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LIVINGSTON | Robert Henry arrived at the University of West Alabama five years ago to take over a defense that was the worst in the Gulf South Conference. Last season, the Tigers were not only the best defensive team in the conference, they led the nation in pass defense and were third in the country in total defense.
LIVINGSTON | Robert Henry arrived at the University of West Alabama five years ago to take over a defense that was the worst in the Gulf South Conference. Last season, the Tigers were not only the best defensive team in the conference, they led the nation in pass defense and were third in the country in total defense.
Such results were not unexpected from a man who had coached at Tennessee, Ole Miss, Baylor, Southern Miss, Southern Methodist, UAB and Wyoming over the course of his previous 31 years as a football coach, not to mention stops at the high school, junior college and NCAA Division II levels. Henry played a key role in UWA's drive to the conference championship.
There's not much about defensive football that Henry hasn't seen. There's not much besides football that he cares about.
"A great football coach, a pure football guy who doesn't have any other hobbies," is how UWA head coach Will Hall describes his defensive coordinator.
Henry, 58, concurs with the point about his lack of outside interests.
"This is basically it," he said. "This is how I make a living. I'm glad to be still coaching college football."
A sign taped to his office door gives insight into his philosphy: "Meet me at the ball," it says.
"We try to be very flexible and we try to be aggressive," Henry said. "Like everybody, we try to scratch where it itches.
"We constantly talk about toughness in our program, and being mentally aggressive. The most important thing is, we've got to be the best at pursuit in the country. We constantly say if we chase the football and tackle well, we have a chance."
UWA plays a 4-3 scheme but also works out of a three-man front. If Henry has learned anything in three decades of coaching, it is that results, not schemes, are what matters.
"I decided a long time ago that I'd rather win than anything," he said. "A big part of being a good defense is having a good offense. I've been some places where the defense got hung out to dry.
"Whatever you can do to win, that's what we want."
Henry doesn't get around as well these days. He had hip surgery in December and had it done again in April, by his count bringing his total number of surgeries to five or six. He is getting around now without the help of crutches.
Cornerback Malcolm Butler has seen Henry fight through that hip pain to run across the field to dress down a player who made a mistake in practice. Butler knows Henry's nickname is "Bear" — a testament to his gruff personality — but the senior thinks the coach should change it.
"His nickname should be 'Beef Jerky,' " Butler said. "That's a tough guy.
"Out of all my years of playing football — college, high school, junior college, pee wee — I've never seen a coach so dedicated. If they take an X-ray, I believe they would find a football where his heart should be."
Hall knows Henry has a heart, even if he doesn't always show it to the players.
"They know he cares about them," Hall said. "They know he loves them, but it's a tough love."
Henry has coached at bigger schools, but he likes where he is.
"I've had good jobs and I've had bad jobs," he said. "Everything in coaching is whether you have a chance to win or not. We've got a good group of guys. They work hard."
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Head Coach Mark Turgeon
On the game:
"We just wanted to execute better. Our secondary break had to be better, our zone offense had to be better, our half-court offense had to be better, we just talked about executing and doing our job. A lot the things we do, we play inside-out. We posted Dez (Wells) the first play, second play we got him a shot, Shaq (Cleare) made a great pass to Dez in the corner. I think it gave us a lift out there. So that was good. Then we had to play a lot of funny lineups because of foul trouble all that in the first half. I thought our bench was phenomenal. I thought Varun (Ram) gave us great minutes and I thought Damonte (Dodd's) length helped us around the rim when he was in there. I thought Charles (Mitchell) was really good again... It was good to see Shaq having a good game. He was a force when he was in there."
On Varun Ram:
"He had a couple steals out there, some loose balls he came up with, some scrum plays he's right in the middle of it. He's going to foul out a lot, obviously. He's got to play without fouling. I thought Varun was terrific. I really did. We need him. We've got to build depth. Varun's going to be a part of that depth."
On Jake Layman:
"It's hard to get him shots. It's really hard to get Jake (Layman) shots because of the way people are guarding. I thought we did a better job screening for him, executing better and getting him some shots. He makes big ones for us. He's playing with a lot of confidence. Defenisvely, he's getting better. We need Jake to play the way he's been."
Maryland forward Jake Layman
On his confidence:
"I just kept shooting. My teammates kept encouraging me to shoot and that gave me a lot of confidence to make some shots."
On Shaquille Cleare:
"He played with more confidence and he seemed very relaxed. I think the alley-oop sparked us and was a big play to start the second half."
On the slow start:
"We missed some shots early. We were not executing, but we played good defense and Shaq made some plays that helped spark us and get us going."
Maryland center Shaquille Cleare
On the game:
"The shots started dropping for me. I have been practicing well, but I just seem to be feeling much better. My back feels good and I am focused and working hard. I am feeling confident and ready to compete."
On the contributions from the bench:
"Charles has been playing great and giving us good scoring and rebounding off the bench. Varun was a spark plug tonight and was all over the court. It was awesome to see guys taking advantage of their opportunities and scoring baskets and making some plays."
Maryland guard Varun Ram
On his role:
"We are really working hard and it is great to have an opportunity to contribute. I need to make plays defensively, which can lead to baskets on the offensive end. We really focused and concentrated on making the necessary stops and each guy played a role in this victory for us."
On the response he received from the fans:
"I really appreciate all of their support. It's great. I didn't hear the (MVP) chants, but they are great and always behind us."

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Some of it may depend on blood type too...http://www.dadamo.com/ makes a case that each blood type has an "optimal" diet for each type of blood. I'm type A and should be more of a vegetarian than meat diet, where as a Type B should refrain from chicken and eat more venison/game type meats and greens, AB's are a combo of the two and Type O are generally meat eaters...
Beans are pretty much protiens and most people should have problems with putting weight on with them. some you need to eat other things with them to be complete proteins but soy, spirulina, hemp seed, amaranth, buckwheat, quinoa all are complete proteins by themselves but eating beans and rice (even at separate meals withing a 2 day period) will be metabolized as complete proteins
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This isn't the first time something like this happened. A few years ago, in America, another couple of Vegan freaks similarly got into trouble after their forcing their Vegan beliefs on their new baby (Rather than milk, they'd give him apple juice, as I recall) caused teh child to die of malnourishment.
And yet self- righteous pigs from groups like PETA try to make it seem that everyone who isn't a strict vegan is automatically a repulsively fat slob who won't live another year, and the only way to get healthy is a 100% vegan diet.
