#phpgroupware log

This is a partial log of the #phpgroupware IRC channel from Thursday 25th April 2002. You can access the #phpgroupware IRC channel on the irc.openprojects.net IRC server on port 6667.


<t3rmin4t0r> hi
<t3rmin4t0r> seem a long time since I hit this channel
<ajmitch> yeah, same
<ajmitch> i'm in here to worship dtm & fixe :)
<t3rmin4t0r> :)
<ajmitch> see my mail to the dotgnu list?
<t3rmin4t0r> nope, what ?
<Seek3r> dtm?
<ajmitch> just about GNUe stuff
<ajmitch> hi Seek3r
<ajmitch> how's things?
<t3rmin4t0r> hi Seek3r, how's stuff ?
<Seek3r> always busy
<t3rmin4t0r> :)
<ajmitch> t3rmin4t0r: think we should try get more discussions between dotgnu, gnue, and phpgw? :)
<t3rmin4t0r> yes we need to get more stuff b/w each other
<ajmitch> yeah, that's what i posted about earlier
<ajmitch> it's useful that dyfet is a gnue person as well :)
<t3rmin4t0r> Seek3r: it's a long tiem since you said anything on dotgnu ideas
<t3rmin4t0r> or is it just that DotGNU comes out in the open as Pnet  ?
<Seek3r> just been busy
<Seek3r> dotgnu is important
<t3rmin4t0r> yeah, I know ... but the absence of the phpgw comments on developer@dotgnu has been bugging me
<Seek3r> only have so much time in a day. sorry about that
<t3rmin4t0r> ie for aan outsider, phpgw might be the something else
<ajmitch> what do you think of a list for discussing cooperation between projects? cos i know that gnue & dotgnu could share a lot, but don't speak much :)
<t3rmin4t0r> get someone to post some stuff , about how phpgw does XMLRPC,SOAP....
<t3rmin4t0r> whenever the whole webservice coems up
<dtm> Seek3r: hi there
<ajmitch> bbl all :)
<dtm> does phpgw have an official dotgnu liason?  if not, do t3rmin4t0r or ajmitch wish to be that?
<ajmitch> hmm, i don't know enough about phpgw at the moment
<t3rmin4t0r> dtm: you asked da the question !
<dtm> ajmitch: that can be alleviated :)
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: NO
<dtm> :)
<dtm> you guys are the coders!  not me!  sorry!
<dtm> that's definately a coder's domain :>
<Seek3r> I will be the dotgnu liason as I get seperated from Foundstone soon
<ajmitch> ok
* ajmitch actually leaves now :)
<t3rmin4t0r> afaik, phpgw is part of dotgnu right ?
<dtm> Seek3r: haven't seen you here in a long time; hope you're doin ok!
<t3rmin4t0r> Seek3r: I guess that you're the only guys who can finish off the "DotGNU vs Mono" issues :)
<Seek3r> dtm: doing fine. but I was a bit burnt out and got swamped at work
* t3rmin4t0r gets reminded of his exams ......
<dtm> Seek3r: yeah i hear ya
<dtm> Seek3r: so are you still primarily involved with your consulting business?
<Seek3r> no. I work at Foundstone + consulting
<dtm> Seek3r: i lightly shelved my IT consulting and started a new business doing teleconferencing and transcription, http://ambcomm.com
<dtm> Seek3r: url?
<Seek3r> www.foundstone.com
<dtm> Seek3r: and i graduated the SBDC's entrepreneurial training course :)
<t3rmin4t0r> what's all this stuff ?
* t3rmin4t0r hasn't got out of his room for some time
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: what stuff?
<t3rmin4t0r> SDBC ?
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: small business development center, largely funded by the SBA (small business administration, a major federal dept)
<dtm> you should find your local one if you've got an entrepreneurial bone in your body :)
<dtm> they'll save your butt0x
<t3rmin4t0r> nope, got some funny bones as well as some gray cells in the dome
<dtm> oooooh.
<t3rmin4t0r> dtm: BTW , I'm not anywhere near US or Europe
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: cool
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: then that counts you out of the party.  more for me!  ;>
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: where do you work?
<t3rmin4t0r> work ? I'm a student
<t3rmin4t0r> in India :)
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<t3rmin4t0r> dtm: so what do you do in phpgw (just lurking like me ?)
<t3rmin4t0r> hmm...
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<dtm> t3rmin4t0r_lunch: i'm starting to really learn and document it, and use it in my personal and business life
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> ok
* t3rmin4t0r_lunch types with left hand....
<dtm> heh
<dtm> whatcha eatin'?
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> rice as usual ;)
* dtm asks single-handed questions
<dtm> oh heh
<dtm> i eat a lot of Ramen noodles
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> on the other hand..........
<dtm> are you familiar with that?
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> yup, get it sometimes..
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> but as I'm a veggie , I prefer the traditional stuf..
<dtm> wow it's universal :)
<dtm> i see
<dtm> cool
<dtm> do you find that vegetarianism improves your health automatically?
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> never tried meat/fish yet
<dtm> eh?
<dtm> are you saying you've never eaten meat?
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> yup
<dtm> *wow*
<dtm> you're the first person i have ever met who i know can say that.
<dtm> first person i've ever heard of.
<dtm> amazing
<dtm> i bet you eat a LOT of rice :)
* dtm hax0rs some Ramen
* t3rmin4t0r_lunch digs deep into the rce
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> anyway, I'm Portable.NET C# lib lead developer AT LARGE=20
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> have got a patch to commit....
<dtm> hmmmmm
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> bb in a sec
<dtm> i dont know what Portable.NET is
<t3rmin4t0r_lunch> the dotgnu stuff, I'm stuck knee deep in
* t3rmin4t0r_lunch finishes gulping down rice
<dtm> i see
<dtm> so dotgnu names its stuff in M$ nomenclature then?
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<t3rmin4t0r> the "dot"GNU is a pass at .NET :)
<dtm> yeah i gotcha :)
<dtm> i was there when it was formed but that's about all i know
<dtm> i was in the freedevelopers.net mailing list and in irc at that moment
<t3rmin4t0r> Ok
<dtm> so i dont know much
<dtm> that was when i met chillywilly, mainly in terms of getting him to stop antagonizing everyone in the channel  ;)
<dtm> and now he's my bestest buddy
<t3rmin4t0r> chillywilly has called me a l33t h4x0r more than once :)
<dtm> hah
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: does dotgnu focus on any form of distributed reputation?
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: or is it just on distributed anonymous authentication?
<t3rmin4t0r> all sorts of stuff , it's typically ambigous
<t3rmin4t0r> just like .NET is :)
<t3rmin4t0r> we're tackling Passport , C#, COM+ , "Webservices" etc...
<t3rmin4t0r> phpgw is the Webservices part
<t3rmin4t0r> in addition to stuff like jabber-rpc (which is in the process of adoption)
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<dtm> i see
<dtm> oh really
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: so is there someone on the dotgnu team who thoroughly understands phpgw's engineering?
<t3rmin4t0r> Seek3r was on the dotgnu list for some time , as was Jengo
<Seek3r> dtm, yes I will be back again soon. maybe 2 more weeks
<t3rmin4t0r> also we've had skeeter during the IRC meet-a-thon last month
<dtm> Seek3r: cool, good to see ya
<dtm> Seek3r: i dont know if you knew this, but i wrote to jehreg recently and he said he dropped out because he took a fulltime job.  :/
<dtm> Seek3r: fyi
<Seek3r> I know
<dtm> ok
<dtm> says he's doing ok though, so that's what i needed to know :)
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: cool
* t3rmin4t0r slaps t3rmin4t0r around a bit with Tux, the Linux Penguin
<t3rmin4t0r> oops
<t3rmin4t0r> dtm: this blasted irc client has gots menus everywhere
<t3rmin4t0r> I click on one and it slaps me !
<dtm> heh!!
<dtm> well.. it _is_ called "Bersirc"  ;)
* t3rmin4t0r misses Xchat :(
<dtm> so that is to be expected ;)
<dtm> i have xhcat
<t3rmin4t0r> yup it went Berserk :)
<dtm> why not use xchat
* t3rmin4t0r in father's office to save on phone bills
<dtm> uh huh
<dtm> so what's the problem?
<dtm> xchat is available for almost any platform
<t3rmin4t0r> no administrator access
<dtm> you need that to install an app?
<dtm> what OS is this
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* t3rmin4t0r gets xchat
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<ttyp0> hiya
<ttyp0> i have som problems setting up my phpgroupware, and need urgent help
<ttyp0> please
<ttyp0> :-(
<ttyp0> i've tried everything
<ttyp0> but my fileserver, my forums, my ftp and my chat doesn't work
<ttyp0> appart of that, email doen's seem to support POP-3 servers
<ttyp0> only works with IMAP
<ttyp0> and I tell it to work under POP3 server
<ttyp0> but it laughs about me
<ttyp0> x-(
<ttyp0> anyone can help me for a moment please?
* t3rmin4t0r is just a lurker ....
<t3rmin4t0r> could ya , please explain the php version , pop server name/version and any useful info ?
