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German online magazine golem.de wrote a pretty good article (in german) about their experience with Windows Vista RC1. Some interesting bits include 400MB RAM usage after booting and enforcing the separation of software and data files (using virtual folders). Vista also finally fixes the annoying problem with memory-sticks being hidden by network drives, but it's still using the ancient idea of drive letters. So far there are plenty of compatibility issues with existing (not too old) software. I don't even want to know how it behaves if you still have to run some old 16-bit program for whatever odd reason (which sadly seems to be not uncommon in enterprise environments).

This is what happens when the LSL wiki is down.

I've made this a long time ago, when Google released the API for it's Homepage and have been using it ever since. It's rather simple, but has worked surprisingly well, so I figure it's good enough to release. Go try it!

There seemed to be a new client release available for download every time I tried to log into SL this last day.

...and new blog which takes less effort to update, so I might be inclined to do it more than once per year.

By the way, the site is made using RapidWeaver, which I liked well enough to buy it. Going from editing raw HTML/CSS to such a tool was just a question of time and laziness (and style - it looks a lot fancier now). I've also tried Apple's iWeb which has no SFTP publishing and generally feels too much like a Word processor for the Web - which was certainly the intent, but it gives too little control over the pages it generates. A while ago I've also tried Sandvox, but it crashed too much to be trusted. Downloading it again today, I found that the crashing is gone with the current version, but after using RapidWeaver to create this site Sandvox didn't feel quite as intuitive and Mac-like as I expect.

Rapidweaver is pretty good, but not perfect. I've had to use a few tricks to make it do what I want. One thing was support for Google Analytics. While there is a field to add custom javascript code to each page, it doesn't work for Analytics, because part of it links to a .js file on Google's site. It also doesn't set it for the whole site, just for one page, so I had to copy the theme and put the Analytics code in there.

Another trick is putting a link to the PHP contact form in the page footer instead of an E-Mail address. I simply put a link into the Copyright field:


Apart from those things, I'd like to see a way to add my own files/directories to the site using RapidWeaver instead of dumping them onto the server after publishing with RapidWeaver. This could be implemented as a new page category where you simply add files and folders directly under the site root. And perhaps even support for robots.txt and .htaccess with a nice interface.