For those after a good content management system for their site (and can't be bothered to make their own) check OpenSourceCMS.com for live demo's of about two dozen open source CMS systems scripts.
Click "Portals (CMS)" in the crappy tree menu on the left and then each CMS has a demo link. Here is the Drupal demo (login: admin/demo).
They also have blog script demos up - such as Wordpress
These screenshots could be the beta 2 branch not the beta 1 branch as suggested in the headline according to this WinBeta post:
"The leak of the screenshots that are claimed to be of 5203 will be embarressing for Microsoft in that many Beta 1 testers will be wanting to skip Beta 1 and jump right to Beta 2's 52xx builds."
Trunc(Base64(MD5([Website subdomain or IP] + [master password])),[Maximum allowed length])
Here is a webpage with client side javascript that does just that. I suggest saving a copy, modifying it to allow variable length truncation, and make it your home page.
There is a bookmarklet of a similar script (no base64) here
I suppose technically we geeks should be bitching about how the TLD's are rampantly mis-used..aren't.net domains supposed to be for ISP's, web hosting co's etc?
Do you know anybody who has actually been hurt or killed in these attacks? You come across very upset.
If not, I would like to know how you plan to mourn for people you have never met. I'd leave that to the relatives and friends of those effected directly. Feelings of empathy should be directed toward those rather than at the general public where it does no or little good.
The reaction caused by the vulturous media and outbursts of false mourning and melodrama is exactly what terrorists gloat over.
As for the humourous snipes here on Slashdot... there are certain ironies of this attack which unclowded by the horrors of the event can be seen as quite amusing.
Forgive me if this post seems heartless but unless you're going to do something constructive in reaction to these terrible events why bother wasting emotion on the Slashdot crowd?
Not to piss all over the people who work hard on them but I wouldn't label most of the GMaps mash-ups/ derivatives i've seen 'innovative'. Sure they are neat, but hardly amazing.
"Imaginative developers, like Alan Taylor (Transparency concept), are digging deep into experimentation to dream up new uses for the maps. It's great to see the innovation when hacks turn to apps."
Specifically, the transparency concept isn't innovative or extraordinarily imaginitive. Websites like MultiMap have had transparency overlay availble on UK street maps for years now. As I'm sure many other map sites have. Infact you'd think Google Maps would have this feature has standard, and they probably will some time soon.
As for Google themselves, the only thing setting them apart from the crowd here (This must be the innovotive bit) is their willingness to release a well documented and featured open API. I think the submitter missed the difference between "mass innovation" and "marketing for the masses" or some smart business modelling. Up until recently they had no way control (or nurture) the mashup frenzy... and now they do.
Slightly askew of the topic I noticed Microsoft seem to have recently release 'Microsoft Update' (Office and Windows Update rolled into one) for Windows 2000 users. So I now have Windows Update and Microsoft Update in my Start Menu. It crashed IE the first time I used it.
Automatic updates doesn't seem to work well for me on 2000 either (the only time i've seen it notify me there are updates available is just now after doing a manual Microsoft Update).
Forget prompt 24 hour updates, Microsoft can't even produce a decent update delivery system.
I've always wondered why MP3 and other audio formats are not encoded in two passes much like variable bitrate video encoding (XviD, DivX, MPEG-2 (DVD) are all done in this way). The first pass is used to analyse the compressibility of the content so the second pass can scale the bitrate more efficiently to obtain the average bitrate needed to fit the content onto your chosen media (CD, DVD etc).
The preceeding sentence to "This more than doubles the previous record" mentions time, which suggests to me the record it refers to is a measure of performance of reciting Pi - measured by the rate of recital, not the number of digits managed.
The reason time wasn't mentioned in the claim i.e. "this more than doubles the previous record of 21,195 digits in X hours" is most likely because the information wasn't available to the submitter.
..and good luck to them. Alot of Linux, especially in the Slashdot crowd, is indeed hype.
You're totally right.
I've tried a few Live CD's. Some haven't booted. My favourite has been Damn Small Linux which is 50mb (fits on a 7cm mini CD), can boot into RAM on a machine starting at 128mb and comes with Firefox (or Opera as a myDSL extension) and a variety of everyday stuff. I like it's minimalistic nature. I would keep a copy with me out and about but those guys bring out versions so quickly I gave up toasting off copies.
