[Techtalk] Anyone here have experience working on a Cobalt Qube?

[Maria McKinley]

I quite like the web site, but I must say I'm not a big fan of having to
roll the mouse over to see what button takes me where.  Good detective work!

cheers,
maria

Emily Berk wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
> 
> As it turned out, my client did get in touch with the person who set up the Qube and we learned that there is a firewall administered by the router.
> 
> Rather than try to figure out how to punch a hole in the firewall, I took a nice drive, met my client and the Qube in person (both of them are extremely cute and quiet!) 
> 
> And, using his PC laptop and/or Mac desktop which are physically connected to the router, I had no problem ftp-ing, telneting, accessing the Qube in many ways.
> 
> So, I overwrote the php.ini that we thought was making our lives miserable and --- hmmm.  Well, I think that the Qube really does have issues with files that are in subdirectories relative to the current directory; even when I had changed the php.ini file, I still had to change quite a few path variables.  
> 
> But, it also turns out, and I don't know why, that when my client unzipped the files I'd given him, some of the filenames had migrated to all-uppercase.  So they were really not visible to the server, because, for example, lowercase.php was LOWERCASE.PHP.  Sigh.  And there's no way I'd have guessed this was happening from afar, so it's good that I drove to the site to witness this happen for myself.
> 
> So, we decided to ftp my versions of the files from the PC to the Qube and in that way did not change the file names.  And, well, about 5.5 hours later, the site mostly works.  It's at http://www.earlywinedesign.com Take a look.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> -- Emily
> 
> On 4/29/05, I wrote:
> 
>>..
>>
>>>>I've read that there is some sort of dance I need to do in order to make
>>
>>the Qube accessible via telnet, but I can't seem to figure out what the
>>steps in the dance are.
>>
>>>Assuming it's running Cobalt OS, almost everything, including telnet,
>>>gets configured via a web interface at http://<fqdn of
>>>qube>/siteadmin/.  Basic stuff like the IP configuration gets done for
>>>the first time using the buttons and LCD screen on the Qube itself,
>>>then through the web interface afterwards.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Feel free to contact me offlist, since I think the Qube may not actually
>>
>>be running Linux...
> 
> 
> Emily Berk
> http://www.armadillosoft.com
> 
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