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The unabridged version
For those of our readers seeking the unabridged version of Senator Mark Dayton's homily at the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Minneapolis, quoted by Rocket Man below, here it is: "If we're so right, why are there so few of us left?" You will note that the text for Senator Dayton's homily is — somewhat surprisingly given the occasion and the venue — the Bhagavad Gita. Heavy! »
Say it ain't so, Charles
Charles Krauthammer lauds the Supreme Court's decision to uphold racial preferences in college admissions. He argues that the issue is one that should be decided by the states, not the courts. The states' rights justification for permitting racial discrimination by state governments is not new. It gave conservatives a bad name for decades. »
Land of the free
William McGurn has a special column in the Wall Street Journal's Weekend section — a tribute to Americans via the widow of a British expatriate who was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11: "On July 4, God Save the Queen." »
Batting .500 isn't good enough
Not when it comes to Supreme Court appointments, as we are reminded every year at this time. Unfortunately, .500 is just about what the Republicans have batted since Nixon was elected (I don't even want to think about Eisenhower's selection of Warren and Brennan). For every Burger there's been a Blackmun; for every Rehnquist, a Stevens; for every Scalia, an O'Connor; for every Thomas, a Souter, and so on. Thus, »
Senator Dayton on Theology
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Amazing disgrace
In one sense the Supreme Court's opinion today in Lawrence v. Texas, asserting the existence of a constitutional right to homosexual sodomy, was utterly predictable. Thirty years ago the liberal constitutional scholar John Hart Ely wrote a classic law review article ("The Wages of Crying Wolf") condemning the jurisprudence of Roe v. Wade, and Lawrence is in a sense only a few steps further down the jurisprudential arc that will »
France's Would-Be Margaret Thatcher
You may have heard about Sabine Herold, the 21-year-old student who is leading the opposition to France's striking unions. The Daily Telegraph reports on her visit to England: "Standing on a telephone box in her pearl earrings and high heels, she addresses crowds of 80,000, urging them to rise up against the striking teachers, Metro workers, rubbish collectors and air traffic controllers who are ruining people's lives. With her student »
Keeping one's eye on the ball
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Thank You, Tony
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Tony Blair's government is fighting back against the BBC's constant attacks on Blair's Iraq policy. Blair's communications director, Alistair Campbell denounced the BBC in the House of Commons yesterday. Campbell took on the BBC's claim that Blair's administration "sexed up" its dossier on Saddam Hussein's regime. The BBC's attack was weak on its face, as the BBC criticized only a single statement in the dossier, and did not disprove that »
State Department Questions Mobile Lab Findings
Career bureaucrats at the State Department with loyalties to the Democratic Party have done everything possible to frustrate the Administration's policy initiatives. The most recent outrage is a memo by the Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research which questions the conclusion by the CIA and DIA that the mobile laboratories found in Iraq were intended for biological weapons production. Following the usual pattern, the report's conclusions were then leaked to »
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Peter Wood is the anthropologist whose anatomy of the ideology of "diversity" in his book of this year is now, in light of the Supreme Court's Grutter decision, mandatory reading. (The book is Diversity: The Invention of a Concept.) On FrontPage this morning Professor Wood highlights a point made by Justice Rehnquist in his dissent — the peculiarities of the Court's blessing of the related invention of the "critical mass" »


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Just in case you were lying awake at night, worrying that journalists weren't already cranking up 2013's will-he-or-won't-he-sign superstar contract saga, rest assured.
Buddy Franklin is going to sign with Hawthorn. Sooner or later. And we're all on the story. Or the non-story.
"We'll get it done with Hawthorn, don't even worry about it," Franklin's manager Liam Pickering said on his Off The Bench SEN radio program on Saturday morning.
That could be the end of this article before it really began, but this being the AFL, the year-round attention-hog of Australian sports, and this being Buddy, the most electrifying forward in the league, there will undoubtedly be fans keen for more.
So here it is:
"I don't need to test the free agency market with Lance Franklin," Pickering said.
"Let's be honest - every club would want Buddy Franklin.
"But he will stay at Hawthorn; it will be all sorted.
"I'm very confident."
Ah - there it is - he's only very confident! The deal is not actually set in stone yet! Cue speculation, planted rumours, scuttlebutt...
We could all go back to the cricket and leave footy contract talk until at least February, but it cannot be denied that the prospect of such an influential 'franchise' player becoming available via free agency would generate plenty of discussion.
The brilliant Hawk is out of contract at the end of next season, and as early as July, Hawthorn CEO Stuart Fox said the club would try to sign Franklin in a bid to avoid the soap opera that trailed fellow key forward Travis Cloke's protracted contract negotiations with Collingwood throughout 2012.
Pickering said he assumed Franklin would remain a Hawthorn player for the rest of his career.
"Assumed"? Does that mean he's not 100% sure?...
Earlier this week, Fremantle confirmed that it was NOT seeking Franklin's service, saying it did not have a big enough "nest-egg" in its salary cap.
Franklin's good friend, former housemate and fellow West Australian Sharrod Wellingham left Collingwood this off-season for the West Coast Eagles. Don't read anything into that.


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Atlanta beat Minnesota 24-17 on Sunday, clinching the NFC Wildcard spot. That means Harvey Dahl is now heading to the playoffs for the first time in his NFL career
Dahl certainly has come a long way. The Fallen native enjoyed a stellar career at Nevada, being named to the All-WAC first team his senior season on the offensive line.
Dahl went undrafted out of Nevada, but he got an opportunity as an undrafted free agent with the Cowboys in 2005. He was later waived and claimed off of waivers by the 49ers.
He was then allocated to NFL Europe and spent some time on the 49ers practice squad. He even suited up for a few of the 49ers games, and saw some action in one game against the Rams.
Dahl was signed by the Falcons last season, and this year he's become a starter at right guard. He's even been mentioned by a few of the Falcons' beat writers as a candidate for the team's most improved player award.
Dahl Timeline:
Named to the Outland Trophy watch list in July of 2004 as one of the top 57 linemen, offense or defense, in the country prior to the start of the 2004 campaign at Nevada. Also named to the Lombardi watch list.
Served as a co-captain of the Wolf Pack his senior season. Named first-team All-WAC for the second consecutive season.
2005 (49ers)
Signed from the San Francisco practice squad to the active roster (12/20) and was inactive for final two games of the season at St. Louis (12/24) and versus Houston (1/1/06).
Allocated to NFL Europe Rhein Fire where he played under the direction of 49ers defensive line coach Jim Tomsula who was the Fire's Head Coach at the time.
2006 (49ers)
Competed in four games, was inactive for nine contests and was active but did not play in three others.
Played in his first NFL game against St. Louis (9/17), seeing action in the 49ers goal line offense in the second quarter.
Saw action on special teams and on offense versus Oakland (10/8), reporting as an eligible receiver twice on fourth-down conversion attempts.
2007 (Falcons)
Started the season on the San Francisco 49ers practice squad.
Inactive for his first eight contests with the Falcons.
Competed in one game in the season finale against Seattle (12/30).
2008 (Falcons)
Falcons everyday starter at right guard.


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As theme nights go, Frank Sinatra night was a double dose of boring and geriatric. Way to stay current, Idol! Yes, it was also a classic and safe night that was enhanced by Harry Connick Jr.'s presence somewhat but it also introduced a new level of shameless guest pimping on Idol that felt ridiculous and at times embarrassing. Idol is getting rid of another one tonight, bringing us that much closer to the end of the most tedious season ever. Oh, and Lady Gaga is here to perform. Read on.
Even after all these years, Seacrest insists on his This.Is.American.Idol drama intro even though it has long become annoying and stale. Although, I guess, it fits in a way since the show itself is as annoying and stale as only an 9 season old show can be when it has no highs left to climb. The night's obligatory group routine is first up and this one is a Sinatra medley with the Idols predictably dressed in black suits with white shirts. Crystal, the only girl left, is wearing tails and a fedora and sounds breathless, Casey is trying to make sexy eyes at the camera and looks ridiculous while the others are just there. Fast forward.
