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14:26:47 davb: is this dave bauer? 14:27:47 anyway, if you get this, your MX records on thedesignexperience.org are fscked. i've been trying to send you an email regarding nssoap. 14:28:15 this is Lee Teague 14:28:53 So, I'll assume you're getting this message and sign off now. I'll try to send that email again later. That's probably why you haven't heard back from sourceforge, too. 14:28:54 later 14:28:57 ntropy_ has quit (Client Quit) 14:36:46 argh :( 14:36:58 weird. I checked the records this morning too. 14:38:08 it has an illegal name... 14:38:32 * davb wonders what that means 14:42:48 I think I fixed it. 14:45:16 oops, actually I broke everything, then fixed it. 14:50:17 time for a meeting, hopefully its fixed and works when I get back 14:50:50 markd2 (~Snak@166.102.41.165) has joined #openacs 14:58:19 aha. 14:58:36 It is fixed, but unfortunately my ISP cached the screwed up data. 15:01:02 hmmm. 15:06:37 dlk-dead is now known as dlk 15:10:55 dlk has left #openacs 15:25:28 arhgargharghargh 15:27:04 anyone know anything about DNS? 15:27:20 I setup and A record for server.thedesignexperience.org that point to 24.58.160.41 15:27:44 then I setup an MX record for thedesignexperience.org that point to server.thedesignexperience.org 15:27:48 should this work? 15:29:44 phew 15:34:00 yep 15:34:05 do you have the syntax right? 15:34:18 e.g. MX 10 server.thedesignexperience.org 15:47:31 I am using www.ods.org, so I think they have it right :) 15:47:31 shagster has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) 15:47:43 thanks. It seems to be working now. 15:47:57 yay 15:48:24 I had the MX pointed to the IP address which apparently does not work all the time. but does work some times. 15:54:24 dlk (dlk@garrison.ita.chalmers.se) has joined #openacs 16:08:48 dlk has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) 16:13:05 shagster (~mkovach@web1.alal.com) has joined #openacs 16:13:35 davb still need help with the mx/dns setup ? 16:17:02 rzolfsauce (~rolf@adsl-21-215-24.mia.bellsouth.net) has joined #openacs 16:19:19 rzolfsauce has quit (Remote closed the connection) 16:19:27 rzolfsauce (~rolf@adsl-21-215-24.mia.bellsouth.net) has joined #openacs 16:19:49 shagster: thanks, I think I got it :) 16:19:59 I am getting mail again anyway. 16:21:08 rzolfsauce has quit (Client Quit) 16:22:11 okay :) 16:30:40 I think I actually fixed it! I am getting the AOLserver mailing list again. 16:33:24 Yea! 16:34:14 I'm trying to find the python 'pg' module for postgresql 16:34:26 is that supposed to come with either python or pg, or is it a seperate thing? 16:34:43 I think you need to look for PyPg 16:34:56 I believe it is a seperate beast itself 16:35:03 okie 16:35:46 that python thing is contaigious huh? 16:35:53 but I don't really use phyton, so I'm not the best source 16:36:07 reading through the 'learning' book, it looks pretty cool 16:36:13 figured I'd learn enough to have it as a resume bullet point 16:36:43 Bah! Nothing will ever replace the beauty and simplisity of FORTRAN! :) 16:36:49 amen brotha shagster 16:37:16 if you can't express it in 72 columns, it's not worth expressing 16:37:56 correct, any why avoid line numbers? sometimes they make perfect sense :) 16:37:58 PR#6 and off we go into the nostalgia zone... 16:38:56 nostaligia? I program in FORTRAN 90% at work :) 16:39:09 hehe 16:39:35 I really wouldn't want to do 3-d modelling with much else :P 16:40:36 just a wild stab, but has anyone done programming with quickbooks? 16:40:46 it's got an SDK these days... 16:40:53 interesting. 16:41:21 you can apparently pass data in & out of a quickbooks file with XML. 16:41:25 Yea, I heard they were going to do that... 16:41:37 Interesting... 16:41:41 i think intuit is trying to move the product up-market. we are going to use it... 16:41:55 unless anyone can tip us off to potential disaster. 