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OESF Wiki / Beyond Zaurus

« on: October 25, 2007, 03:47:42 am »

Honestly, one of the visions Mike and I had for the OESF was to expand out from the Zaurus.  That's why we decided to rename it to the Open Embedded Software Foundation, rather then the Zaurus User Group.  If there's a better device out there that can let us keep the openness of the Zaurus, there's no reason we shouldn't be able to support it and provide a community to develop for it and make it even better.

I'm all for this idea.

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OESF Wiki / Antispam Enhancements

« on: October 24, 2007, 04:28:18 pm »

The captcha extension is now in operation. You will need to answer a simple math problem to edit or create pages or to register a new wiki user.

 I think David deserves congratulations on putting these first steps in place to improving the spambot defenses!  

Thanks to the both of you for taking this initiative.  Sorry I couldn't help you, but it seems you have everything under control so it's all good

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Attachments In The Posts Are Gone?

« on: October 17, 2007, 04:53:58 pm »

Hmm.. so they're expiring.  I gotta see where that is in the settings.

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For Sale / Wanted / [sold]: C1000 Zaurus

« on: October 16, 2007, 07:26:02 pm »

What do they usually go for?  I've been thinking of upgrading from my C860 now that I have unlimited internet on my phone and can use it as a modem.

Edit: Nevermind, the 1000 doesn't seem worth it to upgrade from an 860.  I need to find a c3100,

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Request For A Sticky Thread In The Debian Forum

« on: October 16, 2007, 07:14:47 pm »

There is a thread in the Debian forum that would probably be useful to have stickied. The title is 'New Contribs + testing packages Right here!' or something like that
Any chance of a stickying for that thread?

Done.

  Cheers dz! that was quick!

Heh, I'm in Palmdale, CA for business and I was pretty bored so I figured I'd check up on the forums

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Request For A Sticky Thread In The Debian Forum

« on: October 16, 2007, 05:51:14 pm »

There is a thread in the Debian forum that would probably be useful to have stickied. The title is 'New Contribs + testing packages Right here!' or something like that
Any chance of a stickying for that thread?

Done.

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OESF Announcements / Whats Needs To Be Fixed?

« on: October 03, 2007, 01:18:34 am »

I hope admins know the board still needs basic fixing, that leaving it as accessible only through tweaking the url is yucky yucky yucky.  Just because some of us can get in doesn't mean it's all okay.

External and internal links beget 404 Not Found Errors, and other's I'm not in the mood to paste in here.

Ugh.

sdjf

Like I said, this is not in my control at all.  If I could fix it, I would.  It's a hardware issue with the RAID setup that ibiblio is running and they are doing their best to resolve it.

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Off Topic forum / Motorcycles Anyone?

« on: September 28, 2007, 03:46:46 am »

Carry extra filters   That is one long dirt road from Fox (just North of fairbanks) to the Arctic Ocean.  The pavement is pretty interesting too, come to think of it.

Heh ya, I've been doing plenty of research so I have an *idea* of what to expect.  Of course it's a whole different story once I'm actually there..

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Off Topic forum / Motorcycles Anyone?

« on: September 28, 2007, 01:00:41 am »

That's awesome Jon.  How are those Harleys on longer trips?  I've heard lots of mixed reviews.  Any cool trips lately?

This is my main ride:

[img]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1370/1353495702_b2196c7ca2.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

I just did a nice trip of about 3600 miles and 17 states.  I'm planning a trip up to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska for next Summer.  I think I might look into getting a bike better suited for touring instead of the track for that though.

I wish I could get rid of the cage, but I have 2 dogs that I like taking to dog parks and have to take to the vet and such so I dont have that option.

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OESF Announcements / Oesf News

« on: September 28, 2007, 12:54:46 am »

Ok, just thought I'd give you guys some updates on the latest happenings here.  

First off, if you haven't noticed, we've switched to the latest version of IPB.  With that comes some additional user features, lots of security and anti-spam updates and misc. administrative stuff.  Our Admin Control Panel has been practically completely rewritten and is much, much easier for us to use.  Registration now has a captcha involved and allows us to let users openly register without admin approval.  The board itself seems to be running much faster.  All in all, it's a very worthwhile upgrade and I'm happy it went as it did.