In the Leed
In an uncharacteristic move, Ryan gets right down to business after the first commercial break. We find out that next week is Movie Week and Jamie Foxx is mentoring the final four and then it's sponsor-ass-kissing time again with another cheesetastic Ford commercial video staring another Ford car. I have often wondered why they just make these commercials week after week but never actually run them on TV more than once to try to, you know, actually sell something. Although, I must say that seeing Crystal trying to act as if she doesn't think that this is all ridiculously beneath her is a weekly source of cheap amusement for me. There have been so few high points this season that I'll take any low I can get and call it a show.
Did you know that the Idols used to do normal stuff before Idol? Incredible, I know. But now, they're on to new stuff such as Tuesdays filled with performance related busy times, complete with fake critiques from fake judges during rehearsal, as opposed to Tuesdays filled with normal people stuff. Among other things, Lee used to mix paint and Michael used to help his clients work out. Fascinating.
Lee is up for his verdict first and Ryan takes him to the center of the stage and after a little delay during which Lee babbles on about his feelings and some time-wasting comments from the judges, he is declared safe and dispatched to sit on a stool. See, that took about one minute longer that it had to take but at least it was genuine show business. Can't really say the same about the rest of the show.
Gagantuan missteps
There hasn't been much excitement on Idol since Adam Lambert landed on the show with his stratosphere scraping vocals and smoke filled white laser volcano but none other than Lady Gaga is here today to liven up the proceedings. I usually love Lady Gaga and her bombastic performance art slash fashion statement pop-with-substance extravaganzas but this mash-up of Bad Romance and Alejandro pretaped days ago is somehow not hitting the right mark this time. There's the usual expected unexpected visually arresting setup, everything from a giant flaming and bleeding angel statue, twigs and branches on Gaga's piano, an entire tree, half naked boy-on-boy dancers, smoke, lights to Gaga's Victorian black-widow -meets -Vegas-stripper outfit. However, her vocals are not quite up to par which is disappointing since she is at least partly lipsynching and can definitely sing and sing very well. But aside from the vocals, the performance is just oddly disjointed not to mention that Idol makes a concerted effort to gloss over the boy-on-boy Tango dancing bits which is as ridiculous a move as is pathetic.
All Harried out
For some unnamed reason, Idol decided on a super extra fancy extended pimp package of Harry Connick Jr.'s time on the show so we get yet another montage of how things went down between him and the Idols. He is at times funny and supremely annoying and overly impressed with himself which makes me want to smack him especially since his suck-up segment is followed by Harry himself performing And I Love Her - a Beatles cover, natch from his new album. Is Harry the male Susan Boyle now? Twenty seconds into watching Harry giving his all and struggling with the lower end of his range while attempting to make creepy, seductive eyes at the camera I've about had enough of him to last me a lifetime. And then there's that absolutely ridiculous moshpit action at the bottom of the screen for a boring jazz cover performance of a 50 year old song. Not to mention Harry taking over as emcee and then playing the piano while the final five do a group sing medley of his own songs. And just when I think it's over Ryan prompts Harry to launch into an extended story about how he met Frank Sinatra that one time followed by more pimpage of Harry's Broadway show. If I owned any of Harry's CDs right now, they would be flying right into the next garbage bin.
Fly him to the moon
After the official Harry suck-up session that lasted nearly 15 minutes and a commercial to cleanse the brain, Ryan is back with some more results. He dispatches Crystal and Casey to the far side of the stage and Michael and Aaron to the near side. It quickly becomes apparent which is the bottom group but in a characteristic show of cruelty Ryan wants to know which group would Lee join if he had to pick. Lee safely refuses to do any choosing and unsurprisingly, Crystal and Casey are safe. This leaves Michael and Aaron in the bottom two. I'm sure I don't even have to tell you who got eliminated. Aaron does a good job of singing himself out with Harry on the piano again. Can't somebody get rid of him already? But at least Aaron is leaving on a high note which is more than some previous outvoted contestants can say.
Now that we're down to the last four, the competition should be heating up although in this season's case that heating up would amount to getting just above freezing temperatures. That's how hot this show is right now.
Looks like Lady Gaga's performance was indeed edited and chopped up by Idol. I guess they had to make room for more Harry pimpage.


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Linked by nej_simon on Wed 12th Sep 2012 20:14 UTC
A video demonstrating the multitasking gestures of BlackBerry 10 has surfaced. The UI looks like a combination of PlayBook OS and Nokia's ill-fated MeeGo operating system. However, CrackBerry notes "... consider the video shows as being dated for June, yet is only appearing now in September. Something tells me someone sat on this until it was possibly no longer really relevant and therefore, may not matter all that much if people see it now."
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Live previews
by winter skies on Wed 12th Sep 2012 20:31 UTC
RE: Live previews
by Laurence on Wed 12th Sep 2012 22:51 in reply to "Live previews"
This video seems to show BB10 with static, screenshot-like app previews on the switching interface, while I seem to recall MeeGo has live previews. I hope the final version will feature the latter.
To be honest I preferred WebOS's cards.
In fact I really do wish WebOS took off more - I'd love to have one of the current generations of smart phones with WebOS and the same kind of app catalogue as seen on Android or iOS.
I know it's wishful thinking, but maybe one day Open WebOS will be a viable option for rooted Android handsets. Or even dual booting Cyanogenmod and Open WebOS. One can only dream....
RE[2]: Live previews
by libray on Thu 13th Sep 2012 17:28 in reply to "RE: Live previews"
The TabletOS... Playbook OS the precursers to BB10 has a lot of the same effects of webOS. A difference, that I like now, is that for applicaiton menues, swipe down from the app, and you can swipe down from the right corner for the sysmenu or swipe down from the left for notifications.
Ahh, yes notifications. I miss those and how they worked in WebOS phones. With the Playbook, it may be ok to dedicate an area for them, but it worked really nicely to have the bottom popups from WebOS.
RE: Live previews
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At a time of low morale in the shutdown and-pay freeze-weary federal workforce, it's a nice contrast to behold some feds giving their Friday lunch hour over to the electric slide.
Several dozen State Department employees can be seen on many Fridays line-dancing their cares away at the Columbia Plaza food courtyard, which is just around the corner from State's C Street Northwest main building.
Led by an instructor backed by recorded soul and R&B tunes, the badge-wearing movers and shakers of all ages, genders and body types appeared on this Friday to be entranced by the joy of motion.
"It's for State Department people or anyone who joins in," said one participant. "It really takes it out of you."


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Not Your Usual History Lesson: Writing Historical Markers (6-8) Students will develop their summarizing skills while learning about local history. They will learn to consider audience while selecting topics, conducting research and interviews, and writing historical markers for their town.
Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments (9-12) Students are often asked to perform speeches, but rarely do we require students to analyze speeches as carefully as we study works of literature. In this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen device. They will write an essay about its effectiveness and why it is still famous after all these years.
Sonic Patterns: Exploring Poetic Techniques Through Close Reading (9-12) Students develop close reading skills connecting sound with sense in the poem "Those Winter Sundays," and write an original text that reflects their new learning.
Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's 'Blackberry Picking' (9-12) This lesson eases students' fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them a strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning.
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According to wikipedia, in 2011 HP was worth about 130 billion dollars. They probably spend 500k on [i]toilet paper[/i] in a year.
Durp, wasted what turns out to have been a first post, on failing to remember that slashdot doesn't use bbcode in time. Awesome.
I think HP gives Ballmer a left-testicle just to have drivers packaged with Windows.
That would be toilet paper anyway.
They probably spend 500k on toilet paper in a year.
