<kiwistar> i'm haveing trouble adding in a link on my wiki page and was wondering if somebody could help me here if possible please.

<Plug> Sure, whats the link supposed to be?

<kiwistar> a link to google search engine

<Plug> I think most people can find that themselves :)

<karora> Presumably to a particular search...?

<kiwistar> well I found the ubuntu website thru google. I'm just haveing trouble trying to get the links to show properly on the wiki

<karora> Is it MoinMoin?

<karora> If it's MoinMoin then the format is [http://some.link.blah/blah.blah A description of the link]

<kiwistar> No wonder it was not working like.

<kiwistar> Thanks karora it worked, i now know where i went wrong, i was adding in extras

<karora> NP

<kiwistar> karora you're in welliewood

<karora> Si.

<karora> Although normally spelt as "Wellywood" :-)

<Plug> I thought it was "Silicon Welly" now

<karora> Heh. Hadn't come across that one, but I might use it :-)

<kiwistar> I know but wellie (for the weather) is much better

<kiwistar> interesting

<karora> Not today. Jandals today. :-)

<kiwistar> bugger fine weather in the capital. quick take a photo thats a rare day indeed ;-)

<karora> http://gallery.mcmillan.net.nz/v/NZTravels/Wellington/Zoo/dscf0732.jpg.html

<karora> There we go :-)

<kiwistar> I must say though that it is much windier than rainer in the capitial. man my spelling is crap

<kiwistar> nice photo

<karora> An old one. Proving, perhaps, that fine weather is not that frequent. Of course Palmy is the windiest city in NZ.

<kiwistar> really, as wellington is 3rd on the list just a head of perth, and palmy is not ahead of wellington as the most windiest citys in the world

<kiwistar> according to a website my dad came across

<karora> I guess a list with an international focus might not even mention Palmy. There's a reason for all of those windmills on the hills next to it though...

<kiwistar> true, and i can't wait to see all the windmills on the hills around makara to start providing power to wellington and the hutt valley

<karora> Yeah. We could stick a windmill on our roof and power stuff. We get a lot of Wellington's wind where I live in Porirua. Because the prevailing wind is Northerly, and we look right into it...

<karora> Some days: http://gallery.mcmillan.net.nz/v/Landscapes/Weather/dscf0378.jpg.html

<kiwistar> i was not far away i lived in churton park then moved to j'ville

<karora> Of course it's all worth it on the nice days: http://gallery.mcmillan.net.nz/v/Landscapes/Panoramas/sunset1.jpg.html

<karora> :-)

<kiwistar> very nice on catching the sunset

<ajmitch> afternoon karora :)

<karora> Afternoon. How are you?

<ajmitch> doing alright

<ajmitch> what's new up in the capital?

<karora> Did you go to the Ubuntu conference at Google HQ?

<ajmitch> I did

<karora> Good stuff?

<ajmitch> it was quite an interesting & busy week

<karora> I've done a few Debian conferences now, but not an Ubuntu one yet.

<karora> Extremely exhausting fun. Lotsofadjectivesallruntogetherinonebigsuperword.

<ajmitch> the conference being a developers summit, so it was all focused on discussing & drafting specifications for feisty

<karora> Right. So quite focused on that?

<ajmitch> completely so

<ajmitch> & the drinking afterwards, of course

<karora> Still, I'm sure there was some good opportunities for more distant looking things.

<karora> Who mostly ran the conference?

<ajmitch> sure, it's not always just the next 6 months

<ajmitch> canonical, just hosted by google

<karora> Yeah, but as in which Canonical person was most in force leading discussion?

<ajmitch> both sabdfl & mdz were the main ones pushing things along

<ajmitch> various topics were left to the respective developers

<karora> Anyone else much in evidence?

<ajmitch> it wasn't really a case of 1 or 2 people leading, since canonical has a lot of smart people

<karora> Sure do.

<ajmitch> they just had to set the scheduling properly so that things get discussed

<ajmitch> there's not a lot of micromanagement

<karora> I've met most of the core people at Porto Alegre, Helsinki and Oaxtepec.

<ajmitch> ok

* ajmitch wonders if catalyst would be interested in an itinerant core developer :)

<karora> ... it depends :-)

<ajmitch> heh

<karora> Hey. You know something about Opensync?

<ajmitch> a bit

<karora> Someone asked me if I could make my CalDAV server do that stuff.

<karora> but I've never had a device that did it.

<karora> So never looked into it at all.

<karora> What would it mean for an http based service to do that?

<ajmitch> last I heard caldav was on the opensync todo list

<ajmitch> that was a few months ago

<karora> Right. Well, I have this CalDAV server ... http://sf.net/projects/rscds/

<ajmitch> it does groupDAV also?

<karora> No. Isn't that a kind of a dead-end spec?

<ajmitch> I'm not sure if groupDAV is simply a subset or a simplified version

<karora> I though groupDAV was an evolutionary dead end. The CalDAV spec has (finally) been accepted by IETF as a proposed standard though.

<ajmitch> hard to track some of these specs at times

<ajmitch> alright

* ajmitch doesn't see a caldav plugin for opensync at the moment

<karora> Quite possibly not complicated, but I really don't know how Opensync works. At all.

<ajmitch> it's fairly simple - sync engine & plugin architecture, I can't recall if it can work without a daemon or if the lib just talks to the sync engine

<karora> But the device plugs into the computer, and does stuff locally - it doesn't get stuff from remote things at all?

<karora> Like, could it fetch a .ics from a remote URL?

<ajmitch> yes, it could

<ajmitch> plugins can do whatever they need, over whatever transport they support

<karora> OK. But a plugin would need to be written to fetch the .ics

<ajmitch> I'm not sure how much translation plugins do of the data

<karora> OK. Thanks. That clarifies a bunch of stuff anyway.

<karora> You could probably write a plugin that used cadaver to talk to the remote repository.

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<karora> I'll try and encourage Andrew Ruthven to do so, since he's the one who wants it... :-)

<ajmitch> seems there are both sync & format plugins

<karora> OK. I've pointed Andrew Ruthven at it now. Hopefully we'll see something in a week or two :-)

<kiwistar> hey ajmitch, i've just updated my wiki page on ubuntu, and it says that an e-mail has been sent off to you regarding i guess the updates i have done to it????

<ajmitch> yes?

<kiwistar> any reason why that happens. I'm just curious thats all

<ajmitch> because I'm one of these people that subscribed to .*

<karora> OMGSPAM!

<karora> Really, you subscribe to .*?

<ajmitch> yes

<ajmitch> that is what I said :)

<kiwistar> ok. thanks. my brain has just gone to sleep

<kiwistar> morning all

<ibeardslee> morning

<kiwistar> hows it in your direction today

<ajmitch> hi

<kiwistar> morning ajmitch

<kiwistar> question to all: I'm going to be installing a mysql server onto my desktop. Is there any other files that I need to install as well. as i'm going to be useing mysql with the database part of openoffice??

<karora> kiwistar: You probably need the JDBC driver for MySQL - I think OOo tends to want to use JDBC - libmysql-java is the package.

<kiwistar> karora: Does that need to be installed before or after i've installed the mysql server??

<karora> Either / or - you can also use it to connect to non-local MySQL too, so it can install separately.

<kiwistar> ok. I've been wanting to do this for a while, but never took the step till now. hope all goes well

<kiwistar> 1st ubuntu-nz desktop by moi is just about finished. just had to share that with everybody

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