Re: pear weekly news

At 20:45 05/07/02 +0800, Alan Knowles wrote:

mmh, could do it that way, just experience has taught me (having done a few cms's) that unless I want to write an interface with rollback, revision control, access control and wysiwg editor.... mozilla editor + cvs does most of that without doing all the hard work :)

Exactly - the KISS principle. And now for a little story :-) ------------------ When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 million to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass, and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 degrees C. The Russians used a pencil... ------------------ Even I've learned not to over complicate things now (I hope I have anyway - hmmm revision control, I could add that to my news publishing system now...) On another topic, can others get through to #pear on EFNet? I'm wondering whether it's a combination of my new ADSL and personal firewall that is preventing me, or something else. Thanks Peter. --oOo-- Narrow Gauge on the web - photos, directory and forums! http://www.narrow-gauge.co.uk --oOo-- Glenbranter - Scottish narrow gauge in 009 http://glenbranter.narrow-gauge.co.uk --oOo--