And Linux/Xorg/Fluxbox boots faster than all of them. The important thing with Linux is, that you can choose how much you system takes to boot up. It's allways a tradeoff between features, bling-bling and speed. You did a nice stab at ignoring that though.
This is not news. Modern Web-CMSes and feasable CSS made DW design capabilities and it's offline templating system completely superflous somewhere back in 2002 or 2003. In fact, I posted very much the same analysis on this issue about 5 or 6 years ago here on slashdot. Whatever is left of DW is here to stay for those doing the actuall screen/HTML design. The rext of us uses CSS frameworks and foundation templates and simply replaces the GFX and/or the colorcodes. I haven't used DW longer than 5 minutes since back in 2001.
Create a new entry in Joomla. Where does it live? Does it even exist other than in the db table? Is it a page? No. Is it a blog entry? Maybe, if the system is set up that way. What kind of entry is it? Try explaining the difference to a non-technical user.
It's a content item. It has enough meta-data to be rendered as a blog entry, if you wish, as it has publishing and 'go offline' dates and tons of other stuff. How it is rendered you can choose once you build a menu item that leads to its category,section or to the item itself. Menu entries carry their rendering options for their targets with them. Confusing at first, but very reasonable once you've understoof the concept. If anything the item lives in its section and category. If its unpublished, it lives in the space of the unpublished items. If its in the Section "Foo", Category "Bar" it lives in the space of FooBar.... I know that you tread water when in the content overviews at first, but Joomla is that flexible it actually leaves you with little much more than a sophisticated overview of the content objects and their attributes. Which is pretty much. And all you need. If you want to shoehorn your content, make sections and categories. That's what they're there for.
Choose the category you want. Oh, you need a new section. Forget about making a menu link to the entry and create a new section, then a new category. At this point it's actually easier to delete the original entry and post it again.
Bingo. Valid point. If you don't know and/or follow the generic Joomla workflow you run into that bump 2 minutes after your first login. However, if you *do* know the workflow and live by it, it's as easy as breathing. Just like in non-trivial programming, where the first thing you do is not writing the concept file but making a versioning repository/project. Once you've built your sections and categories this isn't a problem anymore - its actually the typical initial Joomla setup problem. They could actually add the option to add section/categories in the editing/creation view. Using Ajax or something, to do the roundtrip without shedding the actual content item. I've had this problem myself. But admit it, it is a minor issue in comparsion.
Now create a menu item. Which menu? If the site is complicated at all that's a legitimate question. Once you've created the menu item, then go back and find the created entry and attach it to the menu item. Okay, your new page is live. Whew.
Yet another workflow thing. Not so much of a problem if you know how many levels of abstraction Joomla offers. And yes, building a complex website does require planning ahead. And if you use Joomla to do so, you're best of following their philosophy. That is: Plan your pageflow and your menu display beforehand - that will limit the issue above to deliberately trying out different menu options and renderings.
The system is certainly flexible when it comes to creating a complex site, but for small sites and non-technical users it's both confusing and a lot of work.
Newsflash: Airplanes are more difficult than tricycles. Film at eleven.:-) Right on. If you just want a blog and don't want to learn about Joomla, use WP. Or blogger.com, for that matter.
Now you need to change something on one of the pages. Is it a component? Maybe it's a article. Oh, it's a module. No... Give up and call the IT guy.
The terminology is synthetic and bolted-on at times. And may lack distinctivenes, yes indeed. But in this case it's actually quite easy: Change content? --> Article. Change overall treatment and handling of items in the frontend? --> Component. Programm your own at will - Joomla is a framework too. Want to quickly change position of rendering in layout or add a little widget with custom stuff? Like a permanent comment, custom permanent ad, or something? --> Module. Modules are like teensy side-components in that respect, if you will. Of cource you can have
Joomla Bugsquad here. Sorry but your post doesn't mention a single point in Joomla that you dislike or even a single point that may be flawed. It actually sounds like a little hissy-fit by someone teenager or early twen with ADHD - to use your own words.
And as you are and "admin for various sites" (Links please) you might actually maybe have some substancial criticisim to add. I'll be glad to pass it on to the core team.
Otherwise please quit any aimless ranting and flailing. You get may modded +5 Interesting on slashdot (qed) - for whatever bizar reason that may be - but it really isn't much of a help and makes you look like an idiot.
Well, at least the summary is complete and utter rubbish. The article is slashdotted, but from what I can extract from the comments, the author doesn't know what he's talking about.
WP does not have '90%' of Joomlas features. That's nonsense.
I have used, deployed and administrated WP since the b2 days, before it became WP and have been using, deploying, adminstrating and developing Joomla since the Mambo 4 days. And - take it from someone who makes a living on this stuff (and is a member of the Joomla Bugsquad) - both are very sohpisticated webkits!
WP is basically a Blogging engine. Plain and simple. It's a very pimped out matured blogging engine and is used as the foundation for some very large sites and complex apps - which is totally ok - but it started of as a blogging engine called b2 and all it's workflows are derived from blogging workflows. Which explain it's simplicity and thus its notable ease of use.