<SARCASM>Or three or four really good developers who they treat like toilet paper. But, again, that's nothing. They probably flush thousands [latimes.com] of developers every year!</SARCASM>
I don't see how $500K can even be that much to the Linux foundation. That's not enough to pay 5 good developers for a year.
That's not enough to pay 5 good developers for a year.
Depends where they live. $100K in the USA might not be much but for someone else, say in India, it's another story.
Regardless of what they make, that doesn't make their contribution any less of a good thing. I'm not implying that's what you're saying but I see that kind of logic a lot here. "X makes Y billions -- it doesn't count if they don't donate Z billions!"
No, I'm just saying it's not really big news. Still good of them, and I'm sure from the perspective of the Linux Foundation it's great money, I'm just saying from the perspective of HP, it'd be like me donating some change that fell out of my pocket.
I don't think that meets the HP bar for a rounding-error.
Just because it isn't very much isn't really a good reason to barf on them.
This announcement is actually a good thing and HP should get some credit for it.
Perhaps the Linux Foundation should double the cost of becoming a Platinum member, but that's a separate discussion.
HP looks like it would have only 2 reasons to muck around w/ Linux - WebOS and Itanium. Since WebOS has been cut loose & opened, HP has no stakes in its future, particularly if it's going w/ Windows 8 on a Medfield or Hondo.
HP's only other reason would be the Itanic, which it refuses to abandon, even though Intel, for all intents & purposes, effectively has. Right now, only Debian actively supports the platform on the Linux side, while FBSD and NBSD do so on the BSD side. So if being a member o
Lets get donating. Can we get 50% of Slashdot folk on the foundation one at a time.
The Individual Member Representative Bdale Garbee (Board Members [linuxfoundation.org]) holds a "level 3" high power rocketry certification, the highest in the rocketry hobby. HP will get a bigger rocket and wins if we don't act quickly
AFAICT, Linux developers don't follow any agenda but their own -- each individual does whatever he or she wants (or is told to do by his or her employer), Linus' lieutenants accept any patches that seem both safe and useful, and Linus integrates whatever he gets from his lieutenants that seems safe and useful.
And none of them appear to pay any attention to anything the "Linux Foundation" says. So what does joining this body give HP, other than an opportunity to make some press releases?
Many of the core kernel developers, including Linus himself, are employees of the Linux Foundation. Additionally, Kernel.org is supported by the Linux Foundation. The foundation spends quite a bit of time managing various and sundry summits which serve to bring the disparate kernel developers together.
They function both as a bit of infrastructure support as well as a promotional arm, though almost exclusively with respect to the kernel. They get real hype on Android because it gets the kernel out there, but rarely utter a word about standard Linux distros.
Many of the core kernel developers, including Linus himself, are employees of the Linux Foundation.
Yes but do they actually tell him what to do? And does he listen?
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/corporate [linuxfoundation.org]
Besides ensuring that your company's investment in Linux is protected from a legal, technical and promotional perspective, there are many other benefits in joining the Linux Foundation as a Corporate Member.
The Benefits of Linux Foundation Membership
The ability to participate in Linux Foundation member-only activities like the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and Legal Summit to learn, influence and participate with the Linux Foundation workgroups
The right to vote and run for Linux Foundation board seats and influence the direction of the organization
Unsurpassed networking opportunities and a unique introductions service. Meet other Linux Foundation members and Linux users in small settings or get introduced to companies in a one-on-one fashion by Linux Foundation staff>
Access to the Linux Foundation media network, including Linux.com. The Linux Foundation reaches 2 million users and developers a month through its online channels and newsletters and promotes members directly to these audiences
Discounts on Linux training
The right to participate in Linux Foundation member councils such as the Vendor and End User Councils and collaborate directly with the technical leaders of Linux
Discounts for sponsoring LinuxCon, Linux Japan Symposium, The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and other Linux Foundation events. Members get priority at these events
Logo listing on the Linux Foundation site and the ability to add a member logo to your site or marketing materials
Exclusive member content, such as the Briefing Book, and one-on-one analyst briefings (depending on membership level) that keeps you up to date on the Linux market to make the most of your investment in Linux
The ability to create workgroups and collaborate in a neutral setting to solve pressing Linux or open source issues
Guidance on open source issues and using Linux in your products
And... after reading all of that, I find myself with my question fundamentally unanswered
It seems that the benefit of being a member of the Foundation is the opportunity to be known as a member of the Foundation, and to hobnob with other members.
Between a closed iOS controlled by Apple and a seemingly non-heterogeneous and sometimes controlled by the carriers Android OS, is WebOS the only valid alternative?
Can HP succeed where RIM failed? I'd like to see iOS, Android and WebOS each get around 30-35% userbase, in order to keep each other from taking over. The last thing we need is another OS with 90%+ userbase, no matter which one it is.
If HP are in charge, it must be time to fire 20% of the Linux Foundation workforce.
Or sell off the 'kernel development' part of the operation, and call it 'Flagilent'
It occurs to me that HP has seen Windows 8... Has seen consumer reaction to it. Has seen M$ trying to build their own hardware, and has seen the success of Android and iPad.
Basically M$ had the world by the balls because of the Windows infrastructure. Now they are:
o Building an OS that is fundamentally incompatible with that infrastructure.
o Screwing their business partners by building their own hardware.
HP (and everyone with a clue) knows M$ ALWAYS screws up everything they touch. (We have already seen this
Of course... I don't much like the "new" (can something two years old still be called new?) Ubuntu desktop either, but I think it beats Windows 8.
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken


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Iran is now claiming that it has armed Hamas with antiaircraft missiles and that the militants have hit and damaged several sophisticated Israeli warplanes.
Earlier it was reported Iranian surface-to-surface missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv were in Hamas' hands. Such capability long has been a dream of Iranian missile designers, and now Hamas has that added threat.
Meanwhile, a bomb exploded on a bus in Tel Aviv Wednesday, injuring 22 people, just hours before a cease-fire was announced in Cairo between the Israelis and Hamas militants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed "more forceful" action if the cease-fire didn't take hold.
Mashregh, a news media outlet run by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, reported Wednesday that the conflict in Gaza is quite different from the one in 2009 when Palestinian fighters were limited to Ghassam rockets with a range of only six miles and a warhead of just 22 pounds. Now the Hamas militants are equipped with Fajr-5 missiles, which have a range of 50 miles and a warhead of 385 pounds.
The biggest problem for the Palestinian fighters had been their complete vulnerability to Israeli airstrikes. That has changed, Mashregh wrote, with news within the past week that not only an Israeli drone was hit but Israeli helicopters and as many as 10 F16 fighters were targeted and damaged by antiaircraft missiles.
Israeli fighter jets are among the most technologically advanced with electronic systems guarding against surface-to-air missiles. The use of antiaircraft missiles and surface-to-surface missiles by the Palestinian fighters has sent fear into the heart of the enemy, Mashregh wrote.
Militant leaders have stated clearly that the missiles being used in Gaza by their fighters were provided by Iran, Mashregh said, and that the antiaircraft arms are Iran's Misagh shoulder-fired missiles.
The Misagh, with a warhead of 3 pounds and a weight of just 37.5 pounds, can easily be carried by one person and features an automatic targeting system that allows the launcher to leave the scene and avoid retaliation.
