Acquia's distribution was originally started to give customers a professionally supported version of Drupal (it is, near exactly, the same Drupal you download at drupal.org with the exception of the non-core modules it ships with). What they offer is mainly support like so many Linux companies do.
I don't know what you mean by Drupal forks. As far as I know, there is only one 'fork' of Drupal, PressFlow. PressFlow keeps current on the major Drupal releases, but it brings in additional performance patches which have additional requirements (the 6.x version requires mySQL and PHP 5.2, whereas Drupal itself supports Postgres and older versions of PHP). There are distributions of Drupal, like OpenAtrium, which include Drupal core, contrib modules, and an install profile. As far as I know, these don't modify core so I'd hardly call them a fork.
To be honest, Drupal has a steep learning curve. Installing it and expecting your ideal site out of the box just isn't going to happen. It takes experience to know the "drupal way" to do get things done. It takes some study to know which modules are worth installing. I'd challenge you to find any CMS, open or closed source, that can make the variety of sites Drupal does and does it right out of the box.
I do understand that, and I think that Drupal does a pretty good job of separating the two. Drupal will have output without a theme (see the Stark theme, which is just a.info file, no php or html). With a proper theme, you should be able to change the actual markup to be just about anything. Drupal themes don't require PHP, but understanding of PHP will only help. Business decisions are not made within templates (although can be, and a poor decision on the design side). Garland is a poor example to base your own theme off of, but I believe that the PHP within that theme only decides on the structure of the markup, not anything else. Sorry if this makes no sense, I blame the tequila.
Drupal templates are free to modify data using the preprocess hooks, but you'd be wise to not do anything but change how things are displayed (inserting div id's and the like).
Im not seeing exactly what your complaint is. Should the back end just be smart enough to have universal templates that can make any website ever designed?
It depends on what kind of image gallery you're looking for. There are a few image gallery modules available at drupal.org, and those might be what you're looking for.
Another way to do it is the views and cck way. There's a screencast over at lullabot. If you go this route, you probably want to look at the image_fupload module, too.
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For your second point, your best option is to use the views module. Views is essentially a query builder that integrates with drupal and can provide different types of output (full pages or blocks). You'd create a view, add the fields you want to display, filter on the category and/or content type, sort descending by post date and tell it to produce a block. Go to your block configuration, tell it to put the block in the right region and to only display on the front page.
Drupal has a somewhat steep learning curve, but you can do a lot with it. If all you're looking for is a simple blog, wordpress is probably better for the job.
The easier solution, but much less BOFH-y, is to publish graphs of legit vs non-legit mail, top spam recipients, etc. Everyone realizes how awesome you are. The day is saved.
Ah, yes! They want to explore "new models" that "require fair acknowledgement of the value that our content creates, both on our own site (through advertising) and 'at the edges' in the world of search and aggregation." In other words, they want to tell another company, which offers a free service, how to run that free service, so it better supports their ad-driven service! OK, that makes much more sense.
If the headlines and small excerpts are so valuable, dead-tree newspapers should be sold in black bags. Whenever I have purchased a news paper, I've been able to see the top stories and a basic idea about anything special in the paper without actually buying it. Wait, its the internet. Everything is different here.
As far as I know, Google never shows the entire article text (and in search results, caching is controllable by the publisher). What they want to say is that the headlines and 2 sentence "teaser" have more value to their readers than the actual (hopefully) well thought out and researched article? If thats really the case, we're in a sad, sad place.
The updates for Ubuntu are ONLY security fixes, or smaller fixes that don't change the normal functionality of the . They do not upgrade the software version between Ubuntu releases. In the case of a new Ubuntu release, Upgrade Manager makes this very clear and walks the user through the process.
I was more inferring that the people voting for Obama mostly where youngsters.
The youth vote was, according to the exit poll, 18% of the electorate. To say "most" of Obama's supporters were 18-30 just doesn't make sense mathematically.
That DOESN'T mean that said people getting out to vote are actually informed of what is going on. It only means they have little to go upon because of a lack of experience in, well, LIFE.
I find it insulting that you question the ability for us under 30 to responsibly vote, that we must be naive because we chose the other guy. What happens in Washington doesn't just affect the people that were able to vote for Carter (or Ford).
Most of the people VOTING for Obama probably grew up around the same time his political carreer did.
And this means... what? Turnout is okay as long as it's the people that support your guy?
