Christopher Warner - Latest Comments

Re: Ekiga on OSX

Polkipop — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:19:05 -0000

I also need Ekiga on OS X!!! And I know I'm not alone. I'm forced to use OS X some times, and I NEEEEEEEEED Ekiga! Who do I talk to?

Re: Plone vs. Django

christopherwarner — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:01:45 -0000

We are talking about making comparisons between two different things. What is the difference between a car and a plane? They overlap in terms of transportation but that's it. If someone is genuinely asking what the difference between Plone and django are, that is a different question than what I was addressing above.

Noting how annoyed you must be. Critical thinking and connotative skills should be recommended for whatever it is you are doing. It is in this vein where you have failed and as such, were dumber before reading and even more-so afterwards. I'd wish you good luck, but it probably won't matter.

Re: IPV6 is a failure - stop wasting everyones time.

gabrielsamfira — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:23:58 -0000

Sorry to dig up a very old post, but I felt the urge to contribute with a comment. The fact of the matter is that something needs to be done. IPv4 had reached it's end of life and to guarantee a functional global network we need something that allows for growth.

IPv6 is a well defined, functional standard. The fact that you had trouble with pypi on IPv6 does not mean that its crap or that it's wasting anyone's time. It just means that admins should do their jobs better. To you, the end user, all of this should have been transparent. The fact that it was not is a blemish on the record of whom ever maintains pypi.

There are plans for transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6, one of which is offering dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6). You can do this WITHOUT having to replace equipment. A firmware upgrade should be enough (unless its a piece of really really old equipment). My ISP has done so already and I'm writing this from a laptop connected on a dual stack network (at home). At this point, my home network has more public IP's then the entire IPv4 network, 2^32 times over :).

The way the internet works now, it is impossible to extend IPv4 without breaking compatibility. NAT was a band-aid that was meant to prolong IPv4's life span until IPv6 was ready. The only long term solution is to gradually replace it. Eventually ISPs will have to comply and implement dual stack, at which point IPv4 will just naturally fade out of existence.

The fact that IPv6 has been delayed so much lies solely on the shoulders of ISPs. Routers have been capable of using and routing IPv6 for a long long time, but unfortunately, the general mindset so far has been: "As long as it still works, don't touch it", which if you ask me is bullcrap.

So to make a long story short, don't blame the tool, blame the user.

Again, sorry for digging up such an old post :).

Best regards

Re: IPV6 is a failure - stop wasting everyones time.

christophwarner — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:49:21 -0000

I'm not sure if you read my last comment or you just felt the need to rant for whatever reason. That aside, can you at this time explain the exponential increase of IPv6 acceptance? For the last two years there has been an overall increase of approximately 0.1% and that is in actual deployment of IPV6. So if it takes approximately 10 years to get about 0.3% overall deployed addressing what makes you think there is going to be some ground swell mass movement to ipv6 just because there are no more ipv4 addresses?.

Next can you feel free to explain this flow like wine statement. The no more dynamics ip statement? All of this reads like a truly uninformed pontificator because you read somewhere that ipv6 was good.

What about actual deployment?
What about the incompatibility issues?
What about the massive amount of work involved that still hasn't been done?
What about the transition process for machines, routers and others that have been working fine for two decades?

I'm sorry, but you've addressed none of these issues except to rant about more logical spacing, wine flowing and years of testing of the ipv6 protocol which is simply not the issue. IT professionals trained on IPV6? Surely you jest.

Re: IPV6 is a failure - stop wasting everyones time.

Xezlec — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:27:13 -0000

We can come up with the next logical progression? Come up with? Now? IANA is OUT of IPv4 addresses. That's it. We're in the endgame now. IPv6 is supported by the current state-of-the-art routers, OSes, applications, and about 30% of ISPs, not to mention the large number of IT professionals who have now been trained in the subject, the years of testing that were done on 6bone, the rollout of DNS AAAA records and everything, all the time and effort spent on advocating the transition, convincing China to wire its universities for IPv6, etc. A whole new internet has been deployed, across hundreds of countries, at enormous expense. Google and CNN and dozens of other websites have made their sites IPv6-accessible, and dozens more (Facebook, etc.) have pledged to by Q4 of this year. Millions of pieces of new hardware and software have been deployed. It took more than 10 years, but we finally did all that stuff and now if you look at the graphs, the number of IPv6 hosts is finally increasing exponentially (starting in 2007). All the pieces are finally in place and things are finally happening after a ridiculous amount of pain and suffering. And NOW you want to throw out the spec and start over? And you think this unspecified, utopian vaporware of yours can be deployed on hundreds of millions of disparate systems in time for IPv4 RIR exhaustion in August-ish?

