Personally, I use e107, but its missing a built in photo gallery. Most family sites want to share pictures. Also the banner ad's are a little weak, and theming could be easier. But all around, I like it better than Drupal.
The last phpnuke I used was hacked in a day, so I stay away from that. If I download the latest you would expect it to have all the security updates, but it doesnt. Easier manual updates would be nice.
Amazing, that no family oriented CMS type software exists.
Heres the little secret, Judges do not like to read long legal briefs, if someone makes a case and references some case law, they might just get the warrent, action or restraining order.
Its a messed up country where the legal system is in a horrible state by lazy judges/commissioners that have to actually think the about the case. Whats worse, some are voted into office...
It's only free if you release your web app as GPL also.
Not very free IMHO.
I think mysql license info about the GPL is incorrect.
GPL mentions modified versions, if you use mysql as a basic sql engine, and not modify its sourcecode, its still GPL compliant.
The GPL FAQ mentions using a GPL program for non-free software.
So, Just as you can use VI to write non-free code, you can use SQL for a non-free database. You havn't modified MYSQL sourcecode, you are using it as its intended purpose.
The GPL also says if you fork or exec a plugin you dont need to release your source, seems the same as a select or put. Now your interface plugin to the MySQL database would have to be GPL'ed by default.
I dont know how MySQL team could say using the product voids GPL, its sourcecode modification not use that voids GPL.
My motorola v551 on Cingular has GSM quad band, 850/900/1800/1900, so I get great coverage everywhere. Dunno, what the poster is talking about, you dont ever have to use the functions on the phone, but sometimes its nice to be able to take a quick picture. And ringtones, man, I have headphones on at work, vibrate is more important.
Thanks, I'm doing that tonight. Also thinking of putting up a paypal fund, as a few friends said they would help me with legal bills. Amazing how many people I've known for years pop up for support.
Nice to know, treating people with respect comes back when you need it. Too bad the judge didnt take the word of the entire family, neighbors, and teachers over her and her best friend...
Washington State. Its a no-fault state, which means a spouse can cheat and it doesnt matter in the divorce court. Behavior like that should count. Thats the reason I filed, a cyber affair in world of warcraft turned into a real affair. She was calling him every weekend on a phone card, so I wouldnt know.
I have a co-worker from California, he was married 12 years, since it was over 10 years, he has to pay alimony for life or the spouse re-marries. Guess what, no insentive to remarry with a free income.
Another co worker just paid 80K in legal fees to get custody of his child from an abusive mother.
Some rich fucker kicks me out of my house, there's going to be blood spilled. Sorry, my get-along limits stop there.
Some rich fucker may take your house, my wife took mine with 1 lie.
Daily I read about courts and how they are unjust. Loosing constitutional rights. I've never had to deal with the courts, so I figured hire a good lawyer and things should be ok. Oh was I wrong.
2 weeks ago, I'm in the middle of a nasty divorce, my wife called me an abuser, no proof. I was kicked out of my house, ordered to pay for counseling for the children, have to go to eval for being an abuser, and she gets to go to battered women's counseling. She gets 1/2 my pay, and I pay for her lawyer.
We had people living with us who testified SHE was the abusive one in the relationship. I couldnt believe the male bias I encountered. Male != abuser. I was the one who filed for divorce!
So, here I am, a working professional, never did anything wrong in my life (well, download an mp3 or 2), and I'm at the mercy of the courts because "For the safety of the children" in the temporary hearings I'm now homeless. Broke from lawyers bills and now have to hire a criminal lawyer on top of it.
Courts are screwing people over left and right, and this is news? Family court doesn't even have normal oversights, its totally unregulated.
What's my recourse? Suffer daily or commit suicide. That's what the courts left me with. Suicide rate for divorced men is over 30%, divorce rate is over 50%, and yet, no regulation for fairness for men in family court, no recourse against false allegations.
I wish I had a constitution blanket, wrap me up and make me feel safe, but thats just lunacy. American men are no longer free, 1 day in court showed me that. Everything I worked for my entire life gone in a day.
