the Wiki.

http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/HowToAskQuestions

[Schol-R-LEA]

It probably could use a section on how to answer questions, as well; the ESR essay does address the issue, if only as an afterthought, and I'm sure that something constructive could be said about it here. Fortunately, it isn't as critical a point; most of the problems on this forum have come from the sort of novice posters whom this page is meant to enlighten, and most of those who stay seem to get the hang of it quickly (with some notable exceptions, though even some of them eventually get a clue). We've had relatively few incidents where someone made an @$$ of themselves when replying to a serious question; while a few flame wars have erupted in the past, they were mostly set off by repeat offenders who had failed to learn from previous threads, or else from someone pushing an issue beyond all reason. For such case, no advice in the world will help; only experience, if anything, will correct such behavior.

[anthill]

On the "Disk Images Under Windows" page of the wiki,
it mentions a program called filedisk. I tried to use it on my win 2000 sp3 system, without success. However there is a reliable alternative called "Virtual Floppy Driver" at http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#beta.
Perhaps someone could post a link to this on the "Disk Images Under Windows" page.

Thanks Ant

[Candy]

On the "Disk Images Under Windows" page of the wiki,
it mentions a program called filedisk. I tried to use it on my win 2000 sp3 system, without success. However there is a reliable alternative called "Virtual Floppy Driver" at http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#beta.
Perhaps someone could post a link to this on the "Disk Images Under Windows" page.

Thanks Ant

The idea about the wiki is that EVERYBODY can change a page. The reason not everybody does is that your IP is logged .

I'll add it for you