IRC log for #brlcad on 20070718

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06:12.12 MinuteElectron brlcad: No, not LDAP for the content. LDAP so that we only use one usertable in the database. Is that correct?
06:20.21 MinuteElectron brlcad: Have you an LDAP server set up yet? Or must I setup once?
06:20.25 MinuteElectron *one
06:27.35 MinuteElectron brlcad: Having a look at the BSD repo there appears to be compiled versions of OpenLDAP, the PHP5 extensions and the apache module. If you are able to or want to install them, but I can eqaully as easily compile it myself.
06:31.34 MinuteElectron brlcad: And apparently MySQL comes with BDB support (removed in 5.1 but you have 4.1.22) so I can either use that or it is porbably better to set up BDB datbase so when you upgrade MySQL LDAP still works.
06:33.44 MinuteElectron brlcad: We are in luck, the FreeBSD port search says they have Berkeley DB. Although I can also compile it if you want.
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06:36.25 MinuteElectron bbl
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10:27.02 CIA-29 BRL-CAD: 03jlowenz * 10brlcad/src/conv/iges/brlcad_brep.cpp: handle trim loop wrapping, i.e. need to close the loop
10:27.28 Laniakea anyone has an idea how to continue on diagnosing the itcl problem on my openbsd?
10:29.16 CIA-29 BRL-CAD: 03jlowenz * 10brlcad/src/other/openNURBS/opennurbs_bezier.cpp: make a note about the broken bezier clipping algorithm
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11:55.16 brlcad MinuteElectron: yes, that's correct .. just checking since something you said made me wonder if you meant for content too -- ldap is either already installed or I can install it if it's not pretty quickly
11:55.26 thing0 hey brlcad
11:55.35 brlcad I thought I already installed BDB for some other reason, but I'll check that too
11:55.37 brlcad howdy thing0
11:55.47 thing0 I am back in Perth
11:55.49 thing0 for a week
11:55.54 thing0 gonna party it up
11:55.57 thing0 just not tonight
11:55.57 brlcad sounds like fun :)
11:56.03 thing0 had to use broadband
11:56.09 thing0 been hanging out for it for SO long
11:56.11 thing0 ;)
11:58.36 brlcad yeah, I get net withdraws
11:58.53 brlcad though I gotta say that I just love having a mildly useful net connection with me all the time now
11:58.54 thing0 getting wireless broadband before I go down
11:59.04 thing0 hehe
11:59.54 brlcad it should be even better when they upgrade to 3G too, though I'm not holding my breath as to when
12:00.29 thing0 it is 3G
12:00.36 thing0 telstra has it now
12:00.40 thing0 180k a second
12:00.45 thing0 I was dumb founded
12:01.31 thing0 but yeah
12:01.34 thing0 bad plans
12:01.42 thing0 20hrs with unlimited downloads
12:01.48 thing0 or 1gb with unlimited time
12:01.53 thing0 $50 AUD per month
12:27.01 poolio mornin'
12:27.13 thing0 morning poolio
12:28.43 brlcad 3G is not really prevalent in the US yet
12:28.52 brlcad next year it should be
12:29.15 brlcad either way, the plan i'm on now is pretty good .. unlimited net for just about 20usd
12:30.06 thing0 WOW
12:30.09 thing0 that is good
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15:49.13 poolio errr?
15:49.50 ``Erik looking for the on switch
15:50.15 ``Erik <-- has all the class and social grace of a... uhh... n/m
15:52.02 poolio heh
15:52.09 poolio ``Erik: where you live in MD?
15:53.31 ``Erik north, near apg/belair
15:56.18 poolio makes sense
16:08.56 MinuteElectron brlcad: Have you been able to check if BDB and OpenLDAP are installed?
16:13.14 MinuteElectron 07:56:09 < thing0> been hanging out for it for SO long
16:13.19 MinuteElectron sorry
16:13.21 MinuteElectron my bad
16:13.45 thing0 I am on 10G for 50AUD
16:13.45 thing0 hehe
16:13.50 thing0 yeah....
16:13.55 poolio I'm on my neighbor's
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16:50.46 IriX64 poolio: http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/current710.png
16:51.22 poolio cool
16:51.48 IriX64 seg faults on attaching to X on startup though had to attach to null for that
16:53.17 IriX64 back to examing stack dump sigh status access violation, where's that coming from
17:14.51 CIA-29 BRL-CAD: 03poolio * 10brlcad/src/gtools/beset/ (beset.c population.c population.h): working crossover and reproduction. implementation works, but is going to need a lot of tweaking.
