Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Roland Haeder wrote: But like Curt stated before: This has a very big downside, like every medal has (remember, medals have two sides...) a backside. :( And that one is also very clear: Do we, no better does Curt want to put his project into the hand of Google who offers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Geoff McLane
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 20:55 +0100, HB-GRAL wrote: Geoff McLane schrieb: But his good work _IS_ being used, extensively - 1 left TOC 2 CSS design 3 XHTML 1.0 I have added a little more today... http://geoffair.net/fg/site including a bottom TOC - presently not quite the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site + MpServer Status

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Geoff McLane wrote: He added some new things, which is great, like the mp server status, but assume this depends on the python to get information, so this may not be portable, but would certainly like to incorporate this in my example also, if possible... How to do it is the question? A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Martin Spott
Geoff McLane wrote: So again, we should consider who OWNS the site, and fully RESPECT what he might want, [...] I firmly object: The way how the web site is being managed is very contradictory to the nature of the entire project. I'm not advertizing anarchy here. As with every part of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Roland Haeder
Hi, I like to add that the Search button is linking to a page which uses the personalized Google search which is, of course, closed-source. If you like, you can replace that with YaCy [1] which allows you to setup an independent search engine which will only crawl your pages. You can also choose

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Martin Spott wrote: Geoff McLane wrote: So again, we should consider who OWNS the site, and fully RESPECT what he might want, [...] I firmly object: The way how the web site is being managed is very contradictory to the nature of the entire project. I'm not advertizing anarchy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Roland Haeder
Hello all, the problem on those CMS systems (python-written and PHP-written likewise) is that they sometimes have security holes where a cracker can more or less easily own www.flightgear.org and put his Owned by some-fool-cracker message in there. I think, this is why someone suggested that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Roland Haeder
Na, I didn't solve [1]. Sorry for double email. :( [1]: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.flightgear.orgcharset=%28detect+automatically% 29doctype=Inlinegroup=0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Roland Haeder wrote: Hello all, the problem on those CMS systems (python-written and PHP-written likewise) is that they sometimes have security holes where a cracker can more or less easily own www.flightgear.org and put his Owned by some-fool-cracker message in there. Please clarify:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Roland Haeder
Hello Pete, Please clarify: Okay, I give it a try. :-) What you are suggesting is that * php and python are a cms I know they are never and should also never used as CMS (Content-Management-System). Maybe it was a bit unclean here, I mean real CMS' like Drupal,WordPress (can be used as CMS,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Roland Haeder
[...] hopefully all got stopped by my (already released and) patched security software Cracker Tracker Standalone. Oh, shame on me. That software is from www.cback.de, I have enhanced it with logging into a MySQL database for analysis purposes. Just to make this clear. :) signature.asc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Roland Haeder wrote: They (Drupal/WordPress are good examples) really have a lot holes, just checkout www.securityfocus.com and they brothers (not the whistle-blower websites). Were agreeing that some applications are badly coded. Thats why I prefer to steer clear of apps; unless their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Michael Sgier
or not. --- On Mon, 3/22/10, Geoff McLane ubu...@geoffair.info wrote: From: Geoff McLane ubu...@geoffair.info Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 8:41 PM Hi Curt, What about this example? 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 07:08:47 Michael Sgier wrote: Yea not bad but still a little low-tech. What about such: http://www.activision.com/index.html#home|de_DE Click on images either for links for screenshots. Interesting also for the future when we hopefully have addons. So you could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:17 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: Michael Sgier wrote: Yea not bad but still a little low-tech. What about such: http://www.activision.com/index.html#home|de_DE I hate websites that consists only of flash content. In fact I've added a flash blocker because of that.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Gary Neely
I have to support Ron and others on this-- I much prefer usability and speed of access over visual gimmicks, especially Flash-based content navigation. -Gary aka Buckaroo On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ron Jensen w...@jentronics.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:17 +0100, Erik Hofman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Olivier JACQ
: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site I have to support Ron and others on this-- I much prefer usability and speed of access over visual gimmicks, especially Flash-based content navigation. -Gary aka Buckaroo On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ron Jensen w...@jentronics.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:17

