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| Time | Nick | Message |
|---|---|---|
| 12:45 | hdl | hi osmoze |
| 16:04 | chris | morning |
| 17:57 | kados | hey hey |
| 17:57 | thd | hello kados |
| 17:58 | kados | drum roll please ... /me has an announcement |
| 17:58 | http://liblime.com/c/pines.html | |
| 17:59 | thd | my NetBSD CVS has been compiling for many hours and I have made a mistake oops |
| 18:00 | chris | congrats joshua |
| 18:00 | rach | wooo cool joshua |
| 18:01 | thd | kados: does that mean that you have now left Koha for PINES? :) |
| 18:01 | kados | thd: nope |
| 18:02 | thd: it means LibLime will be working on both Koha and PINES | |
| 18:02 | which is a good thing for both projects | |
| 18:02 | chris | yep |
| 18:02 | thd | kados: I assumed that you always were working with both |
| 18:02 | kados | thd: well yes ... but now I can get paid to work on both ;-) |
| 18:03 | thd | kados: I assumed that is why both projects share some common bugs/features :) |
| 18:03 | kados: getting paid is good | |
| 18:05 | chris: can you reconstruct koha list subscribers since May from the headers in archived messages? | |
| 18:05 | chris | probably |
| 18:06 | tho im not sure ill try | |
| 18:06 | its the unsubscriptions that i wish i could reconstruct | |
| 18:07 | thd | chris: I expect some people like myself, who subscribed since that time, will assume that your mail system is still down and not bother checking the current announcement at koha.org. |
| 18:09 | chris: no one really ever wants to be unsubscribed from the koha list. All the worlds most important information is there :) | |
| 18:09 | chris | youve obviously never seen my inbox then |
| 18:09 | all the ppl who cant read the headers, or the footer at the bottom of each message want to unsubscribe :) | |
| 18:12 | thd | chris: I have managed a subscription list before and remember some very unfriendly demands to unsubscribe. They all secretly wanted to subscribe though. |
| 18:13 | chris | :) |
| 18:14 | thd | chris: Do you not have an archive of your inbox with those requests to unsubscribe? |
| 18:14 | chris | nope |
| 18:15 | i have about 11000 messages in my inbox, but not the unsubscribe notices | |
| 18:15 | once i actioned them, they were deleted | |
| 18:15 | thd | chris: well, they did not really want to unsubscribe, as I said. |
| 18:16 | chris | heh yeah, they'll ask again if they really did |
| 18:20 | thd | chris: assuming that you will not recover the post May subscribers instantly I will subscribe myself again now. I assume that you will avoid duplicate mailing list subscriptions for those who resubscribed manually. |
| 18:21 | chris | yeah mailman is good like that |
| 18:22 | it wont let duplicates subscribe | |
| 18:26 | thd | chris: that is a good reason for the popularity of mailman. I have never used it myself. |
| 18:30 | chris: I cannot even subscribe myself twice. Error, you are already a member. | |
| 18:30 | chris | excellent |
| 18:30 | thats all good then | |
| 18:32 | thd | kados: Are the new Perl-ZOOM bindings really likely to be finished and fully documented in a week? |
| 18:36 | chris: what had caused the failure of your mailing list archive backup aside from not testing it? | |
| 18:37 | kados | thd: should be ready this week |
| 18:37 | chris | it wasnt running |
| 18:37 | kados | thd: next week by the latest |
| 18:37 | thd | chris: Do mean the cron job stopped running? |
| 18:39 | chris | it was a double failure, we are building a new backup server and are having problems with the raid controller, so the offmachine backups werent running, and the mirroring to the spare disk in the machine wasnt happening either, just a big mess, we had offsite backups off everything barring the mailing lists (koha is just one of them unfortunately) |
| 18:40 | and the disk physically died, ie we sent it off to specialists and they tried everything, new heads, etc and couldnt get a thing off it | |
| 18:41 | wasnt a fun weekend rebuilding | |
| 18:41 | thd | kados: Does that include complete documentation with full explanation of options, syntax, descriptions of what they are used for, and detailed usage examples? |
| 18:44 | chris: Fortunately I only electrocuted my keyboard controller with static but I do have some problems with the hard disc I am working on now where only home is comprehensively backed up. | |
| 18:44 | kados | thd: you writing a book? |
| 18:44 | thd: :-) | |
| 18:45 | thd: we'll have to see what they release | |
| 18:45 | thd: then, if it's not adequate, I get to say what we'd like improved, etc. | |
| 18:45 | thd | kados: Yes, several books always. |
| 18:45 | kados | hehe |
| 18:46 | thd | kados: There is a standard of documentation that used to be universal. |