I will never be moving to Linux though, even though my next OEM PC will no doubt be bought without an OS (at a little reduced cost). I am just comfortable with Windows and there is no motivation for me to change and better yet reasons to change don't necessarily translate to motivation to change.
Possibly, but IE does ironically provide a really nice method to allow you to implement a 'good clean hack' - Conditional comments.
They've said themselves they won't implement proper CSS support..but they will most likely fix all the existing documented bugs and make sure new formats, XHTML 1.1 I think has issues atm, "degrade gracefully". Atleast that's my optimistic view.
It's very unlikely IE would ever be broken to a serious extent. "We don't want to break the Internet" was only a half serious exclaimation at the end of a sentence, something in speech would accompany a change of tone. Perhaps you missed that implied tone or my obvious sarcasm in my previous post.
But since we are taking it so seriously maybe you should the impact of such an occurance.
Along with e-mail (especially for business) the WWW is what the average user of the internet at large pay their ISP bill for. What % of resource at your average datacentre is powering WWW orientated services? 80%?
I consider "rendering pointless" as breaking the Web and, since the Web is big part of it, the Internet as well.
It could have an effect equivalent of the Blaster worm - but in reverse. People would stop surfing the web and it would effect revenues of hundreds of online orientated businesses - like Amazon.
Stop ranting that the Web != the Internet, the two terms are widely used interchangeably because the Web is probably second only to file sharing (maybe) and e-mail. Sure you could argue the likes of Skype and IM are making it less so - but what about the new boom in browsers and the likes of Google Maps and other web applications increasing the webs value?
I bet you've even said "surfing the net" or misused it yourself.
So quit exploiting turns of phrase and taking things so literally just because you want to make it look like Microsoft, or rather a mere mortal working, for them is stupid.
I suspect IE7 will fix most if not all of the existing CSS functionality. A native code fix for them is better than iffy javascript implementations (although admitedly I use it myself) anyday.
Slashdot Mirror
For those after a good content management system for their site (and can't be bothered to make their own) check OpenSourceCMS.com for live demo's of about two dozen open source CMS systems scripts.
Click "Portals (CMS)" in the crappy tree menu on the left and then each CMS has a demo link. Here is the Drupal demo (login: admin/demo).
They also have blog script demos up - such as Wordpress
Mirror:
http://www.networkmirror.com/JOdkEXG2eLXwsioX/www
Building on the same idea
Trunc(Base64(MD5([Website subdomain or IP] + [master password])),[Maximum allowed length])
Here is a webpage with client side javascript that does just that. I suggest saving a copy, modifying it to allow variable length truncation, and make it your home page.
There is a bookmarklet of a similar script (no base64) here
I suppose technically we geeks should be bitching about how the TLD's are rampantly mis-used..aren't .net domains supposed to be for ISP's, web hosting co's etc?
.net domain too.
Yes I have a
Do you know anybody who has actually been hurt or killed in these attacks? You come across very upset.
If not, I would like to know how you plan to mourn for people you have never met. I'd leave that to the relatives and friends of those effected directly. Feelings of empathy should be directed toward those rather than at the general public where it does no or little good.
The reaction caused by the vulturous media and outbursts of false mourning and melodrama is exactly what terrorists gloat over.
As for the humourous snipes here on Slashdot... there are certain ironies of this attack which unclowded by the horrors of the event can be seen as quite amusing.
Forgive me if this post seems heartless but unless you're going to do something constructive in reaction to these terrible events why bother wasting emotion on the Slashdot crowd?
On a side note Opera is 3.6Mb to Firefox's 4.7Mb and includes a decent e-mail client.
Sure they are neat, but hardly amazing.
Specifically, the transparency concept isn't innovative or extraordinarily imaginitive. Websites like MultiMap have had transparency overlay availble on UK street maps for years now. As I'm sure many other map sites have. Infact you'd think Google Maps would have this feature has standard, and they probably will some time soon.
As for Google themselves, the only thing setting them apart from the crowd here (This must be the innovotive bit) is their willingness to release a well documented and featured open API. I think the submitter missed the difference between "mass innovation" and "marketing for the masses" or some smart business modelling. Up until recently they had no way control (or nurture) the mashup frenzy... and now they do.
Heres an interesting entry on the O'Reilly Radar Blog - How To Roll Out An Open API.
Hopefully other services and companies will be more keen on releasing API's in the future.
