Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 16:07:19 -0700
Reply-To: wilden1@JUNO.COM
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Organizing Vanagon Maintenance Information
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I don't know if anybody has been paying attention to me but I mentioned
that on each repair procedure the part number should be listed.
Since the person with the problem can most times secure this number from
the part in his hand or from on-line Vendors catalogs, I see it as ideal
search criteria.
A part number search should bring back a wealth of info directly relating
to the area if investigation.
Also a big help if you just don't know what the part is called in Vanagon
language.
Stan Wilder
On Fri, 23 May 2003 13:18:22 -0700 Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>
writes:
> I agree, but even accessing and searching through 400MB of ASCII,
> even well
> organized ASCII files, can be time consuming. Databases were born
> for this
> purpose.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On
> Behalf
> Of Stan Wilder
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:47 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Organizing Vanagon Maintenance Information
>
>
> I think 2.1 GB of that can be discarded as repetitious, not
> accurate,
> useless and just trivia.
>
> Stan Wilder
> On Fri, 23 May 2003 11:26:22 -0700 Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>
> writes:
> > With the amount of information that's been mentioned (2.5GB++), I
> > have
> > doubts that a non database-based solution would be efficient or
> > practical.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On
> > Behalf
> > Of Paul Retherford
> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:00 AM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Organizing Vanagon Maintenance Information
> >
> >
> > I like the ideas mentioned previously:
> >
> > 1) organize the information per Bentley
> > 2) Let those list members with demonstrated experience
> > volunteer/moderate for various sections. I think in some cases
> > there
> > will be an "accepted way" and in other cases we can list the
> > accepted
> > way as well as "alternatives" for getting a job done. List
> members
> > can
> > decide (like we always do) whose advice we trust.
> > 3) make it dynamic with minimal administration
> >
> > From a technical perspective I would recommend TWiki, a Perl
> based
> > system that let's you dynamically add content to any page using
> only
> > a
> > web browser. You can upload images and/or files from your
> desktop
> > computer (again using only a web browser). The system
> > automatically
> > tracks changes to pages (using RCS version control for you
> techie's)
> > so
> > if someone "messes up" a section the administrator can easily
> revert
> > to
> > the correct version. We use it for documentation here at work.
> >
> > It doesn't use a database, nor any special modules (java or
> > otherwise)
> > so you only need Apache and Perl to run it.
> >
> > I do database programming for a living and I just don't think
> most
> > of
> > us have the time to build a project of this scope. TWiki
> requires
> > no
> > programming and the administration could be shared among the
> list.
> > We
> > would want to use authentication so that only list members were
> able
> > to
> > edit pages. I can ask my employer about hosting it. You can see
> an
> > example at:
> >
> > http://ki.earlham.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
> > or
> > http://www.twiki.org
> >
> > Paul
> > '89 Westfalia
> >
> >
>
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