Categories
Blogs Kim Blog (English) Open Source Technology

Drupal – Incompatible environment

If you get this error from Drupal:

Incompatible environment

The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:

Multibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.http_input setting. Please refer to the PHP mbstring documentation for more information. (Currently using Unicode library Error)

It can be fixed by adding the following lines to your settings.php file in the PHP settings section:

/* PHP.ini overrides */
ini_set('mbstring.http_input', 'pass');
ini_set('mbstring.http_output', 'pass');

Thank you to Henrik for fixing this for me, Surftown accounts need this setting in order for Drupal 5 to work.

Categories
'i dag' (Danish) Blogs Bookmarks Historier/Stories Mactopia Open Source Technology

:: macnyt :: danmark :: it’s MINE…MINE…MINE!!!

:: macnyt :: danmark ::

Hmm…Efter et par måneders pause fra Macnyt har jeg taget lidt revanche og konverteret den til min personlige blog – IGEN ;-).

Dette skyldtes at der faktisk var et par interessante tråde, som HELT sikkert irriterer nogle, og helt sikkert er HAMRENDE off-topic, men det er jo NETOP det jeg ELSKER ved Macnyt.

And on that note: We cue the music!!!!

Categories
Blogs Kim Blog (English) Open Source Technology WordPress

Lussumo Documentation | vanilla:integration:wordpress

Lussumo Documentation | vanilla:integration:wordpress

It looks like it’s quite simple to integrate the Vanilla forum software with other tools, the link above is an example of how to integrate with WordPress.

I’m quite impressed by the user table mappings, I’ll investigate how to get it to work with MediaWiki.

Vanilla seems to be quite well engineered.

Categories
Blogs Kim Blog (English) Open Source Technology

Mediawiki Skins – PaulGu dot com

Mediawiki Skins – PaulGu dot com

PaulGu has a really cool MediaWiki skin. It makes you feel that you’re no longer in Kansas. MediaWiki never looked that good.

Categories
Blogs Bookmarks Kim Blog (English) Open Source Technology WordPress

Using XML-RPC to combine Drupal and WordPress on a site | drupal.org

Using XML-RPC to combine Drupal and WordPress on a site | drupal.org

This looks like a cool tip, using the Moveable Type XML-RPC API to integrate content from WordPress and Drupal.

I just love the XML-RPC blogging API, don’t migrate, integrate…Hmm does a Moveable Type XML-RPC API implementation exist for MediaWiki?

I think that using RSS for content integration, is the way to go under normal circumstances, but the flexibility the XML-RPC API offers is great.

Categories
'i dag' (Danish) Blogs Education/Undervisning Open Source Technology

Linuxforum BoF day 2006: Noter fra sessionen om Åbne standarder

Linuxforum BoF dag, 28. oktober 2006Linuxforum BoF dag 2006

I løbet af Birds of a Feather sessionen om Åbne standarder på Linuxforum 2006 tog jeg nogle få noter.

Generelt var der en god debat, og man må jo gang på gang understrege at der er STOR forskel på åbne standarder og åben og fri software (open source software).

Jeg fangede følgende kommentarer mod slutningen af debatten:

  • DKUUG har en mailing liste og en arbejdsgruppe indenfor standarder, den hedder std@dkuug.dk…Som der blev skrevet: “Også mig…”, så meld dig til denne liste
  • Vi har faktisk en åben implementering af dokumentstandarderne, det er den STØRSTE styrke
  • eAftale, som er Microsofts storkunde aftale med det offentlige er pt. til genforhandlig. Der er også forhandlinger om eneleverandør aftaler, eAftale skulle være 3 årig. Der er et notat i et ministerium der antyder at der kan spares 100 millioner ved at terminere eAftale.

Vi diskuterede også forhindringer for udbredelsen af OpenOffice og Open Document

  • Svært at få support og uddannelse
  • Svært at opdatere og installere
  • Dårligt integreret

Jeg kom til at tænke på Simon Phipps og Suaraz-Potts opfordring fra Linuxforum til at se at komme i gang med at lave små konsulent firmaer der tilbyder at løse den slags problemer, vi er vist ikke kommet så langt endnu.

Hvordan kommer vi videre:

Det er NU der skal rykkes!

