discuss: Stale Docs (was: My obsolete HOWTOs being sold as a book)
Subject:
Re: Stale Docs (was: My obsolete HOWTOs being sold as a book)
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
7 Mar 2001 15:59:48 -0000
Message-Id: <20010307105841.A10048@lupercalia.net>
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:46:12PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
>
> I'm attaching a report on my survey of stale copies of my Modem-HOWTO.
> I think the situation is about the same for other howtos that are
> frequently maintained. There are likely several hundred websites that have
> out-of-date LDP documents (I found about 500 just for my Modem-HOWTO).
> People in the know will check out our LDP mirror sites to find an
> up-to-date doc. But if one has a problem and wants an answer they are
> likely to go to a general-purpose search engine such as Google,
> AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo, etc. Then they may find a LDP doc in the
> search and it may be out-of-date. I'll try experimenting with this.
> It depends on the search engine.
David, I wrote several days ago about including your report in the
LDPWN. I haven't heard back from you and today is my deadline, so I am
including it without your specific permission, on the rationale that
you sent it to this public forum. Scream and I'll take it out - other
press are linking to us now instead of reproducing so I can do that
easily.
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
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/*
* Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to
* terminate things with extreme prejudice.
*/
die_if_kernel("Oops", regs, error_code);
(From linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c)