Ebay has enough money they can buy out some of the small companies, just like microsoft does. Eat up the competition, until the DoJ steps in and slaps with a tiny fine. (-;
F-prot has drop in virus scanners for most OS's for large scale corporate email solutions. Mcafee also has some server support. Even Exchange server is supported.
I'm not sure why you would go to MS for a Inix solution, even if they did buy a Unix software company. They would drop support for you sooner or later, and you would be without an upgrade and updates.
Profit? Sounds like they took a company, gutted it, and will loose money. Just makes the handful of virus protection companies that support *nix more valuable.
Who would buy a Dell computer now, knowing much faster systems will be available in less than a year's time?
Most people a 399 Dell with a P4 is good enough to play World of Warcraft. Apple has never been the cheap platform.
But I have a dual G4, I'm perfectly happy with it, and wont upgrade until the X86 boxes come out. Id rather spend my money on my AMD 64 machine for gaming first. The Dual G4 is a work box, damn fast and stable, just not games.
So ya, an Apple X86 box that dual boots for games, and OSX, hell ya, I'm gonna wait before I buy a new mac.
Its more like a Tax on the virtual land. The tax (monthly payment) pays for the servers needed to host your virtual land.
Now, your land could be in a highly marketable area, and be worth MUCH more than normal. Just like real land, location makes it more valuable. Waterfront, Adult areas, private location, no wierd neighbors. Of course, nobody is stopping you from buying your own server for a giant piece of land, setting up a community and leasing it out to people. Its done all the time, private clubs, etc.
I picked up a lot near a major building area, and had water front on 2 sides. Now, when I switched my account to free, I gave the land away to a friend, instead of defaulting it back to Liden.
Liden's cant give away the land, servers cost money, someone has to pay. They just figured out how to make it self sustaining by the customers, and then spin off the technology into other markets. They have developers to pay also.
There might be more subscribers, but there are less people playing online now. People are getting burnt out of the same old instances, and waiting for poorly designed PvP.
The 2 big datavendors Sierra Wireless and Novatel have some nice data products that you can use VoIP on the go.
Novatel has the Ovation, a product from a San Diego company, will have support most high speed including Wifi/WiMAX. Very interesting product, but Novatel doesnt support quad band GPRS, little problem. http://www.novatelwireless.com/products/ovation/in dex.html
Sierra Wireless has a great PC card coming out, support quad band, 850 and 900, so better coverage in the USA. Including the new HSPDA upgrade from UMTS. Cingular (and ATT Wireless) limited launched UMTS, but they are upgrading and expanding UMTS to HSPDA now. http://www.sierrawireless.com/ProductsOrdering/ac8 x0.asp
I'm prob going to pick a Sierra Wireless PC card, after using UMTS on my limited channel phone (tethered), its amazing. WiMAX will be nice when it finally gets here, but UMTS is already launched, and vendors already software upgraded their UMTS to HSPDA.
I just wish i could get a single HSPDA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/WiFi G card.
Also some places are playing 1 hand per deck. The computerized shuffler pushs out the card for each player, its no longer really delt.
Counting cards wont work for bots who only use 1 deck per deal. Wondering how that will work. If you cant count, if you dont see everyones cards, and the cards are computer shuffled.
Computer poker against people is pure odds, you cant bluff, you cant count, and the deck is "really" random on each hand. WTF do you do?
One of the reasons my boss has been hiring people with no experience, HR wont let him pay anyone a good salary anymore. HR says the market is 1/2 of what we are all making. Say 70K all new guys coming in at 35K, see the problem...
So, the entire team has to suck up the work because they wont pay for a good sys-admin with experience and try to train new kids out of school who burn out, or get trained up and leave for more pay.
We dont work a production line, so there isnt no reduction in work, even a day off you still have the same amount of work waiting when you get back into the office. Task based, self managed type of sys-admin duties doesnt really fit in that role.
You like the freedom, but you hate the workload. Not many jobs I could readslashdot. Most of the company doesnt even get Internet access, sitting at windows terminal services in a locked down enviroment. Operations gets laptops and sun workstations with wireless cards, so we can work anywhere, any time.
