Archive for September 5th, 2003

fast, cheap, or easy (pick any two)

September 5th, 2003

Hrmmm … building on yesterday’s my musings for an system with which to organize the trickle of information that I produce, I am trying to determine what things are requirements and what things are preferences.

Requirements:

  • has a text interface
  • i can host it on my systems
  • is open-sourced
  • is affordable
  • produces a decent looking site that is customizeable
  • reasonably secure
  • some way of logically grouping notes on a subject/project
  • later, when something better comes along I need to be able to convert the data stored inside to the next generation of note-management system

    • Preferences:

  • can link/host photos (after all, there’s always gallery, which is getting better every day)
  • written in Perl … or at least not written in a language I don’t know and don’t otherwise feel the need to learn. PHP, HTML & family, C are okay too. Stuff like Modula, Ruby, Python are out
  • is lightweight
  • is fast
  • is themeable/css-able
  • is modular
  • handles links and linking in some graceful fashion

    • i’m sure there’s more, but it comes to me when i’m washing the dishes, not sitting at the computer with the browser window in focus and logged in to some web application.

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    blog hax

    September 5th, 2003

    i need to edit the .css to include tags for colored text

    
< style TYPE="text/css">
!--
A {text-decoration:none}
hi {background-color: yellow}
red {color: red}
blue {color: blue}
green {color: green}
gray {color: gray}
--
< /style>

    need to make the editing window bigger (i think i shrank it once before) and I need to get more categories pronto.

    hmm… this editor is wierd. mand vim(1).

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    xdm

    September 5th, 2003

    [fjord] ~> cat doc/-xdm

    $Id: -xdm,v 1.1 2003/09/05 19:57:02 jamgill Exp jamgill $

    change the line in /etc/ttys that says

    ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure

    to

    ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on secure

    and if you know $your_favorite_windowmanager you might:

    echo "exec $your_favorite_windowmanager" >> .xsession \
        && chmod 755 .xsession

    or, if you currently use ’startx’ then

    cp .xinitrc .xsession && chmod u+x .xsession

    the next time you reboot, you will be presented with a graphical login prompt instead of the text-based console.

    [fjord] ~> echo “make the XDM login prompt cool” >> ~/.plan

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