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To make this happen, I hooked Midgard with the Mollom anti-spam service. When enabled, all posts sent to Midgard either on-site or using the email import tools will be passed to Mollom for assessment. If Mollom finds them spam or ham, they will be moderated accordingly. This should save a lot of time policing the site.
Expect the feature to be available for all Midgard installs in the soon-to-be-released Midgard 8.09.3.
Technorati Tags: forum, midcom, midgard, moderation, mollom, spam
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To make this happen, I hooked Midgard with the Mollom anti-spam service. When enabled, all posts sent to Midgard either on-site or using the email import tools will be passed to Mollom for assessment. If Mollom finds them spam or ham, they will be moderated accordingly. This should save a lot of time policing the site.
Expect the feature to be available for all Midgard installs in the soon-to-be-released Midgard 8.09.3.
Technorati Tags: forum, midcom, midgard, moderation, mollom, spam
]]>Especially this one:
there was a known memory corrupt issue in 5.2.5
]]>Especially this one:
there was a known memory corrupt issue in 5.2.5
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Looking at other systems than yours every now and then is great, as you can get some ideas. First such idea to come to Midgard from the Django world is error interceptors, a set of configurable actions to perform on given types of errors. For a long time, Midgard has been mapping various types of system errors (and in MidCOM3, Exceptions) to various HTTP status codes, and has made it possible to create customized templates for displaying them.
Error interceptors, on the other hand, allow other actions to take place. Some examples:
This feature just landed into Midgard SVN and will be available in the 8.09.3 release due out next week. To enable those mentioned features, tweak your MidCOM config in the following way:
$GLOBALS['midcom_config_local']['error_actions'] = array
(
500 => array
(
'action' => 'email',
'email' => 'webmaster@example.net',
),
404 => array
(
'action' => 'log',
'filename' => '/var/log/broken_links.log',
),
);
]]>Looking at other systems than yours every now and then is great, as you can get some ideas. First such idea to come to Midgard from the Django world is error interceptors, a set of configurable actions to perform on given types of errors. For a long time, Midgard has been mapping various types of system errors (and in MidCOM3, Exceptions) to various HTTP status codes, and has made it possible to create customized templates for displaying them.
Error interceptors, on the other hand, allow other actions to take place. Some examples:
This feature just landed into Midgard SVN and will be available in the 8.09.3 release due out next week. To enable those mentioned features, tweak your MidCOM config in the following way:
$GLOBALS['midcom_config_local']['error_actions'] = array
(
500 => array
(
'action' => 'email',
'email' => 'webmaster@example.net',
),
404 => array
(
'action' => 'log',
'filename' => '/var/log/broken_links.log',
),
);
]]>This means that soon in addition to the Swedish, any organization providing you an internet connection can listen to anything you do online. Electronic Frontier Finland is trying to fight the law, but it is unlikely that anything good will happen.
And why are our constitutional rights being taken away from us this time? Because Nokia is concerned that their employees perform corporate espionage using their nokia.com email accounts. Come on! How difficult is it to take the data out on a USB stick and mail it from home? At best, this law may help to catch a few idiots, while eroding the rights of all.
I urge everybody owning a business or running a community internet provider to get one of these and wear it to demonstrate people around you what the law means:
This means that soon in addition to the Swedish, any organization providing you an internet connection can listen to anything you do online. Electronic Frontier Finland is trying to fight the law, but it is unlikely that anything good will happen.
And why are our constitutional rights being taken away from us this time? Because Nokia is concerned that their employees perform corporate espionage using their nokia.com email accounts. Come on! How difficult is it to take the data out on a USB stick and mail it from home? At best, this law may help to catch a few idiots, while eroding the rights of all.
I urge everybody owning a business or running a community internet provider to get one of these and wear it to demonstrate people around you what the law means:
The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure, they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part.
The whole N series of devices seems dedicated for allowing you to take that active part: decent cameras, video recording capability, reasonably good keyboards. Not so with the iPhone.
With Apple, you're given the role of a consumer: browser the web, watch videos, buy music from huge corporations. Just don't think different.
