{wp-gallery-remote: gallery=0; rootalbum=17; showalbumtitle=true; showsubalbums=true; showimagesheader=true;}
If everything worked right, these pics will show up. I’m still finalizing the gallery configs and defaults to make everything look as good as I can.
In the future, I’m going to use this gallery for various RL pictures and other in-game albums that don’t need their own post.
In the meantime, please enjoy my Blue Angels Pictures (complete w/ a CSS/JS image viewer).
Cheers!
-pyra
Just want to pass on some information. It appears as though with WP2.5, a field called guid is being set differently than before.
In 2.4 and earlier, the content of this field would be the same as the perma-link field.
While not major, some feed readers are using the guid tag instead of the link tag to grab the perma-link to the post.
What this means — if you see a request to my.blog.com/path/?p=123 instead of my.blog.com/path/perma/link/structure/post-slug , its affecting you.
This is the intended behaviour of WordPress 2.5+, however, it is different behaviour than previous versions. There is no way to correct this problem from within the WordPress interface. The only way to change the format back is via a database edit (look for your post, then column, guid, and set it to the full link).
What is more annoying is that this only happens when you use the WordPress editor. When you use an external editor (like in my case, Windows Live Writer), it gets set the same as it would have in 2.4. It also means I can’t make short little posts from work anymore because I only have the WP editor available there.
This is the 100th Post for my blog. Well, technically it is the 102nd, but one entry was deleted, and one is the ‘Welcome to WP’ post, so I believe it is the 100th Post for everything that matters.
It is a happy time, as this comes a bit over a year after it was started.
One thing I do find amusing is that, even after 3 and a half years, I still find this game fun. Maybe more amazingly, I still want to keep playing.
I find the timing somewhat odd that this comes the same week that SE decided that you have no rights over your character, and instead of actually working to — you know, fix the problem — they decided to make a cheap, administrative change, to screw those who had their accounts stolen in the past, and who will have their accounts stolen in the future.
Anyways, I’ve been finding myself playing a little less than normal. I log on to do Limbus and Dynamis, but otherwise I’m not on much anymore. I find it relaxing to just take a break, even though I’m going to lose my Campaign rank it appears.
-pyra
If I may quote myself from Dec 17th 2007
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?p=98600#98600
I also say again — what if the wiki was the one serving up the trojaned ads. People here would be pissed because they were the primary target. If the wiki infected 100,000 people, would everyone still be complaining about a 3rd party site? I can guarantee this thread would have a totally different tone.
From Dec 14th 2007
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?p=97522#97522
I’m wondering if the responses would be different if the posters on this board were the primary targets. While there are a good number of people who have a lot of experience, many (most?) of the people who post here don’t even have 1 lvl 75 job yet. The BG forums were crying for blood because the sites they visit were attacked.
What if the wiki were the primary target and half the people who use it were infected? I’d bet that the posters here would be screaming for blood. According to the stats, that’s about 200,000 people who could have had their accounts stolen (which is btwn 25 and 40% of the entire player base). Its very easy to take the high-and-mighty stance when neither you nor anyone you know had their account stolen.
From Dec 12th 2007
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?p=96895#96895
You’ll find that people have very short memories, and while everyone is in paranoid mode right now, in a couple weeks the virus scanners will be turned off because it slows down the computer.
Then get ready for round 2.
I wish I wasn’t right.
From Apr 1st 2008 (not April Fools Joke)
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?t=10476
Ganiman Says:
This afternoon the FFXIclopedia forums were infected with a Real Player exploit (the same exploit other FFXI sites were infected with a few weeks ago). The exploit has been removed from the forums with the help of the FFXIclopedia admins and the Wikia admins.
I’ll go back to my corner now and hide while my “Just in case” virus scan finishes. It takes me around 3 hours to do a full scan, even though it runs every night at about 4am. I’m starting to get tired of all of the virus scares. There are many other things I’d rather do in my spare time than run every scan I’ve got just to be sure.
Since the next attack vector will probably be out of date blog and forum software — everyone who hosts their own should do their best to keep everything up to date. If you do not feel like you can handle updating your own software and plugins, please use one of the many free (or pay) hosts. WordPress, Blogspot, LiveJournal, etc are all good, free, places to host your blog. Or, DreamHost (a web host, and the one I use) has an option with WordPress to let them handle maintaining the files.
