Setting up MediaWiki

A default install of MediaWiki will allow anyone to read and edit.
Adding these lines into LocalSettings.php will allow only logged in users to read/edit:

$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createtalk'] = false;

Furthermore, adding the following will allow only sysop to create accounts:

$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = true;
$wgWhitelistRead = array( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "-", "MediaWiki:Monobook.css" );

See http://ericsantiago.typepad.com/eric_santiago/mediawiki/index.html

Developing add-on for Thunderbird

Introductory document
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions

Find info regarding developing Mozilla extension here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_development
(e.g., install "Console2" extension to view Jscript errors)

<a href="DOM
The XML User Interface Language (XUL)
Thunderbird: DOMming Around
XMLHTTP notes: abort() and Mozilla bug
Traditional Ways of Tree Traversal
Thunderbird extension development hell
Firefox Extension Development Tutorial :: Overview

Indonesia dan Tagalog

Ini kata2 yang sama antara bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Tagalog.

Indonesia Tagalog
minum inum
gunting gunting
nangka nangka/langka
kambing kambing
balik balik
dinding dinding
kanan kanan
sayang sayang
mahal mahal
murah murah
takut takut
aku ako
simpan simpan


OpenWorkBench troubles

I have not been able to run OpenWorkBench on my WinXP Home.
I just saw a new post in the forum saying that in WinXP Pro the problem can be solved by running it as Administrator. Unfortunately it still does not work on my WinXP Home.
I tried on Vista Ultimate, even the install failed with "Internal Error 2739". Some googling revealed that doing "regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\jscript.dll" may solve the problem. The info was not specifically for OpenWorkBench but it solved installation problem. But then OpenWorkBench could not start, giving error message regarding JRE not present. I installed "Java Runtime Environment Version 6 Update 1" from java.com, this solved the problem.
Now OpenWorkBench runs on my Vista machine, but not on my main machine, i.e., WinXP.
And for the first time I saw it running: it's not that impressive...

Redmine on FreeBSD

First get ruby's tarball.
Then do "./configure; make; make install"
Then install gems as follows:

 ruby setup.rb

Then install rails as follows:

gem update
gem install rails --include-dependencies

Then basically follow this basic installation steps:
http://www.redmine.org/index.php?s=install
(getting ruby via SVN is recommended on ruby site... so do the following svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine)

But there will be iconv related error when running rake (rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV="production" and so on).

Change directory to /ext/iconv inside ruby's tar ball directory, then do the following:

$ ruby extconf.rb --prefix=$HOME/app --with-iconv-dir=/usr/local
$ make
$ cp iconv.so /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-freebsd5.4

This will elimiate iconv error.

Uncomment this on config/environment.rb

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'

References:
http://www.imasy.or.jp/~garsl/td/?date=0509
http://www.machu.jp/diary/20041004.html#p01

As the Deer

Pardon the coughing and Rika's voice in this recording...

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after Thee
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship Thee

Chorus:
You alone are my strength, my shield
To you alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship Thee

You're my friend and you are my brother
Even though you are a king
I love you more than any other
So much more than anything
(Chorus)

I want you more than gold or silver
Only you can satisfy
You alone are the real joy giver
And the apple of my eye
(Chorus)

Writing iCal

iCalendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

iCalendar Validator
http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/

To identify values that contain human readable text:
(http://drupal.org/node/61830)
* For double quote use: DQUOTE
* For a comma use: \,
* For a colon use: ":"
* For a semicolon use: \;
* For a back-slash use \\
* For a new line use \n or \N