Yeah and chances are we'll still be paying through the nose for our telecommunications, just over 100 bucks per month was getting me a single phone line and unlimited (throttled) internet. The throttling was so bad that it almost made online gaming unplayable. I would get better ping rates at a mates place even after he'd gone over his data cap and was on a throttled account himself. I've been recently advised that Telecom have removed their "all you can eat" data limit plan, so I've gone to a different company which is charging me $90 for a phone line and a 10 gig cap...
We need more competition in our local telecommunication arena and we need it now!
Just had a look at the stats for New Zealand (where I come from) IE 6 accounts for now only around 9% of the browser market. Now if I could get a certain clients head around that fact and that he should upgrade his browser to something that isn't quite so shit, then maybe both of us could get some sleep
"Handing Dreamweaver over to someone with no experience was always a joke."
Yip I can agree with that, I got my start in webdesign by agreeing to take over the monthly updates of a small local zine, I was given an hour tutorial with the guy who built the site in dreamweaver before he got on a plane to Sydney. I had about 10 new pages to do up, that took me most of the next month to get them up to the site working on them a few hours a day, probably at least 60 hours in all. This was in 2000, I stopped using dreamweaver when I got heavily into using CSS for page design and layout and also started using *nix as my OS of choice. I did have to use dreamweaver for a contract I did around 18 months ago, and found it quite nice to use - it was the first time I had really used templates in dreamweaver.
I'd agree with many other commentors when they say unless you want a generic looking site you will still need the services of a developer, I use Drupal Joomla and Wordpress fairly regularly for different jobs/projects and most of my time is spent making the sites looks different from every other cms site out there
Obviously it's technology's fault if we take this idea to it's logical conclusion we need to seriously look at banning the teaching of such insipid and inherintley dangerous ideas of reading and writing.
You insensitive cold! for some of us it is Monday. But for this day ahead of the rest of you types, Today was too nicer day to go into work and a three day weekend was in order - so as you were....
I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same. I see this as the main problem with the electoral system in the states, only allowing two parties to have a real show of winning means that they both have to appeal to a range of swing voters, thus it's not particulary suprising that they are very similar in certain policy.
It wasn't the Maori that pioneered bungy jumping, it was the 'land divers' of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu that pioneered it. It was first filmed in the '50s by David Attenborough and the first credited bungee jump using modern materials was done by the 'Dangerous Sports Club' which included Dr. Alan Weston in 1979. Later A.J Hackett of New Zealand pioneered the commercial bungee jump operation
So the article is slightly inaccurate and perhaps should have said: "Dr. Alan Weston, who previously help pioneer modern bungee jumping".
I would RTFA if it would loadfor me/. eh??
In my experience people don't change their OS's unless something terminal happens. My parents only recently upgraded their win2k OS to XP after a system meltdown. I was actually amazed by the advice given to them by the technician - basically upgrade OS, new firewall package and virus package. All reasonable advice but no advice on a backup system? come on? the price of an external hard drive or dvd burner is a lot less than the data you can loose. But anyway I digress.
I really think that Microsoft has never been to worried about people pirating windows as it keeps the MS operating system saturated in the market place.
It seems any 12 year old can "get you a copy" of photoshop, dreamweaver, or just about any windows software you care to need. Whilst GIMP is pretty good and getting better it's a lot simpler to find someone to teach you to use photoshop and get a keygen off the 'net.
Yeah I really like SMF as a forum app. Personally it's more intuitive to admin and seems as easy for jo public to use as say PHPBB. I can't say I've played around with the SMF Drupal bridge module - the last time I looked at it, the module was very buggy and hard to use. It's good to hear they've ironed they issues out.
I've switched a couple of forums from PHPBB to SMF and haven't had many complaints from people using the site apart from the "it doesn't look like phpbb" type of complaint
I've used all three 'nuke, drupal and joomla. We started migrating sites from nuke 3 or 4 years back as we found nuke was lax on security issues and one site in particular was hacked 3 or 4 times in as many months. Personally I'm not such a great fan of Drupal, the majority of drupal sites have a very generic feel and tends to take a lot of extra work to get something that looks nice (especially if you're wanting a forum) in saying that it's a pretty solid cms, easily customisable and we didn't run into the same problems with security as nuke. I've only had a real quick play round with joomla. Personally I think form an end user point of view it's more intuitive and easier to use out of the box than drupal but I found it much harder to customise than drupal.
