Re: [SLE] Linux s/w to create blog recommendation?
Please inform the uninformed !! What ???? is BLOG ??
weblog (or Blog) 1) A weblog (sometimes shortened to blog <http://searchWebServices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci214616,00.html> or written as "web log" or "Weblog") is a Web site <http://searchWebServices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci213352,00.html> of personal or non-commercial origin that uses a dated log format that is updated on a daily or very frequent basis with new information about a particular subject or range of subjects. The information can be written by the site owner, gleaned from other Web sites or other sources, or contributed by users. A weblog often has the quality of being a kind of "log of our times" from a particular point-of-view. Generally, weblogs are devoted to one or several subjects or themes, usually of topical interest, and, in general, can be thought of as developing commentaries, individual or collective on their particular themes. A weblog may consist of the recorded ideas of an individual (a sort of diary) or be a complex collaboration open to anyone. Most of the latter are /moderated discussions/. Since there are a number of variations on this idea and new variations can easily be invented, the meaning of this term is apt to gather additional connotations with time. Currently, the most popular weblog is Slashdot.org, the product of programmer and graphic artist Rob Malden and several colleagues. Slashdot.org carries discussion thread <http://WhatIs.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213139,00.html>s on many subjects including: Money, Quake (the game), Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Hardware, and Linux <http://searchEnterpriseLinux.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid39_gci212482,00.html>. Slashdot.org solicits and posts interesting stories reported by contributors, includes a link to the story, and manages the threads of the ensuing discussion by other users. Another well-known weblog is Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom Log, which is more of collection of daily highlights from other Web sites. Jessamyn West's librarian.net is a daily log of items interesting to librarians and possibly others, too. cf http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213547,00.html fx -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux http://www.nibz.org
Thanks to all who responded to my earlier post seeking recommendations for a laptop. I really wanted to find something that came with linux, thinking why pay for a copy of windows that I'm just going to trash. Unfortunately, the linux only machines don't compete all that well with the more aggressively priced windows machines. I ended up buying an HP pavilion5300 series. I must admit that price was a huge factor, there are some very good deals out there. My other choice would have been a Sony Vaio but it would have cost at least $500 more for the same features. SUSE 8.2 installed right out of the box like a dream, recognizing the built in wireless nic without missing a beat, updating applications over the web even before the download was complete. Although I've been using linux for years, it's been mainly on my older machines, for server and networking type stuff, after they've long become useless for windows. It's not that I prefer windows, only that I need it for certain applications (a proposition that I am seriously rethinking). Anyway, this is the first time in about five years that I've devoted a brand new machine to linux. IIFC, the last time was when Redhat 5 came out, whenever that was. Well, I was just blown away. The only problem, if you can call it that, was getting samba up and running. I couldn't find anything in Yast to configure it. Maybe I missed it somewhere. Maybe it's just a measure of how the otherwise seamless installation spoiled me into thinking that there should be some automatic set up process. It did require me to change my login on my home windows machine (I wasn't using a login) and of course this has changed some of my windows configuration stuff, and I can't fix it, but that's a different matter altogether. Again, thanks to all and kudos to SUSE for an excellent product. Mike O'Neill www.oneillaw.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
On Monday 02 June 2003 07:05 am, Michael ONeill wrote:
The only problem, if you can call it that, was getting samba up and running. I couldn't find anything in Yast to configure it. Maybe I missed it somewhere.
I find webmin (http://www.webmin.com) a very useful companion to YaST. It deals nicely with Samba setup, even providing its own door to SWAT, the Samba Web Administration Tool. It also provides a large number of other such configuration tools. Cheers! Mike Green
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Thanks to all who responded to my earlier post seeking recommendations for a laptop.
I really wanted to find something that came with linux, thinking why pay for a copy of windows that I'm just going to trash. Unfortunately, the linux only machines don't compete all that well with the more aggressively priced windows machines.
This might be a case of closing the barn door after the horses have left, but the place I bought my laptop [powernotebooks.com] sells systems WITHOUT any OS (and this is the "default" if you go to the "configure a machine from scratch" pages) They even manage a php bulletin board devoted to running linux on the systems they sell [peer support, just like this list ;) but at least one or two tech/salesmen keep an ear to the BBS and respond...] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+235vV/YHUqq2SwsRAjDVAKCrSElnMR1BSfRMMGtYQEU+LNLEwgCgjUGz F920QEfzy5w0RQSqnpeulO8= =9/CH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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On Monday 02 June 2003 4:05 am, Michael ONeill wrote:
Thanks to all who responded to my earlier post seeking recommendations for a laptop.
I really wanted to find something that came with linux, thinking why pay for a copy of windows that I'm just going to trash. Unfortunately, the linux only machines don't compete all that well with the more aggressively priced windows machines.
This might be a case of closing the barn door after the horses have left, but the place I bought my laptop [powernotebooks.com]
Just looking at the prices of those laptops they ain't any better then what you can get in any store including Windows licence, I'd say thay are much higher comparing with say hpshopping.com. Circuit City had a nice Toshiba (512MB, 40GB HD, 15'', SVGA, DVD-RW) for $845 + tax past weekend - that I call nice price. Moreover if I remember well, somebody on this list mentioned Toshiba apci works ok with SuSe. Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
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