From 4b6c0e31385f5f27a151088c0a2b614495c4e589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Duncan Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:47:50 -0400 Subject: initial commit, including theme --- content/posts/2000-07-26-ewl-updates.html | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/2000-07-26-ewl-updates.html (limited to 'content/posts/2000-07-26-ewl-updates.html') diff --git a/content/posts/2000-07-26-ewl-updates.html b/content/posts/2000-07-26-ewl-updates.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11ba6ff --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2000-07-26-ewl-updates.html @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +--- +date: "2000-07-26T10:42:00Z" +title: EWL Updates +--- + +I've been working on EWL a lot lately -- in +fact +giblet and +richlowe have +been helping too. Rather than go over all the details, I went ahead +and modified my update script so it posts the ChangeLog. You can +check that out here. If you +want to try out the snapshot, _please_ read the ChangeLog -- it's +the only accurate documentation that exists ATM, and it has a lot +of useful tips (for example, running src/create_personal_preferences.sh +so EWL doesn't SEGV on startup). No, there isn't any rendering yet, +yes there is rudimentary theme support.

+ +I moved all my screenshots from +my old EFN page to the +screenshots page, and I preserved the +captions and added some updated commentary. There are still a +lot of things strewn across various accounts that I'd like to move +onto Pablotron, but that will have to wait until after a redesign +(yes, it will happen eventually). It'll be SQL queries all over +the place, and I'd like to make it themable, but we'll see what +happens. I actually had a working themable PHP sample page, I don't +think I'm going to go with that implementation after all.

+ +Our cable modem got cut off last week. Apparenly I was $11 short +on the bill or something. Anyways, I didn't realize that it was +about to get cut off, and I payed the entire bill with a credit +card within 12 hours of the service being shut off, but for some +reason @Home told me it would take 72 hours to turn it back on. +That's fine, except it took twice that long, and I had to call at +least 5 times before I got a "priority ticket" or some crap. I +could go on, but Sean wrote a really nice summary of what dealing +with @Home customer service is like over on +the 10k page. Unfortunately, +they're problems still aren't resolved, so you can't reack 10k +at the moment.

+ +Kuro5hin, one of my favorite +news pages (ie one of the few pages I read on a daily basis), was +shut down because of DoS attacks on the anonymous story submission +queue. This really sucks. It wasn't even a creative or complicated +attack -- the non-computer analogy would be vandalizing a public +restroom, only this is worse. The people running Kuro5hin were all +volunteers who dedicated their time to the page because they +enjoyed working on it, not because they were being payed. I liked +the stories on kuro5hin better than "the other site" (how everyone +on kuro5hin referred to +Slashdot), and the comments +were usually more interesting. Supposedly, they're going to take +a break, remove the anonymous submission, and return after a month, +but things like this are incredibly frustrating. DoS is stupid. +It's not l33t, and you're not a cool computer h4x0r if you know how +to run a smurf daemon on your grandma's iMac.

+ +Finally, seeing as how I don't have any interesting photos to post +(besides this picture of +Gnea), I'll direct you towards Tom Gilbert's vacation photos. His +sister is pretty good looking. :) Check her, um I mean his vacation +photos, out +here (I'm just kidding, Tom. Although I do wish everyone in #e had dressed +up in monkey suits as a suprise when you got back). +

+ +Anyways, more later.... + -- cgit v1.2.3