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Comment on MAMP by WendyB

WendyB — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:58:53 +0000

I use WAMP which is the windows version of the bundled Apache/PHP/MySQL software. It allows me to learn the code without the worry of mucking up anyone else’s. I have put a couple of copies of wordpress (old & new) on it as I find it a good learning tool, fairly well documented, good clean code that can produce valid xhtml. I am not sure I like the new wordpress2.5 yet. Personalising the admin area is not so easy to do.

Comment on Changes galore by ytruly

ytruly — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:51:31 +0000

Like the new layout - you are tempting me to upgrade again.

Comment on Changes galore by alex

alex — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:13:28 +0000

Well that woke me up this morning. Interesting, needs a little tweaking but certainly something different.

Comment on Changes galore by James

James — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:48:11 +0000

I should also mention that comments now support Gravatars (the little avatar-like images that go alongside your comments). If you want to add one visit gravatar.com and sign up. Once you get one, it’ll appear on every site you comment on that has Gravatar support.

Pretty cool huh?

Comment on Time to upgrade by gummAY

gummAY — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:00:37 +0000

spiffy

Comment on Merry Christmas to all by CDavies

CDavies — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:39:22 +0000

I’m pretty sure Christmas ‘06 was colder, with snow on Mount Dandenong. OF course, up here the temperature is never below 24/25 and never above 35/36, even at night. I’m already looking forward to the dry!

Comment on Random thought by gummAY

gummAY — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:11:40 +0000

I believe that people don’t understand the importance of something unless they understand the workings of it.

Since many do not understand the workings of ITC, the feeling of importance never comes. The best most people tend to get to is the comprehension of the PC Fix professional - the guy that’s tasked with fixing one’s machine. Servers, networking … forget it. In a recent debate I was trying to draw parallels between the invention of the phone network and the Internet. One opponent did not get the reference, “they’re just so different … the internet is a visual medium…”

However, I have encountered quite a few users who were at least appreciative, which is about the best we can hope for at this stage.

Comment on Random thought by hawley

hawley — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:46:07 +0000

To get people to understand how important it is you first have to get them to understand how to use the actual computer.

Comment on Random thought by CDavies

CDavies — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:39:42 +0000

And why do so many IT departments go Microsoft everything! At work we are supposed to do operational stuff in Linux, but we know more than the people who set it up. The distro that the operational image is based on is really old and sucks purely because it is not set up properly and never updated.

Comment on Foxtel Fixed! by ytruly

ytruly — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:38:54 +0000

Yep - that’s what ours did!