I use content management software (or system) (CMS) to create almost all of my web publications. One of them is called Joomla!. Late last year the organization stopped supporting the version I used to build two of my major (high content) websites. For security, I won’t mention which. They could run for years but there was not going to be any security updates or improvements made on the older version. All the CMS programs I use...
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Pruning My Garden
I am referring to my garden of websites. I have planted quite a few through the years and some of them were not growing. They just took up valuable space in my little plot of the Internet. Now it’s time to cut out the dead wood and allow space (and my time) to helping the good plants grow. An old weed was one was my BBS websites TEDEX and renamed POSTEX. All it was doing was attracting flies to its...
Continue reading...Strange Culture
From my observation and experience I think I understand a little more about the nature of human communication. There is a large group of us who are outspoken and like to speak up and be heard and identified by others. Some of that group are well educated and intelligent although the two terms are NOT synonymous. Another portion will just say or write anything to be recognized. The remaining few are pure babbling idiots. I am...
Continue reading...Cloudy but Bright
I just put a new website in the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud. This one is the KautzCraft site. My shared server ISP (Ixwebhosting.com) has been causing me frustration by blocking my IP address 18 plus hours while I was accessing my web site files because I was doing too much backing up of those files via FTP. I understand the issues with managing a fairly overloaded shared server with dozens of other user sites....
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