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01:40:46 Will R.: host changed name (68.44.139.129)
01:40:49 Will R.: hey
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01:41:06 tellio: hey
01:41:40 tellio: willR, thanks again for the offer
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01:42:42 patD: will - as I remember the template questions
01:42:50 patD: you were asking some Frontier stuff
01:42:51 Will R.: I'm getting a choppy connection
01:43:07 pam: me too
01:43:07 pam: host changed name (24.210.225.102)
01:43:26 tellio: patd I got the theme doohicky but not done anything with it
01:44:07 Will R.: I bombed on main chat...
01:44:38 tellio: might not be much help but would love to lurk
01:45:29 pam: hey terry...another snow day tomorrow?
01:45:44 tellio: yes!
01:45:58 pam: some how i knew you would
01:46:20 Will R.: So Pat...anywhere I can find those answers?
01:46:33 pam: pat, anymore thought on the early adopter blog support?
01:46:56 patD: well, I think you're pushing into Frontier as opposed to Manila. First thing
01:46:57 Will R.: I hate having to take my kids through all those configs
01:47:12 patD: post all of them as clearly as possible to both Manila and Frontier newbies
01:47:38 tellio: will what did you think of what sam had to say today
01:47:40 Will R.: ok...you know anything about callbacks?
01:48:17 Will R.: I haven't had a real chance to look closely...Seb e-mailed some ideas too
01:49:02 tellio: will he says you dont need to fiddle with templates
01:49:08 patD: i was going to go for the simplest first.
01:49:48 Will R.: Ok...
01:50:30 patD: aggregate - you got laptop?
01:51:07 Will R.: Yep...tablet...but not hooked into school network...
01:51:35 Will R.: If/when I get new job...first priority
01:54:03 patD: hmm - wait for job. Radio is awesome for this aggregation stuff.
01:54:59 tellio: pat I just got my categories working in Radio
01:55:40 tellio: I have an edublogging category
01:55:56 tellio: I aggregate to that from my Radio page
01:56:10 patD: check it out will. cool
01:56:57 tellio: here's my edublogging page: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103497/categories/myFriends/
01:57:34 patD: so will you get to aggregate according to categories
01:58:17 tellio: yes, its easy. set up categories then clik as you aggregate.
01:59:06 Will R.: Got that....but will it work with kids having Manila blogs?
01:59:31 patD: yeah, but all blogs have to have to be set to newsItem format
01:59:44 patD: which should be the Manila default imho
02:00:34 patD: as to the common nav bar that is editable from one location...
02:00:45 patD: is that what you described on your blog?
02:01:48 Will R.: yeah...that;s what I want
02:02:24 patD: i think this is a variation on the About page that comes with every blog site.
02:02:40 patD: erin explained to me once that the newDefault theme had two incarnations
02:02:49 patD: one came with only the about link built in
02:03:02 patD: the other came with those lovely extra Edit This Page buttons
02:03:13 Will R.: I like those
02:03:24 patD: for all four - top, left, right and bottom - nav bars
02:03:30 Will R.: Where is the newDefault theme?
02:03:33 patD: BUTTTTTT
02:03:44 patD: that was quite the Frontier programming task
02:03:51 Will R.: uh oh
02:03:52 patD: altho i think maybe not all that much
02:04:06 patD: since IU has suddenly given me all four on my IU sites
02:04:29 Will R.: I know at one point David was talking about callbacks
02:06:03 patD: i think the callback thing is overcomplicated but I may be wrong. i think your tech guy can
02:06:07 patD: give you a theme
02:06:29 patD: that has edit this page buttons for some nav bars
02:06:55 patD: and I think those pages' content (ie, links) can be set in advance on the server.
02:07:06 Will R.: doubtful as he doesn't want to get too deep into Fronteir
02:07:08 patD: prob is that if you want to change or update them you have to go thru frontier
02:07:22 Will R.: Well, if you can point me to some docs...newbies???
02:07:33 patD: which is why i think that just have the kids copy and paste might be a better option if you are rushed for time
02:08:34 Will R.: ok...now if I can just get our school to lose Netscape 4.07...
02:09:06 patD: lol!
02:09:36 patD: ya know, I finally decided that if i wanted blogs to even have a snowball's chance in the Passaic River
02:09:38 tellio: yeah I have the same problem with our ancient macafee antivirus
02:09:56 patD: that karen and I would have to download browsers to every workstation
02:10:10 patD: 'course we don't have 17,000 workstations like you
02:10:50 tellio: clone your workstations?
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02:11:10 patD: called imaging
02:11:28 patD: but right now we need server access to do it right and we can't get server access
02:11:43 patD: so i'm investigating buying our own imaging software
02:12:01 patD: lost will. must be that Jersey ether pollution
02:12:18 tellio: ghost is cheap when you buy it with Noron's suite
02:12:27 tellio: noron=Norton's
02:13:02 patD: ghost?
02:13:35 tellio: it's an imaging program part of Norton's Antivirus Suite.
02:13:57 tellio: awesome software.
02:15:52 patD: i have the suite from 2000
02:15:59 patD: didn't notice it in the load
02:16:05 patD: special version?
02:16:20 tellio: I thnk you need the pro suite
02:17:04 tellio: cya will
02:17:51 patD: terry - send me very brief descrip of student blog project
02:18:05 patD: i think the 30 sites are no prob
02:18:17 patD: and will help us in our negotiations in chicago in february
02:18:21 tellio: ok. anyplace in particular to send it?
02:18:53 patD: almost put my e-mail in reponse but
02:19:08 patD: remembered karenC and my new injunction:
02:19:13 patD: "Use the blog, Ed!"
02:19:26 patD: post it on one of your blogs as a proposal in search of a host
02:19:41 patD: hah! the viral proposal
02:20:06 tellio: ok, i'll put it on my bawp site and see what else we skunk out
02:20:33 patD: shall we close this and go back to Main?
02:20:55 tellio: proposals in search of a host, I like it. Yeah back to the party