- Removed the confusing comment as suggested by Jared.

- Redid settings.module and even renamed it to conf.module.
    * Settings are now grouped in basic categories like "system
      settings", "module settings" and "filters".
  * Added new settings to make Drupal easier to configure and
  to make some aspects like the watchdog scale better.

- Renamed includes/settings.php to includes/conf.php.

- Added filter support to conf.module and introduced filter hooks so
  modules can implement and export new filters.  Example filters are
  an HTML filter (implemented), a profanity filter, an url converter,
  ASCII smileys to images filter and so on ...

- Reworked the check_* functions: user contributed content/input is
  only verified and filtered once in its lifespan.

NOTES

- Altough this is a large commit, no database changes are required.

- Created 2 new functions:
    + path_uri(): returns the fully-qualified URI of your drupal site.
    + path_img(): returns the image directory or http://image-server.com/
                  in case you prefer to load-balance bandwidth usage.

  Replaced all occurences of the variable "site_url" with path_uri()
  and removed "site_url" from "setting.module".

- Drastically simplified the node_save() API, which should make the
  node-forms more secure.  Updated "story.module", "book.module",
  "forum.module", "page.module" and "node.module" to reflect this
  change.  This is needs more testing so hit it, beat it, tease it.

- Fixed an occasional glitch in the configuration file loading logic.

- Made "queue.module" display an informative notice when an anonymous
  user tries accessing the moderation queue.

- Updated the hard-coded information in drupal.module a bit.

- Fixed typo: "$language" should have been "$languages".

- Renamed "hostname.conf" to "setting.php" (cfr. "setting.module").
  Note that - when upgrading - you have to rename all your existing
  configuration files to reflect this change:

     yourdomain.com.conf -> yourdomain.com.php

  By default, i.e. if no configuration file is found, setting.php
  will be used instead.  Using the ".php"-extension will fix most
  configuration/security issues with .htaccess-files ...

- Removed some dead code from forum.module.

- Modified conf_init() to use default.conf if nothing else can be found.
- Added some comments to hostname.conf to reflect the changes and
  provide more information on how to rename the file.

TODO
- The Drupal handbook should be updated once the CVS version is released.
- Should try to remove the remainder of info from hostname.conf and go for a
  completely web-based administration if possible.
- Does having all the settings in a SQL database make Drupal add more
  overhead than including a .conf file? If nobody knows for sure some tests
  should be done. If yes, concider having the admin interface generate an
  include file in addition to saving to the database.

A lot of small changes (search-n-replace) make a big commit:

  - fixed update bug in book.module
  - provide a log message when both adding and updating book pages
  - all configurable variables are now accessed through "variable_get()":
  - rewrote watchdog and submission throttle and removed watchdog.inc
  - improved robustness of sections.inc
  - imporved story.module
  - updated ./database/database.sql

- a bunch of various updates

- fixed typo in hostname.conf

Flushing my backlog (in case Natrak wants to make more changes):

 - tidied up some of the code
 - fixed a small problems

- small improvements as well as 2 bugfixes

- refactoring, refactoring, refactoring

- large commit of everything else that has been queued in my backlog:
  it's not 100% stable yet

- applied David Norman's patch to turn all <?'s into fully qualified
  <?php's.

- various smaller updates before I start watching Formula 1 with [a] a
  0.5 liter box of Haagen-Dhaz (Belgian Choclate) and [b] my laptop on
  my lap for drupal hacking.  Life hardly can get any better than this.

- fixed small translation glitch in format_interval
- added a couple of missing t() functions
- improved the comments module, fixed the score problem Jeroen
  reported earlier -> it's slicker but I hope it won't break anything

- improved RDF backend class to support more backend formats

- More updates on the translation support

- removed all tabs

- removed redundant spaces

- removed redundant options from hostname.conf

I know, I know, it is getting nasty lately but I have another large commit after nothing but code.

This time I redid the "category"-stuff.  Categories - from now on called sections - are now maintained from the admin pages, can have their own post, dump and timout thresholds as discussed earlier (some weeks ago).  By tomorrow evening users will be able to enable or disable section as well - i.e. to customize the content of drop.org.

A batch of patches:

  - configuration:
    + renamed $db_name to $db_user
    + renamed $db_base to $db_name
  - fixed small diary glitch
  - fixed initial-comment-score problem
  - fixed comment rating bug: improved the API and updated the
    themes
  - removed some tabs from Steven ;)
  - fixed backend warnings and improved robustness
    I'm not happy yet with the headline grabber - it generates
    too many SQL errors.
  - some small cosmetic changes in comment.module
  - fixed minor glitch in format_interval()

- fixed bug in hostname.conf

- prepared hostname.conf for public release

- Fixed bug in account.php.
- Updated the documentation (again): I spent most of the day writing
  documentation which might well be considered plain boring.

- a few more updates

Again, a large batch of updates - I'm twisting things around here:

 1. improved .htaccess to be more "secure": to keep prying
    eyes out

 2. rewrote the administration section from scratch using a
    modular approach

 3. improved the information gathered by error.php - we can
    now (hopefully) track what bots are crawling us.

 4. fixed a bug in submit.php, fixed a bug in theme zaphod,
    fixed a bug in theme marvin.

 5. rewrote cron from scratch - it now interfaces with
    modules as it should have been from the beginning.
    Very cool if you ask me - it can use UNIX/Linux
    crontabs.

 6. updated widget.inc to be module aware - needs more
    work though - maybe this afternoon?

 7. updated most modules: small bugfixes, improvements, and
    even the documentation

 8. removed diary.php and made it a module - you can now
    run a drop.org site without a diary system if someone
    would prefer so

 9. updated all themes to use the new modules where
    appropriate

 10. added a robots.txt because the error message in the
     watchdog become annoying.

 11. added the new configuration system (mutliple vhosts
     on the same source tree) - use hostname.conf instead
     of config.inc

 12. removed calendar.inc and made it a module

 13. added format_interval() to functions.inc (UnConeD)

 14. whatever I forgot ...

- large batch of updated files featuring various changes: big, small and
  new stuff!

- changed quite a lot of things around, including small bug fixes (nothing)
  critical and module support.  The faq.php will - for instance - become a
  module

- Redid most of account.php and fixed quite some bugs!
  Check out your new user account stuff and give me some feedback.

  - fixed bug in story section
account.php:
  - removed death code, clean-up, reorganization
  - added "lost password?" functionality
faq.php:
  - clean-up
watchdog.inc:
  - improvements
  - end of input-limit test period
error.php:
  - improvements, still crappy layout though

Another batch with a lot of internal updates, yet no visual changes to the
site:

- watchdog (rewrite):
   + the collected information provides more details and insights
     for post-mortem research
   + input limitation
- database abstraction layer:
   + mysql errors are now verbose and is no longer displayed in a
     browser - fixes a possible security risk
- admin.php:
   + updated watchdog page
   + fixed security flaw
- diary.php:
   + fixed nl2br problem
- themes:
   + fixed comment bug in all 3 themes.
- misc:
   + renamed some global variables for sake of consistency:
      $sitename  -->  $site_name
      $siteurl   -->  $site_url
   + added input check where (a) exploitable and (b) possible
   + added input size check
   + various small improvements
   + fixed various typoes

... and much, much more in fact.

* correct database information

- fixed bug in discussion.php
- theme update: comment() now takes 3 arguments:
    $comment - an object with comment data
    $link    - a link to the reply form of that particular
               comment
    $thread  - the subthread of that particular comment
- theme 'marvin' and theme 'zaphod' are updated, theme
  'unconed' is left to be done

* the correct dbase settings