Timberline Employee Blog

qmail in some circles has had a bad rap because of its overly restrictive licensing policies and possibly its punctuation problem. Overly restrictive? Yes, it could only be distributed in source form. In order to use it you must compile it yourself. You could not distribute it compiled form and you couldn’t distribute patched sources for qmail.

Daniel J. Berstein recently made a public announcement that qmail, and the rest of what he has written and proviced to the public, is now placed in the Public Domain.

Watching the video I get the feeling that it is a reactive protest to other freely distributive licenses such as BSD and the GPL varriants. Whatever the reason, this means that all Linux projects like CentOS and Fedora can now distribute qmail without any licensing problems.

Now projects like QmailToaster and Dag Wieer’s RPM repository can now distribute compiled rpms instead of src.rpms.

WordPress 2.3 now has built in tags. Tags are similar to categories.You’ll need to have these installed and running.
WordPress 2.3
Tag Suggest Thing

Tag Suggest Thing by the author of Ultimate Tag Warrior will query Yahoo for tag suggestions. This is easier than trying to come up with tags yourself and type them in.

At http://richgilchrest.com/how-to-add-wordpress-23-tags-to-your-current-theme/ we learn how to add a tag cloud to your theme. There are two suggested places this would be good at. As a widget using Execphp, or directly in your themes code.

If you are using execphp you would add in a simple line of code that looks like:

<?php wp_tag_cloud(’smallest=8&largest=36&’); ?>

For more options see the WordPress document. (smallest, largest, unit, number, format, orderby, order, exclude, include)

The other way to see a tag cloud is to edit your theme directly. You can add it to each post, or add it to a side column. To add it to each post you will edit your themes index.php and single.php. And add code like the code above.

If want a tag cloud in a side bar you would add this code to your themes sidebar.php.

<?php if ( function_exists(’wp_tag_cloud’) ) : ?>
<li>
<h2>Popular Tags</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_tag_cloud(’smallest=8&largest=22′); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php endif; ?>

If your theme is widget ready, consider using the tag cloud widget instead.

So The SCO Group has filed Chapter 11

Click here to see what your SCO stock is worth now

Does this mean the end of lawsuits against Linux or pieces thereof? I don’t think so. Linux and its licensing system represents a fundamentally different set of thinking from the corporate world. For some Linux is a belief system. Personally I like it and wish more companies supported it for day to day operations in user-land. My server closet is full of Linux in backbone operations.

The suit by SCO against Linux was more of a puppet show run by bigger players than SCO. It was set up in a win-WIN situation for these puppet masters. Win 1, only SCO or Linux is out of the picture. WIN 2, both are out of the picture. Somehow it only polarized the Linux fan base by martyring Linus T. with only minimal overall effect on SCO which was already setup to get itself out of the corporate picture.

Any guesses on the next round?

Download Shoretel Web Dialer Here

Using these tiny scripts you can dial your Shortel phone by simply clicking a web page link. I believe Shortel is selling something a product like this. All I am asking for are links back to this page or to www.timberlinedealerships.com.

See install.txt for full notes. I am using Shoretel 6.1 on a XP workstation on IE7 and it works fine for me.

What this program does for you is registers tel: and callto: so that they can be dialed straight through to your shoretel deskphone.  It also adds right click dialing to selected numbers from web pages.

Please do not link directly to the file on this server.  Instead link to this web page.

One thing that makes great pdf documents is a hyperlinked table of contents.  OpenOffice is a good tool to do this with.  The OpenOffice 2.2.1 documentation is not clear on how to do this so I will explain it some more and it should make sense.

First you want to have some content in OpenOffice writer with labeled content sections. So if you had a document that looked like this:

Section 1

This is all about what is in section 1.  I could write more but you get the point.

Section 2

This is a bit more in depth of what we touched upon earlier.

First highlight ‘Section 1′ and change its format to Heading 1.  Do the same for ‘Section 2′ also changing its format to Heading 1.  Position your cursor where you want your table of contents. Now click Insert/Indexes and Tables/Index and Tables… Click the Entries tab.

For each heading level you want hyperlinks in your table of contents do the following.  Remember earlier you used Heading 1 for a format type. For Heading level 1, click on 1 in the Level field which is probably already selected. Next to the level field is the Structure area.  Find the button marked F.  Click in the blank area before this button, between the F button and the button before it. There should now be a flashing cursor where you clicked. Click the Hyperlink button. Now find the area inbetween the F button and the button that follows it and click there. Then click Hyperlink again.

You should now notice three things. You should have two new buttons surrounding the F button in the Structure area. If you have preview checked on, you should also see that Heading 1 is now underlined and blue indicating that it is a hyperlink.  Go ahead and click ok to create/save your table of contents.

Now when you export your document as a PDF file make sure Tagged PDF is checked. Also make sure you save the document in OpenOffice or some other file format other than PDF so you can edit it later.  A PDF file is a compiled file that is not designed to manipulate after it has been created.  It is designed so that it looks the same on multiple platforms.