  • Lav en rapport som ikke er afhængig af snævre industri interesser, men fremhøver de langsigtede fordele ved at vælge den åbne og fri vej, det handler IKKE om teknologi det her
  • OpenOffice skal godkendes af IT chefen i det offentlige, det kræver benarbejde
  • Vi skal “tæppebombe” IT-afdelingerne med “rigtige” standarder Begynd f.eks. at sende dokumenter til dem i Open Document formaterne, og hvis de ikke kan læse dem så henvis dem til B103, at de bare kan åbne det i Google apps eller hente og installere OpenOffice, det har de fleste da råd til. :DOC er IKKE en rigtig standard!
  • De nye tilgælgelighedskrav er en “Trojansk”, der kan bruges til at påpege at de offentlige myndigheder kan få store gevinster ved at anvende åbne standarder og open source

Debatten fortsætter på min wiki side (WiKim: Linuxforum_BoF_2006:Åbne standarder), kig forbi, du skal være så hjerteligt velkommen. Wikien kræver ikke registrering, og indholdet er udgivet under en fri dokumentations licens (FDL), men hvis du skriver noget, så registrer venligst, det gør det lettere at følge med i hvem der skriver hvad, og at afgøre at der ikke er tale om “spam”.

Categories
'i dag' (Danish) Blogs Bookmarks Open Source Technology

Linuxforum BoF day 2006: LET’S GO! And I’ll spare you some highly irregular expressions

Linuxforum BoF dag, 28. oktober 2006Linuxforum BoF dag 2006

The 28th of October 2006 was the day of the Linuxforum 2006 Birds of a Feather sessions, and as it might have been noticed by regular readers, yours truly hosted the session on “open standards”, inspired by the recent legislation that asks the government to start using, and implementing, open standards in their IT solutions.

The forum was held at Symbion, which is a “research incubator”, I arrived late, and I followed the signs…Hmm that door leads to a stairwell, I entered, and immediately the door shut, I knew I was in trouble – I’ve experienced the same situation before – Shudder! There was NO way to exit the stairwell without a valid keycard, which I naturally didn’t hold. OK, in the words of Douglas Adams, Don’t Panic…There actually was a door to the outside, but it had a clear sign that said…Don’t open, it will trigger the alarm…

Hmm…I was as usually packing, using my cell phone to access the yellow pages actually yielded a number, I called it and the man on the line was quite surprised, first and foremost he was a bit annoyed about the fact that the building was open to host the Linuxforum, secondly he wondered how I got hold of his number, well it was listed with information! Well he gave me the main number to Symbion, he suggested that they had a number to call in case of an emergency…No way, I got a machine and a friendly goodbye! Damn…Well there were two numbers to some security services posted in the stairwell, I called both but they were also closed for the weekend. Now I started pounding on the door, but no one could hear me…Finally I heard a door slam…Hey! Wait a second…Phew someone was working that afternoon…With one swipe I was let out of my temporary prison, but I could have stayed there for a long, long time.

It’s a stupid set-up, and dangerous, I’ve experienced worse once, where I got trapped in another stairwell, and in that particular stairwell I didn’t find any doors to the outside, luckily I had my cellphone and the number of one of the employees.

The label on the button that opened the door read “Udtryk” this is funny, “udtryk” is Danish the litteral translation is “outpush”, and the meaning is that you press the button to get out, but “udtryk” also means “expression”, I’ll spare you the highly irregular and colourful expressions that I wanted to spill while trapped in the stairwell.

Oh well, now on topic!

My call for BoF was:

The spread of open standards
With Kim Bach, kim.bach(at)gmail.com

I’m interested in how we can help implement the legislation B103: On the use of open standards in the public central administration.

Steps like the implementation of Open Document Format is a small step in the right direction, but don’t we need to establish a central CIO (Chief Information Officer) function in the public, inspired after Massachusetts. The “Bedst og Billigst” (best and cheapest) software policy of the government isn’t too clear, and it often results in “non-movement”, since that always will be cheapest.

How can we spread the knowledge of open and free alternatives to commercial products within, for instance, content management.

I’ve never done anything like this before, so I didn’t really understand the BoF format, but it’s really workshops, and quite informal, or at least that was the way my session ended, and I was very happy to see that some 20 people had joined the session, and more arrived later and they actually stayed!

Most of the sessions yesterday were hardcore technical sessions, and most of them were really packed.

I had prepared a few slides (follow link) and I’ve blogged on the subject several times, and I’m maintaining a page on my wiki.

I started out by presenting my slides, but really I only had 2-3, and immediately we had a real discussion going on, but it wasn’t till the end that we begun getting suggestions that we could write down. I’ll put it down to my lack of experience, and that I should have done more to keep focus, but it was really more of a brainstorm, and it was very rewarding indeed, at least to me, with most of the audience getting involved in the discussion.

We had a long and very fruitful discussion, mostly focused on the window of opportunity that we have right now, with Linux and open source software reaching such a high degree of maturity, and the major commercial player being almost tied down by huge technical challenges creating the next generation of their bread-and-butter software.

When it came to open standards, we spend a lot of time talking about Open Document Format, and ODF is very important indeed, because it can be considered a “Trojan”, simply start sending documents to the public authorities and tell them that they simple need to get hold of an open and free implementation of an Open Document Format viewer, for instance OpenOffice. With B103 in our hands, we can just say that what we sent was a document in the ONLY format that is an official ISO standard, and that the authority should start complying with B103.

