1,626 Reply by hcgtv

(7 replies, posted in General discussion)

On the laptop, I would use Linux to host the site. Keep in mind that it's better to have a dedicated server, a used Pentium with a 2gb drive and 64mb of memory is sufficient for a test machine. My server cost me $25 at a local government surplus store. Then use the laptop to adminster and test the whole setup.

I have a linksys router, port 80 gets forwarded to my server's internal IP address. I would presume it would be the same for a wireless router.

Let's say you use zonedit.com, once you setup your account you will be given 2 dns servers to use. At godaddy.com, you'll need to update your domain's dns servers with the ones given to you at zonedit. It takes a couple of days for the dns servers to get properly updated.

Thats it, other than configuring Apache and your Linux server.

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1,627 Reply by hcgtv

(7 replies, posted in General discussion)

I use an ADSL connection to host my sites. My connection is 1500/256, no speed issues to speak of.

I started with dyndns.org then moved to zonedit.com to use my own domain names.

I use an update client called ddclient, a perl app, to update my ip address when it changes. My server is running debian linux but there are update clients for Windows also.

So it can be done, it's just a matter of setting it all up.

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1,628 Reply by hcgtv

(29 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Rickard wrote:

[I didn't even think of that! Man, I'm glad I did the whole admin plugin thing.

I was thinking along the same lines. Are there any quick start type of instructions on writing a plugin for the new interface?

I could take a stab at taking Nucleus' backup for Mysql and writing a plugin.

Update: Nevermind I read the sample plugin docs, rtfm :)

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1,629 Reply by hcgtv

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Look in /include/template/main.tpl to add a banner.

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1,630 Reply by hcgtv

(21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Would probably look nice if we could see it without registering :)

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1,631 Reply by hcgtv

(82 replies, posted in General discussion)

The marrying of browser and community, very nice:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth … id=1114236

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1,632 Reply by hcgtv

(133 replies, posted in General discussion)

Radio controlled debate? http://hcgtv.com/item/561

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1,633 Reply by hcgtv

(133 replies, posted in General discussion)

snap, posted it: http://hcgtv.com/item/558

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1,634 Reply by hcgtv

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

andy1974 wrote:

yea apache is running....what do you mean by this??"off your http server's doc root" is that the folder where my webpage is?

Yes, when you do a http://localhost - what page comes up?

Then look for that folder where that page is stored, that's your document root.

Sorry, I don't do IM.

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1,635 Reply by hcgtv

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

First off, is apache running?

If it is, copy the contents of upload to a folder off your http server's doc root. Let's call it /forum/

Also you need Mysql to be running.

Then you just run http://localhost/forum/install.php

Take a look at the install.html file in the zip.

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1,636 Reply by hcgtv

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

You can't run the install from the command line.

Fire up a browser and run it from there.

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1,637 Reply by hcgtv

(17 replies, posted in General discussion)

Connor, that is indeed very nice.

I fired up UltraEdit and copied your code snippet, might come in handy one day.

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1,638 Reply by hcgtv

(29 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Connorhd wrote:

how do you know its the abstraction layer that slows it down?

At the time I was testing it, PostNuke had recently forked away from PHPNuke.

One of the first things they did was go to an abstraction layer. I tested both on my system and PHPNuke was faster, the code hadn't been changed that much other than adding support for ADOdb.

From the benchmarks:
PHP Nuke 0,6907
Postnuke 1,2218

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1,639 Reply by hcgtv

(29 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I used postnuke for a few months, the abstraction layer slowed it down from what I could see.

Most users of PunBB use MySQL, to slow it down for the few that want to use Access doesn't seem right.

See these benchmarks: http://www.english.rk.edu.pl/cms_benchmark.html

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1,640 Reply by hcgtv

(17 replies, posted in General discussion)

tobyb wrote:

And I don't think you mean the "lang" folder

Yes, ie. /lang/en/en_common.php:
// Miscellaneous (used in many scripts)
'Announcement'            =>    'Announcement',
'Options'                =>    'Options',

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1,641 Reply by hcgtv

(101 replies, posted in General discussion)

Rich wrote:

Haven't tried 1.0PR yet though, worth try it?

I upgraded to 1.0pr from 0.9.3 yesterday. It seems faster and I haven't had any crashes or issues yet. I did start with a fresh profile, just copied bookmarks.html and cookies.txt from the old profile.

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1,642 Reply by hcgtv

(82 replies, posted in General discussion)

Upgraded to 0.10.1(1.0pr) of Firefox today.

Was running 0.9.3 and the speed gain in rendering pages is noticeable.

Gecko keeps getting faster and faster, simply amazing.

Chacmool, found this:

Alice wrote:

The "splash and die" bug occurs on  on early Win98 systems. 

See  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197692#c30
Mozilla exits immediatly after showing the splash screen

The problem  is an outdated windows\system\oleaut32.dll (file version older than 2.30.4265). The solution is to install the Microsoft Windows Libraries update.

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1,643 Topic by hcgtv

(0 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Does anyone have an example site that they are using PunBB to handle their commenting?

Whether the site is static or dynamic. It would be better if commenting is handled right on the article page rather than taking you to the forum.

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1,644 Reply by hcgtv

(1,382 replies, posted in General discussion)

mind control

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1,645 Reply by hcgtv

(146 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

Connorhd wrote:

http://66.98.138.31/~connorhd/pundev/index.htm

I would make the right side blocks wider, latest forum posts will start to wrap in such a small block.

You could move login to the left, maybe add a calendar on the right, etc..

Looks good.

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1,646 Reply by hcgtv

(82 replies, posted in General discussion)

Connorhd wrote:

or click the red button in the top right corner ;)

That worked just fine, just had to restart Firefox so that it would acknowledge the change.

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1,647 Reply by hcgtv

(277 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Rickard wrote:

[It worked before and now it works better.

I've got PunBB 1.1.5 and PunBB 1.2dev installed and I'm using both equally.

And I have to agree, the 1.2 version works better and faster. The new markup that Paul has worked on is very nice and the enhancememts by Rickard are very welcome.

Since this is still a dev release, I believe much will fluctuate before it's released.

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1,648 Reply by hcgtv

(133 replies, posted in General discussion)

We live in sad times, dumbed down to be exact.

Janet's breast, Paris's video and what's Britney up to?

http://www.localhost.be/var/leftovers/710%20Reasons.jpg

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1,649 Reply by hcgtv

(10 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

projos wrote:

Can anybody do this?

The problem that I see with your approach is that at the time you make your custom mod, you're stuck at that version of PunBB for the life of your site.

Unless you pay $$$ to mod it again in the future.

I would do either:
a) Use PunBB's user system.
b) Pick a CMS that has a bridge to PunBB

I've been on your site, transitioning to a CMS would be less work than modding PunBB.

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1,650 Reply by hcgtv

(36 replies, posted in General discussion)

Wordpress is using Mantis: http://mosquito.wordpress.org/main_page.php

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