I'm 22, and have the right to vote and I chose to exercise that right. In fact, don't argue it was only young voters. According to the CNN exit polls, Obama won all age groups 18-64.
At the school I go to, we are required to have an internship. A bunch of people have jobs with the CIA, and to score that job, you have to do their entire mindfuck interview process. They ask the standard questions, and then the not so... like "Do you drink to get drunk" or "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" The people I know who have gotten the job have answered yes to at least one of the questions.
Maybe they know something we don't.
Either way, the people I like talking to and working with are the ones that have been more social. Sorry folks, sitting around your dorm room and playing World of Warcraft all night long does not make you interesting to the majority of the population. Although, tonight I've had a few, and I'm writing here... so take my words with a grain of salt.
We had a physics book like that, but there was no way around it. You needed the portion of the book, the workbook, and an online access code to do the assigned homework. There was no way you could get all three for less money than the package at the bookstore. Sadly, it was one of the few times I've bought books there.
1. The government should have no say about what I do on my property as long as I don't pollute onto my neighbor's land (noise, chemicals, etc).
I don't think the government is going to say anything about burying miles of cable on your own property. In fact, I encourage you to do so. Check back in soon and tell us how things work out.
In the Minneapolis-St Paul area, they're working on extending the light rail along 94 to connect the two cities (currently, light rail connect Minneapolis, the airport, and the Mall of America). The stage with the environmental impact statement included a lot of the preliminary engineering--feasibility, route alignment, and impact on stakeholders. I would assume this is similar. I'd imagine, $45 million buys more than a report on how many cacti they're going to bulldoze over.
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, or Windows Vista
Internet Explorer version 6 or higher
Windows Media Player version 11 (DRM version 5145) or later
An active broadband connection to the Internet
1.0 GHz processor
512 MB RAM
3 GB free hard disk drive space
I can't use their service (Linux only). An easy set-top box is advantageous for a lot of people because it's just easy (easy setup, don't have to watch on your computer screen in an office chair).
I've been working on a Drupal site for a while, and it's just not easy to get started. For your first site, playing around with Views and CCK might get you a bit deeper into the Drupal world than you want to go at first. Views and CCK are the swiss army knife of Drupal, but if you know need the corkscrew... Stick with the advice given in the handbook: avoid Views and CCK for your first site.
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Acquia's distribution was originally started to give customers a professionally supported version of Drupal (it is, near exactly, the same Drupal you download at drupal.org with the exception of the non-core modules it ships with). What they offer is mainly support like so many Linux companies do.
I don't know what you mean by Drupal forks. As far as I know, there is only one 'fork' of Drupal, PressFlow. PressFlow keeps current on the major Drupal releases, but it brings in additional performance patches which have additional requirements (the 6.x version requires mySQL and PHP 5.2, whereas Drupal itself supports Postgres and older versions of PHP). There are distributions of Drupal, like OpenAtrium, which include Drupal core, contrib modules, and an install profile. As far as I know, these don't modify core so I'd hardly call them a fork.
To be honest, Drupal has a steep learning curve. Installing it and expecting your ideal site out of the box just isn't going to happen. It takes experience to know the "drupal way" to do get things done. It takes some study to know which modules are worth installing. I'd challenge you to find any CMS, open or closed source, that can make the variety of sites Drupal does and does it right out of the box.
I do understand that, and I think that Drupal does a pretty good job of separating the two. Drupal will have output without a theme (see the Stark theme, which is just a .info file, no php or html). With a proper theme, you should be able to change the actual markup to be just about anything. Drupal themes don't require PHP, but understanding of PHP will only help. Business decisions are not made within templates (although can be, and a poor decision on the design side). Garland is a poor example to base your own theme off of, but I believe that the PHP within that theme only decides on the structure of the markup, not anything else. Sorry if this makes no sense, I blame the tequila.
Drupal templates are free to modify data using the preprocess hooks, but you'd be wise to not do anything but change how things are displayed (inserting div id's and the like).
Im not seeing exactly what your complaint is. Should the back end just be smart enough to have universal templates that can make any website ever designed?
It depends on what kind of image gallery you're looking for. There are a few image gallery modules available at drupal.org, and those might be what you're looking for.
Another way to do it is the views and cck way. There's a screencast over at lullabot. If you go this route, you probably want to look at the image_fupload module, too.
