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my project site is fancy

Posted by jamba on August 17, 2010

much more so than this wordpress stuff….

haha! So, I guess I consider this blog (factorq.net) my “personal blog” of any variety of opinionation and open source and other ramblings.  My other website, jrob.co.cc (now jrobb.org), I suppose is my site dedicated to projects I work on and develop.

At work, I have several programs that I have developed, mostly all under the umbrella of one large program–all written in VB6, unfortunately.  Anyway, I’m converting all that, and splitting up the one large application into several more focused programs.  I was planning to make some sort of blog type thing so that I could easily keep track of my progress and what I do on the day-to-day, since my memory is crap and I get side-tracked a lot with several other projects and things (non-software…well, and some other non-primary software projects).

And, well, where I work we use MS Sharepoint.  There is a blog function in there with the “mysite” thing, which would be convenient to use, however…I just couldn’t do it, it didn’t feel right at all.

So, I was going to setup wordpress on the jrob site, but then my webhost charges a little more for MySQL (and I’m very cheap) so I wanted to find some kind of static page aggregator, or write one myself.  My main requirements were that it had to be lightweight, free (as in freedom), and preferably written in PHP.  I came across a few, but mostly it came down to hlscript and hl– (a fork of hlscript).  I think I have settled on using hl–, but I am still testing both for the time being.

I’ve set up this blog, and I plug the RSS feed into my sharepoint site at work so that I can send the internal link to people, and they can see the stuff I am writing about development progress, etc.  I have escaped the evil of microsoft….for now.  :-)

hl– (and hlscript as well) is very hackable, I have already slightly modified it.  I imagine I will be going in there and updating it more to suit my needs, while still leaving it as simple as possible.

For anyone who wants to see it, that development blog can be reached here: http://jrob.co.cc/blog/ (jrobb.org/blog)

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jrob.co.cc is back on the air

Posted by jamba on July 22, 2010

A while back, I had made my own webserver.  Recently as there had been a LOT of downtime with my (free) host…again…I decided I was just going to leave them and delete my account.  Didn’t I set up Apache at home?  So I figured I would give it a go.  I set up the site, forwarded my ports, and had everything working.  Then, I started reading about how this can be dangerous, DOS/DDOS attacks and other things of the like.  I didn’t really like that at all, so I started looking around for hosts.  My site is really simple with very little traffic, so if I’m paying for a host I don’t want to be paying out the wazoo here.

Then I came across nearlyFreeSpeech.net … the home of “only pay for what you use” hosting.  So far, so good. I haven’t had very much experience with them, but it looks like it is a small outfit focusing on quality rather than …whatever x10 focused on.  If it works out, I may end up moving this site over there as well.

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jrob.co.cc back up…sort of

Posted by jamba on July 7, 2010

So The old host is back up. I am not really hosting any files there anymore, so it more or less just points here.

I host a few things on there that warrant keeping it, but nothing high priority so it does not really matter if it goes down again.  Oh, and the MySQL db’s are all broken, so I had to disable anything that tried to connect.  Lame!

http://jrob.co.cc

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Update: free servers aren’t worth it

Posted by jamba on June 18, 2010

on the old site which I just transferred from (again), the MySQL db’s are all jacked up and non-working,so I am back here to stay.

I’ve changed about the Code Page, gave it a little more structure.  I have yet to try to recover the lost posts from the other host.  I imagine it is going to be quite the hassle.
In fact, they may not even be recoverable, if the databases were wiped out!  doh!

While X10hosting.com did provide a good service at a great price, they were always overloaded, and as such always making upgrades.  this caused a LOT of downtime.  Finally, I’m just tired of it.

Wish me some data recovery luck!

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Back to this domain

Posted by jamba on June 16, 2010

so the free server kept crashing due to “upgrades” which will make the service “better”–so far it has only crashed more often.

factorq.net domain is now back up and running!  I will have to revamp the code section a bit and bring it up to date and all that.  Also I’ll have to see if I can get a hold of the posts I had made in between the previous post and this one that had been made on my own server.

so…woohoo!

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New server

Posted by jamba on March 4, 2010

So I think I am moving off of the wordpress domain and onto a new (well…old) server.

Maybe, anyway!  I haven’t yet decided.   www.factorq.net

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jrob.co.cc : codestuffs

Posted by jamba on January 14, 2010

I got the other website up and going again.  I am using it to host code sources and other things like that which may be useful.

jrob.co.cc

Currently in the forums I have mentioned doing a speedtest between PowerBasic and Purebasic, I have posted the timing results, and will post links to the sources soon.

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New section in forums: programming.

Posted by jamba on January 9, 2010

I added a new “programming” section to the forums.  I figured this made sense, as it is what I do for a living, should help me keep things straight, and maybe I can provide some info for people looking for related material.

Although I do mostly…well…predominantly Windows programming, hopefully I can work in some linux coding as well.

Currently I just added these sections:

  • General – what it sounds like
  • BASIC – basic language, w/ subforums PowerBasic and PureBasic
  • C

I  use mostly PowerBasic these days at work, converting from old VB6.  Things are always subject to change, though.

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So… it’s taking a lot longer than I thought.

Posted by jamba on September 29, 2009

I’ve gotten back from vacation mentioned in the previous post…but I have STILL yet to even get on that computer I was working on.

We have been staying busy doing things around the house–stripping off wallpaper, painting, gettin tile, etc.

It is running currently as a single disk system, with a single disk RAId set up (but unused).
I haven’t forgotten about it, or anything like that.  I will probably finish this sometime this week, whenever I have time.  Or make time.

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What’s the holdup? I blame Apple.

Posted by jamba on August 28, 2009

So…I’m still using Arch.  But really now there is a new roadblock to the distro-hopping adventure I was having….

dun dun DUNNNNN….  I got an iPhone.  Well, not (entirely) by choice–work paid for it, and there are not really any Linux-based options available to us at the moment that are viable.  So, I have an iPhone.
It is neat and everything, but I really cannot stand how limiting Apple is with everything.  For instance, iTunes is THE ONLY software that can be used to sync, copy music, etc anything on the iPhone (or iPods).  This is crazy.  #1 it is a pain in the ass, especially since I do not have a windows computer in my house (We have 3…all using Linux operating systems).  Luckily (?  …not sure if that is the right word), I use Windows at work, so I use my computer there to sync.

Anyway…Apple is to blame for holding up site content, because now that I have said iPhone I am not on the computer nearly as much as before.  Now, given I haven’t been on the computer much at all in the past year or two compared with 3-8 years ago (before I had kids), but now I am on here even less.
The iPhone is just convenient.  I can check my email wherever I am, and stay up to date.  I use nambu and facebook apps to keep up-to-date with my social networking addictions.   For everything that I do regularly, there is some kind of app in the app store.  A lot of these are free, I haven’t really endeavored to get a non-free app (aside from a couple of games that I have gotten– $0.99 each).

So by that token, I have less of a need to be on the computer.  Web browsing and like tasks are a pain due to the small screen, though, so for things like reading news and making updates on here I make it much easier on myself to use a computer.

The iPhone may be convenient, but it is not free (as in freedom).  One of these days I will get an Open Source/Linux based phone/mobile device.  For now, though, it will have to do.

Site update delays and all.

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