Joomla is a full-blown web-cms. It gives backend controll over what functions the frontend has, it has 7 user groups by default (which you can't change or extend - one of the downsides compared to other systems like Typo3) and basically is a feature behemoth right off the bat compared to WP. The built in editing toolset dwarves that of WP. Contrary to that, Joomla is extremely easy to install and installation plays in the same leage as WP usability wise. I actually find Joomla 1.5 easyer to install than WP 2.7.
That aside, Joomlas featureset and philosophy required that you sit down and learn it!. WP will have you publishing 5 minutes after installation, while Joomla might take an hour until everything is halfway in place. And you still won't understand half of it. Which is entirely due to the wide range of options Joomla offers, compared to WP. Likewise doing nifty things like moving the login and/or search widget aroud the layout to make room for a large bulletin with 3 or 4 clicks of a mouse is simply impossible in WP. With the upside that you don't have to know what Joomla modules and module-positions are.
I currently use a plugin-pimped WP for my everyday blog (which I share with another blogger) and I use Joomla in 4 different sites, which are all more complex than a online essay site - and both do a very fine job and are very usable.... Aside from maybe the fact that WPs editor lacks the features I'm used to from Joomlas TinyMCE setup. But for people who'd rather screw up the layout when given to much power this would be a plus. So there's no wonder why WPs editor is slim by default.
Bottom line: Ignore the rubbish and choose the best tool for the job. Both Joomla and WP are well suited for the prime choice in their field.
Most of my hits are from FidoNet and MLs
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Back in the mid-90ies I was on FidoNet. FidoNet required you to use your real name but also put quite a few legal restrictions on what can be done with content outside of Fido. Someone at Google thought it would be smart to copy over all FidoBoards into Google Groups. Aside from that there is probably more than one big legal problem to that in more than one country, I try not to care to much about it.
That aside, the most prominent hits are from my well kept and good looking personal website, so I really don't mind.
Bottom line: I'd stear clear from social networking, as you hand over controll over your data and stats to someone else. Plus on those your presentation is usually bland or crappy. Or both. I would rely on an own website to present myself. IMPORTANT: Please take notice that I am a web professional and know the importance of a good looking and well built website and also know how to build or at least fake one. If you can't judge and/or make a good website and have no acredited professional to do it for your then do yourself a favour and stick with business cards and stationary made with a decent template.
Let's say Adobe has scewed the results in their favour by a few percent. So it's like 95 or 93%. Bit fat hairy deal. Flash still is the most ubiqious plattform in existance with such frictionless deployment to the end user you'll be hard pressed to find something that even comes close. The closest is Java, and Java Webstart isn't quite there yet. JavaFX isn't truely cross-plattform and I can't think of any other feasable rich client plattform even worth mentioning. And no, Silverlight isn't even a nominee, as Curl, Prisim/XULRunner, SMIL/RealPlayer and a few others have much more penetration. And since compiling without the official Flash IDE has gotten very easy with MTASC and the Flex SDK I see no reason not to use it for complex RIA projects. Flash has been the RIA king for at least 10 years now, and unless Sun finsishes the last 20% of JavaFX (true x-plattform is still missing) it will still stay that way for while.
Be glad you weren't using Linux back in 2001. Font rendering on Linux UIs has come a long way since then. Allthough it's no where near perfect, that's true.
While the trademark is older, it is cleary the Psion Netbook that implemented the actuall concept. And implemented it very well actually - Psion Netbooks have/had a lightweight OS (Epoc for Netbook) a custom browser and a own Java 1.1 implementation back when Java was really new. The enclosure and the keyboard are to date unmatched. Their battery uptime was around 40 hrs. The pure and simple fact is this: Psion concepted, built and trademarked the first Netbook. Period.
That aside, I find this lawsuit totally silly, it will probably fail. And rightfully so. They should simply build an upgrade of the original Netbook in the very same enclosure with the very same keyboard, put Xubuntu on it and center their marketing around how they built the first Netbook in 1999 and how the concept has become so popular. Tagline "The inventors of the Netbook present: The Netbook 2.0" or something of the sorts. They would get huge press and attention. And the Psion Netbook really does deserve a redo.
Wow. Chill. You're getting a little worked up about that.
A little anecdote: I got a Laptop as a christmas present from my Company last xmas. I came with Windows XP preinstalled and an optional Windows Fister on a disk. I thought I might as well give it XP try, even though I've used Windows back in 2002 the last time for serious work. After 2.5 hrs. configuring it and installing all the tools I'd like to try out (Netbeans/JavaFX, Firefox, Flash CS3 & Flex SDK, etc.) and some other stuff it wouldn't shut down.... Ok, things do go haywire sometimes, no bad feelings. Forced shutdown, did powercycle, continued exploring WinXP. Looked fairly neat, even for someone used to a pimped out KDE 3.5 or Max OS X with Exposé. Then I noticed my HDD going krrr,krrr,krrr. Every second. Thought I allready had a virus, troyan or something. Then I thought - wait, this is Windows - it could be MS crap pounding my HDD. Asked my flatmate - no Programmer but a MS expert user and he basically said: Yeah, that's XP indexing stuff. Be happy you didn't install Vista, he'd been doing that constantly. Then he told me that XP doesn't shut down regularly if something in userspace tries networking or simular stuff and that a shutdown-hang can take up to 20 minutes. Then he told me what actually happens if MicroSHIT WGA thinks your licences isn't valid. 4 weeks nag popup, then a minimal mode in which you only can start Internot Exploder and ony visit the MS homepage with in order to buy a licence.
