Michael S. Clark » Personal

Hosting Transferred

Michael — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:41:00 +0000

I’ve just completed the transfer of all the websites I host to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET.

For as little as $0.25, you can set up web sites at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the original home of only pay for what you use hosting.

This is the penultimate service that this server provides as I have already transferred email to Google Mail and ClickOnce hosting to Dropbox.com.

I believe this is better for the long term. I was thinking of decommissioning the server anyway, as the last service it provides is media server that works with my XBOX360. For this purpose, I am now looking at the LaCie Network Space MAX 4Tb.

Alfie's First Birthday Party

Michael — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:48:40 +0000

I’ve updated Alfie’s blog with videos from his first birthday party.

Click here to view them.

Jivin' Jim

Michael — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:07:44 +0000

Jivin’ Jim now has his own website, including videos, with a theme customised by yours truly!

Jim, as you may remember, is currently using Karaokidex to run the karaoke parts of his gigs. He asked me to give him a website, so there it is.

Click here to visit.

Beautiful

Michael — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:47:22 +0000

Wall-Mounted LCD

Michael — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:51:58 +0000

We finally began redecorating the livingroom last weekend, and we decided to wall-mount the television. The Plasma Centre provided all the supplies:

UM101M Tilt – Black Universal Slim Tilting Wall Mount
PAVS-2 – PAVS-2 530mm Cable Management Trunking
3x PAVS-S – PAVS-S Premier AV Support Shelf Unit

Now all we’ve got to do is finish papering, and get new skirting boards and door and window frames.

Bad Things Happen In Threes?

Michael — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:18:30 +0000

We though uur indoor bunny, Sonny, had had a mild stroke, but after a visit to the vet, it appears he has a parasite or deep ear infection
Alfie has caught a bad cold, and is coughing like a barking dog
We had to get Rentokil in (at a cost of £174!) to deal with a small outbreak of _mice in me kitchen_
We had no water all of yesterday as there was a problem with the local PRV

That’s four so far; roll on Christmas!

Spurious Loading on Need For Speed Shift?

Michael — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:04:06 +0000

Why does loading take so long between legs of the “Duel” events?

It’s the same course and the same cars, so why does it feel like it loads everything all over again?

Have they never heard of caching?

X360 Media Update Requires Sign-In

Michael — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:28:58 +0000

Why?

Why do I have to be signed in to XBox Live to use a media codec?

I was trying to watch a programme last night with was encoded using the ISO-MPEG4 compatible XviD codec, but I was having trouble signing in, so it wouldn’t let me.

Why can’t they add it to a dashboard update and have it available all the time?

Grrr.

WordPress Permalinks in IIS6

Michael — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:18:59 +0000

I was looking for a way to use WordPress permalinks under IIS6 without having to use a custom 404 handler, and after some searching, I came across this:

This ISAPI filter removes the index.php from WordPress’s permalinks on IIS,making your permalinks more pretty and SEO friendly.

Because IIS does not support mod_rewrite module for rewriting URLs, so whenever you try to use permalinks, you always get something like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/2006/09/02/…../

this filter can remove the index.php from url automatically.it’s easy to use,just install it and no further configuration is necessary.

Now obviously you would need access to IIS to be able to install it, but even for hosting companies, it seems like a bit of a no-brainer.

[Via: Google Code]

Server Change

Michael — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:47:44 +0000

I’ve now successfully migrated my amalgamated my two existing servers to a single Windows Home Server, allowing me to host websites and clickonce applications and stream media to my XBox 360, all from a single box.

The changes are listed below:

Upgraded PHP to 5.3.0, which provided a few challenges, as it doesn’t support ISAPI except through the FastCGI extension
Upgraded MySQL to 5.1.37 Community Edition, and changed the back-end administration application to dbForge Studio Express.
Transferred email for my domain out to Google Apps mail, so no more mail rejections due to the mail server being hosted on a server in a public IP address range.