Whats That?

Facebook, bah!

Steven Acres — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:48:36 -0500

Communications and the dissemination of information have certainly come far. Too far in many instances, such as facebook. I've always found the service to be buggy and more annoying than it's worth. To my friends and family, I do value our relationships but do not need to know the smallest details of your day, day in and out.

I don't want to virtual water any virtual plants, or play any silly games. I do want to delete my facebook account (which I have now de-activated .. there is no link to 'delete' it, I have to send them an email to do so.) Enough said.

Ghost of Christmas Past .. and a beer!

Steven Acres — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:36:41 -0500

Bob & Doug 12 Days of Christmas - Animax Entertainment

I remember getting this album for Christmas, Bob & Doug The Great White North,

back in 1982. It still provides me with a good yuck and a twinge of nostalgia.

Merry Christmas ya hosers!

Free NASA Shuttles

Steven Acres — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:24:31 -0500

NASA will give away old Shuttles for free • The Register

Free is a price I can always get into, the new math stumps me though. The article quotes a 'de-commission' fee of $42,000,000.
Can I get fries with that?

Making a Tab a direct link in Plone 3

Steven Acres — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Creating a tab to link to an external url is quite straightforward. 
Open site setup > zmi > portal_actions > portal_tabs and go to the right hand drop-down, 
leave at CMF Action and hit Add. Add the id (i.e. Blog). Now open the newly created 'Blog'  
and edit it with your info to look like this image

So now that you have entered Title Blog, Url string:http://foobar.com and selected View under Permissions as well as ticked Visible and saved, you should have a tab which will redirect to an external url!

Quills Weblog Admin

Steven Acres — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:34:54 -0500

A bug I encountered with Quills weblog product is the weblog admin portlet being viewable to non-privileged users. This was not a desired result, so off to google I went.
Luckily there was already a diff I could use to patch the offending code in parts/instance/lib/python/quills/app/portlets/weblogadmin.py.

Here is the link to the diff: http://dev.plone.org/collective/changeset/52562/quills.app/trunk/quills/app/portlets/weblogadmin.py?format=diff&new=52562 . Patch the file and the portlet is no longer viewable to non-privileged users.

What You Don't Know

Steven Acres — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:30:06 -0500

Earlier today while logged into irc, someone asked what the repercussions of chmod 644 /var/log/messages would be. Wanting to save someone from themselves (as well as work on my people skills), I replied.

Logs are mostly a security tool and the default permissions are in place as part of the security. I would recommend a tool such as logcheck, which is fairly easy to configure out of the box. It will also mail reports to the user of your choice.

I must be getting into the holiday spirit.

Net Neutered

Steven Acres — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:24:58 -0500

It seems that the Canadian internet has been to the netrinarian <snip,snip>. This story http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/11/20/tech-bell.html reports on the decision handed down by the CRTC, which boils down to allowing Bell to continue throttling p2p apps. In particular the ruling is relative to Bell's wholesale customers.

Just Like Pa!

Steven Acres — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:45:48 -0400

2-3 Weeks old and already typing.

Circa 2003

We Live On A Boat

Steven Acres — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:08:32 -0400

A couple and their two kids liveaboard a sailboat year round at Port Credit Marina in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Chronicles their experiences in a well written manner. Quite informative as well as amusing.

http://www.weliveonaboat.com/category/alberg-30

Junkus Pacificus

Steven Acres — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:09:35 -0400

Junk Raft Completes Voyage to Hawaii | YachtPals.com

Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal sailed out from Long Beach, California, on a boat made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a old Cessna 310 fusilage, which they appropriately named "Junk". Eriksen and Paschal took this little 2,600 mile cruise in order to bring awareness to the issue of ocean pollution. Just a short while ago, the team made land at the Ala Wai Harbor Fuel Dock on the Hawaiian island of Oahu - meeting their goal, and then some.

An amazing successful effort and a bold recycling statement.

Plone Products

Steven Acres — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:46:07 -0400

Various install/build tools such as easy_install, paster, buildout .. grokking {README,INSTALL}.txt and performing manual steps. Products should always have quality documented install procedures at point of issue. covers most of this, yet the conformance should already be in place at the time of Plone 3 stable. Back-porting of packages to that end should also be a reachable goal.

If Plone is to gain wider adoption these would be the stumbling blocks to that end for many organizations.

Blog on

Steven Acres — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:13:17 -0400

Technorati Tags: web2.0, Plone, weblog, quills.scribefire

My previous post/test utilizing quillsremote and scribefire to post to my blog space obviously succeeded. I really should be posting my Plone 3 virtualhosting and Apache2 webserver gateway guide now. But tired I am. Stay tuned for that guide, as well as some Plone 3 easy tips (customization etc.)
All in, this is a much preferred method of blog posting.

Remote Blogging

Steven Acres — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:42:33 -0400

Testing the quills.remote blogging api via scribefire (Firefox 3 extension). If this posts to my blog then success.

No sense

Steven Acres — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:50:14 -0400

Googsense