Michael brought up a great point the other day. As he puts it, “there’s way to much shit i know.” Now, granted, this usually isn’t that big of a problem. However, it’s when you haven’t been using that knowledge and you want to attempt to remember it in a timely fashion, that things begin to breakdown. Personally, I’d hate to think of all the stuff I have forgotten about just because I haven’t used them. Well, now I may have a personal solution. Windows Sharepoint Services.
Hopefully this will help me clean out my bookmarks, since that’s where I have a tendency to keep all this stuff. Usually, I have a problem, find the solution, and then have to redo all the previous steps when said problem comes up again. It’d be nice if I had a personal place where I could just copy things into, and be able to edit them as I need to also.
Case in point, just today, my brother needed help with something, and I needed to do a remote assistance session with him. Now, he’s behind a router that doesn’t support uPNP, so I had to manually edit the remote assistance file that he sent me. Granted, I’ve had to do this before, but hell if I remembered. So I had to waste a good 10-20 minutes figuring out why I was having such a hard time connecting to him (plus the fact he had xp home, which I didn’t remember, so I couldn’t just TS in).
Hopefully this will make everything better. You can view my personal knowledge base at it’s new location.
You should put your passwords in there too…. but still leave it wide open ;)
I already have a program that keeps all my passwords. Plus, I *could* do that at http://kb.rebelpeon.com/passwords, and just give myself access, but it’s too much of a pain to do that when I have something that works fine right now.
wiki is much simpler, flexible
in theory, yes. getting it setup, configuring it, no. plus, i enjoy running stable, non-beta software that doesn’t change daily. yes, a wiki would be simpler once i got it up and running, but my time is not free. maybe yours is?
wiki takes all of 60 seconds to set up/configure/start using. maybe if Microsoft came out with a wiki version you’d like it?
maybe if you’re familiar with it, it does. however, first i’d have to figure out WHICH wiki i’d want to install. then i’d have to possibly install perl (since most seem to run on that). then, more than likely i’d have to play with it to work with IIS, since all documentation i’ve read on wiki’s seem to be linux or apache, etc. i’m not an MS fanboy, but it was easy to install, and does what i want, and was free. i fail to see why this makes me and it bad.
for right now, the MS stuff i use works. granted, i’m not saying that there isn’t linux/opensource stuff that doesn’t. i’m just saying that for what i currently have setup, this was the easiest solution for me to implement. maybe when i actually have more time, i’ll be able to look at other solutions.
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