Posted On: Thursday - August 1st 2024 8:24AM MST
In Topics: Websites
If you were checking out the site last evening, or trying to, you may have seen some weirdness. (Yes, something like what we see out of a GOP Presidential candidate.) It was a mess.
Because Notepad is very simple (what I like about it!) I had no word count of the Tucker/iSteve interview. I pasted it in for 1 post on this site, then 2, then 4, 6, and finally 8 parts, to get it to fit on the one page without a scrollbar. That was on a Windows machine, and I know this works differently on others. I was messing around with the various stages of post-part-counts, editing 2 at a time online, etc., so my apologies for the confusion. What's also a shame it that the rest of the stuff is way down the page now.
However, I changed the posts/page to 20 and greatly elongated the page. That'd be fine if this site ran normally, but it doesn't. One shouldn't have to do all the scrolling to spots that should be automatically at the top. I got back into the software to do 2 minor things.* By "back into", I mean reading through the fairly short files of .php code. It's been probably 5 years since I've looked at this stuff, but I remember a lot, and I had put in comments. (Part of that was that I'd started with someone else's free stuff, and I had to figure it out.)
If I myself can't stand the way this software works at times**, I sure you readers feel the same. It's time to do something. The problem is I have to change big stuff in order to change the small stuff (AND, of course, to add decent features, which is just as important). That's because the very simple - early/mid-'90s HTML - thing of putting anchor tags just doesn't work with this guy's way of doing things. I've spend many hours trying to figure it out.
Here's the deal. Along with comments, the posts are in the database too. It's a simple one with a handful of tables. I need to get the existing posts into "flat" (simple HTML with no programming code***) files (pretty easy), and then change the programming so that new posts become the same. This will speed up the site, but the main thing is it will allow me to make my own changes for new features that should have been here from the beginning without any confusion.
That stuff yesterday has me motivated. The first thing that must happen is that I get my "sandbox" in order. That's a computer geek term for all the components on my own machine that allow me to test everything OFF-LINE. I am hopeful, but I haven't checked all that in those same 5 years or so.
About the 8-part interview transcript: Please, let's just wait on any on-topic comments for a post I'll put up later today with my comments on it. I don't know, it'd be nicer to have my commentary and some comments under each part, but we'll go this way - you can refer to the 8 posts. In the last 14 (really 13) minutes, there is that addition that I made. I may still go back and type in the minute or two (quite a lot, really) that I found missing. I'll make sure you readers know of the change.
* The other, besides making the page longer, was adding those forward/back/home options to the top of the page. Again, the scrolling, man, the scrolling ..
** I do not disparage the creator of it. He had made it as a plug in, and for a much smaller level of use.
*** HTML is just formatting code. HyperText Mark-up Language. By George, I think she's got it!
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Moderator
Thursday - August 1st 2024 5:51PM MST
PS: Haha, thanks for the zen-laugh, Alarmist. There was a video below it on 2 computer gamemaker guys and a new D.I.E. HR rep. It was funny enough, but the HR lady wasn't played right. She butchered the part, IMO.
Moderator
Thursday - August 1st 2024 5:49PM MST
PS: Adam, this is old stuff. There's a combination package of the Apache server, the database, and the php interpret that I'm using. I don't know if I can get into any "new" (haha) computer stuff, but if it's Windows or Linux, I guess I can - I may wait for a new machine, which I sorely need - for that. I just LUV muh Windows 7 though.
I did see your graphic appear, but Mr. Sailer will get slow on ones he doesn't approve of, I can tell that. Have you written any comments under iSteve posts that never appeared? How about other writers there? (I've heard some were assholes.)
Paul Craig Roberts, still on there, is a guy whose views I almost always agree with, but he got made at the commenter a few years back - one of them me - and he wanted no more comments. We were right. It was some Climate Calamity BS of his. I couldn't believe he had that view to begin with, but he came on with his own comments, and it didn't go well for him. I may see if I can find that article on TUR. I also wonder whether PCR has seen the light on this issue.
I did see your graphic appear, but Mr. Sailer will get slow on ones he doesn't approve of, I can tell that. Have you written any comments under iSteve posts that never appeared? How about other writers there? (I've heard some were assholes.)
