[Ql-Users] Last Chance Saloon
Just a reminder that next week is your very last chance to write for QL Today. The deadline for the last issue in next Friday 31st May. Although we shall not be publishing the issue until September, we are sticking to our normal production schedule. This gives us the time to scan volumes 16 and 17 and prepare the CDs/DVDs for every reader, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Last chance saloon?
Dennis S wrote, On 25/02/09 04:22: I seem to have seen somewhere that Tripod also is folding. I can offer space on my server, which is now in a data centre so has all the usual facilities (and high speed). You would be able to use all the normal scripting languages (php, perl, python, mysql). Contact me privately for details, Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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I seem to have seen somewhere that Tripod also is folding. - Original Message - From: "Dilwyn Jones" To: "QL-Users list" Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Last chance saloon? I don't have time to download anything for a few days (health, doctor, hospital probably). Why not put everything on a CD or allow someone (Dilwyn?) to put your software on his website? Hope your decision isn't final and thanks for all you have done for the QL. François Van Emelen I have downloaded all his programs, just in case. Most of them are on my website already, I just need to check they're up to date. It looks like Geoff's Lycos pages are still there, for the time being - the Lycos Europe home page says 28/2/09 although some services have already gone. They recommend that users who have sites hosted on Lycos change to their European partner STRATO, but this is not a free service, it costs from £1.99 a month. However, they also suggest Tripod, which is free and up to 1GB space with unlimited (albeit subject to fair use policy) traffic. Tripod seems to be a "sister" organisation to Lycos - http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/ -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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Dilwyn Jones schreef: I don't have time to download anything for a few days (health, doctor, hospital probably). Why not put everything on a CD or allow someone (Dilwyn?) to put your software on his website? Hope your decision isn't final and thanks for all you have done for the QL. François Van Emelen I have downloaded all his programs, just in case. Most of them are on my website already, I just need to check they're up to date. Hi Dilwyn, Two days I noticed that Geoff's website was still accessible and I downloaded the files. Thanks for your help. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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However, they also suggest Tripod, which is free and up to 1GB space with unlimited (albeit subject to fair use policy) traffic. Tripod seems to be a "sister" organisation to Lycos - http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/ Oops, I forgot to mention that although Lycos send you to the Tripod home page, offering up to 1GB of space etc etc, when you try to sign up they just redirect you back in a loop to the Lycos home page which says all web hosting stops on 28/2/09... -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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I don't have time to download anything for a few days (health, doctor, hospital probably). Why not put everything on a CD or allow someone (Dilwyn?) to put your software on his website? Hope your decision isn't final and thanks for all you have done for the QL. François Van Emelen I have downloaded all his programs, just in case. Most of them are on my website already, I just need to check they're up to date. It looks like Geoff's Lycos pages are still there, for the time being - the Lycos Europe home page says 28/2/09 although some services have already gone. They recommend that users who have sites hosted on Lycos change to their European partner STRATO, but this is not a free service, it costs from £1.99 a month. However, they also suggest Tripod, which is free and up to 1GB space with unlimited (albeit subject to fair use policy) traffic. Tripod seems to be a "sister" organisation to Lycos - http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/ -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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Geoff Wicks schreef: The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time. This is sad news. The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and although they promised site hosting would remain until at least the end of March they have now brought the closure forward to 15th February. I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of making the site a little more professional and until this weekend was intending to relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having serious second thoughts and may keep the site permanently closed. Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this time investment. QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece that I made 3 years ago. It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time on family history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the family history magazines I was paid generously for my work. The article produced a large number of reactions including one from a distant relative I had never heard of before and who had masses of family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me that peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing more work like this. If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in the next 7 days, Best wishes, Geoff I don't have time to download anything for a few days (health, doctor, hospital probably). Why not put everything on a CD or allow someone (Dilwyn?) to put your software on his website? Hope your decision isn't final and thanks for all you have done for the QL. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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Hi Geoff Why not do as Tony suggests, but try this host Best regards, John Taylor. On 8 Feb 2009, at 20:03, Geoff Wicks wrote: The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time. The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and although they promised site hosting would remain until at least the end of March they have now brought the closure forward to 15th February. I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of making the site a little more professional and until this weekend was intending to relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having serious second thoughts and may keep the site permanently closed. Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this time investment. QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece that I made 3 years ago. It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time on family history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the family history magazines I was paid generously for my work. The article produced a large number of reactions including one from a distant relative I had never heard of before and who had masses of family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me that peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing more work like this. If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in the next 7 days, Best wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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In message , Geoff Wicks writes Hi Geoff, It is always best to keep up as many activities as can ... to keep the mind alert ... :-) You couldn't really give up the on QL world now, could you ? The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time. The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and although they promised site hosting would remain until at least the end of March they have now brought the closure forward to 15th February. I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of making the site a little more professional and until this weekend was intending to relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having serious second thoughts and may keep the site permanently closed. Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this time investment. QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece that I made 3 years ago. It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time on family history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the family history magazines I was paid generously for my work. The article produced a large number of reactions including one from a distant relative I had never heard of before and who had masses of family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me that peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing more work like this. If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in the next 7 days, Best wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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Tony Firshman wrote, On 8/02/09 20:40: Geoff Wicks wrote, On 8/02/09 20:03: The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time. The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and although they promised site hosting would remain until at least the end of March they have now brought the closure forward to 15th February. I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of making the site a little more professional and until this weekend was intending to relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having serious second thoughts and may keep the site permanently closed. Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this time investment. QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece that I made 3 years ago. It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time on family history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the family history magazines I was paid generously for my work. The article produced a large number of reactions including one from a distant relative I had never heard of before and who had masses of family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me that peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing more work like this. If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in the next 7 days, You would be very welcome to host it on my server - for free. Pity you have not used relative links though. It should be a simple job to run a script to change the links. If you have say 'http://oldisp/your_directory/' then removal of the absolute link is dead easy. I can do that for you. All links would be from the root of the site, but that is not a problem. I did it recently for my school old boys soc, and had no problems. I can also offer most script languages, including php with admin via phpadmin web interface. Best to buy a domain - justwords.org.uk is available and costs about £3 a year. You could then use that domain also as an email address. DNS can then point to the *real* site transparently. Oh yes - and if you got this way, use 123-reg.co.uk. They are one of the cheapest, and I know how to get around their DNS quirks, and also give you http://justwords.org.uk - ie works without the www. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Last chance saloon?
Geoff Wicks wrote, On 8/02/09 20:03: The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time. The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and although they promised site hosting would remain until at least the end of March they have now brought the closure forward to 15th February. I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of making the site a little more professional and until this weekend was intending to relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having serious second thoughts and may keep the site permanently closed. Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this time investment. QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece that I made 3 years ago. It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time on family history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the family history magazines I was paid generously for my work. The article produced a large number of reactions including one from a distant relative I had never heard of before and who had masses of family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me that peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing more work like this. If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in the next 7 days, You would be very welcome to host it on my server - for free. Pity you have not used relative links though. It should be a simple job to run a script to change the links. If you have say 'http://oldisp/your_directory/' then removal of the absolute link is dead easy. I can do that for you. All links would be from the root of the site, but that is not a problem. I did it recently for my school old boys soc, and had no problems. I can also offer most script languages, including php with admin via phpadmin web interface. Best to buy a domain - justwords.org.uk is available and costs about £3 a year. You could then use that domain also as an email address. DNS can then point to the *real* site transparently. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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Did I just hear the sound of another nail going in the coffin or was that just my drunken neighbour falling down the stair again ? Per Geoff Wicks wrote: The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time. The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and although they promised site hosting would remain until at least the end of March they have now brought the closure forward to 15th February. I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of making the site a little more professional and until this weekend was intending to relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having serious second thoughts and may keep the site permanently closed. Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this time investment. QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece that I made 3 years ago. It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time on family history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the family history magazines I was paid generously for my work. The article produced a large number of reactions including one from a distant relative I had never heard of before and who had masses of family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me that peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing more work like this. If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in the next 7 days, Best wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Last chance saloon?
The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time. The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and although they promised site hosting would remain until at least the end of March they have now brought the closure forward to 15th February. I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of making the site a little more professional and until this weekend was intending to relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having serious second thoughts and may keep the site permanently closed. Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this time investment. QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece that I made 3 years ago. It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time on family history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the family history magazines I was paid generously for my work. The article produced a large number of reactions including one from a distant relative I had never heard of before and who had masses of family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me that peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing more work like this. If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in the next 7 days, Best wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
