Administrivia, nothing about dirvish: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:51:28AM -0600, Richard Geoffrion wrote: > Is the wiki down due for reason's of "in progress conversion"? [or is > it just down for fun. :) ]
Thanks for pointing that out - it is actually a result of locking down the wiki against attacks, while I change over to Mediawiki. The simple and obvious (and subtly wrong) way to lock down kwiki is to set everything to root ownership, so apache can't write it. That appeared to work, for about a week. However, template toolkit apparently needs to write to files in its cache, so we see this problem surfacing after an unexpected delay. It is fixed now. --- I will probably be spending the next week busy helping friends with the Y2K7 disaster, so it may be a while before I get a chance to change the site to Mediawiki. Y2K7 is the change of the start and stop dates of Daylight Savings Time in the United States and Canada. While Linux and other user-friendly operating systems have an easy upgrade (replace some files in the timezone directories, or just /etc/localtime as a quick patch), this is very difficult for older (pre-2003) Windows machines. There will be problems in hospitals and with some time-stamping medical equipment, and international flights to and from North America are likely to get messed up. It is worrisome how little attention this has gotten in the US - there will be some big surprises Sunday and next week, and IT people with large installs of legacy operating systems like Windows 2000 or Windows 95/98/ME are going to be very busy. The fact that this change corresponds to the release of Y2K7-ready Vista is entirely coincidental, of course. So, US/Can dirvish users, make sure those backups get done before Sunday, and you sysadmins running mixed shops can plan on a week or two of hell. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
