Perfect Tech Website

Please describe to me what you would all like to see in the "perfect" technical website. This would not be a news site by a site dedicated to technical support for technicians on a free membership only status. It would never hope to be a new Windrivers, but a host to all the technical informaiton I can scrounge, including FAQ's from tech's to help others in trouble, way's we've found to be faster at our jobs, more efficient and things to watch out for.

This site is great, but I have found that too many people are not registering and therefore have no accountability when it comes to their responses.

Anyhow, please let me know what you think.

Take a look at the <a href="http://www.os2ss.com">OS/2 SuperSite</a>. Something like that, but in a Windows environment, would be great.

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R. Bret Walker, CNE

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I don't think making a person register gives them anymore credibility...I mean after all, what does regestering prove?...A person knows how to pick a username/password and give an email address?....Wow, any moron who knows how to type and set up a Hotmail or Lycos account can have as many usernames for a bulletin board as they want!

I for one usually find almost anything I need to know on windrivers, so I don't even bother looking at other less established sites.

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[email protected]

Actually, credibility plays a big role with me. When I notice a registered user with quite a few (100+) posts, I immediately lend more weight to their opinion than an unregistered user.

I also notice the 'regulars' on the boards. Not just the moderators...the people: Klenath, pcshark, sowulo, Larommi, Damned Angel, MAYHEM (the list goes on)...I respect their opinions much more than some random anonymous poster.

Why not require registration? Some (two?) of the windrivers boards are.

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"What would anybody want with a blind dog?"

I will agree I give more weight to the regulars, I'm still feeling my way along here, trying not to offer ignorant advice, which is why I don't come here till I get my early morning caffeine...

and Winkrushr, I give up, my mind has suffered meltdown...where's the quote from?!


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me: "My name is ****** and I'm a caf-fiend."
everyone: "Hello ******!"
me: (begins to sob)

later I learned I was actually in a room full of marketeers for SURGE...

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Originally posted by 3fingersalute:
I don't think making a person register gives them anymore credibility...I mean after all, what does regestering prove?...A person knows how to pick a username/password and give an email address?....Wow, any moron who knows how to type and set up a Hotmail or Lycos account can have as many usernames for a bulletin board as they want!

I for one usually find almost anything I need to know on windrivers, so I don't even bother looking at other less established sites.

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Wow, feel better now? For what it is worth I agree with you. Everybody started somewhere, and there are some really smart people who just started posting and there is one that changed his name...I forget who.

Back to the topic, I think a good site is one that allows users to post ideas and impliments some of them. Just like Windrivers. Scott built it, but us techs got to help tweak it. I hope things return to normal soon!!!


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I might rock, but I am not made of stone!

I agree that registration is not going to make a person more credible. I have seen good and bad posts by both registered and non registered users. As far as the number of posts by a user goes, that just shows how active they are on the forums.

I completely agree. I would probably join, but do not see much need for it. I use this site and another BBS site (virtualdr) and from both of them I get quick and helpful answers (and I try to be helpful too).

Two more points - 1)Registering does not seem to mean much as far as credibility.
2)WHat do you mean by hold someone responsible for heir posts? - If I give advice to help someone solve their problem, and they end up messing up their computer even worse - what can happen - can I be sued? Who is to say they followed my advice properly? Who is to say they described the problem accurately? Who is to say I know what I am talking about? Who is to say you can figure out who and where I am?

Rafi

I agree totally WinKrushR, I take the advice more of the members with more posts than the newly registered or unregistered user, but I was just saying registering doesn't really prove your credebility, because anybody could post and say they were a tech and we have no way of knowing whether they are a tech or not.

But I guess how you build credebility is by posting frequenlty, and the only way to do that and be remembered is by regestering, I think I came across wrong on my first post!

[This message has been edited by 3fingersalute (edited September 14, 2000).]

Why look for a better site this one does everything you need also registering i did because........well id did any way. i have learnt alot from this site long may it continue

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Originally posted by WinKrushR:
Actually, credibility plays a big role with me. When I notice a registered user with quite a few (100+) posts, I immediately lend more weight to their opinion than an unregistered user.

I also notice the 'regulars' on the boards. Not just the moderators...the people: Klenath, pcshark, sowulo, Larommi, Damned Angel, MAYHEM (the list goes on)...I respect their opinions much more than some random anonymous poster.

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Don't value my opinion just because I have posted more than 100 times! I'm wrong about 99% of the time, I'm just more prolific (-;

Seriously, though, it's true that I have a tendancy to listen more to the people who are actually registered, and not just whipping off a reply because the thought strikes them. There are a couple unregistered users who are still regulars, though. Basically I read each post carefully as if the writer were the ultimate expert, because I may learn something that I didn't know before, even if the person is not registered.



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R. Bret Walker, CNE

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I read them all, registered or not, then discount what I think is BS. Some times that comes from registered users as well as non-registered. sometimes the problem has MORE than one solution, sometimes the problem is confused for something else, sometimes we're all 1d10t's. I come here to get second oppinions and to give my own. If I helped you solve the problem then I am pleased. If you helped ME solve a problem I am pleased and hope you are, too.