At this point I once again had enough of Windows and took the Ubuntu 8.10 CD I had prepared for such cases beforehand and installed it. Zero fuss. Nada. EVERYTHING on my brand new Dell Volstro 1510 worked right from the beginning. Wireless, Bluetooth, all the extra sensor buttons for the music player, bells, wistles and blingbling. Rythymbox I think the musicplayer is called, yes? I don't even know or care exactly, that's how flawlessly it integrates with the controlls. And I actually like Amorok and it's magnatune integration more! And Ubuntu actually doesn't hang on shutdown if I chose to turn of my WiFi inmidst of a session. On it goes: This weekend I bought a super-brand-new Saitek Cyborg X 5-axis joystick full of buttons and stuff that looks like it came out of a starwars movie or something. Pluged it in, fired up VegaStrike and started using it. I didn't even have to install frigging drivers!... Allthough VS does crash a little to often for my taste, but that's a different story...
So, for the bottom line, pardon me, but I, a senior IT expert with 23 years of programming experience and - bets are ten to one - way more experience with various OSes than you - actually do think - after thourough personal experience at various occasions - that the recent OSes MS has been putting out are about the shittiest of core software-products I personally have come across lately. It isn't that MS does Desktop OSes on the side, you know? The term MicroSuck I therefore actually do consider quite fitting and appropriate. And no I am not an OS X nor a Linux fanboy. I just know a shitty software product and a bad company policy when I see one, that's all.
I was 13, in the 7th grade at my school back in 1983 and I can clearly remember, as if it had happend today, the way our teacher described this phenomenon in biology and how the scientists examining it discovered the effects the prevention of these micromovements of the eye have on the visual perception of things. He also specifically described the blinding of the retina once an eyeball is held fix by small suction-cups.
Ever so often I encounter this, that things people have discovered decades or even a century or longer ago are rediscovered and sold as brand new insights into a specific field. Has any of you guys noticed the same thing? I'd suppose so. Strange isn't it? Does the scientific community need this sort of thing in order to 'stay important' - kinda like fashion fads reoccuring every 25 years or so?
Just reading this (Note I am not a Debian User anymore) has me noticing just how much the quality is in the FOSS field compared to MicroSuck, Adobemedia and any other company that's just in it for the money and not the technical perfection. Despite all marketing gibberish to the contrary.
While I've been using Ubuntu for it's ease of use in recent years and see Debian more as a kind of building kit when I need a more customized Linux setup, it is none-the-less a terrific feat to wrap up a product that meets Debians quality standards, as opposed to those of - let's say - Windows Vista.
Even the slashdot post on the new Debian has more content that a MS press release.
That all observed and said, congrats to the Debian crew for yet another release of a great OS and Software kit.
"Equal or lower in carbon footprint than natural gas."
Is someone here trying to tell us that prepping farmland, sewing and growing crops on it, feeding it to cattle which then ist slaughtered and/or dies of natural causes and blended into a pulp in order to get oil out of it has a lower carbon footprint than natural gas? And what about turning just the crops into biogas and skipping the cattle all together? Is this cattle-industry PR for the extra-stupid, or what?
Lower carbon footprint... Give me a f*cking break! Everybody with more that 2 braincells knows that modern livestock agriculture has about the worst eco-balance you can get, apart from maybe burning coal for electricity or something. From entire state-sized patches of rainforest being uprooted each year for argentiniean beefsteak and Mc-Donalds Burgers, south-american soy being shipped halfway across the globe to austria to be fed to their cattle while the people there are starving all the way to long-chained uber-pesticides for chowcrop monocultures that seep into the groundwater and polute the entire foodchain for decades to come, industrial mass livestock is one of the cornerstones of our current enviromental problems and ought to be taxed heavyly worldwide. 30% VAT on every livestock - dead or alive - crossing international borders just to cover the eco-balance is what we really need. I strongly suspect the linked article to be some PR rubbish launched by a meat industry in recession.
Bottom line: Complete and utter bullshit. Mod accordingly and move along.
AFAICT people use mono to go MS 'native' - meaning.Net - when needed. The only non-trivial application in Mono I can think of right now is Unity, and that's a closed-source RT3D toolkit for x-plattform developement on Mac OS X. And apparently a very good one at that. They are being bugged left, right and center to deliver on Windows. And are preparing that now.
I have to admit that Mono has gotten me curious, because Monodevelop is a very neat looking IDE, C# doesn't seem so much of a PITA than C++ or Java and it appears to be more suitable for stronger ties to multimedia hardware than Java. I still haven't seen a convincing multimedia app in Java in 10 years, allthough the current 3D stuff with native OpenGL does look and run well. On top of that it appears to me that Mono apps are easyer to deploy that Java apps. I'd expect Java developement to get up to speed fast in any revent Version of Netbeans. However, I catch myself still trusting Mono for good performance more than Java.
Bottom line: Going Mono to me basically means nothing other than spending time learning C# and watching out that no MS dependancies sneak into my work. A risk I'd be willing to take, given that it has evolved into a feasable tool recently. However, the don't-trust-MS arguments delivered here are valid, and you ought to know what you're doing and calculate your risks well when dicking with MS-controlled tech.
