Constant Sun

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RobKohr — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:27:13 +0000

Share the sense

RobKohr — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:32:11 +0000

I just added a new feature today where you can enter in your google adsense code into the control panel, and 50% of the time ads will come up that you will get paid for.

Site outage

RobKohr — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:34:07 +0000

Editthis.info went down yesterday after I upgraded some security packages on the server. It seems it reset the network settings. The problem is resolved now and the site is back up.

New product: minitext

RobKohr — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:15:42 +0000

Minitext is a place where you

store little text snippits
tag those text snippits

Minitext has no

style
wiz
bang

Also… Minitext works great on all cell phones!

Spam filter improvements!

RobKohr — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:11:04 +0000

You can now allow words that were previously blocked by the spam filter. View the current global list of spam words in your control panel (in the left hand side-bar). There is a link there that leads to the Nonspam page. Add words there that should be allowed in your wiki.

If you ever encounter any spam in your wiki, please add a link to the history item on the spam report page.

This update goes along with some other minor improvements to the control panel including:

A list of other useful functional pages
An IP lookup for users
File upload space monitor

Announcements

RobKohr — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:18:04 +0000

Most of the audiance of the blog are interested in only specific subject matter. Because of this all posts are categorized by their subject matter. Here are some of the top ones of interest:

Releases - New systems that are being released and improvements on existing systems.
Tech Tips - Things I have picked up along the way the IT people may be interested in

Setting a domain name to point to your wiki

RobKohr — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:37:42 +0000

If you would like to point a domain name to your wiki on editthis.info, set the cname to editthis.info and then post a comment here with your email address, the domain name, and the url for your wiki.

None of this will will appear as a comment since I will not approve any comments to this post . This is just a way to contact me for this issue.

iTerm emacs rendering issues on Intel Mac

RobKohr — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:58:43 +0000

If you have problems with emacs in iterm on an intel mac rendering which line you are on, making some lines and text invisible, or just in general not looking right, then the command line type:

TERM=xterm-color

then try running emacs. If that fixes the problem, add that line to your .bashrc or .tcshrc (or both) in your home directory so it always is run on iterm startup.

Getting around php globals being turned off

RobKohr — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:24:11 +0000

Many servers have globals turned off. If you would like to get around this, just include the following script:

set_vars.php

Be sure to read up on some of the security issues regarding register globals before using this.

Using Resizeable Textarea on newer versions of Firefox

RobKohr — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:21:08 +0000

Resizeable textarea is one of those really useful firefox add ons that once you start to use it, you really can’t live without it. Basically those tiny text areas on web sites become scaleable so you can easily see what you are writing.

The problem is that the extension which is available here is only usable up to firefox 1.01. Currently firefox is past the 1.5 mark and the extension doesn’t install anymore.

With a little monkeying around in the souce code I found:

1.0.1

which I changed to

3.0.1

and allowed me to install the extension.

I put the modified version up on this server.

Install Instructions:

Download: Resizeable Textarea 0.1a
In firefox, go to File->Open and select the downloaded file
Restart firefox