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There may be a bunch of test messages coming to the list in the
next few days. We're debugging the forum<-> mailing list interface. Sorry
for the inconvenience.

- Paul
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[url]http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/[/url]

Apparently this does not require Cygwin, but provides an X-server for FREE.

[url]http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/console[/url]

This is offtopic, but it is a cmd.exe replacement that supports a tabbed interface (look at version 2.0). Good if you miss "screen" when using Win32, I suppose. (Screen itself is available for Cygwin as an unofficial build, but I have not tried it.)

The library is changed. The publication status is still not right, but the available books should be available and the "On Loan" ones loaned.

Next step: get books that are loaned out into the database.

Oh my! Look at all the books in our library! Thanks to the secret elves (a.k.a. Michael, Richard, Kevin, and Charles) for entering in all of these.

Unfortunately there are some bugs:
- If non-administrators enter books the status is "on loan"
- The ISBN number is not required (and it should be)
- If administrators add books they have status "not published"
- Navigation of the library is not so good. You click on a book and can't get back the original list of books you had.
- I want to be able to check out and sign in things en masse.

Here are a couple of uneducated opinions about the website, before I forget:

0. I think the "Reviews" session should go. We should move the two reviews in there somewhere else (maybe to somebody's blog, maybe to an "archive" section as stories) and take out the link. I think the personal blog section is the right place to put reviews.

1. I wish we could enter in a lot less information for the library page. Ideally, we would enter in an ISBN number and our module would use the magic of Web 2.0 to find as much of the rest of the fields as it can. Even if this only worked for a limited set of publishers (O'Reilly, say) we would be better off.

What I learned from this week's Debian Weekly News: If you don't enjoy beef, enterprising carnivores can compile their programs with chicken.

Oh. And for those wacky vegetarians, there's Open-COBOL. Sigh.

(Oh. And Drupal has security flaws and needs an upgrade.)

UPDATE: Ace of Penguins has been orphaned! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

This is another plugin for Drupal. It allows wikis that look and feel like wikis, if we want to go in that direction. See:

http://www.ubuntulite.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

for an example.

If you are not logged in you can see the first post to forums, but you can't see subsequent posts. Somewhere there is a permissions problem.

Is a forum reply a "comment"? It appears that Drupal is locking out blog comments for guests as well...

[b]Update:[/b] Yep. That was it. Anonymous users need to be able to view comments.

How can I set my blog to allow commenting by default?

Ooh. I did not notice that somebody posted a new list of categories.

I wanted to throw out two more links I came across tonight:

http://drupalsites.net - pointers to a lot of example sites. Some of them even look good.

http://www.opensourcecms.com - try out any of the hundreds of CMS sites online. I wish I had known about this before.

This is totally offtopic. I am posting this link so I can delete the e-mail from my account.

http://www.librarything.com/about.php

Richard says this is a cool new service to catalogue your books.