Mashregh said that because the Palestinian fighters in Gaza lack any viable radar system, they must rely on their own sight to verify the enemy fighters and launch missiles from multiple angles to be successful. The possession of these antiaircraft missiles shows how the "Zionist regime's" intelligence has failed to understand the depth of the armaments in the hands of the resistance fighters, Mashregh concluded.
Fars News Agency, also run by the Revolutionary Guards, on Wednesday published a statement by Gen. Massoud Jazayeri, a senior commander of Iran's armed forces, on what he called the defeat of the Americans and Israelis.
"The historical defeat of the Zionists in the current conflict in Gaza is the fourth victory for the resistance front, after the 33-day war (with Hezbollah), the 22-day war (Gaza) and the conflict in Syria," he said. "The importance of the conflict in Gaza is significant, to the point that the fake perception of the Israeli might has been shattered and any military threat by the Zionists will only result in a worldwide mockery."
Jazayari warned that Israel's Iron Dome defense system is incapable of defending against the missiles of "the resistance" and that not all the military capability of the resistance has entered the war scene. "The resistance" refers to Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic regime ruling Iran, in a fiery speech Wednesday lashed out at America, Britain and France for supporting Israel. He called Israelis savages who commit the most heinous crimes and in the face of the power of the resistance "are begging for truce from the Gaza force."
The Islamic regime ruling Iran has long armed and trained militias in the Palestinian territory for terrorist attacks against Israel. Khamenei previously stated that, "We will support and help any nation, any group fighting against the Zionist regime across the world, and we are not afraid of declaring this."
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran's Revolutionary Guards and author of the award winning book "A Time to Betray" (Simon & Schuster, 2010). He serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and the advisory board of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI).


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AfriGeneas Genealogy and History Forum Archive
Mystery Photo - LEWIS, BLACKLEDGE, MOORE, NC
Posted this a long time ago, but figured I'd take another shot at it.
Have a mystery photo from my great aunt Martha Roberts' collection posted to my website of:
Frederick LEWIS, born 1851 from New Bern, NC.
Found some info on him - related to MOORE and BLACKLEDGE or BLACKLIDGE and though we do have surname LEWIS and MOORE in my family from VA have found no links to this photo as of yet.
Hope someone else here can make a link,
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I develop with Joomla daily, and you do certainly need skills in PHP to be able to get it work - a non-programmer would be unable to get the most out of the package and modules. Saying that I've only been developing PHP for 6 years, and it took me about three days to be able to work and build complex e-commerce solutions with Joomla. I was able to create good sites for customers after a couple of days and didn't experience the probelms you mentioned.
In terms of usability it is quite poor though. In previous
Version Joomla! 1.5 has gotten alot better. 1.6 is coming out soon with better control on the content.
Maybe the poster was hoping we'd see this and get all pissed off, then go sign up and post on that thread to make a fuss about it.
Indeed, one user on the forum even said "I'm sure that clear usability suggestions with ideas for implementation would be welcomed!"
Feel the rage!
>>>with 6 posts, [one] of which seem to have been written by an upset person.
Fixed That For Ya - http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=304&t=377189&p=1607349#p1607349 [joomla.org]
So you're saying that a spanner is better than a power geared pneumatic torque wrench if all you're doing is tightening a bolt?
No shit, Sherlock.
I use BOTH systems for the company web site. Joomla!, lets me create and customize things like menus, download zones, galleries of images, a forum, etc. A link points to our blog implemented in Wordpress. There are blog extensions for Joomla, but WP is IMO better than those.
Joomla is both a CMS and a framework to add powerful extensions, and using just for a blog is overkill. Wordpress is a blog (and of course able to present a simple static web site), but is limited beyond that.
Note also that there are many Joomla extensions in order to let other projects being integrated in the Joomla framework. See for example:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-&-news/blog/6659/details [joomla.org] (integrate WP with Joomla)
It's pretty obvious that Joomla will have a larger learning curve so the comparison is really pointless.
Wow, this article is blatantly biased. Just look at the way he writes.
For the Joomla! examples, they feel the need to put quotations around everything. 'Control Panel', 'Title', and so on. Those same words (or similar words) in the WordPress section are for some reason easier to understand, so they don't warrant quotations.
Not to mention he described Joomla!'s processes as a technical writer would (loosely) and then described WordPress' processes as if casually telling a friend.
That alone stopped me from reading the article.
Disclaimer: I've used Joomla! once, and WordPress once. Both did their jobs admirably, but you can't compare apples and oranges - which is what this article is trying to do, with a heavy bias.
Wow, this article is blatantly biased.
I figured that from the "Wordpress might only offer 90% of the features of Joomla!" quote.
should they focus more on usability?
Errr... yes?
How can you possibly answer "no" to that question? Do you want your stuff actually being, you know, used by people? There's a reason it's called "usability" and not bumblebee.
Depends on the project. Project involving Hardware drivers/low level services/operating systems, probably not (should be performance and stability).
Errr... yes?
How can you possibly answer "no" to that question? Do you want your stuff actually being, you know, used by people? There's a reason it's called "usability" and not bumblebee.
Go read up on the arguments against the GoboLinux [wikipedia.org] filesystem structure. (These Ubuntu folks have a bunch [ubuntu.com]). There are some fairly passioned "screw the n00bs" rants out there. Does anybody honestly think that the traditional Unix filesystem heirarchy makes an ounce of sense in 2009?
Both vi and EMACS seem to have taken the "fuck the users" approach to heart. I suppose I might be of the wrong mindset to operate either application, though the developers could have at the very least taken the time to provide a decent set of documentation for their astonishingly-complex applications.
Both vi and EMACS seem to have taken the "fuck the users" approach to heart.
There is a difference between being easy-to-use-first-time and usable. You appear to be confusing the two.
There is a difference between being easy-to-use-first-time and usable.
Well, yes, but one implies the other. I'll let you work out which one.
There is a difference, but you're cutting it very thin. Applications that a first-time user finds easy are often (not always, but usually) also easy for experienced users. If you can walk up to something and 'get it' right away, it's often an indication that the designer has really captured the user's mental model for the task. If you find something usable only after months of practice, that application is not usable for most values of the word usable.
If you find something usable only after months of practice, that application is not usable for most values of the word usable.
I once heard a definition of "usable" I quite liked, though I can't remember where: "it makes the simple easy, and the complex possible". ViM and Emacs may require some initial training and a willingness to RTFM, but once learned they excel at the latter in ways that no other editor I've tried has done.
Not that thin.
Notepad is easy to use the first time. But it's unusable if you intend to do any serious coding.
Not at all. Professional applications can assume things like background and vocabulary that are not available to general users. They can assume higher levels of interest and specialization. Intuitive interfaces seek to hide complexity, professional interfaces seek to organize complexity so that as much of it as possible can be displayed.
So, basically, as the OP said, "screw the n00bs", right?
Given enough time, you can learn how to use just about anything. A program that's usable only by people who took several days (weeks?) to read the manuals, is not usable, by any meaningful definition of the word.
I disagree with the OP though - vi and EMACS weren't about "fucking the users", in fact, when they were created, they were relatively user-friendly. Hell, they are still more user-friendly than some later DOS programs. But now, they are showing
Does anybody honestly think that the traditional Unix filesystem heirarchy makes an ounce of sense in 2009?
vimtutor is actually pretty good.
Both vi and EMACS seem to have taken the "fuck the users" approach to heart.
