00:11:08 loggy has joined #openacs 00:11:08 topic is: OpenACS: Free web toolkit | http://openacs.org 00:11:08 Users on #openacs: loggy davb abbaJ zzzirk shagster_ rbm KarlL GEM chump AaronSw 00:11:08 This channel is logged: http://www.blogspace.com/openacs/chatlogs/ and blogged: http://www.thedesignexperience.org/openacs/ircblog 00:39:05 abbaJ has quit 01:02:56 markd2 has joined #openacs 01:06:31 talli isn't back yet... 01:18:32 Static-pages info file is all fixed and comitted. 01:21:14 markd2 has left #openacs 01:34:33 abbaJ has joined #openacs 01:53:02 strainmaker has joined #openacs 01:53:24 talli has joined #openacs 01:53:40 Hi talli! 01:53:49 hey 01:53:56 friggin' X 01:54:10 how the hell am i supposed to configure that thing? 01:54:38 I didn;t use X on my webserver. Maybe you can edit the XF86Config-4 file. 01:54:49 i need to download and burn that 01:54:56 it comes with X3.X 01:55:00 or type xf86config 01:55:03 ick. get 4 01:56:07 what kind of laptop do you have? Sometimes there is help for specific laptop models out there. especially IBM 01:58:23 i'm using a dell latitude C600 01:58:29 it has an ATI rage mobility card 02:00:03 which binary of X should i download? 02:00:32 or just use the debian X? do they have one to download from their site? an X package? 02:02:04 brb 02:03:48 Xfree86 3.3 is in stable. If you want a newer one, you need to go for testing or unstable. 02:10:45 In case anyone is wondering Filemaker is the worst software product I have ever used. 02:24:42 chump has quit 02:25:43 chump has joined #openacs 02:43:04 talli has quit 03:03:38 chump has quit 03:07:34 argh! my DSL is down. 03:07:51 davb has quit 03:13:59 chump has joined #openacs 03:38:42 moo 03:39:35 X 4 is much much easier to configure. 03:48:34 how to add a new site-wide administrator in '4: add a record to acs_permissions with object_id 0, grantee_id of the user and privilege of admin. anybody know a way to do it through the oacs ui? 04:10:01 patch to make openacs/aolserver not get interrupted system call errors under freebsd available at http://lehenbauer.com/ 04:10:07 chump has quit 04:10:52 If it is for OpenACS, post it at openacs.org/sdm. If for AOLserver, post it at sourceforge.net/projects/aolserver/ 04:11:20 The terminology he uses is so confusing. 04:11:23 ooops 04:11:45 chump has joined #openacs 04:38:42 vinod has joined #openacs 06:01:06 andyn has joined #openacs 06:27:29 andyn has quit 06:28:20 andyn has joined #openacs 06:41:23 vinod has left #openacs 07:00:16 anyone here? 07:02:17 if so i'm just wondering how tcl works for mathmatics? 07:02:46 strainmaker has quit 07:19:06 andyn: depends on how complicated the mathmatics are 07:19:34 tcl doesn't interpret mathematical expressions the same way most languages do 07:19:42 you have to wrap them ina call to expr 07:19:44 like 07:19:50 expr 7 + 5 07:20:09 tcl was not really designed to do complicated mathematics 07:20:24 how well would it do something like a riemann sum? 07:20:37 it's strengths are it's simplicity, size, and the way it deals with variables 07:20:47 andyn: what is that? 07:21:22 find the area under a function by taking the area of lots of rectangles 07:22:31 well 07:22:47 tcl can probably handle 07:23:15 i got the script allready written in maple 07:23:25 but maple at the computer labs at school died 07:23:32 just check the tcl docs and make sure you're not going to be dealing with numbers too big for the language 07:23:58 perhaps it would best be put into a C function that you could call from tcl? 07:23:59 or some other language for that matter 07:24:11 i see 07:24:20 tcl's focus really is strings 07:24:34 but slow down just a bit, i don't really know any programming 07:24:48 just modified my professors script for an assignment 07:24:50 well 07:24:55 tell me what you're trying to do? 07:25:05 and how does it involve ACS? 07:25:16 got this maple script written that i need to test to make sure it works 07:25:20 but maple died 07:26:45 what does that have to do with openacs or tcl? 07:27:13 just wondering if i could get the riemann sum to somehow work on my web site 07:27:17 you know impress the teacher 07:28:13 anyhow i was just wondering how hard it would be to port the script to tcl and make it work on my site 07:28:14 oh 07:28:18 ok 07:28:23 so your website runs openacs? 