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w00t I love IPB 2.0 shame they started to charge for it!

As others have suggsted, make sure the mysql database is created and the necessary information added to mt.cfg. Also make sure the password (for the username that is added to the database) has been entered into mt-db-pass.cgi

Since you're using mySQL, but a # in front of the line that starts DataSource -- that is for an alternative, bad database system. You'll need to uncomment (remove the #) from the mysql lines >ObjectDriver DBI::mysql Database <database-name> DBUser <database-username> and enter your details for database name and username These are set when you create the database from cpanel, it is in the format cpanelusername_databasename and cpanelusername_databaseusername You'll also need to put the password for the database user in mt-dp-pass.cgi

Yep david referred me here too but I believe he has moved away from TCH because he needed more power for his projects WordPress is fine since it is open source however if TCH was to pre-install MT, it would cost them a fee due to recent licensing terms. From TCH's point of view, I'm not sure how worth it doing that is as setting up MT is very easy on TCH servers, I can do it under 5 minutes its just a matter of know how... I think TCH is very blog friendly, I gave it near top marks on Elise's survey (linked above). Perhaps I don't understand the plan you posted above but I don't see how it is more blog friendly (unless a software is pre-installed) than the current ones

I managed to call it through cron using "python ....." I could swear the past two times I asked, I was told no it wasn't installed. Is this recent ?

wow for some strange reason I was always under the impression TCH didn't have Python installed...is this something new as I thought we'd need command line to use it. Any suggestions on how to use TCH's python ?

I've tried this program many times before the summer with TB and FF unfortunately never gotten it to work. Glad it worked for you though.

Movable Type, in my opinion, is the most powerful as it provides maximum flexibility in terms of publishing (perl = static or php = dynamic) and in terms of other features too. The few drawbacks are limitations by the licensing models -- however I consider these quite resonable. As Bruce highlighted others are available, if MT is not your thing I would highly recommend WordPress which is also powerful and has some lovely features for personal bloggers -- eg link manager a la blogrolling.

I'd prefer both too, but if its an either/or situation, I'd prefer simply up/down

Happy Thanks Giving y'all in the US Hope you had fun with your families

You don't necessarily need to use Dreamweaver for WYSIWYG. Here's a hack for Movable Type that will implement HTMLArea into the MT Interface. HTMLArea is a pretty advanced WYSIWYG UI.

When I first installed Opera out of the box for my parents, I wanted a simple, uncluttered layout with perhaps the minimum buttons (ie Firefox 1.0 out of the box) I went for Opera rather than Firefox because at this time FF was on 0.8 or 0.9. Anyways, I installed Opera and boom I loaded up the screen and it was a complete mess. Completely cluttered with multiple toolbars everywhere, two sets of back/forward. It took me a while to really customize it and make it simple. I am of course all of Firefox, heck you can see that from my avatar. In fact Asa recently reviewed the newest preview of Opera and says that the UI has greatly imrpoved (he had similar complaints to mine) Firefox 1.0 I feel is much better out of the box and overall much more customizable. I have spent a few years with Opera but just prefered the flexibility of Firefox.

I've used it lightly the past few months and upto 3%. When GMail introduced POP3, I've made that my main account so I'll be using that a lot more from now on! I don't really use GMail as an online drive like some people because I have VNC and stuff installed that will allow me to grab files off my home computer wherever I am in the world (my home computer is on 24/7 heh)

Smarty is the dynamic templating engine that is used in Movable Type (more information available http://smarty.php.net) When you switch on dynamic templating, you need to create a directory called templates_c and set its permissions to 777. That's what you need to do On the banner note, check out Elise's tutorial on how to add banner images!

Heh thanks for that. I took like 2 seconds making that image on Adam Kalsey's button maker a year or so ago.

I agree with this. I thought my mouse was over Help Site when I clicked, apparently not and I was directed to the Live Chat. It woudl be useful if there was animation (as suggested with change of colour) to make it more clear which link you will be browsing to

Hehehe I had made that button for TCH a long time ago!

I think in 2-3 months ... Take a look at the Thunderbird Roadmap: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/roadmap.html

See that's the weird thing I couldn't understand. I check the mt-check.cgi and it reported that HTML::Template was found...now if that was the case I dont' see why MT is searching for it in HTML/Template.pm

Follow these instructions to get it to work.... Basically you need to download a perl module and upload it to extlib/HTML (needs to be created) in ASCII mode! UPDATE: I took a look around your blog and everything seems fine now...did you fix it ?

Yep its the new start page and its awesome. From Michelle Baker's (Head Honcho and Chief Lizard Wrangler at the foundation) blog: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2004/11/firefox_10_now_1.html

w00000000000t I downloaded it, and it is absolutely amazing. I think the best part is Firefox Start

I myself am stuck on #1, there doesn't seem to be any plugins/tags to take care of this. There is the ExcludeCategories plugin but that is for entries not listing of categories. Why not just put the category listing in a test page, grab the HTML produced, remove the categories you don't want listed!

Hello Didak On question 2, are you using static or dynamic templating (this assumes you have MT 3.1 or greater) If its static templating, make sure you have rebuilt all pages in your blog. If its dynamic templating make sure the .htaccess code is in the appropriate folders

Sweet !