Aug2003

Putting the Law into Lawtec — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

Every post thus far has been about IT. But in the last couple of days I've been reading lots of Intellectual Property articles, and at last I feel I'm ready to put the Law into Lawtec. What I've become focused on over the last few weeks is the comparison between the patent system and Open Source software. The goal of both is to stimulate innovation through disclosure, which led me to say that the patent system was *Open Source with time delay*...

exUserFolder with SMB Authorisation SUCKS — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

Yep, it sucks the big one. The portal_membership tool wrapper is completely out of date, the XUF seem content to blame the CMF people for changing (I'd say improving) their product, rather than just fixing it. You can get it to work by using a Null Property Source, but then roles generally suck - you'll have to add the Member role manually to every user. Also, when you try and manage the portal, you'll find that *sometimes* you're redirected to the portal's login form in the main ZMI frame. So for all you poor suckers running out there on NT4 domain security, my sympathies are with you.

Useful Links for Oracle DBAs — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

I just found "this site":http://www.cass.us/page/scripts.htm which has lots of little scripts for DBA management.

Mixed Zope and Apache Site — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

If you want to have a site that is mostly served up by Zope, but a particular subdirectory is served directly by Apache, you can use the Alias tag. Instructions "here":http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-April/087731.html