This is my experience too. I want to create a site that non-technical users can create content for and manage. I found Wordpress more effective in this regard than Joomla. I'm sure Joomla is good and will consider it for future projects, but for this one where simplicity is king, I have chosen Wordpress.
What was funny was being told off by another web designer for not choosing Joomla! He certainly didn't grasp the human factor involved in managing the content creation, despite his technical competence (which I am sure is better than mine).
Well, I read the websites and Planet KDE daily... and I got the impression it would be ready for daily use.
It was pushed again and again.
Now I am a lowly end user. I have a network of Linux terminals and users to keep happy. I could have never switched from 3.5 to 4.0 even though that was what I understood to be promised.
I have been very frustrated with 4.X so far and as a Kubuntu user I wish they had held off switching as I have no upgrade path with 3.5 now...
I have 4.2 beta on my laptop and that is looking better and better. But I haven't even begun testing it for my LTSP network as it will be a waste of time until 4.2 arrives.
Don't get me wrong - I really like KDE, a lot! But as another poster said, I can't brag about 4.0 and 4.1 to my windows friends yet as I could with 3.5. And that for me is the mark of 4.X being done!
However, I am counting the days down to 4.2 and awaiting 4.3 eagerly.
The 4.0 naming was a mistake but it really is not the end of the world. We still have fantastic FREE desktops!!! And they just keep getting better. So that is why I do want to say THANK YOU to the devs and keep it coming...
I recently solved a performance problem like this on a Pentium IV laptop. The give-away issue was the helicopter-like noise the cooling fans were making.
P IV's run hot, and some laptops have the fabulous cooling design that sucks cold air (and dust etc) from under the laptop to cool the processor. That dust sticks to the copper heatsinks and reduces their cooling capacity drasticly after a year or two.
The easy solution was to stick a vacuum cleaner on the vents. This worked actually but the more permanent solution was to remove the heatsink and clean that.
After cleaning the computer ran silently and at a vastly improved speed. It seemed the CPU throttled down for safety when it was overheating. After cleaning performance was restored.
I like Inform 7 very much. It does lull you into a bit of a false sense of security but I am willing to persevere with it.
If like the way you can write this...
The beach is a room. "The beach stretches away from your feet to the east and the west." The sea is here. The bottom of the sea is in the sea. The hole is in the bottom of the sea. The log is in the hole. The frog is on the log.
I was running a Linux Install Day on Saturday. One 19 year old girl came with her new Vista Laptop, we installed Ubuntu. She left happy. Mostly it was the charming picture of a heron and the prominent Firefox logo. But mostly the heron.
Her 16 year old cousin took home Kubuntu, removed 16Gb of games from his PC and installed Kubuntu that night with no help, just from observing us.
My sister is thinking of buying an EEE PC...
We need to do something urgently with Linux, the barrier to entry is getting worryingly low! Who knows what sort of rif-raf we will have using Linux next?
This is true; I live in Brussels and I have immense difficulty leaving my house and doing anything in this city due to the thousands of plots of sprouts (or as they like to call them here, cabbages). You have to be so careful where you step!
I just can't believe they have rewritten Vista from scratch. Yesterday I spent 40 minutes mapping one network drive and setting up two network printers on a Vista Laptop. The printer driver dialog still only shows four lines of choices. There is no way to increase the size of the dialog, you have to scroll, scroll, scroll.
This has got to be the same dialog we have faced since Windows 95 days. They may have changed the pictures but I find it hard to believe that they have "re-written" the whole OS.
Remember that pre-release Vista was subject to the same WMF bug as all the other versions of Windows.
cheers
Speed? Often people erroneously say that OOo is slow because it relies on JAVA, well I just downloaded the Lotus Symphony as reported yesterday which really does seem to be based on JAVA and that IS slow! (although nice context property bar to the right)
This beta opens ODF docs really well but hangs on Lotus WordPro files. (When will WordPro be Open Sourced? - I miss it and I have a ton aof legacy documents in.lwp)
I have experienced having small chunks of other songs inside mp3 files on my mp3 player. Of course being a cheap player I assumed it was the player... I have a few problems when writing to it from Linux. I shall look more closely now!
Perhaps the FAT filesystem is interpreted differently on the player to how Linux expects it to be? (Or VV)
1. Find a IT story about Sweden 2. Post on Slashdot 3. ??? 4. Profit!
Seriously - there seem to be a lot of stories from Sweden at the moment? I'm beginning to think that Lichtenstein and Andorra are not pulling their weight.
Actually, this HAS happened to me on a number of occasions. I used to send out newsletters as PDF attachments. Regularly they were refused or returned. One person I kept emailing never got emails with attachments. I wish I could see a clearer pattern. It seemed very much at random to me.
These days I always send newsletter emails as text and text/html with images loaded externally. Seems to keep my chums on Hotmail happy. I just don't trust it.
