After getting tired of messing with postnuke, I moved our family site to xaraya -- allegedly a much cleaner and more flexible CMS. Yes, it was more flexible, but the learning curve was very steep. In addition, even though there is lots of documentation, the basic stuff that I wanted was rarely there.
So, I did a little checking and very little hacking, and moved the site to Wordpress. I have not regretted the move since. Even though it is first and foremost a blogging tool, it has plugins for pictures (gallery2, coppermine, etc), user restrictions, user levels. In addition the templates are simple enough that it shouldn't be hard to integrate other tools into your site at least visually.
The other plus about Wordpress is that the community is extremely active. There are always new plugins and themes being developed. And if you have a question, the answer is usually in the forums in a matter of hours (that is if it hasn't been answered before)
Repeat after me: "I" before "E" except after "C". Oh wait, that doesn't apply. However, in the age of endless spelling tools, you would think that a major site like slashdot could get their postings spellchecked.
Then again, some people also hope that they might check for duplicates.
Yes, I know. Offtopic, troll, and flamebait.
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One of the highlights of KDE as far as making it usable for grandma is being able to search through the installation and find applications that aren't in the menu that could be incorporated into the menu.
If gnome is truly about usability, putting programs into the menu should be a piece of cake. I'm not sure if KDE has the end-all solution on menu management, but it could be improved in gnome.
On the other hand, gnome has done a nice job at being able to modify the menu directly from the menu (where it makes sense).
Some drag and drop capabilities in the menu would also be nice.
Spymac.com already offers 1GB e-mail. Albeit, their website is bloated and slow, and they offered it as a response to google -- but they should probably get "first" place.
Wordpress is a really nice option. http://wordpress.org. It does have a nice interface and a very active community. In addition they have some solutions to the problems of comment spamming.
The other nice thing is that they output compliant code.
Now that is what we call good solid evidence (as if we didn't have enough) that SCO is pulling stuff out of it's royal...
A big company like HP, doesn't just all of a sudden decide it's going to defend against a lost case.
Rebooting -- that is kind of a big one -- but people who have dual boot partitions do it all the time.
Hardware Detection: We are talking about some serious driver databases here. Especially if you want to enable all the whistles available in each piece of hardware.
There is a reason why we install an OS. So that every program/game doesn't have to redo what has already been done.
If game developers were going to put that much effort into a game, they might as well just port their stuff to Linux and MacOs, and be done.
As long as the process of getting into the proprietary network is not outrightly illegal, it won't take long for the Gaim and Trillian to come out with a patch. It's happened before.
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After getting tired of messing with postnuke, I moved our family site to xaraya -- allegedly a much cleaner and more flexible CMS. Yes, it was more flexible, but the learning curve was very steep. In addition, even though there is lots of documentation, the basic stuff that I wanted was rarely there.
So, I did a little checking and very little hacking, and moved the site to Wordpress. I have not regretted the move since. Even though it is first and foremost a blogging tool, it has plugins for pictures (gallery2, coppermine, etc), user restrictions, user levels. In addition the templates are simple enough that it shouldn't be hard to integrate other tools into your site at least visually.
The other plus about Wordpress is that the community is extremely active. There are always new plugins and themes being developed. And if you have a question, the answer is usually in the forums in a matter of hours (that is if it hasn't been answered before)
Repeat after me: "I" before "E" except after "C". Oh wait, that doesn't apply. However, in the age of endless spelling tools, you would think that a major site like slashdot could get their postings spellchecked.
Then again, some people also hope that they might check for duplicates.
Yes, I know. Offtopic, troll, and flamebait.
One of the highlights of KDE as far as making it usable for grandma is being able to search through the installation and find applications that aren't in the menu that could be incorporated into the menu.
If gnome is truly about usability, putting programs into the menu should be a piece of cake. I'm not sure if KDE has the end-all solution on menu management, but it could be improved in gnome.
On the other hand, gnome has done a nice job at being able to modify the menu directly from the menu (where it makes sense).
Some drag and drop capabilities in the menu would also be nice.
Spymac.com already offers 1GB e-mail. Albeit, their website is bloated and slow, and they offered it as a response to google -- but they should probably get "first" place.
Wordpress is a really nice option. http://wordpress.org. It does have a nice interface and a very active community. In addition they have some solutions to the problems of comment spamming.
The other nice thing is that they output compliant code.
I would predict that this will not exactly be "free to download." Perhaps free to download with your subscription to Lindows.
Now that is what we call good solid evidence (as if we didn't have enough) that SCO is pulling stuff out of it's royal... A big company like HP, doesn't just all of a sudden decide it's going to defend against a lost case.
Rebooting -- that is kind of a big one -- but people who have dual boot partitions do it all the time.
Hardware Detection: We are talking about some serious driver databases here. Especially if you want to enable all the whistles available in each piece of hardware.
There is a reason why we install an OS. So that every program/game doesn't have to redo what has already been done.
If game developers were going to put that much effort into a game, they might as well just port their stuff to Linux and MacOs, and be done.
Eventually, I think that is what will happen.
As long as the process of getting into the proprietary network is not outrightly illegal, it won't take long for the Gaim and Trillian to come out with a patch. It's happened before.