16:42:11 it's just not worth it tryinig to build a "custom" accounting system, when such a good one already exists. 16:42:19 it runs on MS Windows, other than that I see no problem. 16:42:30 right, the client does. 16:42:40 there is a server version? 16:42:55 no, but apparently a web server can write to the data file 16:43:13 oh I see. 16:43:13 and then those with access to the client can run their reports, tc. 16:43:18 that is cool. 16:43:32 the thing about quickbooks is that usually only 1-2 people should have access to the data. 16:43:58 right. I don't know how it or if it can handle concurrent access. 16:44:02 building an automated system to stuff data into the .qbk file, taken from say orders placed on an e-commerce site, is uber-useful. 16:44:21 you can "network" it. you just name the users. 16:44:35 I wonder how it handles it, if it locks the file or what. 16:44:38 I don't know the particulars about passing the XML messages back and forth. 16:44:58 their SDK has pretty good docs.. i'll stick my nose in them tonight. 16:44:58 anyway, not a big deal the webserver is one user. it can handle that itself (if you program it :) 16:45:28 i think intuit is really trying to go to larger businesses. 16:45:33 cool. they have email invoices etc.. 16:45:37 aD used quickbooks, up until the $40MM stag. 16:45:40 stage 16:46:10 right. I think if they want to go big business they need to build a front-end that will run on an RDBMS 16:47:08 yup. for certain kinds of businesses, it makes sense to use QBs... others are trickier. 16:47:23 if only a few people need access to the accounting data, it's perfect. 16:47:43 right. it allows 5 users. that is more than enough for most businesses. 16:47:49 my hope is that we can automatically stuff invoices into it from our system. 16:48:34 that would be very nice. 16:48:49 and a spiffy addition to OpenACS ecommerce if it works. 16:49:28 ick. the email invoice feature is a add-on service. that sucks. it should just send email. 16:52:46 add-on service for squickbooks, or for openacs ecommerce? 16:53:23 quickbooks. 16:53:48 heh 16:53:58 back when philip was at the height of his megalomania 16:54:18 he once said "we don't need an accounting system, we can write one ourselves." 16:54:21 "we'll write our own quickbooks" 16:54:28 i still shudder when i think of that. 16:54:39 quickbooks is so nice, and easy to use once it's set up. 16:55:17 ... and most importantly, accountants understand QB, so they can actually make sense of your financials. 16:55:34 there is an accountant version, you can email the quickbooks file and they open it and send it back. 16:55:36 yea, my account pretty much recommends it 16:55:39 so, i'm all for anything that helps one integrate with QB, even though it's not ope source. 16:56:13 Actually I've been look at the quickbooks on the web (http://accounting.quickbooks.com) 16:59:05 quickbooks on the web scares me... 16:59:32 it makes me nervous for a host of reasons. 17:00:00 (and since my web site has hacked and destroyed yesterday, i'm a little bit sensitive to those issues.. :-( ) 17:01:23 Running my accounting on a Windows box makes me nervous also 17:01:50 Unless I unplug the thing from the network :) 17:02:09 haha. true. 17:04:50 So either way I have issues... 17:05:27 My accountant is looking into it hard, talking to intuit,etc. 17:16:23 vinod (~vinod@209-122-234-217.s2281.apx2.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com) has joined #openacs 17:17:01 howdy vinod! 17:18:25 hey davb! 17:18:31 hi vinod? 17:18:43 hey markd2? 17:18:49 how's it going) 17:18:57 not bad) and you) 17:19:03 pretty good@ 17:19:15 are we talkin in perl now? 17:19:16 I've got a little time before heading to the dentist^ 17:21:29 ouch 17:21:33 * vinod no like dentist 17:22:10 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/01/24/postgresql.html 17:22:11 D: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/01/24/postgresql.html from davb 17:22:28 D:|Postgresql and PHP - An invitation to drop MySQL 17:22:30 titled item D 17:23:07 i just sent a total crackpot letter to a ISP in brazil, and to AOL 17:23:23 sweet 17:23:52 "what these people did was a crime", etc... 17:23:53 I hope you put in some "I'M GONNA REPORT YOU TO THE INTERNET SYSOP!!" 