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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Forum Guidelines/"rules"

« on: June 07, 2005, 04:42:17 am »

The old site is abadoned because the pdaXrom team is working on the new one. As Laze used to say, it will be soon released.

Ah, that explains a lot!  Maybe this could be added to the first line of the "home" page at the old/only website?  Also a "please check the forums for interim information" would be great too.

The last line: I really don't know how this is connected to the Forum guidelines, maybe you clicked on the wrong forum before posting.

I thought this was a very appropriate place...

This is not because I want to control everything but I want to make it as easy as possible for everybody to find what they are looking for.

Here goes…

1. Always first check that you question isn’t already answered in the FAQ on http://www.pdaXrom.org ...
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...its better to “reopen” and old thread than to have 5 different about the same.

It seems the moderator/guru/Laze? is trying to make the forums as efficient and ordered as possible.  His own #1 rule refers to the website.  I agree - a nicely done website can really keep the forums lean and mean.  This is especially important with the forum's search ability being quite limited.

I'm just trying to help and do not mean to be argumentative.  Everything that I have suggested is based on my own frustrations and I would not have bothered making any suggestions if I did not appreciate the great efforts that people have made here.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Forum Guidelines/"rules"

« on: June 07, 2005, 02:31:24 am »

Okay, I hate to whine, especially when we are talking about free/donate-based firmware and software, but...

I think to make the forum use much more efficient (as we all, users, monitors, developers want) you first need to make the main website much more efficient.  It is really out of date and almost appears to be abandoned.  It is pdaxrom.org correct?

I think the two most important items needed on the main website is a detailed, step-by-step, procedure for installing the LATEST release candidate (shoot, it would be nice if you even mentioned what the latest RC is and when it was made available).  Yes, there is a nice install procedure for the last stable version, but that procedure does not quite work properly for the latest RC - especially for a first-timer.

The second item that should be on the main website is a detailed, step-by-step, procedure for using the ipkg application for adding/updating/removing *.ipk files (maybe a little one sentence or two explanation of what a *.ipk file is too).  You would also need to have this for the stable version and for the latest RC - because there is typically a problem in this area with the latest RCs.  A mention of the location of the latest/matching feed would be nice, along with a quick mention of how to setup the feed locally on a memory card.

These are two items that would take a pdaxrom guru about 30 minutes to type up AND VERIFY on at least one model.  This 30 minutes worth of time spent would be much less than what that guru (or a guru) would have to hassle with in the forums.  And, most importantly to a donate-requesting-website, this would save the poor newbie days of frustration and probable leaving never to come back.  It also can save hours of frustration for a semi-veteran of pdaxrom-ing - saying this from personal experience.

Please, a little time and effort now could really save all of us a lot of time and frustration later.