Postnuke, geeklog, and many other free and open source tools are for most people a much better option than slashcode. This book should have been more flexible to cover at least a couple other weblog options.
Who the hell would want something that tracks all your web browsing and sends it to another company that can sell it to anyone without you knowing?
Having to uncheck this "feature" is what still makes it spyware. Change it from an Opt-Out to an Opt-In and then it wouldn't be spyware, but then no one in their right mind would ever opt-in, would they?
You can buy a brand new computer for $399
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A brand new PC or an older mac can easily be purchased for $399. If you're a mac-fanatic, get an ibook instead. If you're a portable mp3 player fanatic, get the Nomad instead.
Otherwise just burn a CD and use your CD player. For $399 they should have made it a full-blown PDA as well, there is no way I can see this succeeding.
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You obviously didn't.
Postnuke, geeklog, and many other free and open source tools are for most people a much better option than slashcode. This book should have been more flexible to cover at least a couple other weblog options.
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Who the hell would want something that tracks all your web browsing and sends it to another company that can sell it to anyone without you knowing? Having to uncheck this "feature" is what still makes it spyware. Change it from an Opt-Out to an Opt-In and then it wouldn't be spyware, but then no one in their right mind would ever opt-in, would they?
A brand new PC or an older mac can easily be purchased for $399. If you're a mac-fanatic, get an ibook instead. If you're a portable mp3 player fanatic, get the Nomad instead. Otherwise just burn a CD and use your CD player.
For $399 they should have made it a full-blown PDA as well, there is no way I can see this succeeding.