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SplunkBase Brings IT Troubleshooting Wiki to the Masses
OSS_ilation writes "IT troubleshooting firm Splunk is using LinuxWorld Boston as a platform to formally launch Splunk Base, a global wiki that will offer IT pros a free-of-charge venue to exchange troubleshooting information, tools and fixes. Splunk is promising that the wiki is completely vendor neutral, and can be compared to Wikipedia, the online open encyclopedia that is regulated and updated by the community-at-large. Users don't even have to have a copy of Splunk Professional to use it. From the article: 'If you believe the research from firms like Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, then Splunk Base has arrived at a key moment. According to IDC, companies will spend more than $100 billion this year on managing the world's data centers. And with virtualization quickly becoming an IT buzzword in 2006, the complexity and costs could increase.'"
All your splunk base belong to us!
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Not only a bad name, they are a very frequent advertiser here on Slashdot which should have been mentioned.
Have a look at their demo - I was not impressed. Plenty of tools do the same thing. Both Open Source and proprietary.
A troubleshooting Wiki would be nice, though. Give ExpertsExchange some competition when it comes to IT peer questions and answers.
Hardly. This looks promising.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so asking/posting a bunch of technical questions and fixes will get you blocked quickly.
Expert's Exchange requires you to scroll three screens past advertisements from the actual question to the answers (when they're actually available without registering, that is). Not to mention the disgusting IntelliTXT ads they insert into the actual text...
Google can be frustrating, especaially if your search terms center around things like "C++".
Thus, I'm open to better ways of doing things, and I'll be looking at this to see if it is one.
Its called "usenet"
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
So true. They've gotten to the point that when I google a problem, I immediately scroll past the experts-exchange.com links to try to find a real solution.
Or do what I do, add "-site:experts-exchange.com" to my search criteria. The search won't include links from that domain.
Right there, see that BIG orange circle with, "View Solution" in the middle? What does it link to? Yeah, register.
Nice troll though!
"View Solution" would be what the OP called [lame subscription button].
If you had bothered to read the OP you would have scrolled down past the lame View Solution button. There you will find all answers to the question. I've just checked it for the link you gave and they are there.
Nice troll though!
Note that when you open an Experts Exchange page without logging in, a popup ad window appears. If you leave that window open behind your question page, you can scroll down to the answers. If you close that window, the question page excludes the answers from your view.
I will say that the unregistered EE is heavy on the advertising, and they make it fairly difficult to register for a free account. This signs you up as an "expert," although any registered user, paid or not, can answer questions.
You get a limited number of points per month to ask questions with, and need to earn 10,000 expert points (answer a question for 500 points with an 'A' grade, and you get 2000 expert points) to get free premium membership, then 3000 pts/mo to maintain that membership. If you are knowledgeable about anything tech, you can do it easy.
The tech forums are extremely well moderated, and the caliber of people who answer questions is fairly high.
Web 2.0 == Giant Blogspam Circle Jerk