Really? Both Vi and Emacs have some of the best builtin help available. They are both modal editors so they aren't going to be easy to understand without reading the manual but is it really the fault of the programs's creator that you cannot do advanced editing without reading the manual? If you want easy there are are hundreds of other text editors that are easier to use although they can't do half as much.
Does anybody honestly think that the traditional Unix filesystem heirarchy makes an ounce of sense in 2009?
In Linux you install things with a package manager. This means that for 99% of users, it doesn't matter whether it's called
This just seems a pointless waste of time. As a sysadmin, this sort of thing means I have to learn where everything on this system is, and when something breaks it'll take extra effort to fix.I much prefer consistency, so this won't be the distro I'll be going with. The existence of a kernel module to keep compatibility is annoying and limiting. And this won't end there, I'm sure some other distro will think that it should be
As an user, everything outside of
/System/Settings/passwd isn't any more intuitive than
That's because you know what it's for. If you look at it with a new user's eyes:
/System/Settings/passwd is something to do with the system's settings, probably some system password file from the looks of it.
Or it just exactly as meaningless as
Though why do they have to mess with that stuff anyway? If you're going to assume a stupid user who is going to think that
I use to go to websites and thus it should be deleted when I clear my private data.
Which will fail because you don't have permissions to edit
Why not? The approach works fine on Mac OS X (even though I do lament the lack of a proper package manager).
It's not even that the traditional Unix filesystem is cryptic.... it's that it no longer makes sense for the manner in which it's used.
What is
Is the distinction between
Does it make sense for
Does anybody honestly think that the traditional Unix filesystem heirarchy makes an ounce of sense in 2009
It doesn't make any sense when everything is on one partition. Gobolinux as a series of symlinks makes sense. Where there is a problem is in how directories are mounted. For example
You may want to distribute drive loads. Frag
Both emacs and vi/vim have excellent documentation and have had it for decades.
Does anybody honestly think that the traditional Unix filesystem heirarchy makes an ounce of sense in 2009?
Actually, yes (mostly).
Usability does not necessarily mean you have to change the system structure. You can also display it differently. For example, on the low level, OS X knows files and folders, just like every other OS. However, on the higher levels, it will display some folders as if they were applications, and allow you to interact with them as if they were a third kind of filesystem entity that does not actually exist on the lower levels (e.g. double-clicking on a normal folder opens it, double-click
Both vi and EMACS seem to have taken the "fuck the users" approach to heart. I suppose I might be of the wrong mindset to operate either application, though the developers could have at the very least taken the time to provide a decent set of documentation for their astonishingly-complex applications.
How can I take the rest of your comment seriously when you are either trolling or speaking out of ignorance (and is there a difference?). Have you even glanced at the Emacs manual? It is quite thorough. You can read online within emacs, read it on the commandline, order a printed book from the FSF or your favorite publisher, or print out your own copy.
There are a lot of weaknesses as far as documentation in the GNU/Linux system; Emacs isn't one of them. You can also read the Emacs Lisp and the Introduct
I've seen the EMACS documentation, and would simply like to respectfully disagree.
Like EMACS itself, it's unnecessarily thorough. The text, IMO is dense, unnecessarily lengthy, and poorly formatted.
The EMACS docs read like a novel, which is great if you want to sit down for a week, and learn the guts of the program inside-and-out. Unfortunately, this is not how most software documentation is used.
Most (good) software documentation is briefly glanced at as a quick reference. To make the most of this scena
> How can you possibly answer "no" to that question?
Well given finite resources, the reason question should be:
should they focus more on usability and focus less on stability/bug fixing/adding features?
In which case the answer could quite possibly be no.
It's somewhat akin to "should teachers be paid more?" etc type questions.
> > should they focus more on usability?
> Errr... yes?
> How can you possibly answer "no" to that question?
Well, it is open source we are talking about.
Here is Linus Torvald back in 2000 explaining that adding features that make development easier in the kernel is not a good idea:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0009.0/1148.html [indiana.edu]
(And of course, it was a stupid position to begin with, but clever people are pretty good at rationalizing anything. I guess that in 2000 he would have rejec
If anyone actually wants to use this, in ways more complicated than point-click-publish, they will have to open it up, look desperately for any comments (which either don't exist, are wrong, or weren't changed when the code was updated) or other clues about how it works.
If you put any financial cost on your time
Try out ModX CMS... it's like WordPress but with infinite Template Variables which automatically create input fields for your page authoring screen... and can be of any input type (text, textarea, radio group, select list/menu, etc) and can be bound to a data source or hardcoded or dynamic via user input... so sweet.
Wordpress is still more usable but only because you can't make a generated authoring page more usable than a stripped down simple static page like WP uses.
While an interesting comparison which draws conclusions I broadly agree with I feel that this is mostly unfair. They author states at the start that he has developed two solutions to the problems he commonly faces one based on Joomla the other on Word Press. Since Joomla is much harder to work with it must be bringing something to the party that Word Press isn't. Having said that I do feel that a lot of open source projects are far more complicated than they need to be because they are produced by developer
Hi All,
If anyone is looking at Joomla etc. right now and trying to decide on which CMS to use, please take my advice:
If you're a competent programmer, appreciate good design, know PHP to some extent, etc. then use *Drupal*. It has taken me 6 painful months to learn how frustrating the other systems can be if you already have these skills.
Joomla et. al seem to be designed for people without a strong technical background. Drupal is a tool that speeds up the process of building sites for technical literate designers without constraining them too much.
If you're a competent programmer, appreciate good design, know PHP to some extent, etc. then use *Drupal*
I'd say, even if you aren't any of those things, you should still go with Drupal.
Everything, from module installation, to template creation (which you have to do, even on the most basic site) is simpler and less technical in Drupal. The only thing that's better in Joomla! is a slightly more attractive admin area layout.
The idea that Joomla! is somehow more newbie-friendly, is a myth.
I'd say the comparison between Linux and MacOSX vs Joomla/Wordpress is wrong in one very important point: both Joomla as well as Wordpress are free. Linux is free. MacOSX is not. I see that the person who made the comparison is using a Mac so I see where he is coming from but that does not mean he should forget that one very important point. His favourite computing platform is proprietary, can not be shared between friends and family and will even land you in jail if you try to do so on a large scale. Share
I have administered (and currently administer) a number of sites for various clients across a wide range of publishing systems - flat html, php, various CMSes running on Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers.
I cannot find the words to convey the depth of the hatred and loathing I feel for Joomla. It embodies the worst of Open Source - as if it were written by a million angsty teenagers suffering from ADHD, with duplicated functionality across a hundred different modules, little or no sensible documentation, and the usability issues...! Most CMSes try and at least look like some thought has been given to how people in the real world will use them. Joomla feels and behaves like it was designed to be DELIBERATELY confusing, as if the author of any given module was sneering at his imaginary end user, thinking "it's perfectly obvious to ME what to do here, fuck you if you can't work it out, n00b".
Gah! Just thinking about Joomla makes me want to go and wash my hands.
See, here's where you're wrong: Joomla makes it incredibly easy to grant full editing access to anyone visiting your site!
With hundreds of essential 3rd-party modules [milw0rm.com]! These action-packed add-ons feature high-quality and easy-to-use SQL injection exploits, empowering your visitors to take full control and do whatever they want to your site.
Now that's usability!
Joomla Bugsquad here. Sorry but your post doesn't mention a single point in Joomla that you dislike or even a single point that may be flawed. It actually sounds like a little hissy-fit by someone teenager or early twen with ADHD - to use your own words.