Another important point that was made was that the volume agreements that the Danish public sector has with Microsoft, called eAftale is about to expire, so now’s the time to start pushing the alternatives to the politicians.
I’m quite happy with my own performance, and I’ll try to use this experience to build a shorter presentation, and I think that I got good response.

After “my” session, there was a session on the next steps for the open source movement in Denmark.

A number of suggestions on next steps were listed. We need to do A LOT more lobbying, and we need some reference cases, e.g. this school switched to Linux…

We’ll set-up a press centre…using the SSLUG wiki as a starting point, it seems that the Open Source movement in Denmark is in need of new blood, and I’m voluentering my services, I really need to join these SIGs.

The day ended with quality beer and more geekery, I’m REALLY REALLY impressed by Ubuntu 6.10 and I have the perfect machine to test it on, an iBook G3 500MHz that I just acquired.

I’m right@home@Linuxfourm. IT’S MY CULTURE! AND LET’S GO WITH THE LOBBYISM.

Categories
'i dag' (Danish) Blogs Education/Undervisning Historier/Stories Lektiehjælpen (Danish) Open Source Technology

Tip: ny måde at gemme sine Firefox faneblade på!

Så er den klaretHer er et tip til alle Firefox brugere som ikke gider lukke sine faneblade fra en af mine kreative venner.

Jeg har brugt Firefox et par uger, det har været en sjov oplevelse, det kedelige var at jeg ikke kunne få mine faneblade tilbage, når jeg havde slukket for min computer. Men i mellemtiden hørte jeg at der var kommet en ny version af Firefox, og den har jeg lige hentet ned til min computer. Jeg har ikke haft lyst til at lukke mine faneblade, men så ved et uheld gik min strøm mens jeg sad og arbejdede med min midt i min arbejdstid, så jeg var helt ude af den, men heldigvis havde jeg husket at gemme dokumenterne, men hvad skete der med min Internet browser. Så startede jeg min computer årh heldigvis spurgte Firefox mig om jeg vil gendanne den gamle session eller starte en ny session, så kom smilet tilbage i mit ansigte.

Tak til Bilal fra http://www.bilalameen.info.

For andre eksempler på kreativ problemløsning kig her: Barometerhistorien.

Categories
Blogs Bookmarks Design Education/Undervisning Kim Blog (English) Lektiehjælpen (Danish) Open Source Technology

Hands on the Wii | CNET News.com

Hands on the Wii | CNET News.com

YUMMY YUMMY I WANT WII IN MY TUMMY!!!

I’m ordering a classset!

Categories
'i dag' (Danish) Blogs Education/Undervisning Open Source Technology

Hjælp med at skabe “min” Linuxforum 2006 Birds of a Feather session om åbne standarder

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a feather flock together;
and so will pigs and swine.
Rats and mice will have their choice;
and so will I have mine.

Så er der ikke ret længe til jeg “står” for Linuxforum 2006 BoF sessionen om åbne standarder, og du kan være med til at skabe, altså co-create, den.

Mit oplæg er primært dette:
‘Format Wars’: Computerworld – Politikere fristede af OpenDocument

Og især at vi får samarbejdet om denne liste:

  • Der må ikke anvendes indlejrede dokumenter og/eller grafik, alt skal være henvisninger
  • Det skal sikres at henvisninger ikke bliver brudt gennem en PURL (persistent URL) system
  • Alt skal kunne nås gennem URLer og kunne vises i en standard browser uden behov for ekstra programmer (der skal altid findes en XHTML version af et dokument)
  • Programmering (læs Excel udvikling) skal “godkendes” af en central IT funktion, så man undgår “ad-hoceriet”
  • Der skal laves et centralt erfarings udvekslings fællesskab, så løsninger kan deles, dette for at undgå at den centrale godkendelse af “programmering” bliver for stiv
  • Så lidt layout som muligt
  • Dokumenter skal være struktureret ensartet, stærk brug af “outline” og “levels”

Men også forslag til standard software, og lister over anbefalede åbne standarder, jeg nominerer:

Software

  • MediaWiki
  • Drupal
  • WordPress
  • OpenOffice.org
  • Gimp
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla Sunbird
  • Apple iCal server

Standarder (ikke nødvendigvis åbne)

  • Open Document Format (ODF)
  • XHTML
  • JPG
  • PNG
  • SVG
  • Portable Document Format (PDF)
  • OIO AWS (Address Web Service)

De-facto standarder der er “stemt hjem”:

  • Microsoft Office <= 2004

Kommende (ikke nødvendigvis åbne) standarder der er interessante:

  • Microsoft Office Open XML