07:28:27 yep 07:28:31 ok 07:28:33 now I understand 07:28:40 well 07:28:45 I don't know maple 07:28:52 but maybe you could paste what you have. 07:29:01 msg it if it's big 07:29:45 f: = x -> x^2; # The function 07:29:45 abbaJ: = 1; # Set the lower limit 07:29:45 b: = 3; # Set the upper limit 07:29:45 n: = 10; # Set the number of subrectangles 07:29:46 deltaX:= (b-a)/n; #deltaX is the size of each subinterval 07:29:48 shagster_: = 0; # Initialize the loop 07:29:54 for r from 1 to n do 07:29:56 x_r:= a+r*deltaX; 07:29:58 s := s + f(x_r)*deltaX: 07:30:00 end do: 07:30:02 evalf (s); 07:30:35 ahh 07:30:47 so this is a mathematical representation of an interval right? 07:31:09 well sorta 07:31:28 something screwed up 07:31:33 if you take the limit of that as n approches infinity you can get the integral 07:31:43 what are the var names where abbaJ: and shagster_: are? 07:31:48 right...it's an approximation 07:32:01 a and s 07:32:48 ok...you can do this programmatically in tcl, but you're gonna have to do things a litle differently 07:33:10 b/c tcl's not going to understand what a function is x -> x^2 07:33:14 is that the same as 07:33:19 f() = x^2? 07:33:51 f(x) = x^2 07:35:19 k 07:35:21 just a sec 07:40:29 sigh 07:40:34 I'm so rusty in my math 07:41:46 if I'm not wrong, a function to do that in any programming language is going to be fairly complex b/c the language is not going to understand a function with out you programming that logic in as well 07:42:35 could be, i just don't know, like i said i don't anything about programming 07:42:48 just barely started my cmpt studies 07:43:37 do you understand what I'm saying tho? 07:44:25 let me see if I can do it 07:44:33 yeah i see 07:46:27 hey another guy just gave me a working one in c 07:47:04 would it help to see that? 07:47:45 and two: would it be easier to have tcl call that so that maybe it would show up on the web site from there somehow? 07:48:56 I think I've got one in tcl done 07:48:57 just a sec 07:55:04 talli has joined #openacs 08:01:23 talli has quit 08:02:31 andyn: what should the answer be to that maple procedure? 08:03:34 wich one 08:03:41 the reimann sum one 08:03:44 for x^2 08:03:51 from what to what? 08:03:56 1 to 3 ? 08:03:56 1 to 3 08:03:58 yes 08:04:01 exactly what you pasted 08:04:09 that would be right hand sums 08:04:19 just a sec 08:04:36 9.48 08:04:40 k 08:04:41 i believe 08:05:14 that what you got? 08:06:24 yep definatley 9.48 08:09:58 heh 08:09:59 well 08:10:03 like i said in the beginning 08:10:06 tcl sucks for math 08:10:14 it won't let me pass a floating point number 08:10:23 what is a floating point number? 08:10:42 as a power 08:10:47 a number with a decimal 08:10:54 so in other words 08:10:57 x^2 works 08:11:04 but x^2.0 throws an error 08:11:11 what you can do 08:11:18 is compile your friends C function 08:11:21 and call it from tcl 08:11:28 and return the results to your web page 08:11:37 how hard is it to do that? 08:12:43 I don't think it's hard 08:12:46 oh, here, I got mine to work, but it said 18 08:12:51 that's wrong i guess/ :) 08:13:05 yep 08:13:45 oh well 08:13:47 here's what I have 08:13:52 proc reimann { l_limit h_limit rects } { 08:13:52 set deltaX [expr ($h_limit - $l_limit)/$rects] 08:13:52 set s 0 08:13:52 08:13:52 for { set r 1 } { $r < [expr $rects + 1] } {incr r } { 08:13:53 set x_r [expr $l_limit + ($rects * $deltaX)] 08:13:55 set s [expr $s + (($x_r * $x_r) * $deltaX)] 08:13:57 } 08:13:59 return $s 08:14:01 } 08:14:08 if you find my error you can use that 08:14:29 just make sure you pass decimaled numbers to the proc or it will round 08:14:49 reimann 1.00 3.00 10.00 08:14:51 like that 08:15:24 i think it may be beyond me to fix 08:15:35 but it was a nobel effort 08:15:40 hehe 08:15:44 well, I was bored 08:15:52 I don't see my error 08:15:54 but I'm tired 08:16:06 cool thanks for the help 08:16:10 k 08:16:12 np 08:16:39 what does evalf do? 08:16:44 just return the value of s? 08:17:43 i think it returns the sum of all the boxes added together 08:17:55 which is s 08:17:57 so yeah 08:18:10 ya...I don't know where I made the error 08:18:13 I'm sure it's something small 08:20:47 what's the eval order on these? 08:20:50 x_r:= a+r*deltaX; 08:20:50 s := s + f(x_r)*deltaX: 08:21:01 a + ( r * deltaX ) 08:21:23 s + ( f(x_r) * deltaX) 08:21:26 right? 08:23:44 x_r: = a+r*deltaX; 08:24:14 s := s +f(x_r)*deltaX 08:24:37 like that 09:07:16 abbaJ: are you still around? 09:07:20 or anyone? 09:48:35 andyn has quit 13:06:10 davb has joined #openacs 13:06:15 hello 13:25:47 http://www.theobvious.com/archive.html?090701 13:25:48 A: http://www.theobvious.com/archive.html?090701 from davb 13:26:01 A:|What I Want from www.theobvious.com 13:26:01 titled item A 13:26:14 A: He wants Yahoo Groups functionality for the intranet 13:26:14 commented item A 13:26:32 A: OpenACS has everything he needs except the mailing list and real-time chat features 13:26:32 commented item A 13:27:00 A: The usability might not quite be there, but we are working on it (I personally don't think Yahoo Groups is that easy to use) 13:27:00 commented item A 13:43:53 BLURB: Test post 13:43:53 B: Test post from davb 14:36:48 Comments enabled on all chump archive pages (I synced that database) 14:39:39 davb_ has joined #openacs 14:39:39 davb has quit 14:39:47 davb_ is now known as davb 16:25:11 ola has joined #openacs 16:38:04 talli has joined #openacs 16:41:06 davb_ has joined #openacs 16:41:07 davb has quit 16:41:10 argh! 16:41:13 davb_ is now known as davb 16:41:25 hi dave. 16:41:55 using CSS, is there a way to affect the font of text in a doc that doesn't have a P tag or any other tag in front? 16:42:18 I don't want to put the content in a table which is one solution... 16:42:43
or 16:42:51 I am not sure which is better. 16:43:01
content
16:43:20 you mean wrap all pages in this? 16:43:23 If you have oh! 16:43:37 Oh you mean the WHOLE document. 16:43:43 yes 16:43:53 Do this: in an inline style or external style sheet: 16:44:19 BODY { font-face: fontanme } etc... 16:44:30 That applies the font setting to anything inside the BODY tag. 16:44:35 ahh! thanks! 16:44:55 np. I am trying to get all my page eventually to be CSS compliant. 16:45:37 It can be hard to support both NN and IE..I guess. 16:45:50 and the others. 16:46:33 Yes. IE, Mozilla, Opera and other modern browsers usually support CSS1 very well. Opera is not as forgiving as the others. 16:46:41 If makes you follow every rule. 16:53:17 http://www.webreference.com/html/reference/character/ 16:53:17 C: http://www.webreference.com/html/reference/character/ from davb 16:53:34 C:|HTML Character Reference from Webrefernce.com 16:53:34 titled item C 16:53:59 C: If you need to display a special character in HTML here is the place to find out how 16:53:59 commented item C 16:56:52 talli has quit 17:13:42 hmm... looks like it's "font-family" and not "font-face". 17:14:00 "body {font-family:*font-name*}" works on all content *but* TABLEs, it appears... 