Comparing my current iPhone and previous N95, on the Nokia I uploaded a bit more data than I downloaded, on the iPhone, I've downloaded ten times more than uploaded. With difficult text input and no background applications, the device simply seems to push users into the consumer mindset.
Two years ago we handled the whole Death Monkey Rally experience using three Nseries phones. They took our pictures and video, all blog entries were written and published with them, and they recorded our stories to the YleX radio show. Try doing that on an iPhone!
As a product, N97 looks very promising. It has pretty much all features I want from my universal communicator, except one little detail: it doesn't run Maemo.
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The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure, they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part.
The whole N series of devices seems dedicated for allowing you to take that active part: decent cameras, video recording capability, reasonably good keyboards. Not so with the iPhone.
With Apple, you're given the role of a consumer: browser the web, watch videos, buy music from huge corporations. Just don't think different.
Comparing my current iPhone and previous N95, on the Nokia I uploaded a bit more data than I downloaded, on the iPhone, I've downloaded ten times more than uploaded. With difficult text input and no background applications, the device simply seems to push users into the consumer mindset.
Two years ago we handled the whole Death Monkey Rally experience using three Nseries phones. They took our pictures and video, all blog entries were written and published with them, and they recorded our stories to the YleX radio show. Try doing that on an iPhone!
As a product, N97 looks very promising. It has pretty much all features I want from my universal communicator, except one little detail: it doesn't run Maemo.
]]>Of course, MidgardEngine will work in virtaul host scope. But in directory scope -will never work.
How to set MidgardEngine to Off for specific directory then? Use Location. I configured it simply for my virtual host:
<Location /midcom-static/>
MidgardEngine Off
</Location>
Of course, MidgardEngine will work in virtaul host scope. But in directory scope -will never work.
How to set MidgardEngine to Off for specific directory then? Use Location. I configured it simply for my virtual host:
<Location /midcom-static/>
MidgardEngine Off
</Location>
Prompted by a recent COSS news release, I thought to write about two Summer of Code success stories:
Not bad!
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Prompted by a recent COSS news release, I thought to write about two Summer of Code success stories:
Not bad!
]]>in October, I spent quite a bit of time optimizing this release, shaving off an estimated 60-70% of queries through some smart caching and removed redundancies. In addition, a new database server is now in place. Together, these should get us quite far in the "Fast Server" agenda.
We're however still not done, and now we will do more optimizations that will be part of 8.09.3, due next week, and will move static files (images and javascript) to a separate lighttpd instance to remove that load from the normal Apache. When all this is done, the Maemo community should have infrastructure that will be able to serve it for a long time.
In addition to optimization, we've been working on some other features related to the website:
Midgard is a big and complex piece of software. If you notice any issues related to this upgrade, please let us know. And if you have any ideas on improving the website, be sure to file those too!
Technorati Tags: lighttpd, maemo, midcom, midgard, ragnaroek
]]>in October, I spent quite a bit of time optimizing this release, shaving off an estimated 60-70% of queries through some smart caching and removed redundancies. In addition, a new database server is now in place. Together, these should get us quite far in the "Fast Server" agenda.
We're however still not done, and now we will do more optimizations that will be part of 8.09.3, due next week, and will move static files (images and javascript) to a separate lighttpd instance to remove that load from the normal Apache. When all this is done, the Maemo community should have infrastructure that will be able to serve it for a long time.
In addition to optimization, we've been working on some other features related to the website:
Midgard is a big and complex piece of software. If you notice any issues related to this upgrade, please let us know. And if you have any ideas on improving the website, be sure to file those too!
Technorati Tags: lighttpd, maemo, midcom, midgard, ragnaroek
]]>With these early Fords, the customer choice was limited to having your car "in any color as long as it is black". And judging how since then cars have diversified to come in so many different forms, specialities and colors, this thinking must be flawed, no?
As Tim O'Reilly pointed out, JP Rangaswami's blog talks about enhancing the consumer experience in markets that are already out there and are mature. In less established fields, the lone inventor must still press on:
In a talk I attended many years ago, Joseph Campbell said that the Knights of the Round Table were the archetypal myth of Western civilization, the idea that each of us, alone, must go off into the deepest, darkest part of the forest, populated by monsters, on a quest to make the world a better place.
