Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site?

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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I second this.  I've found those posts to be amazingly good.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>wrote:

> I personally like the inferno programmers notebook style - it's a nice way
> of documenting tips and tricks as well as introducing quick and dirty apps.
>  I've long thought it a shame we don't have something similar for Plan 9.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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> On Feb 24, 2010, at 5:26 AM, John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
>  When I was learning FreeBSD I found this site helpful:
>> http://www.freebsddiary.org/
>>
>> I think the thing that really makes the FreeBSD Diary work is a
>> lack of grand ambitions.  The guy who maintains it doesn't try to
>> cover everything, and generally doesn't try to explain things he
>> doesn't understand.  He doesn't normally try to update old entries,
>> and often goes months without doing anything.  But he has been
>> doing this for 12 years now, and has accumulated a good collection
>> of articles.  As far as I can tell, whenever he needs to do something
>> moderately complicated which is not well documented, he makes notes
>> and then describes how he did things and posts it.
>>
>> It would be nice to have something like that for plan9.
>> --
>> John Stalker
>> School of Mathematics
>> Trinity College Dublin
>> tel +353 1 896 1983
>> fax +353 1 896 2282
>>
>>
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