Get real. There are, at this point, exactly two choices that don't involve sorcery:

1. Carrier-grade NAT and the horrific dawn of a two-tiered internet without P2P or home servers.
2. IPv6.

Yes, the design and planning of IPv6 was an unmitigated disaster. I, too, was one of those screaming at the monitor when I first read those RFCs way back when. But what's done is done. 64 bits is a lot of space; we'll have more efficient routing and the addresses will flow like wine. No more dynamic IPs, either. Of the two options, it is obvious which one is correct. We can whine about the past, or we can grow up, accept it, and worry about the future.

As for the future, how exactly would abandoning IPv6 advocacy help us? Can simply giving up render a world mired in NAT more bearable in some way that I'm failing to see?

Re: IPV6 is a failure - stop wasting everyones time.

christophwarner — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:29:31 -0000

Yes, we can absolutely say no to moving to IPv6 and instead come up with the next logical and functional progression of the IP protocol. No one is saying that it doesn't need to be IPv6. However there are architectural and progression problems with IPv6 that simply have not been addressed and it seems like they will not be addressed. The problem is to simply stop wasting everyones time and working towards a functional and usable plan based on marketing etc.

Re: IPV6 is a failure - stop wasting everyones time.

Braddigan — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:10:47 -0000

I like stumbling upon comments like this. They can't simply say no to IPv6 since IPv4 has stretched the internet about as far as it can go. Within the next few months we should see the last few million IPv4 addresses assigned and then there can't be anymore. Yes ISPs have kind of failed to get IPv6 rolled out as quickly as they should and it could very well be ugly when the end comes but you can't just say no to moving to IPv6, it simply isn't logical.

Re: Relations and FacultyStaffDirectory for Plone4

christophwarner — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:40:59 -0000

I didn't use any of that as it's not necessary but if you are using those it's probably a boiler plate code problem somewhere with fields or archetypes.

Re: Relations and FacultyStaffDirectory for Plone4

jeb6 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:03:45 -0000

Thanks Christopher. That sounds great. One thing I would like to try first, perhaps saving you and me some time. I am using ArgoUML 0.30.2 and ArchGenXML 2.5. I was wondering what versions you tested your patch with. If they are different, I will try testing them here with the same versions to see if the problem still occurs.

Thanks,

Joe Bigler
Joe

Re: Relations and FacultyStaffDirectory for Plone4

christophwarner — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:28:08 -0000

I'd have to take a look at your setup to see what was going on realistically. I can only eyeball and suspect something is wrong with the way a field and/or old relationships via uuid are interacting. That's just an off the cuff analysis however. However if you want to setup a meeting time to go over this email me.

Re: Relations and FacultyStaffDirectory for Plone4

jeb6 — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:00:18 -0000

Hi Christopher,
Ran into a problem with Relations in Plone 4.0. I installed your patch and was able to add the product. It appears to be picking up all the information from my product, but gives me this error. I pasted the traceback to http://pastie.org/1158724
The last line says ValueError: No ruleset with id 'Assessment'
There is a rule with id of Assessment. I tried reinstalling my product and Relations, but still get the same error. It is showing in the Relations.xml file, which I pasted at http://pastie.org/1158764. I worked with Eric Steele on this. He has made use of Relations in FacultyStaffDirectory. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get it to see rule. Any suggestions? This worked in Plone 2.5.
Joe Bigler(jeb6@psu.edu)

Re: Relations and FacultyStaffDirectory for Plone4

christophwarner — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:02:45 -0000

Glad I could help and glad you guys are moving from 2.5 to 4.0

Re: Relations and FacultyStaffDirectory for Plone4

jeb6 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:47:46 -0000

Hello Christopher,

Thanks for the patch for Plone 4 relations. I am using Windows and this is the first time I have used a file like this. I used a feature in Tortoise SVN called "Apply Patch" and it worked. We have a product created with Plone 2.5. It makes use of the Relations product. Eric Steele was the programmer on the project. It is used by the College of Education for their accreditation with various accrediting organizations. We are currently preparing it for the next evaluations by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and it is planned for usage for the next evaluation by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

The application is complete, but we would like to migrate it to Plone 4 when it is released. I had contacted the current project manager for the relations product, but he didn’t have time to fix the product for Plone 4. I appreciate your taking the time to create this patch. We can now proceed with the migration.