I've also changed the default theme to a modification I did of the IP.Professional theme.  I think it's a little cleaner for the boards and makes us look a little more professional.  You guys are free to use any theme you like (use the dropdown at the bottom left to change it), but that's going to be the default one for guests and new users.  If there are any huge objections let me know.

There is 1 outstanding issue left and it's out of my hands.  The forums right now are in, well, 'forum'.  This is a NFS issue that we had the 'priveledge' of finding for Ibiblio and they're doing their best to work on it.  Basically I used the 'mv' command to move the testing forums from the 'forum' folder where I had been testing them back to 'forums'.  This triggered some kind of bug and left us where we're at.  They will eventually be moved back to the 'forums' folder, but I'm waiting on Ibiblio for everything.  That's the only forum issue I know of right now.

The Wiki has also been upgraded to the latest MediaWiki version.  I'm not going to claim to be any kind of expert in that area, but from what it seems it's good.  With that I've also added 2 new admins to it:  Meyer and Tux.  They'll be overseeing the Wiki stuff and making sure things don't get out of hand.  Right now I'm not sure if I want to integrate the user databases for the forum and the Wiki.  I think it might be better to leave them separate in case we ever have to split the two up or something.  I do intent to install a captcha for the Wiki registration and hopefully will get to that this weekend.

Outstanding issues for the Wiki are the captcha and it seems the image gallery is broken.  Stuff that I'll look at this weekend.

Finally, we added a new user group in the Asia section.  It's the Japanese User Group and is going to be watched over by Meyer.  As we discussed in the initial thread, users are welcome to speak in Japanese or English in there.  That goes for any of the user groups obviously.  We're not about to dictate to you guys how you communicate.  All we ask is that if something beneficial to the community happens, translate for rest of us

Thank you all for bearing with me as I do these upgrades.  Hopefully things will be a smooth ride from here on out and we can get back to the normal routine around here.

Roy
OESF Admin Team

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Off Topic forum / Motorcycles Anyone?

« on: September 27, 2007, 11:17:58 pm »

Anyone else here ride?

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Japan User Group

« on: September 27, 2007, 11:12:44 pm »

That is one fancy language.

You guys are free to use whatever language you want.  If someone speaks english, there are tons of other sub-forums for them to participate in.  Like someone posted before though, keep those of us that can't read that language in the loop with stuff.

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OESF Announcements / Whats Needs To Be Fixed?

« on: September 27, 2007, 03:51:26 am »

Since you are now running MediaWiki 1.11.0, I strongly recommend (again) the recaptcha extension. (http://recaptcha.net)
It's really easy to install and with the default setting you can sit back and watch the spammers try hopelessly.

Yess, I was looking for that.  It will be installed though not until the weekend.  Thursday is my drinking night with my motorcycle buddies, so I get a break from this

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OESF Wiki / Spam

« on: September 26, 2007, 03:48:55 pm »

1. I had another look at the registration process on the forum: the captcha system is there claiming to be in operation.
2. I downloaded some attachments and there was no problem with just clicking on it. I'll check an image soon.
3. Users can enable email on the Wiki. It's an option in preferences. It does a validation email when you save the preferences and you click on the link in the message you receive.

Ya the forums I have down fine.  It's the Wiki that I want a captcha for.  I don't think there's one there, is there?  Right now there's nothing stopping new bots from registering right?

Hi again,
I'll check the wiki registration process out  tomorrow when the ip ban runs out!  

Are you sure that it is a good idea to have editing by unregistered users turned on? I'll keep an eye out and let you know if it is a problem.

No, I dont think it's a good idea.  Can you change it or is it something I change via ftp?

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OESF Wiki / Spam

« on: September 26, 2007, 03:26:12 pm »

1. I had another look at the registration process on the forum: the captcha system is there claiming to be in operation.
2. I downloaded some attachments and there was no problem with just clicking on it. I'll check an image soon.
3. Users can enable email on the Wiki. It's an option in preferences. It does a validation email when you save the preferences and you click on the link in the message you receive.

Ya the forums I have down fine.  It's the Wiki that I want a captcha for.  I don't think there's on there, is there?  Right now there's nothing stopping new bots from registering right?