"Don't flame the company for the usability of their web-site."
Speaking as someone who's worked in contract web development for a bit, I'd have to solely point the blame at OQO for their site. Why? Because even though someone else probably did it for them, they agreed to the site. When you contract someone to do a site you still have the complete decision power to say "Oi, that sucks, make it better!", that's what story-boarding and planning is for. If the site sucks, it is OQO's fault.
I was once a member of the myPHPortal team (anyone remember it) and have followed PHPNuke's development with great interest, and after almost two years following it I would have to recommend NOT using either PHPNuke or its derivatives, including PostNuke.
The *Nuke systems are all based on a hodge-podge of individual components badly stitched together, and even the "wonderful" PostNuke has rediculous errors, like using variables before initializing them, and reloading the same file five-or-so times (should only be done once). PostNuke has lauded a cleaner code base, but they still haven't cleaned up most of the base code, rather they've added more and more bells and whistles.
One of the worst things about them, and is true of many PHP systems, is that many bugs are ignored, and thus the code is allowed to be poorly written, because they recommend turning the error checking level down really low so the errors aren't shown! This is like putting a bandaid on a headache, it just doesn't help.
If you want a PHP based weblog, go with something else, like PHPslash, which might be written better, or roll your own.
Try TWiki, a perl-based system that adds version control, user accounts and a range of other useful features. The UI is a bit icky, but you can edit the templates to fix that.
Little Johnny comes home from school and his mom asks him what he learned that day. Little Johnny replies "I smacked my bitch up in GTA3, I found some neat ways to get more accurate sniping action in Tactical Ops." Shortly there after little Johnny's parents started home-schooling him.
I think it's extremely typical for a representative of a technology company who's technology is ripe for perversion to say "Would you rather your child [chat] with a stranger who found their screen name in a chat room, or with a friendly, well-mannered 'bot' that plays by rules of propriety too often ignored in today's world of crass media overload." Sure, play the violins, have roses all over the place, say it like you're about to serve up Momma's best apple pie and have the family over, but just like many Internet backbone providers found, it's the shadier side of corporate America that pays the most (in the world of IT slowdowns the net porn business is thriving, just ask the Yahoo execs). Of course there's lots of potential for extremely worthwile use of this technology (think of automated Samaritan bots helping people on the verge of breakdown or suicide, etc), but history has shown us that when the greenback meets technology, the idealists loose.
Anyone who has ever seen Max Almy's The Thinker or who has any sort of knowledge of post-modernism can attest to how well contemporary culture has managed with advertisements currently being one of the main formats for information dissemination, so using yet another method to manipulate those eight-year-old hear-strings should be dumped back in the garbage heap from whence it came.
Did anyone think that maybe the hydrogen was there for a reason? Maybe those billions of tonnes of bacteria need it to survive? Maybe their survival is necessary for everything else to also work correctly and that the wholesale removal of the hydrogen would ultimately kill us too?
Stick with the PHPNuke forks, especially PostNuke, as the original is terrible - major lack of security, code uncleanliness (and hence a lack of extensibility), etc. Just ask Wayne Hunt (wayne at amiga dot org) his views on it - he had his site hacked over and over again while he used Nuke.
The PostNuke folks have been doing a great job of clearing up the code itself, a much better job than the phpWebSite guys at Appalacian State.
At the community college I work at I've noticed that students tend to have access to the software they want at open-access labs, and hence often don't need to buy it anyway.
Other methods for obtaining "free" software include using demonstration versions, or a friend's system that already has it.
Software and books for education are still way too expensive, so when you pay $200 for a class including lab/equipment fees you shouldn't expect to have to pay that much again in software costs.
Honestly, Microsoft have a better idea of it for their certificate training courses - you can get eval versions of their OSes that work for about 180 days, more than enough time to take a semester long course at a college, and sit the repeat exams..
It's funny how a company that fiddles its income statements so it pays no taxes (read: "stock options") complains about other software standards reducing tax-based government income.
This is Tao's Intent dev kit, it has nothing to do with Amiga beyond Amiga base their product on this. In fact Tao are working on their own APIs for all the things Amiga are doing, because Amiga have taken so long to get their act (and products) together. Releasing a free dev kit has allowed Tao to capture the market Amiga could not, and they are in effect killing Amiga's market.
The license that comes with the ADK CD allows you to sell your software (to people who run the Intent VM), ie create an app using it and all the millions of cell phones and/or set-top-boxes that use Tao Intent will be able to run it! I did not see any mention of royalties in the comments from the Tao employee on http://ann.lu/, so there may not be any.
I got my 8meg Revo in November 2000, and in the space of six months it developed power problems twice! The second time I should have gotten my money back and bought and iPaq to run QNX on:-|
I've had some Maxtor DiamondPlus drives for a while and they work great. I've got the newer 40gig and older 13gig, both 7200rpm drives. When I first got the 13gig drive it started failing within about two weeks, so I brought it back and got a replacement (which was actually a 15gig).
