Ah, then he meant Flash support. What a difference a capital letter makes. If it supports Flash (animations) but not flash (USB thumbdrives), then I don't care about it.
I use Mandrake 10.0 and it came with flash support
I think what they mean by flash support is: 1. Stick USB flash drive into USB port 2. Icon appears on desktop.
I'm not familiar with Mandrake 10, but with Mandrake 9.2, as well as Fedora Core 1 and 2, using a flash disk involves editing your/etc/fstab and issuing a mount command (and sometimes disabling ACPI).
Seriously, there's nothing I want to extract and reuse from my unwanted data. Don't confuse me with different names just because you're trying to be "different". What if GM called the steering wheel the directional input? Crimeny.
Microsoft didn't change the trash can because they were trying to "be different". The court decided in the Apple-vs-MS copyright-infringement case that the image of the Trash Can was pretty much the only copyrightable aspect of the Mac UI.
I don't know the technical details, but I can say that adaptors like this consistantly work great, while adaptors like this don't work at all.
As far as I can tell, since the adaptors which work are always larger, I assume they have extra electronics inside so they can communicate with the USB port more intelligently.
If someone else knows the technical details of how this works, I'd love to hear about it.
There are two types of differences: the pinout and the protocol. If you have a PS/2 only keyboard, you need both--a pinout change and a way to speak the protocol. If you have a PS2 & USB-compatible keyboard that only has a PS/2 plug, then you can use the small, pinout-only adapters because the keyboard will be smart enough to sense and adjust the protocol appropriately (though some older ones use a switch).
Maybe I missed something, but do either of those sites offer the ability to log into each particular CMS as an administrator and try out the various functions, components, modules etc etc of each and see how changes are affected on the frontpage/rest of the website?
Of course there's something to be said about playing with GUIs, but a hosted solution can only go so far. You can't get an idea of the installation/configuration/maintenance that is associated with each product. And you don't really know if it can model your content in your environment until you try them. If it's all open source, what's stopping you from installing them yourself?
But my main beef is that, despite the name, the site is not really trying to show you open source CMS's. They're showing you a selection of PHP-based tools, some of which aren't truly CMS's, and some of which aren't even open source. Their definition of content management is very, very broad. Is a blogging tool a CMS? Is a portal a CMS? What isn't a CMS?
Actually, OpenSourceCMS is not a very good site. First, you can't say it's unbiased--it only has PHP. There are many great CMS apps that are not PHP. Second, what it calls CMS are in many cases actually portals or weblogs, which makes the site a bit of a misnomer.
The sites mentioned in the other responses (OSCOM and CMSMatrix) are better.
While I agree that the great-grandparent's post is funny, I think that the grandparent post is also funny. However, the second cousin twice removed should be modded way down.
Thanks for the information. I had just planned to set up a MT blog (even though I wasn't comfortable with the license) when this story broke. I hadn't really looked into bloxsom, but I think I'll give it a try instead. Too many other blogs are trying too hard to be a CMS or portal, which is extra bloat I'm not ready for. Bloxsom looks nice and lean.
It still is faster... if you know how to use it.
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Putting Google to the Test
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· Score: 4, Informative
Obviously, the researcher was not an experienced googler. I saw one question that they claim took 6 minutes 27 seconds:
Question 3: Who is the vice chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on back care?
A google search for:
"vice chairman" all-party parliamentary group "back care" resulted in *exactly one* hit, a pdf document listing all parliamentary groups. A click on View As HTML, a find on "back care" and Voila, the answer took about 30 seconds to get.
An experienced googler can find things faster than they did. This particular case was just a matter of knowing the difference between words and phrases and putting quotes in the right place. But there are many other tricks (such as negation and using 'site:') that their google searches could have benefited from.
> > When will the linux desktops going to "lead" > > in innovation instead of lagging, continually > > trying to replicated some outdated version of > > windows? > > and that is exactly what sun is trying to do with > project looking glass.
And the obvious follow-up question:
When will the linux desktops going to "lead" in innovation instead of lagging, continually trying to replicated some outdated version of OS X?
Best advice: go to Open Source CMS and play around. They have default installs of a lot of CMS/blogging systems, and even let you play with the admin interfaces. Very helpful, all in all.
As long as people know that the site limits the choices only to PHP-based blogs. You'd be missing out on a lot of others unless you also check out cmsinfo.org, a better site IMHO.