17:14:32 "body, td {font-family:*font-name*}" works with TABLEs exclusively! 17:14:50 yes you are correct. 17:14:56 Argh! 17:14:58 very strange. 17:15:01 That is crazy. 17:15:01 :-) 17:15:42 The styles are supposed to be cascading, hence the name. So if a style is applied to the top level tag, it should cascade to every tag inside. 17:15:57 I use NN, I might add. 17:16:06 Aha. 6 or 4? 17:16:06 yes. bad name. 17:16:14 4 17:16:43 NN4 is not friendly to CSS. Very few tags work correctly or at all. CSS can actually crash NN4. 17:17:56 http://css.nu/pointers/bugs.html 17:17:56 D: http://css.nu/pointers/bugs.html from davb 17:18:04 D:| CSS Bugs and workarounds 17:18:04 titled item D 17:18:30 http://www.webreview2.com/style/mastergrid.shtml 17:18:30 E: http://www.webreview2.com/style/mastergrid.shtml from davb 17:18:46 E:| Master compatability chart for CSS by Eric Meyer 17:18:46 titled item E 17:19:03 thanks! I definitely need a workaround:-) 17:19:15 You have to repeat the tags I guess. 17:19:32 que? 17:20:57 "Redundant selectors on (add TD, TH, P)" 17:21:57 there is always the "one giant table" approach as a last resort... 17:22:19 Yeah, but that is icky. 17:22:31 And still could break on TDs. 17:22:56 You need to apply the same style to BODY, TD, TH, and P to make sure it doesn;t fall off. 17:24:20 redundant "selectors" on body doesn't work. 17:24:36 Really? darn. 17:24:46 "body, td {font-family:*font-name*}" fails on tags outside TABLE... 17:24:59 Do you mind checking my site? I am always breaking NN4. 17:25:11 heh. 17:25:30 Can you put each one seperately and try that? body {font-family } TD {font-family}... 17:25:39 www.deepskydesign.com 17:27:19 separate rows don't work:-( 17:27:36 Weird. 17:28:23 you dont seem to have changed the fonts at thedesign, do you? 17:28:50 the linkcolors are changed though. 17:30:20 [Global Notice] Hi all. At 19:30 UTC, in two hours, we'd like to ask everyone to observe a minute of silence in sympathy with the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, their loved ones and friends. Channel admins, if you'd like to participate, please +m your channel for a minute and optionally deop at that time. Thanks. 17:30:59 I don't usually set fonts. I let you pick your own. I just use the default. 17:31:56 So its readable? 17:32:07 sure. 17:32:21 looks good. 17:32:22 cool. 17:32:24 http://www.webreview.com/style/index.shtml 17:32:24 F: http://www.webreview.com/style/index.shtml from davb 17:32:35 F:| CSS Resources at Webreview.com 17:32:35 titled item F 17:33:10 F: [CSS FAQ|http://www.webreview.com/style/css-faq.shtml] 17:33:10 commented item F 17:33:27 I set styles on the BODY tag, but none of my page's text has the specified style. Why not? 17:33:27 In most cases, this is because you have laid your page out using tables. For a variety of reasons, table implementations in current browsers will break the CSS inheritance mechanism, so setting styles on the BODY tag is not enough (even though it really should be). Modify the selector of your BODY rule to look like this: 17:33:27 BODY, TABLE, TD, TH 17:33:27 This will apply the styles directly to TABLE and table cell elements. Note that this will only sometimes work in Navigator, which has extra-special problems with tables and styles. 17:33:44 didn't come out right. 17:33:57 darn "only sometimes work in navigator" 17:35:31 lemme try... 17:38:21 body, table, td, th {font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif} refuse to work, sigh. 17:39:42 I can't believe it. it doesn't do anything at all? 17:40:36 http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ 17:40:37 G: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ from davb 17:40:43 G:|W3C CSS Validator 17:40:43 titled item G 17:40:57 G: Check your stylesheet for errors before looking for browser bugs 17:40:57 commented item G 17:41:27 I really hope I can categorize all the links I am stuffing into the chump. 