blather_on_your_computer anne-girl is there any possible-for-someone-who-is-not-uber-hackerish way to setup a happy blank blather from the source code on one's compy so that... it might be cool to use it as a crazy dynamic journal-type thing or something? doesn't grok databases 041121 ... u24 if you install apache and mysql, you should be able to get it running without too many headaches. I'm working on a tutorial about setting up apache, mysql and php on a windows box. I'll post a link here if/when I complete it. The setup will also support PERL. 041121 ... u24 in fact, indigostar.com/microweb.htm might be able to help you. I'm not sure how limited the free version is. 041121 ... u24 * it doens't have to be on a CD. 041121 ... anne-girl bleh... mysql's massively huge for my miniscule hard drive and my happy little SQLite is feature-deprived so much for that 041121 ... DannyH If you do, U24, please let me know. I'd owe you one. 041122 ... u24 anne-girl; seriously? what kind of spec are you running? mysql should be fine on even vaguely up to date boxes.. dannyH: I'll write it as soon as I get a few hours spare on our home computer (Linds' coursework kinda takes priority) :-) 041122 ... u24 anne-girl: check out free-webhosts.com/webhosting-01.php you might be able to find someone that will allow you to run perl and mysql for free (if you're lucky, that is) 041122 ... anne-girl well, i got most of it working... sql database and stuff... but the cgi thing is angry at me - i made cgi-bin/blather a symlink to blather.pl... but it tells me "whatever/blather?random" doesn't exist grr 041201 ... u24 Wamp tutorial. perl setup not yet included. if you want perl, go to perl.com ;-) http://www.puremango.co.uk/cm_wamp_97.php 041204 ... anne-girl nah, i had perl... just managed to neglect to setup a server... and now the server thing tells me " Can't locate /home/sage/blather/bin/config.ph in @INC (did you run h2ph?) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /opt/monkey-0.8.2/cgi-bin/blather line 8. when i hit the "blather" button or whatever line 8 of file in question doesn't mention /home/sage... and if i delete sporadic blank lines so that line 8 becomes line 7, it still complains about line 8 is probably doing something stupid again 041204 ... anne-girl solution: you're looking at the wrong file. duh. 041204 ... anne-girl yay, it works, thanks u24! *happy* the only annoying thing is that sometimes for some sporadic reason it takes up 90% of my cpu until i kill the process, but yeah 041204 ... u24 yeah, the code for blather is very ineffecient, re-writing html and all. it would be better if they set up apache to recognise .html and a perl file, and created blathe_name.html, which contained perl code to pull out all the entries from the db. in fact, would that be any more effecient? no, I don't think it would. never mind. 041205 ... u24 PS: much props to you for settin up PERL, I keep meaning to learn it properly, as it is faster than PHP, but coupled with my ongoing project for world domination, it keeps getting put off. 041205 ... anne-girl meh, getting perl was pretty much a matter of saying "apt-get install perl", i believe not so strenuous :) 041205 ... p2 whoa if i wasn't already married i'd hafta hunt down anne-girl and i mean that in the most non-creepy way possible (as non-creepy as a decade+ age difference can get i suppose) 041206 ... u24 hang on, what OS are you running, anne-girl? debian? (just wondering why you needed a Wamp tutorial) I guess the config is... no... no it's not. please end my confusion. 041209 ... anne-girl i think i was just being confusing... I'm actually a bit fuzzy on what a Wamp tutorial is, heh Yeah, some debian-based thing that I pretend is debian 041210 ... anne-girl ah, it's one of those blasted acronym things... right 041210 ... u24 kewl. i just managed to get win2k dual booting with suse. it's odd, I've been wanting to get linux on my puter for ages, and now I have, I find myself sitting there thinking "well.... this is pretty..." and not really knowing what to do with it. I need to learn C. 041211 ... anne-girl yeah, i was thinking that might be a good thing to learn over the holidays... programming would be a useful skill I just like the fact that i can mess with it more than windows, it's so much more fun... 041211 ... u24 I used to know a little c and c++, but after using PHP for years and years, the knowledge has somehow leaked from my mind. I also want to learn perl. I think it's quite like C. at least, it's more like C than PHP. well that rambled. 041212 ... anne-girl yeah.. i wanted to learn java then c then java then php then, er, maybe perl or ruby then c again a couple of times but i didn't really know where to start 041213 ... u24 I think C is a good language; most other languages are very similar to C. But even the ones that aren't have the same basic syntax. I reckon you could find some pretty good C guides online. 041214 ... falling_alone blather seems so different on someone else's computer. 050301 ... It 's Fun... 050301 ... 12xk Each "Point" wrapped and wired / wireless around_and_across the Cosmic Space is a Computer... 050301 ... OOps... what_a_fuss!!! 050301 ... falling_alone blather on a mac was the most beautiful sight to behold. 060208 ... meta meta 060208 what's it to you? who go blather from