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This blog is over...

2005-08-17T05:15:00.000-07:00

Any one want it?

Top 10 dot-com flops - CNET.com

2005-08-08T04:43:00.000-07:00

Top 10 dot-com flops - CNET.com: "Like Planet Hollywood and Flooz.com, MVP.com proved that celebrity endorsements are worth nothing in the long run."

Do you have what it takes? Digi Astounding Publications: July 2005

2005-08-05T08:30:00.000-07:00

Digi Astounding Publications: July 2005: "If you have the gift of the short and exiting story then we would like to hear from you.
We are currently putting the finnishing touches to, and adding content to the first six issues which, when ready, will herald the launch of our new publication."

is the PHP mass store still significant?

2005-04-12T10:28:00.000-07:00

: "MWE / MWP File Site"

The Great ISP Buyout | The Register

2005-04-07T05:11:00.000-07:00

The Great ISP Buyout | The Register: "Whether ISPs are buying customers, expertise, new products and services, or just trying to expand, there seems little doubt that consolidation of the UK's ISP will continue to keep the industry on its toes. "

The market has been quite exitable at the moment and one wonders what the impact could be for MaxWebbers?

KentIndex Forums | Home

2005-03-03T03:04:00.000-08:00

In this latest update I will be looking at the work done at a website called KentIndex.Com which you may recall birthed MaxWebEdit. It has been sometime since the guys at KentIndex left the MaxWebPortal fold and started up on thier own and to be honest support was never that great. When MaxWebMODs come about there was a lot more activity and the 1.5 project has gathered the rest of the cummunity since the fall of MWP-Original.

However these guys it seems have not been taking it easy at all. There is a total of three developments that I know of that use parts of MaxWebEdit they are MWEdit (of course), EnchantedVision (Artists Home) and KentIndex (AKA Globally Local). All in all that is a lot of work for a team of such a small size to compleate.

The quote about to follow points to the latest development that allows KentIndex users the right to recomend new companies to be added to the index.

If they could be talked into makeing a GNU release of this it would have great implications for the way we do the MaxWebLinks.

KentIndex Forums | Home: "BETA TEST (Stage-2) - This Form and it's processor are an early test stage and might be subject to changes and/or bugs. On the whole, however, we expect this form to function normally."

Beautiful Talker: EVILEVILEVIL...RANT...Rant... rant .... puff... ...etc

2005-03-02T13:33:00.000-08:00

Beautiful Talker: EVILEVILEVIL...RANT...Rant... rant .... puff... ...etc:

Fasthosts Xtreme Support

2005-02-23T12:53:00.000-08:00

I am now officially pissed of with the world most useless hosting company. This company (fasthosts.co.uk) are so crap I can not even get hold of them by phone! I spent almost �100 this year with them (that's about $200ish) for a service I can not use.

Fasthosts Xtreme Support: "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\Sites\Xtreme\Forums\db\mssql-odbc.php on line 137"

My advice is to use a different service for your Max Web.

A Tip for you.

2005-02-21T09:17:00.000-08:00

Have come accross a great looking deal.

Same Part, Same Supplier, Different Prices

2005-02-09T05:18:00.000-08:00

from the guess-which-way-they'd-go-if-equal dept.
posted by timothy on Monday February 07, @16:50 (Hardware)
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/07/216255

linuxwrangler writes "Infoworld's "Notes From The Field column [0]this
week includes a comment from a reader who found that Dell listed several
different prices for the same part. Intrigued, I grabbed the first part
number I found (a 512MB memory module #A0193405) and found that the list
price is $289.99 which the price offered to "large businesses".
Meanwhile, the GSA/DOD contract price is $266.21 while "home users" find
the list-price discounted to $275.49 and "small businesses" fare even
better with a $246.49 price. InfoWorld contacted Dell who responded,
"Each segment sets its own pricing, and consumers are free to pick the
one that’s cheapest." Buyer beware."

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/02/07/216255

Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/04/06OPcringely_1.html

Patented European webshop

2005-01-11T06:45:00.000-08:00

Patented European webshop: "Shopping cart: Electronic shopping cart - EP807891 and EP784279 "

Look out web based shops break 20 copyrights!!!! How stupid can a government get?

http://webshop.ffii.org/

No news is good news

2005-01-07T14:17:00.000-08:00

There has been little to report on for the MaxWeb world.

Although I did hear a rumour that some MaxWebbers were out to defeat the GNU GPL.

Anyone know what that is about?

