General discussion

Hi Everyone,

I've been unzipping and using .cgi(perl) scripts for a while now but for
the life of me can't get a grip on untarring(extracting) .gz files so I
can work with them.

I've downloaded the drupal.tar but can't access and/or
modify the files using my current zip program.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Have A Great One,

Kevin "druple rules!" Scott ;0

PS

I hope this made sense :=)

I am not used to the way things are on Drupal.Org It would seem that each developer works on own and contributes sporadically and alone. What people coming to Drupal want is more than a single place to operate in a group to fix things. PHPnuke and others have communities within the community that develop certain parts of the entire CMS. There are those that do security, ecommerce etc and work to make sure that their contribution is the best it can be and bug free. They also work to train each other and trade program knowledge and skills. This type of developer interaction brings with it more popularity and better software. The need or lack of documentation becomes less necessary as information is so forthcoming that no one asks for it. This means that a Google search produces thousands of hits rather than a hand full. Bug get fixed faster because people are interested in participating and sharing the outcome.

Community is the largely lacking. While with the exception of CodemonkeyX and Ber Kessels (good men they have forums ) and others have fans they have not really started communites to further their efforts. The contributors don't really have tutorials or information on how they accomplished what they have done. There are some exceptions like Steve Wittens but they are too few (Boo!! Stevo! turn on your forum!!). PHPtemplate shoul be a seperate development community.

"What are you yammering about? It was free!" you might say. Raw source code without community, documetation, comments or explaination is not open source, it's a gift but not open source. This is one of the causes of the lack of community building, complancancy. This is real shown by the fact that the number of gests to the Drupal site is at a constant average of 350+/- (sometimes peaks at 750) but the number of logged in users has not increased , 75 was the highest I have seen but it remains at 10% for the most part.

This is a weird one. When I type in a post on IE6 every time a press enter, html-area inserts a

I recently noticed that people are trying to create accounts on my site with www.xyx@yahoo.com type of email addresses instead of xyz@yahoo.com.

Obviously those account creation emails are not reaching those people and I receive mail delivery error.

"Unable to send mail. Please contact the site admin."

My problem is my host, because, the host dont have SMTP, i can modific the smtp server in drupal ??

I am helping build a site where Flash movies on the page are using XML-RPC to call other site funtions. In addition, the flash movies load a number of resources like images. The pages where the flash movies are found have a difficult time keeping the session (the user gets logged out all the time). Does anybody have any idea how I might go about investigating this? Do I need to pass a cookie/phpsessionid when making the Flash based requests? Is it logical to suspect the XML-RPC calls as being the session-losers?