LPH - November 14

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Last night was the first night in the last few days that I've had time to sit and just look at the Topic Icons and the Topics List. SCO, AOL, and News were added to the Topics List. Icons were being changed but the ones showing are only temporary. They are the crystal icons. I'm working on a design similar to the old ones but with a circle around them.

Sorry - I'm just not an artist ! It's the worst part of operating this website.

:mad:

Wish I had a shred of artistic talent but I do not - as if you didn't notice :roll:

[TRN]

A few more topic icons were put up. UnitedLinux now has a topic and an icon. The security icon was changed to a padlock.

I installed Xandros today on a machine in the classroom. I played with the eye candy by using Noia icons and a nice background. Students during lunch came in and were playing with it. No one mentioned that the machine was no longer windows. They simply used it.

[TRN]

Not really knowing what I'm doing ...

I added the following to the MySQL database for postnuke.

alter table nuke_comments add index idx_pid (pn_pid);
alter table nuke_comments add index idx_sid (pn_sid);
alter table nuke_group_membership add index idx_ug (pn_uid,pn_gid);
alter table nuke_message add index idx_exp (pn_active,pn_expire);
alter table nuke_modules add index idx_name (pn_name);
alter table nuke_poll_data add index idx_pollid (pn_pollid);
alter table nuke_pollcomments add index idx_pollid (pn_pollid);
alter table nuke_referer add index idx_url (pn_url);
alter table nuke_stats_date add index idx_date (pn_date);
alter table nuke_session_info add index idx_last (pn_lastused);
alter table nuke_stories add index idx_catid (pn_catid);
alter table nuke_stories add index idx_topic (pn_topic);
alter table nuke_user_data add index idx_uid (pn_uda_uid);
alter table nuke_userblocks add index idx_ub (pn_uid,pn_bid);
alter table nuke_users add index idx_uname (pn_uname);

Maybe this will help a bit with the speed of the site. Maybe not ;-)