Team + World: ~~~ AnandTech FAQ update project! ~~~ Done! ~~~

[mechBgon]

Big thanks to those who gave feedback, suggestions, additional resources and moral support! final results

By the way, I think we all owe AndyHui a thank-you for some dasm fine work maintaining and building the FAQ's! Thanks AndyHui!

 

[Smoke]

• SETI@Home - analyze radio-telescope data
  
  UD Cancer - help research a cure for cancer
  
  Seventeen or Bust - search for unknown prime numbers

How about combining the two ideas. :Q

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Smokeball

• SETI@Home - analyze radio-telescope data
  
  UD Cancer - help research a cure for cancer
  
  Seventeen or Bust - search for unknown prime numbers

How about combining the two ideas. :Q

Someone's got their head screwed on right today!


I'll write up something later tonight for SB (as i'm now not goin out with cousin )



Confused

 

[RemyCanad]

I say the combination idea is the best.

 

[mechBgon]

Cool, keep up the suggestions! Combo idea sounds like a great one

 

[ProviaFan]

I'm going to finish the Folding@Home FAQ that I started before leaving on vacation. If you want, you can use it as part of your meta-FAQ.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: jliechty
I'm going to finish the Folding@Home FAQ that I started before leaving on vacation. If you want, you can use it as part of your meta-FAQ.

Cool! Added an update to the top post, I want MORE... MORE... MORE! Add your comments, suggestions and nominations, everyone! There must be more projects I've overlooked! :Q

 

[Orange Kid]

ECC2-109-----help to make improvements in public-key cryptosystems

Evolution@Home----an evolutionary bioinformatics non-profit initiative with the mission to investigate the amazing effects of evolutionary forces

 

[imported_CyberWire]

don't forget neo

 

[mechBgon]

Got it Care to point me in the right direction to research neo?

 

[mastertech01]

Find A Drug is also a newer and very worthy project for humanitarian goals.

 

[mechBgon]

Thanks mastertech01, got it on the list.

I started with S@H's FAQ because I'm most familiar with S@H at the moment, and I think it's getting there. Gonna bounce it off AndyHui and if it's anywhere close to what he has in mind then I'll post a link for you guys to see it.

 

[SpaceWalker]

HMmmmm....

I want to join Fragging@Home.....

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: SpaceWalker
HMmmmm....

I want to join Fragging@Home.....

The minimum system requirements are a little unusual for that project...

 

[ProviaFan]

Looks like your FAQs are coming along fine, Mechbgon. One question, though. Can the FAQs use images? I see yours do, but if they're going in the AnandTech FAQ section, it appears that those don't use images.

My rough draft of a FAQ for the Folding@Home CLI client can be seen here. I guess it will need to be reformatted to fit with the AnandTech FAQs, if that's where it will be going. No big problem anyway, thanks to CSS.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Looks like your FAQs are coming along fine, Mechbgon. One question, though. Can the FAQs use images? I see yours do, but if they're going in the AnandTech FAQ section, it appears that those don't use images.

My rough draft of a FAQ for the Folding@Home CLI client can be seen here. I guess it will need to be reformatted to fit with the AnandTech FAQs, if that's where it will be going. No big problem anyway, thanks to CSS.

They evidently can use images: example with photos of Intel CPU packages I'll check yours out pronto

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
They evidently can use images: example with photos of Intel CPU packages I'll check yours out pronto

Cool! It appears that the images can be hosted on AnandTech's server if they're small enough. My .PNG screenshots shouldn't be too much of a problem.

 

[AndyHui]

We can use images, although very few of the FAQs actually have them. Smaller sized images are preferred, as large ones tend to interrupt the flow.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: AndyHui
We can use images, although very few of the FAQs actually have them. Smaller sized images are preferred, as large ones tend to interrupt the flow.

Sure thing. I'll redo the screenshots in my FAQ to be smaller.

So, to submit a FAQ, do I just PM it to you, or how do I do that (is it in the FAQs? )

Is the preferred format a plain XHTML document (probably without any formatting aside from b, i, and [hx] tags), or a Word document, or something else?

 

[muttley]

Might I suggest using openoffice.org (free) it beats word and is cross platform to
Linux
Solaris
MacOS X
Windows

I converted to html from your doc document. Not everyone has word and it gets everyone working on the same platform then convert to html. This way edits and adjustments can be made by anyone.

http://tadc.advancedhelp.org/Find-A-Drug/FAD.html

Find-A-Drug demo conversion from Open Office

muttley

EDIT: open office will handle word documents and to publish to the web you goto "Save As" and select html.

What I am meaning is for everyone to write in doc format (using open office) or in html open office. Save everything in .doc format and/or html (open office) so everyone can edit.
This places everyone on the same platform and no hastles with the MS Word .doc platform or different styles of html to edit or adapt or change in the future.
Sorta like were all on the same key.

I have tried other programs, Star office 5.2 but they now charge. And I have 602 pro PC Suite and open office loads quick and nice and works with M$ and these other platforms and so that is why I recommend it and it is open source software etc

 

[mechBgon]

I can publish them to my site in that crazy-lookin' HTML that Word generates when you save as Web page... but I wouldn't have a clue what it all does. I was having a hard-enough time making what you see now! I was figuring people could open them in WordPad, or does that work? I'll tackle it after I get home and see if I can make it into plain-Jane HTML for y'all.

AndyHui, are the pictures in the two FAQs sized ok? I looked at the Intel-package ones, and mine are narrower than the pairs of photos in that FAQ.

edit: just checked, the .docs can be saved to desktop and then opened in WordPad.

 

[AndyHui]

XHTML is perfect. The least work for me I'll accept just about any format, usually PM or just plain text.

Your images should be OK, mechBgon.

 

[mechBgon]

Thanks, I'll try to crank out another FAQ beta tonight and bounce it off some participants for feedback.

 

[ProviaFan]

AndyHui, YHPM on the first FAQ for F@H.

 

[mechBgon]

I'm currently working on a FAQ for Seventeen-or-Bust. I hope you guys appreciate this, because my head nearly exploded when I began trying to figure out what SB is all about! :Q And it doesn't help that SoB has taken down their own FAQ so I would appreciate a wee bit of help from any SB enthusiasts who'd be willing to review my FAQ and point out mistakes and oversights.