That was one thing that really frustrated me about the game was that you had to play out things in a certain sequence and in a certain time frame otherwise you'd die or something nasty would happen to you. I found myself saving the game often and reloading it until I got it right. It got old pretty quick.:/
Nothing like the Zork games I played...
Shane
Depends what you want to do with it. Like was mentioned, the 'nukes' are a blend of CMS and communityware. Plone is much more of a true CMS. Plone also has educational ports (EduPlone) and eCommerce ports (PloneMall) which definitely look interesting.
Personally I've been working with Plone for a couple months now and am pretty impressed by its customization potential. For communityware, it isn't there yet primarily because their forum software is no where up to snuff with features compared to phpBB and others. Granted there is a large learning curve, but if you can get past that you should be set. I bet I spent the first two months teaching myself the basics of Zope, ZPT, Python, CSS, and Plone in order to really customize it. There's also a huge repository of Products that can be plugged into Plone to do pretty much whatever you want. Plone produces valid XHTML and is very standards compliant. See the footer of the plone.org website for the standards they conform to. Once you've got Plone customized, admining it is pretty straight forward through the PMI and ZMI. Only the sysadmin really would ever do anything in the ZMI.
There's also Silva (http://www.infrae.org/products/silva) that has a lot of potential as well. The document creation and management interface is amazing along with workflow management. All documents are stored in future-proof XML. Check both of them out if you have a chance.
Dumb question time... I'm in the process of working on networking my PC's up at home (1 WinXP box, 1 Win 98 box, 1 Win2k laptop, and 1 Debian box). Would you go w/ a router (Linksys or similar) or use an old PC w/ SmoothWall? I'd like to also do printer sharing as well. Thoughts?
Shane
Why did you go with Smoothwall over ClarkConnect? Both seem to be geared toward the same goal. I've been toying with doing this but haven't been able to decide which one to try. What are your thoughts?
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That was one thing that really frustrated me about the game was that you had to play out things in a certain sequence and in a certain time frame otherwise you'd die or something nasty would happen to you. I found myself saving the game often and reloading it until I got it right. It got old pretty quick. :/
Nothing like the Zork games I played...
Shane
Depends what you want to do with it. Like was mentioned, the 'nukes' are a blend of CMS and communityware. Plone is much more of a true CMS. Plone also has educational ports (EduPlone) and eCommerce ports (PloneMall) which definitely look interesting.
Personally I've been working with Plone for a couple months now and am pretty impressed by its customization potential. For communityware, it isn't there yet primarily because their forum software is no where up to snuff with features compared to phpBB and others. Granted there is a large learning curve, but if you can get past that you should be set. I bet I spent the first two months teaching myself the basics of Zope, ZPT, Python, CSS, and Plone in order to really customize it. There's also a huge repository of Products that can be plugged into Plone to do pretty much whatever you want. Plone produces valid XHTML and is very standards compliant. See the footer of the plone.org website for the standards they conform to. Once you've got Plone customized, admining it is pretty straight forward through the PMI and ZMI. Only the sysadmin really would ever do anything in the ZMI.
There's also Silva (http://www.infrae.org/products/silva) that has a lot of potential as well. The document creation and management interface is amazing along with workflow management. All documents are stored in future-proof XML. Check both of them out if you have a chance.
Dumb question time... I'm in the process of working on networking my PC's up at home (1 WinXP box, 1 Win 98 box, 1 Win2k laptop, and 1 Debian box). Would you go w/ a router (Linksys or similar) or use an old PC w/ SmoothWall? I'd like to also do printer sharing as well. Thoughts? Shane
Why did you go with Smoothwall over ClarkConnect? Both seem to be geared toward the same goal. I've been toying with doing this but haven't been able to decide which one to try. What are your thoughts?
Shane