Only way out of this 60+ hours crunch time is to goto Engineering, but with all the mergers, they let so many people go. Not great job security there...
But I have great medical, If I had a nervous breakdown or something, I could be on permanent medical leave and still get 60% of my pay.
My boss tried that on me again last week, just put in a couple more hours, take on another task, work smarter not harder...
WTF are these people thinking? I'm working a few more hours on the last damn project you gave me, i'm already working smarter since you downsized our company every year for the last 6 years. Take on more work?!
Then he has the nerve to say, if your working more than 50 hours, we can get you time off. Ahem, 60 is the norm there bucko. Tells us he wants us there 8-5 while we are also working maintenance and weekends. Ya, thats gonna happen. Last I checked with HR im salary, you cant make me clock in and out.
Crunch time seems to be the norm. Either your working mega hours, or you are in a quiet time before something breaks. Like Sys-admins are like fire fighters, you automate as much as you can, and when something does break, you work your ass off.
Trying to work as a corporate whore, I mean sys-admin and try to balance a personal life isnt working out so well. Having to deal with PHB's who think computers are magic fairy dust and can make anything happen is slowing killing my soul.. Then come home to a wife who says I'm not spending enough time with the kids, ARGH!!!
So tempted to switch my job for a differnet crunch time. Flipping burgers during rush hour.
American Beauty is a great movie, to say fuck it and go be happy again.
I'd join a union, but all these ass-hats want work and burn out, and of course they do burn out. Happy hour can only keep you going for so long....
If we lost 5, the entire router team would be gone at our jobs. Lets just say the company would be tits up. Now 20, and you just lost the router team, firewall team, transport team, hell, most the key people. The company could almost FOLD if this happened.
Ya, whats 10-20 people in a slim, over worked department.
And microsoft makes no money even though people pirate its os. I think Apple would trade 2% marketshare for 50% marketshare with the same piracy rate microsoft has in a second.
Lived on usenet during my early ISP days, since there wasnt many places you could get info on setting up routers or portmasters, or even configuring radius, usenet was the place.
Too bad usenet is dieing and forums are taking over. Thats just sad.
And loosing your spouse to someone who is around more than you.
This whole "Salary" means 50+ is bullshit. White collar workers make less then union construction workers not even counting in overtime. The union guys at our work pull 6 figures with massive OT, but we get to sit a nice comfy desk why our Boss yells at us why are 10 million customers out of service because of an outage we dont control.
Ya, no stress there, goto work at dark, come at dark, wife is mad at all hours, you want to provide a good home, but thats not good enough.
Really, its come down to 2 parents working to make a living so you can spend time with the family. Good jobs require you to put in more hours, ding ding, problem here...
Humm, ya, unions suck dont they. Thats why companies merge and lay off thousands of workers, oh wait, unless they are union. The IT workers are dropped quick, the union workers sue and get their jobs back.
Americans are idiots, they refuse to realize unions where created for saftey and fair wages. So, who needs a union, the big old corporation will take care of you right? This isnt the.dot com days, there are no more perks, inhouse childcare, you are being outsourced quicker than you can say "work visa".
Lets just blame depression, heres your happy pill.
I downloaded it, all skyone hdtv copies. I dont even have HDTV at home, but was able to watch the widescreen versions.
America has become so backwards, skyone is kicking our asses in content.
Hell, Skyone even wanted to buy the rights for Enterprise, but they would of done a better job and made some people look like dribbling monkeys. Oh wait, they are monkeys.
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I saw a good site that had allowed you to test drive the admin interface of many popular CMS software.
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
Personally, I use e107, but its missing a built in photo gallery. Most family sites want to share pictures. Also the banner ad's are a little weak, and theming could be easier. But all around, I like it better than Drupal.
The last phpnuke I used was hacked in a day, so I stay away from that. If I download the latest you would expect it to have all the security updates, but it doesnt. Easier manual updates would be nice.
Amazing, that no family oriented CMS type software exists.
