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* ''' | * ''''Security' Category''' - I have created a new 'top-level' category, [[:Category:Security]], because some new stuff didn't seem to have a natural home in the existing system. Or perhaps I should have promoted [[:Category:Theory]] to the top level, and made 'Security' a sub-category of that? Although some things that should go in 'Security', like HTTPS, aren't really theory, so maybe it's right for it to be at the top level? Comment at [[Category talk:Security]]. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:19, 15 October 2026 (UTC) | ||
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* ''' | * '''Another external links update''' - After a ''very'' long haul of slogging through [[Special:LinkSearch|External links search]] I have found, and fixed, ''all'' the links to [https://manx-docs.org/collections/ Manx-docs.org/collections/]. (In doing so, I found and fixed a few other broken ones, too.) In the course of that, I found that a fairly complete collection of almost all the sets of [[Maintenance Documentation Service|MDS]] documents, at [https://www.filibeto.org/dec/ Filibeto.org] (as described in [[DEC manuals]]). | ||
: Linking to Bitsavers is still, I feel, to be preferred over the use of other external sources for documents, because Bitsavers is associated with the [[Computer History Museum]], which is a fairly substantial institution, and thus less likely to vanish with no warning (as | : As I opined previously, I think that Linking to [[Bitsavers]] is still, I feel, to be preferred over the use of almost all ''other'' external sources for documents to link to, because Bitsavers is associated with the [[Computer History Museum]], which is a fairly substantial institution, and thus less likely to vanish with no warning (as several other collections/sites did). So, if there is a choice between two copies of something, one on a personal site, and the other on Bitsavers, the one on Bitsavers should ''always'' be preferred, I reckon. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:19, 15 October 2026 (UTC) | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:19, 15 October 2026
- 'Security' Category - I have created a new 'top-level' category, Category:Security, because some new stuff didn't seem to have a natural home in the existing system. Or perhaps I should have promoted Category:Theory to the top level, and made 'Security' a sub-category of that? Although some things that should go in 'Security', like HTTPS, aren't really theory, so maybe it's right for it to be at the top level? Comment at Category talk:Security. Jnc (talk) 13:19, 15 October 2026 (UTC)
- Another external links update - After a very long haul of slogging through External links search I have found, and fixed, all the links to Manx-docs.org/collections/. (In doing so, I found and fixed a few other broken ones, too.) In the course of that, I found that a fairly complete collection of almost all the sets of MDS documents, at Filibeto.org (as described in DEC manuals).
- As I opined previously, I think that Linking to Bitsavers is still, I feel, to be preferred over the use of almost all other external sources for documents to link to, because Bitsavers is associated with the Computer History Museum, which is a fairly substantial institution, and thus less likely to vanish with no warning (as several other collections/sites did). So, if there is a choice between two copies of something, one on a personal site, and the other on Bitsavers, the one on Bitsavers should always be preferred, I reckon. Jnc Jnc (talk) 13:19, 15 October 2026 (UTC)