And as you are and "admin for various sites" (Links please) you might actually maybe have some substancial criticisim to add. I'll be glad to pass it on to the core team.
Otherwise please quit any aimless ranting and flailing. You get may modded +5 Interestin
Joomla Bugsquad here. Sorry but your post doesn't mention a single point in Joomla that you dislike or even a single point that may be flawed. It actually sounds like a little hissy-fit by someone teenager or early twen with ADHD - to use your own words.
And as you are and "admin for various sites" (Links please) you might actually maybe have some substancial criticisim to add. I'll be glad to pass it on to the core team.
Otherwise please quit any aimless ranting and flailing. You get may modded +5 Interestin
Create a new entry in Joomla. Where does it live? Does it even exist other than in the db table? Is it a page? No. Is it a blog entry? Maybe, if the system is set up that way. What kind of entry is it? Try explaining the difference to a non-technical user.
Choose the category you want. Oh, you need a new section. Forget about making a menu link to the entry and create a new section, then a new category. At this point it's actually easier to delete the original entry and post it again.
Now create a menu item.
Create a new entry in Joomla. Where does it live? Does it even exist other than in the db table? Is it a page? No. Is it a blog entry? Maybe, if the system is set up that way. What kind of entry is it? Try explaining the difference to a non-technical user.
It's a content item. It has enough meta-data to be rendered as a blog entry, if you wish, as it has publishing and 'go offline' dates and tons of other stuff. How it is rendered you can choose once you build a menu item that leads to its category,section o
all your points are valid. *AND* they are not easy concepts for the non-technical user to grasp. The article we're supposedly discussing compares ease of use of Wordpress and Joomla. I've built and trained people on 8 Joomla sites. Without exception I have many more support calls from Joomla users asking how do I do.... Many of them come from just the connection of an entry to the menu that I've outlined.
I've made step-by-step tutorials. I've created screencasts. I've spend hours upon hours in training. It'
Linux with a fountain pen.
While Linux is more feature packed, my fountain pen is easier to setup.
Therefore, fountain pens seem to be designed for "average Joe", and Linux is designed for engineers.
A couple of years ago I was attracted to Joomla as a way to quickly produce some professional looking websites. However, the logo I wanted to use was a different size from the standard Joomla template.
Just making this simply and obvious change meant
No, of course not. Engineers should focus on engineering. Usability experts (sidenote: what a loaded term. First step, get a better name for the people who focus on usability) should focus on usability. Developers (who are often also the engineers) should coordinate with UI people and engineers to make the end result.
Usability experts (sidenote: what a loaded term. First step, get a better name for the people who focus on usability)
Something like, umm, ergonomist?
Who uses Wordpress for Web development?
blogging: yes
Web development: me not
I looked at both Joomla! and Drupal but settled on Wordpress as a basis for setting up some freelance web development jobs. It was much easier to build a custom template from scratch by backwards engineering the default and customizing everything.
And for those who think it is only for blogs needs to look around a little. For example http://autoshows.ford.com/ [ford.com] is Wordpress.
Well, at least the summary is complete and utter rubbish. The article is slashdotted, but from what I can extract from the comments, the author doesn't know what he's talking about.
WP does not have '90%' of Joomlas features. That's nonsense.
I have used, deployed and administrated WP since the b2 days, before it became WP and have been using, deploying, adminstrating and developing Joomla since the Mambo 4 days. And - take it from someone who makes a living on this stuff (and is a member of the Joomla Bugsquad) - both are very sohpisticated webkits!
WP is basically a Blogging engine. Plain and simple. It's a very pimped out matured blogging engine and is used as the foundation for some very large sites and complex apps - which is totally ok - but it started of as a blogging engine called b2 and all it's workflows are derived from blogging workflows. Which explain it's simplicity and thus its notable ease of use.
Joomla is a full-blown web-cms. It gives backend controll over what functions the frontend has, it has 7 user groups by default (which you can't change or extend - one of the downsides compared to other systems like Typo3) and basically is a feature behemoth right off the bat compared to WP. The built in editing toolset dwarves that of WP. Contrary to that, Joomla is extremely easy to install and installation plays in the same leage as WP usability wise. I actually find Joomla 1.5 easyer to install than WP 2.7.
That aside, Joomlas featureset and philosophy required that you sit down and learn it!. WP will have you publishing 5 minutes after installation, while Joomla might take an hour until everything is halfway in place. And you still won't understand half of it. Which is entirely due to the wide range of options Joomla offers, compared to WP.
Likewise doing nifty things like moving the login and/or search widget aroud the layout to make room for a large bulletin with 3 or 4 clicks of a mouse is simply impossible in WP. With the upside that you don't have to know what Joomla modules and module-positions are.
I currently use a plugin-pimped WP for my everyday blog (which I share with another blogger) and I use Joomla in 4 different sites, which are all more complex than a online essay site - and both do a very fine job and are very usable.
Bottom line: Ignore the rubbish and choose the best tool for the job. Both Joomla and WP are well suited for the prime choice in their field.
The article repeatedly stresses that blogging platform WordPress and CMS harness Joomla! occupy different levels of the content hierarchy.
Eh, yeah. That's pretty significant, as it completely invalidates the "Linux/MacOS" analogy. If Joomla is Linux, WordPress is OpenOffice (or Firefox, or Totem, or any other application).
Not that I'm a fanboy of Joomla! Or WordPress for that matter. I use both packages and, as has been pointed out, even by TFA itself, they're intended for different applications. Comparing their usability is like comparing the performance of a Ferrari and a John Deer tractor: Sure they're both motor-vehicles, but any comparis
by people who apparently dont know zit about what they are comparing. i like neither joomla, or wordpress, but i am a web developer by profession and mess with both occasionally. let me wrap it up :
joomla is basically a content management system that seeks to allow for many different functions through many different modules you can install. issues and problems are BOUND to happen, for you are installing many different modules coded by different people. it also has very diverse modules made for very diverse purposes other than just basically publishing articles.
wordpress is a codebase based on a BLOG first, and everything later. its capabilities are more limited than joomla is, because its initial goal and vision was narrower. therefore it can be made and is made simple to use. it also has less diverse modules performing less diverse spectrum of tasks.
therefore its kinda like comparing a family van to a utility truck. with one of them you can do the same thing you can do with the other one, but both are efficient in different areas.
"usable" means you download a file, click on it, the complete package is installed and ready to use after a wizard guides you thru setup
someone will have the brains to put thiss together, and all these stupid, hard to use, badly designed packages like joomla and word press (their web sites are designed to imitimidate users) will die a deserved death
look at why steve jobs is succesfull: if your grandmother can't use it, it is to complicated
look at why DEC and Prime and Data general and Cray are gone: volume
The real message is that joomla suffers from a lack of useability. The fact that a software component can perform complex tasks, does not require that the interface be confusing.
Comparing joomla to wordpress is silly as everyone else has noted...but it accomplished the author's goal of getting a lot of traffic....:)
I have to say that IMHO the Joomla developers would see an explosion of new users if they would just allow someone with useability experience to walk through the admin ui and suggest changes. It is repetitive. There are aspects that are not clear and thus confusing. In 2009, there really is no excuse for that.
Having said that, it is an excellent piece of software for catalogs, commerce sites, etc. I can think of none better in general...even considering drupal.
Just my opinion.
