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Welcome to The OutRider Computing Journal

Computer technology is fascinating and sometimes awe inspiring, byt the same token, it is volatile and unnervingly dangerous. OutRider looks at Computing with free form columns focusing on UNIXlike Operating Systems. These particular systems were chosen because:

1. The writers deal with them exclusively (although they have worked on a variety in the past)
2. UNIX technology is the most powerful, scalable and let us face it - interesting - available.

The content (as aformentioned) is free form micro-content, what this means is small, compact top down writing style. The topics, however, can be anything from administration (a big one since the main author is an administrator), engineering or programming to outright "I wonder why this" type of material.

A word of warning, you will not find outright promoting of one particular system over another or bashing of other non-UNIXlike systems. OutRider will (when it is needed) put systems in a particular technical light (whether good or bad). We do, however, fully promote the ideals of Free and Open Source (as they are the same) Software. The reasons are particular to the authors.

So what makes OutRider special? We would like to believe it is our incredible lack of commecialism and pure focus on the content, sometimes the content is not all that great and we willingly admit that, but on the flipside, sometimes the content is outright funny (jrf is known for publishing his idiotic mistakes in hopes of preventing others from doing the same).

The General Content Style of OutRider

As the content itself is very valuable at any word driven site, we take the extra step here to use a certain style coined as "microcontent". This approach seems to unfailingly work. We have deviated from that approach three times and every single time it has bitten us in the behind. Suffice to say, the web is a difficult place to write about in depth topics. Plain text essays are much easier (or processed if you so desire). So if you are looking for severely deep information beyond how to employ certain tools or do certain small things, this is not the place!

Speaking of Content: Navigating OutRider

All content, information and forms (search engine, feedback page etc.) can be universally accessed from the site map. Otherwise, here are quick instructions on how OutRider is organized:

Site Interactive Pages and General Information

All of the site interactive pages such as the search engine, feedback submission, subscriptions, home page, about and the site map can be reached via the common navigation bar at the top of each page.

Columns and Such

All columns written within the last 12 months can be accessed via the home page or site map. Columns written over 12 months may be found at the site map. We are looking into developing a separate archive page for columns, but we don't need one as of this printing.

Unless Otherwise Noted . . .

The site map is the authoritative one stop for finding everything at this site.