Topic: Welcome Les!

[Ken (OP)]

We would like to welcome Les to the FamilyForum membership.  riteon

Les has been our friend here on the forum for some time now and has helped out with design features several times, including some of the latest features that you see in our current theme, 'Callisto'. Most noteablely if you look at the board icons you'll see his handy work where he used Mallie's artwork to make those buttons, as seen here... 
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Also if you look at the 'tree' banner at the top of the page you'll see that he took Mallie's 'Colored Tree & Creek' art to make that banner.
And, he made the forum 'name' graphic for us.


Mallie was impressed by the great use that Les was able to put to her artwork and has offered too make a set of her greeting cards for him. She also wanted him to become a member of Our FamilyForum and he has graciously agreed to do so.
Welcome Les, we're glad you're here. 

[Lesmond]

Your welcome ken and  Mallie, hope y'all like it, I enjoy graphics, wouldn't say I was good at it but I like to dabble some, hope to be around quite a bit, and if you guys would like to check out my site its Lesmonds Place mostly about my home town in the UK called Leicester (pronounced Lester)

Edit: forgot to add, going to have a look around read a few post, maybe answer a few along the way, but I am not a very good poster

[Lesmond]

I have a few more ideas that I would like to run by you, but will work on them a bit before I tell you

[Ken (OP)]

I have a few more ideas that I would like to run by you, but will work on them a bit before I tell you

Sounds interesting Les, can't wait to see what you come up with.  :up2some:

[Ken (OP)]

Just a note to let everyone know that Les has been a big help in setting up the new Fine Food & Gourmet CookBook section here on the FamilyForum, plus he has posted some of the great recipes that we're starting to accumulate there.

WTG Les... Thank You!  :2tumb:

[Lesmond]

Thought it was time to let you all know little more about me... so here goes.......

This is Les, (real name Leslie) Just turned 54 this year, I live in Leicester, in the UK, about 100mile north of London, lived here all my life, I live with My wife Lisa and son Kristian, and 2 daughters who have now left home, Plus Rocky our Yorkshire terrier.

 I have always been into computers, at school we had a old IBM which was given to us, but we never did get it going, it filled one class room   I dabbled a bit with Fortran, but only ever got compute the multiples of 3! I wanted to stay on at school, but my parents were poor so I had to leave school at 14, and went in the the same job has my dad, which was a furniture remover, I stayed at that until 15 years ago, But I did get to see all of the UK from top to bottom, very interesting job, got to meet a lot of people too, but I had to give up work due to ill health.

I am self taught in HTML(no PHP  :undecided2: ) and built and maintain a number of sites for people, brings in a little extra   I also do a little commission work on a big forum with over 2000 members which gets me extra too, (the admins cant install a small mod without breaking it!)

I got into graphics a few years ago, and have even done a few commissions, (dont know how I got paid for them!!)

I got my first computer at 24, which was a Commodore Vic 20

(CPU:MOS 6502, 1MHz
RAM:5K (3.5K for the user)
Display:22 X 23 text 176 X 184, 16 colors max
Ports:composite video joystick, cartridge, user port serial peripheral port)

I then moved on to a Commodore 64  

(CPU:MOS 6510, 1MHz
Sound:SID 6581, 3 channels of sound
RAM:64K
Display:25 X 40 text 320 X 200, 16 colors max
Ports:TV, RGB & composite video 2 joysticks, cartridge port serial peripheral port)

My next one was a Commodore 128

CPU  8502 + Zilog Z80
SPEED  1/2 mHz (for the 8510), 1.022 MHz (for C64 mode), ~2.5 MHz (Z80)
CO-PROCESSOR  SID (sound), VDC & VIC-II (video)
RAM  128 KBVRAM  16 KBROM  48 KB
TEXT MODES  40 or 80 chars. x 25 lines
GRAPHIC MODES  several, most used : 160x200 / 320 x 200 / 640 x 200
COLORS  16SOUND  3 voices / 6 octaves
I/O PORTS  RGB, Video Composite, Joystick (2), Cardridge, Tape, User Port (RS232 compatible), TV, serial