17:42:39 [Global Notice] Hi all. At 19:30 UTC, in two hours, we'd like to ask everyone to observe a minute of silence in sympathy with the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, their loved ones and friends. Channel admins, if you'd like to participate, please +m your channel for a minute and optionally deop at that time. Thanks. 17:43:08 well, my header and footer and nav-section are in tables and they have the desired font, but not the "content" that is table-less. 17:44:46 Weird. I wonder what is happening. No

s? 17:45:31 exactly. someone wrote the ACS without

s. Grrrr... 17:45:44 G: [HTML Validator|http://validator.w3.org/] 17:45:44 commented item G 17:45:47 Oh ok... 17:46:04 Still the body tags should take care of it. Did you close the ? 17:46:17 Sometimes I think ACS leaves them out. 17:48:33 yes it's closed. the BODY selector solves the problem with missing

s but fails in conjunction with or . 17:49:04 So as soon as you put in a table the other text stops working? 17:54:14 sorry, BODY selector in conjunction with TD *selector* fails. TD selector seems to override BODY selector so that only text in
works. 17:54:59 Wow. Incredible. I don't know what else to say. 17:58:33 one can always put "widgets" like nav-box and header in separate tables and let content have it's own instead of one giant table. still, content may be big and include thumbnails... 17:59:21 I guess stylesheets are good in theory! :-) 18:01:14 Yeah. I think it is mostly a nn4 problem. 18:01:32 Do you mind if I ask why you use NN4? 18:02:41 not at all. I'm just lazy and it comes default with RH 7.1;-) 18:03:09 Aha. I was just wonderng. Mozilla 0.9.3 is pretty nice. At least as fast as NN and much more reliable. 18:04:31 But not as fast as Opera. 18:08:13 okay. I will try Mozilla 0.9.3 soon, then. Opera doesn't handle applets, does it? 18:08:48 Hmmmm... I think it has a Java version. Flash is supposed to work in the new version but not for me. 18:09:59 Supposedly it works with a Java Plugin 1.3.1 18:13:41 hey dave, I gotta go watch a documentary about that jerk, bin laden... you take care! 18:14:17 Bye 18:14:22 Thanks 18:15:10 Thank _you_! 18:15:19 ola has quit 18:39:19 anyone have the link for windows RG? 18:39:44 Jussasec... 18:40:00 coool. 18:40:02 http://128.241.244.96/portal/uploads/27000/27549_winrg.swf 18:40:02 H: http://128.241.244.96/portal/uploads/27000/27549_winrg.swf from zzzirk 18:44:53 xemacs5 has joined #openacs 18:54:43 xemacs5 has quit 19:21:40 [GlobalNotice] Hi all. A reminder per previous message. At 19:30 UTC, in two hours, we'd like to ask everyone to observe a minute of silence, in sympathy with the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, their loved ones and friends. Channel admins, if you'd like to participate, please +m your channel for a minute and optionally deop at that time. We're now coming up on 19:30. Thanks. 19:23:55 [GlobalNotice] Just to clarify, 19:30 is coming up on the half-hour, in about 5 minutes. 19:28:42 Please respect a minute of silence for the victims of the recent attacks. Thanks. 19:30:09 [GlobalNotice] Thank you. 19:36:37 moo 19:36:47 Hi Aaron. 19:36:48 gobble 19:36:57 woof 19:37:10 I like "woof." It has an old-timey feel. 19:37:14 * AaronSw tries to figure out what the moo equivalent should be for #rdfig... 19:37:32 * AaronSw goes with daml 19:37:54 Alex from Philip and Alex's Guide reference via markd2 19:38:10 huh? 19:38:30 Alex doesn't really say "woof"... He's above that. ;-) 19:38:41 Aha. I have never met him. sorry :) 19:38:48 :-) 20:26:57 davb has quit 21:21:15 zzzirk has quit