I wouldn't go back to using nuke after the experience I had, I still use drupal for some sites but for a site that you don't want to spend a great deal of time or effort customising for the end user I would say joomla is the way to go.
I've been webcoding sice around '01. I've recently had to go back and do some work on a site I haven't touched in around five years. The thing I found was really ugly code and almost no comments - ok I was using dreamweaver at the time and have graduated to hand coding since.
It was bloody hard to do even quite basic alterations. I was half tempted to do a complete re-design using css and w3c standards. As it stands at the moment I'm pretty embarrased that I ever set such ugly code into the wild
It really depends where you previous training lies. I've spent around 7 years using photoshop to a fairly advanced level, when exclusivly switched over to linux around 18 months ago I forced myself to learn gimp, first off I found the very simple procedure of resizing and cropping images for web production very difficult but I got there eventually.
The Photoshop vs GIMP argument is very similar to the Windows vs Linux argument, most people are very familar the product they are using and need a very compelling reason to switch and price doesn't usually cut it (how many people do you know have got a "free version" of photoshop compared to people who paid for it)?
I once accidentally put a USB pendrive through a washing machine cycle (cold with detergent) and dryer (hot spin). I assumed I would have killed it and lost some pretty important work related stuff. But no, after plugging it in a couple of times it mounted perfectly and is still working a year later.
One of the news agencies that is all over this is scoop although I don't know if you could call scoop mass media. It basically a one-man show based out of a garden shed in Wellington, New Zealand
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah and chances are we'll still be paying through the nose for our telecommunications, just over 100 bucks per month was getting me a single phone line and unlimited (throttled) internet. The throttling was so bad that it almost made online gaming unplayable. I would get better ping rates at a mates place even after he'd gone over his data cap and was on a throttled account himself. I've been recently advised that Telecom have removed their "all you can eat" data limit plan, so I've gone to a different company which is charging me $90 for a phone line and a 10 gig cap... We need more competition in our local telecommunication arena and we need it now!
No bugs will be harmed in creating this license.
Just had a look at the stats for New Zealand (where I come from) IE 6 accounts for now only around 9% of the browser market. Now if I could get a certain clients head around that fact and that he should upgrade his browser to something that isn't quite so shit, then maybe both of us could get some sleep
"It isn't, or at least it hangs on by a few tenuous undersea cables. "
Tell me about it, It takes me a good hour at the best of times to download the average metallica album
"Handing Dreamweaver over to someone with no experience was always a joke." Yip I can agree with that, I got my start in webdesign by agreeing to take over the monthly updates of a small local zine, I was given an hour tutorial with the guy who built the site in dreamweaver before he got on a plane to Sydney. I had about 10 new pages to do up, that took me most of the next month to get them up to the site working on them a few hours a day, probably at least 60 hours in all. This was in 2000, I stopped using dreamweaver when I got heavily into using CSS for page design and layout and also started using *nix as my OS of choice. I did have to use dreamweaver for a contract I did around 18 months ago, and found it quite nice to use - it was the first time I had really used templates in dreamweaver. I'd agree with many other commentors when they say unless you want a generic looking site you will still need the services of a developer, I use Drupal Joomla and Wordpress fairly regularly for different jobs/projects and most of my time is spent making the sites looks different from every other cms site out there
Obviously it's technology's fault if we take this idea to it's logical conclusion we need to seriously look at banning the teaching of such insipid and inherintley dangerous ideas of reading and writing.
You insensitive cold! for some of us it is Monday. But for this day ahead of the rest of you types, Today was too nicer day to go into work and a three day weekend was in order - so as you were....
That's also part of the problem, it takes a billionaire to have a viable third choice
I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same. I see this as the main problem with the electoral system in the states, only allowing two parties to have a real show of winning means that they both have to appeal to a range of swing voters, thus it's not particulary suprising that they are very similar in certain policy.