Slightly askew of the topic I noticed Microsoft seem to have recently release 'Microsoft Update' (Office and Windows Update rolled into one) for Windows 2000 users. So I now have Windows Update and Microsoft Update in my Start Menu. It crashed IE the first time I used it.
Automatic updates doesn't seem to work well for me on 2000 either (the only time i've seen it notify me there are updates available is just now after doing a manual Microsoft Update).
Forget prompt 24 hour updates, Microsoft can't even produce a decent update delivery system.
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At menopause occurs there are still plenty of good eggs in there...mmm eggs.
It's a shame theres so much bloody blabbering pre-fixing the actual music though. They seem to be recorded straight off air.
:)
Still, cynics aside it's still jolly nice of the BBC
Google reveals this is a lossless format - info here
Props to the explaination.
I've always wondered why MP3 and other audio formats are not encoded in two passes much like variable bitrate video encoding (XviD, DivX, MPEG-2 (DVD) are all done in this way). The first pass is used to analyse the compressibility of the content so the second pass can scale the bitrate more efficiently to obtain the average bitrate needed to fit the content onto your chosen media (CD, DVD etc).
Anyone?
Yes it was fixed.
The preceeding sentence to "This more than doubles the previous record" mentions time, which suggests to me the record it refers to is a measure of performance of reciting Pi - measured by the rate of recital, not the number of digits managed.
The reason time wasn't mentioned in the claim i.e. "this more than doubles the previous record of 21,195 digits in X hours" is most likely because the information wasn't available to the submitter.
...Women
"Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"
In response remaining Centropy members have made the following statement:
:P~"
"Nanananana to slow
..and good luck to them. Alot of Linux, especially in the Slashdot crowd, is indeed hype.
You're totally right.
I've tried a few Live CD's. Some haven't booted. My favourite has been Damn Small Linux which is 50mb (fits on a 7cm mini CD), can boot into RAM on a machine starting at 128mb and comes with Firefox (or Opera as a myDSL extension) and a variety of everyday stuff. I like it's minimalistic nature. I would keep a copy with me out and about but those guys bring out versions so quickly I gave up toasting off copies.
I will never be moving to Linux though, even though my next OEM PC will no doubt be bought without an OS (at a little reduced cost). I am just comfortable with Windows and there is no motivation for me to change and better yet reasons to change don't necessarily translate to motivation to change.
Flippy style?
Possibly, but IE does ironically provide a really nice method to allow you to implement a 'good clean hack' - Conditional comments.
They've said themselves they won't implement proper CSS support..but they will most likely fix all the existing documented bugs and make sure new formats, XHTML 1.1 I think has issues atm, "degrade gracefully". Atleast that's my optimistic view.
It's very unlikely IE would ever be broken to a serious extent. "We don't want to break the Internet" was only a half serious exclaimation at the end of a sentence, something in speech would accompany a change of tone. Perhaps you missed that implied tone or my obvious sarcasm in my previous post.
But since we are taking it so seriously maybe you should the impact of such an occurance.
Along with e-mail (especially for business) the WWW is what the average user of the internet at large pay their ISP bill for. What % of resource at your average datacentre is powering WWW orientated services? 80%?
I consider "rendering pointless" as breaking the Web and, since the Web is big part of it, the Internet as well.
It could have an effect equivalent of the Blaster worm - but in reverse. People would stop surfing the web and it would effect revenues of hundreds of online orientated businesses - like Amazon.
Stop ranting that the Web != the Internet, the two terms are widely used interchangeably because the Web is probably second only to file sharing (maybe) and e-mail. Sure you could argue the likes of Skype and IM are making it less so - but what about the new boom in browsers and the likes of Google Maps and other web applications increasing the webs value?
I bet you've even said "surfing the net" or misused it yourself.
So quit exploiting turns of phrase and taking things so literally just because you want to make it look like Microsoft, or rather a mere mortal working, for them is stupid.
I suspect IE7 will fix most if not all of the existing CSS functionality. A native code fix for them is better than iffy javascript implementations (although admitedly I use it myself) anyday.
Yeah because all that matters is you keep them Linux webserver farms up serving next to no requests because 80-90% of clients are dead in the water.
I'm sure the likes of Amazon.com would appreciate that so much. Thanks.
It means a foreseable end to Googlebot as a crawler. It's not a good thing and I don't think it's been well thought out.