Wisdom from the net as collected by Charlie (aka Cyberchuck)
Sep 30th 2003cyberchucktxBlogging
hit-or-miss: Using the upcoming.org RSS feeds in MT: article detailing how to setup an RSS feed to “upcoming.org”, a new events blogging system.
From the “upcoming.org” site …
Upcoming.org is an event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events you’re attending, comment on events entered by others, and syndicate event listings to your own weblog.
Sep 30th 2003cyberchucktxBlogging
Test: Gleaning, Exchanging and Vernacular Media: an article
The first paragraphs:
MIT Press have recently published New Media: 1740-1915, an excellent series of essays looking at the social effects of various ‘new’ media from history, from the status of zograscopes as ‘virtual reality’ in 18th C England, to the reception of early telephone systems in Amish communities.
One of the most interesting essays is Ellen Gruber Garvey’s ‘Scissorizing and Scrapbooks: Nineteenth Century Reading, Remaking and Recirculating’, an account of the vernacular use of newspaper and magazine material in personal albums and collections. Garvey makes comparisons between the process of making scrapbooks and personal websites, but there is an even more striking comparison to weblogs.
Sep 30th 2003cyberchucktxBlogging
anil dash – New York Is Getting Too Small: Personal Blog for Vice President of Business Development for Six Apart, producers of Movable Type, one of the prominent blogging systems (free for non-commercial use) and Typepad (commercial product w/hosting).
Sep 29th 2003cyberchucktxWeb
PHP iCalendar: Open source php-based calendaring system.
PHP iCalendar is a php-based iCal file parser. Its based on v2.0 of the IETF spec. It displays iCal files in a nice logical, clean manner with day, week, month, and year navigation, printer view, RSS-enabled, and searchable. It supports 12 languages, is fully theme-able, and has complete timezone support.
Sep 29th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
iCalShare – Share Your iCalendars!: using iCalendar-aware applications.
On MacOSX: iCal (built in)
On LINUX : Evolution or Mozilla
On other platforms: Mozilla
Sep 29th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
Personal Data Interchange: vCalendar & vCard formats (RFC-based).
Personal Data Interchange (PDI) occurs every time two or more individuals communicate, in either a business or personal context, face-to-face, or across space and time. Such interchanges frequently include the exchange of informal information, such as business cards, telephone numbers, addresses, dates, and times of appointments. Augmenting PDI with electronics and telecommunications can help ensure that information is quickly and reliably communicated, stored, organized and easily located when needed.
The versit consortium developed a comprehensive family of PDI technologies based on open specifications and interoperability agreements to help meet this technology need and that will allow you to communicate more easily, faster and more accurately. The two main technologies that came from the versit consortium were vCard, an electronic business card, and vCalendar, an electronic calendaring and scheduling exchange format.
Beginning in December, 1996, the Internet Mail Consortium took on responsibility for the development and promotion of these two important technologies. The press release from the two organizations explains IMC’s new stewardship.
Sep 29th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
MailMeAnywhere.org: MailMeAnywhere: Affordable free Software.
“A Software Distribution Center For Open Source & Ready to Run Mobile Mail Software & Internet Application Servers”.
MailMeAnywhere is a collection of Open Source and Free Software packages which have been bundled together in a logical and consistent manner. All software distributed at MailMeAnywhere is licensed under the GPL (General Public License), LGPL (library General Public License), or similar open-source licenses. All this software may be freely copied, modified, and redistributed in accordance with the terms of those licenses.
Commercial support and commercial licenses are available for all software available at MailMeAnywhere. For details refer to each individual software package.
The MailMeAnywhere distribution center provides consistency and reliability in terms of software packaging, structure, integration and support. The goal of MailMeAnywhere is to facilitate implementation of its free software packages in the form of practical, cost-effective solutions.
Sep 29th 2003cyberchucktxWeb
Domain technologie control (DTC): Take the control of your domain name.
With Thomas Goirand : “ma page perso”.
What is DTC?
Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a complete webhosting package that deliver a web GUI for administration. It’s made of PHP scripts that manages a MySQL database that handles all the host informations. It generates then backup scripts and config files for bind, Apache, qmail, and proftpd, using a single system UID/GID. With DTC, you can delegate the task of creating subdomains, emails, and FTP accounts to users for the domain names they own.
DTC manages the everyday configuration for the following tools :
* bind : the standard for name server (http://www.isc.org)
* apache: the standard for web server (http://www.apache.org)
* proftpd: a powerful ftp server (http://www.proftpd.org
* mod_sql for proftpd: an auth deamon for proftpd that uses mysql database
* qmail: the best email server ever (http://www.qmail.org)
In addition, DTC can :
* Generates a backup script for you web account(using tar)
* Generates a script that launch webalizer for all configurated apache vhosts
Sep 29th 2003cyberchucktxMacintosh
The AppleScript Sourcebook – AppleScript for Absolute Starters: very well-written reference for starting Applescripts; many screenshots to go along with the text.