Back in the mid-90's, Dave Haynie was designing a PPC system for MetaBox (then called PIOS) called the PIOS One. He spoke to some hardware guys at Apple who convinced him to change his design to support CHRP as it was the best system design at the time and IIRC the next release of MacOS was to support it. Haynie went back to the drawing board (he was nearly finished the original design at the time) and redesigned his mobo around CHRP (he wanted to have multiple OSes on it - MacOS, BeOS, AmigaOS and I think Linux also). Shortly afterwards Apple hired Steve Jobs again (ie bought NeXT), and the whole CHRP and open MacOS plans were shelved, so Haynie and co got screwed.
Since when have Microsoft _not_ made (or at least branded) hardware? Currently they produce a wide range of PC peripherals (mice, keyboards, etc), and then there's the Xbox and their plans to expand into the "home media station" market. Believe me when I say that Microsoft is working their way to owning both the DVD and audio CD content standards, creation tools and playback systems, all aimed for their 2003 launch of Longhorn.
Before you give up on StarOffice, wait for v6 to be released or try the OpenOffice betas. Once StarOffice hits that wonderful.0 release I intend to get most of the people I know using it.
Wait until next summer when Open Office hits 1.0 and then show how they can do everything in it that they have been doing in MS Office, including file compatibility.
My web browser of choice is Opera, and despite having used the 6.0 release since it came out, Intuit's web site won't let me get to anything but entry pages saying that I need a "newer" browser - Opera 6 is the most recent release of any of the core browsers!
Try http://GoDaddy.com/ for your domain name, and http://AffordableHost.com/ to host your site at $25 per year, including one catch-all email address and 25meg of web space.
Note: I don't work for either company. I have four domains via GoDaddy and I moved two of them to AffordableHost due to reliability issues. I run a reseller business from FastHosts.co.uk, but they are not very reliable for email, hence moving to AffordableHosts.
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"Don't flame the company for the usability of their web-site."
Speaking as someone who's worked in contract web development for a bit, I'd have to solely point the blame at OQO for their site. Why? Because even though someone else probably did it for them, they agreed to the site. When you contract someone to do a site you still have the complete decision power to say "Oi, that sucks, make it better!", that's what story-boarding and planning is for. If the site sucks, it is OQO's fault.
Damien
I was once a member of the myPHPortal team (anyone remember it) and have followed PHPNuke's development with great interest, and after almost two years following it I would have to recommend NOT using either PHPNuke or its derivatives, including PostNuke.
The *Nuke systems are all based on a hodge-podge of individual components badly stitched together, and even the "wonderful" PostNuke has rediculous errors, like using variables before initializing them, and reloading the same file five-or-so times (should only be done once). PostNuke has lauded a cleaner code base, but they still haven't cleaned up most of the base code, rather they've added more and more bells and whistles.
One of the worst things about them, and is true of many PHP systems, is that many bugs are ignored, and thus the code is allowed to be poorly written, because they recommend turning the error checking level down really low so the errors aren't shown! This is like putting a bandaid on a headache, it just doesn't help.
If you want a PHP based weblog, go with something else, like PHPslash, which might be written better, or roll your own.
Damien
The Psion 7 was a sub-laptop with an almost full-size keyboard.
Try TWiki, a perl-based system that adds version control, user accounts and a range of other useful features. The UI is a bit icky, but you can edit the templates to fix that.
QNX has had a JVM for quite some time, specifically the J9 VM from IBM which adheres to the J2ME spec, ie it isn't a full J2SE VM.
Little Johnny comes home from school and his mom asks him what he learned that day. Little Johnny replies "I smacked my bitch up in GTA3, I found some neat ways to get more accurate sniping action in Tactical Ops." Shortly there after little Johnny's parents started home-schooling him.
I'm a fan of gaelic football, I just haven't found any organizations where I live (Orlando, FL) that do it or I'd be playing twice a week.
Failing that, get a soccer ball and kick it around for a while.
Or get two cheap recumbant exercise bikes (Edge 425 is a good, cheap one for about $250+shipping), then sit back, cycle and chat for an hour.
Damien
I think it's extremely typical for a representative of a technology company who's technology is ripe for perversion to say "Would you rather your child [chat] with a stranger who found their screen name in a chat room, or with a friendly, well-mannered 'bot' that plays by rules of propriety too often ignored in today's world of crass media overload." Sure, play the violins, have roses all over the place, say it like you're about to serve up Momma's best apple pie and have the family over, but just like many Internet backbone providers found, it's the shadier side of corporate America that pays the most (in the world of IT slowdowns the net porn business is thriving, just ask the Yahoo execs). Of course there's lots of potential for extremely worthwile use of this technology (think of automated Samaritan bots helping people on the verge of breakdown or suicide, etc), but history has shown us that when the greenback meets technology, the idealists loose.