-pyra
Posted in Administrative, FFXI, Random Thoughts
Tagged Administrative, FFXI, Random Thoughts, Viruses
I discovered at work today that the theme I’m using does not render properly in IE6. This has to do with a couple images being too wide and IE6 being too dumb.
The fix: use IE7 or FireFox (which you should be using anyway, unless your work, like mine, is still stuck in 2002), and I’ll try to remember to crop my images to less than 500 px wide (of which all but about 2 are already).
And yes, I have been updating every 6 hours. I know its every 6 hours because I’ve scheduled them at every 6 hours until I clear the backlog out a bit.
It won’t last much longer. I haven’t even been playing much recently.
Every so often, I get asked why I chose WordPress (and in this case, WordPress MU) for blogs.ai-ls.com .
There are other options out there.
The why is easy. I was trying to integrate the blogs into the already existing forums.
There were basically 2 choices, WordPress, and The Blog Mog. If you’ve used the FF Wiki, you know what the blog mod is like. Eventually, I just decided that the PHP Nuke was getting too overloaded and started from scratch. I like the results.
It is what it is, but it lacks a lot of features that are awesome — such as having your own url (in the case of this site, it would be something like www.ai-ls.com/modules/forums/blogs.php?blog=1234). I guess you could book mark it, but it loses some of the appeal of a simple URL, such as blogs.ai-ls.com/pyra .
Well, this past week there has been a small battle in the ongoing fight of WordPress vs. Movable Type.
It all started with this post in the MT blog — http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2008/03/a-wordpress-25-upgrade-guide.html , which was quickly followed up in one of their dev’s blogs http://sippey.typepad.com/filtered/2008/03/were-here-to-co.html , which was followed up in ma.tt (one of the primary authors of WordPress) http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/ . All links have been removed b/c I don’t feel like getting drawn into this mess.
However, in the interest of fairness, I decided to test out Movable Type. I set up mt.blogs.ai-ls.com/pyra as a temporary MT test site. I will make posts to both blogs to really try to understand how MT works.
Installation was not hard. There were a handful of extra steps beyond what WordPress MU/WordPress require, but nothing more than expected. It was painless, with the only troubles being a typo I made with the MySQL DB name.
Then came some challenges.
First off, I chose as my name “Pyra’s Testing Place”, because this is “Pyra’s Party Place”. I wanted the URL to be the same, so I changed it to just /pyra. However, MT uses generated HTML for everything, instead of dynamic PHP (like WP), and it installed everything to /pyras_testing_place . I’m also not used to having to hit publish and waiting more than about 10 seconds for the new post to show up.
But its a different program, I shouldn’t expect Mac OS X to work exactly like Windows just because all I’ve used is Windows.
If you visit the sites listed above, you will see both sides telling you why their product is better.
As far as I can tell, they are basically the same. MT gives you more options, WP makes some things easier. Personally, from an admin point of view, giving the users less options is a good thing. I really don’t want 99% of the visitors choosing their own upload path, then asking me why nothing works. Maiev I know would know what he’s doing, but many others? Probably not.
All of the advantages of MT (OpenID, can handle huge load, etc) don’t really apply. No one uses OpenID (aside from LiveJournal), and with akismet + open comments, anyone who wants to can just post with the now common format of “CharacterName of Server” or “CharacterName (Server)”. As to huge loads? This site gets maybe 1000 hits per day, so honestly, who cares. Oh noes, my pages loaded in .89 seconds instead of .72 seconds. It doesn’t matter. MT makes extensive use of the file system, while WP uses .htaccess and ModRewrite. MT includes a handful of items as standard that WP requires a plugin for (for example, the stats, and any MT install can be turned into a multi-user install).
But MT does some dumb things too, like not creating a blog at the install root by default, even on a multi-user install.
Since both products are basically even, and I’m already running on WordPress MU, I see no reason to change. I’m sure if I were running MT I would say the same thing.
For the time being, the MT site will remain up. I can’t figure out how to enable user-created accounts, so send me a message if you want to test it out.
This is my stance. If anyone really wants their own MT install, it can be arranged. As can <charactername>.ai-ls.com if you really want. Otherwise, as far as I’m concerned, WPMU is how this blog site will stay. For what this site is, I feel it is the better choice.
-pyra
Edit: Bleh, looks like MT doesn’t work with Windows Live Writer, which is what I use for all of my posts anymore. That… just… sucks.
Edit 2: Jim Ramsey (lead designer for Movable Type) posted a link in my comments on how to make the Live Writer work w/ MT. I take back edit 1, it does work.