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Started by MatrixCubed Sep 29, 2002 at 4:54 PM 7 replies 750+ views

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Sep 29, 2002 at 4:54 PM

How many posts are there where the first questions asked fall into the following group: - What video card do you have? - What OS is on your system? - How much RAM do you have? - What driver version have you installed? - What desktop resolution/color depth/full-vs-windowed mode are you testing with? I thought it would be a neat idea to be able to select some items from a drop-down list (perhaps stored in members'' profiles, then select a "include system specs" checkbox in the New Topic composition area). This would produce a small table at the end (or perhaps the right side) of new message content, composed of information such as: System (a group of combo-boxes with different ranges) - CPU Type (Intel, AMD, Motorola, Sun) - CPU Model (Pentium I/II/III/IV, AMD K6-2/Athlon/Duron, Cyrix MX86, PPC/G3/G4, Sparc) - Speed (mHz) - RAM - Video Card Type (3dfx, ATI, NVIDIA, PowerVR, Xabre) - Video Card Model (Voodoo/2/3/4/5/Banshee, Rage3D/Radeon 7500/8500/9000/9700, Geforce/2/3/4 Ti/MX, Kyro/II) - Sound Card Type (Creative Labs SB16/Live, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, Yamaha, Crystal) - Input device (MS Sidewinder, Logitech Wingman, etc) - Internet connection (33.6k, 56k, ISDN, xDSL, cable, T1, etc) - Other (Gameboy/Advance, Dreamcast, PS/PS2, XBox, GameCube) Software (a group of multi-select listboxes) - Video driver version/date (textbox for this) - Graphics API (OpenGL, Direct3D, Glide, GDI, VESA, VGA, etc) - Graphics API version (DirectX n, OpenGL 1.n, Glide n, Mode 13h, GLUT, SDL) - Sound driver version/date (textbox) - Sound API (DirectSound, DS3D, OpenAL, etc) - Input driver version/date (textbox) - Input API (DirectInput, OpenIL, etc) - Network API (DirectPlay, Winsock, HawkNL, etc) If the options for software are made up of multi-select listboxes, this would also accomodate those developers programming with multiple APIs. Ideas? Suggestions? MatrixCubed
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SuperRoy

Sep 29, 2002 at 5:03 PM

I think that''s a damn cool idea! But it''d require a rewrite of some of the forum software which would cost GDnet money.

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Oluseyi

Oct 2, 2002 at 2:14 AM

quote:
Original post by SuperRoy
I think that''s a damn cool idea! But it''d require a rewrite of some of the forum software which would cost GDnet money.

Well, for one thing GDNet is considering moving to an out-of-the-box solution and happens to be leaning toward PostNuke. If PostNuke is chosen, extending forum abilities will become a lot more straighforward since PostNuke is written as a content management framework that utilizes specialized "modules" for different aspects. All we''d need to do is write a Nuke module, and that can even be done by forum members.

SuperRoy

Oct 2, 2002 at 5:21 AM

Yeah but isn''t PostNuke only available in PHP? and the GDNet server only supports ASP, I thought.

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Myopic Rhino

Oct 4, 2002 at 11:51 AM

Our server supports PHP currently, but if we switch to PostNuke for everything, we''d also be moving to a new Linux/PHP/MySQL-based server.

SuperRoy

Oct 4, 2002 at 12:16 PM

Not that that is a bad thing...

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Michael Tanczos

Oct 6, 2002 at 5:22 PM

Postnuke sucks though. Seriously. As a CMS it''s about as 1 dimensional as you can get. If anything the Envolution fork of PN has at least some hope, but other than that I would *never* ever migrate a site this large over to Postnuke.

The biggest problem with PN is that the developers, however misguided they are in where they are currently taking PN, break with backwards-compatibility on almost every release. This requires module rewrites every time you want to upgrade.

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The_Lantern

Oct 6, 2002 at 5:30 PM

what about www.phpBB.com? The phpBB board is used very successfully with many large boards, in the general descussion area they have a thread with many large boards flaunting their stuff.

Oluseyi

Oct 7, 2002 at 1:00 AM

quote:
Original post by Michael Tanczos
Postnuke sucks though. Seriously. As a CMS it''s about as 1 dimensional as you can get. If anything the Envolution fork of PN has at least some hope, but other than that I would *never* ever migrate a site this large over to Postnuke.

The biggest problem with PN is that the developers, however misguided they are in where they are currently taking PN, break with backwards-compatibility on almost every release. This requires module rewrites every time you want to upgrade.

New suggestion: Wiki?

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