I find these kind of comments amusing. How lowly PHP is, how crappy Typo3, Joomla, Drupal, whatever is. Meanwhile PHP applications are slowly but surely taking over the web. And Joomla scores somewhere around 130 Million hits on Google. About 100 Million more that any other CMS/Web Framework.
Oh, and btw., I'm currently profiting by actually *using* Joomla. And selling it to very happy customers. And helping out in the Joomla Bugsquad.
AFAIK Wilbur Wright said that just 2 years before he and his brother managed to build a feasable heavyer-than-air airplane. While Kurzweil is quite a crackpot dreamer at times, it doesn't mean he's totally wrong. Look how far we have come in the web in the last 10 years. Things that would've seem impossible back then are standard fare today (Google Maps for free, Webapps for free, Wireless Broadband everywhere, totally cheap-ass standard fare available-at-every-corner 1,6 GHz CPU clocked miniature PCs (aka Netbooks) with 1-2 GB RAM(!) and lowish (!) 8GB SSDs or smallish 160GB miniature HDDs built in.
It is absolutely not unlikely that 10 years from now a growing Google AI or synthetic Humanity/Google hive-mind will start taking over on certain everyday issues of each individual. We are not so far away from a world currency, given the financial crisis at hand. The dollar legend is (hopefully, finally) going belly up and once a world currency is established in exchange for the euro, dollar, yen, etc. handing over generic public finacial decisions to a large computer/AI that is a synthesis of everyones everyday behaviour isn't that far fetched. Imagine a Google Bank with zero-fuss micropayment capabilities which is used by billions of people with INet access to handle their daily transaction stuff. Not hard at all extracting autmatable financial expert knowledge from that. And such a Bank is very close. And you've got your miniature singularity right there allready.
Names should be distinct, easy to spell, memorable and as much unrelated to the computers task as possible. F.i. don't name your computer "vip-files-and-billing-server", it's like adding a sign "Please hack here to steal valuable data". The name also shouldn't reflect the OS, for two reasons: 1.) "Vista01" says "Please use exploit XYZ do hack me" 2.) If your computer is named "Linux" it will be much more difficult to figure out the host and operating system in an error or log message. Consider "Linux has failed to access connection" and "charliebrown has failed to access connection." Not only is the second one more funny, it also is easyer to figure out.
BTW, my CompNames are allmost all from some or other Gibson novel:
wintermute, freeside (A Laptop, of course), straylight, countzero, idoru
Out of line: heatmachine (gets hot:-) ), engine (was the powerhorse at one time)
Somehow I'd find it uncool to suddenly switch to Neal Stephenson naming. But since I'm currently reading the bridge trioligy, there are still enough names to go around.
Are you rich? Can you live off your fortune alone? If not, don't take shares rather than salary, bonus or some other kind of cold hard cash. It's that simple really.
It is, of course, "weighs" - not "ways". It was late last night, sorry.
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It should be obvious, shouldn't it? Our work enviroment of choice has been the Desktop metophor for about 20 years now. Todays computers are powerfull enough to handle very luxurious desktop enviroments. I've basically replaced my very first PC - the first ever ATX bigtower casing, an InWin from 1996, that ways around about a metric ton - with a Mac Mini. 3D wise I even think it's a downgrade, allthough I only have a Geforce 4200 Ti as my latest 3D card in there.
But, as others here have pointed our allready, it consumes about the tenth of the power, makes almost no noise at all - even now I can barely hear it - and it is like 40 times as small. Meanwhile FOSSnix based systems are only getting better without making computing skills obsolete and making it even more finacially attractive to go for cheap and small.
The next performance race for most people will only take place after the standards for powerconsumption, size and noise have been raised and met. After that regular computers will be heading for more power again. I presume that next league will stall after a decade again, when 200$ computers the size of my external HDD have reached the power to render photorealistic motiongraphics in real time.
How much you wanna bet the above post gets a +5 insightful whereas a similar post about Clinton (or god help us, Obama) would get -1 troll?
I think because it is established, especially amoung above-avarage intelligent people (and I actually *do* count the/. crowd in on that one), that GWB has, in his political career, made some notably hairbrained, dumb and fatal decisions. Despite enough intelligent and well-educated advice to the contrary. Quite often he has not only been inept, he actually has been proactively so and even displayed proudness of it. It may be that GWBs style is compatible with a large section of the US public and that they consider him a 'nice guy' and he may even be, but the facts don't display in favour of his work as the US President. It's very much like with the former Chancelor Helmut Kohl in Germany. Pleasant to be around but sub-par performance as the leader of a Nation.
How about the fact that distributions all ship KDE 4 by default? If it's not done, don't release it.
That's one of those things I don't understand either. However, you have to admit that the KDE release strategy does deviate a little from the ususal usage of versioning in the FOSSS field. I presume the release managers don't care and take the path of least resistance and slap the newest stable release on to their project. They can allways point to KDE for any problems. Coming to think of it, that actually is the best tactic.
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And Linux/Xorg/Fluxbox boots faster than all of them. The important thing with Linux is, that you can choose how much you system takes to boot up. It's allways a tradeoff between features, bling-bling and speed. You did a nice stab at ignoring that though.
