OpenGuides-Dev April 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] mooted hackfest
by Jo Walsh 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

hello, the list would be welcome to use the map room at limehouse town hall for a hackfest. it could accomodate up to 12 easily and has all requisite network, spare computers etc. i found an old hackfest-organising page on the wiki and edited it. http://openguides.org/dev/?node=Hackfest There are a few things i'm especially interested in at the moment: * Authentication / Authorisation * Integration with the [http://uo.space.frot.org/?LondonFreeMap London Free Map] services as they expand. * Connection to event listings from [http://b.evnt.org/ EVNT], [http://upcoming.org/ upcoming] and similar. the open geodata project side of things will hopefully start coming together properly over the next couple of weeks. perhaps list members might be interested in the upcoming "Forum on Open Geodata" at the Stanhope Centre next Thursday, April 14th: http://www.okfn.org/wiki/OpenKnowledgeForums There will be a collection of people working on free mapping and geodata collection projects, and also a gang of policy oriented types who have had their GIS work shackled by government infolicensing practises, and some people doing 'civil society' work... -jo

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Google maps hack
by Clair 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Before I start, lets all hear a hurrah for Google for finally admitting there's actually more than North America in the world. There's also the UK. Eventually they'll discover the other 6 continents. With this new found mapness, and with clues from a hack already done in the St. Paul's guide, I've made a hack which, if theres an address entered, it will automagically add a link to the Google Map for that address. It will also add the other map link (which I've rechristened "Multimap map" - cos that is all we use, right?) A good example of it in use can be found at: http://lancaster.openguides.org/wiki.cgi?Waterwitch If you want to use it, I've tarballed the hacked template files at: http://lancaster.openguides.org/googlemap.bz2 The diff files can be found at http://lancaster.openguides.org/googlemap-diff.bz2 if you prefer them. Clair

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Mobile frontend for Openguides
by Clair 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

OK, I've hacked a plain frontend for mobile/pda's - it's using XHTML (and it's not valid at that) so it might break on some phones. You can see it in action at: http://lancaster.openguides.org/mobile/ If you wanna download it, I've tarballed the /template/ files. You'll have to create a mirror, and remove the CSS line in wiki.conf. The template files can be found at: http://lancaster.openguides.org/mobile/mobile-template.bz2 Let me know if you find any glaring problems :) Clair

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[OpenGuides-Dev] further localisation
by maximilian attems 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

hello, now that our encoding troubles are solved, newbies are filling out lots of funny stuff under: "Locale" translated: "Relax", "Friendly", "Loose time".. how can "Locale" be localized, for our german reader/user we would need to use "Gebiet". i mean grepping the templates and changing there, wont be enough i guess. thanks for your input. maks ps domm told me that there has been some activity about image upload, is there any code we can test? (it's the first question we get asked, as nearly every geek has it's portable digi cam)

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Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] un.earth.li going on holiday
by Kake L Pugh 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

On Mon 11 Apr 2005, IvorW <ivorw-openguides(a)xemaps.com> wrote: > Any idea when un will be back on line? It's waiting on a static IP address - hopefully in the next day or so. > My photos for OGL were being hosted on un. I suggest you don't do things like that without asking. You were given that shell account for the purposes of OpenGuides development. Using it for other purposes, especially potentially bandwidth-intensive ones, without checking with the sysadmin of the machine, is really quite rude. I've apologised to doop on your behalf, but please find somewhere else to keep your photos. A lot of people seem to like Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/ Kake

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RE: [OpenGuides-Dev] un.earth.li going on holiday
by IvorW 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: openguides-dev-bounces(a)openguides.org > [mailto:openguides-dev-bounces@openguides.org]On Behalf Of Kake L Pugh > Sent: 07 April 2005 22:55 > To: openguides-dev(a)openguides.org > Subject: [OpenGuides-Dev] un.earth.li going on holiday > > > un, the machine that OpenGuides CVS lives on, is moving house on > Saturday. doop will get it back online as soon as possible. Any idea when un will be back on line? My photos for OGL were being hosted on un. Ivor.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] un.earth.li going on holiday
by Kake L Pugh 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

un, the machine that OpenGuides CVS lives on, is moving house on Saturday. doop will get it back online as soon as possible. Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] encoding troubles ii
by maximilian attems 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

hello, thanks Kake and IvorW for your input on this subject. i would like to push that item to be included in the next openguide release if possible? at vienna.openguides.org we are bad bitten by that bug. see http://vienna.openguides.org/vienna.cgi?B%C3%B6hmischer_Prater which was added recently but existed before already: http://vienna.openguides.org/vienna.cgi?B%F6hmischer_Prater the normalisation that IvorW spoke about would be wonderfull. feel free to do any test edits you need at aboves place. also if there is any patch i'd be happy to teste one out. i'll hope that can be resolved, so that we can further push the existence of vienna.openguides.org thanks for your help. :-) -- maks

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