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In our business, probably like in every type of business, you stumble once in a while on companies that do the same kind of thing as you do, but that do it so badly that it puts the reputation of your specific sub-indutry in danger. Sadly, these businesses often survive for a long time repeating their mistakes but frequently renewing their clients base.

I'm often faced (locally) to the question about our videoconference tool... It is true that a lot of videoconference tools have appeared recently, even in Open-Source, so we don't really have a unique marketing argument to defend it. The initial idea behind the videoconference was that, at a time where DimDim and other videoconference tool were still closed-source or didn't even exist (in mid-2006, that is), we wanted to offer a videoconference tool as a complementary tool for Dokeos, so we asked Sebastian Wagner, a German developer, to do this for us.

For the sake of remembering myself of what I did, not being an expert in JavaScript coding but still needing to fix that placeholder bug in Dokeos, I'm writing this part as a real log, not really a well-presented article, but I'm still publishing it in case it would help someone else. In Dokeos, we use FCKeditor. The first problem that comes to mind is that I don't know exactly which version.

Although not very reliable per se, the following article, written in 2006, has an interesting set of comments (part by me) about statistics about Moodle, Blackboard/WebCT and Sakai, and Dokeos of course. http://zacker.org/higher-ed-lms-market-penetration-moodle-vs-blackboard-vs-sakai

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/150).

I can often be useful to track down disk usage in Maildir format.

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/148).

This article describes commonly used commands in mail queues management with Postfix 1.x. It probably applies for posterior versions, but has not been tested. To show the message summaries in the current queue:

$ mailq

To flush the queue (i.e. force delivery):

$ postqueue -f

This article was first written in July 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/146).

OpenOffice.org does not seems to be able to print several pages on one, at first glance.

This article was first written in July 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/143).

Here is how to set manually speed and duplex parameters on network interfaces in Sun Solaris. Adding the following code (comment lines start with '*') to you /etc/system file and rebooting will put your hme type interfaces to 10 Mbits/s Half-Duplex: * * set hme driver modes * *set hme:hme_adv_100T4_cap = 0 *set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap = 1 *set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap = 0 *set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap = 0 set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap = 1 set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap = 0

Akelos is a PHP Framework designed to be as close as possible to the Ruby on Rails framework, but in PHP. When developing a web application with Akelos in a group of several developers, and until an installation procedure has been put in place, you might want to manually install the application from the sources. This document will take you through the step of doing just that.

This article was first written in June 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/131).

You should always avoid to send e-mails to many recipients at the same time with their address in the To: or Cc: field. The reason is that if you use Bcc:, any recipient will not be able to see other's e-mail address.

Why would you want that?

Because many viruses on the Internet these days know how to go into your e-mail archives and search for the e-mail addresses that you can see too.