An interesting comparison with Ford at another, still quite immature and emerging field is Apple. Apple provides a full range of computers from servers to mobile phones and in most cases seeks to control the experience through the whole way. The devices are beautifully designed and work well as long as you use them as intended, and not for anything else.
This is a big contrast to the rest of the computing world, where everything comes with a bewildering number of choices. And these choices rarely work so well with each other. And so Apple is able to utilize their singular vision and attention to detail to make very good business.
In the free software world, the same distinction has traditionally been between the GNOME and KDE projects. GNOME has focused on a controlled environment with strong usability and accessibility, while KDE has been about the freedom to tinker and configure.
At some point users will want to manifest their personality or a tribal identity through how they set up their computers. But at the moment I believe we still need more the working systems that we can use, don't have to spend too much time configuring, and that let us focus on whatever we want to accomplish.
This is what originally drove me from my HP Linux laptop to an iBook four years ago. When I ran Linux I found myself constantly tweaking settings and installing new interesting applications that were supposed to improve my life. With Mac, once some basic necessities had been set up, I have very rarely touched any settings.
Now the iPhone experience has got me to feel the downsides of Apple's total control, and I'm again looking over the fence to see if free software is greener on the other side. While with Linux I would have full control of my environment, the whole synchronized release business keep things fresh enough. Given that a new GNOME desktop and a new Ubuntu would be out in just a few months, I should be able to fight the urge to start upgrading bits and pieces on my own, ruining productivity and potentially breaking my work environment.
If SubEthaEdit wasn't locking me to OS X, I would definitely be trying this out.
As an afterthought
All this talk of Ford got me to think a little about the car problem. Cars make cities unlivable and pollute the world, but at the same time they let people accomplish and experience things that they couldn't without personal transport.
Now the conventional thinking seems to be that what the world needs is more energy efficient, cleaner cars. But to my point of view, that is quite close to what Ford said:
If I'd asked people what they wanted, they'd have said "faster horses"
So how about solving the problem in some other way? Segways tried and failed to make mobility more even more personal and less space-requiring - but not very appealing in chilly Helsinki weather. But how about making the world require less mobility in the first place? Maybe World of Warcraft, Skype and Second Life - the field of telepresence - are better answers to the car problem than Prius or Tesla.
Technorati Tags: apple, gnome, innovation, iphone, ubuntu, segway, subethaedit, tesla
]]>With these early Fords, the customer choice was limited to having your car "in any color as long as it is black". And judging how since then cars have diversified to come in so many different forms, specialities and colors, this thinking must be flawed, no?
As Tim O'Reilly pointed out, JP Rangaswami's blog talks about enhancing the consumer experience in markets that are already out there and are mature. In less established fields, the lone inventor must still press on:
In a talk I attended many years ago, Joseph Campbell said that the Knights of the Round Table were the archetypal myth of Western civilization, the idea that each of us, alone, must go off into the deepest, darkest part of the forest, populated by monsters, on a quest to make the world a better place.
An interesting comparison with Ford at another, still quite immature and emerging field is Apple. Apple provides a full range of computers from servers to mobile phones and in most cases seeks to control the experience through the whole way. The devices are beautifully designed and work well as long as you use them as intended, and not for anything else.
This is a big contrast to the rest of the computing world, where everything comes with a bewildering number of choices. And these choices rarely work so well with each other. And so Apple is able to utilize their singular vision and attention to detail to make very good business.
In the free software world, the same distinction has traditionally been between the GNOME and KDE projects. GNOME has focused on a controlled environment with strong usability and accessibility, while KDE has been about the freedom to tinker and configure.
At some point users will want to manifest their personality or a tribal identity through how they set up their computers. But at the moment I believe we still need more the working systems that we can use, don't have to spend too much time configuring, and that let us focus on whatever we want to accomplish.
This is what originally drove me from my HP Linux laptop to an iBook four years ago. When I ran Linux I found myself constantly tweaking settings and installing new interesting applications that were supposed to improve my life. With Mac, once some basic necessities had been set up, I have very rarely touched any settings.
