Memory: ICON/Relic site problems

As some of you have noticed, the Memory: ICON and Star Trek: Relic sites have been down the last couple of days. This is the result of a former partnet in the host company going in through a backdoor and nuking the server when we declined to sign up with his new company (hey, we're 6 months into a 6-year contract).

We have a new server (dunno if we're going to be able to recoup the costs of the old one - legal remedies are being investigated), and I'm in the process of restoring the site. Needless to say, I'm not a real happy camper at the moment.

Owen, I'd love to help you out. We can offer you unlimited space/bandwidth for no cost. I'd be interested in partnering with you in our efforts to create a new RPG website dedicated to the Star Trek RPG gaming world ( see this thread for detail about our efforts).


Let me know,
ChessMess (at) gmail
Star Trek Gaming Universe
http://www.STGU.com

ChessMess, thanks for your offer, but I keep the game site on my corporate site, which has a number of other pages and sites hosted on it relating to various business ventures. I just finished uploading Relic and [/i]Memory: ICON[/i] to the new server, and my partners have been busy transferring all the corporate stuff. What a pain in the posterior.

Just a note about the two sites: Relic is currently sitting at about 24MB, and Memory: ICON at just under 100MB. If anyone notes any dead links, please let me know. I write the material on a Windows machine, but it's all hosted on UNIX boxes, so occasionally a case sensitivity issue crops up. Normally I check these out when uploading an update, but with a massive data dump like this, I don't have a chance to go through the whole thing.

Owen, I recomend you download a tiny piece of software called Xenu -> http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html which scans through your links, checking them. It turned up quite a few incorrect links on your site. I can PM you the report it did (it outputs an HTML report of what it finds) if you don't want to download the software.

Thanks for the link, Tobian. I'll definitely check it out.

Does anyone out there know of a utility for Win98SE to force alll programmes to allow you to specify case in filenames? Some of my software insists on all caps in the file name and extension, some uses all caps in the file name and lower case in the extension. In neither case is it possible to convince the damned programme to act otherwise, forcing me to manually rename every file those programmes create. I prefer all lower case for all file names and extensions.

Someone needs to go around and grab software developers by the cojones and apply pressure while gently explaining to them that their personal preferences don't matter a rat's patoot for cosmetic matters like this (squeeze), and that software developers who don't take into account the users desires and needs will rot in Shepherd Book's special hell (twist). The fact that Windows-oriented software developers seem utterly. blissfully unaware that the Internet is dominated by UNIX machines and is therefore case sensitive just shows that they suffer from rectocranial inversion.

Yes I have started to name all files in all lower case, because of that little Linux/UNIX caveat. and yes Windows doesn't really seem to care!

Allongside my page design Software I often use a little text editor www.textpad.com , as I particularly like the neat power tools it does support, including advanced search and replace, regular expressions in searches (not as painful as it sounds) and it can search and replace accross a whole folder (useful if you want to change all faulty links at once) it also nicelly colour codes HTML coding, making looking at it not so painful either :D