Fixing a NSLU2

I'm running an NSLU2 server with the default linksys firmware. It serves up a USB hard drive to my home network. It was failing sending small files in Windows with the message "The Network name was no longer available". I just disabled UPnP support on the NSLU2 and then file transfers starting working. I found this tip here http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/DroppingConnections.

Quick install CMS

Quickly install most cms stacks in less then 5 minutes for testing. I installed drupal in < 5 minutes on my windows laptop for playing. I have no idea if their stacks are production worthy or even upgradeable but for testing an a new app its really nice. Most installers are for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

http://bitnami.org/stacks

* Infrastructure
* LAMPStack
* MAMPStack
* RubyStack
* WAMPStack
* Blog
* Roller
* WordPress
* Bug-Tracking
* Mantis
* Redmine
* Trac
* CMS
* Alfresco
* Drupal
* Joomla
* KnowledgeTree
* ECM
* Alfresco
* KnowledgeTree
* Forum
* phpBB
* Poll Management
* Opina
* Portal Server
* Liferay
* Wiki
* DokuWiki
* MediaWiki
* eLearning
* Moodle

Putting it all together - Fun with web 2.0

This is a re-post of mine from here http://www.geekbrownbag.com/blog/topher/2008/jan/12/putting-it-all-together-fun-web-2-0


For a dynamic site I'd want it to be as easy as possible to manage data from multiple sources, and manage content with a team of people but never actually have to go to the site to manage content and I want to use the tools I already use on a day to day basis namely google reader, blogger, google calendar, and possibly google documents and flickr (although I don't use flickr currently). Plus for brownie points I don't want to have create special accounts on those sites, I want to use my existing accounts just use labels on the content specifying the topic.

If we did this on geekbrownbag I wouldn't have repost this same blog entry both here and on my own website so both communities can read it. I'd just put a label on the post for geekbrownbag, and then bang it would be both places.

Here are some tricks I've learned

Blogger allows label specific RSS Feeds

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=53336&topic=12455

So to subscribe to my RSS specific feed from my normal blog a cms could be subscribed to

http://eltopher.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/geekbrownbag

Goggle reader allows re-feeding label specific RSS items

http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?answer=70656&query=pu...

Any interesting article, I could just tag it geekbrownbag and it would instantly show up on the main page.

Plus if the CMS software can't handle multiple RSS Feeds for one category like the main page not a problem seed the feeds through a feed aggregator which sends them out as one combined rss feed.

Using software called reblog and its re-feed component
http://reblog.org/refeed/README.html

Calendar Integration

Google calendar allows multiple authors
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=36598&ctx=si...

Google calendars can be embedded into a website
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=41207

Dynamic Sites

I'm looking for a good CMS software package which can do the following

1. Display multiple RSS Feeds into multiple parts of the page
2. Display images Flickr
3. Uses *nix but not java so probably PHP, Perl, Ruby, etc

So far Drupal, wordpress, and Joomla seem to be the main ones I've seen on the web.

I'm also interested in rss feed aggretators which can display a single section with feeds from multiple sources. I don't know if CMS's can do this or if I I need to find a seperate rss feed aggregator like refeed at http://www.reblog.org/refeed/README.html which can aggregate multiple feeds into one, optionally allowing moderation and selection of specific posts to refeed.