On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:52:24PM -0500, Denny White wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:01:22PM +0200, Han Boetes wrote:
> > > Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > > > > http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
> > > >
> > > > As always, it is a shame that those types of pages have so many
> > > > errors.
> > > >
> > > > [snip: examples]
> > > > It is just sad.
> > > 
> > > It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > # Han
> > 
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:11:26AM -0500, Marco Peereboom spoke thusly:
> > Right, let me put on my hippie robes so that we can sing koombaya.
> > Obviously it doesn't matter that website is spewing shit; it is the
> > thought that counts.
> > 
> 
> For what it's worth, I never meant to stir up a hornet's nest on the
> list. The guy's got a mailto link and welcomes all corrections. He
> answers promptly, too. I guess it's being done in the spirit of open
> source. You know, where everyone is welcome to pitch in constructively?
> Hence, the link for "Contributions and corrections gratefully accepted".
> I already wrote to him about what Theo spotted right off and got an
> answer he will correct it as soon as possible. I went back again,
> clicked on 'set all OS' and 'Draw table', and can find no shutdown
> command ref for OpenBSD. There's just a ? there. Checked OpenBSD in
> the box, again clicked 'Draw Table' and got the same. Maybe the person
> who wrote the previous message pertaining to that command looked at
> the wrong column. Or hell, maybe I did. It's apparent it's a work in
> progress. Kind of like release schedules, applying patches, etc. Things
> improve with time. Why not pitch in and help the guy? Or not. Point is,
> he's trying. I guess he could take the 'Sysadmin' out at the top of the
> page, possibly misleading to a newbie, but he's also got good links to
> the OpenBSD FAQ's and man pages. Those ARE definitive guides and users
> are warned about that early on, both in the documentation and on the
> mailing lists. If they choose to try to shortcut and use something they
> found like on the site in question and it bites them in the butt, they
> only have themselves to blame. I don't think any sysadmin worth his
> salt would blindly follow everything on the site.
> 

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