I don't know what proportion of code there is in the SUSE's GNU/Linux distribution (I think it is hughe) but as GNU owns all the copyright on their code I ASSUME they will be migrating to their own GPLv3 as soon as it is active. This means all new changes to the code from that date will be GPLv3.
So then it is for SUSE/Microsoft to decide - will they maintain and develop the pre-GPLv3 versions of the entire GNU part of the distribution (tool chains, userland tools and much more) without the help of the community - or will they touch the viral GPLv3?
I am not sure how the Grandfather agreement the final GPLv3 licence brought works though.
I am disappointed by SABAM but not surprised. I live in Brussels and we run a small bar that plays live music. It is typical European - i.e. a small venue. We pay SABAM licensing fees for playing general recorded music and for concerts we host. (And a separate fee for our shop next door's right to play music). Now we could only fit a maximum of 50 people in and yet we still pay the same fees clubs fitting in hundreds would.
When bands come and play their own original music, we have to pay a fee to SABAM for this right... What upsets me the most is that as far as we know NONE of the bands who fall into that category have received one Euro cent of royalties from SABAM.
I (and many others here) are not impressed with this company. Their business seems more akin to racketeering than ensuring royalties are correctly rewarded to the artists who created the works.
I had an interesting experience recently. I was at a conference in Germany with my company and there was a computer room with about 10 Ubuntu desktops. There was silence in the room as everyone surfed the next with Firefox etc. As far as I know no-one was a linux user, infact in a seminar in their later that I ran I knew no-one was. They got on and Just Worked (tm)!
What was more interesting to me was that finding the @ symbol was a problem. The keyboards were not set up properly and you needed at bizare key combination to get the @ symbol. Quite why there were not cries of frustration I don't know - lots of people were emailing, They solved their problems two ways. 1. The cut and pasted the @ symbol. 2. one user found the Character Map application to look for the app symbol and then paste it in!
I was floored. The user in case No.2 had never used Linux before!
Slashdot Mirror
Not RTFA and spelling mistakes. Thank you for providing the FULL Slashdot experience!
This is my experience too. I want to create a site that non-technical users can create content for and manage. I found Wordpress more effective in this regard than Joomla. I'm sure Joomla is good and will consider it for future projects, but for this one where simplicity is king, I have chosen Wordpress.
What was funny was being told off by another web designer for not choosing Joomla! He certainly didn't grasp the human factor involved in managing the content creation, despite his technical competence (which I am sure is better than mine).
That's a good idea, although I would like to upgrade rather than re-install. I shall ponder that!!! Thanks!
Well, I read the websites and Planet KDE daily... and I got the impression it would be ready for daily use.
It was pushed again and again.
Now I am a lowly end user. I have a network of Linux terminals and users to keep happy. I could have never switched from 3.5 to 4.0 even though that was what I understood to be promised.
I have been very frustrated with 4.X so far and as a Kubuntu user I wish they had held off switching as I have no upgrade path with 3.5 now...
I have 4.2 beta on my laptop and that is looking better and better. But I haven't even begun testing it for my LTSP network as it will be a waste of time until 4.2 arrives.
Don't get me wrong - I really like KDE, a lot! But as another poster said, I can't brag about 4.0 and 4.1 to my windows friends yet as I could with 3.5. And that for me is the mark of 4.X being done!
However, I am counting the days down to 4.2 and awaiting 4.3 eagerly.
The 4.0 naming was a mistake but it really is not the end of the world. We still have fantastic FREE desktops!!! And they just keep getting better. So that is why I do want to say THANK YOU to the devs and keep it coming...
Kevin
I recently solved a performance problem like this on a Pentium IV laptop. The give-away issue was the helicopter-like noise the cooling fans were making.
P IV's run hot, and some laptops have the fabulous cooling design that sucks cold air (and dust etc) from under the laptop to cool the processor. That dust sticks to the copper heatsinks and reduces their cooling capacity drasticly after a year or two.
The easy solution was to stick a vacuum cleaner on the vents. This worked actually but the more permanent solution was to remove the heatsink and clean that.
After cleaning the computer ran silently and at a vastly improved speed. It seemed the CPU throttled down for safety when it was overheating. After cleaning performance was restored.
I vacuum a lot of PC and heatsinks!
Over here in Brussels I just checked my spam-assassin set up.
It looks like 200 spam emails from Midnight to 16h00 yesterday compared with 77 spam emails same period today.
(Spam-assassin is great. It lets a few emails slip by but I can't recall any false-positives ever, and that is important for me!)
This is one of the few books I remember clearly and I read it at school over 20 years ago! Highly recommended.
I like Inform 7 very much. It does lull you into a bit of a false sense of security but I am willing to persevere with it.
If like the way you can write this...
The beach is a room. "The beach stretches away from your feet to the east and the west." The sea is here. The bottom of the sea is in the sea. The hole is in the bottom of the sea. The log is in the hole. The frog is on the log.