I think you should check into SLAPP protection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAPP
Heres the little secret, Judges do not like to read long legal briefs, if someone makes a case and references some case law, they might just get the warrent, action or restraining order.
Its a messed up country where the legal system is in a horrible state by lazy judges/commissioners that have to actually think the about the case. Whats worse, some are voted into office...
It's only free if you release your web app as GPL also.
g TheGPLForAProgramMakeItGNUSoftware
Not very free IMHO.
I think mysql license info about the GPL is incorrect.
GPL mentions modified versions, if you use mysql as a basic sql engine, and not modify its sourcecode, its still GPL compliant.
The GPL FAQ mentions using a GPL program for non-free software.
So, Just as you can use VI to write non-free code, you can use SQL for a non-free database. You havn't modified MYSQL sourcecode, you are using it as its intended purpose.
The GPL also says if you fork or exec a plugin you dont need to release your source, seems the same as a select or put. Now your interface plugin to the MySQL database would have to be GPL'ed by default.
I dont know how MySQL team could say using the product voids GPL, its sourcecode modification not use that voids GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesUsin
Its not even a Sparc its an AMD running x86 Solaris 10...
But then, I'd rather have a x86 CPU, so I could use boot into linux and windows.
850/1900 only?
My motorola v551 on Cingular has GSM quad band, 850/900/1800/1900, so I get great coverage everywhere. Dunno, what the poster is talking about, you dont ever have to use the functions on the phone, but sometimes its nice to be able to take a quick picture. And ringtones, man, I have headphones on at work, vibrate is more important.
Thanks, I'm doing that tonight. Also thinking of putting up a paypal fund, as a few friends said they would help me with legal bills. Amazing how many people I've known for years pop up for support.
Nice to know, treating people with respect comes back when you need it.
Too bad the judge didnt take the word of the entire family, neighbors, and teachers over her and her best friend...
Washington State. Its a no-fault state, which means a spouse can cheat and it doesnt matter in the divorce court. Behavior like that should count. Thats the reason I filed, a cyber affair in world of warcraft turned into a real affair. She was calling him every weekend on a phone card, so I wouldnt know.
I have a co-worker from California, he was married 12 years, since it was over 10 years, he has to pay alimony for life or the spouse re-marries. Guess what, no insentive to remarry with a free income.
Another co worker just paid 80K in legal fees to get custody of his child from an abusive mother.
This is CRAZY.
Some rich fucker kicks me out of my house, there's going to be blood spilled. Sorry, my get-along limits stop there.
Some rich fucker may take your house, my wife took mine with 1 lie.
Daily I read about courts and how they are unjust. Loosing constitutional rights. I've never had to deal with the courts, so I figured hire a good lawyer and things should be ok. Oh was I wrong.
2 weeks ago, I'm in the middle of a nasty divorce, my wife called me an abuser, no proof. I was kicked out of my house, ordered to pay for counseling for the children, have to go to eval for being an abuser, and she gets to go to battered women's counseling. She gets 1/2 my pay, and I pay for her lawyer.
We had people living with us who testified SHE was the abusive one in the relationship. I couldnt believe the male bias I encountered. Male != abuser. I was the one who filed for divorce!
So, here I am, a working professional, never did anything wrong in my life (well, download an mp3 or 2), and I'm at the mercy of the courts because "For the safety of the children" in the temporary hearings I'm now homeless. Broke from lawyers bills and now have to hire a criminal lawyer on top of it.
Courts are screwing people over left and right, and this is news? Family court doesn't even have normal oversights, its totally unregulated.
What's my recourse? Suffer daily or commit suicide. That's what the courts left me with. Suicide rate for divorced men is over 30%, divorce rate is over 50%, and yet, no regulation for fairness for men in family court, no recourse against false allegations.
I wish I had a constitution blanket, wrap me up and make me feel safe, but thats just lunacy. American men are no longer free, 1 day in court showed me that. Everything I worked for my entire life gone in a day.
God bless America, men need the miracles.
