Techie

We just realised that through an unfortunate series of events, I had removed a line that Arnaud had added in the documentation on the videoconference installation process. It was missing the part where you download the dokeos-conference.war file and copy it to your webapps directory.

I've had to review the SCORM content migration from 1.6 to 1.8 just today, and really, this is not something I'm enjoying.

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
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I wanted to write this post for two reasons:

1. to remind everybody that we (the Dokeos company) continue to vaguely support this mode because we understand it is still more practical when installing it on a free/cheap hosting server
2. to help you avoid the tricky issue in the installation process when deciding which main db name to use

As the first point is pretty much complete, I'll go straight to the second point. In the Dokeos installation process, the database configuration screen asks you for a prefix and a database name.

Yes, we have our first annoying bug in Dokeos 1.8.5.

There is a common problem appearing when installing a new Chamilo portal that I have seen a lot recently, so I thought I'd share the details here.

The problem

When installing Chamilo on a cPanel-kind-of-hosting, it might happen that you complete the installation, but when you want to enter a newly-created course, an ugly error appears.

There's some new stuff on the net in terms of code analysis.

As I was looking into reducing the size of a video, I felt upon this wiki page, which proved super-useful:

HOWTO Convert video files

Note: As commented by one reader, xvid is not really divx though, but changing the title and the url of my post 6 months later would just add to the confusion. Sorry about that, I wasn't meaning to confuse anyone, and I thought in good fait it was the same (the results are the same for me though: very high volume loss for very little quality loss).

It might seem kind of weird to mention it, but I had somewhat of a big scare when Secunia sent us an e-mail entitled "Security Patches in Dokeos 1.8.5". If my fears had been right, it would have meant that we would have needed to re-package 1.8.5 only two days after the official release.

I've just finished generating the new API documentation for Dokeos 1.8.5. It's meant for PHP developers only. http://www.dokeos.com/doc/dokeos_api_1.8.5/