This is not news.
Modern Web-CMSes and feasable CSS made DW design capabilities and it's offline templating system completely superflous somewhere back in 2002 or 2003. In fact, I posted very much the same analysis on this issue about 5 or 6 years ago here on slashdot. Whatever is left of DW is here to stay for those doing the actuall screen/HTML design. The rext of us uses CSS frameworks and foundation templates and simply replaces the GFX and/or the colorcodes. I haven't used DW longer than 5 minutes since back in 2001.
Create a new entry in Joomla. Where does it live? Does it even exist other than in the db table? Is it a page? No. Is it a blog entry? Maybe, if the system is set up that way. What kind of entry is it? Try explaining the difference to a non-technical user.
It's a content item. It has enough meta-data to be rendered as a blog entry, if you wish, as it has publishing and 'go offline' dates and tons of other stuff. How it is rendered you can choose once you build a menu item that leads to its category,section or to the item itself. Menu entries carry their rendering options for their targets with them. Confusing at first, but very reasonable once you've understoof the concept. ...
If anything the item lives in its section and category.
If its unpublished, it lives in the space of the unpublished items. If its in the Section "Foo", Category "Bar" it lives in the space of FooBar.
I know that you tread water when in the content overviews at first, but Joomla is that flexible it actually leaves you with little much more than a sophisticated overview of the content objects and their attributes. Which is pretty much. And all you need. If you want to shoehorn your content, make sections and categories. That's what they're there for.
Choose the category you want. Oh, you need a new section. Forget about making a menu link to the entry and create a new section, then a new category. At this point it's actually easier to delete the original entry and post it again.
Bingo. Valid point. If you don't know and/or follow the generic Joomla workflow you run into that bump 2 minutes after your first login. However, if you *do* know the workflow and live by it, it's as easy as breathing. Just like in non-trivial programming, where the first thing you do is not writing the concept file but making a versioning repository/project.
Once you've built your sections and categories this isn't a problem anymore - its actually the typical initial Joomla setup problem. They could actually add the option to add section/categories in the editing/creation view. Using Ajax or something, to do the roundtrip without shedding the actual content item.
I've had this problem myself. But admit it, it is a minor issue in comparsion.
Now create a menu item. Which menu? If the site is complicated at all that's a legitimate question. Once you've created the menu item, then go back and find the created entry and attach it to the menu item. Okay, your new page is live. Whew.
Yet another workflow thing. Not so much of a problem if you know how many levels of abstraction Joomla offers. And yes, building a complex website does require planning ahead. And if you use Joomla to do so, you're best of following their philosophy. That is: Plan your pageflow and your menu display beforehand - that will limit the issue above to deliberately trying out different menu options and renderings.
The system is certainly flexible when it comes to creating a complex site, but for small sites and non-technical users it's both confusing and a lot of work.
Newsflash: Airplanes are more difficult than tricycles. Film at eleven. :-)
Right on. If you just want a blog and don't want to learn about Joomla, use WP. Or blogger.com, for that matter.
Now you need to change something on one of the pages. Is it a component? Maybe it's a article. Oh, it's a module. No... Give up and call the IT guy.
The terminology is synthetic and bolted-on at times. And may lack distinctivenes, yes indeed. But in this case it's actually quite easy: Change content? --> Article. Change overall treatment and handling of items in the frontend? --> Component. Programm your own at will - Joomla is a framework too. Want to quickly change position of rendering in layout or add a little widget with custom stuff? Like a permanent comment, custom permanent ad, or something? --> Module. Modules are like teensy side-components in that respect, if you will. Of cource you can have
Public relations, Joomla style. I rest my case.
Idiot. Slashdot style. I rest my case.
Joomla Bugsquad here. Sorry but your post doesn't mention a single point in Joomla that you dislike or even a single point that may be flawed. It actually sounds like a little hissy-fit by someone teenager or early twen with ADHD - to use your own words.
And as you are and "admin for various sites" (Links please) you might actually maybe have some substancial criticisim to add. I'll be glad to pass it on to the core team.
Otherwise please quit any aimless ranting and flailing. You get may modded +5 Interesting on slashdot (qed) - for whatever bizar reason that may be - but it really isn't much of a help and makes you look like an idiot.
My 2 cents.
Well, at least the summary is complete and utter rubbish. The article is slashdotted, but from what I can extract from the comments, the author doesn't know what he's talking about.
WP does not have '90%' of Joomlas features. That's nonsense.
I have used, deployed and administrated WP since the b2 days, before it became WP and have been using, deploying, adminstrating and developing Joomla since the Mambo 4 days. And - take it from someone who makes a living on this stuff (and is a member of the Joomla Bugsquad) - both are very sohpisticated webkits!
WP is basically a Blogging engine. Plain and simple. It's a very pimped out matured blogging engine and is used as the foundation for some very large sites and complex apps - which is totally ok - but it started of as a blogging engine called b2 and all it's workflows are derived from blogging workflows. Which explain it's simplicity and thus its notable ease of use.
Joomla is a full-blown web-cms. It gives backend controll over what functions the frontend has, it has 7 user groups by default (which you can't change or extend - one of the downsides compared to other systems like Typo3) and basically is a feature behemoth right off the bat compared to WP. The built in editing toolset dwarves that of WP. Contrary to that, Joomla is extremely easy to install and installation plays in the same leage as WP usability wise. I actually find Joomla 1.5 easyer to install than WP 2.7.
That aside, Joomlas featureset and philosophy required that you sit down and learn it!. WP will have you publishing 5 minutes after installation, while Joomla might take an hour until everything is halfway in place. And you still won't understand half of it. Which is entirely due to the wide range of options Joomla offers, compared to WP.
Likewise doing nifty things like moving the login and/or search widget aroud the layout to make room for a large bulletin with 3 or 4 clicks of a mouse is simply impossible in WP. With the upside that you don't have to know what Joomla modules and module-positions are.
I currently use a plugin-pimped WP for my everyday blog (which I share with another blogger) and I use Joomla in 4 different sites, which are all more complex than a online essay site - and both do a very fine job and are very usable. ... Aside from maybe the fact that WPs editor lacks the features I'm used to from Joomlas TinyMCE setup. But for people who'd rather screw up the layout when given to much power this would be a plus. So there's no wonder why WPs editor is slim by default.
Bottom line: Ignore the rubbish and choose the best tool for the job. Both Joomla and WP are well suited for the prime choice in their field.
Back in the mid-90ies I was on FidoNet. FidoNet required you to use your real name but also put quite a few legal restrictions on what can be done with content outside of Fido. Someone at Google thought it would be smart to copy over all FidoBoards into Google Groups. Aside from that there is probably more than one big legal problem to that in more than one country, I try not to care to much about it.
That aside, the most prominent hits are from my well kept and good looking personal website, so I really don't mind.
Bottom line:
I'd stear clear from social networking, as you hand over controll over your data and stats to someone else. Plus on those your presentation is usually bland or crappy. Or both. I would rely on an own website to present myself.
IMPORTANT: Please take notice that I am a web professional and know the importance of a good looking and well built website and also know how to build or at least fake one. If you can't judge and/or make a good website and have no acredited professional to do it for your then do yourself a favour and stick with business cards and stationary made with a decent template.
My 2 cents.
Let's say Adobe has scewed the results in their favour by a few percent. So it's like 95 or 93%. Bit fat hairy deal. Flash still is the most ubiqious plattform in existance with such frictionless deployment to the end user you'll be hard pressed to find something that even comes close. The closest is Java, and Java Webstart isn't quite there yet. JavaFX isn't truely cross-plattform and I can't think of any other feasable rich client plattform even worth mentioning. And no, Silverlight isn't even a nominee, as Curl, Prisim/XULRunner, SMIL/RealPlayer and a few others have much more penetration.
And since compiling without the official Flash IDE has gotten very easy with MTASC and the Flex SDK I see no reason not to use it for complex RIA projects.
Flash has been the RIA king for at least 10 years now, and unless Sun finsishes the last 20% of JavaFX (true x-plattform is still missing) it will still stay that way for while.
Be glad you weren't using Linux back in 2001. Font rendering on Linux UIs has come a long way since then. Allthough it's no where near perfect, that's true.
While the trademark is older, it is cleary the Psion Netbook that implemented the actuall concept. And implemented it very well actually - Psion Netbooks have/had a lightweight OS (Epoc for Netbook) a custom browser and a own Java 1.1 implementation back when Java was really new. The enclosure and the keyboard are to date unmatched. Their battery uptime was around 40 hrs.
The pure and simple fact is this: Psion concepted, built and trademarked the first Netbook. Period.
That aside, I find this lawsuit totally silly, it will probably fail. And rightfully so. They should simply build an upgrade of the original Netbook in the very same enclosure with the very same keyboard, put Xubuntu on it and center their marketing around how they built the first Netbook in 1999 and how the concept has become so popular. Tagline "The inventors of the Netbook present: The Netbook 2.0" or something of the sorts. They would get huge press and attention. And the Psion Netbook really does deserve a redo.
MicroSuck??!! Grow the fuck up child
Wow. Chill. You're getting a little worked up about that.
A little anecdote: I got a Laptop as a christmas present from my Company last xmas. I came with Windows XP preinstalled and an optional Windows Fister on a disk. I thought I might as well give it XP try, even though I've used Windows back in 2002 the last time for serious work. ... Ok, things do go haywire sometimes, no bad feelings. Forced shutdown, did powercycle, continued exploring WinXP. Looked fairly neat, even for someone used to a pimped out KDE 3.5 or Max OS X with Exposé. Then I noticed my HDD going krrr,krrr,krrr. Every second. Thought I allready had a virus, troyan or something. Then I thought - wait, this is Windows - it could be MS crap pounding my HDD. Asked my flatmate - no Programmer but a MS expert user and he basically said: Yeah, that's XP indexing stuff. Be happy you didn't install Vista, he'd been doing that constantly. Then he told me that XP doesn't shut down regularly if something in userspace tries networking or simular stuff and that a shutdown-hang can take up to 20 minutes. Then he told me what actually happens if MicroSHIT WGA thinks your licences isn't valid. 4 weeks nag popup, then a minimal mode in which you only can start Internot Exploder and ony visit the MS homepage with in order to buy a licence.