17:37.44 poolio brlcad: ^^ :)
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18:36.50 brlcad poolio: awesome!
18:36.53 brlcad ~poolio++
18:50.20 poolio brlcad: I've been working for over an hour trying to figure out if it works though
18:50.23 poolio I can't really tell
18:50.28 poolio It has some odd behavior...hard to analyze
18:50.51 poolio The fitness function isn't making enough difference
18:50.56 poolio I need to give the more fit ones a bonus or something
18:52.01 poolio It has this tendency to converge onto a sphere
18:52.13 poolio when the optimal solution is two spheres not touching
18:53.06 poolio In other words, it seems like the fitness doesn't increase at all as time goes on
18:58.45 poolio Hopefully mutation will be a saving grace
18:59.28 poolio seems I've exceeded my line limit ;)
19:23.30 MinuteElectron brlcad: LDAP?
19:56.49 brlcad MinuteElectron: it's installing now
19:57.22 MinuteElectron cool
19:57.22 brlcad had to recompile a few overlays
19:57.22 MinuteElectron brlcad: BDB was already there?
19:57.29 brlcad part of the compile/install
19:57.49 MinuteElectron kl
19:57.51 MinuteElectron thanks
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19:58.59 MinuteElectron brlcad: Depending on how long it takes I will see if I cansort LDAP out tonightor tomorrow - but I leave Friday morning.
20:00.03 brlcad no problem
20:00.43 brlcad we're also moving all of our existing network services for bzflag over to ldap, so I needed to install/update it anyways
20:01.28 brlcad it'll be a learning experience, I'm not adept in the details of openldap myself
20:01.32 MinuteElectron brlcad: The two LDAP databases for bzflag and brlcad will be sepearate right?
20:01.38 brlcad yeah, of course
20:01.45 poolio brlcad: I think I'm off for a little while, I'm not too sure whether GAs are going to work here, I hope it's just a bug / lack of tweaking on my end :P
20:01.47 MinuteElectron ok, :)
20:02.09 brlcad just saying i needed to install it for two major projects, thanks for pressing me to finally do it :)
20:02.23 MinuteElectron :D
20:02.24 brlcad poolio: how so?
20:02.43 MinuteElectron If we didn't fix it up by tomorrow it would be another week before you could work on the wiki.
20:03.20 MinuteElectron brlcad: BTW I am going to set the themes to default on Drupal and MediaWiki so you can edit them while I am away (since the brlcad theme isn't finished yet).
20:03.32 poolio brlcad: I've been messing with it all afternoon, tweaking variables, fitness calculations, etc... and it never seems to converge on a solution
20:03.39 poolio it keeps converging on a sphere
20:03.45 brlcad MinuteElectron: erhm, why would I edit the default theme? :)
20:03.47 poolio when a single sphere is not optimal
20:04.09 brlcad poolio: sounds like a bug :)
20:04.09 MinuteElectron brlcad: I don't mean edit the default theme. I mean edit using the default theme, it is in a much better state at the moment.
20:04.11 poolio I might write some perl scripts and other tools to visualize the results better
20:04.18 poolio brlcad: yeah..
20:04.23 MinuteElectron brlcad: lol, my bad
20:04.28 MinuteElectron brlcad: typo kind-of
20:04.33 brlcad MinuteElectron: ah, you mean as to editing the "site itself" as in the content
20:04.43 MinuteElectron yeah, sorry about that
20:04.48 brlcad np, yeah sure
20:05.05 poolio brlcad: I'll work on it a bit later and see if I can find the bug / present some visualizations that explain why/how it's not working :)
20:05.38 brlcad poolio: I'd recommed either tcl/tk scripts (if only as a learning/exposure exercise for you) or a libdm or libfb interface
20:06.05 poolio I know jack about tcl/tk, or libdm or libfb, any tips on where to start?
