j’s blog

http://jblog4u.blogspot.com/

Until the server access and speed problems are fixed it seems I’m forced to temporarily (?) switch back to my old blogger blog.

ClickPress | Oops Mambo has done it again!

In a reprise to the amazing Industry successes of Open Source technology, Mambo has won another prestigious award. The trophy cabinet is groaning under the weight.

[ClickPress, Sun Mar 13 2005] Hot on the heels of winning industry recognition as the LinuxWorld Best Open Source Solution and Best of Show, Mambo has won yet another award, this time from the UK’s largest circulating Linux publication.

The award, in the most prestigious category of “Best Free Software Project of the Year” was announced this week.

The Linux Format magazine hit the news stands today (March 9, 2005) with a two page spread about results from the competition. Interestingly, the magazine contains a disclaimer about how they had to recalibrate their online vote counter due to a reader voting frenzy, the like of which they’d never seen before.

The magazine describes the “Best Free Software Project of the Year” as “viewed by many readers as the most important”. “You’ve given it to the free software project that more than any other deserves to be held as a shining example of why Open Source is great software,” Nick Veitch, Editor of Linux Format said.

Other projects nominated included: Linux kernel 2.6 , which overtook KDE and Gnome. Gentoo also did well. However, the magazine said Mambo won by a clear margin.

“It has to be said that many Mambo adherents were so caught up in the desire to see it win that they resorted to Florida-style vote-fixing shenanigans, but even after our arduous validation process, it was still the clear winner,” Nick Veitch quipped.

Mambo Core team member Brian Teeman said the award was further recognition “that we’re doing what people want”. Mr Teeman explained that the Linux Format Award dovetailed nicely with the peer-awarded Boston “Best of Show” because this award was a clear thumbs up from the community, not journalists.

“I think we can say we’re on the right track to becoming adopted and emulated as an Open Source success story,” Mr Teeman said. “The level of response the community gave to these awards, illustrates the strength of satisfaction by users of Mambo.”

“With Mambo, adopters are fast finding out how they can take control of their web publishing in an enjoyable system that is well-supported by a brilliant community of enthusiastic users and developers.”

The Mambo trophy cabinet now includes:

* Best Free Software Project of the Year, Linux Format 2005
* Best of Show - Total Industry Solution, LinuxWorld Boston 2005
* Best Open Source Solution, LinuxWorld Boston 2005
* Best Linux or Open Source Software, LinuxUser & Developer 2004

Mambo is Open Source Software. You can read more about Mambo at http://www.mamboserver.com and download the latest version of Mambo at http://www.mamboforge.net. Extensive documentation and information can be found at http://help.mamboserver.com.
Mambo is released under GNU General Public Licence courtesy of Miro International PTY. Mambo requires a *nix, Windows 2000 or XP server, running Apache 1.3 or above, MySQL 3.23.55 or above, PHP 4.2.1 or above. Users should be browsing the net with Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, Mozilla 1.7 or higher or FireFox 0.9.3 or higher (Firefox is best supported for Macintosh).

Release prepared: by Peter Russell
Authorised by: Brian Teeman

I imagine my website will cover roughly the same subjects as my blogs, which are basically whatever interests me at the moment.

One
problem that may cause is a lack of focus. Maybe I should setup a
separate website for each major subject? Maybe not at first, that maybe
too confusing for me and too much work. Perhaps separating subjects
into sub-sections and pages and keeping them all on one site will be
good enough for now. Some software packages edit a whole site at a
time, so, having just one site would avoid the extra work and confusion
of opening and closing many sites as I wanted to edit them. If some
day, when I know better what I’m doing, the site becomes to large and
confusing itself, then I could break it out into several smaller sites.

Subjects:

Computers
Barebones
Linux
Software
Repair
Creativity
CMAPs
Brainstorming
Health
Humanitarian Issues
Internet
Web
Blogging
Website creation
Investing
Marriage
Medical
Philosophy
Religion
Reasoning & Critical Thinking
RVs and Travel

How should I start? Well, what is the purpose of my blog?

1. To learn how to create a more traditional website, rather than a blog

2. To communicate with others

3. To possibly meet and interact with people that share the same interests

4. To write about my interests and hopefully provide some useful information

5. To collect and save information I find on the web and in books, etc.

J’s site

This is a little practice site I just built on Earthlink using Trellix.

I wonder what this could be used for Storage? a menu link home for all my other little sites, blogs and projects?

I just signed up for this free web host:

100WebSpace - Free Web Hosting Service and Web Space Provider

I’m not expecting much, but it may be good for practice setting up a wiki and cms site.

It looks nice anyway.

I’ve been looking for one of these, cause I don’t want to learn more than the bare minimum of HTML and stuff for creating webpages. Refers back to the reason I gave in a previous post, I want to make stuff with tools, not learn all the gritty details of how the tools work and how to fix them. I’m an end user, not a programmer. I want a vehicle that will transport me to my destination without requiring me to build or fix it first. Occasionally I like a good sausage, but I don’t need to know how to raise pigs or watch it being made.

Pricelessware 2005 WEB DESIGN

Editor: WYSIWYG

Nvu
(Betaware) (open source: MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license)
Windows OS: Windows (32 bit)
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Linspire
Languages: English
Description: Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. Nvu is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
Company: Linspire Inc. Author: Daniel Glazman (lead developer)
Buzzy’s review:
http://www.buzzys.net/nvu.html
Home Page:
http://www.nvu.com/
download page v 0.81 (2005-02-10) (Windows) (nvu-0.81-win32-installer-full.exe) (6669 KB); (nvu-0.81-win32-full.zip) (7841 KB)
http://www.nvu.com/download.html

2005PL CD files: nvu-0.70-win32-installer-full.exe nvu-0.70-win32-full.zip
(desc. rev.: 2005-02-19)

Want to start your own wiki? This site may be worth a look. However, they don’t want personal or low traffic type wikis it seems. I’m not sure I understand their reasoning since a personal, mostly text, wiki would take up little storage space. But, hey, dems da rules. Which you should of course read first.

About Wikicities - Wikicities
Wikicities are wiki communities creating free content with the MediaWiki software. These are hosted for free by Wikia, the company which runs the project. Anyone is free to start a new Wikicity in accordance with the Wikicity creation policy and terms of use.