A New Player on the max web collection

2004-12-22T00:45:00.000-08:00

While examineing the MaxWeb-o-sphear I happened apon this article written not in the useuall haunts of rather dull and lifeless MaxWeb so called "Dev" sites but on a wiki that seems a little absed on the MaxWeb

I quote it in it's fullness as it makes great reading:

"The GNU General License (v2) is a legal document it is a license to use and distribute code.
However there have been certain iregularities within the Max Web GNU v2 Implimentation.
These are detailed below.
footerUp to version 1.34 Max Web Portal was 'closed house' development and Max Web Edit was launched to open up the development model to address some seriouse lacking.
The first issue was whole bunches of code were not correctly documented. In fact they were not documented at all. The MWP 1.34 guy had hidden code all over the show to enforse the footer and keep it in place.
It turns out that he was over stepping his bounds and had little in the GNU Licnese to allow him to demand the footer be in place.
So Infinity re-did the footer code and killed of the bad code.
GNU MD5The MD5 code include carried the overbarring MWP lisence claim header dispite having no Max Web stuff in it.
While the header of comment giveing rights to use but not share as a snippit came second. This rases moral and ethical issues if nothing else.
MWE? 1.5Max Web Portal.info raises two new moral and ethical issues. First not enough is done to namespace this new project and mark the difference between it and the original development which has admitadly appeared to stall.
The OSI might likely say that this is a fair move on the part of the MWP 1.5 group who are using Open Source Development license (GNU v2).
However they are not useing the techniques of open source of development. It is still closed house like MWP 1.34 before it and Snitz before that.
They are currently examining the possibility of paying the way for Max Web and yet they talk of obscuring the code which would not make this OSI compliant dispite the license they use.
Becuase of this apparent lack of honour among the developers I have had cause to consider just how much of the footer they nag on about can be removed and still stick to the letter/spirit of the GNU v2.
Any experts? "

MaxWebPortal v1.5 -=- Theme Ideas and suggestions

2004-12-03T02:29:00.000-08:00

A few requests from my users. - MaxWebPortal v1.5 | Forums | Theme Ideas and suggestions: "skyDogg has posted: after 1.5 gets released and peaple start digging into the new theme engine , i have a feeling there will be a nice collection of themes to choose from"

It would seem the news on the vine is taht MaxWebPortal 1.5 (a user Hack/Edit) will sport a DIV based theme engine of a far more flexable nature.

This could be good for the eye candy and we all love a razamataz site but what about the deeper functions?

Over the comming weeks this intrepid reporter will be trying to get tot he bottom of these issues.

MaxWebEdit / MWP (1.5 Hack) NEWS

2004-11-29T01:30:00.000-08:00

Greatings MODDERS some news at last to report. It seems that MaxWebEdit has sneakily updated to use DOM-Savey browsers (most) to hide and show eliments without knowing their name. This means that the theme itself can carry the header that holds the open close code which is a mix of JavaScript, Max_Theme and CSS.

Not only that but it seems the 1.5 project has taken said clever hack and added it to their project which is now promising a serviceable release some time soon.

I have to wonder how this will effect MWEdit who are now said to be working on a top secret project called "Infinity" which is said to carry an XML core!!!

MWEdit has already demonstrated XML inclinations before and carry a multi type XML reader on the system todays link is to MWEdits slashdot feed: MaxWebEdit | Home

So What?

2004-11-23T09:55:00.000-08:00

Yeah MWP 1.5 (the unofficial MaxWeb hack) is still in BETA.

MWEdit are dropping hints about project Infinity.

So what. There is no news.

MaxWebEdit | Home

2004-10-19T13:42:00.000-07:00

MaxWebEdit | Home: "Slashdot News
Slashdot:
News for nerds, stuff that matters"Slashdot comes to Max Web!
Yes Modding fans slashdot or rather Slashdot's RSS feed has arrived at Max Web thanks to a clever new toy from the people at MaxWebEdit (Or MWEdit as they seem to call themselves).
They've taken the links section and via the magic of XML (and a little carefull categorising) have used it to store XML feed addresses. They currently support 4 variants of RSS and ATOM but I am told that there is no real limit as to what can be added.

2004-10-04T07:40:00.000-07:00

We this will be dull. After some flurries of news over at Edit I had hoped to see similar activity at MWP-MOD and 1.5 but no. No one is doing anything.

So instead I will ask some questions and hope that I provoke some answers.

WME and Mod-n-theme (while there were about) and MaxWebPortalMOD all have the good grace to carry a different name to show there are not the original implimentation. Why are 1.5 not doing the same?

Are they special? Do they have Max (or whoever was the dude who started it?) - what?

All those and other questions unanswered in the next hopefully more news worthy entry.

