I use plan-old html and ftp to update the site. Actually reminds me of the days in 1992 when I was doing this all by hand...ah. Probably where I picked up my carpal tunnels...
vim stands for VIMproved. Vi/vim are console-based text editors which are a lot like notepad, except much more powerful. It supports selective coloring (a must for any avid programmer) as well as yanking and pasting (unix equivilent to cut/copy/paste). You should try it out. It's free!
From conception to actual writing of the design, usually takes anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months. Majority of the time is spent seeing what I can improve and make better. This time around, I went for the whole linux look. Plain, simple, no big frills.
The actual coding of the site can take upto weeks. This particular design took about 2 weeks to draw out and plan. The cgi scripts (ie. pic_viewer.pl, addme.pl, pic_comments.pl) took about a week each. addme.pl took an especially long time because I had to make sure people who were used to the old one would still be able to use it.
Open source (sometimes referred to "copy left") is the concept of sharing the actual code to make something work. For example, majority of linux software is open-source; this is so other linux users and programs can look at the code and say, "This looks cool" or "I don't like how it's doing this" or "I think I can make this faster". Open source leads to more development because with more people able to look and parse that code, the more derivates that can be available.
GNU is an organization dedicated to advancing how open source and other free software is handled. The idea is that software under the GNU Public License is free to all people; not just free in the sense that you don't pay anything, but free to modify, change, and redistribute. Much of the open source code is released under this license and so goes the, "sold without warrenties" package. However, most authors are willing to help a user out when they are having trouble.
No. Linux falls under the GNU Public License. It is available to the public, free of charge. That is why there are many different distributions of it, such as Red Hat, slackware, Mandrake.
A distribution refers to the packaging Linux comes in. At the very core (the kernel), everything is the same. However, the way the user interacts with that kernel may be different. Red Hat is the most popular distribution because of its ease-of-use.
Under the GNU License, you may copy and paste the code to your site. Understand though that it does not come with any warrenties or support. It is expected that you know exactly what the code does. Also note that although it is not a requirement, it is an industry standard to note where you got the chunk of code. A comment is all I ask for.
Yes. Please let me know which picture (right-mouse-click and click properties) and send me an e-mail.
There is nothing stopping you from printing the picture. However, you should note that all of the pictures on this web site have active Copyrights and printing them without permission is technically illegal. If you would like my permission to print the pictures (yes, I give people permission to print them for scrap books and such), please e-mail me! I'll probably even send you the original, unshrunk, unmodified, with no watermarks picture.
Please refer to your yellow pages and submit yourself into a mental clinic. Tell them that the voices in your head told you so. (Actually, refer to the privacy policy for this.)
Look above.
Actually, they're not. I'm just taking 40 minutes out of my boring Friday night to write this page.
Come on...you didn't think it was going to be that easy did you?!