Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-21 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Due to the kindness of list member Tim Crone, who was willing to help set up a relay tunnel, my formicapeak.com website is back on the air. It'll (have to be) less available than before, as the path goes through more layers, but we're hoping it'll still be good enough. I guess we'll see!

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-21 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Most excellent! Max Dillon, Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-19 Thread Ed Booher via Mercedes
If you aren't hosting large PDF Manuals and such, have you thought about putting it up as a WordPress blog? Basic service is free with 3 GB of space. I believe you can use your own domain name for as little as $18.00 a year. Hosted space, and personal websites have gotten *super* cheap in the last

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-19 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
have you thought about putting it up as a WordPress blog? Those things leave me cold. I want to continue to do what I have been doing, so that grep driveline *.html can be used to find things of interest. Takes about 1 second to find stuff that way. There are options, but I have to do a

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-19 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
Ah! so, coming again soon to a website near you RB On 18/09/2014 10:44 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: Jim could not do it as he would have had to check his website in order to get the instructions on how to do it (like the rest of us) and his website is down. The site is alive and well

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-18 Thread Ed Booher via Mercedes
Jim, what kind of things are you putting on this site? Just words and pictures, right? Not like massive downloadable files or anything, right? EdB On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Well, _that_ was a waste of time. Our ISP decided,

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-18 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Jim could not do it as he would have had to check his website in order to get the instructions on how to do it (like the rest of us) and his website is down. The site is alive and well in the basement. You just can't see it anywhere outside the house! Jim, what kind of things are you putting

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-17 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Well, _that_ was a waste of time. Our ISP decided, unilaterally, without notice or discussion, to cut off even the ability to host our own website, unless we pay them an additional $10/month. Color me not interested in extortion. I have to start the whole process over I guess, including

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-17 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
That stinks! The information on your site is very popular among the MB online community, including this one. Max Dillon, Charleston SC On Sep 17, 2014 10:13 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Well, _that_ was a waste of time. Our ISP decided, unilaterally, without

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-17 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
... From: Jim Cathey via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: My website Well, _that_ was a waste of time. Our ISP decided, unilaterally, without notice or discussion, to cut

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-17 Thread Tim Crone via Mercedes
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: For what I do (and you too I'd suspect) 11 is entirely sufficient. I don't send emails from my webhost which I guess is a problem for some. Its super cheap, I think I pay $18 or $20 a year... I just

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-09-17 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Thisun, too. Wilton - Original Message - From: Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: My website That stinks! The information on your site is very popular among the MB

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-20 Thread Fmiser
Fmiser wrote: For years I've been using staticcling.org for dynamic DNS. It's a small place, and free (as in beer) and their software in free (as in freedom). Jim wrote: I will look into that. My needs are microscopic, small enough that hosting the content myself is entirely

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Fred Moir
Jim.looks good to me. Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:23:34 -0700 From: j...@windwireless.net To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] OT: My website I believe I lost my free hosting, after 13 years or so, and I'm trying to host it myself. Anybody care

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Fmiser
Jim wrote: I believe I lost my free hosting, after 13 years or so, and I'm trying to host it myself. Anybody care to see if http://69.28.35.103/~jimc gets you anything that looks like my junk used to? How static is that IP address? Or is this just for testing purposes? For years I've

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Cathey
Looks familiar to me: This site was started as a way to combat entropy. While I used to rely entirely ... Excellent! Several more steps forward, I guess. That host machine is a cast-off 400 MHz G4 that we were given for free. I managed to coerce OSX 10.5 onto it, which has made that part of

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Cathey
How static is that IP address? Or is this just for testing purposes? It's DHCP-assigned by our ISP. No guarantee of stability at all, but I imagine that it will change infrequently, if ever. Our radio link is on 24x7, there's little reason for it to change. If it does, it'd only be the last

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Tim Crone
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote: Dealing with this is the next stage of the process. I have friends with sites already, I'm looking into linking to my site from one of them, and using a CGI script to update the link as necessary. I don't know if

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Craig
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:23:34 -0700 Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote: I believe I lost my free hosting, after 13 years or so, and I'm trying to host it myself. Anybody care to see if http://69.28.35.103/~jimc gets you anything that looks like my junk used to?

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Cathey
http://69.28.35.103/~jimc/genset/genleft.jpg Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~jimc/genset/genleft.jpg on this server. Hmm, some seriously weird permissions turned up on this, in spots. A couple of find/xargs runs took care of that. Thanks! -- Jim

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Meade Dillon
Works! Max Dillon, Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Cathey
In theory Google is now indexing this site again. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

[MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-18 Thread Jim Cathey
I believe I lost my free hosting, after 13 years or so, and I'm trying to host it myself. Anybody care to see if http://69.28.35.103/~jimc gets you anything that looks like my junk used to? -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-18 Thread Scott Ritchey
: [MBZ] OT: My website I believe I lost my free hosting, after 13 years or so, and I'm trying to host it myself. Anybody care to see if http://69.28.35.103/~jimc gets you anything that looks like my junk used to? -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com