Thanks Julian, I've sent this to the list.
FYI, we normally bottom post on the debian lists. Doug. On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:38:33PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I like your idea. Documentation is so important. I can donate some webspace > for your cause and if need a subdomain of my domain. Let me know how I can > help you. > > Julian > > JD Computer Hosting > > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas Allan Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:30 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Attracting newbies > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:12:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/06/07 21:56, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > That I'm the only one left on the planet with a printer that right now > > > can't print ps even with gs-esp. Its a mechanical problem with the > > > printer. Its 26 years old. > > > > Geez, what is it? A C.Itoh Gorilla Banana? A Diablo 630? An LA50? > > > > You know the marketing picture for the origional IBM PC, with the big > clunky monitor, the PC box, and the printer? That's it. An IBM > Personal Computer Graphics Printer. It _will_ print postscript (it > thinks its an ML-370 I think), but the little twiddle knob that turns > the ribbon is broke. To print, I have to twiddle the knob on the > ribbon. Its bad enough for plain text that prints one line per second > (one page per minute), but graphis print at about 20 minutes per page. > Gives one blisters on the thumb and finger involved. > > > > I just read the policy manual and other than packages _must_ provide a > > > man page, debian is moving towards all documentation being in html. > > > > That's a good thing. Hypertext is too useful. And all the Debian > > html docs are console-friendly. Too many of the DDs are CLI fans to > > be otherwise. And most upstream docs are text-heavy also. > > I agree. So if we want html that we can package up outside of a wiki we > need a home for it. And I need to learn html or something. > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