-Brook
http://www.justiceformen.com/
http://www.craigslist.org/about/press/ebay.stake.h tml
Ebay has enough money they can buy out some of the small companies, just like microsoft does. Eat up the competition, until the DoJ steps in and slaps with a tiny fine. (-;
F-prot has drop in virus scanners for most OS's for large scale corporate email solutions. Mcafee also has some server support. Even Exchange server is supported.
I'm not sure why you would go to MS for a Inix solution, even if they did buy a Unix software company. They would drop support for you sooner or later, and you would be without an upgrade and updates.
Profit? Sounds like they took a company, gutted it, and will loose money. Just makes the handful of virus protection companies that support *nix more valuable.
Who would buy a Dell computer now, knowing much faster systems will be available in less than a year's time?
Most people a 399 Dell with a P4 is good enough to play World of Warcraft. Apple has never been the cheap platform.
But I have a dual G4, I'm perfectly happy with it, and wont upgrade until the X86 boxes come out. Id rather spend my money on my AMD 64 machine for gaming first. The Dual G4 is a work box, damn fast and stable, just not games.
So ya, an Apple X86 box that dual boots for games, and OSX, hell ya, I'm gonna wait before I buy a new mac.
Its more like a Tax on the virtual land. The tax (monthly payment) pays for the servers needed to host your virtual land.
Now, your land could be in a highly marketable area, and be worth MUCH more than normal. Just like real land, location makes it more valuable. Waterfront, Adult areas, private location, no wierd neighbors. Of course, nobody is stopping you from buying your own server for a giant piece of land, setting up a community and leasing it out to people. Its done all the time, private clubs, etc.
I picked up a lot near a major building area, and had water front on 2 sides. Now, when I switched my account to free, I gave the land away to a friend, instead of defaulting it back to Liden.
Liden's cant give away the land, servers cost money, someone has to pay. They just figured out how to make it self sustaining by the customers, and then spin off the technology into other markets. They have developers to pay also.
I'm not seeing the sinister plot here....
There might be more subscribers, but there are less people playing online now. People are getting burnt out of the same old instances, and waiting for poorly designed PvP.
Your wait in queue in 3 hours, have a nice day.
The 2 big datavendors Sierra Wireless and Novatel have some nice data products that you can use VoIP on the go.
n dex.html
8 x0.asp
Novatel has the Ovation, a product from a San Diego company, will have support most high speed including Wifi/WiMAX. Very interesting product, but Novatel doesnt support quad band GPRS, little problem.
http://www.novatelwireless.com/products/ovation/i
Sierra Wireless has a great PC card coming out, support quad band, 850 and 900, so better coverage in the USA. Including the new HSPDA upgrade from UMTS. Cingular (and ATT Wireless) limited launched UMTS, but they are upgrading and expanding UMTS to HSPDA now.
http://www.sierrawireless.com/ProductsOrdering/ac
I'm prob going to pick a Sierra Wireless PC card, after using UMTS on my limited channel phone (tethered), its amazing. WiMAX will be nice when it finally gets here, but UMTS is already launched, and vendors already software upgraded their UMTS to HSPDA.
I just wish i could get a single HSPDA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/WiFi G card.
Also some places are playing 1 hand per deck. The computerized shuffler pushs out the card for each player, its no longer really delt.
Counting cards wont work for bots who only use 1 deck per deal. Wondering how that will work. If you cant count, if you dont see everyones cards, and the cards are computer shuffled.
Computer poker against people is pure odds, you cant bluff, you cant count, and the deck is "really" random on each hand. WTF do you do?
One of the reasons my boss has been hiring people with no experience, HR wont let him pay anyone a good salary anymore. HR says the market is 1/2 of what we are all making. Say 70K all new guys coming in at 35K, see the problem...
So, the entire team has to suck up the work because they wont pay for a good sys-admin with experience and try to train new kids out of school who burn out, or get trained up and leave for more pay.
We dont work a production line, so there isnt no reduction in work, even a day off you still have the same amount of work waiting when you get back into the office. Task based, self managed type of sys-admin duties doesnt really fit in that role.