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread willie
Ron Jensen wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:17 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: Michael Sgier wrote: Yea not bad but still a little low-tech. What about such: http://www.activision.com/index.html#home|de_DE I hate websites that consists only of flash content. In fact I've added a flash blocker

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread HB-GRAL
willie schrieb: +1 to that, brother There are many excellent sites out there using simple html and intelligent CSS. I don't see why we can't be one of them. Keep it simple and fast. 1+ to the whole usability and design consortium here. When you read the whole thread you see that this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Geoff McLane
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 19:20 +0100, HB-GRAL wrote: willie schrieb: +1 to that, brother There are many excellent sites out there using simple html and intelligent CSS. I don't see why we can't be one of them. Keep it simple and fast. 1+ to the whole usability and design consortium

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Pete Morgan
There does not seem any need to go totally Googly when all that Pete has done can be done to the current site, in an incremental page-by-page way... Am I missing something here? Can I clear something up here once and for all re the fg-www.appspot.com site 1) The site is presently

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread HB-GRAL
Geoff McLane schrieb: But his good work _IS_ being used, extensively - 1 left TOC 2 CSS design 3 XHTML 1.0 I have added a little more today... http://geoffair.net/fg/site including a bottom TOC - presently not quite the same as the left, but it will be... Geoff, I am actually not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Pete Morgan
But his good work _IS_ being used, extensively - 1 left TOC 2 CSS design 3 XHTML 1.0 Can I suggest a way forward as we are probably replicating work... 1) create a branch of the cvs website in git. (maybe on gitorious/fg) 2) give commit rights to whoever gonna contribute 3) design the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-22 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi Curt, What about this example? 1. has left constant TOC, 2. uses CSS for positioning, 3. is XHTML 1.0 compliant, and probably 1.1, 4. has same content as current, ads and all ;=)) http://geoffair.net/fg/site/ Near the bottom of the TOC there is a 'Development' page 'REAME.site' which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Pete, For what it's worth, the forum is by far the biggest bandwidth consumer right now based on the webalizer stats. Best regards, Curt. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Pete Morgan wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: A Major issues is that GAE does not support binary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-19 Thread Alex Perry
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: - Do we want to lock ourselves into google? These issues worry me also, and indeed pointing www.flightgear.org to fg-www.appspot.com is likely to have other problems (major 404's will need to be handled) We should be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-19 Thread Pete Morgan
Alex Perry wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: - Do we want to lock ourselves into google? These issues worry me also, and indeed pointing www.flightgear.org to fg-www.appspot.com is likely to have other problems (major 404's will need

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-18 Thread Pete Morgan
Martin Spott wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: A Major issues is that GAE does not support binary files very well, eg gallery, so I'm not sure how this would work. One possibility would be to rename the current machine as www2. or stash. and using it as the binary storage. To my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-10 Thread Martin Spott
Pete Morgan wrote: A Major issues is that GAE does not support binary files very well, eg gallery, so I'm not sure how this would work. One possibility would be to rename the current machine as www2. or stash. and using it as the binary storage. To my understanding, one of the issues with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-10 Thread Pete Morgan
Martin Spott wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: A Major issues is that GAE does not support binary files very well, eg gallery, so I'm not sure how this would work. One possibility would be to rename the current machine as www2. or stash. and using it as the binary storage. To my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-09 Thread Pete Morgan
Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Pete, Definitely nice work on the page layout. It's my job to play devil's advocate so to speak, so don't take this as criticism, but instead I'm just trying to think through all the important issues beyond hey that looks really nice. I'm not very familiar with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-09 Thread Pete Morgan
Heiko Schulz wrote: I heard Google will rename our planet soon in GoogleEarth;-) I admit to Curt in a lot of points here. The only advantage is there is no advertisement, which makes the current page look really bad. Adverts can be dropped in where required. However an observation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-09 Thread HB-GRAL
Pete Morgan schrieb: Not at all. I am not a designer, merely a developer. In fact a designer would be really helpful.. anyone ? Gijs ? I am working as graphic and web designer for many years. As I saw your new site my first impression was there is already a designer at work. But when you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-09 Thread Pete Morgan
Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Pete, Another option (perhaps my favorite at the moment) would be to pull in CSS and design elements from your google app engine example and roll them into the current flightgear web page design. We may need to give up on some of the app elements or rewrite them in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Pete Morgan wrote Have developed the idea a bit further. http://fg-www.appspot.com/ idea is to have a dedicated aircraft and Online site also is this worth pursuing ? Its quite neat and developer friendly on the Google App Engine. pete Curtis Olson wrote: On Fri, Feb 12,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-08 Thread Patrice Poly
I like it too ! Very nice and fresh work ! On 08/03/2010 06:22, Pete Morgan wrote: Have developed the idea a bit further. http://fg-www.appspot.com/ idea is to have a dedicated aircraft and Online site also is this worth pursuing ? Its quite neat and developer friendly on the Google

