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A WHOLE bunch of typos at the Linux documentation project!

From http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-5.html

"The bilt in Linux firewall..."

"...new firewall utility with more feachers"

How is this for an incomplete sentence including typos!

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-6.html

"Because most distributions don't dome with a kernel usefull to your
perpose."

Or this;

"You need to turning off any unneeded services."

"This script will count ever packet"

And the printed book "Running Linux" (3rd Edition mind you) has typos..

Check page 47, "If this is the cas, it should be explicity stated on
the package"

--- I mean really,, what a bunch of retards! You all spent so much time
geeking that you never acquired spelling and grammar skills?   Well..
rest my case, the real world will ever take Linux seriously.

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There is a difference between typos and being illiterate! BTW, Linux
users are NOT the ones that need pictures to use a computer.

Quote:

> From http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-5.html

> "The bilt in Linux firewall..."

> "...new firewall utility with more feachers"

> How is this for an incomplete sentence including typos!

> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-6.html

> "Because most distributions don't dome with a kernel usefull to your
> perpose."

> Or this;

> "You need to turning off any unneeded services."

> "This script will count ever packet"

> And the printed book "Running Linux" (3rd Edition mind you) has
typos..

> Check page 47, "If this is the cas, it should be explicity stated on
> the package"

> --- I mean really,, what a bunch of retards! You all spent so much
time
> geeking that you never acquired spelling and grammar skills?   Well..
> rest my case, the real world will ever take Linux seriously.

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: A WHOLE bunch of typos at the Linux documentation project!

That sentance has no verb.

<snip>

: --- I mean really,, what a bunch of retards! You all spent so much time
                   ^
Your punctuation needs work.  Also, the phrase "you all" is redundant,
unless you're from the southern U.S.

: geeking that you never acquired spelling and grammar skills?   Well..
: rest my case, the real world will ever take Linux seriously.

Maybe you mean "*I* rest my case", unless you're instructing us to
rest your case for you.

I'm fairly certain the Linux community doesn't take you seriously.
The rest of the world doesn't give a rat's ass about the occasional
typo since they're so prevalent on the internet anyway.

So, what is Tim Palmer's excuse.  He is the champion of the
Microsoft cause but writes very poorly.  I thought Outlook had
a built in spell checker. Perhaps that is beyond Tim's
technical abilities.

[M-x snip-typos]

Quote:> --- I mean really,, what a bunch of retards! You all spent so much time
> geeking that you never acquired spelling and grammar skills?   Well..
> rest my case, the real world will ever take Linux seriously.

Quite a good try at trolling. Congrats.

MGri
--

Eat flaming death, evil Micro$oft mongrels!

Don't you remember, TIMMAY (South Park Reference) said that he had
already filled up the spell checker's library with mis-spellings.
Pretty damned intelligent I thought.  So he knew how to run the spell
checked, but he apparently didn't like how it corrected him.

Hmm, that seems to happen a lot with people that are convinced of
Windows *utter* superiority.  They really don't like to be corrected.
Until they get everyone thinking like them (apparently even the spell
checker spelling like them) they won't stop.

"Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated!"

--

Nathaniel Jay Lee

All trolling aside, documentation is actually one of the biggest
problems that I've had with Linux as well. Both Mandrake distributions
that I bought had documentation that was pretty amateurishly written
(english was obviously not their first language), including
instructions on how to mount devices that didn't work with an out-of-
the-box install. The Red Hat Unleashed book that came with 6.0 had a
typo in its Hello World listing, which is pretty glaring. Installation
of any free open-source software is usually documented with a readme
file that the person typed themselves (and there aren't many Writing
majors pumping out open-source software these days). And as long as
people keep singing the merits of man pages to newbies, criticism of
their writing style can't be discounted.

Some of this probably has to do with the fact that Linux as a
commercial OS is still just catching on, and the quality of books and
documentation available for newbies is indicative of this...

-ws

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You may also consider that some of the documentation is written
by people for whom english is not their first language. Linux is
an international effort after all. You may want to cut them some
slack.

