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The Viking movement is gaining ground. Today Viking_J got a new Sister in the US! Check out vjl's w3log - When there's nothing else to read for a hot sexy viking picture!!

Normally, I don't get much postal mail. Mostly bills, very seldom anything personal. So, imagine my suprise today when out of my mailbox came a yellow box!

Wondering what the hell this was, I read the labels on it. Then it dawned on me, some time ago (the 20th July 2004 to be precise) Jens, one of the main Gallery developers asked for my adress on IRC.

09:18 +Tim_j> h0bbel|wrk: i need your real post address
09:20 +h0bbel|wrk> mine?
09:20 +h0bbel|wrk> Christian Mohn
09:20 +h0bbel|wrk> Hordagt. 36
09:20 +h0bbel|wrk> N5055 Bergen
09:20 +h0bbel|wrk> Norway
09:20 +h0bbel|wrk> how come?
09:20 +alindeman> Heh, now you ask 8)

He never responded, but I guess now was the time to find out what that devious German had sent me. Inside I found a o decipher I think I understood it after a while.
Besides the note, he had actually sent me a Playmobil Viking! My "title" in the Gallery Forums is Voluminous Viking and I used to have a Playmobil Viking as my Avatar.
I guess I'll have to start using that one again now :-).

Anyway, thanks a bunch Jens!
More pictures of the "Viking gone postal" are available in my Gallery

This just goes to show now nice the Gallery-team is! Bharat sent me my ThinkGeek T-shirt and now Jens sendt me a Viking!
Anyone else want to send me something, go right ahead! ;-)

I just got a bottle of Whiskey from Paul-Michael Agapow and Joan (of Gallery fame)! Never heard of it before, but it has a way cool name.

Jon, Mark and Robbo`s The Smooth Sweeter One ;)
Thanks to both of you!

And, Paul-Michael it was very nice to meet you! Come back with Joan some time

Update: It has now been digested. Results here

The good guys behind the Yellowtip Webserver has released an updated package, to eleviate some of the issues in the initial 2.0 version. This means that it's time for me to update my review, and have another go at installing it.

Changes:
- After the installation is finished the user has to enter his own username and password that will be used as the default username and password for all installed packages, including phpMyAdmin.
- YTWS2.0.1 is now a pure independent installation. This means that if a user already had a different installation of Apache and MySQL on his computer, YTWS2.0.1 will not break that and can run independent from the other apache and mysql apps on different port numbers.
- Gallery 1.4.3pl1 is now included.
- We've solved a problen where the 'Program files' directory name was a problem for Gallery. It can now be installed in a directory with spaces in the name without any problems (that we know of).
- MySql 4.0.18 is now included which should solve some weird installation problems on Win2K computers.

So far it's looking gooood! Smoth installer, nice setup. The issues Gallery had in the previous version seems to be resolved, and I was succesfull in installing and uploading pictures straight away.
The new password feature is neat, as it lets you set a common password for all installed components, and there is no default password to worry about anymore.

I have one small issue though, during installation the YellowTip installer shows the license for
Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Zend Optimizer, and YellowTip Reservations, and thats fine, but the Gallery license should also be shown there amongst the rest. YellowTip has not removed the license file from the Gallery distribution, so I'm certain that this is an oversight on their part.

Update 12.06.2004: The Gallery license is now displayed along with the others in Yellowtip Webserver 2.0.2

I also have one suggestion to the YellowTip guys: Add option to install Gallery as a module in PostNuke. After all, if you install both PostNuke and Gallery using YellowTip, you most likely want to run Gallery as a module in PostNuke? Perhaps add an option to the installer so you can install Gallery directly into the modules/ dir of PostNuke and get them integrated from the getgo?

I did a basic install with only Gallery selected as a module

Filename: YellowTipWS2.exe
Package size: 19 227 692 bytes
Url: http://www.yellowtip.com/ (Need to register to download)

Total install time: 8 minutes in my VMWare virtual machine.

On the 29th of April 2004, YellowTip Web Server 2.0 was released, and Gallery was included in the standard installation, along with PHP, MySQL, Zend Optimizer, phpMyAdmin, PostNuke, phpBB, and b2evolution.

My initial thoughts when going through a stock YellowTip Web Server 2.0 install:

The install went without hickups, but as soon as i tried uploading photos to the Gallery installation, I ran into problems

I enabled debug mode, tried another upload

As you can see, the NetPBM binaries are (by default) placed in a path with spaces, which is a big no-no.
I tried moving them to c:\netpbm, and updating the config, and that worked fine.
This is sort of a deal-breaker, since not being able to upload pictures puts Gallery in a pretty useless state. That being said, the fix is an easy one!

So, the conclusion is, Yellow Tip's Gallery integration still has a way to go before it's Gallery install is seamless, but the package itself seems like a good deal.

Note! I've not tested the other packages included, so my "review" is solely based on the experience I have with Gallery.

More screenshots of the install process, is available here