Since the OP would be interested in perl solutions, perhaps he'd be interested in WebGUI. It's an open-source perl-based CMS that can be easily configured as a blog, and has many widgets (called "wobjects") that can be dropped in for all kinds of functionality. You don't even need to know perl, but if you do, you can write your own wobjects with their simple API.
does anybody happen to know how much money microsoft had donated to various schools over the years? im just curious
If you mean money as in cold, hard cash, I suspect the answer is close to zero. All the school donations I have seen from Microsoft involve Microsoft products and occasionally some hardware that can be used to run Microsoft products. Of course, that doesn't stop Microsoft from deducting the cash-equivalence from their taxes. I suspect Microsoft profits from these "donations."
No, it's not like that at all. All the shapes being discussed for the universe close in on themselves. You cannot go "outside" the shape because there is no outside of the shape.
If you really want a map analogy, the best I can come up with right now is a map of the earth. You cannot "go outside" the map, you would just appear on another point of it.
Mac has had that spell check feature since 2001 (and earlier with the OS X beta) and even earlier in NeXTStep since 1986.
No it doesn't. Re-read carefully what he's saying: KDE will spell-check the Slashdot Post Comment Form in the browser. I'm pretty sure Safari and MacIE don't do this.
I agree about LiveLink. I used to work with it and really liked it. Now I am a CMS consultant, and I find myself evaluating all these super-high-priced CMS products, and wishing they had the power and ease-of-use that Livelink had. (and wishing OpenText had expanded into the WCMS market).
Another thing to note: OpenText just works. Out of the box. It doesn't require "implementation consultants," professional services, full-time programmers, etc. Which makes the product stack up pretty well with most alternatives, value wise.
'work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software'
Wait a minute! Isn't Fedora directly derived from Redhat? And wasn't it Redhat who smugly proclaimed their superiority over certain other distros because they didn't use ANY proprietary software? Was Redhat lying to us?
No. I think it may make more sense to you if you put the emphasis in a different place:
'work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software'
In other words, it'll be just like Red Hat except they'll be working with the Linux community more.
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No, i think it's flash as in www.flash.com
Ah, then he meant Flash support. What a difference a capital letter makes. If it supports Flash (animations) but not flash (USB thumbdrives), then I don't care about it.
I use Mandrake 10.0 and it came with flash support
/etc/fstab and issuing a mount command (and sometimes disabling ACPI).
I think what they mean by flash support is:
1. Stick USB flash drive into USB port
2. Icon appears on desktop.
I'm not familiar with Mandrake 10, but with Mandrake 9.2, as well as Fedora Core 1 and 2, using a flash disk involves editing your
The parent post was not insightful. It was clueless.
Seriously, there's nothing I want to extract and reuse from my unwanted data. Don't confuse me with different names just because you're trying to be "different". What if GM called the steering wheel the directional input? Crimeny.
Microsoft didn't change the trash can because they were trying to "be different". The court decided in the Apple-vs-MS copyright-infringement case that the image of the Trash Can was pretty much the only copyrightable aspect of the Mac UI.
I don't know the technical details, but I can say that adaptors like this consistantly work great, while adaptors like this don't work at all.
As far as I can tell, since the adaptors which work are always larger, I assume they have extra electronics inside so they can communicate with the USB port more intelligently.
If someone else knows the technical details of how this works, I'd love to hear about it.
There are two types of differences: the pinout and the protocol. If you have a PS/2 only keyboard, you need both--a pinout change and a way to speak the protocol. If you have a PS2 & USB-compatible keyboard that only has a PS/2 plug, then you can use the small, pinout-only adapters because the keyboard will be smart enough to sense and adjust the protocol appropriately (though some older ones use a switch).
Maybe I missed something, but do either of those sites offer the ability to log into each particular CMS as an administrator and try out the various functions, components, modules etc etc of each and see how changes are affected on the frontpage/rest of the website?
Of course there's something to be said about playing with GUIs, but a hosted solution can only go so far. You can't get an idea of the installation/configuration/maintenance that is associated with each product. And you don't really know if it can model your content in your environment until you try them. If it's all open source, what's stopping you from installing them yourself?
But my main beef is that, despite the name, the site is not really trying to show you open source CMS's. They're showing you a selection of PHP-based tools, some of which aren't truly CMS's, and some of which aren't even open source. Their definition of content management is very, very broad. Is a blogging tool a CMS? Is a portal a CMS? What isn't a CMS?
Actually, OpenSourceCMS is not a very good site. First, you can't say it's unbiased--it only has PHP. There are many great CMS apps that are not PHP. Second, what it calls CMS are in many cases actually portals or weblogs, which makes the site a bit of a misnomer.
The sites mentioned in the other responses (OSCOM and CMSMatrix) are better.
While I agree that the great-grandparent's post is funny, I think that the grandparent post is also funny. However, the second cousin twice removed should be modded way down.
