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mtinmwv · January 9th, 2008

I'll second the motion. Very good suggestion.

A side note:
I have been monitoring this and over a dozen other sites. The "suggestion box" here does seem more friendly. No one beaten up so far. Nice to see someone in power responding and paying attention to the suggestions.

Back to this thread:
This one could be at the top of the list of suggestions. In forums I have universally found lacking the the computer side of this adventure. We all need one to get files, get instructions, buy more equipment and share something. Most of what I have seen (not much) is PC (ie M$) centric. I know it is a shock to a lot of people, but some folks actually use something else! To be specific - UNIX based systems. I have a few. Work great. (OK - I'll leave that for a flaming forum later, and yes, I do have just one system capable of running M$ XP.)

I have been collecting utilities that work on non-M$ software. The problem is: no where to share them or the knowledge in the fta community without getting hammered by the pc fanatics (the few extremists).

So I will suggest the following hierarchy. Each forum has general postings at each level and a breakdown to sub forums based on software. Common information about computer hardware/software related upgrades and releases should be banned and let "versiontracker", or others handle it. Keep it fta related, only allow fta related information (eg serial/usb cables/drivers, pvr drives, video cards/software, ...).

Do NOT read anything into the order of topics, I have no subliminal message encrypted!

- Computer
- - General Information
- - - Microsoft (98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista) *
- - - Mac (Jaguar, Tiger, Leopard) *
- - - Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, ...) *
- - - Other (is there any?)
- - Help
- - - Microsoft
- - - Mac
- - - Linux
- - - Other (is there any?)
- - Files/Applications/Utilities **
- - - Microsoft
- - - Mac
- - - Linux
- - - Other (is there any?)
- - Hardware

* Sub forums as required/desired here and in the others
** In this forum I would really like to see links to the source site, not just a file posted. File posting I find very insecure, error prone and a waste of space.

I wrote a lot more than first intended but I guess that is the way it goes. This is my first post but I have been hanging around, reading for a while, thought I'd jump in an test the waters.

*** Remember: this is just a suggestion. Add, modify or delete, as you like, to improve.

January 9th, 2008	#11 (permalink)
mtinmwv FTA Newbie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lost in the depths of my mind Posts: 32 Credits: 52.50 Thanks: 0 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts	Re: Computer / applications Catagory I'll second the motion. Very good suggestion. A side note: I have been monitoring this and over a dozen other sites. The "suggestion box" here does seem more friendly. No one beaten up so far. Nice to see someone in power responding and paying attention to the suggestions. Back to this thread: This one could be at the top of the list of suggestions. In forums I have universally found lacking the the computer side of this adventure. We all need one to get files, get instructions, buy more equipment and share something. Most of what I have seen (not much) is PC (ie M$) centric. I know it is a shock to a lot of people, but some folks actually use something else! To be specific - UNIX based systems. I have a few. Work great. (OK - I'll leave that for a flaming forum later, and yes, I do have just one system capable of running M$ XP.) I have been collecting utilities that work on non-M$ software. The problem is: no where to share them or the knowledge in the fta community without getting hammered by the pc fanatics (the few extremists). So I will suggest the following hierarchy. Each forum has general postings at each level and a breakdown to sub forums based on software. Common information about computer hardware/software related upgrades and releases should be banned and let "versiontracker", or others handle it. Keep it fta related, only allow fta related information (eg serial/usb cables/drivers, pvr drives, video cards/software, ...). Do NOT read anything into the order of topics, I have no subliminal message encrypted! - Computer - - General Information - - - Microsoft (98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista) * - - - Mac (Jaguar, Tiger, Leopard) * - - - Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, ...) * - - - Other (is there any?) - - Help - - - Microsoft - - - Mac - - - Linux - - - Other (is there any?) - - Files/Applications/Utilities ** - - - Microsoft - - - Mac - - - Linux - - - Other (is there any?) - - Hardware * Sub forums as required/desired here and in the others In this forum I would really like to see links to the source site, not just a file posted. File posting I find very insecure, error prone and a waste of space. I wrote a lot more than first intended but I guess that is the way it goes. This is my first post but I have been hanging around, reading for a while, thought I'd jump in an test the waters. * Remember: this is just a suggestion. Add, modify or delete, as you like, to improve.