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No. Just...no.

Also, I think you're being more than just a little inconsistent here by telling people to blame developers instead of the Flash tech. itself, yet at the same time you're doing exactly that to things like Javascript & DHTML (which in itself isn't really a technology, but rather a method of using several other technologies).

Another thing that strikes me with your post is that you're just about saying that no website can be creative if it doesn't use Flash, although I do hope that's just due to your English language-skills. If not, then you really need to get around the web some more.

In my opinion, Flash has its uses, but navigation is absolutely not one of them. It's terrible for people having poor eyesight (or several other disabilities requiring the use of alternative browser solutions), not to mention the fact that it offers few, if any, fall-back solutions should you not have Flash installed. Oh and another thing, have you ever tried browsing a Flash site on a handheld device? Yeah, well I have and it's more than just a slight annoyance, not to mention the bandwidth costs should you use a cell-phone to connect and the device actually supports Flash.

P.S: In what way do you consider color schemes to be a technology?!

Get rid of that query of yours, as that isn't needed. After that, just replace your $page_title line with the following:

$page_title = pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject'].' / '.$cur_topic['forum_name'].' / '.$pun_config['o_board_title']);

Well, you could always just add the following to your CSS:

div#top_box { margin-top: -6px }

Well, I guess people just have different tastes. Personally, I can't stand SuSe or any other RPM based distros. If I can't apt, I'm not using it. Also, I hate the fact that many of the other distros tries to pack in everything but the kitchen sink (and sometimes they *do* include that as well ) on those disks. Seriously, there is absolutely no need for a fully packed DVD for a damn OS. I want a polished distro, like K/Ubuntu, and download what programs I need afterwards.

EDIT: As for ATI drivers, well sure that could be better, but there is absolutely no need to run in 640 ever. If everything else fails, just use the Vesa driver.

If you're running Ubuntu, SU isn't used by default. What you'll have to to is to set a password for the root account (sudo passwd root). Alternatively, you could do it the way I prefer, by just entering sudo su.

Easiest way would be to just change line 30 from:

if ($pun_user['g_read_board'] == '0')

to:

if ($pun_user['g_read_board'] == '0' || $pun_user['group_id'] == PUN_GUEST)

It's nice and all, but it still needs work. Just took the Acid2 test, and it still fails. Memory consumption is also rather bad still, but it does seem to be better than the 1.5.x series.

I don't see myself switching from Opera anytime this decade if nothing extraordinary happens, but I will probably be using FF more than I'm doing currently when the final version is released

I can't say that I've encountered any problems under Linux so far, and I've been using it since beta2 was released. I had seen some problem on Windows in that PHP would occationally crash, but that has not happened for me on linux. In fact, it seems to be perfectly stable so far. The performance gain is quite amazing, so if you have the possibility to use it I'd say go for it Here's the settings I'm using, in case you should need them:

$ cat /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini | grep -i eaccelerator

extension="eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size="16"
eaccelerator.cache_dir="/var/tmp/eaccelerator"
eaccelerator.enable="1"
eaccelerator.optimizer="1"
eaccelerator.check_mtime="1"
eaccelerator.debug="0"
eaccelerator.filter=""
eaccelerator.shm_max="0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl="3600"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period="3600"
eaccelerator.shm_only="0"
eaccelerator.compress="1"
eaccelerator.compress_level="9"

This will allocate 16MB of memory for the cache, use maximum compression & purge the cache ever 1 hour. These settings seems to work well for me, and I should think it would be the same for most people

* note that eaccelerator can be run as both a Zend module, and as a regular PHP extension. I'd recommend against running it as a Zend module though, as it seems to be running the fastest as an extension.

There are actually many ways one can improve performance without actually modifying the PunBB source-code, but some of my favourites are:

1. Drop Apache, and go for the much faster lighttpd with PHP running as fastcgi.
2. Ensure you're using MySQL's query cache. Although a forum by nature updates frequently, it should still prove to improve performance quite a bit in certain cases.
3. Install eaccelerator (the 0.9.5 rc1 was recently released, and works very well with the latest PHP versions). This *will* massively improve performance of PHP scripts, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone.
4. Be sure to enable gzip compression. This will result in much smaller pages being served to compatible clients (just about every single somewhat modern browser), which not only improves performance but will also result in a lot of saved bandwidth. Please note though that for this to work with lighttpd, you should enable it in your php.ini file instead of using something like the module for apache.

Hope this helps out

Well, that's kind of a long story, but the short version would be that due to some problems in real-life I had to cut all the expenses I could I haven't given it up entirely, but I don't know when I'll have everything sorted... Hopefully, it won't be *to* long

I'm still programming on my local Linux box though, so when I finally get things sorted (read: find a new job), I don't have to start all over again from scratch.

As any decent spider, Googlebot follows the rules set in your robots.txt file. Because of this, what user agent it reports as doesn't matter at all, other than for statistics. If you don't want it to touch bandwidth-intensive pages, just add a rule to that file and be done with it