Interoperability

Before I forget all about it, I want to make a note of what happened, what was good and what could be improved for the PHP Day event we organized jointly with Mobile Bridges, another software development company in Lima. The schedule was the following (translated to English for the purpose of this article):

• 5.00-5.10pm: Welcome words
• 5.10-6.00pm: High availability, efficiency, efficacy and interoperability in PHP - Humberto Bejarano, RPP
• 6.00-6.50pm: Flash with PHP - Alexander Quevedo, Mobile Bridges
• 6.50-7.40pm: Increasing the coverage of PHP solutions i

A long time ago, I developed a loginshare script for a customer, that I think can now be shared with the community. I don't know much about LoginShare, and the truth is that their forum doesn't tell me much either, but based on a similar script, I developed the following script to use Dokeos 1.8.5 with it. Just in case it would be useful to anyone... (it certainly will be more useful this way than abandoned in one of my directories).

This article is incomplete and was first written in June 2006
for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/340).

It could happen that you badly need to use a newer kernel module than what is present on your existing Linux kernel (2.6.x), but you do not want to upgrade the whole kernel or rebuild it from scratch, because:

• you cannot or don't want to reboot afterwards
• you don't have the original source anymore (and your kernel was patched) or you don't want to download and install them, but you do have the kernel headers handy
• o

This article was first written in February 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/328).

Extract from the Linux CIFS Client homepage: The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later. Popular servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.

This article was first written in August 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/286).

In a networked infrastructure, with many workstations needing to print (or generate PDF or PS files, or send faxes), CUPS may help a lot, especially with its automatic network-browsing features. Let's see how to set that up.

CUPS Server

First, you probably want to setup a server to share printers.