OpenGuides-Dev February 2005

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[OpenGuides-Dev] OG performance
by Paul Makepeace 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi, I don't follow OG development but as host operator a few things are coming up. The machine's load is gradually climbing over time and some of that is OG. Despite a relatively low hit rate on OG it is consuming quite a bit of resource. If OG started taking off it would take the machine down. First up: index.cgi requires 0.35s to perform a `perl -c` syntax check. Any thoughts on putting OG on a mod_perl server? I have mod_perl running here of course and we'd need to coordinate some apache.conf stuff. Second: the supersearch.cgi gulps down CPU, often for seconds at a time. It is a frequent resident of `top` output. This isn't really acceptable. I'm going to request this feature be turned off unless an effective optimisation plan or some other way to reduce its impact here is constructed pretty soon. Sorry about this but it's encroaching on others. Third: I wonder if there's some way to instruct robots not to spider parts of your wiki. This ought to speak for itself: $ grep crawl /var/log/apache/london.openguides.org-access.log | grep 'action=edit' | wc -l 8242 $ Finally: I posted about a DoS and was wondering what the status of a solution was. http://openguides.org/mail/openguides-dev/2004-October/000542.html Cheers, Paul (any overbearing tone unintentional ;-) -- Paul Makepeace .............................. http://paulm.com/inchoate/ "If my elbow was straight, then I'll show oyu mine!" -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] crawling openguides for its RDF
by Jo Walsh 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

hello, as i may have mentioned i've been working on a nodedb map and local information captive portal splash screen server thing for london. earle's been hacking, and the Rev. Rumble helped swat some bugs, thx! it generates node homepages that look like this: (a simplified version goes on the access point splash screen) http://map.wirelesslondon.info/node/44153 with local information crawled from the semantic web, which for practical current purposes just means openguides. (hopefully http://b.evnt.org/ at some point, too.) i had some niggles... - my spider died a few times because it ate toxic XML. i stuck an eval round each page it swallowed, but it'd be nice to not have to. - the RDF links from the HTML category index pages (e.g. http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?action=index;index_type=category;ind… are broken (they have null values for the GET parameters) - what happened to http://dev.openguides.org (i get host not found?) if there wasn't a machine-interface HOWTO on there, i would like to add one - generally i would like to think about, and work with earle on making patches to, expose more openguides query type functions - e.g. "find things within N metres of X" - in RDF... maybe we can look at the XML character filtering too. -jo

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Re: map.wirelesslondon bugs
by Jo Walsh 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:25:09AM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > I can't really tell from the tiny little aerial photo given. Not enough > context. If things like Hyde Park, Big Ben, Hammersmith Flyover, Earls > Court etc were marked, I might be able to work it out. okay, i view this as a cartography failure on my part; the hopes of this map, over the old consume.net one, was that it *would* supply identifying context... which is easier if your node is right near the isle of dogs ;) what else have i got that will help... try this: http://map.wirelesslondon.info/area/?postcode=W14 - i added a layer of OG points to the mapserver (which is more rawly at http://map.wirelesslondon.info/map/map.cgi?mode=browse ) they're not differentiated, because all i know now is that they are geo:SpatialThings ... one option i could pursue is filtering all the public transport types, and just show them (with little icons like on the splash pages already?) > > 3. the things near you are SpatialThings but they don't have osx/y. > Well this is about 100m up the road from my place, and has coordinates: > http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Baron's_Court_Station > > > 4. i fucked up something else. > That could be it? i see several things that went wrong: - the places didnt get their special geometry after crawling, this is fixed - the spatial query that i have saying "show me N nearest things" appears to be giving bad results for your location. i really don't know why, because: - it worked fine in E14 - Schuyler helped me write the query, and i was kind of sleepy at the time, and now i don't understand how it works my guess is that the query is returning distances in the wrong order in radius N, and there are a lot more points in the Open Guide "near" you than "near" me. back to the displaying-points matter; apart from inferring things from types, which are just strings anyway wth no reinforcing taxonomy like WordNet (folkschonomy mutter, metacrap), i have no way of making guesses about how *important* things are in different presentation contexts. public transport is always important, and is often on maps. park types, maybe, though they look odd demarcated with points (better park shapes as part of the London Free Map schtick comes next; http://uo.space.frot.org/?LondonFreeMap ) but "this place is important, therefore this one is not" is ripe for annotation wars... i am very open to suggestions on what would make the WL map more usable / more like something that people would point and shout at, within our means. and for making a free map webservice that is useful to OG... zx

