[ale] interesting utilities

[John Wells]

Aaron,

I agree that wiki would work well for this sort of thing, but I'd first
like to get a show of hands of how many people on the list use the wiki? 
Not that it's not useful...but I have a hard enough time keeping up with
email, much less surfing out daily to see if anyone's added a new tool.

of course, if people started posting, I'd be forced to start looking ;-)

my .005 cents.

John

aaron said:
> I like the idea of encouraging more sharing of the tools and tips we all
>  discover exploring the landscape. This is the same kind of thing
> Michael  Hirsch and I are promoting by adding a brief "Tip Jar"
> mini-demo segment  to the monthly meetings.
>
> I can see how using some kind of "topic marker" would make tool tips
> easier to notice and find in the list, but I think the better place to
> post notes like this would be on a Twiki page. That way everyone doesn't
>  have to know and remember to include the topic "code", and the list of
> Cool Tools and Tips will be concise, in addition to being available to
> the world, not just our list subscribers. (Though if one adds something
> to the Twiki page it would still make sense to follow up with a notice
> to  the list...)
>
> Just my .02
>
> The ALE Twiki server is available if anyone wants to start
> up a Cool Tools page!
>
> peace
> aaron
>
> =========On Wednesday 04 December 2002 14:45, Pete Hardie wrote:
>> John Wells wrote:
>> > Seems like I run across a new tool daily that's either fun to play
>> or very useful, or both.
>> >
>> > I'd love to learn about cool tools from other ale'rs, so I was
>> wondering what others thought about creating a new subject format
>> (CT: for cool tool, IT: for interesting tool, UT: for utility, FYI:
>> or some other cheesy tag line) to use when posting something we've
>> run across that we think other may not (or may) know about.
>> >
>> > Way I see it, using and learning Linux is sort of an ongoing
>> journey, and I'd like to throw up interesting spots on the map with
>> which my path converges.
>> >
>> > Of course, many posts will probably be old news to a lot of folks
>> (there was a time four years ago where my post might have been (CT:
>> xargs!), no harm in sharing the love, right?  Let me know what you
>> guys think.
>>
>> I'd suggest a (TOOL) tag - clearer that CT/IT/UT and different from
>> (OT).
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