AdamH.us

The local.thescripters.net server is now up and running! It’s taken some time because of some of my own configuration blunders, but it’s up. Most everything appears to be operational. If you find otherwise, let me know, either here or by email: contact@thescripters.com.

My new workstation is also now running. Has a couple issues with XP that need to be worked out. I do have Linux installed as a third OS, so I have two 64-bit systems with one 32-bit system.

Here’s what I’ve got:

• Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3)
• Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)
• Slackware64 13.0 (64-bit)

The triple-boot was working perfectly until I messed with folder ownership on the XP partition… So I’ll be fixing that this week, as well.

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Over the next couple of days, The Scripters local servers (where client websites are posted for testing) is going to be up and down as I am changing computers.  The way it is right now is that my personal computer is also the server. That is going to change by the end of next week. I have finally built my new machine enough to start running it. and so the server will become more of "pure server" and will only be running one operating system. Right now it semi-triple-boots. "Semi" because I don’t actually go into the third OS very often.

The server will be running Slackware Linux 13.0 with Apache 2, MySQL 5, and PHP 5. The system is an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with 1 GB RAM. It has one 80 GB HDD and one 160 GB HDD.

My new system is an AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8 GHz. I’ll put in the new 320 GB SATA HDD today and then install Windows XP on there. I’ll also be moving the video capture card to the new one.

Point is, there are a few changes coming and servers are going to be a little back and forth for a few days while I get everything set up.

The main website (www.thescripters.com) will remain unaffected, but local.thescripters.net will be offline off and on. I will try to upload client websites to clients.thescripters.com before anything goes down so that are available.

Side note: Congratulations to me. AdamH.us has its 100th post and 100th tag now!

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I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a blog for The Scripters where we can post updates and news more than just major news on the main page. It’s a possibility. I don’t know yet. If I do, the first thing I need to do is create a skin for WordPress that would match the design of the website.

There’s a lot of logistics to consider. Don’t know if it’ll get done or not. But it’s in consideration. I guess we’ll see.

Any thoughts from the readers? Probably not. I’ll probably just get a bunch of spammers trying to sound legitimate. But they don’t always make their comments match the topic of the post.

Anyway, I’ll post up any updates if we decide to go forward with it. I think it’d be a great way to increase traffic, but I’m not sure yet if it’s a good idea or not.

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YouTube – Ray Stevens – Throw the Bums Out.

Congress just hasn’t gotten the idea yet. Ray Stevens has the right idea, though. Throw the bums out and let America run America.

‘Nuff said.

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WordPress › Blog » Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!

I know… three posts in a single day… crazy… But anyway, it’s all great stuff. And I know this one was posted back on the 23rd of February, but WordPress 3 is on the way! Early May is only about 2 months away. You can bet I’ll be ready for it!

I don’t know everything that 3 will include, but I do know they’re merging the single and multi-site editions into one. So that’ll be cool.

So… Two months to go…

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Windows 7 – Tail-Waggin’ Fun « Worldstart Blog.

Gotta love what this guy says about Windows… I’ve noticed much of it myself… I used 95 a little bit, but not much, mostly stuck with DOS or 3.1 until I could run 98… ME? BAH! Vista? Media disaster…

I guess at this point I’m looking good at every other version of Windows. I used 3.1, 98, XP and will be using 7 in a few weeks (as soon as I finish building the computer to run it on, that is).

Anyway, I love the whole “Dog and Hydrant” analogy he uses here… It’s great!

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I’ve been wondering for some time how to use avatars on this site… I finally figured it out some time ago. But haven’t done anything with what I learned. Anyway, if you would like to use an avatar, go to www.gravatar.com and get one set up.

WordPress uses Gravatar by default and I haven’t really found any other way to do it. But it works. I added all three of my main email addresses, and now whenever I want to comment somewhere, my avatar will show up automatically.

True, I don’t really care for some of those online services, but it works!

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Due to the fact that Google and YouTube (among others) are beginning to phase out Internet Explorer 6, I think it’s time the web begin upgrading. So, beginning in the next month or two, websites designed or maintained by us will no longer offer support for IE6. TheScripters.com already incorporates a warning to those using IE6 on XP or later. These users will be unable to view thescripters.com, and are provided a message to either upgrade to 7/8 or move to a "better" browser like Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. Moving to browsers such as Avant or Maxthon isn’t really an option unless you’re willing to upgrade to IE 7 or 8 because they use the base IE that’s already installed on your computer. You will get the exact same results on those browsers as on Internet Explorer itself.

Microsoft has ceased support for IE6 and soon will be for 7. New computers are coming with Windows 7, which has IE8 incorporated into it. XP is being phased out, which is the last OS to default to IE6. Vista ships with 7.

There are simply too many new technologies we use that IE6 just won’t support. Some of our PNG-heavy sites (like thescripters.com) will provide this same warning, but may incorporate a way to view the page anyway. If you have questions, you can contact us.

This move is simple logic from a design standpoint. Internet Explorer has always tried to change the rules and still doesn’t display certain pages quite right. It has issues matching image colors and background colors. So from our vantage point as designers, we can no longer support those who choose to stay behind with an ancient browser.

I may personally include such a message here on AdamH.us as a warning, but probably not to the same extent as on thescripters.com. I don’t know yet.

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I got this article in my маси и столовеWorldStart newsletter tonight.  And it clearly explains yet another reason I will never ever join a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace, etc.

Social media data harvesting

It seems like everything on the internet these days is "social". Social media web sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter allow you to share interests, opinions, pictures and many other personal things with your friends on the Internet. While sharing these things with friends is what these sites are made for, it’s not just friends that can view your personal information.

Social media harvesting is a new way of stealing identities on the internet. Data harvesters collect your personal data from many locations on the Internet and combine it. With all of this data combined, they can identify enough about you to steal your identity. Here’s an example.

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I just feel like it’s time to say it. Even if the group continues to live on residing on a server, I just can’t justify continuing membership. I haven’t posted (not really) in probably 10 months. So here’s a little bit of what I said:

I’m sad it’s come down to this, but I don’t have the time or the energy to keep up with the group anymore… I haven’t really kept up on it since I got back in March.. That’s almost a year… I may have posted once when I got back, but I don’t think so.. 10 months with no posting is a strong indication to me that I just can’t do it anymore…

Whether the group closes or not, I have to unsubscribe.. I can’t, in good conscience, remain a member of a group that I don’t participate in. I’ve moved on. I’ll keep KP Fan World online, if only as an archive. I won’t run it, though. I can’t run it. I have a business to run and don’t have time to do that like I used to. Before, I was out of school and not really working. I took it as experience for later. I can’t do that anymore.

I’m saddened by the lack of activity just like the rest of you, but we know it’s got to end some time. And as much as I still love the show, there just isn’t any more we can do for it. It’s been off the air for far too long to bring it back. It just wouldn’t be the same. I mean the whole crew has moved on… Many of them to another network altogether… What is the group worth anymore?

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I’ve met a lot of great people through this group. Made some good friends. Built a business out of it. If it weren’t for MKP, I may not be doing web design now… I wouldn’t have gotten experience on SDS… I wouldn’t be who I am today. That’s saying a lot, and I’ll miss the group… but friends I can keep in contact with even without the group.

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Happy anniversary, MKP…. May your future endeavors be as great and fulfilling as this has been. May you influence others for good.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mission_Kim_Possible/message/28642

Goodbye, Mission Kim Possible… It’s been fun…

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