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Magnetic tape isn't just dead, but it is also deteriorating. 

It is breaking down, falling apart, and what was once thought to be nearly permanent is proving to be extraordinarily fragile. 

Audio tape was used for decades as a way to disseminate music, seminars, audio histories, speeches, news, by folklorist, in short--our culture.  Hydrolysis, the breakdown of the glue that holds the little magnetic bits to the tape, is becoming more prevalent.  The life span of tapes, under the best circumstances, is up to 15 years before things start getting sticky.  In other words anything created before 1994 has almost certainly started to lose its fidelity.

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Hiya Bay Area Drupalers,
Just a quick note that the San Diego guys have settled on a weekend for
their camp - January 24th & 25th.
More details & registration info here: [link]
Also, our first meeting of the new year will be Jan 22nd. I invite you
all to contribute ideas for meeting topics for the new year over at

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for joining us earlier today. I know it was a lot of information
to cover and digest in an hour, so hopefully we can continue the
discussion online. I posted the outline we used to groups.drupal.org:

[link]

The wiki page for it is here:
[link]

Greetings Bay Area Drupalers,

Our November meeting got bumped into December by Thanksgiving, so we are
meeting this Thursday, Dec 4th.

This will be our last BDUG meeting of 2008. It's been quite a year.
Drupal 6 is now a solid product, with View & CCK releases, another win
as Packets CMS of the year, and commercial support from Acquia. Enough

Ok, the date for the next Drupal group meeting will be December 4th.
Hope no one is too disappointed to miss out on the opportunity to eat
turkey and talk Drupal and the same time :)
cheers,
-tao

Ok, everyone can stop emailing me now.
Yes, we were scheduled for Thanksgiving. No, we will not meet then. I
will send a update when I nail down an alternative time slot.
cheers,
-tao

Greetings Bay Area Drupalers,
This will be our last BDUG meeting of 2008. It's been quite a year.
Drupal 6 is now a solid product, with View & CCK releases, another win
as Packets CMS of the year, and commercial support from Acquia. Enough
to give everyone a warm glow. But we all still have work to do, and this

Hello All,

I am currently running a Drupal site that I developed for a non-profit
that provides rites of passage experiences for young men who are
finding there way into adulthood/manhood. We need help with ongoing
maintenance and upgrading issues.

The site can be found at [link] if you would like to see

Hello all,
I'm sure you're all used to me crying for help by now - this is more
of the same story.
I need some very minor administration help on [link]
- install & config XML sitemap module
- install core "contact" module (disable & replace a custom contact module)
If you're up for some debugging, you can also help me figure out why I

Greetings Bay Area Drupalers,
The next BDUG meeting is today, Thursday October 23rd, at lunch time.
Let's recover from BADCamp with a discussion of what it takes to build a
Wiki in Drupal. It can be done, but can it be done well?
[link]
Snacks will be provided by CITRIS

Greetings Bay Area Drupalers,
Let's recover from BADCamp with a discussion of what it takes to build a
Wiki in Drupal. It can be done, but can it be done well?
[link]
Snacks will be provided by CITRIS
See you there,
Tao Starbow

I have turned on new member moderation.

cheers,
-tao

Hi All,

I am new drupal user and looking for some simple file download module
for my page. I dont need complicated file management system but simple
module where I will be able to add groups and files with description
under it straight from management menu.

I am looking for it for few days but looks like it is really hard to

One last reminder for those of you that haven't caught the date change.
And it looks like CITRIS will be providing snacks this month.
See you at noon,
-tao
PS. BADCamp is completely full, at 350 registered attendees. Wow.
Greetings Bay Area Drupalers,
Please note that this month's meeting is on TUESDAY the 30th, instead of our regular Thursday slot.

PKR,
There are two modules for drupal that do this already, but neither
does it very well:
[link]
[link]
My company recently rewrote the whole up/down voting module, but I'm
not sure there's a page for it yet on d.o. Would you like me to send

I am using drupal to run an entertainment website and instead of using
a classic star rating system, I'd like to have a "rep" system, where
if the user likes the content he or she sees, they can simply click on
a button reading "Rep It" and it will increase the count number for
that particular video.

Lesson Two of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.

This video explores the basic configuration options to consider once you have successfully installed Drupal.

New releases of the FAQ module have been made - versions 5.x-2.12 and 6.x-1.8. This release includes a number of new features, including the ability to have multiple FAQ layouts and both short and long FAQ question texts. However the majority of the changes were small bug fixes.

The new features added include:

• #251493 - Ability to have both short and long questions.
• #299191 - Ability to have multiple FAQ layouts.
• #281827 -"An edit answer" link provided on faq page under the answer.
• #272265 - Pathauto support.
• #304210 - Configurable re-writing of faq taxonomy term links.
• #300959 - added support for multi-lingual taxonomy terms.

The new releases can be downloaded from the FAQ project page, while details on the changes can be found below:

• FAQ 5.x-2.12
• FAQ 6.x-1.8

Enjoy!

Eclipse, with the newly released PDT 2.0, is a very capable Drupal IDE. With code completion, automatic documentation lookups, and integrated debugging, Eclipse is very good for anyone who spends time doing Drupal code.

One issue I've run into with Eclipse when working on contributed modules is that the modules themselves aren't located within a Drupal installation. I found myself resorting to external programs or the command line to copy my changes to my development site or to my local development copy. Using Eclipse's External Tools, it's possible to deploy changes with a single click, greatly reducing the time to test modified code.

traffic to a website can be divided into four major sources : direct, paid, organic and referrals. unsurprisingly, google analytics segments the traffic sources reports accordingly.

there is, however, a small catch. the ever growing popularity of search engines has led to an odd use case : users who use a search engine to search for exactly your domain name, instead of simply typing www.mydomain.com into their web browser. these users have just reached your site via an "organic search" and google analytics will classify them accordingly.

technically this is correct, but semantically it's troubling. the users who have reached your site by typing "mydomain" into Google have far more in common with the users that entered www.mydomain.com into their URL bar and far less in common with those users that reached your site by typing "my optimized search term" into Google. and the population of these users is not small - on one of the commercial drupal sites that i maintain these "mydomain" Google searchers account for over one third of the supposedly organic traffic.

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