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 ;-)
--
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"If my elbow was straight, then I'll show oyu mine!"
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This from last Friday's NTK. I'd be willing to do a very quick (15
mins?) lightning talk on Openguides, with quick demo of one of the sites
(perhaps with a laptop copy as backup in case Net access is
unavailable).
Thoughts?
>> OPEN TECH CFP <<
* Call for Participation - Please Redistribute Freely *
The UK Unix User Group, NTK.net, and the organisers of NotCon '04 present:
backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005
Saturday July 23rd - The Reynolds Building, Hammersmith, London W6 8RP
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/
Sponsored by backstage.bbc.co.uk, Open Tech 2005 is an informal
one-day conference about technologies that anyone can have a go at,
from "Open Source"-style ways of working to repurposing everyday
electronics hardware.
So far, the line-up features:
* Ted Nelson, inventor of hypertext, on where the web went wrong
* The official launch of the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer network,
opening up BBC content for you to play with
* Plus: able to record an entire week of all Freeview TV and radio
channels, probably the UK's largest (fridge-sized) PVR
More speakers will be confirmed over the next few weeks - but, as the
title implies, we're very much "Open" to suggestions. If you're
reverse-engineering proprietary protocols, making useful information
available in a way people couldn't get at before, pioneering
unexpected methods of knowledge sharing - or (equally likely) doing
something so cool we haven't even thought of it yet, then please get
in touch via the submissions form at:
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/offer/
The deadline for submissions is midnight UK time Saturday June 25th,
and we'll aim to notify everyone who's submitted a proposal by July
1st.
We'll be trying to fit in as many talks (and lightning presentations)
as possible, so the shorter you can make yours, the better.
Alternatively, if you have an idea for a panel discussion, or a
workshop, or anything else that's vaguely in keeping with the theme of
the event, then we also can't wait to hear from you.
And there'll most likely be some sort of internet access at the event,
but offline demonstrations are strongly encouraged, as bandwidth may
not be guaranteed.
* Further information *
You don't have to suggest a session to take part; you can stay
informed about the event by subscribing to our low-traffic
announcement-only mailing list - send a blank email to:
notcon-subscribe(a)socialswirl.com
(your address will only be used to contact you about the event and
will not be passed onto third parties).
- or you can email opentech(a)ukuug.org if you've any other questions.
backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005
Saturday July 23rd - The Reynolds Building, Hammersmith, London W6 8RP
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/
Final programme may be subject to alteration. Thanks for reading!
--
Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net>
www.rumble.net
The Tourist Engineer
Because nerds travel too.
http://engineer.openguides.org/
"When you wake up to the fact that your paper is Tory,
Just remember that there are two sides to every story."
- Billy Bragg - It Says Here
A couple of weeks back, when talking about wiki spam issues with a friend,
it was asked why there seems to be such a lenient approach to wikispam
within openguides, and why we're ignoring solutions that are already
there.
One such solution being Spamassassin. I've never used it before (I've
never had a need, I don't get spam), but why can't we run every edit
through a customised spamassassin build, and reject/pend for approval of
the admins any edits that score higher than say, 5?
I don't know how easy this would be, but it does seem to be an ideal
solution that saves reinventing the wheel.
Clair
I am pleased to announce that we have a new feature on the Open Guide to
London: category and locale maps.
In the navigation of every locale page and category page, you will now
see a link to "Map of geocoded pages in this [locale/category]". This will
take you to a Flash map showing all nodes in that locale that have a
latitude and longitude in their metadata. My thanks to Mikel Maron for
developing mapufacture.com, and the worldKit that powers it, which allows
us to do this.
--
Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/
My talk on OpenGuides has been accepted for YAPC::EU
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> OpenGuides - coming to a city near you (20 minutes)
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This is fantastic! I am clicking all over and finding tons of geocoded
nodes, nice.
Integrating mapufacture into open guides (and vice versa) was on the
order of hours work. Shows off how easy mapping is becoming.
A couple non-critical suggestions: list the number of geocoded nodes in
the map link, then it won't be surprising if no points appear. also,
mapufacture accepts a "title" argument, which could be set to the
locale or category name.
If there's interest in integrating mapufacture with another openguides,
or any other service, get in touch.
Mikel
--- Earle Martin <openguides(a)downlode.org> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that we have a new feature on the Open Guide
> to
> London: category and locale maps.
>
> In the navigation of every locale page and category page, you will
> now
> see a link to "Map of geocoded pages in this [locale/category]". This
> will
> take you to a Flash map showing all nodes in that locale that have a
> latitude and longitude in their metadata. My thanks to Mikel Maron
> for
> developing mapufacture.com, and the worldKit that powers it, which
> allows
> us to do this.
>
> --
> Earle Martin
> http://downlode.org/
> http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/
>
hello list,
because i was aggregating the information anyway, i made a simple
openguides map service for the London guide, i thought people might be
interested in this, e.g.:
http://map.wirelesslondon.info/map/openguides?zoom=3
There's no styling to speak of, & this service just plots all the
geo:SpatialThings it knows about within the bounding box shown on the
map. There is a simple CGI-drivable interface that lets you do a bit
more, http://map.wirelesslondon.info/dev/map/ illustrates that.
The hope is to start aggregating street data from (and contributing
to) http://openstreetmap.org/ , that will enhance the base map
layer... also to do a UK-wide one useful for consume.net usign a
WMS, web map service for the data - again the grainy satellite
pictures, but useful for something? and i will start tyring to
aggregate spatial stuff from other OGs as well ;)
Anyway, i'd like to work this map service into something useful for OG
- the idea with the above URL is it can be displayed in an iframe a-la
google maps. What kind of things would you want to plot at once? As
now, you can just generate text files and post the URLs of them, i
would also like to be able to do this with RSS feeds, that will be
implemented soon if people want it...
-jo
Are database dumps available?
I currently spider for the RDF, but for the sake of your resources
would prefer a more direct way to access it.
Even a list of all RDF pages would be better.
Daniel Smith