After 2.5 hrs. configuring it and installing all the tools I'd like to try out (Netbeans/JavaFX, Firefox, Flash CS3 & Flex SDK, etc.) and some other stuff it wouldn't shut down.
At this point I once again had enough of Windows and took the Ubuntu 8.10 CD I had prepared for such cases beforehand and installed it. Zero fuss. Nada. EVERYTHING on my brand new Dell Volstro 1510 worked right from the beginning. Wireless, Bluetooth, all the extra sensor buttons for the music player, bells, wistles and blingbling. Rythymbox I think the musicplayer is called, yes? I don't even know or care exactly, that's how flawlessly it integrates with the controlls. And I actually like Amorok and it's magnatune integration more! And Ubuntu actually doesn't hang on shutdown if I chose to turn of my WiFi inmidst of a session. ... Allthough VS does crash a little to often for my taste, but that's a different story ...
On it goes: This weekend I bought a super-brand-new Saitek Cyborg X 5-axis joystick full of buttons and stuff that looks like it came out of a starwars movie or something. Pluged it in, fired up VegaStrike and started using it. I didn't even have to install frigging drivers!
So, for the bottom line, pardon me, but I, a senior IT expert with 23 years of programming experience and - bets are ten to one - way more experience with various OSes than you - actually do think - after thourough personal experience at various occasions - that the recent OSes MS has been putting out are about the shittiest of core software-products I personally have come across lately. It isn't that MS does Desktop OSes on the side, you know? The term MicroSuck I therefore actually do consider quite fitting and appropriate. And no I am not an OS X nor a Linux fanboy. I just know a shitty software product and a bad company policy when I see one, that's all.
Glad we have settled that.
I was 13, in the 7th grade at my school back in 1983 and I can clearly remember, as if it had happend today, the way our teacher described this phenomenon in biology and how the scientists examining it discovered the effects the prevention of these micromovements of the eye have on the visual perception of things. He also specifically described the blinding of the retina once an eyeball is held fix by small suction-cups.
Ever so often I encounter this, that things people have discovered decades or even a century or longer ago are rediscovered and sold as brand new insights into a specific field. Has any of you guys noticed the same thing? I'd suppose so. Strange isn't it? Does the scientific community need this sort of thing in order to 'stay important' - kinda like fashion fads reoccuring every 25 years or so?
Just reading this (Note I am not a Debian User anymore) has me noticing just how much the quality is in the FOSS field compared to MicroSuck, Adobemedia and any other company that's just in it for the money and not the technical perfection. Despite all marketing gibberish to the contrary.
While I've been using Ubuntu for it's ease of use in recent years and see Debian more as a kind of building kit when I need a more customized Linux setup, it is none-the-less a terrific feat to wrap up a product that meets Debians quality standards, as opposed to those of - let's say - Windows Vista.
Even the slashdot post on the new Debian has more content that a MS press release.
That all observed and said, congrats to the Debian crew for yet another release of a great OS and Software kit.
Vegastrike.
"Equal or lower in carbon footprint than natural gas."
Is someone here trying to tell us that prepping farmland, sewing and growing crops on it, feeding it to cattle which then ist slaughtered and/or dies of natural causes and blended into a pulp in order to get oil out of it has a lower carbon footprint than natural gas? And what about turning just the crops into biogas and skipping the cattle all together? Is this cattle-industry PR for the extra-stupid, or what?
Lower carbon footprint ... Give me a f*cking break! Everybody with more that 2 braincells knows that modern livestock agriculture has about the worst eco-balance you can get, apart from maybe burning coal for electricity or something. From entire state-sized patches of rainforest being uprooted each year for argentiniean beefsteak and Mc-Donalds Burgers, south-american soy being shipped halfway across the globe to austria to be fed to their cattle while the people there are starving all the way to long-chained uber-pesticides for chowcrop monocultures that seep into the groundwater and polute the entire foodchain for decades to come, industrial mass livestock is one of the cornerstones of our current enviromental problems and ought to be taxed heavyly worldwide. 30% VAT on every livestock - dead or alive - crossing international borders just to cover the eco-balance is what we really need. I strongly suspect the linked article to be some PR rubbish launched by a meat industry in recession.
Bottom line: Complete and utter bullshit. Mod accordingly and move along.
AFAICT people use mono to go MS 'native' - meaning .Net - when needed. The only non-trivial application in Mono I can think of right now is Unity, and that's a closed-source RT3D toolkit for x-plattform developement on Mac OS X. And apparently a very good one at that. They are being bugged left, right and center to deliver on Windows. And are preparing that now.
I have to admit that Mono has gotten me curious, because Monodevelop is a very neat looking IDE, C# doesn't seem so much of a PITA than C++ or Java and it appears to be more suitable for stronger ties to multimedia hardware than Java. I still haven't seen a convincing multimedia app in Java in 10 years, allthough the current 3D stuff with native OpenGL does look and run well.
On top of that it appears to me that Mono apps are easyer to deploy that Java apps. I'd expect Java developement to get up to speed fast in any revent Version of Netbeans. However, I catch myself still trusting Mono for good performance more than Java.
Bottom line:
Going Mono to me basically means nothing other than spending time learning C# and watching out that no MS dependancies sneak into my work. A risk I'd be willing to take, given that it has evolved into a feasable tool recently. However, the don't-trust-MS arguments delivered here are valid, and you ought to know what you're doing and calculate your risks well when dicking with MS-controlled tech.