Sep 29th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
LINUX Bandwidth Arbitrator: Open Source product to do “bandwidth limiting”.
What is the Band Width Arbitration?
Simply put, a bandwidth arbitrator works like putting a traffic cop on a freeway interchange to make sure that everybody can get on and off without gridlock, the left turners, the right turners, and the aggressive drivers who would otherwise cut in line, behave much better with a traffic officer making sure that things go smoothly. The router between the internet and your subnet is an interchange. Do you have a traffic cop at your router to insure fairness, or is it every packet for himself?
Internally, bandwidth arbitrators operate similar to a packet sniffer, they examine internet data by listening to all traffic on an internet segment, typically a trunk between a group of users and the internet. As each internet packet comes by on the trunk, an arbitrator examines the packet and learns who the packet is going to (what end user).The LINUX arbitrator keeps a small data base of the activity going on over an internet segment, then using a set of predefined rules, it determines what users are using excessive bandwidth. Data rates to higher end users are temporarily slowed as needed to alleviate congestion.
Sep 29th 2003cyberchucktxTechnical
m0n0wall: : embedded firewall software package.
m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software).
m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server (thttpd), PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent.
m0n0wall is probably the first UNIX system that has its boot-time configuration done with PHP, rather than the usual shell scripts, and that has the entire system configuration stored in XML format.
Sep 28th 2003cyberchucktxBlogging
Geography: re Memoiring Geoffrey Alexander’s essay (in progress) on weblogging.
Very eloquent essay, still in progress, about his background on the Internet (even pre-Web) and “Why Weblogs?”
Excerpt below.
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But of more significant moment is the fact that as a technology, blogging is really ripe, in the good way of things. The software is engineered to quickly produce a viable and organized collection of data as quickly as possible, with very little of the organizing or regularizing function impinging on the immediate nature or character of the work represented. The beautiful anarchy of the type-shrifted scribble, beautifully and powerfully framed within the greater speed and context of the Internet with an immediacy that belies its personal and private origins. Blogging, as a technique and a technology, does so well to integrate so many disparate and even apposite characteristics of creative writing and publish that, like all great technological enablements — as with email, for example — having discovered it, it would seemingly have been a fair trade to invent all the enabling technologies (electronics, computer science, telecommunications) just to arrive at this technology.
Copyright ©2003 Geoffrey Alexander, All rights reserved
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Sep 28th 2003cyberchucktxWearables
AXIM PDA as documented / announced at lerhaupt.com.
From the folks at www.handhelds.org, home of the Familiar LINUX distro for PDAs.
Although this version is *not* ROM-resident, it can be set up to boot from Compact Flash.
Current version does *not* handle suspend/resume, so it is of limited utility … but a lot *is* working ok.
Sep 26th 2003cyberchucktxGeneral
b2evolution: another blogging system. Open Source/GPL.
From their About section:
What is b2evolution
b2evolution is a classy news/weblog tool (aka logware), i-e software allowing you to run newsfeeds and weblogs.
b2evolution will run on almost any web hosting service, since all it requires is the very common PHP/mySQL platform.
b2evoluion is free, open-source and released under the GNU General Public License.
What’s original in b2evolution ?
Pages are generated dynamically from the MySQL database, so no clumsy ‘rebuilding’ is involved. It also means faster search/display capabilities, and the ability to serve your news in different ‘templates’ or ’skins’ without any hassle.
Sep 26th 2003cyberchucktxHumor
Mighty Med Enterprises : Educational Healthcare Cartoons and Medical Cartoon Characters.
Includes “Allergy Arresters”, “BioGoob” … Mighty Med and his sidekicks Chester (a Stethescope).
From “Mighty Med: How it all began!”:
The Health Avengers! Mighty MED and The Health Avengers keep kids healthy as they battle the evil genius, INFECTO, and his band of Bad Guys-Sneezles (runny nose), Rhinovirus (common cold), Strep (sore throat), NASTY NIC (cigarette pack), and many others. Unfortunately, new Bad Guys are constantly trying to harm kids’ health-Allergy Aggravators, INFECTO’s Gang, The Druggies, Tobacco Terrorists, Â…the list goes on and on! In his lab, Mighty MED continues to create new Health Avengers with the special talents needed to beat the Bad Guys.
Sep 26th 2003cyberchucktxHumor
Breakthroughs in Medical History – Bozo D Clown: from Graphic Pulse, Inc’s collection of Medical Comics.
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Sep 26th 2003cyberchucktxWeb
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