[SaveJFC Admin]

Well Happy New Year to all! 

Today I repurchased the domains savejfc.com and deadwoodchronicles.com for another year.  The Fund spreadsheet has been updated.  We currently have $147.45.

Every time I purchase the domains I am reminded how fragile our little site is... in that, if anything happens to me it would be gone as soon as the hosting account runs out :(   I did some research recently into what we could do to keep it alive and archive.org who keeps sites for just this purpose.  Here is their CalamityDan.com site for JOHN:

http://web.archive.org/web/20081225134900/http://www.calamitydan.com/protect/john_from_cincinnatti.htm

They have one "snapshot" of SaveJFC.net:  http://web.archive.org/web/20110107004121/http://savejfc.net/

They also have one for this site taken in January 2011:  http://web.archive.org/web/20110106112142/http://johnfromcincinnati.net/

Their server is acting up right now so I can't tell how much of the site they actually got.  But when we do know, I'm thinking we need a campaign to get them to archive the full site.   I think it's our best shot as preservation!

[SaveJFC Admin]

Attention:  I just installed an security update to the forum.  This should not change any of the functioning or look of the forum as it had to do with technical coding behind-the-scenes.  But if you notice any differences please let me know.

[Sven2]

Well Happy New Year to all! 

Today I repurchased the domains savejfc.com and deadwoodchronicles.com for another year.  The Fund spreadsheet has been updated.  We currently have $147.45.

Every time I purchase the domains I am reminded how fragile our little site is... in that, if anything happens to me it would be gone as soon as the hosting account runs out :(   I did some research recently into what we could do to keep it alive and archive.org who keeps sites for just this purpose.  Here is their CalamityDan.com site for JOHN:

http://web.archive.org/web/20081225134900/http://www.calamitydan.com/protect/john_from_cincinnatti.htm

They have one "snapshot" of SaveJFC.net:  http://web.archive.org/web/20110107004121/http://savejfc.net/

They also have one for this site taken in January 2011:  http://web.archive.org/web/20110106112142/http://johnfromcincinnati.net/

Their server is acting up right now so I can't tell how much of the site they actually got.  But when we do know, I'm thinking we need a campaign to get them to archive the full site.   I think it's our best shot as preservation!

Trishah, what type of a campaign do you mean, please, elaborate. Yes, I was pleasantly surprised seeing Dan's site preserved for... let's not call it "eternity",... say, for a while.

What is required for the site to get a place on this "webarchive.org" (or something)?

And Happy New Year to you as well! Stay healthy, keep in touch.

S.

[sven]

Wow, I'm writing this in a state of confusion, nothing earth shattering, of course. I was made to update Firefox and as a result lost a lot of links, "remembered" passwords, etc. Not sure what happened here, but when I got a new password for this site, I had a mailbox consisting of only 2 messages (from June 2010 I think), that I've never even seen before.
I wonder with what signature this post will appear and if there is a possibility to retrieve my old messages. Trishah, help.

[SaveJFC Admin]

Yes very strange!  Could it be possible that you have two accounts here and you logged into an old one?  I really can't imagine any other reason why updating your browser would you messages inside here.  I'll look and see if I can find any other reason...

[sven]

I might have had more than one as I recall, signing in from different locations with different IPs, the problem is how to get to my Sven2 log in now that I am permanently logged as sven. Do you know what I should do?

[Sven2]

A happy update: I restarted my computer and everything is back to the way it was, hooray. It left me worried though - a glitch, a loss, the whole story - it's like there is a fork in time or space and here is a parallel reality with another sven, and a Firefox profile that has some of my old one and some of a complete stranger who knows nothing of the past.

Hmm, whatever, I'm glad to get my bookmarks back, and my old messages.

So Happy Lovers' Day!

[SaveJFC Admin]

Forum has been updated to the latest version of SMF 1.1.18  ;D

[Sven2]

Thanks, Trish, now I know why the link from 'Further Days' blog didn't work, I had to update it.

It's a little jumpy now to move around here, seems too sensitive, or maybe my Firefox is acting up after the latest update. Or something else!

[Sven2]

Hi, Trish, help!

I was reading some episodes in Further Days 2 blog and noticed that in some posts the punctuation turned into lots of question marks. How could I fix that without going through every line? Is that possible at all?

Thanks!

S. 

[SaveJFC Admin]

I was reading some episodes in Further Days 2 blog and noticed that in some posts the punctuation turned into lots of question marks. How could I fix that without going through every line? Is that possible at all?

You are talking about the blog over at http://furtherdaysofjfc2.blogspot.com/ correct?  I looked at some pages there and couldn't see the problem you described.  

However, usually this problem is caused when you are not using the "UTF-8 html charset" for the page rendering.  And the fix is to make sure you have the following meta tag in the <head> of your page:

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

To find out more about what UTF-8 does you can read about it here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8  Basically it tells the browser how to display the individual text characters on the page.  There are many different ones but UTF-8 has become the standard because it will display things like Chinese and Farsi languages correctly.  

If you go to the Further Days blog homepage and right-click the page and choose "view page source" or "page source" depending on your browser, another window will open with the page code showing.  You can see at the top of the code the following line:  "<meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'/>"  which is in a different order but is the same as the earlier one I posted above.  So this means the homepage is being encoded correctly.  Please check to make sure the pages with the bad characters have this correct meta tag in them. If they do, then read on...

Now, if the question marks are only on certain pages, then my best guess for what has happened is this...  Whomever wrote the text on the page wrote it originally in Microsoft Word.  Then they copied and pasted it into the blog page as is.  MS Word has it's own unique way of displaying things like quote marks, accents and apostraphies.   When you copy and paste these into a web page the browser doesn't know what to do with them because they are unique to MS Word.  

I don't know about Blogspot.com but I know the WordPress has a button on the Visual Editor that you can click and paste the text of a MS Word doc into the popup and when saved will replace all the bad characters.  You need to check your Blogspot editor setting for this.  You may be able simply to copy what is currently in your editor and run it through the same kind of button and that might work.  

If it doesn't, you can try copying the text from webpage into a MS NotePad document (i.e., a .txt file).  Once there click on Ctrl-h and this will bring up the find and replace box.  Find one of the bad characters, copy it and put it in the find box then type the correct character in the replace box and hit "Replace All" button.  Keep doing this until all the bad characters are replaced, then go back and paste this revised .txt version back into the Blogspot editor.  This will also strip all the bold and italic which you will have to redo along with possibly some indenting, etc.  

Let me know if this doesn't help you and we'll try something else.

[Sven2]

Thanks a bunch! As soon as my second "smart" brain arrives from Amazon....

Seriously, it's above and beyond, I will just get rid of those nasty little flees by hand. I agree the reason was most likely transferring files written in MS Word. I've encountered this behavior somewhere else.

Thanks again, appreciate it. Stay cool, we're boiling here.

S.

[Sven2]

Trish, why some emoticons don't work the way it's suppose to? For example,  ::) should be the one with the eyes rolling up.

[SaveJFC Admin]

I did a little searching and I didn't find an answer to this emoticon problem.  But I did see there was a security update for the forum and I did update the site  ;D

Sorry I couldn't be more help about the smileys.

[SaveJFC Admin]

Happy New Year all! 

Can you believe we are in 2014 already?  A big year for Mondistas... 

John: In his word in Cass' camera, the internet is big. 9-11 is big, but not every towelhead is eradicated.
In his word, we are coming 9-11-14.

Also, savejfc.com and deadwoodchronicles.com have been purchased for another year.  The Fund tally has been updated as well as the Excel spreadsheet.

Trishah