Moving from proprietary PHP website to a FOSS CMS
Which Content Management System for me?
Note I only get as far as choosing 3 to look at more closely in this post. Next post coming soon!
You’ll know from reading here that I’m big into Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and have used several CMS systems. If you care to check some out then there are a ton of them (more even) on OpenSourceCMS and CMS Matrix to try.
I’m going to restrict myself to considering these few, for no particular reason:
- Mambo,
- Joomla,
- XOOPS,
- Drupal,
- TWiki,
- MovableType and
- Wordpress
Of course there are others like Typo3. Then down a maze of twisty passages we have Xaraya forked from an unpublished branch of PostNuke, PostNuke now called “Zikula” and originally forked from PHPNuke, etc., etc., but one has to stop somewhere!
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Cooliris Piclens equivalent for Linux?
Piclens for Linux
Piclens’s official line for Linux is:
Will Cooliris support Linux anytime soon? Our ideal plan is to eventually make our Firefox version work cross-platform, but its timing is not yet clear due to our current resource constraints.
So that sounds to me like “we don’t want to p-off Linux users but we’re not really committing resources to this.”
However there may yet be hope in the form of Greased Lightbox …
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Here’s one you may have pondered, can you pipe ls through less and keep the colours? Well, yes, yes you can and you can even set it up to work just by typing “ls”.
Well the answer is in the man pages, from “man ls”:
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15 Oct, 2008
Posted by: admin In: pdf
Do you use skype for free voice-chat?
My Brother-in-Law asked me recently if we use Skype. I wish people would stop asking me questions, causes me no end of bother ;0)>
Anyway I’ve had the usual scout around to see what is going to fit best on my current system, these are the options so far:
Video and voice chat applications
- Skype, http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/ - Video+VoIP
- OpenWengo, http://www.openwengo.org/ - Video+VoIP
- Gizmo, http://gizmo5.com/pc/ - IM and Video+VoIP
- Meebo, http://www.meebo.com/ - web interface to popular IM systems AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, MSN.
- aMSN - IM but does Video+Voice chat too using MSN protocols and MSN application on MS Windows OS.
- ekiga, http://www.ekiga.net - don’t know yet what the scope of this is.
- Kopete - KDE IM client, does Video chat too.
- Other … as I find things I’ll add them here.
So on to the details.
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ParentDish is fast becoming a bastion of slapdash reporting in my mind. They report:
Including this paragraph:
In fact, “…students with the most daylight in their classrooms perform better-by 20 percent on math tests and by 26 percent on reading tests-than those with less daylight….” which is incentive enough to head outside, away from our fluorescent lighted classroom, with it’s single (albeit rather large) window.
Record your desktop
[I've written elsewhere about video screen capture (a.k.a. screencast) applications. This is KDE4 specific.]
If you’re using KDE4 and have found the screencast feature ( System Settings > Desktop > [All Effects] : Video Record) you’re probably wondering how to play the files it produces. By default (during your KDE4 session) when you toggle “Video Record” mode on and then off with Ctrl-Meta-V it drops a file called kwin_video1.cps into your home directory which none of my video player apps could read - mplayer complained about avisynth.dll, but this doesn’t appear to be the real problem. The file is in the format used by captury, just don’t ask me why.
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Mouse spins player instead of normal movement
When I started Enemy Territory: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (ET:RTCW) everything came up fine but as soon as I entered a server to play an online game then the mouse would mess up. Basically any movement would cause the character on screen to spin / rotate / turn around on the spot without being able to look up and down. The games pretty tricky if you can’t look up from the ground!
/seta in_dgamouse 0
in ET console seems to do it, also when I have console open I can then switch apps (without a minimiser app running) cool!—
That does fix it, but it’s not actually the dgamouse that doesn’t work! Setting as above makes the mouse jumpy and hard to control. All I actually need to do is
/seta in_dgamouse 1
which is strange in that it doesn’t change the dgamouse state - but it fixes things. Also to move between apps and ET I use CTRL-F1 (etc.) to move desktop then I can alt-tab into ET. When ET resumes a new map it grabs the pointer so you have to CTRL-F4 (or whatever) to bring up ET, then open console with “backtick” (next to number 1 key near Q) then you can click on the application bar to choose the app you wanted to switch too … it’s a pain in the butt, but better than not being able to switch.
Enemy Territory cfg (config) files
I’ve now entered
/set in_dgamouse 1
into a otherwise blank file at /installation/directory/enemy-territory/etmain/autoexec.cfg and the fix is now applied on loading.
Short version: Alt-F3, M, then use cursor keys.
Alt-F3 enters the “window menu” or “window configuration menu” for the currently focussed application / program.
M is the underlined letter in Move, this will then bring up the “compass” cursor over the window to be moved.
Cursor keys - up, down, left, right - then move the window around.
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