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-08 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, On the other hand we should consider and discuss some of the possible down sides to google apps engine. - Everything we develop for this site and all the database data is in a format that depends on google's proprietary services. - We would be forced to host the site on google's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: Definitely nice work on the page layout. It's my job to play devil's advocate so to speak, [...] My concerns are of similar nature, and locking the project into Google's infrastructure without any option to pull out doesn't sound intriguingly. But since I knew that you'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Brown
Certainly looks good, more modern but still a few years behind the times maybe? (i.e. a bit boxy and trying to overload the page with options/content) I would like to point out that there seems to be nothing there that is Google App Engine specific. That design can be implemented using a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Spott
Dan Brown wrote: I'm not a designer but I am currently considering going freelance as a web developer so been reading up on some of the standard rules of web design, content and user experience in case I need them. Not bad, this probably makes you the one-eyed man in the land of the blind

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-07 Thread Alex Perry
I like it too. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: Have developed the idea a bit further. http://fg-www.appspot.com/ idea is to have a dedicated aircraft  and Online site also is this worth pursuing ? Its quite neat and developer friendly on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-06 Thread Pete Morgan
Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Pete, Here's one possible idea. Why not whip together a replacement front page and maybe a sample sub-page, put it in a temporary location, and we can take a look. That way we could present some different ideas and see if we like them, but at the same time, you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Pete Morgan wrote: http://fg-aircraft.appspot.com/idea/ Am not a graphic designer ;-( Nicely integrated! I like it a lot. Erik -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Erik Hofman wrote Pete Morgan wrote: http://fg-aircraft.appspot.com/idea/ Am not a graphic designer ;-( Nicely integrated! I like it a lot. Erik Me too! Who needs graphic designers to muck up an engineer's solution :-)? Nice functionality. Keep on working on it - this looks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-06 Thread Peter Brown
Very Nice! Clean, Integrated very well. On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:07 AM, Pete Morgan wrote: Here's an idea http://fg-aircraft.appspot.com/idea/ Am not a graphic designer ;-( pete -- Download Intel#174;

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-06 Thread Pedro Monteiro
Hi. This is my first message to list but I would like to say I like it a lot! Pedro On 2010/03/06, at 12:07, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Pete, Here's one possible idea. Why not whip together a replacement front page and maybe a sample sub-page, put it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-06 Thread syd adams
Very nice ! -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis Olson wrote: Here's one possible idea. Why not whip together a replacement front page and maybe a sample sub-page, put it in a temporary location, and we can take a look. That way we could present some different ideas and see if we like them, but at the same time, you don't have to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-01 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Erik, On Monday 01 March 2010 12:02:10 pm Erik Hofman wrote: Here's a quick attempt of mine: http://home.telfort.nl/sp004798/fgfs/ I like this new concept. What should probably be added is a Home on the top- left, just above the News menu, which could link to a page containing the current

