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I have to do a lot of software support for software that I write. Whenever I start getting the same question over and over I just develop a software tool that I can distribute to my users which will help them find the answer to their problem.

If I was a member of the Geeklog team, I would run screaming whenever the old path question comes up. In response to this I developed a little tool to answer these questions.

You can access it online here. If anyone is interested I will make it available for download. I have both an integrated version like the one above and a standalone version.

If you have path problems try this before you post here.

Tom

I recently announced my new Kevin Horton's RV-8 Page to the world. One user complained about the small font size. I told him to check out the font size items under the View menu in his browser.

Well, there is no way to choose a font size that everyone will like. I know it can be an aggravation to tell my browser to make the font larger or smaller every time I go to a new web site. So, I was wondering - would it be possible on some future version of GL to add a user pref for font size? Something like -2, -1, default, +1, +2. I suspect the answer is no, as I think this would imply a huge amount of overhead when serving pages. Should I add this to the list of Feature Requests, or is it so impossible that I'll get laughed off the web?

Reading the recent comments on Weather Block update hangs due to unavailability of the NOAA service sparked this idea.

It would be useful if the GL2 engine could provide an external scheduling facility. I\'m thinking of a function that\'s called from cron/task scheduler via a standalone PHP executable, say, every five minutes.

GL2 plugins could register a function with this mechanism though an API that permits specification of frequency e.g. 0-11 executions per hour and offset from the hour, in five minute increments, to balance server load.

This would prove extremely useful for things like the Weather Block metar updates, RDF feed processing etc. while separating such data processing from page hits.

Another useful extension to the API would be provision for a unix-style \"cron\" time specification. This could be used to schedule events at a particular, five minute precision, intervals. Scheduled database dumps instantly spring to mind for this feature.

Regards,
Neil Darlow M.Sc.