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"Web Design - General Chat"

I was going through the archive earlier and came across Turbo’s Web Design Pledge. Although I can vaguely remember this when it happened, I thought nothing of it, but upon reading it again, something really caught my eye.

“However, the forum is just being "used". Where as forums like the FOG are ever-popular, with people visiting regularly and generally having fun, the Web Design forum is merely being "used" for question and such like. Well, no longer! I want to turn this forum into a proper community.”

He is right here, this forum is only really used by people wanting questions answered, but I think that this forum is probably the best on the site. Mainly because nearly everyone in here knows what they are talking about. But I don’t like how the forum is used just for questions.

So here is what I propose, we use this thread for general chat. Not just web design, anything at all. Since not many people pass through this forum anymore, it won’t get spammed up too much, it’ll just be a place where people can go to be themselves.

If it doesn’t work, then fine. I just think this thread will be able to make this forum more of a community.

So… what’s up everyone? :0)

Ish:

File extensions only define what to open the file with. Only graphical file managers or "open" dialog boxes pay attention to them. However, most of the time you'll be running from a terminal, so you have to know what to do. Extensions are only there to let YOU know, really, it won't crash and die if you don't have them, like some other OSs I could mention. Example:

-={image.gif}=-

I don't just run "image.gif", I know what to do with it, eg:

eeyes images.gif

-={document.doc}=-

abiword document.doc
or
soffice document.doc

-={webpage.htm}=-

galeon -n webpage.htm

-={archive.tar.gz}=-

tar zxfv archive.tar.gz

Seems complicated? Not really, and when you learn the wonders of tab-complete...

File extensins don't mean anything? Linux sounds like a laugh, hopefully i'll be getting a CD through next week, those people at Linux Emporium are very nice.

When you get Linux running, you use a program called "tar".

You need to specify options, so you run from the command line:

tar zxfv foo.tar.gz

(zxfv is just something you're going to have to remember)

Also, .gzip and .gz are the same things. File extensions don't mean much on Linux, just there for reference really :)

heh, ok.

What program do you need for all those .tar.gz files? they seem to be quite popular with Linux software, infact, they seem to be the only one i've seen.

YES!

This may be a hard concept to grasp, but I'll put it like this:

LINUX, AND ALMOST EVERYTHING ASOCIATED WITH IT IS TOTALLY, UTTERLY, 100% FREE! The only thing you pay for is the transimission medium, ie, CDs etc!

What I recommend:

Get the Debian 1 CD. Then, just apt-get the rest when it's working. As I remember, that's virtually what I did anyway, because the software has come on leaps and bounds from the stuff on the CDs,

It says they can only give away 1 free CD to each person unless you have a good reason, is everything else is freely downloadable?

Ok, cheers. I'll probably order that later tonight.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r5 for i386 (1 CD) is the one you want.

However, it would be worth getting hold of r6 for i386, and there should be 3 CDs with it. All the rest are useless, only i386 will run on a normal computer.

OK, I've read the small print and it says I can have upto 4 discs for £1.50 P+P and these are the free ones available to me.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r5 for i386 (1 CD)
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r6 for Alpha (1 CD)
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r6 for ARM (1 CD)
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r6 for M68K (1 CD)
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r6 for PowerPC (1 CD)
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r6 for Sparc (1 CD)
Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 download CDs (1 CD)

Which 4 do you think I should get?

No, really, that's not a good idea. Go to the Linux Emporium link below and get his Debian discs. THEY'RE FREE!!!