Now the iPhone experience has got me to feel the downsides of Apple's total control, and I'm again looking over the fence to see if free software is greener on the other side. While with Linux I would have full control of my environment, the whole synchronized release business keep things fresh enough. Given that a new GNOME desktop and a new Ubuntu would be out in just a few months, I should be able to fight the urge to start upgrading bits and pieces on my own, ruining productivity and potentially breaking my work environment.
If SubEthaEdit wasn't locking me to OS X, I would definitely be trying this out.
As an afterthought
All this talk of Ford got me to think a little about the car problem. Cars make cities unlivable and pollute the world, but at the same time they let people accomplish and experience things that they couldn't without personal transport.
Now the conventional thinking seems to be that what the world needs is more energy efficient, cleaner cars. But to my point of view, that is quite close to what Ford said:
If I'd asked people what they wanted, they'd have said "faster horses"
So how about solving the problem in some other way? Segways tried and failed to make mobility more even more personal and less space-requiring - but not very appealing in chilly Helsinki weather. But how about making the world require less mobility in the first place? Maybe World of Warcraft, Skype and Second Life - the field of telepresence - are better answers to the car problem than Prius or Tesla.
Technorati Tags: apple, gnome, innovation, iphone, ubuntu, segway, subethaedit, tesla
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The reasons for this are quite simple:
While not everybody is happy about the way Ubuntu has established itself in the market, there seems to be a strong gravitation towards switching to it, on both desktop and server.
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The reasons for this are quite simple:
While not everybody is happy about the way Ubuntu has established itself in the market, there seems to be a strong gravitation towards switching to it, on both desktop and server.
]]>Bergie's blog describes gathering very nice and with more details.
Anyway, few very interesting points:
And as Vinland requirements clarified a lot, I am looking forward to see Midgard2 as a gateway for Gnome to web servers and services world.
]]>Bergie's blog describes gathering very nice and with more details.
Anyway, few very interesting points:
And as Vinland requirements clarified a lot, I am looking forward to see Midgard2 as a gateway for Gnome to web servers and services world.
]]>Just like this:
midgard_directory_config *dcfg =
(midgard_directory_config *)ap_get_module_config(r->per_dir_config, &midgard_module);
I found these two posts quite interesting. First because it affected also midgard-apache module few years ago, and the second because it clearly shows there something odd happens. Why odd? Because you never sets directory or server config explicitly. You just register function and it's up to the server implementation when it's invoked.
In my case ap_get_module_config(r->per_dir_config, &midgard_module) returned NULL all the time. So I added debug messages which showed that server and directory configuration hooks are invoked. Spent plenty of time trying to figure it out.
Three facts which made me think it's something wrong with Apache. Not the module itself. And after many trials and errors, I found guilty AM_CFLAG: -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Also interesting fact, this flag is able to slow down PHP itself.
]]>Just like this:
midgard_directory_config *dcfg =
(midgard_directory_config *)ap_get_module_config(r->per_dir_config, &midgard_module);
I found these two posts quite interesting. First because it affected also midgard-apache module few years ago, and the second because it clearly shows there something odd happens. Why odd? Because you never sets directory or server config explicitly. You just register function and it's up to the server implementation when it's invoked.
In my case ap_get_module_config(r->per_dir_config, &midgard_module) returned NULL all the time. So I added debug messages which showed that server and directory configuration hooks are invoked. Spent plenty of time trying to figure it out.
Three facts which made me think it's something wrong with Apache. Not the module itself. And after many trials and errors, I found guilty AM_CFLAG: -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Also interesting fact, this flag is able to slow down PHP itself.
]]>Five years ago, 2003
Three years ago, 2005
Year ago, 2007
This year so far
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Next year, 2009
Via Tiuku.
]]>Five years ago, 2003
Three years ago, 2005
Year ago, 2007
This year so far
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Next year, 2009
Via Tiuku.
]]>Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Some pictures on Flickr.
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Friday
Saturday
Some pictures on Flickr.
]]>Distance also magnifies the impact of negative feelings like longing and suspicion; according to one study, intercity lovers are more likely to be depressed
What next? I don't know, maybe focus on some core competencies...
Distance also magnifies the impact of negative feelings like longing and suspicion; according to one study, intercity lovers are more likely to be depressed
What next? I don't know, maybe focus on some core competencies...