Archive for May, 2008

Microsoft: we listen to broadcasters, not customers

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Microsoft: we listen to broadcasters, not customers - Boing Boing

Danny sez, “A Microsoft spokesperson told CNet today that ‘Microsoft included technologies in Windows based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission). As part of these regulations, Windows Media Center fully adheres to the flags used by broadcasters and content owners to determine how their content is distributed and consumed.’ Do they really mean that they’re obeying the broadcast flag that courts and Congress rejected as being executive overreach by the FCC? The ones they have no obligation to follow?”

This is about the best reason I have yet seen to ditch Microsoft and move to Linux or Unix. I’d say more but it would just be Microsoft bashing and they are doing a fine job of that all by themselves…

Better

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Not gonna say I feel great but am some better today. Swelling is going down and holes in the face has scabbed over nicely. Bone is broken from just below the left cheek to the top jaw in a inverted V but I can eat all right if I’m careful. Just one of those stupid accidents. Will certainly be a lot more careful throwing boards from now on… ;-)

Am doing a lot of lying down as the pressure is much less in that position. Made the mistake of working on the lawnmower and cutting more of the weeds this morning as I felt so much better. Till I sneezed a few times and then started spitting blood again. Gotta remember to take it easy for a few days at the least. For now am gonna go and lie down again for a while longer and read some more. Will try to get up and do some work on the computer for a while tomorrow. Till then… ;-)

Logging in

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Steve says he is having trouble logging in yet again. Have not tried on Cat’s windows machine (and doubt that I will boot it to do so) so don’t know if reseting the home page link in the prefs fixed it this time or not. Not having any trouble with either the iBook or the Linux box getting in but then I haven’t. Seems to be strictly Windoze boxes that are affected. Go figure…

The Foody UK & Ireland

Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Welcome to The Foody UK & Ireland

The Foody UK and Ireland an independent on-line resource covering all aspects of the food from these nations.
It is packed with recipes, features and useful facts about fruits, vegetables, herbs & spices, meats, when they are in season and also places where you can buy them.
It aims to offer broad overview of all matters relating to the food from these islands.
New recipes and features are added every month.

Interesting and informative site with a wealth of recipes, old and new. Quite good stuff!

Bloody Saturday

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Had a bit of an accident this afternoon involving a 2×4x12 and a couple of nails and my face. One went through the lower lip and one appears to have penetrated a sinus cavity on the left side of my face just in front of the cheek bone. Feels right loverly at the present time. Interesting swelling going on too. Am going to try to eat something and take another lie down so may not post again tonight. Depends on how I’m feeling later. So, till I type again…

Slashdot | Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Slashdot | Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers

So Fermilab has it for a year and the Slashdot geeks crack it in less than a day. ;-) Some of the comments are interesting/weird/typical…

Day is done and so is I

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Has been a Friday for sure. Will try to be more productive tomorrow. Till then…

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

Friday, May 16th, 2008
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo

The new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)

Amazing!

Steam dream - Life - The Phoenix

Friday, May 16th, 2008
Steam dream - Life - The Phoenix

Steampunk bursts through its subculture roots to challenge our musical, fashion, design, and even political sensibilities

Quite a good article on SteamPunk. Good video of Jake von Slatt and some of his works too. Well worth the read!

Time to move on

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

After reading some stuff in the forums here at my current host I have decided it’s time (and past) to move on. Been looking at hosting providers and trying to make a decision on who to go with. Have found a couple that look good, and are in our price range. Just got to figure if it’s gonna be worth it to stay with a reseller account or go with a standard account that allows unlimited domains and put the sites in subdomains. Guess I am gonna sleep on it and see how they look tomorrow. Till then…

Back almost to where I was

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Just about to give up the fight and move it all. I ended up changing it all back over to the old wordpress folder due to error pages showing up about the archives being changed. Now to find the pages that need changing and redo them. Back in a bit.

Got the pages changed out and was able to log in as a user and post a comment so guess that part is working.

Hoping I got the archive structure right in the settings. Will know if the error pages stop showing up.

Now off to add one more plugin and turn it on. More later…

Better but still getting errors

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Have installed a completely new wordpress folder and moved critical files over to it. Installed new plugings and only a couple of them. Went with the default template to make sure old template calls weren’t causing problems. Found and corrected a couple of page errors with the Wordpress 2.5.1 “mail new password” function and got that working. And still getting server errors. Only thing left to do is download a backup of the database, have wordpress create a new one, and upload the data back in. Guess that’s the afternoon project to make sure that there aren’t problems in there causing these errors.

Gonna do lunch and get back at it…

Work in progress

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Stuff is most likely gonna be broken for a bit till I get it all moved over.

Still fighting the server

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Guess I will break down in the next day or so and go with other hosting. These server errors are just pissing me off to no end. I realize the blog is getting rather large (over 3500 posts) but the frequency of server errors and timeouts is unacceptable no matter how large it is. I suspect part of the problem is the airsoft forum that I host on the same server, but as I am no longer running the ranch I am going to move it to another site and let it be someone else’s problem as I won’t be taking that site with me when I move this one.

Not sure if I like the WP super cache plugin or not. Sometimes it updates right when I add a post and other times it doesn’t. Again, this too may be server errors. Time (and a move) will tell…

Going to publish this and hit the sack and hope that the rain and storms tomorrow are not too bad. Till then… ;-)

Open Source Beer Recipe Finalized

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Open Source Beer Project Flying Dog Brewery Hombrewers Beer Recipe

Homebrew open source style. Sounds good. Now just got to get all the stuff together to do the brewing… ;-)

Assorted Recipes from the Everybody Likes Sandwiches Blog

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

everybodylikessandwiches recipe index

A wide assortment of recipes. Good stuff!

Favicon generation tools

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Authoring: Online Tools: Graphics: Image Generation: Favicons

Several links to sites with tools to make Favicons.

WP Super Cache

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

WordPress › WP Super Cache « WordPress Plugins

Just installed the WP Super Cache plugin to see if my problem is related to WordPress hitting the processor too hard. Going to install it on all of our other sites so looks like a afternoon doing updates and backups.

Monday kind of Tuesday

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Been trying to get it going all day but haven’t gotten near as much done as I needed to.

The server errors are getting to the point I am gonna move the sites soon. Have looked at several possible hosts and almost settled on 2. There is a fair cost difference between the two and will most likely go with the cheaper but still trying to make up my mind. Tis gonna be a lot of data to move and hate to do it but things are not getting any better so am gonna have to do something.

Spent far too much time today setting up a LAMP server on this machine here at home and then putting wordpress on it to check it all out. After I got the first copy working made a backup of the database for technoprimitive.org, copied the wp folder over and imported the backup. After some playing around with phpMyAdmin got it working on here. Now just got to backup another 7 or 8 other wp sites as well as several other database intensive sites and make sure I can get them all working after the move. Joy, joy, joy… :-(

Not gonna do it tonight though. Done all I’m gonna do other than hit the publish button on here and then go to bed. Till tomorrow… ;-)

Recovery Monday

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Spent the day trying to recover from the weekend. Still not up to much but better than when I got up this a.m., so am gaining on it anyway. Hope to be back at it tomorrow. Will see when it rolls around. Till then… ;-)