The asterisks were my idea. I think it was a Netscape 4.x issue that they helped fix.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
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Jon B. - Apr 03, 2004 5:09:24 am PST #6976 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
DXMachina - Apr 03, 2004 5:50:34 am PST #6977 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I think it was a Netscape 4.x issue that they helped fix.
Pretty sure you're right. I remember the two of us talking about it.
Also, just a reminder that we still don't have archives.buffistas.org working yet. I'm thinking that if it's going to be a while, I'll just update the page on the old archives site, and use that as the primary until we have a chance to figure out how to make the new site work properly.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2004 5:57:46 am PST #6978 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What we need is to create an FTP account that's independent of a subdomain, since the current webadmin doesn't make subdomains subdirectories. And what we really just need is an FTP account pointing to the archives directory.
However, I'm not familiar enough with the FTP server to do that offhand.
Tom?
Jon B. - Apr 03, 2004 6:04:14 am PST #6979 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Why not temporarily forget the subdomain, and just use the archives subdirectory? I recognize the need for security, but DX ain't going to blow anything up.
DXMachina - Apr 03, 2004 6:05:20 am PST #6980 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
t Hides TNT behind back
Nope. Not me.
Jon B. - Apr 03, 2004 6:11:45 am PST #6981 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Or, as I said in Bureau, DX could just email me new archives and I can upload them. It's a trivial amount of extra effort.
t edit Or if there's a bunch of them that would overwhelm email, post them on your server, and I can grab and upload.
DXMachina - Apr 03, 2004 6:18:58 am PST #6982 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I think it makes more sense just to trust me with the password.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2004 6:22:19 am PST #6983 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's not a matter of not trust, I just figured it was something simple to set up if you knew what you were doing, and that it could be hooked up quickly.
But it got lost under a flood of other site-starting stuff.
I gotta bolt -- Jon, give him the magic words, will you?
We should still get that FTP user set up -- so that if DX hands the role over, it'll be simple and compartmentalised.
Jon B. - Apr 03, 2004 6:26:55 am PST #6984 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
profile addy OK, DX?
Tom Scola - Apr 03, 2004 6:28:47 am PST #6985 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm away from my computer. I'll take a look at it tomorrow.