Paul Craig Roberts, still on there, is a guy whose views I almost always agree with, but he got made at the commenter a few years back - one of them me - and he wanted no more comments. We were right. It was some Climate Calamity BS of his. I couldn't believe he had that view to begin with, but he came on with his own comments, and it didn't go well for him. I may see if I can find that article on TUR. I also wonder whether PCR has seen the light on this issue.
The Alarmist
Thursday - August 1st 2024 1:03PM MST
PS
Completely O/T, your daily dose of Zen from the Bee 🐝
Hillary Clinton Meets With Kamala To Help Her Improve Her Black Accent
“"With my extensive experience of campaigning and pandering to black communities, I just had to step in and offer to help," explained Clinton. "Kamala has her heart in the right place but I think everybody was just having a hard time believing that accent."
Harris turned down an initial offer for help from President Biden who said that his years growing up in black churches and protesting for civil rights with George Washington Carver could help Harris's black authenticity. But when Clinton offered her expertise, Harris said she just couldn't refuse.
source: https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-meets-with-kamala-to-help-her-improve-her-black-accent
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Completely O/T, your daily dose of Zen from the Bee 🐝
Hillary Clinton Meets With Kamala To Help Her Improve Her Black Accent
“"With my extensive experience of campaigning and pandering to black communities, I just had to step in and offer to help," explained Clinton. "Kamala has her heart in the right place but I think everybody was just having a hard time believing that accent."
Harris turned down an initial offer for help from President Biden who said that his years growing up in black churches and protesting for civil rights with George Washington Carver could help Harris's black authenticity. But when Clinton offered her expertise, Harris said she just couldn't refuse.
source: https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-meets-with-kamala-to-help-her-improve-her-black-accent
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Adam Smith
Thursday - August 1st 2024 10:13AM MST
PS: Completely off topic, but...
This comment by Colin Wright...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-admits-the-racial-reckoning-helped-cause-the-road-wreckening/#comment-6689280
elicited a response from me that was akin to a potential DailyStupid headline that I've had kicking around that would have read (if iSteve didn't delete it)...
I think TNR is a humane yet workable solution of the problems that 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬! present.
Which prompted me to search out a graphic to help illustrate my point. My search led me to this image...
https://tinyurl.com/3jev35tr
Which was the inspiration I needed to create this public service meme...
https://i.ibb.co/yP5gZw8/TNR.jpg
Unfortunately, Steve doesn't find my meme as amusing as I do.
I guess it isn't fit to print (or something).
Oh well. There's always 4chan.
Cheers! ☮️
This comment by Colin Wright...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-admits-the-racial-reckoning-helped-cause-the-road-wreckening/#comment-6689280
elicited a response from me that was akin to a potential DailyStupid headline that I've had kicking around that would have read (if iSteve didn't delete it)...
I think TNR is a humane yet workable solution of the problems that 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬! present.
Which prompted me to search out a graphic to help illustrate my point. My search led me to this image...
https://tinyurl.com/3jev35tr
Which was the inspiration I needed to create this public service meme...
https://i.ibb.co/yP5gZw8/TNR.jpg
Unfortunately, Steve doesn't find my meme as amusing as I do.
I guess it isn't fit to print (or something).
Oh well. There's always 4chan.
Cheers! ☮️
Adam Smith
Thursday - August 1st 2024 9:54AM MST
PS: Greetings, Mr. Moderator,
So... Are you going to setup your own LAMP server on an old computer? Something else? You know, you could setup a test site on your webhost for tinkering with your code if you wanted to.
It's been a while since I did any sort of web design, but you do have more options than setting things up on a local machine, though in many ways it is the best option.
All this talk about LAMP servers and such reminds me that I have a few computers desperately in need of new os installs because I have quite a bit of data to organize and archive. (I should probably get on that project. It is the perfect excuse to try out a few Debian 12 installs.)
Anyway... Cheers to a wonderful Thursday! ☮️
So... Are you going to setup your own LAMP server on an old computer? Something else? You know, you could setup a test site on your webhost for tinkering with your code if you wanted to.
It's been a while since I did any sort of web design, but you do have more options than setting things up on a local machine, though in many ways it is the best option.
All this talk about LAMP servers and such reminds me that I have a few computers desperately in need of new os installs because I have quite a bit of data to organize and archive. (I should probably get on that project. It is the perfect excuse to try out a few Debian 12 installs.)
Anyway... Cheers to a wonderful Thursday! ☮️