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Las Actividades de Matthew Bishop para el 'PC Recycle Project' de Wagga Wagga

This page in English

συνταξεις σελιδα [*] Συγνωμι να με Ελληνικά. αν λες λαθος, μπορει να απενεργειθηκε. δεν πρεπει να γνωριζεται ΗΤΜΛ, οχι άλλη γλωσσα Ιντερνετ.

Solamente tienes que ser capaz de leer y teclar un poco. Gracias por tu ayuda.

Este pagina explica las actividades de M.J.Bishop y sus esfuerzos con el Centro de Trabajo de la Comunidad de Mission Australia.

11 feb 2004 [toc]

He escrito una corta lista de caracteristicas de este sistema aqui y tambien en espanyol Estoy pensando de dejar de trabajar en este sistema. Todavia creo que tiene algun merito pero siento un poco cansado y a mi no parece que estoy avanzando mucho.

7 feb 2004 [toc]

Un otro dia con mucho sol y calor

6 feb 2004 [toc]

I implemented templating for the document html transformations. This system is starting to get fairly complex, and I am a bit concerned that it will not be maintainable. But it is currently working OK, I believe

5 Feb 2004 [toc]
  • Escribi un corto preguntas mas frecuentes (faq) sobre este sistema
  • Escribi una descripcion del lenguaje 'wiki'. Esta lenguaje permite el usuario a no saber nada sobre HTML. Es un lenguaje super sencillo para aprender. /refurb/docs/wiki-language.html (en ingles)
  • He hecho las structuras de las listas como este que estoy utilizando precisamente ahora. y tambien las structuras de las 'bloques de codigos'. Tengo que dar mas explanaciones sobre este tema en un otro lugar

Aqui esta un bloque de codigos para mostrar la idea. El principio es que el texto entre las senyales no esta transformado en ninguna manera.

  
    El texto aqui no esta transformado. Es muy util por texto 'pre-formato'.
    http://www.google.com las hyper-enlaces no estan vinculados automaticamente
  

Cosas para hacer

  1. Escribir unos documentos sobre este sistema
  2. Limpiar los codigos php

2 Feb 2004 [toc]

Estoy trabajando para otras metas. Por ejemplo, de Microsoft Access

http://www.jrbarnett.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm Codigo XHTML bastante bien, me parece. No hay 'tablas' de HTML Un disenyo sencillo un poco 'blocky'

http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/sql.html Un disenyo con HTML 4

1 Feburary 2004 [toc]

I am still working on porting the 'webpad' system to the server which is at http://www.wagga-cwc.org.au Today I have tidied up many of the scripts and started a 'webpad' variant of the 'notepad' browser editor. This variation is designed for editing 'documents' as opposed to files. Also there will be restrictions on which files this editor can access. This will probably be delimited by directories at the moment.

30 January 2004 [toc]

Did not work on this project. I was getting some sound files to work with Redhat 9. Using sox, mpg321 etc

29 January 2004 [toc]

I have been migrating this application from the old server [*] which is a Windows 2000 server. I have been migrating to http://www.wagga-cwc.org.au/refurb .The migration is going reasonably smoothly. There were a number of problems with permissions on the new server, which is some Unix variant. Firstly, the browser notepad system was not able to edit the files because the 'World' or 'Other' permission bits were not set. Secondly, the system could not copy or rename files if the directory in which they were located did not have sufficient priviledges. Php could not solve these problems by using the php chmod function, apparently because whoever php or the web-server was running under did not have enough authority to over-ride the existing permissions (odd explanation...). However, one trick which did work was to use PHP to rename the file to something else and then rename it back again. Once it was renamed back, php could write to the file.

I had an idea to create a "waggga jobs board" using the current application. I could extract data from the various small web-sites of job-network agents in Wagga in order to 'aggregate' in some way, or at least to provide some search functionality. This could be combined with a 'fruitpicking' site and which a variant of the 'browser notepad' to produce CVs in word doc format. Grandiose plans.

27 January 2004 [toc]
I need to use the 'htpasswd' utility on the NT server to password protect all this with basic authentication. 11.18am am working in Wagga Wagga library. Shouldn't this file be arranged 'most recent first'? This project apparently is going to be hosted on some server in America. Therefor these pages are going to be migrated I presume.

I got several of the PHP pages working on the Windows NT server which is at http://macwcwagga.homedns.org/ These include the find file page, the backup up data and code pages ...

