UNC Linux Users Group

[dsandif <dsandif AT email.unc.edu>]

Since we'er all here or about, have we decided on the next meeting 
date?, my building is still open to hosting in the same room as before.


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Alan Hoyle wrote:

> As an aside, I recently set up a TWiki instance on www.unc.edu for
> Blackboard internal usage.  It's nice because it uses perl for the
> executables, stores the data in text files (instead of requiring a
> database), and uses RCS/CVS for version control.  It's not publically
> available, but I've tried to document how I went about setting it up
> in that wiki.  There are still a couple of weird things with what I
> did, but it seems to work pretty well.
>
> I use Apache .htaccess files with onyen authentication, for general
> access, and it is internally aware of the authenticated identity (i.e.
> it shows edits as being made by "alanh"), but I haven't tried setting
> up more granular permissions yet.
>
> -alan
>
>
> On 6/16/06, hays AT ibiblio.org <hays AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
>  
>
> > Adam,
> > Just an idea (which are cheap), but how about a wiki instead? What I'm
> > thinking is something that would wind up like the php manual pages, so that
> > users could contribute expansions and variations that worked for them.....
> >
> >
> > --On Friday, June 16, 2006 1:02 PM -0400 Adam Constabaris <adamc AT unc.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Good stuff!  I know it comes up every three months or so, but it sure
> > > would be nice to have some collaborative space where "unofficial" but
> > > helpful documents of this nature could be stored, as a starting point.
> > >
> > > It so happens my day job is maintaining the ITS knowledgebase
> > > (http://help.unc.edu), which is a system for distributed authoring and
> > > publication of DocBook documents.  I'd be happy to take some documents
> > > like Tim's and make them available through help.unc.edu (and elsewhere:
> > > details available upon request), if the authors are willing.
> > >
> > > AC
> > >      
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> > bil hays
> > Network Manager
> > Computer Science, UNC CH
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