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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3080299 | Sep 19 02:26 |
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| TechrightsBN | @linux@joindiaspora.com: IBM proffers $1bn for Linux development on Power http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/17/ibm_power_cash_investment/ | Sep 19 02:26 |
| TechrightsBN | -> www.theregister.co.uk | IBM proffers $1bn for Linux development on Power • The Register [ http://ur1.ca/flnj5 ] | Sep 19 02:26 |
| schestowitz | "Nice but we should keep in mind that that is $1B for Linux on IBM hardware." | Sep 19 02:26 |
| schestowitz | Migrating to Moodle.. | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > Please provide a comparison of the data that is available to the | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > columns and format that *should* exist or are missing entirely. James | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > can then reformat the CSV appropriately. | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > Keep it concise, easy to understand, but as complete as appropriate. | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | The example inputs for this Moodle module ("Sample data"), which are documented and officially provided at the bottom of http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Bulk_course_upload , do not work. For instance, sortorder is not a recognised field name. This is not surprising as this module is not yet part of the core of Moodle (scheduled to be incorporated in Moodle 2.6.x or later). That's a code-related issue. But there are data-related issues | Sep 19 03:27 |
| TechrightsBN | docs.moodle.org | Bulk course upload - MoodleDocs [ http://ur1.ca/floks ] | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | and these are ones we can deal with ourselves, even at present. | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | I have dealt with the given (client's) input file using spreadsheets software, namely Calc. There are duplicate rows. Some lines correspond to the same courses. The attached files show examples. Moreover, there are some lines that seem garbled -- they cannot even be opened as part of a spreadheet as the number of allowed columns is exceeded. Another issue is, field names sometimes appear at the middle of the input files. In some | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | cases (several lines) crucial fields like "summary" are missing (in PSN7 and JCRT for instance), which proves problematic. In order to import some data and get past data verification stages I have pruned/reduced the input to have just the following fields: | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | fullname,shortname,idnumber,summary | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | In summary: | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Duplicates need to be eliminated | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - The number of columns in all lines must be the same | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Summary for each line is obligatory (other fundamental fields, such as "fullname", are also required) | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Field "sortorder" should be removed | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Field "category" would be nice to accommodate (it is mostly unused at present) | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Spurious lines that do not conform to the above rules should be amended or removed | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3080756 | Sep 19 06:39 |
| TechrightsBN | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: the #nhs showsthe true cost of #microsoft http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-system-10bn | Sep 19 06:39 |
| TechrightsBN | -> www.theguardian.com | Abandoned NHS IT system has cost £10bn so far | Society | The Guardian [ http://ur1.ca/flrkk ] | Sep 19 06:39 |
| schestowitz | "This DataCenter in Utah will be essentially Nuke proof" | Sep 19 06:39 |
| schestowitz | "...not "this" but The. I'll pull something on it ...amazing how completely incompetent fed. Gov. Will always be" | Sep 19 06:39 |
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| schestowitz_mob | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3066657 | Sep 18 19:47 |
| TechrightsBN | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: by the mantel... | Sep 18 19:47 |
| schestowitz_mob | "Is it true that this image sucks up and vanishes pointers on Windows?" | Sep 18 19:47 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3080299 | Sep 19 02:26 |
| TechrightsBN | @linux@joindiaspora.com: IBM proffers $1bn for Linux development on Power http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/17/ibm_power_cash_investment/ | Sep 19 02:26 |
| TechrightsBN | -> www.theregister.co.uk | IBM proffers $1bn for Linux development on Power • The Register [ http://ur1.ca/flnj5 ] | Sep 19 02:26 |
| schestowitz | "Nice but we should keep in mind that that is $1B for Linux on IBM hardware." | Sep 19 02:26 |
| schestowitz | Migrating to Moodle.. | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > Please provide a comparison of the data that is available to the | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > columns and format that *should* exist or are missing entirely. James | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > can then reformat the CSV appropriately. | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | > Keep it concise, easy to understand, but as complete as appropriate. | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | The example inputs for this Moodle module ("Sample data"), which are documented and officially provided at the bottom of http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Bulk_course_upload , do not work. For instance, sortorder is not a recognised field name. This is not surprising as this module is not yet part of the core of Moodle (scheduled to be incorporated in Moodle 2.6.x or later). That's a code-related issue. But there are data-related issues | Sep 19 03:27 |
| TechrightsBN | docs.moodle.org | Bulk course upload - MoodleDocs [ http://ur1.ca/floks ] | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | and these are ones we can deal with ourselves, even at present. | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | I have dealt with the given (client's) input file using spreadsheets software, namely Calc. There are duplicate rows. Some lines correspond to the same courses. The attached files show examples. Moreover, there are some lines that seem garbled -- they cannot even be opened as part of a spreadheet as the number of allowed columns is exceeded. Another issue is, field names sometimes appear at the middle of the input files. In some | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | cases (several lines) crucial fields like "summary" are missing (in PSN7 and JCRT for instance), which proves problematic. In order to import some data and get past data verification stages I have pruned/reduced the input to have just the following fields: | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | fullname,shortname,idnumber,summary | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | In summary: | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Duplicates need to be eliminated | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - The number of columns in all lines must be the same | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Summary for each line is obligatory (other fundamental fields, such as "fullname", are also required) | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Field "sortorder" should be removed | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Field "category" would be nice to accommodate (it is mostly unused at present) | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | - Spurious lines that do not conform to the above rules should be amended or removed | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 19 03:27 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3080756 | Sep 19 06:39 |
| TechrightsBN | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: the #nhs showsthe true cost of #microsoft http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-system-10bn | Sep 19 06:39 |
| TechrightsBN | -> www.theguardian.com | Abandoned NHS IT system has cost £10bn so far | Society | The Guardian [ http://ur1.ca/flrkk ] | Sep 19 06:39 |
| schestowitz | "This DataCenter in Utah will be essentially Nuke proof" | Sep 19 06:39 |
| schestowitz | "...not "this" but The. I'll pull something on it ...amazing how completely incompetent fed. Gov. Will always be" | Sep 19 06:39 |
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| schestowitz | > I get a lot of pages about techrights when nothing seems to be wrong, although | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | > there is occasionally a real problem. Often I get pages that the website is | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | > unreachable but when I check it the website is almost always fine. This morning | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | > I am getting disk full pages and just got a high load page. The load is coming | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | > down from 6 now but / is 98% full. Can I put your r@schestowitz.com email | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | > address on the list of emails to get these notifications? That way you will be | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | > aware of issues as soon as they happen also and perhaps can help me | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | > troubleshoot some of these annoying false positives.\ | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | This morning I upgraded Wordpress. In the process I backed up to the wrong partition. | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | Yes, please send the noise and signal my way. I don't want you distracted by this. :-) | Sep 20 00:57 |
| schestowitz | Thank you so much again for everything you do !! | Sep 20 00:57 |
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