Plugin versions are not Sakai versions. You can see what version we are using from the master/project.properties:
sakai.plugin.version=2.2
Try with the latest version number:
maven plugin:download -DgroupId=sakaiproject -DartifactId=sakai -Dversion=2.2
Also, as a reminder, use the new SVN:
maven.repo.remote = http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven/
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– Glenn
Glenn R. Golden
Software Architect, University Of Michigan
ggolden@umich.edu

How do the tabs at the top get updated right away… Is there a better way?
If this puzzle is solvable – there is one less frame… I think I have an idea.

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Hello all, For the past 2.5 weeks I have been traveling in Australia talking Sakai with our Australian partners and friends of Sakai. I visited the following locations: MELCOE (Sydney), Macquarie University(Sydney), Charles Sturt University (Albury), Australian National University (Canberra), Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane), Monash University (Melbourne), and Melbourne University (Melbourne).
The main reason was to talk with James Dalziel about moving forward and getting Sakai to work better with LAMS 1.1. I made a Sakai Interview Video with James at:
http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=59
Most of the topic was about Sakai and eResearch. Most of the universities I visited are pretty happy with their current home grown and commercial LMS solutions.
I gave the following talk (over and over) – feel absolutely free to take these slides, and reuse them in any way you see fit (with or without attribution):
http://www.dr-chuck.com/talks.php?id=66
The talk got better as the trip went on – so make sure if I gave you a copy of the “overview” PPT earlier grab this one as well. If you are a Keynote user send me a note and I will send you the “real” version :) I also used the following PPT as well when talking about research:
http://www.dr-chuck.com/talks.php?id=65
http://www.dr-chuck.com/talks.php?id=64
I also talked a bunch about the eResearch paper (draft attached).
My cell phone photo blog starts here:
http://www.dr-chuck.com/images/2006/03/index.php?img=12-03-06_1514001.jpg
I need to give a hearty thanks to all the people who arranged this and made sure I was never allowed to get lost in the Outback and killed by poison toads: Mike Ribbechi, James Dalziel, Ernie Ghiglione, Fiona Malikoff, Matt Morton-Allen, Vic Elliott, Regina Obexer, Nathan Bailey, Claire Brooks, David Hirst, and many others.

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I had touble uploading video using the uploader. It was my standard MPEG2 1400 kbps with Mpeg2 audio from Pinnacle 9. It just would *not* upload on my PC – but then it successfully uploaded from my mac. Nutty.

This is a wonderful place. It is like a combination of Michigan and California. It has all of the weather, beaches, ocean, fruit, and exotic plants of California but feels more like Michigan in terms of population density.
Yesterday I have a Pineapple Crush from a stand in front of a Pineapple farm. Delicious. Of course I also went to the Australia Zoo.
Pictures are here.

Frankly a problem for me is that chasing Hibernate around is kind of scary.

Today I drove a car in Australia. I drive on the left hand side of the road. I survived. Whew!
No great problems – I was thankful to have a Hewrtz Neverlost to help with the navigating – but by the end of the four hour drive I could navigate without it.
I drove on divided highways and on little roads. It went pretty well. At one point I went into a residential area and drove arond like a drivers test, using signals, doing different types of turns.
I looks like I can survive it. Probably the only dodgey bits are (1) proper lane alignment – I drive too close to the curve and (2) the odd use of the wipers instead of the blinkers.
Tomorrow I try again. I think I will go visit Steve Irwin’s Zoo. Sorry – that is SO touristy by I am a tourist.

As we all get MacBook pro systems, we need to move out home directories back and forth. Here are my Chuck crib notes for the process.

This is my process when I switch mac’s. Boot the old mac in target mode.

Boot the new mac normally. Lets assume the account is ‘csev’.

Make a new account other than csev. Make this account an administrator.

Make a new csev account. Make the account an administrator.

Logout and login as csev. Once csev has logged in once log out and then log in on the other administrator account.

Start a terminal program .

$ sudo sh
Type your password for the non-csev account

# cd /Users
# mv csev csev.old

Plug in the target computer – It should appear as a disk.

# ls -l /Volumes

Make sure that you know the right volume that corresponds to your old disk – note that your new disk may be here too. If they are both Macintosh HD – there will be something that makes the mount point unique.

# cd /Volumes/whatever/Users
# ls -l
**** You should see csev

Now comes the nifty bit.

# tar cf – csev | ( cd /Users ; tar xfv – )

What this does is tar (no compression) up the directory from the target drive – send the output through a UNIX pipe, and then untar the files in the /Users directory in the new system.

Output will stream by. If you want to see the errors, remove the ‘v’ from the second tar. Don’t compress – (z option) it is a massive waste of time and CPU.

Once the tar completes, do the folllowing

# cd /Users
# chown -R csev.csev csev
This recursively sets the ownership of the files to the new account. Chown will complain about the -R option – ignore that.

Update 2009: They changed the syntax of the chown command in Mac OS/X 10.5 and later:

# chown -R csev:staff csev

When complete – close the terminal window, log out and then log in to the csev account.

Viola!

What fun we had at LAMS.

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