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STOPPED: Hoya Pentax merge
Posted on April 10th, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT, Photography.
Pentax has stopped their previous plan of merging (or rather being eaten) with Hoya.
Pentax president resigned and replaced with a new one.
Pentax DSLR and lenses are selling like hot cakes!
Hoya plan and negotiating a buyout bid of Pentax.
Will Pentax sell their money making division to Hoya? Unlikely…
More details at:
SMF 2.0 Alpha
Posted on April 10th, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT.
My currently favorite forum software, SMF (Simple Machines Forum) has announced the soon to be released SMF 2.0 Alpha to the Chartered members in June 2007, and general public in Oct 2007! Current public version is SMF 1.1.2, hence jump to SMF 2.0 means there should be a huge change and improvement from the current version!
Grudge from SMF has announced some new features of the version 2.0 at:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=163438
Among some of the new features are:
- Database abstraction - with support for PostgreSQL and SQLite planned alongside that of MySQL.
- Automatic installation of packages into themes other than just the default.
- Email templates to simplify customization of forum emails.
- Moderation center including post, topic and attachment moderation - to allow approving of user content before it is made public.
- User warning system.
- Additional group functionally including group moderators and requestable/free assignable groups.
- WYSIWYG editor to provide an intuitive user interface to those users not familiar with BBC.
- Permission improvements such as group inheritance and permission profiles to further reduce the complexity of the permissions system.
- File based caching for a performance increase on all forums regardless of whether an accelerator is installed.
- Mail queuing system to stagger the sending of emails to improve performance on large forums.
- Advanced signature settings to allow the administrator of a forum to more tightly control the contents of users signatures.
- Personal messaging improvements including ability to automatically sort incoming messages and a variety of display options.
- Improved upgrade script with better timeout protection and simpler user interface.
- Custom profile fields to enable administrators to add additional member fields from the administration center.
For some who are not familiar with SMF, it is a free public forum software that is similar to the popular vBulletin and Invision Power Board, but it is FREE! 
I have installed and use SMF on some of my websites: