2008 January | FLM

Installed apache jMeter

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Installed Apache jMeter. First got an error about not finding a gcj lib but after configuring the proper java install with: update-alternatives --config java everything worked like a charm.

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Installed EasyEclipse

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Installed LAMP version of easyEclipse.

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Edited Wiki Moodle

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Added wiki entries for moving a Moodle and for upgrading a Moodle. Things to remember are e.g. Moving use admin/replace.php to replace old urls Upgrading backup database backup datadir set theme to default check customisations

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Compiz on Debian KDE

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Damn, tried installing compiz on Debian KDE, should be easy but no success yet. Followed the instructions on this site: repository of shame. Fck, didn't work.

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HTML editor gone?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

On one of our servers the HTML editor seems to be gone from Moodle. Checking how to fix. Hmm, strange, probably there is some user setting which is set that html-editor cannot be used. Because after setting $usehtmleditor = 'Gecko'; //can_use_html_editor(); in course/editsection.php the html-editor could be used. The function can_use_html_editor() is defined in moodlelib.php and checks the global config settings for htmleditor and the user settings. Tried to set ...

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Upgraded Client Moodle 1.9

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Upgraded test environment of client with dedicated server to Moodle 1.9. set theme back to default downloaded latest 1.9 beta copied test env to backup moved new code to test env chown of new source tree upgrade in browser copied theme files all big success

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Added print rule to questionnaire

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Should be able to enter page-break-after and page-break-before elements in stylesheet to arange printing. However, it does not work great for the questionnaire module as there is terrible nesting of tables, divs and other elements. Moreover, table cells don't have their own class so it's very difficult to get the ...

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RRD tool – Server Monitoring

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Found that a server sent a mail to admin account every 5 minutes. I think those are sent by rrdtool which is run from crontab. For now commented out rrdtool entries in crontab. So we should check a good alternative or use RRDtool. Anyway setup a server monitoring tool for our ...

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Install Debian on HP laptop

Friday, January 4th, 2008

today I got my laptop so started to install Debian. Of course, after a smooth install, the xserver didn't work so I installed the proprietary driver from the ATI website: apt-get install debhelper libstdc++5 module-assistant bzip2 ./ati-driver-installer-8.32.5-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg /ati-driver-installer-8.32.5-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/testing dpkg -i *.deb module-assistant prepare module-assistant auto-install fglrx here I got an error that the ...

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