[TAG] [yogesh4ever at gmail.com: linux driver for Stata Hard Disk]

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:29:41PM -0800, Jim Dennis wrote:
>  There was even a: "How to ask smart questions" entry (though it was
>  not as comprehensive nor nearly as famous as Rick's canonical work
>  on the topic.

Rick did one in addition to ESR's?

>  The reason I bring this up is because, if it where there and supported
>  I'd love to have been able to bounce this message to:
> 
>     tag+askance+sata+drivers at ...
> 
>  ... to make it send a copies of "Asking Questions the Smart Way" and
>  perhaps a couple (as yet to be written) FAQ entries for: "How do I get
>  SATA working under Linux?" and "How do I find Linux drivers?"

That *is* cool, and I see how it plays into 

>  On another tack entirely I've been plaing with MediaWiki (the engine
>  that runs Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation projects).  I
>  have to say that I very much like it; and appreciate the ease with
>  which it can be installed and configured.  I would have preferred to
>  find the Debian apt-get-able package more current (it's at 1.4.x while
>  the upstream as released 1.5.2) and I would have preferred to find an
>  RPM for the SuSE system I tested it on at work.

And, as you note, especially:

>  I've also been playing with InterWiki links (including adding my
>  own for Freshmeat, SourceForge, etc.) These allow you to use
>  abbreviated forms in "local" links to refer to content on other
>  sites.  So you could use [[Freshmeat:crm114]] or [[SourceForge:crm114]]
>  to refer to the utility to which I referred above.

That is probably the *nicest* feature of MW (aside from the lightweight
markup (which, alas, could have been designed a *little* smarter..)):
the context it permits you to take automagic advantage of.

I've installed several of them; they're nice for automating the
discipline I refer to as "distributed knowledge capture".

Cheers,
-- jra
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