Slashdot | Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers
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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…
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Day is done and so is I
By Dave, May 16, 2008 11:09 pm
Has been a Friday for sure. Will try to be more productive tomorrow. Till then…
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
By Dave, May 16, 2008 9:49 pm
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
By Dave, May 16, 2008 9:34 pm
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
By Dave, May 15, 2008 10:10 pm
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
By Dave, May 15, 2008 1:34 pm
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
By Dave, May 15, 2008 11:52 am
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
By Dave, May 15, 2008 8:43 am
Stuff is most likely gonna be broken for a bit till I get it all moved over.
Still fighting the server
By Dave, May 14, 2008 10:10 pm
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
By Dave, May 14, 2008 9:57 pm
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
By Dave, May 14, 2008 9:50 pm
everybodylikessandwiches recipe index
A wide assortment of recipes. Good stuff!
Favicon generation tools
By Dave, May 14, 2008 8:50 pm
Several links to sites with tools to make Favicons.
WP Super Cache
By Dave, May 14, 2008 1:00 pm
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
By Dave, May 13, 2008 10:46 pm
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
By Dave, May 12, 2008 10:07 pm
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… 😉
Firefox Killer only in PuppyLinux
By Dave, May 12, 2008 9:15 pm
Twas the “insert” key and it does it’s deed only in Puppy linux when ScribeFire is running. So back to PCLOS for now. Puppy is fast and overall an excellent distro for older and even newer equipment. Tis somewhat limited in applications but everything I needed I was able to find or find a workaround for. And I suspect that the insert key bit killing firefox when using scribefire is fixable, but I just don’t have the mental energy right now to work through it.
Shoelace Knot
By Dave, May 12, 2008 8:02 am
Ian’s Shoelace Site – Shoelace Knot Comparison
How to tie your shoes. Interesting knots… 😉
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
By Dave, May 12, 2008 7:59 am
Little Brother » Download for Free
Most excellent book, and not just for young adults. Highly recommended!
Add Scroogle to your Firefox Search Bar
By Dave, May 12, 2008 7:28 am
Mycroft Project: Scroogle Search Engine Plugins – Firefox & IE7
Go to the page and follow the instructions. Good stuff!
Jim Reed, on The Museum of Fond Memories
By Dave, May 12, 2008 7:17 am
Jim Reed, on The Museum of Fond Memories….
My museum of fond memories is filled with triggers and unexpected alarms….
When you walk down the long hallway of Reed Books Antiques/The Museum of Fond Memories, you’ll be surprised every step of the way. Passing by the front counter, for instance, a motion-sensitive black box plays the opening music theme to the Twilight Zone. Pressing a button on a small white square brings audience applause. Buttons on a seemingly innocent flashlight produce eerie screams and howls. A potted sunflower suddenly bursts into “You Are My Sunshine” and smiles at you. A mounted fish sings “Well, I’d Like to Know Where You Got the Notion,” ultra violet lights make things glow unexpectedly, and an enormous record changer plays stacks of recordings of square dances, children’s tunes, belly dances, Mister Rogers songs, Wagner operas. You may have gotten the idea by now that my shop is dedicated to the obtuse, the fun, the unusual…and you’d be right.
Interesting place, and person. Both are well worth the visit. 😉
Found via Calcis.net
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