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diff --git a/content/posts/2001-02-06-snow-man-is-the-man.html b/content/posts/2001-02-06-snow-man-is-the-man.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af8a753 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2001-02-06-snow-man-is-the-man.html @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +--- +date: "2001-02-06T18:31:00Z" +title: SNOW-MAN IS THE MAN! +--- + +Uh... Okay, long story short, Pablotron has a new home, @Home is a +steaming load, and <a href="http://www.snowman.net/">Snow-Man</a> is +my new best friend. He's now hosting both Pablotron and Pablotron +DNS. I'm so grateful I even put his logo below my sidebar ;-). +It might take a few more days for the DNS changes to propagate +everywhere, but pablotron.com appears to work correctly for most +people. +<br /><br /> + +As for the site, most things should still work correctly. The tetrinet +rankings will be broken for a bit while i rewrite the CGI, but I'm not +going to rush that. AFAIK, noone even plays tetrinet anymore :). Also, +the uptimes and stats aren't going to update for a while until I +rewrite the scripts. +<br /><br /> + +The new version of <a href="/projects/gibmeet/">GibMeet</a> includes +plugin support. A few reference plugins are included with the +newest tarball, and you can grab the ones made by +<a href="http://www.richlowe.net/">Richlowe</a> and +<a href="http://koudelka.nerdland.org/">koudelka</a> +right <a href="/projects/gibmeet/plugins/">here</a>. You'll need +<a href="/projects/plib/">PLib</a> version 0.1.2 or better ain order +for GibMeet to compile. Speaking of PLib, a few people have reported +problems compiling PLib; specifically, undefined references to db. +I'm not actually using the db wrapper at the moment, and I'll probably +disable it in the next version of PLib (pending a rewrite). For now, +do the following to disable the db stuff: + +<br /><ul> +<li>remove pdb.o from the line beginning with OBJS= in plib/plib/Makefile +<li>remove the text "-ldb" from plib-config.c +</ul> + +Before anyone emails me about it, yes i know autoconf could take care of +this madness for me. I'll get around to it :). +<br /><br /> + +As for development stuff. The CVS version of PLib has a new dynamic +resource loading API. In it's simplest form, you simply do a +<i>data = p_resource_get("urltype://url_parameters", &len)</i> and +PLib will find the correct dynamic library, load it, and pass your +URL off to it. Note that the URL isn't limited to things like http +and ftp. I plan on adding support for things like SQL and XML, so +you could do somethign like +<i>PList *list = p_resource_get("mysql://pabs@s3kr3tp4ss:db.pablotron.org:\"select 1-5 from News where (Title like '%snow-man%');\"", &len);</i> +or whatever . Anwyay, this is still a ways off; right now I'm working +on the ftp, http, and shttp modules (all of which will probably be +implemented with <A href="http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/">libcurl</a> +(the only sane http library I've found -- thanks +<a href="http://www.darkrock.co.uk/">[Bb]o[wr]is.*</a> ;-) ). +<br /><br /> + +Oh yeah, <a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/">Tom Gilbert</a> renamed +<A href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/gom/">Gom</a> to +<a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/gozer/">Gozer</a> due to a name +conflict (I need to do the same soon with PLib. :-( ). For those of +you using <a href="/projects/rollober/">Rollover</a>, you'll either +need to upgrade to CVS, or edit the rollover.pl script manually (just +chnage all occurances of gom to gozer and you should be okay). +<br /><br /> + +Okay, that's all for now. Thanks again to +<a href="http://www.snowman.net/">Snow-Man</a> for helping me out. +If you have the time, don't forget to drop into #e (on +<a href="http://openprojects.nu/">OPN IRC</a>) and wish +<a href="http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/2596/">Schmoo</a> a +happy birthday. + |