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Sunday, July 07, 2002Fixing Broken HTML in Radio News Aggregatorcomment []
Secure Printing From an IT PerspectiveVery little attention has been paid to the idea of security in print streams. PDF and PostScript files for books and other printed matter are routinely passed over the open Internet. Some WAN providers like WAMnet provide encryption via their proprietary networks, but far more material is transferred openly.While not about graphic arts printing specifically, this post on Slashdot shows the issues of security are beginning to surface in areas outside the print industry, which means yet one more thing printers are going to have to address.
Slashdot | "Ask Slashdot" - Secure Printing? RAVEing Congressional LunaticsWow, just when I thought the CBDTPA was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen. This bill has sponsors from both sides of the aisle. Makes you want to opt out of the political system, doesn't it?
RAVE Act: RIP Live Electronic Music. The RAVE Act, whose acronym stands for "Reducing Americans' Vunerability to Ecstacy", would fine people or companies that organize or host events "featuring loud, pounding dance music" up to $2,000,000, and allows promoters to be jailed for up to 20 years, without requiring officials to prove that any of the attendees actually possessed drugs. This law not only is a danger to civil liberties, but also would effectively eliminate live electronic music in the US, given the enormous risks now associated with it.[kuro5hin.org] [Ye Olde Phart] Usability DesignFor reference -- intranet/KM/usability
Extreme Usability. More from Mower on liveTopicsI'll have to try this to see where it's going -- a little difficult to visualize. But I can see how the abiltiy to quickly cross-reference topics along project, business function, or interest lines could improve usability.
liveTopics progress. Fragen for Fewer TagsA new Fragen script for testing.
Eliminating those damn multiple paragraph tags. I guess it's time to announce my solution to the problem of Radio inserting multiple paragraph tags into the rendered HTML. More IM/KM/intranet Pointers from Matt MowerAnother IM/KM/intranet pointer from Matt Mower. For futher investigation.
BlogAgent. Info Tools CompendiumInformation tools reference from Matt Mower.
Software for Information Professionals. More good pointers from Matt Mower. Category ftp, QuickScript Fix, and Progress But No SolutionUpdate: This is fixed. It is very important to be sure your path and url elements match in the upstream.xml file.I have restored the main upstream using Lawrence Lee's Quick Script suggestion noted here. I have a Private category now upstreaming to pwd-protected directory on my own web server at tfrazier.org. But the private category isn't quite right just yet. I still have some bugaboos in the page layout. The posts, blogroll, macros, etc seem to be working fine. But the Theme elements aren't getting called as expected -- i.e. the blue borders along the top and left side of the page are missing from the Private category page. I have manually copied the contents of my /www/images folder to the images folder on the ftp site. And I have manually copied the #template.txt and #homeTemplate.txt files into the Private category folder. And I have republished the site. But it just doesn't seem to catch on. I'll see if Lawrence has an answer. How Fast Are YouThis little post from Patrick Blake's Ye Olde Phart caught my eye. I've always wanted a way to keep the telcos honest about my connection speed.
JD's Blog: New Media Musings Scrolll down to find out how to test your broadband connection speeds.[Ye Olde Phart] I Do Lots of Stupid Things So You Don't Have ToThis is Jerry Pournelle's line, not mine. But it fits. So I think I'll adopt it anyway. I know just enough about computers to be really dangerous. Thank God they don't have sharp edges.Incorrect URLs After Changing Upstream LocationsLawrence Lee to the Rescue! Again. He should consider a career in tech support. ftp Munge is fixed because Lawrence very quickly pointed me to this quick script story that explains just how to fix the ftp muck-up I created while playing secret category publisher boy.Hugh Madison should get get Sue into writing a Radio Blog. With the trouble I get in Sue would have non-stop mysteries to solve. Update: I did find that I had to refresh my Navigator links in the Prefs. Even after running the Quick script and republishing the entire site my Home Page link in the Navigator Links was still pointing back to the ftp site. Refreshing the Navigator Links in the Prefs and republishing again seems to have fixed the problem. Time to go build a bookcase... Render Multiple RSS feeds on One PageHow can you display the headlines of another blog on your own blog page? Use the xml.rss.renderWithTemplate verb built into RU. No, I do'nt know what that means. But the guy who authored this page does. I don't know who he is, either. I'll figure it out later.But I do know it would be cool to be able to display other RSS feeds, maybe news headlines, a project ticker from a k-log, etc. on a page. Ok, so I didn't go to bed yet. But I saw this in the discussion group and wanted to catch it before it got away. ftp MungeWell, this just didn't work at all. Somehow a part of the image folder must have been deleted becasue the theme isn't right, even though it is displaying correctly on my Desktop Home Page.A minor thing, the Cloud Link to my Home Page still reflects the errant url of the ftp site, not my Cloud Home Page. I can't seem to get it to reset. Ok, I see (sort of) what happened here. In messing with the ftp stuff I incorrectly enabled the general ftp function from Prefs. This is the Big ftp function, the one you use if you want to move your whole weblog to another server. That wasn't what I was supposed to do. I just wanted to send a single category to a separate server. But in changing the general ftp setting I must have reset the default paths Radio uses to generate its image links and macro settings. I can't get them to reset. I have Radio upstreaming messages back to the Radio Community Server but it is still trying to pull things like images from paths on the ftp site -- that's why the page looks funny. I posted a message to the discussion forum. Maybe someone can help me out. I'm going to bed. Update: Instructions on how to fix this. Don't forget to refresh your Navigator Links in the Prefs after running the script and before re-publishing.
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