LPH - November 9

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Bird and I spent the day playing with Lycoris build 61, Phoenix 0.4, and a new splash screen for the website.

Lycoris build 61 builds the best desktop GNU/Linux system for new users. My students who are comfortable with MS Windows usually bang away on the Lycoris system. They love the inclusion of real player and they are able to find options quickly. Some users don't even know that they are not in Windows. They just think it is a different theme !

And thinking of themes .. the Mozilla theme included with Lycoris is nice. However, I'd really like something to be done about opening tabs on top of what I'm doing ... I hate it. By default Mozilla doesn't turn the feature off. Instead, go to prefs and click on the option. This will fix opening a link but it will not fix the opening of a new tab -- it will open on top no matter the setting. sniff. Phoenix 0.4 has a popup block and is a bit faster.

Now the splash theme is something I was tinkering with over the web. There is a website that generates logos based on the options provided by the visitor. After a few hours, Bird and I agreed on the one on the site. The color combination is also true to my like and I'm not sure Bird likes them .. :lol:

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Oh Duh. I forgot other changes to the website. :oops:

(1) I reset all of the registered users to the new theme. I was visiting someone and they were viewing the site under a different theme from the default and it didn't looked very good. Many of the features didn't even work. So -- it is now set to the default.

(2) I was playing with the postnuke files, trying to get article ratings to work. Not knowing that it was an incomplete module, I was deleting and uploading files to the site. Somewhere in all the deletes and uploads the counter for the number of online visitors is now more accurate. It may have looked cool for the counter to say there were 200 people online but the stats were showing fewer number of pageviews. I'm glad the counter is more accurate now.

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Now I know what was changed to get the user count more accurate !

The security option can be set to the number of minutes a visitor is shown. This time is now very short relative to the previous time setting.

admin ==> settings ==> security options