Jory’s blog

Try before you buy

I wrote a post similar to this a while ago, but decided to delete it. Right now, I kind of regret that.

This is my personal opinion. It does not reflect that of Brandon or any other member of the ZB staff, as far as I am aware. So, if you’re offended by this, direct your anger at me, not them keep it to yourself – I don’t care

As anybody reading this will probally know, Brandon opened up the public bèta of Zetaboards a long long time ago, and released the final version almost a year ago. People has been wining about it for ages and there it was, finally. ZB was there, people where happy, all was good.

But not for long. It didn’t take much time, before people started wining about other things. They wanted to convert their IF board to ZB, because ZB is so great. They had created test boards and they loved ZB. The converter needed to be ready now because getting converted would be the best thing that happened to their community, ever. I plead guilty to slight exaggeration.

Then came the converter. It was great, people loved it. There where some bugs and people was, at times, get impatient because they didn’t understand why the converter needed to run so long, but all in all, people where happy and all was good again.

But alas, these good times passed as well. A while ago and now again, there are people not asking but almost demanding to be converted back to IF. I do not know if it is even possible (well, everything is possible, but often the costs are simply go great for it to be anywhere near realistic) but if I where Brandon, I would not even bother and instead, tell them they should have tried ZB before opting in for conversion.

Hello, people? Do you not have a brain? Do you not try something before you buy it? I find it hard to beleave you go over to a car dealer and say “Hey, that new Ferrari looks nice, I’ll buy one.” without wanting a test drive first. And I bet you don’t go to the electronics store and randomly pick out a TV without at least looking if it meets your needs first. And the screen you are looking at and the desktop or laptop it is connected to, did you tell the sales guy “Yea, you know, just get me one, I don’t care.”?

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Expanding my book collection

I’m not sure if you can call it a collection, really, as it only consists of the seven Harry Potter books, Robert Jordan his Wheel of Time (including New Spring, but not The World of..) and The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Which is a collection of all five parts of the trilogy, plus Youngh Zaphod Plays it Safe).

The holidays are coming up, which means I need to think of stuff I want. The list of reasonably prised things gets shorter and shorter every year, and the only thing I can think of now is to just ask for some nice books. Easy, right, just ask for books. But I don’t want books, I want good books.

So, what is a good book. Well, if you look at my “collection”, you’ll see that I’m into the scifi and fantasy stuff. My copy of The Guide is in English, which wasn’t a problem for me. So for me, a good book is something in you can find in the fantasy or scifi section of the bookstore, it can be both Dutch and English. And then, the book itself has to be good. Anybody have any ideas?

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Planet who?

Since this only shows up at planet ben ZB, I figured I’d join in on the spam as well.

Oh, and I have two things to say in here, too:

Stephen, fix your last post, you have a <strong> more then you have </strong>’s, causing all text below that to be bold.

Ben, stop using your FTP access to cheat and start using it to upgrade.

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Changing hosts

While I am perfectly happy with my current host, A Small Orange, I have decided to switch to a local host ran by a friend of mine called Huizinga Hosting & Webdesign (If you’re Dutch, reading this and looking for hosting: consider this company. Reasonable rates by any standards with great uptime, low loads and a phonenumber that is awnsered by somebody who actually knows what he’s doing, not some €5 an hour muppet who doesn’t know much more then how to pickup the phone and then get you to hang up asap. )

I make a backup of my cPanel user account at ASO a few days ago and, with the help of Bas, the previously mentioned friend, converted it into Direct Admin format and “restored” the account. After the almost flawless conversion (it lost my email forwarders) I changed the MX records at ASO and have been sending and receiving emails using my new host’s server ever since.

After a bit of checking, it seems my website got converted perfectly as well. (Heck, wordpress even remembers I am logged in.)

A registar transfer request was filed for my domain name and it should begin the 17th. (Bleh, first you have to ask your host for some code, then you have to click some link in an email to say you want to move, then you have to not click a link in another email and wait for that to expire.) So, starting the 17th~18th, everybody should be getting my website as it is served by my new host. Not that you’ll notice much, as it will look exactly the same.

Anybody still reading is probally wondering by now what the point of this entry is. Its OK if you can’t figure it out, because I don’t really know what the point of it is, either. I’m gonna hit “publish” regardless, though.

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