<t3rmin4t0r> it's not like I can help, but I might get a lucky guess :)
<ttyp0> ahahahaha
<ttyp0> ok
<ttyp0> :-)
<ttyp0> phpgroupware is 0.9.12
<ttyp0> i didn't know about 0.9.14 version
<ttyp0> the download site is a little difficult to understand
<ttyp0> :-)
<ttyp0> php version is default in slackware 8.0, i dont know what it is
<ttyp0> 4.0.5 i think
* t3rmin4t0r marks php4
<ttyp0> mmmmmm
<ttyp0> pop server version...
<ttyp0> wait
<ttyp0> pop server is pop3d
<ttyp0> but i don't know version number
<ttyp0> default in slackware 8.0
<dtm> ttyp0: you need to promptly discard phpgw 0.9.12 and get 0.9.14 RC3
<dtm> ttyp0: see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/phpgroupware
<t3rmin4t0r> :)
<ttyp0> yes
<ttyp0> is what i'm doing rightnow
<ttyp0> thx for all
<ttyp0> :-)
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<dtm> Destroy Robinson Family^W^Wphpgw 0.9.12!!
<ttyp0> i'll try it
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<dtm> ttyp0: and use the email app known as felamimail
<dtm> ttyp0: and upgrade from pop3 to imap and dont look back
<ttyp0> hahahahah
<ttyp0> this is what i'd like
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<ttyp0> but i have no time to do all things
<dtm> ttyp0: true  :/ sorry
<ttyp0> so i must go slowly
<dtm> hey you should find someone who does have time to do everything in the world, and ask them to do it  :/
<dtm> send them my email address too
<dtm> we'll hook up
<Milosch> they do exist, they are called employees
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: know anyone good and omnipotent?
<dtm> Milosch: lol
<ttyp0> Milosch: i'm trying phpgroupware for me, at home, not at work
<Milosch> and? :)
<ttyp0> and i cannot get employees
<Milosch> hmmm
<Milosch> they do exist, they are called pets?
<dtm> ttyp0: you could pay someone to work at your house!  and there are other methods of reinforcement, both positive and negative
<t3rmin4t0r> dtm: yup , someone name Rhys Weatherly :)
<dtm> ttyp0: blackmail, entrapment, innuendo, awe-inspiration, and backrubs
<dtm> these are all tools used by the wily phpgw admin.
<dtm> Tricks of the trade, my friend!
<ttyp0> i'm working as sysadmin during the morning, after that i go to university till 9:00 and after that i have to go home and have dinner. After that i usually go in front of my computer, and stay there for hours and hours... but i have thousands of things to do for school and work, so i cannot make all changes dtm said in one only day
<ttyp0> i'm sorry if i'm not leet...
<ttyp0> thanx for all
<dtm> ttyp0: :)
* ttyp0 is away: working
<dtm> ttyp0: well if you can do all that then you're leet
<dtm> ttyp0: good luck buddy
<ajmitch> alrighty then
<t3rmin4t0r> ajmitch: y're back !
<ajmitch> i is back!
<ajmitch> t3rmin4t0r: we gotta sorta out where some of these gnu projects overlap :)
<ajmitch> since i can see gnue stuff could be useful in the backend of webservices, rpc, etc
<t3rmin4t0r> is it possible to conduct a group IRC meet on this (coz , it isn't U or me decidinh it)
<ajmitch> yes, it shoudl be
<t3rmin4t0r> I saw the gnue stuff, but haven't got it out (due to bandwidth woes)
<ajmitch> i saw dyfet (GNUe person & DotGNU lead dude) on irc the other day
<t3rmin4t0r> ok , 'the connection' ?
<ajmitch> yeah, he's the GNU Bayonne maintainer (which is part of GNUe :)
<t3rmin4t0r> and he wrote the stub for the SEE which we aren't using :)
<ajmitch> norbert & barry also know how i feel about this, i'll try & get hold of them too
<ajmitch> yep
<ajmitch> i haven't seen nb or fitzix around for awhile, tho
<ajmitch> i guess it'd mainly be chillywilly, derek, & i representing GNUe (plus dtm if he wants to tag along :)
<ajmitch> not sure who'd be on the dotgnu team
<t3rmin4t0r> nb has been awfully busy these days (or so he says)
<ajmitch> yeah, i can understand that
<t3rmin4t0r> the rest of coreteam ?
<ajmitch> i guess it'd be the webservices people & other interested dotgnu members
<ajmitch> yeah, if you can get hold of them :)
<ajmitch> arun is on coreteam, right?
