December 31, 2004

Happy New Year!

Well, all my plans for getting the Forums up by the end of the year have gone in the crapper (either because of frantic schedules on my part or a complete lack of energy, in no small part because of the schedules). I can guarantee, however, that the forums will be back up in 2005. ;)

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Hope you all have a good New Years. Me, I'm off to a couple of parties. Yehaw!

Posted by Eric at 07:20 PM | Comments (2)

December 26, 2004

My Christmas Haul

For those that are curious, here's what I got:

  • 2 new tires and a front-end alignment for my car. If you don't drive or have a car, you won't fully realize how great a gift that is. :)
  • Target gift card. Dunno how much for. Cool because that's where I tend to get my clothes from.
  • Wal-Mart gift card. Again, dunno how much for. Coll because that's where I do my grocery shopping (best place for late-night shopping in Murfreesboro).
  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris. I've got Me Talk Pretty One Day, which is a hilarious book, and I'm looking forward to finishing this one.
  • 2 cook books. I really need to start learning how to cook, and these should help me with that.
  • Futurama, Vol. 4. I already had the first three volumes, so now the collection is complete.
  • Money! $100 from my Grandma. Sweet. :)
Posted by Eric at 02:33 PM | Comments (0)

December 20, 2004

evula.org Email Problem Fixed

Well, I ended up just deleting the account that had now close to 80 megs of stuff in there. I tried accessing it, but kept getting an error, so I had no other choice. I immediately recreated the account with a new password, so if the email account is still active, I should be hearing about it soon. :)

In related news, all evula.org accounts now have a 10 megabyte limit, rather than the unlimited (read: 100 megabytes) that everyone had before. As long as this doesn't happen another 10 times all at once, everything should be fine.

For those that are curious, there are 136 evula.org email accounts.

Posted by Eric at 07:36 PM | Comments (0)

Again, not dead!

Sorry that I've been MIA around the web here lately; Hellcab is now done, which means I can have my life back! What this means for you (in the order of priority):

  1. I can fix the evula.org email issue.
  2. I can fix the forums (or at least make progress on fixing it).
  3. I can start working on updating the Lair with all the groovy things I've got going for it.

I've got the new layout 95% done. I need to do some tweaking before I start flowing everything into it. I also need to do some PHP tests. But before that, I need to test out some content management software that the host has provided; if I can use it to power the Rants, Reviews, and Joke Archive, it would allow me to focus even more on content generation (writing and the like) than website maitenance, which is something I'd very much like to have happen. Ultimately, it could mean many more Lair updates, with more new content.

Something that will also happen next year around the Empire: evula.org will get an overhaul, of a sorts. Dunno if I'll open it back up, but I'm going to be trimming the fat, deleting dead & deadbeat accounts, as well as overhauling the banners and navigation tables (both tied into a new Imperial service). I'm not going to say much else about that, since a lot of it is tied to what work I get done for the big Lair overhaul (both in techniques and in backend software used).

Posted by Eric at 03:21 PM | Comments (0)

December 14, 2004

evula.org Mail Quota Warning

Some of you may have gotten an email from the evula.org Mailer Daemon saying that your mailbox is more than 90% full. Don't worry! It isn't a problem with just you. The entire evula.org mail server is at near-full capacity; there's one person in particular that needs to clear out the 70+ megs he has in his email.

To make sure you are keeping your mail off the server, though, here's what you can do:

If you use Mail, check to make sure it is set up to delete the messages off of the server when it gets it. In Mail, go to Preferences -> Accounts and select the evula.org account, then go to the Advanced tab, then make sure the "Remove copy from server after receiving a message" checkbox is checked.

For Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu to Accounts and select your account, then click on the Options tab and make sure that "Leave a copy of each message on the server" is unchecked.