I reviewed about a dozen Web CMS systems for a project for my company. We wanted something that we could just release to our content providers and let them submit their content. We didn't want to get heavily invested in the engineering, or have to deal with a lot of background maintenance just to keep it going. Wordpress was far easier to set-up and get our users working, than anything else we tested, including Joomla. Wordpress may not be as flexible and expandable as some of the others, but it also doesn't take nearly as much tweaking and plug-in hunting. It met our needs with only a couple of plug-ins, and was a no-brainer to install. As always- YMMV.
I've deployed multiple sites on both Wordpress and Joomla. Currently our content portal uses both. Joomla for CMS and then Wordpress for blogging. My problem with both of them is that they take up a bit of time to maintain security updates. They are the favourite platform of script kiddies from Turkey and asian spammers.
Drupal is arguabely a more powerful platform than either, but you need a technical person to admin the damn thing. Trying to explain the concept of content nodes to the average person who just needs to update pages.
Recently I came across concrete5 (concrete5.org). It is certainly not a blogging platform. But if you have sites that maybe need updates once a week or month and needs to be maintained by none web people, it is by far the most easy to use, easy to understand CMS I've ever seen. What is lacking is a lot of "features" that will come in time. But if you have a developer, the framework is easy enough to figure out.
Well, I can see it ruffling a few feathers, but it's hardly news and I can't believe anyone, contributor or user, would seriously contest it. Usability is a problem on Open Source and on Linux. There, I said it.
Linux is really an ever-evolving work in progress, and it is never "done", and never done in a way that, say, XP or PalmOS don't experience. They pause for a while and let the world catch it's breath, developing as a more holistic whole. New documentation can be written as the next point upgrade is written, and tech blogs can write support as things come up in the user's experience.
Not so with Linux. Not only does nobody want to do the job in the first place, but nobody can keep up even if they are crazy enough to want to do it. Everything is in a constant state of (mostly useful, mostly working) flux.
It's much the same for the "usability" issue. To even start exploring usability with an Open Source app is to say it's "almost done", if not "done, period". That's a state that is rare indeed. "Why work on menus when the guts need work and it will all be different in the next release and besides I have this great idea to
Linux really needs non-geeks to write and maintain that aspect of it, and it really needs non-geeks to say to developers, "no, that shouldn't be there, it should be here" and "if you do it that way, everyone will be confused" and so on. That kind of feedback should probably be happening in tandem with the underpinnings and code being written and rewritten.
But, there is no mechanism to pair the unsophisticated user with the code contributor and project manager, and I'm not even sure that if there was, they would still be talking to each other after a few months of collaboration. It definitely would slow things down a bit, and that alone might be enough to kill the idea with the traditional contributors.
Until then (and I'm betting on that being a word something like "never") Open Source tools will always be geeky and defiantly quirky, which leads to confusion and frustration at least some of the time. I really wish there was a way to change that, because all it really takes is that first 3 months and many people are hooked on Open Source, yes, even as an "only" desktop with no Commercial OS "safety net" to fall back on.
But it's damn hard to get over the hurdles of that first install, and although everyone loves to help, no-one wants to be a full-time free support person for your buddy. I can imagine wives of Open Source users who happily run OOo on Linux all day going out and buying a copy of Vista right after the divorce.
What choice do they really have? You can either have decent hand-holding documentation or you have intuitive software. Some dare to try for both. Some Open Source projects seem bent on having neither, and in a very real sense, it may not even be possible because Linux and Open Source never really just sits in one place to begin with.
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A shooting that left a man dead in downtown Easton early Saturday may be tied to a Newark, N.J., gang, police said.
The shooting was reported 12:15 a.m. at Eddy G's bar at 1 Lehns Court, southeast of Centre Square. Police said a man with one or more gunshot wounds was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek ruled the death a homicide.


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Valentine Murder (Lucy Stone Mystery #5)
- Synopsis
- It's Valentine's Day in Tinker's Cove. And while the cupcakes Lucy Stone is baking for her children will have pink frosting and candy hearts, Lucy's thoughts aren't centered on sugary sentiments. She's barely arrived at her first board meeting of the newly-renovated library when Bitsy Howell, the new librarian, is found in the basement with a bullet in her heart. Shot dead only minutes before story hour was to start. The agitated board members assume that Bitsy was killed by an outsider, until Detective Lt. Horowitz arrives on the scene and shocks them all by announcing the killer is among them. As far as he's concerned, every member had ample opportunity to shoot Bitsy. Not only was each of them in the library at the time of the murder, but there were no footprints in the snow outside the basement door. And while he warns Lucy to keep her nose out of police affairs, she can't help but throw herself into the case. Lucy was already aware that Bitsy's uppity big city ways rubbed some people in Tinker's Cove the wrong way. Then there was her tendency to gossip about the books her readers borrowed. But Lucy had a hunch that motives for the librarian's violent death ran a lot deeper. From her conversation with former librarian Miss Tilley, a gossip in her own right, she learns there were sharp divisions between Bitsy and some board members. But would any of them be irked enough to murder her? From Hayden Norcross's elegant antique shop to Gerald Asquith's sedate study, to Corney Clark's chic kitchen, where the life-style consultant strives to rival Martha Stewart, Lucy relentlessly snoops into the curious lifestyles and shocking secrets of Tinker's Cove's most solid citizens... secrets that will plunge her into a terrifying confrontation with a conniving killer...
- Copyright:
- 1999
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 248 Pages
- 9781575663906
- Publisher:
- Kensington Books
- Date of Addition:
- 03/15/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Leslie Meier
- Adult content:
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- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
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Griffin Technology and Crayola announced the new Crayola Case Creator, a protective case and app combo that lets users create one-of-a-kind cases for iPhone and iPod touch.
Crayola Case Creator includes a clear, protective, hard-shell case that showcases users' artwork. Users can snap a photo or grab one from their photo album, and turn it into a customized case. The free Case Creator app lets children add, resize, and manipulate digital stickers to photos. Kids can also draw in Doodle mode with the app's built-in crayons, paints, and pens. All artwork from the Crayola Case Creator app can be printed on included perforated inserts, saved to a gallery, e-mailed, or shared to Facebook.
Crayola Case Creator is available from Griffin for $29.99 and the Crayola Case Creator App is a free download from Apple's App Store.
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Illustrated Guide: What To Do If Someone's Sleeping In Your Bed
Recently, a lady friend of mine expressed that she's enjoying the newfound freedom of being single (i.e., doing it with whoever she pleases) but she can't get comfortable sleeping beside effective strangers. Soon after, another lady friend of mine shared the sentiment: the only real bummer to no-strings-attached sex is the problem of what to do after. Kick him out? Move to the couch? Alienate him until he flees? To aid my nice lady friends, I have written and illustrated this helpful guide, "What To Do If Someone's Sleeping In Your Bed" (and, also, how to get them the hell out). A lot of it is conjecture, but feel free to try.


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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits the pressure is on for him sign the next Lionel Messi rather than another promising player in the January transfer window.
The Gunners have been linked with a £10million bid for Atletico Madrid striker Adrian Lopez, while Crystal Palace's 21-year-old England international Wilfried Zaha and Schalke midfielder Lewis Holtby are others allegedly on Wenger's radar.
"It is very difficult because the level of expectation is very high - people want to see Lionel Messi come in, they don't want to see a promising guy," said Wenger, who takes his side to Swansea in the FA Cup third-round on Sunday.
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