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New Challenge X website launched |
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Friday, 29 July 2005 |
The Mambo-based
content managed system was begun to be developed and expanded today.
This tool is open source and free (licensed under the GPL), and as will
be shown in the coming days and months, is extremely capable, allowing
any Challenge X team member to painlessly create and deliver content
for online distribution.
With such an easy and streamlined procedure for recording ideas and
events, the team may spontaneously begin automatically keeping logs of
its activities.
This is an impressive result of Eric Diamond, the team's de facto
system administrator, moving his top-of-the-line server running the
Fedora Core 3 Linux distribution into the Challenge X cubicle at the
Center for Automotive Research.
Recently, this server was outfitted to
replace the Z-drive, the communal network drive, allowing the share to
be accessible world-wide securely via SSH, the Secure Shell protocol,
and locally as a Windows network share through the Samba protocol. The
server, located at challengex.eng.ohio-state.edu, also acts as a print
server to the team's newly acquired Konica Minolta 2400w color laser
printer.
Further plans along these lines include creating a competition-wide
online forum for all universities participating in Challenge X to
informally communicate, as well as a method of automated backups and
revision control for the upcoming days of intense code development.
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