OpenBSD

The Gallery2 update that wasnt

Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on July 05, 2007 5:10:51 PM

Another adventure into the wild world of computer software, which resulted in our Gallery2 just failing altogether which seems to have been a combination of upgrading to Xaraya 1.1.3 as well as running the SVN Gallery2 2.3svn builds.

The 1st major disaster was Gallery2 2.3svn just failing to login, and there's a lot of new magic with the passwords, but there were also problems with just getting the database files working correctly.

Following no original plan, but with two thoughts in mind, I disastered that I was going to make a clean install. The two problems with the previous installation was:

A lot of bogus users had creeped into the Xaraya installations, and by association into the Gallery2 installation.
A lot of fluff in the database remained from the Gallery1 update to update to updates.

After quite a bit of hocus pocus, and a great deal of time trying to avoid a full new installation with the current svn code, we now have 2.2 Branch svn being used and since there's a way to switch to 2.3 when it is stable we'll go that route from now on.

Why was I on svn anyway? Because of those security faults that can wipe out your server. Now that I've learned how to use branches and switch between branches using the svn code repositories, I can be secured as soon as the code is updated instead of having to wait for a binary release etc. etc. etc.

Next problem was my Gallery Remote failing again, but fortunately we knew about that problem from previous reinstalls so we just had to find it on the web as shown below.

Gallery2 and Gallery Remote Issues

I was trying to get Gallery remote to work… but kept getting an error saying that it couldn’t find gallery_remote2.php. After searching the Gallery forums for a few I foudn a few things, and it fixed the problem.
You need to find the “GalleryRemote.properties”, mine was located at “C:Documents and SettingsShelby.GalleryRemoteGalleryRemote.properties”. Open that file and add “forceGalleryVersion.n=2″ to the top line and then save it,
Next create a file named “gallery_remote2.php”, in that file add this following information.
< ?
header(”HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found”);
exit;
?>
Save that file and upload it to your gallery2/ directory and then you should be all set to use the gallery remote.

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OpenBSD NOT on the Desktop

Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on May 14, 2007 2:24:00 PM

2007.05.11 - I've finally compeleted the download of the 4.1 i386 release of OpenBSD and am way excited about trying the system as the desktop client for my sister-in-law as a major requirement for her (as if she knows?) is a functional Office Productivity Suite (aka as MS Office replacement --> OpenOffice.)

The other major requirements work just fine, already work well but have gathered further enhancements. Desktop Publishing/Scribus, Email/Evolution-or-Thunderbird, Internet Browser/Thunderbird.

For the kids, two great additions are childsplay.sf.net and gcompris, two 'educational' programs for OSS operating systems.

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The System Administrators Code of Ethics

Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on May 08, 2007 2:54:15 PM

For those who thought there doesn't exist a code of ethics for System Administrators? I'm always having to explain a number of rudimentary 'ethical standards' for new system administrators so it was time to look up the web to see what the 'professionals' have to say.

Well there are a number of groups, System Administrators' with their published codes of ethic, so I thought it would be good to have one hanging around, care of: http://lopsa.org/CodeOfEthics

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