Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread pavithran
2009/8/1 Alan Pope : > Did you miss my mail? > > http://hantslug.org.uk/lurker/message/20090731.093125.4d0316d0.en.html Ahh I did miss it . By the way nice reply :) * URLs to photos changing in the upgrade, breaking search engine fu, and any inbound links from elsewhere. * Increased load on the

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread pavithran
2009/8/1 Steve Kemp : > On Sat Aug 01, 2009 at 17:53:09 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > >> "Mass generalisations are always wrong". > >  Everybody generalises from one example, I know I do... Well my generalisation was based on years of talking to system admins of both windows and linux , website design

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread Alan Pope
2009/8/1 pavithran : > I opened the gallery in my firefox 3.6a and gallery works now perfectly . > Looks like the template has been changed . Thanks for the prompt action . > Did you miss my mail? http://hantslug.org.uk/lurker/message/20090731.093125.4d0316d0.en.html Cheers, Al. -- Please post

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread pavithran
2009/8/1 pavithran : > 2009/8/1 Keith Edmunds : >> Let's see some proof. Show us the source that fails to render correctly. > > Will do for sure in 5 hours . Right now I am at hartley library > sitting on a ISS machine using windows XP + Internet explorer :) I opened the gallery in my firefox 3.6a

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Aug 01, 2009 at 17:53:09 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > "Mass generalisations are always wrong". Everybody generalises from one example, I know I do... Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administration http://www.debian-administration.org/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:54:52PM +0100, pavithran wrote: > 2009/7/31 Keith Edmunds : > > > So you're running alpha software and you've found a bug: excellent. Now > > you need to establish whether Firefox is failing to correctly render valid > > HTML/CSS/etc, or whether the site code is invalid.

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread pavithran
2009/8/1 Keith Edmunds : > Let's see some proof. Show us the source that fails to render correctly. Will do for sure in 5 hours . Right now I am at hartley library sitting on a ISS machine using windows XP + Internet explorer :) Sorry for going off topic but check this http://forum.susu.org/index.

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread pavithran
2009/7/31 Philip Stubbs : > Therefore I would suggest that makes you the most suitable person to > do something about it. I would be glad to > Build a sample gallery, with whatever system you feel would work well, > and then trial it somewhere. Though it may sound like an ad for my pics LOL but I

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 17:54:52 +0100, pavithra...@gmail.com said: > Yes I run firefox 3.6 alpha but it gets updated every 6 hours or so > hence I belive in the firefox developer community to write a browser > which properly renders HTML,CSS and JS . One wonders why they need to update it, then. You

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread pavithran
2009/7/31 Keith Edmunds : > So you're running alpha software and you've found a bug: excellent. Now > you need to establish whether Firefox is failing to correctly render valid > HTML/CSS/etc, or whether the site code is invalid. Even in the second case > there is still an argument for reporting t

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread Alan Pope
2009/8/1 pavithran : > 2009/7/31 Lisi : >> On Friday 31 July 2009 03:15:12 pavithran wrote: >>> Aren't we as linux users >>> on Cutting edge ? >> >> No > > I don't agree  :P > I could rather say  : > > Linux sys admins and people afraid of change : No to cutting edge > Developers and Geeks : Yes to

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-08-01 Thread pavithran
2009/7/31 Lisi : > On Friday 31 July 2009 03:15:12 pavithran wrote: >> Aren't we as linux users >> on Cutting edge ? > > No I don't agree :P I could rather say : Linux sys admins and people afraid of change : No to cutting edge Developers and Geeks : Yes to cutting/bleeding edge . Regards, Pav

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-31 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 07/31/2009 10:57 AM, Lisi wrote: On Friday 31 July 2009 03:15:12 pavithran wrote: Aren't we as linux users on Cutting edge ? No Lisi I'd agree with that, it is sometimes referred to as the "Bleeding Edge" for a reason! I like to live by the "if it ain't broke, don't fix i

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-31 Thread Lisi
On Friday 31 July 2009 03:15:12 pavithran wrote: > Aren't we as linux users > on Cutting edge ? No Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-31 Thread Simon Reap
Alan Pope wrote: > * Increased load on the server as the new version of gallery > introduces cpu-intensive photo scaling features. > > If anyone has experience of mitigating these two outstanding issues > then I'm happy for us to move with the times and move to gallery2. > I'm sure there'll be

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-31 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Pavithran, I'm the (current) web master for HantsLUG so I guess I can answer some of your questions/concerns. 2009/7/30 pavithran : > The pictures at http://hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/ are really good but > the gallery software looks too old :( > It's gallery 1.5.4 which has been around a while

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-31 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:15:12AM +0100, pavithran wrote: > 2009/7/30 Hugo Mills : > > >> 1. Please update the gallery software > > > >   Without meaning to come across as a miserable curmudgeon(*), what > > would newer software gain, other than a fleeting warm fuzzy feeling of > > running someth

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-31 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/7/31 pavithran : > 2009/7/30 Hugo Mills : >> >>   Take more recent pics, then? :) > >>   Then go ahead and add them... > I haven't been to any of the hantslug meets so I neither could upload > or recognise members . > I will surely come to the next meet and do it :) Hi Pavithran, The respons

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-30 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:15:12 +0100, pavithra...@gmail.com said: > Well no wrong in using the old gallery software . But the reason for > my mail was the gallery didn't render properly in my Minefield 3.6a ( > firefox 3.6 alpha ) browser . So you're running alpha software and you've found a bug:

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-30 Thread pavithran
2009/7/30 Hugo Mills : >> 1. Please update the gallery software > >   Without meaning to come across as a miserable curmudgeon(*), what > would newer software gain, other than a fleeting warm fuzzy feeling of > running something up to date, and an indefinable odour of undiscovered > security flaws

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-30 Thread Stephen Davies
James, Can you email me a screenshot showing how it fails to render. I have viewed that page using 3.5.1 and it seems ok. Stephen D -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2009/7/30 Stephen Davies : > If the software being used is Gallery V1 then it can be upgraded to V2. > AFAIK, V1 is not being actively developed any more > > I used Gallery 2 when constructing the Aldershot & Farnham Camera Club > site. I was able to customize the software quite easily to give me t

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-30 Thread Stephen Davies
If the software being used is Gallery V1 then it can be upgraded to V2. AFAIK, V1 is not being actively developed any more I used Gallery 2 when constructing the Aldershot & Farnham Camera Club site. I was able to customize the software quite easily to give me the finish we required. I you want

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-30 Thread john lewis
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:22:35 +0100 Hugo Mills wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:38:13AM +0100, pavithran wrote: > > The pictures at http://hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/ are really good but > > the gallery software looks too old :( > > > > Here are my requests: > > 1. Please update the gallery soft

Re: [Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-30 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:38:13AM +0100, pavithran wrote: > The pictures at http://hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/ are really good but > the gallery software looks too old :( > > Here are my requests: > 1. Please update the gallery software Without meaning to come across as a miserable curmudgeon(*

[Hampshire] Hantslug gallery update

2009-07-29 Thread pavithran
Hi lug, The pictures at http://hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/ are really good but the gallery software looks too old :( Here are my requests: 1. Please update the gallery software 2 . Use some candy template ( but usable) 3. Upload more recent pics Having said all that I am very happy to see old pic