17:24:01 HAHA 17:24:38 my real hope is that it was like a 13 year old kid, and AOL will tell his parents. 17:25:35 that happens sometimes 17:25:44 I was stalked by a 13 year old from florida 17:25:51 ! 17:25:53 she refused to believe that markd@aol.com (me) wasn't some kid in her school 17:25:59 http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/01/31/CVS.html 17:25:59 E: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/01/31/CVS.html from davb 17:26:00 haha 17:26:02 haha 17:26:08 so everyday I got AIM of "why didn't you talk to me yesterday" 17:26:20 E:|Easing Web Application Development with CVS 17:26:20 titled item E 17:26:28 after about a week of doing the "report this idiot" button, I got an apologetic email 17:27:30 so the folks at aol actually read their mail? i assumed my crackpot scawl went straight to /dev/null.... 17:27:46 well, this was a button on the IM window to the effect of "report this person" 17:28:05 i sent it to abuse@aol.com... any idea where that goes? 17:28:16 probably the TOS team 17:28:19 (terms of service) 17:28:32 i see. I attached the C code, and all my logs 17:31:10 oops.. looks like enron execs are shooting themselves. 18:02:21 where 18:03:02 oh.. found it. 18:12:04 markd2 has quit ("Bork") 18:41:15 http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/css-discuss 18:41:15 F: http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/css-discuss from davb 18:41:29 F:|Signup for css-discuss -- Practical discussions of CSS and its use 18:41:30 titled item F 18:41:56 talli (~user@xcdfddb76.ip.ggn.net) has joined #openacs 18:42:46 hi talli 18:49:35 davb: did you look through that php-postgresql article? 18:52:54 a little. mostly just says this is how to connect to postgres with php. no why postgresql is better than mysql in it, which is probably good. 18:53:32 yeah, i thought their SQL examples were wierd though 18:53:35 SELECT * FROM id,username,fname,lname where id > 100 18:53:41 that's a cartesian join 18:54:00 i think they meant select id, username, fname, lname from users where id > 100 18:54:12 probably. 18:54:22 that guy wrote one of the postgresql books! 18:54:43 I saw at least 6 different postgersql books at the bookstore last week. 18:54:47 haha - must've outsourced this article to one of his interns 18:54:56 wow - cool 18:54:58 did you read the book? 18:55:07 i didn't really like it. 18:55:07 nope 18:55:19 it was available online while he was writing it. 18:56:23 http://stage.linuxports.com/projects/postgres/book1.htm 18:56:39 i have it bookmarked, but i haven't looked at it yet 18:57:12 like a hundred other things i have bookmarked :-) 18:57:16 heh 18:57:22 thats why I use chump. 18:57:30 I need to get it searchable soon. 18:57:45 I think this is the better book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672322609/qid=1011985044/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3_3/002-5055107-0647207 18:58:27 and this one: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735711216/ref=pd_bxgy_text_2/002-5055107-0647207 19:00:52 i'll have to take a look at those. practical postgresql seems like a condensed version of the PG manual 19:07:17 I am waiting for the missing emails I haven't been getting. 19:07:39 Apparently I screwed up the DNS for my MX records, but now I believe it is fixed. 19:08:01 ouch - i hate dns. do you want me to send you a test email? 19:08:27 sure. thanks. 