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Stewdio
OSx86Project - CMS, or in-house coding?
  • 2006/2/20 23:28

  • Stewdio

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While I was surfing around today reading the news, I came across the OSx86Project home page and started to wonder if the site is built on a CMS frontend or if it's an in-house coding project.

Considering it was launched in June 05 and has been the main focus of website giants like The Inquirer, Slashdot (/.), Macworld and various print news around the globe to just name a few, I decided to see what the fuss was about. I just can't imagine building and maintaining all that code on ones own, although it is possible, I find it unlikely.

Appearantly, there was some links posted on the forums at OSx86Project linking to some questionable hacks that would allow the OS to run on non-proprietary systems not designed by Apple. In otherwords, the OS is not allowed to run on any other chip then what has been designed by Apple (G4, G5 etc...) The site was ordered to be shut down and is back on it feet, after removing a few links in the forums, again after some discussions with all the parties involved as the OSx86 site clarifies. Sorry, I'm getting a little off topic, but thats the background at any rate.

So my question is this.

What CMS (if any) is the OSx86Project.org using?

I'm asking because the site layout and it's content is so incredibly clean and easy on the eyes! Kuduo's to the site for everything it has achieved, up to and including the massive publicity it has gotten over the recent times.
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Stewdio
Re: odd problem with home page (server was reset error)
  • 2006/2/20 21:57

  • Stewdio

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Your saying this happens just on the home page?

If your XOOPS site is working normally on all the other pages, are there any blocks runing on the home page that you do not have displayed on other pages within your site?

If so, you may have a problematic module block, but that would be hard to determine at this point until you run a little more troublshooting efforts on your end.

Let us know how it goes.
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Stewdio
Re: * all blocks missing over night - 2 different xoops installations *
  • 2006/2/20 18:52

  • Stewdio

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It's quite possible it was experiencing a heavy load, undergoing a back, or just being restarted.

Glad to see things are working.
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Stewdio
Re: * all blocks missing over night - 2 different xoops installations *
  • 2006/2/20 18:39

  • Stewdio

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Check with your host(s) to make sure they didn't run a backup, Sometimes they may have placed an older version back into the system for what ever reasons.

Not much help I know, but just one small thing to consider while you determine whats happened.

Keep us informed.

Good Luck
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Stewdio
Re: please review www.nvidiaclub.com
  • 2006/2/20 18:36

  • Stewdio

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Site looks good, keep it up.

I was looking around for content. It seems that you are starting to get things together. I noticed that there arn't any links submitted yet.

When I launch a new site, I tend to keep unfinished content out of the view of users until it's ready. I'm sure your waiting for people to post a few links and I realise you just opened your site, so this is totaly understandable. Perhaps you can populate the list to encourage others and fill the void.

A suggestion I would like to add, depending on your level of comfort and knowledge, is an article or two on Linux Driver installations. Perhaps some how-to's for select distros, or at the very least, going back on my previous point, some links on where and how this might be done. Again, I do understand the site is new and you may or may not want to add Linux related materials to your site for various reasons. It was just one of the first things I went looking for.

I also noticed that you do not have your search enabled. I personally feel that the google search is a great tool, but considering that your are going to write articles and other sorts of content, you may want to consider making that content domain searchable.

I hope you don't mind my critiques. I think you've done a tremendous job so far. I'm just relaying my perspective from an end user standpoint.

Good luck and happy XOOPS'sing!
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Stewdio
Re: If only everyone browsed with Firefox or Opera... NOT IE!!
  • 2006/2/19 18:54

  • Stewdio

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Beta testing for IE7 has started, so who knows what we have in store.
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Stewdio
Animated XOOPS Banner
  • 2006/2/18 16:27

  • Stewdio

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I created an animated banner for use on your websites. It was originaly designed for use here on xoops.org, however, others may wish to use it. It would be real nice if it was thrown intot he banner rotation here *wink wink, nudge nudge*

It was created in The GIMP 2.2 with the images supplied by XOOPS here in the forums

It's a little on the heavy size at 63k, sorry about that. 'm still getting used to my Linux machine and it's software operates a little different then what I'm used to.

Please be kind and upload to your own server and do not crosslink the url to my site or I will be forced to pull the banner from it's location. I shouldn't have to mention this, but people have done it before and ruined it for others.



Resized Image

Enjoy!
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Stewdio
Re: set of new logos
  • 2006/2/18 14:56

  • Stewdio

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I believe this is because it is converted to an image. You might want to try keeping text layers intact until you have done all that you want with them, then convert them as you wish for your layer.

Quote:

Poslanik wrote:
...

When I opened the psd file it said "Some text layers need to be updated before they can be used for vector based output. Do you want to update these layers now?" Photoshop was refering to the text layers but when I hit the update button I couldn't edit them... They were there but I couldn't see the font or edit the layer. When I didn't choose update I could see the text but couldn't edit it. Does anyone know what's this about?
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Stewdio
Re: Support logo
  • 2006/2/18 14:17

  • Stewdio

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Sorry I didn't see this post sooner. I ended up making my own logo and didn't know someone else had worked on one as well.

Mind if I have a peek at yours? I'll show you mine!
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Stewdio
Re: Block specific theme?
  • 2006/2/15 5:23

  • Stewdio

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Then what I suggest, is following that article in part, but also creating new CSS styles for simple color changes, or what have you, depending on what module is loaded. I think I may have seen other how-to's on how to achieve this, but I can't for the life of me remember where I saw them.

There ae a great amount of theme editors here that may be able to help you out or at the very least, be able to point you into the right direction.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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