Thanks for the information. I had just planned to set up a MT blog (even though I wasn't comfortable with the license) when this story broke. I hadn't really looked into bloxsom, but I think I'll give it a try instead. Too many other blogs are trying too hard to be a CMS or portal, which is extra bloat I'm not ready for. Bloxsom looks nice and lean.
iFrames? Do you think they're an Apple invention or something? That's probably what they'd call a photo viewer like a Ceiva.
...of course by that I mean it is not ritating.
Question 3: Who is the vice chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on back care?
A google search for:
"vice chairman" all-party parliamentary group "back care"
resulted in *exactly one* hit, a pdf document listing all parliamentary groups. A click on View As HTML, a find on "back care" and Voila, the answer took about 30 seconds to get.
An experienced googler can find things faster than they did. This particular case was just a matter of knowing the difference between words and phrases and putting quotes in the right place. But there are many other tricks (such as negation and using 'site:') that their google searches could have benefited from.
> > When will the linux desktops going to "lead"
> > in innovation instead of lagging, continually
> > trying to replicated some outdated version of
> > windows?
>
> and that is exactly what sun is trying to do with
> project looking glass.
And the obvious follow-up question:
When will the linux desktops going to "lead"
in innovation instead of lagging, continually
trying to replicated some outdated version of
OS X?
I call BS... can you prove that bold claim?
Best advice: go to Open Source CMS and play around. They have default installs of a lot of CMS/blogging systems, and even let you play with the admin interfaces. Very helpful, all in all.
As long as people know that the site limits the choices only to PHP-based blogs. You'd be missing out on a lot of others unless you also check out cmsinfo.org, a better site IMHO.
Since the OP would be interested in perl solutions, perhaps he'd be interested in WebGUI. It's an open-source perl-based CMS that can be easily configured as a blog, and has many widgets (called "wobjects") that can be dropped in for all kinds of functionality. You don't even need to know perl, but if you do, you can write your own wobjects with their simple API.
I thought I broke em once and I freaked
They were like, BEEP BEEP BEEP.
does anybody happen to know how much money microsoft had donated to various schools over the years? im just curious
If you mean money as in cold, hard cash, I suspect the answer is close to zero. All the school donations I have seen from Microsoft involve Microsoft products and occasionally some hardware that can be used to run Microsoft products. Of course, that doesn't stop Microsoft from deducting the cash-equivalence from their taxes. I suspect Microsoft profits from these "donations."
You should at least make the mod this up part of your sig a link.
Yeah, but then I'd get a [foo.com] after it. I don't think it's possible to make it look 100% authentic.
The FM tuners in these players all suck. Maybe it's a lack of a decent antenna, but I haven't been able to get decent reception out of any of them.
Now if they can shrink an XM tuner down to the size of one of these things, I'd get one!
earbud quality != player sound quality
Technically true, but poor-quality or poor-fitting earbuds are the biggest factor (by far) of inferior sound quality.
The best thing to do is find some good-quality earbuds that fit your ears well. It will make a huge difference, no matter the player.
Unfortunately most people don't do that. Therefore, I can see the point of a consumer magazine rating players by earbud quality.
What happens if you fly? You would be outside the map, then.
This is a joke, right? Using this logic, the only way to be "inside" the map would be to be shrunk down to the size of a paper molecule.
Sorry, even pilots can point to their position on a map.
No, it's not like that at all. All the shapes being discussed for the universe close in on themselves. You cannot go "outside" the shape because there is no outside of the shape.
If you really want a map analogy, the best I can come up with right now is a map of the earth. You cannot "go outside" the map, you would just appear on another point of it.
Mac has had that spell check feature since 2001 (and earlier with the OS X beta) and even earlier in NeXTStep since 1986.
No it doesn't. Re-read carefully what he's saying: KDE will spell-check the Slashdot Post Comment Form in the browser. I'm pretty sure Safari and MacIE don't do this.
I agree about LiveLink. I used to work with it and really liked it. Now I am a CMS consultant, and I find myself evaluating all these super-high-priced CMS products, and wishing they had the power and ease-of-use that Livelink had. (and wishing OpenText had expanded into the WCMS market).
Another thing to note: OpenText just works. Out of the box. It doesn't require "implementation consultants," professional services, full-time programmers, etc. Which makes the product stack up pretty well with most alternatives, value wise.
-bp
'work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software'
Wait a minute! Isn't Fedora directly derived from Redhat? And wasn't it Redhat who smugly proclaimed their superiority over certain other distros because they didn't use ANY proprietary software? Was Redhat lying to us?
No. I think it may make more sense to you if you put the emphasis in a different place:
'work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software'
In other words, it'll be just like Red Hat except they'll be working with the Linux community more.