In any event, I thought this IS the ultimate site. Was I wrong???

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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?

what I meant by holding them responsibile for their posts is simply a flaming issue. All information on a discussion forum is provided as intellectual stimulation and for the joy of discussion, what you do with it, you do at your own risk.

will, I posted to a sight that had nothing to do with what I was Reading. It was an accident, but the poor guy's reading my post, I am sure they were wondering what planet I was from. I had two browsers up for the forum and thought I was posting to another page, didn't catch it till 4 or 5 day's later. and I still give STUPID advice, most of it is misreading the damn post.

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Techno®

About people with many posts, I could just post dozens of questions and have the post count high. When in fact I have no idea what I'm doing. Or I could post things like this that mean nothing and have my count go up...


Ahh, post number just went up by one.

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www.el-mono.com

The credibility issue is interesting. I personally tend to give more credibility to registered Users with a high post count, mainly because I remember reading their post previously & being impressed with their comments. The flip side of the coin is Users like myself that are "stumped" more frequently than they have an answer for another user. Simply put, most of my posts are pleas for help! I try to contribute also, but regulars seem to answer most questions pretty quickly.

Thanks to all who have answered in my times of Need!


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Dave Sparks,
Systems Support Analyst

Good topic.
About first issue...
I'm also have the dream to create similar site. Now my site is under constraction.
There is list of information I want to put on :
- drivers (links to drivers pages and library of old ones or for discontinued products). How many of us spend lots of time having to find any information and drivers,BIOS for unknown or discontinued products? I want to create data base with this information, where every techies can contribute and share with information they have in their personal collection.
- BIOS upgrades (not only for newest models MoBo);
- Manuals for new and discontinued products;
- of course, link to this and similar sites and forums;
- Technical news;
- Similar forum; Also forum about repairing/restoration works with PC hardware, copy and office technics. I have seen lots of these forums in Russia. So, I want to create similar international forums.
- download pages with tons of usefull freeware and shareware utilites, writen by Russian, Ukrainian and so on programmers. Some of them I mentioned on Windrivers. I know lots of that sites in Russia and Ukraine (like www.download.ru and www.ixbt.com ).But they not available for You, because most of You don't understand Russian. Similar situation in my country with English sites.
I found, what some of Russian-located branches of MB manufacturers www-sites contents even better information,full list of manuals, newer BIOS. Example - Lucky Star's www.lucky-star.ru .I even help someone at Windrivers to find newest BIOS upgrade,that wasn't available even on main corporate www site.
- documentation on electronic components, common used on MoBos, HDDs, Monitors etc.
Have anyone of You electronic circuitry for brand motitors, PSU,printers, copiers etc.? I have seen lots of these things on Russian sites.
Nothing to say, very usefull things for peoples, who actually working in repair shops.

About second issue...
I believe,what most of You are REAL techies,
even being unregistered. So,I respect EVERY, even wrong opinion. Probably I'm also made some mistakes.
Usually unregistered visitors asked for help, so, why not to help them? Really, I cann't understand peoples, who're not registered, especially who are posted often on Windrivers. It's can be done easily using "anonymous" e-mail like "[email protected]" or similar.
But honestly saying, I especially respect techies, who're posted full and true information about himself in post "Answer this question without BS".
Listing all names would be unfair for someone,who are not done it yet.


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I'm sorry for so long post.
I'm also sorry,if my English isn't well enough. Please, correct me.

[This message has been edited by Ruslan (edited September 16, 2000).]

Well you can check out www.drewber.com, im onmly posting aswnsers to he questions i receive, as far as drivers, windrivers will always be the best. But there are things windrivers lacks. Any one here ever tried typeing /con/con on a command prompt window in 95 or 98? /con/aux works too. How about echo Device=c:\cdrom\cdrom.sys /d:drewber >>c:\config.sys (Some people love to delete edit.com for some reason)
How about Fdisk.exe <<fdisk.txt
where fdisk.txt contains the following:
Y
3
1
1
<ctrl+m, caridge return)
Y
<~ hex value of ESC
<~ hex Value of ESc
1
1
1
<Hex value of esc
<Hex value of esc
<Hex value of esc
That deletes and recreates the partitions while im working on a nother machine.
working on a batch file to do that on upto 26 drives =-).

<me takes my dos away =-( how will I ever survive?>



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hmm win 98 command prompt
lets try c:\&gt;/con/con
illegal what?
echo label c: cursed &gt;&gt;c:\autoexec.bat

As far as high posting numbers go, Many of my posts have been questions. I try to answer as often as possible, but sometimes I look over the discussions and I see a question that has been fully answered by 9 or 17 posts and my answer is already covered 4 or 8 times in the list of answers, so I do not bother posting. Maybe I should post anyway just to boost my numbers.

Is there a benefit to posting an answer that has been mentioned 3 or 4 times previously in the same thread?

Rafi