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Request
by Andrew Laverick 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Hi I am emailing to request permission to use an image(s) from your site Routemaster Bus images - http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Routemaster The image would be used as part of an assignment for a web design unit on a foundation degree course at Southport College The image would be included in a website with the facility to right click on the image removed Cheers Andy Laverick Andrew_85UK(a)hotmail.com 30032193(a)southport-college.ac.uk _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Wishlist: summary field
by Earle Martin 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

What would be really, really nice would be to have a new metadata field called "Summary", which would be used for one-line summaries of the content of nodes. This could then be included in the output of "nearby" listings and make them much more useful. E.g.: 1. _The Dog and Handgun, WC4X 1AA_ (144 metres away) "Crap pub full of angry drunkards, avoid" 2. _International Museum of Fish_ (270 metres away) "Fascinating attraction for all fish lovers" 3. _Marmalade City_ (312 metres away) "Department store for all things marmalade-related" etc. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Fw: People's Question Time
by IvorW 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

MessageI've been contacted by the GLA People's Question Time people. Here's the skinny for anyone interested in London-wide politics: ----- Original Message ----- From: PeoplesQuestions To: PeoplesQuestions Sent: 07 February 2005 16:55 Subject: People's Question Time People's Question Time Tuesday 1 March 2005, 7 to 9pm The Great Hall, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW The Mayor of London and the London Assembly work to improve life for Londoners and make London a better place. People's Question Time (PQT) is your chance to voice concerns and ask the Mayor and London Assembly Members what they are doing for the capital and its people. Book your free tickets You can request free tickets for People's Question Time on our website, by email or by calling the People's Question Time hotline on 020 7983 4762. Don't forget to tell us your name, address, daytime telephone number and how many tickets you require. If you would like to put forward a question to the Mayor or London Assembly please tell us this too. For more information about People's Question Time please visit our website. If you would prefer not to receive future notifications about Peoples Question Time please email us. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Greater London Authority is backing London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - register your support for London 2012 at www.london2012.com

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[OpenGuides-Dev] authentication modules?
by Jo Walsh 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

hello, i'm wondering if anyone has developed, or is working on, an authentication module for OG. briefly, i set up an OG for some collaborators; they're now threatening to switch to a different wiki, and make the existing one read-only, because the spam problem is so bad. the time/energy i want to devote to fixing this, is minimal. if anyone else is at least halfway, i'd appreciate a peek at code; i know it wouldn't be too much effort to hack something together, but it would be pretty thankless (though i suppose it's something that a lot of people want? trivial 'are you human', cookie-based spam holdoffs have simply not worked... and i know we went through that debate a few months ago...) zx

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Fwd: Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] Linking to OpenGuides
by Rev Simon Rumble 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Grrr, bloody Reply-To list headers. I strongly protest! ----- Forwarded message from Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> ----- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:02:38 +0000 From: Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> To: OpenGuides software developers <openguides-dev(a)openguides.org> Subject: Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] Linking to OpenGuides Reply-To: OpenGuides software developers <openguides-dev(a)openguides.org> This one time, at band camp, Barry Hunter wrote: > Or is there a way to get a list of currently running OpenGuides, and their > (approx) area of coverage? Well the list is probably small enough now that you could visit each and work it out. Most are city-based, though mine (engineer.openguides.org) is global. At the moment there are no mechanisms for Openguides to talk to each other, but it would be a Good Thing <tm>. -- Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "TV is chewing gum for the eyes." - Frank Lloyd Wright -- OpenGuides-Dev mailing list - OpenGuides-Dev(a)openguides.org http://openguides.org/mm/listinfo/openguides-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Old ravers never die. They just decide house music isn't so bad after all.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Linking to OpenGuides
by Barry Hunter 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Hi, I notice that OpenGuides include a search based on a geographical Location, like http://openguides.org/london/supersearch.cgi?os_dist=500&os_x=525117&os_y=1… I would like to add a link to the Open guide network on my coordinate converter page here: http://www.deformedweb.co.uk/trigs/coord.cgi Is there a central script that I could link to via OS easting/northing or Lat/Long, and it would forward to the relevant guide? Or is there a way to get a list of currently running OpenGuides, and their (approx) area of coverage? For the moment I guess I could get this list by visiting each openguide and downloading the rdf (which I think is offered but cant actually find it!) to get the osgb coords of each to work out the coverage. But as (hopefully!) the OpenGuides network increases this is very wasteful! I ask this because there probably isnt any point linking to the London OpenGuide for a location entered in Scotland for example! SO would like just link to the relevant openguide Thanks for your help, Barry Hunter www.trigtools.co.uk

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