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Top Forums Web Development Header in mobile version UNIX.com Post 303044893 by Neo on Saturday 7th of March 2020 10:41:01 PM
Old 03-07-2020
After thinking about this.....

To be honest, I am inclined to stop development and updates on the current code base and migrate the forums to discourse.

Code:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software)

Code:
Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.[2] Discourse received funding from First Round Capital and Greylock Partners.[3] The application is written with Ember.js”¯[4] and Ruby on Rails.[5] PostgreSQL serves as its back-end database management system.

From a usability perspective, Discourse breaks with existing forum software by including features recently popularized by large social networks, such as infinite scrolling, live updates, expanding links, and drag and drop attachments.[6] However, the stated goals of the project are social rather than technical, to improve online discussion quality through improved forum software.

The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. Therefore Discourse can be self-hosted by anyone. Alternatively, hosting service can be bought from the company of the founders. As of October 2017, more than 700 businesses or instances have chosen this option.[7] On May 2017, co-founder Jeff Atwood said in an interview that the company is generating approximately 120,000 dollars per month at that time.[8] With the money the company pays salary for its full-time employees who maintain the software and develop new features which benefits those who are self-hosting the open source software, too. This is an example of an open source software business model where a company sells professional services to willing customers.

I think it is about time to "retire" the legacy vB site, in a controlled way.

See / continue:

Under Consideration: Migrate the Forums to Discourse
 

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GSMSENDSMS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     GSMSENDSMS(8)

NAME
gsmsendsms - SMS message sender utility SYNOPSIS
gsmsendsms [ -b baudrate ] [ --baudrate baudrate ] [ -c concatenatedID ] [ --concatenate concatenatedID ] [ -C service centre address ] [ --sca service centre address ] [ -d device ] [ --device device ] [ -h ] [ --help ] [ -I init string ] [ --init init string ] [ -r ] [ --requeststat ] [ -t ] [ --test ] [ -v ] [ --version ] [ -X ] [ --xonxoff ] phonenumber [ text ] DESCRIPTION
gsmsendsms sends SMS short messages using an GSM mobile phone. gsmsendsms attaches itself to the device given on the command line (usually an GSM modem) using the specified baudrate. If no device is given, the device /dev/mobilephone is used. If no baudrate is given, a default baud rate of 38400 is used. gsmsendsms accepts a phone number (recipient address) and the short message text as parameters. The text may have a maximum length of 160 characters which is the maximum SMS message length. The GSM default alphabet is used for encoding. ASCII and Latin-1 characters that can not be encoded using the GSM default alphabet are converted to the GSM delta character (GSM code 16). Error messages are printed to the standard error output. If the program terminates on error the error code 1 is returned. OPTIONS
-b baudrate, --baudrate baudrate The baud rate to use. -c concatenatedID, --concatenate concatenatedID If an ID is given, large SMSs are split into several, concatenated SMSs. All SMSs have the same ID and are numbered consecutively so that the receiving phone can assemble them in the correct order. IDs must be in the range 0..255. Not all receiving phones will sup- port concatenated SMSs (and display them as separate SMSs), since all the numbering and ID information is carried in the user data header element at the beginning of the SMS user data. This information may show up as garbage in such phones. -C service centre address, --sca service centre address Sets the service centre address to use for all SUBMIT SMSs (may not work with some phones). -d device, --device device The device to which the GSM modem is connected. The default is /dev/mobilephone. -h, --help Prints an option summary. -I init string, --init init string Initialization string to send to the TA (default: "E0"). Note that the sequence "ATZ" is sent first. -r, --requeststat Request status reports for sent SMS. -t, --test If this option is given the text is converted to the GSM default alphabet and back to Latin-1. This option can be used to find out how ASCII or Latin-1 texts are converted to the GSM default alphabet. Characters that can not be converted to the GSM default alpha- bet are reported as ASCII code 172 (Latin-1 boolean "not") after this double conversion. No SMS messages are sent, a connection to a mobile phone is not established. -v, --version Prints the program version. -X, --xonxoff Uses software handshaking (XON/XOFF) for accessing the device. EXAMPLES
The following two invocations of gsmsendsms each send the same SMS message to the number "1234": gsmsendsms -d /dev/ttyS2 -b 19200 1234 "This is a test." echo "This is a test." | gsmsendsms -d /dev/ttyS2 -b 19200 1234 FILES
/dev/mobilephone Default mobile phone device. AUTHOR
Peter Hofmann <software@pxh.de> BUGS
Report bugs to software@pxh.de. Include a complete, self-contained example that will allow the bug to be reproduced, and say which version of gsmsendsms you are using. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999 Peter Hofmann gsmsendsms is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as pub- lished by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. gsmsendsms is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABIL- ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with gsmsendsms; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. SEE ALSO
gsminfo(7), gsmpb(1), gsmctl(1), gsmsmsd(8), gsmsmsstore(1). gsmsendsms v1.10 Sat Jun 16 22:10:00 UTC 2012 GSMSENDSMS(8)
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