24 January 2004 [toc]

Australia day long weekend

I have recently been porting the 'retrovox' application to the PC-Recycle server with is running Windows NT. I originally wrote this system for David Crittle for his site at http://www.retrovox.com.au/ in order to publish some details about the electronic components which he has warehoused. However I believe this system would also be of use for the Mission Australia PC Recycle site, because it has a 'product' database system which could be used for the recycling components catalog. At the moment only the text file editing component and html transformations have been ported. The main difficulty is in creating some global variables for the installation directories, instead of having them hard coded into the php pages.

Went to the Wagga Wagga races. Didnt bet on anything.

January 6 - January 9, 2004 [toc]

I have not done a lot in these days. I consider my priorities to be getting some kind of online catalogue working. We could use zope but I think that a simple php component linked to a mysql database would be quicker and adequate.

The website http://macwcwagga.homedns.org/ has been inaccessible for a number of days. Apparently it was possible to access the web-site using a specific port number in the URL, but not with the 'default' port. In other words http://macwcwagga.homedns.org:80/ would have worked. This may have to do with the SmoothWall linux based firewall which is being used to protect the PC Recycle network which is located in the Mission Australia building in Wagga Wagga.

Damien has discovered a small Linux variant called QNX something which is able to run a Windows system on an old pentium computer (with only 32 megabytes of RAM). One drawback is that it is only free for non- commercial use. QNX appears to crash frequently. I am not a great fan of it.

In summary I have been fairly uninspired recently and havent achieved alot.

Holidays [toc]

January 5, 2004 [toc]

We have returned from holidays and are in the process of changing our operating system to linux and freeBsd variants. This could be quite time consuming. The current edit was made from freeBSD using the "lynx" text browser

22nd & 23rd December 2003 [toc]

I wrote a couple of scripts which were designed to try to make the DOS (or a dos box on an MS Windows Computer) more useful. These scripts are get-stuff.bat http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/batch/get-stuff.txt and conf-dos.bat http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/batch/conf-dos.txt

The script 'get-stuff.bat' is probably more useful because it allows the user to choose what they would like to install. In order to use this script, do the following:

In a web-browser go to http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/batch/get-stuff.txt

Choose file --> save from the menu of your web-browser. Rename the file to 'get-stuff.bat' Open an MS-DOS console window and go to the directory where you saved the script. Now type get-stuff or get-stuff.bat

I also created another version of this installation script which runs on Windows XP. The only real difference is that it cannot use the 'choice' command but instead has to use some strange trick with the 'set' command, I believe. This new version is at http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/batch/get-stuff-xp.txt

The justification for writing this script is that Damien has made the decision (a wise one) that the project should remove all its dependencies on Microsoft software due to licensing issues. For this reason we are evaluting alternative operating systems to use. A major consideration is the way in which the computer will be used when it is donated back into the Wagga community. Apparently there is a great deal of resistance within the community to using non-microsoft software and operating systems.

Currently the 'OpenOffice' suite of tools is installed on the computers. However the majority of the recycled computers only contain 32 Megabytes of Ram. Unfortunately OpenOffice runs extremely slowly on these computers.

This is the last day before the holidays. Good-Bye

Friday, 18 December 2003 [toc]

Setting up a computer for use on the project. Installing lex, yacc and many variants of these programs.

Wednesday, 17 December 2003 [toc]

Trying to install Zope and Apache httpd on a computer. Reading about Zope in the Zope book. Made a small mock-up of the Mission Australia Community Work site at http://macwcwagga.homedns.org:8080/CommunityWork/ This url needs to be redirected in someway so that the user does not have to type 8080 for the port number.

A problem: it is not possible to access the 8080 site from the public library because the public library has a proxy server which only allows port 80 connections, and I think that this is true for the Charles Sturt University Jack Cross computer room as well - so we need to fix this.

Tuesday, 16 December 2003 [toc]

Wrote a script to clean off some of the unnecessary log files from the smoothwall firewall. I put the script in the folder \intranet\wftd\software I still havent scheduled the script to run using 'cron' yet.

Looking at the Zope application server http://www.zope.org

Monday, 15 December 2003 [toc]

Still doing some software setting up, on the furthermost computer in the Internet Room. Mozilla, etc Putting the downloaded files for some of this software on \Intranet\wftd\software\ for faster set-up in future Did the usual things to improve performance on the XP machine, such as

Start --> Control Panel --> Taskbar and Start Menu --> Start Menu --> Classic Start Menu

My Computer --> Properties --> Advanced --> Performance --> Settings --> Adjust for best performance

Internet Explorer --> Tools --> Internet Options --> Connections --> Lan Settings --> Proxy Sever --> Uncheck "Use a proxy server for your Lan..."

