526

(47 replies, posted in General discussion)

RC3 is out:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

527

(43 replies, posted in General discussion)

Yeah, fonts have steadily gotten better over the last couple of years. With the new enhancements in X, like subpixel smoothing for LCD's, and the introduction of Bitstream fonts, the Linux desktop is looking much better.

In the past, we had to tweak like mad to get a desktop looking as good as Ubuntu out of the box. Let's hope Debian Etch follows suit along with all the other distros from here on out.

528

(43 replies, posted in General discussion)

pogenwurst wrote:

Is your Gateway laptop crap also?

For the price, it's been working great, my specs.

My daughter also has a Gateway laptop, haven't had any issues with it either.

529

(43 replies, posted in General discussion)

Jérémie, do you create games?

Paul, do an install from the live cd, then https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

530

(43 replies, posted in General discussion)

Jérémie wrote:
hcgtv wrote:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is Desktop Linux done right, time to wipe out any traces of Windows wink

Until you want to play to something, then you're back to be stuck with Windows.

Honestly, I don't have the time to play games on my computers. When I do find the time and I can wrestle the Playstation from my son, I'll have a go at some simulation game, like racing.

531

(43 replies, posted in General discussion)

Hey, I have a Gateway laptop also smile

I'm using the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 on mine, works just fine. But it's rather basic, no extra buttons to configure in the X config file. I guess I've been bitten so many times in the past that when I buy peripherals these days, I keep it simple.

I agree, nice looking style, glad the conversion went well.

533

(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

pedrotuga, check out this list of boards: http://stats.punres.org/list.php

534

(3 replies, posted in Feature requests)

There is this mod to hide categories: http://www.punres.org/desc.php?pid=40

535

(17 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

MadHatter wrote:

The saving grace for this system is that Rickard intentionally keeps the app simple.

And that's what separates PunBB from the rest of the crowd.

If you want all the features money can buy, then by all means use vBulletin, but if you want a very fast and low on resources forum, PunBB is it, nothing else compares. I've tested every Open Source forum app out there, some say there are better, like SMF, some say there are smaller, like UNB, some say there are easier, like Vanilla, I say go install them on a live site, use them for a month and then come back here and report your findings.

536

(5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Have a look at this: http://www.punres.org/desc.php?pid=169

What I gather is that it's not the technology, it's the name recognition and eyeballs that Google is buying.

But I agree, it's getting as crazy as it was in the late 90's.

See here: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5369

Make sure you have the right PHP dll loading in your php.ini: extension=php_mysql.dll

539

(27 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Michael, I feel your pain.

A couple of things you can do:
* Put in some censor words to stop the drugs and sex related user names.
* Ban some of the most abused domain names from signing up.

This is going to have to be looked at for the PunBB 1.3 release, it's getting a bit out of hand.

540

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

vnpenguin wrote:

[MySQL fulltext supports UTF-8 ? I mean MySQL 5.x

I believe it does:
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/art … icode.html
http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?t … de_Support

541

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Jeremie, MySQL fulltext indexing is in the todo list for PunBB 1.3.

542

(6 replies, posted in General discussion)

I've been using Open Office for some time now, it does everything I need, I'm free of upgrade costs and it runs on both Windows and Linux.

One thing that has always dogged me was the slow load times, until I tried the 2.0.4rc3 build. Now it loads in under 2 seconds on my machine and it feels quicker in operation.

Open Office is in the process of integrating Thunderbird with the Lightning calendar into the suite, it's going to be an interesting 2007.

543

(47 replies, posted in General discussion)

Just did a Check for updates, RC2 filtered in.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0

544

(4 replies, posted in Programming)

I see you're having the same problem in singapore but I don't know what the answer is.

It looks fine in Firefox 2.0rc1 if it's any consolation.

545

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

http://punbb.org/docs/faq.html#faq2_6

546

(18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Hi,

1. Administration > Options > Verify registrations

2. http://punbb.org/docs/faq.html#faq2_2

547

(8 replies, posted in General discussion)

I agree with Smartys, Flyspray seems to be the simplest bug tracker around.

There is integration with DokuWiki, maybe look at it and adapt it for MediaWiki?

The way the plugin works is that it will feed over to PunBB not from PunBB over to Nucleus.

There is a problem with the bridge, Nucleus changed something in the core and if you sign up at Nucleus, it will create the PunBB user but with the wrong password. Since I'm using Textpattern now, I haven't pursued the problem in Nucleus's core.

Also, you may want to have a look at "Blog:CMS":http://blogcms.com/, it uses Nucleus and PunBB together. Maybe Radek has fixed the plugin issue, I haven't had a chance to try his latest code.

550

(14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Hey the color picker is nice, I've been using ColorPic but it's nice to have it in the browser for a quick check of things.