You may also want to spend some time reading the Win32 platform
SDK documentation... hardy a paragon of literary excellence IMHO.

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Heh heh.  I just read that one of the things the new W2K SP1 does is
correct the spelling of "Microsoft" in a number of pop-up dialogs.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas

Soory if we canyt spelkl, wer can't affortd spell chekers you kow.
Rather than calling every Linux user a bunch of retards why don't you
politely point out the errors to the above sources rather than appearing
to be incapable of human compassion and without the possession of a
developed natural neural net. Back under your bridge you * boy.

No, no, no.  The correct spelling in the south would be y'all. :P

--
Mike Marion -  Unix SysAdmin/Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.
UNIX - live it,love it,fork() it !

Mandrake is based in France IIRC.

Quote:>including
>instructions on how to mount devices that didn't work with an out-of-
>the-box install. The Red Hat Unleashed book that came with 6.0 had a
>typo in its Hello World listing, which is pretty glaring. Installation
>of any free open-source software is usually documented with a readme
>file that the person typed themselves (and there aren't many Writing
>majors pumping out open-source software these days). And as long as
>people keep singing the merits of man pages to newbies, criticism of
>their writing style can't be discounted.

One of the subthreads in this group ran to the effect of "I'm not a
programmer -- how do you expect *me* to contribute to open source
software?"  I suppose one way is to WTFM.

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Oh my. The world will end.

Quote:>From http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-5.html

From the same HOWTO, right from the very start:

   1.1 Feedback

   Any feedback is very welcome. PLEASE REPORT ANY INACCURACIES IN THIS
   PAPER!!! I am human, and prone to making mistakes. If you find a fix
   for anything please send it to me. I will try to answer all e-mail,
   but I am busy, so don't get insulted if I don't.

(oh, and you missed some of the more interesting mistakes in the section
you looked at --- problems with the distinction between singular and plural,
and the associated verb forms.

However, here is an interesting fact --- I set up a firewall a few days
ago. I worked through most of that HOWTO (albeit a slightly older version),
because I like understanding what is going on. And you know what? I never
noticed a single typo, missing word or grammatical screwup.
I am quite sure they were there. I am also quite sure that they didn't stop
the HOWTO from fulfilling its purpose, which was to tell me how to set up
a firewall.

Oh, and one more pointer for you:

    http://okcforum.org/~markg/mark/Dyslixics.html

To quote the first line:

                 If you havn't guess yet,    I'M  Dyslexic!

And guess what the Firewall-HOWTO and that page have in common! That's
right --- the author.

Quote:>And the printed book "Running Linux" (3rd Edition mind you) has typos..
>Check page 47, "If this is the cas, it should be explicity stated on
>the package"

My oh my --- you don't read much, do you? You wouldn't believe how many
books come with typos much much worse than that. I remember my then
girlfriend (a dyslexic ;-) asking me to make sense of a passage of her
economy book. Turns out that someone had screwed up the axis designations
on the accompanying diagram, making it completely impossible to understand
what they were trying to say --- unless you were sufficiently well-versed
in maths to take what they *said* and, instead of using the supplied diagram
as illustration, make up your own diagram in your mind and compare it with
what's in the book, thus figuring out what happened.

And you complain about a missing 'e'? Or maybe about the possibly
not-completely-grammatical placing of the adverb?

Quote:>Well..  rest my case, the real world will ever take Linux seriously.

And example of your own writing. Just in case you can't work it out,
not only did you miss the "I", but you also failed to type the 'n' at
the start of "never".

For some reason I really can't work out, I have this image of a house of
glass in my mind....

Bernie
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Older man declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die
Herbert Hoover
US President 1929-33
At the Republican National Convention, 27 June 1944

Nice try, typical Linux user trying to skirt the issue.. My post is not
Linux Documentation.  If you are posting technical documentation on the
web site, it should be at least readable.  How lame.

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Nice try, typical Linux user trying to skirt the issue.. My post is not
Linux Documentation.  If you are posting technical documentation on the
web site, it should be at least readable.  How lame.

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