| 18:47 | kados: It is still followed at Microsoft as one example for what they want to publish, although, they may only ship a ten page manual with their products. | |
| 18:48 | kados: The documentation that I describe is still available if you order it for their programming tools. | |
| 18:50 | kados: Which with Microsoft is almost all their applications since they all incorporate some form of Visual BASIC or .NET API. Not that I use them anymore, nor did I ever use .NET. | |
| 18:53 | kados: my point is merely that what I described above had been the standard for all documentation at one time and the current version of net::Z3950 falls somewhat short and is much more difficult to use as intended on that account. | |
| 18:53 | kados | thd: it was produced by a volunteer ... not a multi-million dollar corporation :-) |
| 18:55 | thd | kados: I do understand the economics of the situation but guessing at how something is supposed to work is not always easy :) |
| 18:57 | kados: actually, I would expect that the documentation would point outside itself to other documentation. | |
| 19:00 | kados: Documentation would ultimately point to Z39.50 standards documentation. However, that official documentation itself is completely inadequate for the database manipulation commands which are significant features for the new Perl bindings. | |
| 19:01 | kados: I was entirely unsuccessful finding any proper documentation of how such Z39.50 extended services were actually supposed to work anywhere ever. | |
| 19:05 | kados: all I ever found was just a general vague idea of what the Z39.50 extended services actually did without anything more than usage syntax that could only be helpful if you really understood how the extended services actually worked. | |
| 19:08 | kados: Do I understand correctly that Z39.50 extended services are used for reading, inserting, and deleting records in the Zebra database? | |
| 19:08 | kados | thd: they can be used to manage all aspects of a zebra database |
| 19:11 | thd | kados: the Z39.50 standards documentation or anything else that I have seen fails to document there use in any way that would be adequate unless you already knew how to use them. |
| 19:11 | there/their | |
| 19:14 | kados: I hope the new net::Z3950 documentation remedies that deficiency along with others. Grasping how something works by intuition is fine except where the necessary intuition is not held in common :) | |
| 19:20 | kados: The deficiency that I am referring to is not exclusive to the net::Z3950 documentation but to the NISO Z39.50 documentation underlying, at least for extended services. | |
| 19:23 | kados: I assume Mike knows how to remedy that on his own for his own documentation. I understand that you have not hired the Library of Congress. They have a difficult time addressing a problem in one year never mind a few weeks. | |
| 19:28 | kados: (The Library of Congress being the maintenance agency for the ANSI/NISO Z39.50 standard and not Mike. Mike cannot change the official documentation but he can compensate for the deficiency in the official documentation with his own documentation.) | |
| 19:40 | kados | koha-bugs moved over to savannah |
| 19:41 | and bugzilla components updated with new list email | |
| 19:42 | but I bet I still need to tell mailman to allow mail from bugzilla | |
| 19:44 | chris | test came thru ok joshua |
| 19:46 | kados | great |
| 19:47 | chris | 2 of them even |
| 19:47 | kados | yea ... sorry bout that :-) |
| 19:48 | thd: added you to savannah btw | |
| 20:24 | thd | kados: thank you. I have a very some bug fixes to start with but I am very behind on everything since I have not had steady access to my system in the past few weeks. |
| 20:28 | kados: What do you use for cloning a system. I am recompiling NetBSD to create a fix the author of G4U (Ghost4Unix) has not managed to solve yet. Norton Ghost does not seem to be a viable option any longer, at least not since Ghost 2003. | |
| 20:31 | kados: Or do you merely reinstall and reconfigure a completely fresh system from base with merely copying configuration files in /etc every time you need a new system. | |
| 20:39 | My question was off topic. What is the most robust tool for copying a whole system with all installed software and configuration files including Koha to new heterogeneous hardware of the same general hardware architecture? Now my question is on topic. :) | |
| 21:43 | kados | thd: I use tar :-) |
| 22:16 | thd | kados: I should have said that G4U uses dd. Assuming the file system that you are copying with tar is mounted as read only to preserve state perfectly, what happens when tar reaches a bad block on the mounted file system? |
| 22:18 | s/file system/file system\/partition/ | |
| 02:06 | indradg | kados, evening! |
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