<t3rmin4t0r> yes
<ajmitch> myrddian was on irc the other day (missed him by 15min or so :( )
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: i conducted and documented the original meeting between DCL, phpgw, and gnue  http://home.smuckola.org/phpgw_gnue_interoperability.html
<ajmitch> and i don't think rhys cares too much - it's not really his area
<t3rmin4t0r> myrddian is alive ! (LOL)
<ttyp0> help!
<ajmitch> ah, cool bananas dtm!
<ttyp0> on 0.9.14 version
<ttyp0> on login.php
<ttyp0> i get this error message
<ttyp0> Warning:  Unable to load dynamic library './xml.so' - ./xml.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in /assl/sites/outty/html/phpgwapi/inc/xml_functions.inc.php on line 32
<ttyp0> what about it?
<ajmitch> mmm useful, what OS is this on?
<Milosch> ttypo: ok, you can comment that out
<ttyp0> Slackware Linux 8.0
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: it was relatively brief and inconclusive except that for the ideas that phpgw should be ported to gnue, and/or phpgw should work alongside gnue via something like xmlrpc/soap.
<Milosch> ttyp0: the problem is not being able to trap that call, thank php
<ajmitch> dtm: there was meant to be agreement on a common gnurpc lib
<dtm> ttyp0: which exact version of 0.9.14 did you get?  where'd you get it?
<dtm> ajmitch: ok
<ttyp0> i got it from phpgroupware.org
<ajmitch> dtm: dude, i cannae resolve home.smuckola.org
<ttyp0> and version is 0.9.14 RC3
<dtm> ttyp0: ok
<Milosch> ttypo: comment that line
<dtm> ajmitch: :-/
<Milosch> dtm: he would see it on every page, if he could get that far
<ttyp0> Milosch: i'll do
<ttyp0> let's try....
<dtm> ok
<Milosch> ttyp0: too bad you do not have xml, but...
<ajmitch> dtm: got an ip for me to look at that page on?
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: but furthermore, gnue intends to at least create its own core groupware=20
<ajmitch> dtm: ya sure?
<t3rmin4t0r> dtm: will it be over HTTP ?
<t3rmin4t0r> or like M$ Exchange ?
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: because gnue's architecture is apparently highly robust and complete, because they have much higher level enterprise needs than phpgw's current workgroup-oriented target, and because phpgw is tied to implementation specifics such as php
<dtm> ajmitch: yeah
<dtm> ajmitch: according to mdean and derek
<ajmitch> damn, we need to get this crap sorted out before everyone goes off in their own incompatible direction :)
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: gnue has, or intends to have, a UI-independant driver system
<dtm> ajmitch: yeah no kidding, but i believe mdean and derek will do so
<ajmitch> yeah
<dtm> ajmitch: but what you're doing right now is a good effort
<dtm> this is needed apparently
<dtm> :)
<ajmitch> it's like herding cats
<dtm> conjuring ideas
<dtm> ajmitch: ohhhhh not *nearly* as bad as it could be!
<ajmitch> thankfully
<dtm> ajmitch: it's not like herding cats because these guys are willing and able to be herded
<t3rmin4t0r> yeah , these are only 0.9 kittens now
* ajmitch praises the Lord
<dtm> ajmitch: it's more like herding dogs  :)
<ajmitch> get in behind, ya mangy mongrel!!
<dtm> ajmitch: at least we have mdean and derek at the helm, who are senior enterprise deployers
<dtm> ajmitch: they'll crack some heads whenever they feel like it
<ajmitch> yes, and thankfully easy to get along with (ie, don't have big egos :)
<dtm> ajmitch: i've been slightly facilitating dialogue between them and i'm gonna hafta suggest a meeting
<dtm> ajmitch: true gentlemen, they are
<ajmitch> excellent
<ajmitch> you've been doing most of what i've been whinging about then :)
<dtm> well i've been touching on it
<dtm> i actually tried getting mdean on the phone this weekend but he moved :)
<dtm> dont have his number
<ajmitch> hehe
<dtm> he's been offline heavily
<t3rmin4t0r> so how should thsi reflect in dotgnu & phpgw ?
<dtm> he reset his life priorities
<dtm> t3rmin4t0r: dont know about dotgnu; i'm way out of that loop
<ajmitch> we shoudl try & talk about this in the gnue channel so that psu can log it for KC :)
<dtm> ajmitch: oh yeah
<ajmitch> i'm not involved in dotgnu much but still keep in contact
<dtm> one of you guys paste this in there, please, or email it to him
<ajmitch> yeah, will try to
* dtm switches to #gnuenterprise for logging purpose, and invites all interested parties to join
<t3rmin4t0r> and avoid filling #phpgroupware
<ajmitch> :)