Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:45:27 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptops (was: laptop compatibility list) Message-ID: <20030316134527.C4374@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20030315064753.GA23204@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_fm@emailgroups.net on Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:47:53AM -0500 References: <3E72A716.4070607@mac.com> <20030315160636.O67648@welearn.com.au> <20030315064753.GA23204@moo.holy.cow>
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--UPT3ojh+0CqEDtpF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:47:53AM -0500, parv wrote: > Problem w/ wikis, as always, is quality control. By its very > nature, it is too easy to get a page hosed simply by bad markup, or > become a spam space. Unless there is a guarantee from the > maintainer(s) of a wiki, i hesitate to use or take a wiki seriously. If any community maintained laptop compatability I've ever seen had something like consistant quality of reports that might be a concern, but realisticly I don't think it is. At least with a wiki, there would be some way to fix the errors when you got a new laptop and found it was totally wrong. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --UPT3ojh+0CqEDtpF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dPB1XY6L6fI4GtQRAqt3AKCubxbQ5iAvclhICVsqkRoebFCIzACfRTrB uNeyKeA69suu9/BJVvrD5Rw= =Gm85 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UPT3ojh+0CqEDtpF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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