I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.

Dawn ,'Beneath You'


Buffistas Building a Better Board  

Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

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tommyrot - Jul 16, 2004 7:50:29 am PDT #8035 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Gus! You're staying in Swiss-land for the forseable future?


Gus - Jul 16, 2004 7:57:06 am PDT #8036 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Gus! You're staying in Swiss-land for the forseable future?

Signed a contract this week for a year on-site. Next week, will be moving out of the hotel into an apartment. Visas and all those hoops go pretty quickly/smoothly, when a Swiss company is the employer.

So, yeah, for a foreseeable year of future, anyway.


tommyrot - Jul 16, 2004 8:01:53 am PDT #8037 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Cool! and congrats!

Don't be a stranger....


Jon B. - Jul 16, 2004 8:05:19 am PDT #8038 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Perhaps we should set up a "maps" subdomain here?


amych - Jul 16, 2004 8:09:27 am PDT #8039 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Congrats, Gus, even though we'll miss your maps something awful.


Gus - Jul 16, 2004 8:30:55 am PDT #8040 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

amych, I think we'll be able make it so you don't have to pine for the maps.

There was some thought at one point of hooking the username from a Buffistas session, so it does not have to be sent separately. I did some refactoring after that discussion that probably needs revisiting, with that in mind. Also, the data is very different from the last archive, so here is the latest: zip

If we don't want to hook into the Buffistas identity system, that zip can just be unzipped into a directory './map' off the document root, preserving file structure. The "./map/data" subdirectory should be chmod'ed for the doc-server having 'write', as the mapping stuff writes/updates files in there.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 16, 2004 8:33:32 am PDT #8041 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Is there a specific Mac web browser that's required to open the archived thread files? I previously thought it was just my archaic system and software at home that was keeping me from accessing the files, but they're freezing up my work computer too.

I'm running Internet Explorer 5.2.3 (the most recent Mac version I could find) on a 1.4 GHz G4 with system 10.2.5, which theoretically should be plenty to handle any html files. Should I install Opera or Safari, or is there some tweak I can make to IE to fix this?


Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 8:36:37 am PDT #8042 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well, they're zip files, aren't they? You need an unzipping utility. I don't see what your browser has to do with anything.


Dana - Jul 16, 2004 8:37:36 am PDT #8043 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Yes, but once you unzip it, it's a very large HTML file.


tommyrot - Jul 16, 2004 8:37:50 am PDT #8044 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

How much memory do you have on your system?

My 900 Mhz G3 iBook has 640 Meg of RAM. It takes a while, but Mozilla eventually gets it open.

I don't think I ever used IE to open an archived thread. I've de-installed it so I can't test it now.