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  • Visitor Screen Width Analysis

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    Unique Visitors Data from Google Analytics on unique visitors to https://www.uaf.edu/water or recently edited pages in the “triage” style pages. The witdh is pixels of screen resolution. Data from screens with the same width but varying heights were combined. This represents all visitors between 21 Sept 2009 and 21 October 2009 Width (pixels) Visitors (unique)…

  • Mail Server Fixed

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    changed the php.ini file to read: sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/postfix -t -i postfix actually changes over the “sendmail” binary I think. There is a test doc up at: https://beta.ine.uaf.edu/mailTest.php it contains a simple time function and mail() call. Just edit the email address there to have it send to you. I test this out and it…

  • You Tube Policies

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    Background This is a followup to https://lasota.engr.uaf.edu/2009/08/05/research-needed-into-policies-and-legalities/ and had  Sandra asked me to look into posting video on the web. UAF Video now CEM has already posted some student videos at  https://www.youtube.com/user/UAFEngineering. Other UA YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/uaaengineering UAA engineering https://www.youtube.com/user/uafairbanks more hip, better editing, recent videos https://www.youtube.com/user/AlaskaSeaGrant https://www.youtube.com/user/uafsom https://www.youtube.com/user/uafcrs (showing actual inventions like the pinbone…

  • Compiling php 5.3

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    Source: php.net 5.3.0 latest stable build of 5.3 branch ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/php5 –mandir=/usr/share/man –infodir=/usr/share/info –sysconfdir=/etc –with-config-file-path=/etc –with-zlib –with-zlib-dir=/usr –with-openssl –without-iconv –enable-exif –enable-ftp –enable-mbstring –enable-mbregex –enable-sockets –with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql –with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs Error: checking libxml2 install dir… no checking for xml2-config path… configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation. After a yum install libxml2-devel.x86_64: configure: error:…

  • Apache Startup Script

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    The CentOS startup script for apache is located at /etc/init.d/httpd. I backed this file up to /home/lasota/saved/httpd_d/httpd and replaced it with: #!/bin/bash # # apache # # chkconfig: # description: Start up the Apache web server. # Source function library. . /etc/init.d/functions RETVAL=$? APACHE_HOME=”/usr/local/apache2/” case “$1″ in start) if [ -f $APACHE_HOME/bin/apachectl ]; then echo…

  • MySQL configure script error

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    Following the install directions for MySQL source distribution: shell> groupadd mysql shell> useradd -g mysql mysql shell> gunzip < mysql-VERSION.tar.gz | tar -xvf – shell> cd mysql-VERSION shell> ./configure -prefix=/usr/local/mysql shell> make shell> make install shell> cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf shell> cd /usr/local/mysql shell> chown -R mysql . shell> chgrp -R mysql . shell> bin/mysql_install_db –user=mysql…

  • MySQL Version 5.1.39

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    There are a number of email lists associated with MySQL. I have signed up for the Announce list. It’s purpose is to announce new versions of MySQL as well as important critical updates. There are a number of additional lists for MySQL here: https://lists.mysql.com/

  • Web UI Design Blog

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    https://theresaneil.wordpress.com/ and  https://designingwebinterfaces.com/posts Good ideas.