[Alexandria-list] Website

[Joseph Method]

Just out of curiosity, I received a CueCat (since lost) with my WIRED
subscription. Is that where everyone else got theirs?

And in seriousness, is there a barcode scanner that we can recommend
through the website?

On 4/10/07, L.C. Karssen <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Good work on the website! It looks very refreshed and well structured.
>
> I noticed that the features page states that the CueCat is supported.
> I've been waiting for that for a long time. If I remember correctly, the
> CueCat was/is only supported in a 2.4 kernel by a long since
> abandonwared driver (cf. e.g.
> http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.apps.alexandria/2006-01/msg00038.html and
> http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.apps.alexandria/2006-01/msg00002.html). Using
> the CueCat with a 2.6 kernel without driver results in strange window
> behaviour, apparently because it sends an Alt-F10 keycode
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@xfree86.org/msg07517.html, last
> reply).
> It might be that USB CueCats are supported, though. I only have the PS/2
> version.
>
> So we might want to remove the CueCat statement from the web page until
> the userland support is really there.
>
>
> Lennart.
>
> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:40 -0400, Joseph Method wrote:
> > An update on this. I just converted the site at
> > www.alexandria-projects.org to a RadiantCMS site, preserving Steven
> > Knight's menu layout and css. I chose Radiant because it will allow
> > any interested developers to edit the website through-the-web, down to
> > html structure and stylesheets. The only thing that it doesn't allow
> > for is image and file uploads. Another reason I chose Radiant is that
> > they recently released a gem showing off an 'extensions' system
> > similar to Django's component architecture. I plan to use this
> > extensions system to integrate  other rails applications into this
> > system (that's why the wiki link doesn't go anywhere).
> >
> > Anyone who would like access to the admin system just send me an email
> > and I'll hook you up.
> >
> > On 4/1/07, Joseph Method <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The new website design by Steven Knight is up at
> > > www.alexandria-projects.org. This is a domain that I purchased
> > > (someone is squatting on alexandria-project.org) and the site is being
> > > served from a virtual server that I own (running Ubuntu Dapper). What
> > > do people think about this? Will it be okay to serve the project
> > > website from this server if access to it is kept relatively open? I
> > > don't want to change the project website on Rubyforge to this domain
> > > until I get some feedback on this.
> > >
> > > Also, Steven Knight is our newest bonafide developer. We're always
> > > looking for more.
> > >
> > > --
> > > -J. Method
> > >
> >
> >
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-J. Method