It wasn't the Maori that pioneered bungy jumping, it was the 'land divers' of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu that pioneered it. It was first filmed in the '50s by David Attenborough and the first credited bungee jump using modern materials was done by the 'Dangerous Sports Club' which included Dr. Alan Weston in 1979. Later A.J Hackett of New Zealand pioneered the commercial bungee jump operation
So the article is slightly inaccurate and perhaps should have said: "Dr. Alan Weston, who previously help pioneer modern bungee jumping".
And yes wikipedia is my firend
So where can I get that on a t-shirt?
Windows, not quite the same thing ;-)
Yes but will it run .......oh wait,
I would RTFA if it would loadfor me /. eh??
In my experience people don't change their OS's unless something terminal happens. My parents only recently upgraded their win2k OS to XP after a system meltdown. I was actually amazed by the advice given to them by the technician - basically upgrade OS, new firewall package and virus package. All reasonable advice but no advice on a backup system? come on? the price of an external hard drive or dvd burner is a lot less than the data you can loose. But anyway I digress.
I really think that Microsoft has never been to worried about people pirating windows as it keeps the MS operating system saturated in the market place.
It seems any 12 year old can "get you a copy" of photoshop, dreamweaver, or just about any windows software you care to need. Whilst GIMP is pretty good and getting better it's a lot simpler to find someone to teach you to use photoshop and get a keygen off the 'net.
Yeah I really like SMF as a forum app. Personally it's more intuitive to admin and seems as easy for jo public to use as say PHPBB. I can't say I've played around with the SMF Drupal bridge module - the last time I looked at it, the module was very buggy and hard to use. It's good to hear they've ironed they issues out.
I've switched a couple of forums from PHPBB to SMF and haven't had many complaints from people using the site apart from the "it doesn't look like phpbb" type of complaint
I've used all three 'nuke, drupal and joomla. We started migrating sites from nuke 3 or 4 years back as we found nuke was lax on security issues and one site in particular was hacked 3 or 4 times in as many months. Personally I'm not such a great fan of Drupal, the majority of drupal sites have a very generic feel and tends to take a lot of extra work to get something that looks nice (especially if you're wanting a forum) in saying that it's a pretty solid cms, easily customisable and we didn't run into the same problems with security as nuke. I've only had a real quick play round with joomla. Personally I think form an end user point of view it's more intuitive and easier to use out of the box than drupal but I found it much harder to customise than drupal. I wouldn't go back to using nuke after the experience I had, I still use drupal for some sites but for a site that you don't want to spend a great deal of time or effort customising for the end user I would say joomla is the way to go.
I've been webcoding sice around '01. I've recently had to go back and do some work on a site I haven't touched in around five years. The thing I found was really ugly code and almost no comments - ok I was using dreamweaver at the time and have graduated to hand coding since. It was bloody hard to do even quite basic alterations. I was half tempted to do a complete re-design using css and w3c standards. As it stands at the moment I'm pretty embarrased that I ever set such ugly code into the wild
>Open Source and China? Strange bed fellows indeed.
Why not? I thought they were both communist plots?
It really depends where you previous training lies. I've spent around 7 years using photoshop to a fairly advanced level, when exclusivly switched over to linux around 18 months ago I forced myself to learn gimp, first off I found the very simple procedure of resizing and cropping images for web production very difficult but I got there eventually.
The Photoshop vs GIMP argument is very similar to the Windows vs Linux argument, most people are very familar the product they are using and need a very compelling reason to switch and price doesn't usually cut it (how many people do you know have got a "free version" of photoshop compared to people who paid for it)?
I once accidentally put a USB pendrive through a washing machine cycle (cold with detergent) and dryer (hot spin). I assumed I would have killed it and lost some pretty important work related stuff. But no, after plugging it in a couple of times it mounted perfectly and is still working a year later.
The diet coke of evil?
One of the news agencies that is all over this is scoop although I don't know if you could call scoop mass media. It basically a one-man show based out of a garden shed in Wellington, New Zealand
When ya want to be spammed there's non to be seen
governments n : the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or people.
That did David Koresh and countless others a whole lotta good