You like the freedom, but you hate the workload. Not many jobs I could readslashdot. Most of the company doesnt even get Internet access, sitting at windows terminal services in a locked down enviroment. Operations gets laptops and sun workstations with wireless cards, so we can work anywhere, any time.
Only way out of this 60+ hours crunch time is to goto Engineering, but with all the mergers, they let so many people go. Not great job security there...
But I have great medical, If I had a nervous breakdown or something, I could be on permanent medical leave and still get 60% of my pay.
My boss tried that on me again last week, just put in a couple more hours, take on another task, work smarter not harder...
WTF are these people thinking? I'm working a few more hours on the last damn project you gave me, i'm already working smarter since you downsized our company every year for the last 6 years. Take on more work?!
Then he has the nerve to say, if your working more than 50 hours, we can get you time off. Ahem, 60 is the norm there bucko. Tells us he wants us there 8-5 while we are also working maintenance and weekends. Ya, thats gonna happen. Last I checked with HR im salary, you cant make me clock in and out.
Crunch time seems to be the norm. Either your working mega hours, or you are in a quiet time before something breaks. Like Sys-admins are like fire fighters, you automate as much as you can, and when something does break, you work your ass off.
Trying to work as a corporate whore, I mean sys-admin and try to balance a personal life isnt working out so well. Having to deal with PHB's who think computers are magic fairy dust and can make anything happen is slowing killing my soul.. Then come home to a wife who says I'm not spending enough time with the kids, ARGH!!!
So tempted to switch my job for a differnet crunch time. Flipping burgers during rush hour.
American Beauty is a great movie, to say fuck it and go be happy again.
I'd join a union, but all these ass-hats want work and burn out, and of course they do burn out. Happy hour can only keep you going for so long....
Theres always Lifegem
Depends if those 20 are in the same department.
If we lost 5, the entire router team would be gone at our jobs. Lets just say the company would be tits up. Now 20, and you just lost the router team, firewall team, transport team, hell, most the key people. The company could almost FOLD if this happened.
Ya, whats 10-20 people in a slim, over worked department.
And microsoft makes no money even though people pirate its os. I think Apple would trade 2% marketshare for 50% marketshare with the same piracy rate microsoft has in a second.
Lived on usenet during my early ISP days, since there wasnt many places you could get info on setting up routers or portmasters, or even configuring radius, usenet was the place.
Too bad usenet is dieing and forums are taking over. Thats just sad.
And loosing your spouse to someone who is around more than you.
.dot com days, there are no more perks, inhouse childcare, you are being outsourced quicker than you can say "work visa".
This whole "Salary" means 50+ is bullshit. White collar workers make less then union construction workers not even counting in overtime. The union guys at our work pull 6 figures with massive OT, but we get to sit a nice comfy desk why our Boss yells at us why are 10 million customers out of service because of an outage we dont control.
Ya, no stress there, goto work at dark, come at dark, wife is mad at all hours, you want to provide a good home, but thats not good enough.
Really, its come down to 2 parents working to make a living so you can spend time with the family. Good jobs require you to put in more hours, ding ding, problem here...
Humm, ya, unions suck dont they. Thats why companies merge and lay off thousands of workers, oh wait, unless they are union. The IT workers are dropped quick, the union workers sue and get their jobs back.
Americans are idiots, they refuse to realize unions where created for saftey and fair wages. So, who needs a union, the big old corporation will take care of you right? This isnt the
Lets just blame depression, heres your happy pill.
For the kids, pfft. Tired of that.
I'm just wondering how tax will work since most states want to increase the hell out of sin taxes (Pun intended).
I downloaded it, all skyone hdtv copies. I dont even have HDTV at home, but was able to watch the widescreen versions.
America has become so backwards, skyone is kicking our asses in content.
Hell, Skyone even wanted to buy the rights for Enterprise, but they would of done a better job and made some people look like dribbling monkeys. Oh wait, they are monkeys.
I get email and news alerts on my pager and phone, html versions are a pain in the ass.
;)
HTML does not belong in emails, unless its porn.