Re: Attracting newbies
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On 02/06/07 22:29, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 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
ML-370 is a Brother model number?
> 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.
Text-friendly html is very simple to learn. Just *remember* what
the ml in html stands for.
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