[disclaimer: I'm a Drupal contributor] Drupal is a CMS which doesn't use the OO features of PHP, but has nonetheless an OO design: for example all content is a "node", and you can "subclass" a node getting a story, an image, a forum topic etc. It uses hooks so it can be expanded easily; it has both themes a-la *nuke and templates. Of course it has a good user management system. The core is maintained by few people (not me) in a very strict, almost maniacal;) cleanliness. It's fast and powers sites like Kerneltrap which sometimes is on/. home and withstands the load. I use Drupal to power different sites, from personal blogs to corporate intranets, and plan to use it as a base for other completely different projects. It also has a very active community. Of course it has its own faults and deficiencies, but we are working to fix them. Here is a recent review of Drupal.
A company called Fastweb wired most of Milan with fiber optic. I have a 10 Mb/sec connection at home, with unlimited calls to phone in Italy (no cell phones) at 85 euro/month. Without unlimited calls (just connection) it's 67 euro/month.
I also have it in my office too, though it costs more.
These are very competitive prices in Italy, but other companies offer just at most a 640K/sec ADSL.
And it's fast: it's full 10 Mb/sec in the MAN, and there is a p2p network with 1000s of hosts in which a full movie is downloaded in about 15-20 minutes.
In the rest of the Internet the connection is very fast, even if much less than the MAN. I generally download at 200K/sec from a decent server.
Almost everybody I know who uses Internet and can (some areas are not wired) has Fastweb.
There are some drawbacks: some problems with mail servers, no public nor static ip and other things. But you forget anything when you look at the speed of the connection:)
The antivirus saved me quite a few times, but the firewall is not so great (lacks configuration).
But I had a lot of problems: I had troubles registering, their shop really sucks and I had to download different version of their registering software, after lots of mails with their support center. It took me a month to have a working version!! And a few days ago my subscription was over, well before the year I bought... but their support service wrote me that it was their fault and they will update my subscription period in a few days.
So: buy just the antivirus, it's great and doesn't bog your pc, but don't buy it online!
Another idea: burn a bootable cd with Linux, a movie player and a movie; you insert the cd and the movie starts. Best would be a player which supports psx hardware
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Perhaps less scientific, but it looks cooler: An Atlas of the Universe
[disclaimer: I'm a Drupal contributor] ;) cleanliness. /. home and withstands the load. I use Drupal to power different sites, from personal blogs to corporate intranets, and plan to use it as a base for other completely different projects.
Drupal is a CMS which doesn't use the OO features of PHP, but has nonetheless an OO design: for example all content is a "node", and you can "subclass" a node getting a story, an image, a forum topic etc.
It uses hooks so it can be expanded easily; it has both themes a-la *nuke and templates. Of course it has a good user management system.
The core is maintained by few people (not me) in a very strict, almost maniacal
It's fast and powers sites like Kerneltrap which sometimes is on
It also has a very active community.
Of course it has its own faults and deficiencies, but we are working to fix them.
Here is a recent review of Drupal.
A company called Fastweb wired most of Milan with fiber optic. I have a 10 Mb/sec connection at home, with unlimited calls to phone in Italy (no cell phones) at 85 euro/month. Without unlimited calls (just connection) it's 67 euro/month. :)
I also have it in my office too, though it costs more.
These are very competitive prices in Italy, but other companies offer just at most a 640K/sec ADSL.
And it's fast: it's full 10 Mb/sec in the MAN, and there is a p2p network with 1000s of hosts in which a full movie is downloaded in about 15-20 minutes.
In the rest of the Internet the connection is very fast, even if much less than the MAN. I generally download at 200K/sec from a decent server.
Almost everybody I know who uses Internet and can (some areas are not wired) has Fastweb.
There are some drawbacks: some problems with mail servers, no public nor static ip and other things. But you forget anything when you look at the speed of the connection
The antivirus saved me quite a few times, but the firewall is not so great (lacks configuration).
But I had a lot of problems: I had troubles registering, their shop really sucks and I had to download different version of their registering software, after lots of mails with their support center. It took me a month to have a working version!! And a few days ago my subscription was over, well before the year I bought... but their support service wrote me that it was their fault and they will update my subscription period in a few days.
So: buy just the antivirus, it's great and doesn't bog your pc, but don't buy it online!
Another idea: burn a bootable cd with Linux, a movie player and a movie; you insert the cd and the movie starts. Best would be a player which supports psx hardware