Old New Website

As you folks may have noticed, the website has a familiar look once again. I had installed Joomla because I wanted a more unified look 'n feel to the website, as well as the ability to merge login information between the various pieces of software. However, Joomla's registration system is very spambot-friendly, and so I ended up locking down registration (for entirely too long). Then I found a patch for Joomla which would add in CAPTCHA. Unfortunately, when I tried to install this patch, all that happened was that registration and logging in ceased working altogether. So I took Joomla down and here we are back with DokuWiki as the CMS. As of this writing, I plan to create an obscure folder deep within the bowels of the TinyMe website, away from the eyes of users, and re-install Joomla there. Its sole purpose in life will be to keep member information synced between all the software.

With that said, we now have user information between the forum and the wiki synchronized. So you can use your forum username & password to log into the wiki. Feel free to try out anything you like on the playground. As TinyMe 2009 gets underway, I'll also probably work on forming a documentation group. I think that overall, this wiki could use a makeover.

I'm still pretty hampered by the fact that I don't have a broadband connection for my main box. However, Gettinther managed to find out one of the causes for Python being on the Unity LiveCD and has re-compiled that package. Now we just have a couple of other packagages to look at and we should be in shape! However, I may try to put together a TinyMe 2009 Acorn alpha release even with Python in it. Stay tuned.