Then the Commodore's Amiga 500  

Built-in keyboard, 95 keys
CPU  Motorola MC68000
SPEED  7.09379 MHz (PAL)
7.15909 MHz (NTSC)
CO-PROCESSOR  OCS based chipset: 8370/8372 Fat Agnus (memory controller and blitter), 8362R5/8362R6/8362R8 Denise (video control chip), 8364 Paula (sound & I/O), 5719R2 Gary (I/O)
RAM  512 KB Chip RAM (expandable to 9MB : 512 KB Chip RAM + 512 KB Slow RAM + 8 MB Fast RAM)
ROM Kickstart 1.3: 256 KB
GRAPHIC MODES  320x256, 320x512, 640x256, 640x512
COLORS  Palette: 4096
On screen: 16 in 640 modes, 32 in 320 modes, 64 in EHB, 4096 in HAM
SOUND  4 channel 8 bit PCM, stereo output

My first PC was a hp pavilion desktop cant remember much about it really, although it had a 3gb harddrive and 128mb ram

Then a dell dimension 2350

Intel? Pentium? 4 that runs at  2.50 GHz internally and 400 MHz externally;
Maximum memory 1 GB
DDR SDRAM

I now have a acer aspire m7711

CPU Model	Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300	Case Type	Mid-Tower
CPU Frequency	2.5 GHz	Monitor	22" flat screen
Harddisk	640 GB (7200rpm)	Memory	4096 MB
Chipset	NVIDIA nForce 720i	Maximum Memory	8192 MB
Graphic Card	NVIDIA GeForce GT-130	Optical Drive	DVD SuperMulti Label Flash
Graphic RAM	1536 MB	Interfaces	10 USB, S/PDIF, Wireless LAN, IEEE 1394
Card Reader	Multi-in-1 card reader	Others	Two 3.5" Front-Accessible Tool-Less swap HDD drive bays
Operating System	Windows Vista Home Premium	Added	extra 1tb hard drive, 2 external 300gb h/d

Forgot to mention the Laptop Acer Aspire 5735

    * Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200
    * 1 MB L2 Cache, 2.0 GHz, 667 MHz FSB
    * 15.6″ WXGA (HD) Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD (1366 x 768)
    * 2048MB DDR2 667 MHz Dual Channel Memory
    * 160GB SATA 5400RPM Hard Drive
    * 8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
    * 5-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
    * 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
    * 4 ? USB 2.0 Ports
    * Windows Vista Home Premium

Sorry I went on a bit there :innocent:

[Ken (OP)]

Good post Les. 

Thanks for the detail, this is an interesting read.

[Lesmond]

Thanks Ken, as you can see, I did like my "Commodore" computers, pity they went bust :thud:

[Ken (OP)]

Yepp... had one of those.  :08:

[Skhilled]

Those were the best! I loved my C64 and still miss it!!!

[Lesmond]

I made a new signature, and if you refresh the page it changes color. :innocent:

[Ken (OP)]

That's pretty neat Les. 



Ps: I've been working on something for you!  :up2some:
Go to the SMF default theme and you'll see it... still trying to get it to show in the custom themes like VirtualCell.

[Lesmond]

Sorry Ken but you'll have give me a clue??

[Ken (OP)]

Sorry Ken but you'll have give me a clue??

 :hah:

[Lesmond]

Ahh I did see that, but wasnt sure if thats what you meant  :innocent: so you need to add the code to the other themes?

[Ken (OP)]

Ahh I did see that, but wasnt sure if thats what you meant  :innocent: so you need to add the code to the other themes?

Yepp... the code needs to be added to the index.template.php file, but my attempts thus far only crash the theme. The code from the default theme install routine is not working as expected for me.

[Lesmond]

Is it a mod Ken?

[Ken (OP)]

Yes... two of them:

Copyright & Footer Links
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1836

Custom Copyright
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1317

Both are installed.

I actually like the Copyright & Footer Links better because it has more features, but they both seem good for doing copyright additions, just need to sort out the code for a custom theme.

[Lesmond]

have you had a look at a package parser, and just do the theme edits?

[Ken (OP)]

Not yet, but will later.

[Skhilled]

I believe in giving credit where credit is due. Good job, Les!