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Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on November 26, 2005, 09:59:29 am How to turn Windows into Linux. (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2005/howto_turn_windows_into_linux.swf)
Title: For Akir Post by: Devlyn on November 29, 2005, 10:29:23 am Damn! That sounds a lot easier than the standard Linux install procedure!!
Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on December 04, 2005, 01:02:17 pm I actually managed to get Mepis Linux (http://www.mepis.com/) installed relatively easily. The hardest part was cleaning enough space off of my tiny 15gig hard drive.
Not that I condone the use of Linux in any way, shape size or form. Title: For Akir Post by: Elvenfyre on December 05, 2005, 08:39:05 am It has advantages as an apache server, and runs considerably faster as a file server or processing unit(for rendering farms and the like) - but these are niche operations. The only major benefit it has is cost to the user.
I spent 3 years selling pc's with windows on them when I left school and over that time installed only about 5 pcs set up with a linux gui for a first time computer buyer - at the insistence of their geek friend. Surprisingly(ONCE installed and ready to use) the xwindows interfaces produced what seemed like faster learning newbies compared to ms windows. Windows is still better for me personally, but I wish it wasn't so much of a one horse race - the more competition there is the better the products will become. With this in mind I like the thought of linux - though I wouldn't use any current build in their present state for my desktop. Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on December 05, 2005, 12:08:46 pm I'm sure I'll enjoy using it as an Apache server once I get the thing to compile php5. I guess using Windows for all these years has made me "lame", but I really don't enjoy having to compile software before using it.
Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on December 06, 2005, 09:12:32 pm BOOM.
Finally got it working. Apache 1.3, PHP4 & MySQL4 compiler and purring like kittens. LIKE KITTENS. Title: For Akir Post by: Devlyn on December 06, 2005, 11:09:36 pm Nice man! So what will you host with it? ;)
Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on December 06, 2005, 11:41:51 pm I'm just going to be using it as a test server, same as my Windows one. Only difference is my Linux server uses the same system as this place, so I know what I do will be compatible. I'll mostly be using it to develop TSS version 4.0. Maybe version 5.0.
How many versions of TSS have there been? I remember Acmefiles, shining-online.co.uk and then this place. Am I missing any? Blast from the past. Title: For Akir Post by: Elvenfyre on December 06, 2005, 11:58:39 pm Yeah there was cjb.net in the beginning.
Title: For Akir Post by: Devlyn on December 07, 2005, 08:51:43 am The first TSS was created on Acmefiles.com. Before that we had a Shiny Sword homepage on some free provider with banners ;).
cjb.net was just a link-through to the normal provider. I personally see the acmefiles site as the first Shining Source site. All sites before were merely about the Shiny Sword afaik... Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on December 07, 2005, 04:52:39 pm Then version 4.0 it is =)
My intention is to use phpBB as the core of the new site, and mod it as required. I'll post a complete list of features later tonight. I might have a shrine for screens of the old TSS websites. Any objections? Title: For Akir Post by: Devlyn on December 07, 2005, 04:54:00 pm Hell no :P.
One thing though: phpBB is known for its security bugs and mod-killing updates. Perhaps it might be smarter to find a different more sturdy open BB system? Just suggesting ;). Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on December 07, 2005, 04:57:04 pm Yeah, it can be a little troublesome at times. To be honest though, much much bigger forums use phpBB and seem to run trouble free.
Any suggestions? I'm not sure I want to shell out for Invisionboard, hence why I've stuck with phpBB. I've looked at a few CMS thingies, but they all seem a little complex. I'll keep my eyes open. At the moment, I'm looking at: Drupal Joomla! Mambo postNuke So many choices. Title: For Akir Post by: Devlyn on December 07, 2005, 05:46:09 pm True but we got hacked like ... twice? It'd be a bit of a shame if someone could hack the whole site that way?
Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on December 07, 2005, 05:49:22 pm Indeed, and we got shut down my my hosts for a month because we were running phpBB. That sucked.
Title: For Akir Post by: Ty on December 10, 2005, 04:33:37 pm I think I've settled on a CMS, and I'm working on making it look purdy now. Can't promise a release date, but perhaps early January is a good time to aim for. The forum will probably be changing (again!), but I'll do my best to import posts.
Any objections? A good idea to check before I do anything drastic ;) Title: For Akir Post by: Devlyn on December 10, 2005, 06:20:38 pm Not from me. It's not like we ever kept posts on forum switches or anything :P.
Title: For Akir Post by: Newts on December 12, 2005, 04:02:50 pm http://web.archive.org/web/20011019062918/acmefiles.com/tss/so/shining/home.php
WOAH, steady with the colour there. I wish we'd kept all the old websites for some reason. I hate (some forms of) nostalgia (when it suits me), but I love old websites. Title: For Akir Post by: Edgemaster on December 17, 2005, 12:42:30 am http://web.archive.org/web/20021130021940/http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/
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