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If, like me, you are a big computer game fan, making the move to Linux can leave you feeling a little left out. No more BioShock, Crysis, Spore, etc. Through the efforts of people like TransGaming, Codeweavers and the wine project, a fair number of windows games can be played on Linux. Except for a very few game studios like ID and Bioware in their Neverwinter Nights days, no-one seems to be writing for Linux itself.

I have just finished signing up for the anti-Phorm petition over at the UK governments epetition website. If you do not know what/what Phorm is, read these links:

http://www.antiphorm.co.uk

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6091811...

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/04/04/the-phorm-webwise-system/

As someone explained what they do in layman's terms:

This is a simple one - go to admin -> Comfiguration -> Images. Set the following:

Product Image - No Image Status: 0

Like most settings, the default header text "Congratulations! You have successfully installed your Zen Cart™ E-Commerce Solution." is in more than one location, although this time it is in the same file. Copy /includes/languages/english/index.php to /includes/languages/english/<your template>/index.php and edit lines 53 & 57.

To disable the IP address of the visitor from the bottom of the page, go to admin -> Configuration -> Layout Settings and set the following:

Footer - Show IP Address status: 0

Having signed up for a Reseller account over at Terra Networks, I found out that the Ensim Control Panel (or Parallels control Panel as it is now known as) automatically uses http://<sitename>/admin and http://<sitename>/user for it's administration URLs. This is a bit of a pain as they are the same as the Drupal URLs!

Sometimes you may need to add products which have no base price, but are priced by their attributes (e.g. takeaway dishes priced by the main ingredient). To do so, go to admin -> Catelog -> Categories/Products -> new product. Set the following:

Depending on the site and client, you may wish to remove the Add to Cart links from the product lists when browsing categories. You need to make two changes in admin -> Configuration -> Product Listing:

Display Product Add to Cart Button: 0
Display Multiple Products Qty Box Status and Set Button Location: 0

Although you might think that the following locations under admin -> configuration set the display of stock quantities, you'd be wrong:

product listing -> Display Product Quantity
new listing -> Display Product Quantity
featured listing -> Display Product Quantity
all listing -> Display Product Quantity

Not quite sure what the above actually affect yet (they must affect something, surely!) Go to admin -> catalog -> product types -> product general and change the setting for:

To change the meta tags (including the title) edit the file at:

/includes/languages/english/meta-tags.php