I find these kind of comments amusing. How lowly PHP is, how crappy Typo3, Joomla, Drupal, whatever is. Meanwhile PHP applications are slowly but surely taking over the web. And Joomla scores somewhere around 130 Million hits on Google. About 100 Million more that any other CMS/Web Framework.
Oh, and btw., I'm currently profiting by actually *using* Joomla. And selling it to very happy customers. And helping out in the Joomla Bugsquad.
You say its ancient, so I presume it's a 1.0.x variant. How about just migrating to the 1.5 branch. It is a complete redo from the ground up.
AFAIK Wilbur Wright said that just 2 years before he and his brother managed to build a feasable heavyer-than-air airplane. While Kurzweil is quite a crackpot dreamer at times, it doesn't mean he's totally wrong. Look how far we have come in the web in the last 10 years. Things that would've seem impossible back then are standard fare today (Google Maps for free, Webapps for free, Wireless Broadband everywhere, totally cheap-ass standard fare available-at-every-corner 1,6 GHz CPU clocked miniature PCs (aka Netbooks) with 1-2 GB RAM(!) and lowish (!) 8GB SSDs or smallish 160GB miniature HDDs built in.
It is absolutely not unlikely that 10 years from now a growing Google AI or synthetic Humanity/Google hive-mind will start taking over on certain everyday issues of each individual. We are not so far away from a world currency, given the financial crisis at hand. The dollar legend is (hopefully, finally) going belly up and once a world currency is established in exchange for the euro, dollar, yen, etc. handing over generic public finacial decisions to a large computer/AI that is a synthesis of everyones everyday behaviour isn't that far fetched. Imagine a Google Bank with zero-fuss micropayment capabilities which is used by billions of people with INet access to handle their daily transaction stuff. Not hard at all extracting autmatable financial expert knowledge from that. And such a Bank is very close. And you've got your miniature singularity right there allready.
Names should be distinct, easy to spell, memorable and as much unrelated to the computers task as possible. F.i. don't name your computer "vip-files-and-billing-server", it's like adding a sign "Please hack here to steal valuable data". The name also shouldn't reflect the OS, for two reasons:
1.) "Vista01" says "Please use exploit XYZ do hack me"
2.) If your computer is named "Linux" it will be much more difficult to figure out the host and operating system in an error or log message. Consider "Linux has failed to access connection" and "charliebrown has failed to access connection." Not only is the second one more funny, it also is easyer to figure out.
BTW, my CompNames are allmost all from some or other Gibson novel:
wintermute, freeside (A Laptop, of course), straylight, countzero, idoru
Out of line: heatmachine (gets hot :-) ), engine (was the powerhorse at one time)
Somehow I'd find it uncool to suddenly switch to Neal Stephenson naming. But since I'm currently reading the bridge trioligy, there are still enough names to go around.
Are you rich? Can you live off your fortune alone? If not, don't take shares rather than salary, bonus or some other kind of cold hard cash. It's that simple really.
It is, of course, "weighs" - not "ways". It was late last night, sorry.
It should be obvious, shouldn't it? Our work enviroment of choice has been the Desktop metophor for about 20 years now. Todays computers are powerfull enough to handle very luxurious desktop enviroments. I've basically replaced my very first PC - the first ever ATX bigtower casing, an InWin from 1996, that ways around about a metric ton - with a Mac Mini. 3D wise I even think it's a downgrade, allthough I only have a Geforce 4200 Ti as my latest 3D card in there.
But, as others here have pointed our allready, it consumes about the tenth of the power, makes almost no noise at all - even now I can barely hear it - and it is like 40 times as small. Meanwhile FOSSnix based systems are only getting better without making computing skills obsolete and making it even more finacially attractive to go for cheap and small.
The next performance race for most people will only take place after the standards for powerconsumption, size and noise have been raised and met. After that regular computers will be heading for more power again. I presume that next league will stall after a decade again, when 200$ computers the size of my external HDD have reached the power to render photorealistic motiongraphics in real time.
How much you wanna bet the above post gets a +5 insightful whereas a similar post about Clinton (or god help us, Obama) would get -1 troll?
I think because it is established, especially amoung above-avarage intelligent people (and I actually *do* count the /. crowd in on that one), that GWB has, in his political career, made some notably hairbrained, dumb and fatal decisions. Despite enough intelligent and well-educated advice to the contrary. Quite often he has not only been inept, he actually has been proactively so and even displayed proudness of it. It may be that GWBs style is compatible with a large section of the US public and that they consider him a 'nice guy' and he may even be, but the facts don't display in favour of his work as the US President. It's very much like with the former Chancelor Helmut Kohl in Germany. Pleasant to be around but sub-par performance as the leader of a Nation.
How about the fact that distributions all ship KDE 4 by default? If it's not done, don't release it.
That's one of those things I don't understand either. However, you have to admit that the KDE release strategy does deviate a little from the ususal usage of versioning in the FOSSS field. I presume the release managers don't care and take the path of least resistance and slap the newest stable release on to their project. They can allways point to KDE for any problems. Coming to think of it, that actually is the best tactic.