Anyone who has ever seen Max Almy's The Thinker or who has any sort of knowledge of post-modernism can attest to how well contemporary culture has managed with advertisements currently being one of the main formats for information dissemination, so using yet another method to manipulate those eight-year-old hear-strings should be dumped back in the garbage heap from whence it came.
Did anyone think that maybe the hydrogen was there for a reason? Maybe those billions of tonnes of bacteria need it to survive? Maybe their survival is necessary for everything else to also work correctly and that the wholesale removal of the hydrogen would ultimately kill us too?
Stick with the PHPNuke forks, especially PostNuke, as the original is terrible - major lack of security, code uncleanliness (and hence a lack of extensibility), etc. Just ask Wayne Hunt (wayne at amiga dot org) his views on it - he had his site hacked over and over again while he used Nuke.
The PostNuke folks have been doing a great job of clearing up the code itself, a much better job than the phpWebSite guys at Appalacian State.
At the community college I work at I've noticed that students tend to have access to the software they want at open-access labs, and hence often don't need to buy it anyway.
Other methods for obtaining "free" software include using demonstration versions, or a friend's system that already has it.
Software and books for education are still way too expensive, so when you pay $200 for a class including lab/equipment fees you shouldn't expect to have to pay that much again in software costs.
Honestly, Microsoft have a better idea of it for their certificate training courses - you can get eval versions of their OSes that work for about 180 days, more than enough time to take a semester long course at a college, and sit the repeat exams..
It's funny how a company that fiddles its income statements so it pays no taxes (read: "stock options") complains about other software standards reducing tax-based government income.
This is Tao's Intent dev kit, it has nothing to do with Amiga beyond Amiga base their product on this. In fact Tao are working on their own APIs for all the things Amiga are doing, because Amiga have taken so long to get their act (and products) together. Releasing a free dev kit has allowed Tao to capture the market Amiga could not, and they are in effect killing Amiga's market.
The license that comes with the ADK CD allows you to sell your software (to people who run the Intent VM), ie create an app using it and all the millions of cell phones and/or set-top-boxes that use Tao Intent will be able to run it! I did not see any mention of royalties in the comments from the Tao employee on http://ann.lu/, so there may not be any.
I got my 8meg Revo in November 2000, and in the space of six months it developed power problems twice! The second time I should have gotten my money back and bought and iPaq to run QNX on :-|
Ask QSSL about a QNX port, they're already doing one for the Compaq iPaq PDA.
I've had some Maxtor DiamondPlus drives for a while and they work great. I've got the newer 40gig and older 13gig, both 7200rpm drives. When I first got the 13gig drive it started failing within about two weeks, so I brought it back and got a replacement (which was actually a 15gig).
Back in the mid-90's, Dave Haynie was designing a PPC system for MetaBox (then called PIOS) called the PIOS One. He spoke to some hardware guys at Apple who convinced him to change his design to support CHRP as it was the best system design at the time and IIRC the next release of MacOS was to support it. Haynie went back to the drawing board (he was nearly finished the original design at the time) and redesigned his mobo around CHRP (he wanted to have multiple OSes on it - MacOS, BeOS, AmigaOS and I think Linux also). Shortly afterwards Apple hired Steve Jobs again (ie bought NeXT), and the whole CHRP and open MacOS plans were shelved, so Haynie and co got screwed.
I'd suggest downloading either QNX or a Linux/BSD distro that was tailored to it, and start coding on it. QNX is very popular as an embedded OS.
Is this the same Eric Schwartz who did all the cool animations on the Amiga over the years? Those Amy the Squirrel ones were really cute :)
Since when have Microsoft _not_ made (or at least branded) hardware? Currently they produce a wide range of PC peripherals (mice, keyboards, etc), and then there's the Xbox and their plans to expand into the "home media station" market. Believe me when I say that Microsoft is working their way to owning both the DVD and audio CD content standards, creation tools and playback systems, all aimed for their 2003 launch of Longhorn.
Before you give up on StarOffice, wait for v6 to be released or try the OpenOffice betas. Once StarOffice hits that wonderful .0 release I intend to get most of the people I know using it.
Wait until next summer when Open Office hits 1.0 and then show how they can do everything in it that they have been doing in MS Office, including file compatibility.
My web browser of choice is Opera, and despite having used the 6.0 release since it came out, Intuit's web site won't let me get to anything but entry pages saying that I need a "newer" browser - Opera 6 is the most recent release of any of the core browsers!
Try http://GoDaddy.com/ for your domain name, and http://AffordableHost.com/ to host your site at $25 per year, including one catch-all email address and 25meg of web space.
Note: I don't work for either company. I have four domains via GoDaddy and I moved two of them to AffordableHost due to reliability issues. I run a reseller business from FastHosts.co.uk, but they are not very reliable for email, hence moving to AffordableHosts.