20:06.35 poolio I was just going to use rt and pix2png or something like that, and output say a large image with a rt of the most fit individual at each generation
20:06.38 brlcad depends what exactly you want to visualize
20:07.55 poolio brlcad: Well, I also see in the near future a need for plots
20:08.07 poolio Like fitness vs. generation graph
20:08.42 brlcad yeah, those can all be done with just about any toolkit
20:09.03 brlcad it would just be nice that with whatever you work with, that it actually becomes something that integrates with your tool
20:09.32 brlcad doesn't have to be one of those three, they're just relatively easy to work with and trivial in terms of integration
20:09.57 brlcad a perl script would be fine for your testing/development, but less than ideal for deployment and integration
20:10.26 poolio yeah, the main reason was trying to debug the current software
20:10.34 poolio but it wouldn't hurt to leanr / create something more useful
20:11.58 poolio so any suggestions as to what toolkit to use? I'm trying to raytrace an individual, and probably display a grid of raytraced images, overlaying text would be nice. I'd also like the ability to plot stuff, I was just going to use gnuplot for testing, but do any of the toolkits have that ability built in? Plotting points with lines drawn between them is fine
20:17.46 brlcad what I'm thinking of is a simple tcl/tk gui front end application that lets you specify the input geometry
20:18.14 brlcad then when you run, it calls beset with the options, and for each iteration, displays one of the results
20:18.27 brlcad (using rt and a framebuffer server or using tk and png images directly)
20:21.01 poolio oh I see, you mean full-fledged frontend
20:21.18 poolio I think for now I'm going to just write my own hackish awful scripts, the key thing currently is getting it working, than I can try to get a nice frontend up
20:21.24 poolio there's no point in a frontend of the backend is not functional
20:22.02 poolio Unless of course it's pretty simple to write something like that, I really have no clue, never done Tcl/Tk,
20:25.47 yukonbob poolio: tcl/tk == easy-peasy
20:26.14 MinuteElectron brlcad: Who is the www crontab mailed to?
20:26.16 poolio Care to walk me through it / point me somewhere to start?
20:26.30 yukonbob ^-- that for me?
20:26.44 poolio :)
20:27.11 yukonbob http://wiki.tcl.tk/, and #tcl on freenode...
20:27.19 yukonbob I can shoot a basic script to you too... 1 sec.
20:28.09 yukonbob also, excellent book == Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (Fourth Edition) Brent Welch et al
20:28.29 yukonbob (not sure if there's going to be a Fifth Edition around the corner since Tcl/Tk 8.5 is around the corner
20:28.33 yukonbob )
20:28.48 poolio Or maybe are there any examples in brlcad's source of similar simple tools using tcl/tk
20:29.15 poolio Yeah, I don't really have the time to completely learn it :) Got some more important stuff on the burner
20:29.48 yukonbob poolio: of course... you don't need to become a wizard, but you can cherry-pick what you need from above resources ;)
20:30.04 poolio alright, thanks
20:31.31 yukonbob poolio: http://wiki.tcl.tk/488
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20:32.28 yukonbob http://wiki.tcl.tk/298
20:32.48 poolio thanks
20:33.29 MinuteElectron brlcad: Also rewrite rules still don't work.
20:37.04 poolio yukonbob: It doesn't look too hard, but I kind of don't feel like being bogged down by it right now. thanks for the help though
20:37.26 yukonbob np :)
20:37.54 brlcad poolio: it's not that complicated, but certainly a couple weeks work if you don't know tcl/tk probably to get something that looks nice
20:38.21 yukonbob howdy brlcad :)
20:38.30 poolio brlcad: yeah, I don't think I have that time :)
20:38.31 brlcad MinuteElectron: if it's a user crontab, it's e-mailed to the local mailbox for that user
20:39.26 yukonbob poolio: when you get a few spare cycles and are in the mood, just sit down w/ tcl and play for a bit... I found it _really_ fun to play with, and not difficult to pick up... you can learn it in bits/pieces that way...
20:39.43 MinuteElectron brlcad: Hmm, it would be useful to have the output of the crontasks, since for all I know what could be going on coud have an error.
20:39.54 MinuteElectron Don't know if that is possible or not.
20:40.53 poolio yukonbob: I'm headed off to school on August 19th :P I only have like 3 weeks left
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20:42.26 yukonbob poolio: what are you studying?
20:42.42 poolio yukonbob: electrical and computer engineering
20:43.32 poolio I'm not even taking programming first semester, it took me weeks to convince them to let me place out of the C & Unix programming class and it turns out the course that that places me into is completely full and the waitlist is huge.
20:43.45 poolio yukonbob: I say ECE, but it's not 100% sure, I don't have to declare my major til the end of the year
20:51.15 MinuteElectron brlcad: So two things: are you able to get the rewrite engine working, and what will be the copyright status of the website?
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21:04.22 MinuteElectron brlcad: Once the LDAP is set up the wiki and Druapl are good for editing.
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21:10.24 brlcad poolio: here's a nice simple tcl/tk intro
21:10.26 brlcad http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dbutler/tutorials/winter96/tcl/
21:11.17 brlcad it's worth more than an hour of your time to go through that just to get some exposure to it
21:12.18 brlcad MinuteElectron: the rewrite engine works, I tested it .. just not sure exactly what you're trying in the .htaccess file :)
21:12.33 MinuteElectron :'(
21:12.35 brlcad could be that it's conflicting with the rewrite rules in the conf file
21:13.03 MinuteElectron what is the path to the conf file? i use emacs now and don't have asilly problem like I did with vi.
