Or how about <a href="http://sites.google.com">http://sites.google.com</a><div>It seems to be perfect!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/11 Jim Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmthelostpacket@googlemail.com">jmthelostpacket@googlemail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">idea for the website: put the content on a google account (7.5GB there<br>
so plenty space!) and link it via an iframe on an ICQ account (the<br>
iframe takes care of the ads n other assorted "goodies" that ice likes<br>
to foist on you) to take care of the ddns problem right there at the<br>
registrar end eg <a href="http://www.thiswebsite.com" target="_blank">www.thiswebsite.com</a> redirects to<br>
<a href="http://members.icq.com/12324567a/" target="_blank">http://members.icq.com/12324567a/</a> which loads an iframe from your<br>
server (single page there which takes about 0.0001sec to load, how's<br>
that for efficiency?) and everything else from a googlemail virtual<br>
drive. That's what I used to do for my local content before I<br>
discovered Apache (and the associated bandwidth overhead that<br>
threatens to melt my modem every time someone hit one of my client<br>
sites) and WAAAAY before Google Mail offered a method to mount your<br>
account space as a network drive. OK, the Google/ICQ method is a bit<br>
cheesy and mixing relatively old tech with relatively new tech, but it<br>
works and it's /free/.<br>
<br>
</ramble><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
J<br>
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On 1/10/10, Martin <<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> Martin wrote:<br>
>> Folks,<br>
>><br>
>> Happy New Year!<br>
>><br>
>> And I hope all enjoyed whatever festivities or just a nice quiet break.<br>
>><br>
>> For the first Thursday meet of the year, we have:<br>
>><br>
>> A GUI Past & Future<br>
>> ===================<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Whilst doing the Christmas rounds, I was in discussion with various<br>
>> people about how we 'play' with all things players, computers, and<br>
><br>
><br>
> And a good if very select session was had despite the cold and snow. One<br>
> geek was showing off a very smart if overly small smartphone for<br>
> go-everywhere connectivity and ssh to back home. Still not sure I'd be<br>
> able to use it with my super fat fingers... And it looks like netbooks<br>
> still rule ok! Anyone seen anything of the new ARM-based machines soon<br>
> to come out?<br>
><br>
> Nicely varied discussion with only very brief mention of Christmas.<br>
> Looks like true geeks already do have all their toys! There was a short<br>
> but deep little discussion on language and the use of language and of<br>
> how the same written text can be interpreted in many very different ways.<br>
><br>
> That was a very good reminder as to how 'help files' and manuals can be<br>
> completely unhelpful to users. Also, it backs up many comments I've<br>
> heard that users just do not read what is on the computer screen in<br>
> front of them. I was reminded for over the Christmas period for the<br>
> plethora of trivial 'computer problems' that seemed to gravitate to me<br>
> for fixing 'computer things' for others. Largely, users do not<br>
> understand and have no interest in *any* of the jargon or architectural<br>
> details that we are naturally immersed in with computers...<br>
><br>
> From that I've a good few ideas for a possible User Interface direction<br>
> beyond what the Moblin user interface is just now lightly touching upon.<br>
><br>
> I think the biggest hangup for everyone with the mainstream GUIs is the<br>
> very flawed and inconsistent results produced when using mouse buttons:<br>
><br>
> one click for select;<br>
> two clicks in quick succession for select-and-action;<br>
> click-and-hold to drag something;<br>
> many variations if keyboard keys are pressed also.<br>
><br>
> That list is typical but those results are not consistent even on the<br>
> same one desktop! For example, one click on a desktop object might<br>
> select it whereas one click on a taskbar object on that same desktop<br>
> will act like a double-click!<br>
><br>
> Note: A typical user reading this rant of mine will likely not<br>
> understand what is meant by the term "a desktop object". You're at an<br>
> advanced level if you do understand.<br>
><br>
> Also consider that most people find the double-click to be almost<br>
> impossible to do physically without at least some practice... And there<br>
> is always confusion caused by why or how only one of a sigle-click,<br>
> double-click, or a right-click might be needed...<br>
><br>
> There must be better ways... (That are intuitive or can be randomly<br>
> guessed and that do not require any deep menus or /any/ manuals...)<br>
><br>
><br>
> The Navvy is getting nicely revamped and is already looking an awful lot<br>
> brighter. The beer was good although you need to like Banks bitter. And<br>
> their ADSL + WiFi is finally getting hooked up.<br>
><br>
><br>
>> I'll also be putting together a few ideas to post a calendar of talks<br>
>> for the year. What would you like to hear? What interests?<br>
><br>
> Next foodie social is at YO! Sushi on Tuesday 19/01/2010 pending a<br>
> certain person acquiring discount vouchers for us all. This time we'll<br>
> aim for an earlier start than usual to hopefully be able to get in there<br>
> before any queues.<br>
><br>
> Next talk 'n' beers is about what happens from switch on of a PC through<br>
> to seeing a desktop displayed, and why it takes such a ridiculously long<br>
> time. Anyone with details of how to speed up that process will be very<br>
> welcome to add comment!! All at the new brighter Navvy on Thursday<br>
> 04/02/2010.<br>
><br>
><br>
> We've got a clean calendar at the Navvy for this year both for events<br>
> and for which days to meet. Anyone got any preference what talks, or for<br>
> alternate days?<br>
><br>
><br>
>> And are there any volunteers to revamp our long dormant website? (A lot<br>
>> of work was put into the old drupal site. Either resurrect that or at<br>
>> least retrieve the content?)<br>
><br>
> No takers on that one :-( ... so far?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Cheers All,<br>
> Martin<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> ----------------<br>
> Martin Lomas<br>
> <a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a><br>
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