ticktalk

2003-12-12T14:46:00.000Z

Gave a talk at Birkbeck yesterday, called "simple sturdy collaboration systems". I talked about the blogs, wikis, plone and friends. I went through examples such as Keshet democratic school group, Salam Pax, Wikipedia. Then I talked about WebLabs and our web reports system.

You might find the links at the end of the talk usefull.

2003-09-16T15:47:00.000Z

Tim O'Reilly preached LAMP at the UKUUG. Nice slides.

2003-06-19T00:13:00.000Z

How Knoppix saved my Windows

Yesterday our home machine wouldn't boot.
You turn it on, it goes through all the pains of the Win2k boot sequence, then, just when you think the logon window is finally about to show - wham! it restarts itself.

Yes, of course I tried safe mode. I tried safe mode with cmd line, I tried boot logging, I tried restore last good, I tried singing "when the saints come marching home" while holding F9. nothing doing.

No worries. I say, I have just the right thing in the office. I'll bring it tomorrow.

Now, what is that "just the right thing" to save our Win box? Exactly. A CD-bootable Linux, aka Knoppix.

And it boots. boots? it rocks!

So, now I comb my disk for log files, error reports, event msgs, the works. Can't find a thing. (oh yes, Knoppix has no problem handling the Win file system).

Then I remember. Ever since we upgraded to 2k, our computer persistantly pops up stupid porn adds. So, the day before last I decided to nail the dumb thing. I tracked it down to one csrss.exe, and renamed it. Cool.

So, if that's the last thing I changed, change it back. Found it, politly asked Knoppix to let me write to the Win filesys (defult is read only), and renamed.

Reboot.

Yee-haa!!! The ugly face of MS Win is back!

It turns out that csrss is the "Client Server Runtime Process", which The Windows Client Server Runtime Subsystem handles Windows and Graphics.

The annoying porn msgs it sends are a known issue, and happen to be a symptom on the dalbug worm.

So there. Now all I need is to remove the worm.

and next time, I guess I should ask google before I rename system files..

Hey!! wait a minute!

re: csrss advetising problems
Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 3:07 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by triplate [find other messages by triplate]

it's not a virus or a worm. it's spam. csrss.exe has a bug in it that can be exploited to utilize NT/XP's built-in Messenger service. it's being used to broadcast ads and such. Disable Messenger Service.......

Thanks, guys!

2003-06-16T13:44:00.000Z

Duh! It looks like a Cow called rose the 2nd may determine the fate of the world! or, at least the fate of open source software, if there's any difference between the two..

2003-06-02T23:25:00.000Z

Well, looks like my personal blog survived the upgrade. Perhaps its time to try it here...

2003-06-02T23:19:00.000Z

A big Yay! for Knoppix!

Downloaded the ISO image, burnt it to a CD, stuck it in and booted - and I have a Linux box!

It has office etc. included (even wine!)

It recognized 95% of my hardware - on a dell laptop (also it missed the modem - duh!)

It can read my windows files!

one small step for the Penguin..

2003-06-02T23:14:00.000Z

Launched another OSS project. Mnemosyne: a P2P Reference manager.

I published on sourceforge's personals and got 4 devlopers in 2 days.

2003-05-13T10:01:00.000Z

Finally uploaded my webreports stuff to sourceforge.

WinCVS was no help, but Cygwin did the trick.

2003-05-04T11:11:00.000Z

Migrated to the New Blogger.

2003-05-04T11:10:00.000Z

The Wiki is growwing up nicely. JSPWiki is my current favorite. Even managed to integrate it with our web reports stuff.

But be warned! Wikis ar addictive!

2003-04-30T13:46:00.000Z

Finally put some text on the WebReports SourceForge page. Not much, but slightly better than nothing..

2003-04-30T00:18:00.000Z

I've installed two Wikis the last two days, JSPWiki and UseMod.

Both instalations where unbelievable painless. It took me 10 minutes to have UseMod running on mu Linux box, and that includes download, gunzip and tar. It took me 15 to launch JSPWiki on the NT box, and another 5 to redo the page template.

UseMod is extreamly compact: a single perl script, with an optional config file.

JSPWiki, as you surely guessed, is a JSP app. Basicaly, all you need to get it on the air is to drop the WAR in your WebApps dir, assuming you have a Tomcat (or equiv) running. It has neat features, like breadcrumbs, file upload and page preview. It is also totaly trivial to massage its UI: all you have to do is edit ViewTemplate.jsp, add any html you want to it - and its there.

2003-04-02T11:09:00.000Z

Solved the VNC problem. Turned out I fell into my own snare: being over-diligint, I've set IP filtering on the NT server box. Just had to add the VNC port to the list..

2003-04-02T11:08:00.000Z

And isn't it just about time you took a trip to the ?

2003-04-02T10:34:00.000Z

Well, if you haven't converted to Linux yet, SuperVillain should convince you.

2003-03-26T10:51:00.000Z

Been having some VNC straits. Installed TightVNC on our three XPs and the old NT. It works fine, client & server, on XP. But we can't connect to the server running on the NT box.

Luckily, we have George, our good mate from BUlgaria. He recommended RealVNC. Well, we'll give that one a try on the NT!

2003-03-24T15:18:00.000Z

Bill Kendrick has just announced development of TuxPrint. Bill's other Tux4Kids projects sound great. The only one I've tried so far is TuxPaint, and my 6 yr old son loves it!

2003-03-21T12:41:00.000Z

On to LaTex editors (Claus Dethlefsen's sollution rellies on Emacs).
Here are the three I found so far:

My Own Little LaTeX-Editor By Filip Heremans

TeXnicCenter

WinShell

2003-03-20T15:53:00.000Z

The wxwindows tex2rtf seems to work (occasionaly, sort-of). Well, at least it installed well & managed to convert 2 out of 5 docs. But in any case, I've decided to simply go back to Tex. Since I haven't used it in ages, I needed to get some tools. I asked Claudia for recommendations, and she pointed me to Claus Dethlefsen's "LaTeX, Emacs etc." page. Looks like Claus did a good job there.

2003-03-18T13:32:00.000Z

This is great:
http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/finalists/

2003-03-17T13:12:00.000Z

One more step in running roundup, an open-source issue tracker. Got it to run, sort of. Now all I need is to get my mail server going...
(oh, and the nice boys from IS to open a port in the firewall)

2003-03-17T00:42:00.000Z

Well, the latex2rtf from sourceforge didn't impress me. simply didn't work.

2003-03-16T01:25:00.000Z

Open source your mind

A big cheers to oswd, or "open source web design"! May many more follow in their light!

2003-03-16T01:21:00.000Z

What?

One of the things we're keen to have at WebLabs is automatic translation. I knew of google's translate service. Just learned there's also one called babelfish from good ol' AltaVists. Nice thing about that is that you can add

to your page, and you have the service on it. Try it:

2003-03-16T01:12:00.000Z

Ghosts from the past

My M.Sc. advisor, Jeff Rosenschein e-mailed me, suggesting we try to publish some of the work I did as journal papers. Wow! says I. Only problem is, back in those dark days, we used to write stuff in LaTeX. Now, what do a I do with a bunch of tex files?

Well, here's a couple of Tex2Rtf programs I found:

http://www.wxwindows.org/tex2rtf/index.htm

https://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/

I'll post my impressions when I have any.