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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1 align="center"><A NAME="answer">
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<a href="./index.html">The Answer Guy</a>
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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Starshine Technical Services,
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<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
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align="left" border="0">Regarding the Column's New Look</H3>
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<p><strong>From David Jao on 02 May 1998 </strong></p>
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
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<font color="#333399">>> I've completely changed the look of this column.
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I don't like this new look one bit. It's much harder to follow
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everything when every time you finish one question you have to go back
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to the main page and then pursue another link. I much prefer the all in
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one big page layout.
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Just casting my vote for less page fragmentation, that's all.
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<br><br>
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-David
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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David,
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<br><br>
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We'll be adding a few more navigation links to the bottom
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of each question, so you can continue onto the next one
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without going "back up" and "down" again.
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Part of the impetus to "fragment" this column is to be
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more search engine friendly. When someone is looking for
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information relating to two or more concepts it is
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quite frustrating to keep hitting a few "eclectic" pages
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that cover diverse, unrelated material on large single HTML
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pages.
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Also, while I appreciate that many of the regular readers
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of my column read the whole thing, straight through (apparently
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as much for my occasional rants and tirades as for the
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technical references), I have to be considerate for the
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"browsers" --- those readers who look over the table of contents
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and the list of question/titles and just want to load selected
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ones. I hate to waste their bandwidth by shipping them 100K when
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they only want to see a couple of 5 to 8 kilobyte blocks.
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For those who prefer to fetch "The whole thing" (to mirror
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it unto their localhost pages or go through it using a file:/
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URL) I definitely suggest following the link to the
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<a href="ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/lg-issue29.tar.gz">.tar.gz</a>
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file as referenced by the main home page at:
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<br><dl>
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<dt><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/"
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>http://www.linuxgazette.com/</a>
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</dl><br>
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(Yes, we get a whole domain, now. Though I have to wonder
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why SSC made it a .com rather than a .org)
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<br><br>
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The other motivation is that I simply want to make links of
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references I to the source material that I use to answer
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your questions. It has always bothered my sense of craftsmenship
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that these weren't "hot."
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<br><br>
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Finally it gives me the chance to proofread and comment on the
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collection of questions and answers before they "go to press."
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By that time the person who orginally posed their question has
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long since recieved it via e-mail (and usually solved their
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problem).
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<br><br>
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However, the point of putting it in the Gazette is to make the
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same answer available to a broader audience and to let the
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search engines pick up on them. Which leads us right back to
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my first reason for wanting to have them in separate pages.
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If you see that "<tt>+LDAP +Linux +NT</tt>" comes up on an Alta Vista
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search, you want to know that this is an article about
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the co-existence of "light-weight directory access protocol"
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(LDAP) and Linux and NT. You'll be irritated and disappointed
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if it's a large page that has disparate references to each.
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(Ooops. Now someone's going to hit those references in
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<strong>this</strong>. Oh well, at least it will be a
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<strong>small</strong> page and quick to scan for relevance).
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<h3><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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align="left" border="0">Heather comments...</h3>
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I really do apologize for not giving you internal navigation
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within the Answer Guy column. That's fixed this time, and I
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hope you find it useful. I was in a rush to make everything
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beautiful for release...
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<br><br>
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You could also read "<a href="issue29.html">The Whole Damn
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Thing</a>" version of the Linux Gazette, in which the footers
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are stripped between Answer Guy letters, but you'd also be
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downloading and paging through the other Gazette articles.
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<br><br>
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If that was a bit more than you hoped, perhaps you understand
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what visitors coming in via a search engine might feel like.
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Since I personally use search engines <strong>a lot</strong> --
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more than 70% of my web visits start with a search -- I sure notice.
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<a href="mailto:star@starshine.org">Heather</a>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 29 June 1998</H5>
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