For your second point, your best option is to use the views module. Views is essentially a query builder that integrates with drupal and can provide different types of output (full pages or blocks). You'd create a view, add the fields you want to display, filter on the category and/or content type, sort descending by post date and tell it to produce a block. Go to your block configuration, tell it to put the block in the right region and to only display on the front page. Drupal has a somewhat steep learning curve, but you can do a lot with it. If all you're looking for is a simple blog, wordpress is probably better for the job.
Deliver a letter across the country for pocket change.
The easier solution, but much less BOFH-y, is to publish graphs of legit vs non-legit mail, top spam recipients, etc. Everyone realizes how awesome you are. The day is saved.
If the headlines and small excerpts are so valuable, dead-tree newspapers should be sold in black bags. Whenever I have purchased a news paper, I've been able to see the top stories and a basic idea about anything special in the paper without actually buying it. Wait, its the internet. Everything is different here.
As far as I know, Google never shows the entire article text (and in search results, caching is controllable by the publisher). What they want to say is that the headlines and 2 sentence "teaser" have more value to their readers than the actual (hopefully) well thought out and researched article? If thats really the case, we're in a sad, sad place.
The updates for Ubuntu are ONLY security fixes, or smaller fixes that don't change the normal functionality of the . They do not upgrade the software version between Ubuntu releases. In the case of a new Ubuntu release, Upgrade Manager makes this very clear and walks the user through the process.
..... The Aristocrats!
I see Taco Bell becoming the biggest company in the United States if Marijuana is legalized. Maybe Demolition Man had the future half right.
The youth vote was, according to the exit poll, 18% of the electorate. To say "most" of Obama's supporters were 18-30 just doesn't make sense mathematically.
I find it insulting that you question the ability for us under 30 to responsibly vote, that we must be naive because we chose the other guy. What happens in Washington doesn't just affect the people that were able to vote for Carter (or Ford).
And this means... what? Turnout is okay as long as it's the people that support your guy?
I'm 22, and have the right to vote and I chose to exercise that right. In fact, don't argue it was only young voters. According to the CNN exit polls, Obama won all age groups 18-64.
Come on. Do your part down there. Not even the House Democrats want him back. They've already stripped him of all his committee assignments.
At the school I go to, we are required to have an internship. A bunch of people have jobs with the CIA, and to score that job, you have to do their entire mindfuck interview process. They ask the standard questions, and then the not so... like "Do you drink to get drunk" or "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" The people I know who have gotten the job have answered yes to at least one of the questions.
Maybe they know something we don't.
Either way, the people I like talking to and working with are the ones that have been more social. Sorry folks, sitting around your dorm room and playing World of Warcraft all night long does not make you interesting to the majority of the population. Although, tonight I've had a few, and I'm writing here... so take my words with a grain of salt.
Cook county represents 44% of Illinois population. Include bordering counties, and it's over 60% of the population.
... and your better way of doing things is?
We had a physics book like that, but there was no way around it. You needed the portion of the book, the workbook, and an online access code to do the assigned homework. There was no way you could get all three for less money than the package at the bookstore. Sadly, it was one of the few times I've bought books there.
I don't know about you, but ethernet rarely works after a fresh install of Windows. Having a browser really helps out then.
No more Windows on my personal machines, not a problem anymore.
In the Minneapolis-St Paul area, they're working on extending the light rail along 94 to connect the two cities (currently, light rail connect Minneapolis, the airport, and the Mall of America). The stage with the environmental impact statement included a lot of the preliminary engineering--feasibility, route alignment, and impact on stakeholders. I would assume this is similar. I'd imagine, $45 million buys more than a report on how many cacti they're going to bulldoze over.
Did you file a bug report?
You have a better way of choosing elected officials? Do share.
Check out what his positions on the issue of transparency are. He's on a much better track than we're on right now.
System requirements for Netflix watch now:
I can't use their service (Linux only). An easy set-top box is advantageous for a lot of people because it's just easy (easy setup, don't have to watch on your computer screen in an office chair).
I've been working on a Drupal site for a while, and it's just not easy to get started. For your first site, playing around with Views and CCK might get you a bit deeper into the Drupal world than you want to go at first. Views and CCK are the swiss army knife of Drupal, but if you know need the corkscrew... Stick with the advice given in the handbook: avoid Views and CCK for your first site.