[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.

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talk:start [2012/09/12 00:34 (UTC)] nocturnal.slackertalk:start [2019/04/16 03:38 (UTC)] – [Someone please fix] nocturnal.slacker
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 >I think that depends on whether it is decided to place the wiki under a slackware.com subdomain or slackdocs.org is going to be favoured. If it is not a slackware.com site I would not want to use a full set of Slackware visuals. \\ --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]], Mon Aug 20 22:11:13 UTC 2012// >I think that depends on whether it is decided to place the wiki under a slackware.com subdomain or slackdocs.org is going to be favoured. If it is not a slackware.com site I would not want to use a full set of Slackware visuals. \\ --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]], Mon Aug 20 22:11:13 UTC 2012//
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 >>082012@1821hrsEDT - Ah! That makes since, Eric. Thanks for the reply. I guess it's something we can consider down the road a piece. ~VTEL >>082012@1821hrsEDT - Ah! That makes since, Eric. Thanks for the reply. I guess it's something we can consider down the road a piece. ~VTEL
  
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 The front page says that you must create an account to be able to edit the wiki... OK, but where is the link to create such an account? I love Slackware and I'd love to participate! (and I have my own Slackware wiki as well: http://www.gilandre.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/SlackwareLinuxPage )... The front page says that you must create an account to be able to edit the wiki... OK, but where is the link to create such an account? I love Slackware and I'd love to participate! (and I have my own Slackware wiki as well: http://www.gilandre.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/SlackwareLinuxPage )...
  
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 082312@2100hrsEDT - I've created a hyperlink on the main page in the paragraph under the Help topic where it says "you must create an account". Hopefully, this will make it easier for folks to figure out how to register new accounts. ~vtel 082312@2100hrsEDT - I've created a hyperlink on the main page in the paragraph under the Help topic where it says "you must create an account". Hopefully, this will make it easier for folks to figure out how to register new accounts. ~vtel
  
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 +==== NOTICE TO ALL ====
  
 **PLEASE** do not edit the Main Page without consulting someone on the admin/editor team first !!! \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/08/24 15:15// **PLEASE** do not edit the Main Page without consulting someone on the admin/editor team first !!! \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/08/24 15:15//
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 I noticed a [[:start?rev=1346889810&do=diff|page edit of our Wiki start page]] by a non-staff member. It made me realize that we must protect our start page from vandalism (even though this particular edit does not belong in that category) and therefore made the [[:start|start page]] read-only to everybody except the staff editors.\\ If you (editors) would be so kind to evaluate if mentioning slackpkg on the main page is beneficial? //I think not!// \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/09/11 16:41// I noticed a [[:start?rev=1346889810&do=diff|page edit of our Wiki start page]] by a non-staff member. It made me realize that we must protect our start page from vandalism (even though this particular edit does not belong in that category) and therefore made the [[:start|start page]] read-only to everybody except the staff editors.\\ If you (editors) would be so kind to evaluate if mentioning slackpkg on the main page is beneficial? //I think not!// \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/09/11 16:41//
  
->Re: slackpkg on main page -- myeh... it's not necessary, but it is something a beginner would need to use after installing their system.  --- //[[wiki:user:nocturnal.slacker|V. T. Eric Layton]] 2012/09/11 17:33//+>Re: slackpkg on main page -- myeh... it's not necessary, but it is something a beginner would need to use after installing their system. \\ --- //[[wiki:user:nocturnal.slacker|V. T. Eric Layton]] 2012/09/11 17:33// 
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 +>Re: slackpkg on main page: Noting slackpkg on the main page is not necessary since it should be documented in the install article and will be covered in all package management tutorials. \\   --- //[[wiki:user:mfillpot|Matthew Fillpot]] 2012/09/11 20:48// 
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 +Been thinking this over. What we might want to have instead is a chapter "slackware maintenance" which would not only include instructions about how to configure and use slackpkg, but also some information about best practices: following the ChangeLog.txt ; subscribing to the security mailing list ; setting up a cronjob that automatically downloads (but not installs) new patches and sends you an email upon new arrivals ; stuff that any aspiring Slackware sysadmin (and home user) should know of. A link to such a chapter would be good to have on the main page \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/09/12 05:05// 
  
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 +I think it would be a good idea to add a link to the beginners_guide following this link:
 +  * [[slackware:slackpkg|Update your new system]]: Configure and use slackpkg.
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 +  * [[slackware:beginners_guide|Beginners guide]]: Some post installtion consideration
 + --- //[[wiki:user:mariostg|Mario St-Gelais]] 2012/09/13 13:58//
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 +>Thanks for this suggestion, Mario. Oh, I've moved your post to the bottom of the page (older at top - newer at bottom). Cheers!  --- //[[wiki:user:nocturnal.slacker|V. T. Eric Layton]] 2012/09/13 15:18//
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 +I've been wondering, if there is a good article (example: [[http://www.slackwiki.com/Building_A_Package|this guy]]) on some other site, do we simply create our own article and link to it as a source, or do we ask permission to move the article wholesale to the wiki?  --- //[[wiki:user:jprzybylski|Jared Przybylski]] 2012/09/16 13:30//
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 +I am not in favour of copying whole articles into our wiki, except if the person doing the copying is also the author of the original article. You can use another article as the source or inspiration for your own article here, and if you are re-using parts of it, it is good practice to mention it in the **Sources** section. \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/09/16 13:46//
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 +I tried sending an email to the mailing-list twice this morning, but the connection failed. It was about Hazel's revisions. I missed those minor errors she corrected, maybe because I was used to Eric H.'s articles being so clear and easy to follow as far as the actual instructions are concerned, that minor flaws in his English were overlooked. So it's a good thing we've got Hazel on the team, for the benefit of both native and non-native English speakers/authors/editors.  --- //[[wiki:user:brianl|Brian Lawrence]] 2012/09/19 06:09//
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 +> Found out the email did get sent, after all. m(  --- //[[wiki:user:brianl|Brian Lawrence]] 2012/09/19 06:30//
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 +VERY NICE!!! I like. :)  --- //[[wiki:user:nocturnal.slacker|V. T. Eric Layton]] 2012/10/19 14:16//
 +> Thank you :-) I also sent an email to the users list as a wake-up call \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/10/19 14:30//
 +>> Great stuff!!! Eric, are you planning to send an extended statistics pdf on a regular basis? It'd be interesting to have it, say, on a monthly basis. Thank you.  --- //[[wiki:user:sycamorex|Marcin Herda]] 2012/10/19 15:02//
 +>>> I hope I remember to do that once a month. If I forget, feel free to remind me. \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/10/19 15:25//
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 +==== Someone please fix ====
 +Someone please fix the [[howtos:multimedia:start]] page, I could not figure out how to get the correct tags or to show the [[howtos:multimedia:htpc]] page...  [[wiki:user:arfon]] 2012/10/28 7:27pm
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 +>It looks like either your caching was off or alienbob fixed the issue with the multimedia page not picking up your article. The howto topic pages are just displaying all articles in their sub namespaces and your article is now appearing.  --- //[[wiki:user:mfillpot|Matthew Fillpot]] 2012/10/29 03:58//
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 +>> I did not have to fix that page, it was OK. I fixed the **other** page, [[howtos:multimedia:htpc|howtos:multimedia:htpc]]. \\  --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/10/30 03:46//
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 +I received an email notification of an edit to the start page. I see that you reverted to a previous version to eliminate some SPAM. Has this been happening much? This is the only email notification of an edit that I've received in quite some time. ~[[wiki:user:nocturnal.slacker|V.T. Eric Layton]]
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