Posted in Linux, open source software on Jun 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Since taking the job here at UH 9 months ago, I’ve slow but surely become more adept at doing thing with the Linux operating system. This week I got brave and decided that I would make an older home laptop dual boot between Open SUSE 10.1 and Window. I’d love to make it solely a [...]
Posted in RSS on Jun 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
It has been a while (much longer than I care to admit) since I read my RSS feed and I went in this evening in a vain attempt to catch up only to discover that Rojo was acting crazy. When I click on a feed I don’t see any posts even though clearly according to [...]
Posted in RSS, Tech Demons on Jun 6th, 2006 5 Comments »
Sometimes you sit down and plan something only to discover that all the desired traits make things impossible under current technologies. This seems to be the case for our ongoing internal blog projects. These blogs (and their RSS feeds) are password protected because the content on them is really part of our intranet. In order [...]
Posted in Wikis on Jun 5th, 2006 1 Comment »
Today was another Mediawiki day. I’ve been working on giving wiki owners permissions to update the sidebar, and add users to their wikis. It isn’t really a problem to give owners this kind of permissions. Basically I added the following lines:
$wgGroupPermissions['owner']['block'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['owner']['createaccount'] [...]