19:08:45 dave@thedesignexperience.org 19:10:21 cool. got it. 19:10:29 excellent 19:12:13 so vinod: _are_ you the workflow guy? 19:12:29 haha - i don't think so 19:12:39 i read that too and said, who me? 19:12:44 :) 19:12:48 I thought so. 19:13:13 i ported ticket-tracker, so i *used* workflow, but i didn't get into the internals at all 19:13:26 i think neophytos is the workflow guy, or danw 19:13:29 aha. 19:13:39 yeah neophytos worked on it most recently. 19:16:48 * davb reads the workflow docs 19:19:39 davb: you can also ask luke about workflow, if you have any questions 19:19:48 he's doign a project with it right now 19:19:54 talli: thanks! First I think I will actually read the docs. 19:20:49 davb likes doing things the unconventional way 19:20:52 talli: BTW can you ask him if he ever sent me any emails that bounced? 19:21:23 just looking it appears workflow is the best documented package in all of OpenACS 19:21:39 davb: yeah, i'll ask him 19:21:49 workflow is the best documented because lars built it 19:21:54 exactly. 19:22:09 it is a shining example of what the docs should be :) 19:22:48 davb_ (~dave@cm-208-136-23-203.nycap.rr.com) has joined #openacs 19:22:48 davb has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) 19:22:54 davb_ is now known as davb 20:22:26 davb has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) 20:22:26 vinod has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) 20:22:33 davb (~dave@cm-208-136-23-203.nycap.rr.com) has joined #openacs 20:34:44 http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/ 20:34:45 G: http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/ from davb 20:34:56 G:|CSS Positioning 20:34:56 titled item G 20:35:30 G: explains the CSS Box Model 20:35:30 commented item G 20:51:20 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000348.html 20:51:20 H: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000348.html from davb 20:51:31 H:|Rub a dub dub 20:51:31 titled item H 20:51:37 H: a story of refactoring 20:51:37 commented item H 21:07:24 bye! 21:07:28 davb has quit () 22:07:34 markd2 (~Snak@r-41.184.alltel.net) has joined #openacs 22:20:56 vinod (~vinod@209-122-236-111.s1984.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com) has joined #openacs 23:14:02 does anyone has a macro/config magic to quickly create a new .tcl/.adp pair in emacs, with some boilerplate stuff already filled in? 23:14:17 s/has/have/ 23:15:56 nope - sorry, tils. though it sounds like a great idea :-) 23:17:06 i have a function in my .emacs file that fills out ad_page_contract automatically anytime it creates a file in a directory under /web, but it doesn't do anything for adp 23:18:54 could you send it to me or post it here? 23:19:32 sounds quite useful - why not duplicate it for adp? I'm gonna try that 23:20:08 s/duplicate/modify/ 23:20:50 sure, i'll email it to ya (it's about 30 lines long). i didn't write it - stole it from web/db bboards a while back 23:21:12 what's your email? 23:21:26 tils@tils.net - thanks! 23:23:35 np - on its way 23:25:31 * tils reads all the amazing stuff in vinod's .emacs 23:26:20 haha - i wish i knew what half that stuff did 23:26:25 hey, is this your aim password here? ;-) 23:26:35 oops - probably 23:27:15 * vinod warns everyone that tils may now be masquerading as me on aim 23:27:19 i promise, gaim alway crashes on me, so i won't use it 23:27:35 thanks :-) 23:27:44 tils is now known as vinod_ 23:27:49 lol 23:28:01 vinod_ is now known as til 23:28:17 i just remembered that i sent my .emacs file to talli a while back too 23:28:24 he would never use it for evil, would he? 23:42:58 Talli? Eeeeeeevil? never. 23:43:33 phew - that's what i though. i was getting worried for a second though 23:48:57 denshi (~chatzilla@adsl-216-62-223-193.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net) has joined #openacs 23:50:32 denshi has quit (Client Quit) 23:58:50 sorry vinod, the only thing i can do with emacs lisp stuff is copy and paste it, so i won't be able to do a fancy adp mod 23:59:21 btw, which mode do you use to write adp's - html-mode?