21:15.00 poolio brlcad: alright alright :P
21:16.35 brlcad not saying you have to use it for what you're doing
21:16.42 brlcad just that you should go through the tutorial
21:18.28 brlcad MinuteElectron: the wiki comes up, what sort of rewrite rule are you looking to add?
21:18.41 brlcad w/ to w/index?
21:19.11 MinuteElectron brlcad: w/index.php?title= to wiki/
21:19.13 MinuteElectron and
21:19.24 MinuteElectron d/?q= to site/
21:19.55 MinuteElectron The same rewrite rules work on a different MediaWiki site I maintain.
21:21.59 brlcad ah, interesting reversal
21:22.44 MinuteElectron hmm?
21:22.48 brlcad nvm
21:23.03 MinuteElectron ok...
21:23.11 brlcad just almost the exact opposite that we set up on another site
21:23.24 MinuteElectron oh, ok
21:23.32 MinuteElectron this way IMO is cleaner.
21:23.43 MinuteElectron it also reduces conflicts in directory names
21:23.45 MinuteElectron and file names
21:23.52 brlcad the difference is ending up with wiki/page or w/page
21:23.58 MinuteElectron Ahh,
21:23.59 brlcad w/page was chosen for brevity :)
21:24.59 MinuteElectron wiki/ is the official one- but either will do.
21:26.20 brlcad wiki/ is fine, though I'd edited LocalSettings for w/ if you hadn't noticed
21:26.42 brlcad also moved the db settings out of the web root if you noticed
21:26.46 MinuteElectron Yeah, I saw.
21:26.50 brlcad you can put anything sensitive like that in that dir
21:26.56 brlcad s/can/should/ :)
21:27.07 MinuteElectron Oh, when you moved the db settings the wiki died.
21:27.10 brlcad so like if php wasn't working, files get exposed, etc
21:27.25 MinuteElectron Where were the settings moved to?
21:27.51 MinuteElectron I restored the settings, I was kind-of confsued and thought I might have accidentally hit the wrong keys lol.
21:29.07 brlcad probably just a php security setting that needed to be enabled, or something similar
21:29.46 MinuteElectron yeah
21:30.03 brlcad so needed to be after
21:30.29 brlcad woot, slapd finished
21:31.02 ``Erik O.o
21:31.40 MinuteElectron cool
21:32.49 poolio cya ``Erik
21:34.59 MinuteElectron brlcad: Are changes to httpd.conf instant?
21:36.38 MinuteElectron brlcad: Also, is mod_alias enabled?
21:37.54 brlcad no, apache has to be reset (sudo apachectl graceful)
21:38.12 MinuteElectron ok
21:38.13 brlcad and yes, mod_alias is enabled
21:38.17 MinuteElectron cool
21:39.57 poolio brlcad: Is there something already established to take shots from the x y and z axis? I'm just trying to save a good represntation of the model that I can look at outside brl-cad
21:41.06 brlcad mm, I thought about writing such a tool several times, quite a trivial script
21:41.10 brlcad but alas, no
21:41.12 MinuteElectron brlcad: Can I reset Apache? Also can you check my modifications to httpd.conf - I don't want to accidentally take out the server.
21:41.23 brlcad MinuteElectron: yes, you can as www
21:42.15 brlcad do an "apachectl -t" to check the syntax
21:42.19 MinuteElectron ok
21:42.20 MinuteElectron thanks
21:42.47 brlcad if the syntax is good, at worst you'll probably take down brlcad.org only
21:43.03 brlcad if it's bad, then .. it's bad :)
21:54.18 MinuteElectron I have to go to sleep now - last day fo school until the summer tomorrow. Hope you are able to fix the httpd.conf problems ;) - will sort out LDAP tomorrow.
21:54.27 MinuteElectron Goodnight al.
21:55.30 MinuteElectron Also i must moved the drupal database settings to a seperate file.
22:05.46 brlcad MinuteElectron: ldap is installed and running now
22:05.49 brlcad though there is no config file
22:12.08 poolio brlcad: I keep getting "pix-png: Short read" what's up with that?
22:39.56 ``Erik your pix isn't as big as expected
22:40.09 ``Erik default expect 512x512*3 bytes
22:40.40 ``Erik so if the file isn't 786432 (or more), you get that error
22:41.01 ``Erik try the -a flag if it's square, or the, uhhh, -w and some other flag if its' not
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