Got an email from Rich Boakes today saying:
I can’t bear the white box around your masthead any more. See attached !
Well, the attached is now the new masthead – thanks Rich!
Category Archives: Software
First Release Candidate for KDE 3.4 Out!
KDE have announced the availability of the first release candidate of KDE 3.4, and OSDIR have an excellent set of screenshots up already, courtesy of Stephen Binners KLAX KDE 3.4RC1 Live CD.
Looking good!
Disabled comments for unregistered users
Grr, well it appears that spammers were leaving spam comments on here as anonymous users so I’ve now disabled that ability for non-registered users. Apologies to everyone, you must now register to leave comments. Blame those scummy spammers for this. 🙁
This highlights the only thing I’m missing from PostNuke, and that’s the ability to have a box that shows the latest comments, the only reason I spotted these was trawling through the MySQL database backend on a whim to see what (if any) comments had been left recently.
Gentoo Linux
Andrew Cowie has written an interesting article about Gentoo Linux over at Linux Journal.
Now, I too have a confession to make. Ladies and Gentlemen, I use Gentoo. Thank you.
Actually, that’s not the complete truth, I currently use Gentoo (my workstation at work), Mandrake (my workstation at home, at least until I get some time to upgrade it to Gentoo), Redhat 7.3 and Fedora Core 3 (the clusters at work) and soon, SuSE (the latest cluster due to arrive shortly). I’ve also played with Ubuntu which was pretty nice, but they’re a GNOME based distribution and I’m a die-hard KDE user.
They’re all good for various tasks, and I’ve found that for what *I* want, which is to have the latest KDE, the minimum of cruft and a large selection of packages, it is the best. Oh, and there are no new releases as there are with distros like Redhat, Mandrake, etc, you do rolling updates in the same way as Debian.
New photo gallery up!
OK folks, the
new photo gallery is now up and running, with all the photos from the old one copied over. The captions from the old photos still need to be copied though.
- The Archaeology and Architecture sections from the old one have been merged into a new “Miscellanious” album
- there’s a new “screenshots” album (with images of ReactOS 0.1.0 booting under Bochs).
- our wedding album has now migrated to here as well!
Site rearrangement!
As you can tell, I’ve decided to take the plunge and move the site around to put the Post-Nuke interface as the start page.
The old pages are still there, look at the top left at the “Old Sections” menu block.
Happy browsing!
New system for a new beginning
I decided, after much playing around with trying to write my own, to try out Post-Nuke, a free “Content Management System” written in PHP. I’m fairly impressed by its features, and so I’ve decided to switch over to using it for a trial.
I’ve left the old pages around until I’ve migrated all the content into Post-Nuke. That’ll probably be a little while yet as I’ve got a lot of projects on the go and some travelling in between!
Feel free to register and leave comments about what you think of the new site, and vote in the poll as well.
Thanks!