>Apparently calomel is full of bad and/or outdated advice for openbsd, >especially the sysctl tuning stuff. > >Your best advice is to follow the official FAQ's on openbsd.org, and >read openbsd man pages to learn your techniques. > >Maybe there needs to be a calomel faq on openbsd.org.
Here's a better idea I'm putting out there to see how fast it gets shot down: openbsd-wiki.org, with a rule that whoever gets a question answered on misc has to add an entry with the cleaned reply. It'd do wonders for misc's signal/noise because lazy fucks, retards and trolls would think twice before posting and legitimate users would get answers faster and silently, in whatever available languages. Dynamic content & proper search would also put an end to "just wade through marc.info" fuck-offs and self-righteous RTFD when one has to "egrep -Rli serial /usr/share/man", say. Man/info pages are the ultimate /reference/, they're not meant to solve high-level problems. The FAQs are really are no FAQs at all but a gigantic snowball with floppy install instructions crucially leaving out 5 1/4" and 8" media. The site can look butt-ugly (or wikimedia-bland) but needs a semi-official stamp of approval instead of blinking red THIS IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH OPENBSD.ORG!!! And if linking to a 3rd-party web site was such a taboo you wouldn't use Google site-search. Let the shooting down begin. Truth is misc subscribers secretly love reading the same Q&As over and again, with the monthly calomel snicker, right? -- p