Atom Feed code integrates Max Web with big sites - MaxWebEdit | Forums | Developers News

2004-10-03T13:52:00.000-07:00

Atom Feed code integrates Max Web with big sites - MaxWebEdit | Forums | Developers News: "The Atom Feed Mod that was originally posted in MWP, that carries news dudes Modding news and probably sits there doing little else has been implemented by Writers and Artists Home on their front page.
This implementation has clearly demonstrated the power of this little MOD to combine the greatness of Max Web with the coolness of Blogger.com (as owned by Google).
Writers and Artists Home have also added a link that enables visitors to add the blog feed to their My Yahoo bringing the total Big sites that are supported to a stunning two with one script.
There is rumoured to be a similar script for RSS (Version unknown) that could presumably allow a similar trick to be pulled.
Could this be the start of the brave new XML world mentioned at MWEdit before?"

update?

2004-10-03T11:56:00.000-07:00

I've been out of thee loop for a few days. Did I miss anything?

Anti-US feelings on the rise.

2004-09-29T03:02:00.000-07:00

There is a rising tide of general annoyance with US web users. (not only because the US is still spam central at 86% although this doesn't help, I'm sure.) For a single (new) reason - the US Elections.

The general feeling among non-US users (who make up more than 60% of web users) is that the level of mention of that which is arguably an internal affair has now reached the point that can be called abuse. (I have to admit that I find the focus on US elections in slashdot news irritating as a non-US human.)

But this is simply a symptom of a much wider problem that can be embodied by the phrase: "I hate the US!". However, this goes way beyond a few irrational and nasty terrorists with a preference for blowing things up. It is focused strongly in Europe where, (with the man on the street), the general feeling is that it is safer to fight against the US in a war than with them as they tend to only shoot thier own guys. The average European citizen can be heard to exclaim at least once a week "What do you expect - they're Americans!" in the same condescending tones we tend to save for talking about naughty children. The UK, for example, has a wealth of amusing "In America they..." style stories and the "Arrogant American" has now surpassed the "foolish Irishman" in the general humour of pub jokes.

This feeling has led to a UK best seller
"Why Do People Hate America?"

The Independent (UK national newspaper) calls it "required reading." which is generally taken as an indicator of national opinion. while Noam Chomsky is quoted as saying it "contains valuable information that we should know, over here, for our own good, and the world's."

This brings us full circle back to the question of how exactly are Americans helping their national image with the current torrent of political debate that can be fairly repetitive. What do you slashdotters think about this potential world-wide PR disaster for America?

MaxWebEdit V1.2 is out now!!

2004-09-17T13:52:00.000-07:00

MaxWebEdit | MWEdit Information: "1.2 Beta - Currant 'Stable' Version
This was released solely to ensure that there was more widely available a copy of MaxWeb. It contains a number of experimental features and comes with no guarantees. At time of launch it was line for line the same as used here."

MWE have announced the release of a "testing" final version to ensure that users can get Max Web if they need it. This comes as news of a set back to the promised release of MWE and the news of 1.5 from another crew of Max Webbers. Is this going to be a product war?

Apparently not as MW-Edit have said that they are waiting for 1.5 so they can add it to the project.

no point letting good code go to waist I guess.

Max Web Portal v 1.5 Comeing Soon! - MaxWebEdit | Forums | Developers News

2004-09-15T05:01:00.000-07:00

Max Web Portal v 1.5 Comeing Soon! - MaxWebEdit - Developers News: "See more info here. It looks as if Max Web Portal is undergoing a long awaited change. So much so that the news with the MWEdit crew seems to be that we should all now wait for 1.5 and edit from there.
MWP 1.5 is open for testing and there is no clear date as to when this project will be released for public consumtion.
Soon we hope."

MWP 1.5 is almost ready!

2004-09-13T05:05:00.000-07:00

The latest version of MWP version 1.5 is about to hit the download and it is good. The new theme method allows multiple changeable themes and any number of MODs have now become standard. 1.5 is to 1.3 as 1.3 was to pen and paper!

This is something worth waiting for!

I still feel shock

2004-09-11T13:42:00.000-07:00

I feel a deep and abiding shock at the fall of MaxWebProtal - forums. I had thaught them part of the mainstay of MaxWebbing, possibly forever.

I miss already the gental banter and the creaky group dynamics. I remember the need for change and did not ever comprihend that this might be that change.

I am stuned and awed in equall measure.

I am stunned byt he brutal reality of the ending and morn the passing of that site like I would an old friend. Yet there is a hope and a goal. From this there will arise a champion, a new site a forward projection of the development. This site will be the one that gains most momentum and takes the lead. There will be a new single entity that will lead the others.

It is the dawn of the second age of MaxWeb! Where we go from here is up to you.