... and it does what it says!
I was running a Linux Install Day on Saturday. One 19 year old girl came with her new Vista Laptop, we installed Ubuntu. She left happy. Mostly it was the charming picture of a heron and the prominent Firefox logo. But mostly the heron.
Her 16 year old cousin took home Kubuntu, removed 16Gb of games from his PC and installed Kubuntu that night with no help, just from observing us.
My sister is thinking of buying an EEE PC...
We need to do something urgently with Linux, the barrier to entry is getting worryingly low! Who knows what sort of rif-raf we will have using Linux next?
Very well put. Thanks!
This is true; I live in Brussels and I have immense difficulty leaving my house and doing anything in this city due to the thousands of plots of sprouts (or as they like to call them here, cabbages). You have to be so careful where you step!
I just can't believe they have rewritten Vista from scratch. Yesterday I spent 40 minutes mapping one network drive and setting up two network printers on a Vista Laptop. The printer driver dialog still only shows four lines of choices. There is no way to increase the size of the dialog, you have to scroll, scroll, scroll. This has got to be the same dialog we have faced since Windows 95 days. They may have changed the pictures but I find it hard to believe that they have "re-written" the whole OS. Remember that pre-release Vista was subject to the same WMF bug as all the other versions of Windows. cheers
when I HAVE to.
Speed? Often people erroneously say that OOo is slow because it relies on JAVA, well I just downloaded the Lotus Symphony as reported yesterday which really does seem to be based on JAVA and that IS slow! (although nice context property bar to the right)
.lwp)
This beta opens ODF docs really well but hangs on Lotus WordPro files. (When will WordPro be Open Sourced? - I miss it and I have a ton aof legacy documents in
I have experienced having small chunks of other songs inside mp3 files on my mp3 player. Of course being a cheap player I assumed it was the player... I have a few problems when writing to it from Linux. I shall look more closely now!
Perhaps the FAT filesystem is interpreted differently on the player to how Linux expects it to be? (Or VV)
I used to wish and long for high end PC's. With specs like these I find myself wishing and longing for low end PC's. Anyone else?
1. Find a IT story about Sweden
2. Post on Slashdot
3. ???
4. Profit!
Seriously - there seem to be a lot of stories from Sweden at the moment? I'm beginning to think that Lichtenstein and Andorra are not pulling their weight.
... no-one can hear you steam!
so why use it when words like Isolation and Encapsulation do the job very well???
Actually, this HAS happened to me on a number of occasions. I used to send out newsletters as PDF attachments. Regularly they were refused or returned. One person I kept emailing never got emails with attachments. I wish I could see a clearer pattern. It seemed very much at random to me.
These days I always send newsletter emails as text and text/html with images loaded externally. Seems to keep my chums on Hotmail happy. I just don't trust it.
I don't know what proportion of code there is in the SUSE's GNU/Linux distribution (I think it is hughe) but as GNU owns all the copyright on their code I ASSUME they will be migrating to their own GPLv3 as soon as it is active. This means all new changes to the code from that date will be GPLv3.
So then it is for SUSE/Microsoft to decide - will they maintain and develop the pre-GPLv3 versions of the entire GNU part of the distribution (tool chains, userland tools and much more) without the help of the community - or will they touch the viral GPLv3?
I am not sure how the Grandfather agreement the final GPLv3 licence brought works though.
I'm not sure they have a moral right here but it seems to be Belgian law.
I am disappointed by SABAM but not surprised. I live in Brussels and we run a small bar that plays live music. It is typical European - i.e. a small venue. We pay SABAM licensing fees for playing general recorded music and for concerts we host. (And a separate fee for our shop next door's right to play music). Now we could only fit a maximum of 50 people in and yet we still pay the same fees clubs fitting in hundreds would.
When bands come and play their own original music, we have to pay a fee to SABAM for this right...
What upsets me the most is that as far as we know NONE of the bands who fall into that category have received one Euro cent of royalties from SABAM.
I (and many others here) are not impressed with this company. Their business seems more akin to racketeering than ensuring royalties are correctly rewarded to the artists who created the works.
I had an interesting experience recently. I was at a conference in Germany with my company and there was a computer room with about 10 Ubuntu desktops. There was silence in the room as everyone surfed the next with Firefox etc. As far as I know no-one was a linux user, infact in a seminar in their later that I ran I knew no-one was. They got on and Just Worked (tm)!
What was more interesting to me was that finding the @ symbol was a problem. The keyboards were not set up properly and you needed at bizare key combination to get the @ symbol. Quite why there were not cries of frustration I don't know - lots of people were emailing, They solved their problems two ways. 1. The cut and pasted the @ symbol. 2. one user found the Character Map application to look for the app symbol and then paste it in!
I was floored. The user in case No.2 had never used Linux before!
So I think it really is quite easy...
My goodness, does this mean I will have to pay for all the E-mail I delete now???????