Joe Bigler
Web Administrator
College of Education
Penn State University

Re: Products.membrane patch

christophwarner — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:54:31 -0000

I'd really love to help but i'm quite busy. You should be able to just apply the patch against latest Products.Relations. This is the membrane patch..

Re: Products.membrane patch

jeb6 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:20:46 -0000

Hi Christopher,
I am planning on using your patch for Products.Relations in Plone 4. Could you tell me how to install the patch or point me to a link that explains patch installation? I am coming from Plone 2.5 and am just getting used to buildout :-)

Thanks,

Joe Bigler

Re: Products.membrane patch

christophwarner — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:05:53 -0000

Yeah.. actually I have no idea where I discussed this. I've done a triage of my email, searched dev.plone.org and I just have no idea where I posted this. In any event glad it's working for you; feel free to refer or post the patch to Rob Miller.. I believe he's current maintainer on my behalf as I don't readily have my head wrapped around the issue. I know why I did it it's just I'd have to refresh my memory on the details.

Re: Products.membrane patch

ralph4d — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:29:01 -0000

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for providing the patch! My plone4 instance starts again :)
Do you have the link for the issue of membrane for me? Maybe we can help getting it in the next release.
Kind regards,
Ralph Jacobs

Re: Creating a Content Type for Plone 3.x

christophwarner — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:24:28 -0000

Yah, it's not recommended practice to put a space in the content type name. This howto needs to be updated for Zopeskel for people following directions and getting problems it's most likely because you need to make the locales directory. I'll update this documentation for Zopeskel

Re: Creating a Content Type for Plone 3.x

jesuisse — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:49:36 -0000

A great intro, thanks. Another small problem that might come up: If you enter multiple words for the name of the content type (say "Digital Video" instead of "DVD"), the installation upon starting the Plone instance will fail with a KeyError. The solution seems to be to manually change the key in the config.py ADD_PERMISSIONS-dictionary from 'Digital Video' to 'DigitalVideo' and things will start working.

Re: Creating a Content Type for Plone 3.x

christophwarner — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:15:20 -0000

Right, so i've updated the documentation with notes on how to remedy this and you're welcome. Let me also note for commenters who have sent me email or have tried to contact me via IRC that I am indeed writing more documentation and tutorials in regards to Plone.

Re: Creating a Content Type for Plone 3.x

ivan.price — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:50:26 -0000

one little thing.. when i tried this using Plone 3.3 the command "../../bin/paster addcontent -l" resulted in a "Command 'addcontent' not known" error.. i had to follow the instructions here:
http://www.mustap.com/pytho...
(adding the paster_plugins.txt file) file to get the command to work properly.

thanks christopher for the great howto !

Re: Ekiga on OSX

christophwarner — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:15:55 -0000

Let me know if you want help; i'm in..

Re: Ekiga on OSX

crazyheinz — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:23:15 -0000

I am also interested in this, i will probably make this a project for my traineeship.

Re: Plone, so where is it useful? - EXAMPLE #1

christophwarner — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:33:23 -0000

Yeah I'd need to know more about Endeca and how it works but basically what i'm talking about is what it does before that data is presented to Endeca. What Endeca does with the data I'm unconcerned with.

So how does the data get into Endeca? If it's running a cron job that scans the entire filesystem all of the time; We agree, that's pretty silly :-)

Re: Plone, so where is it useful? - EXAMPLE #1

developer_girl — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:12:02 -0000

The way I understood your post is you can't use the event system you only wish you could. I agree if its built in then definitely use it, but thats not the case. You would actually want to run this job in the endeca pipeline, so it runs the dump before it needs it rather than in cron. Try dumping the whole XML file and at the same time run top on your machine. Look at the resource usage.