Re: pear weekly news

Peter Bowyer wrote: > > 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 $12 million to develop a pen > that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any > surface including glass, and at temperatures ranging from below freezing > to 300 degrees C. > > The Russians used a pencil... > ------------------ Well, that's an old urban legend :-). See: http://www.snopes2.com/business/genius/spacepen.htm http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/spacepen.htm BTW, if want one SpacePen for 50$-100$ checkout: http://www.spacepen.com > 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...) The solution is simple: if someone wants to take care on developing a reduced news manager go for it, if not, use a static template included from a PHP. > 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. Try opening port 113, perhaps is that. Tomas V.V.Cox