Why am I interested in wikis?

Saturday, February 11, 2006

A wiki is the essence of collaboration. If I put all my thinking in a wiki and I give others access to it, then together we can build on it. You would enter your comments or unique pages. Over time, it becomes the logical addition of all our collaborations.

The idea of a wiki has many implementations. Some free; some pay. Most on Linux; a few on Windoze; one on Mac; a couple that are platform agonistic. My goal is to have a free wiki running here at home to allow collaboration on
my projects. If I can do it, it becomes one of my marketable skills!

Thanks for the help. It really did work from my desk at work; the same setup as we tried! And, of course, it works from home here, but that’s not a real test because it was on the same subnet. It’s only usefull if it can be hosted to the internet globally.

 

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Testing my wiki in NJ from NC — failure

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Test results
1) For whatever reason, I couldn’t have a GTalk conversation riding on the Verizon Wireless BroadBand. Not to convict VWBB, but is the new thing in the equation.

2) You couldn’t “see” http://reinkefj.shancknet.nu but then neither could I from where it should have resolved to. Interesting? Since I did it at work one day, I suspect the DynDns Dynamic DNS service shacknet.nu. It’s free so I can complain too much.

3) Frustrating when you can not see what is happening. 

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