Looking at the SmoothWall firewall system. While using this wiki during the evening it appeared to stop working (using IE5.5). All the urls became incorrect for editing.

Saturday, 13 December 2003 [toc]

Added a link to us (the pcrecycle project) on the 'oddmuse' users page [*]. The purpose of this is to help the Google web-crawler to find us.

Friday, 12 December 2003 [toc]

Investigation of various CMS systems [*]

Thursday, 11 dec 2003 [toc]

Setting up various software components such as

lynx This is a text only browser with ssl (secure sockets layer) support.

The info-zip compress and decompress tools (command line use)

Looking at the Axkit web publishing system. Today I also established Oddmuse 'wiki' which is viewable at http://www.macwcwagga.homedns.org/ideas/oddmuse-wiki.pl . A wiki is a set of web-pages which are public editable by visitors to the pages by using a web-browser only. The purpose of this wiki is to provide a forum for suggestions, progress reports and general information about my volunteer work for Mission Australia. This 'wiki' is powered by the Oddmuse script. I am not entirely happy with this wiki system. It appears to go very slowly sometimes and stops working in Internet Explorer 5 (The URLs seems to get 'mangled' somehow and you cant edit pages).

Wednesday 10 dec 2003 [toc]

Hoy, estoy configurando un ordenador para que yo pueda usarlo para elaborar programas de Internet, por ejemplo, en el lenguaje PHP.

El navegador del Web "mozilla" [*], util para comprobar programas en distintas sistemas operativas. El 'putty' windows ssh ('shell' de seguridad) cliente. Este programa puede ser util para hacer tareas pocas frequentes en el 'SmoothWall' firewall (pared de fuego). SmoothWall también tiene un Applet de java para gestionar la aplicación, pero este applet puede correr mucho mas lente que un aplicación 'nativa' que es escrita en un lenguaje como c o c++. He empezado a escribir unas programitas para permitir mi mismo a gestionar el servidor. La cosa es que no tengo la posibilidád de hacer servir los protocolos 'ftp' ni 'telnet' ni ninguno otro protocolo salvo HTTP, y la razón es que en la mayoría de los casos, estoy trabajando en la biblioteca publica de Wagga y también por la Universidád de Wagga (Charles Sturt) y por esas lugares hay paredes de fuego muy restrictivas.

I will also be doing ongoing research into the sort of web-based software which will be appropriate to set up a functional web-site for the Computer Refurbishment project. Damien has suggested such CMS (Content Management Systems) as phpnuke or 'backend' which appear to be certainly the right idea, subject to slightly closer investigation. Ideas for the web-site include providing a page editable by each participant to describe their activities, either on a daily basis or in summary form. Also a catalogue of current hardware may be of interest to the internet community considering the 'collectable' nature of some of the very old computers and components which have been donated. For more information about these CMS systems see other pages on this site (links on the front page)

Martes, 9 dec 2003 [toc]

Tuve unas discusiones con Damien Gooley [*] sobre el tema del sitio web de Mission Australia. Mission Australia es una organización de caridad o misericordia de Australia que intenta a ayudar gente desafortunada y gente pobre. Pero también es una gran organización casi empresarial y emplea mucha gente. El govierno de Australia ha empezado un sistema de obligar la gente al paro a trabajar dos dias cada semana para seguir recibiendo el paro, que se llama 'the dole'.

Por eso, Mission Australia a logrado a consequir un trato para administrar este programa que se llama 'work for the dole'- o trabajar por el paro. Uno de los programas es un programa para dar nueva vida a ordenadores viejas installando sistemas operativos. Este sitio web es dedicado a este actividad.

Mis detalles de contacto [toc]

  
  telephone: 042 391 1430
  Dirección de Correo:
  P.O. Box 2242,
  Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2650
  

Web: http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/ email: matth3wbishop@yahoo.com

Cosas no clasificadas [toc]

Estas cosas abajo no tienen nada que ver con el sitio web CWC wagga

http://www.kittymail.com Un disegno sencillo con colores verdes

http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/s.htm Una lista de palabras en inglés y griego

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/VNLanguage/SupportNS/tableofcontent.htm Un sitio para aprender vietnamese con fichas de sonido

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/faq.htm Para aprender cantonès con sonidos

http://dataguru.org/ref/tech/index.asp Este página tiene imágenes de teclados que puedo utilizar para transformar texto plano hasta documentos de HTML con imágenes

Correo electrónico de Damien

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[*journal*] __________ A design with some potential HTML 4