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-02-16 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: I want to help please... Hi Pete, Here's one possible idea. Why not whip together a replacement front page and maybe a sample sub-page, put it in a temporary location, and we can take a look. That way we could present

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-02-16 Thread John Denker
On 02/16/2010 11:27 AM, Curtis Olson wrote: Here's one possible idea. Why not whip together a replacement front page and maybe a sample sub-page, put it in a temporary location, and we can take a look. That's a great idea. Taking the next step along that road, it would be nice to bring

[Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-02-12 Thread Pete Morgan
Who is the active developer of the main flightgear.org website? pete -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-02-12 Thread Heiko Schulz
Who is the active developer of the main flightgear.org website? pete Well, maybe the guy which name can be read at the bottom of flightgear.org? ;-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen herausragenden Schutz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-02-12 Thread Pete Morgan
Heiko Schulz wrote: Who is the active developer of the main flightgear.org website? pete Well, maybe the guy which name can be read at the bottom of flightgear.org? ;-) He's not on this site http://www.flightgear.pl/ or this one http://www.flightgear.jpn.org/ for example.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-10 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andrew Gluszynski Hi all, I dont normaly post to this mailing list, but i think the web site has been hacked? It has, but this still works http://flightgear.org/ Vivian - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need

[Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Gluszynski
Hi all, I dont normaly post to this mailing list, but i think the web site has been hacked? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread Dene
Confirmed... no thinking about it...it's been hit buy hackers :-( Dene Andrew Gluszynski wrote: Hi all, I dont normaly post to this mailing list, but i think the web site has been hacked? - Using Tomcat but need to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. Please don't top-post; it makes your posts very very hard to follow. On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:22:43 +1300 Dene wrote: Andrew Gluszynski wrote: Hi all, I dont normaly post to this mailing list, but i think the web site has been hacked? Confirmed... no thinking about it...it's been hit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread Dene
Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. Please don't top-post; it makes your posts very very hard to follow. Hi Chris, What do you mean top-post, I thought the protocol was to edit the post you were replying to and post your comments either through out it or at the bottom? Cheers Dene PS thnx for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread Leidson Campos A. Ferreira
The http://www.flightgear.org seems to be offline (maybe a DNS problem) and http://flightgear.org is working fine.Leidson CamposPlanetaMessenger.org On 11/9/06, Andrew Gluszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,I dont normaly post to this mailing list, but i think the web site hasbeen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread Curtis Olson
On 11/9/06, Leidson Campos A. Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The http://www.flightgear.org seems to be offline (maybe a DNS problem) and http://flightgear.org is working fine.Check what IP addresses these names point to. www.flightgear.org is the official site., flightgear.org actually points

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread George Patterson
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. Please don't top-post; it makes your posts very very hard to follow. On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:22:43 +1300 Dene wrote: Andrew Gluszynski wrote: Hi all, I dont normaly post to this mailing list, but i think the web site has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread Leidson Campos A. Ferreira
Check what IP addresses these names point to.The www.flightgear.org points to 72.36.162.58 (Not working)The flightgear.org points to 128.101.142.119 (Working) Leidson CamposPlanetaMessenger.orgOn 11/9/06, Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/06, Leidson Campos A. Ferreira [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:15:27 +1300 Dene wrote: Hi Chris, What do you mean top-post, I thought the protocol was to edit the post you were replying to and post your comments either through out it or at the bottom? Yep, you got it; and it's what you did in the post I'm replying to here; but not

[Flightgear-devel] Web site migration

2006-07-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
This is a quick announcement to let every one know that I have moved the primary FlightGear web site off my university's network to a paid commercial web hosting service. I've put in quite a bit of time/effort to make sure this transition is seamless with no downtime, broken links, or other

[Flightgear-devel] web site restructuring

2006-07-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I've recently done a bit of behind the scenes restructuring of the web site to remove many absolute references and make the site more relocatable. Please keep your eyes open and report any busted links or other oddities on the flightgear.org web site you might notice. I am doing this in order