Friday, February 5, 2010

Human-Computer Interface problems Well I think the problems is sorted out now. A very big heartfelt thanks to Jake Savin, a former Userland employee now at Microsoft who took the time to keep an eye on the Userland message boards as the service closed down. No one else was. What I wanted was to have this software use a folder on my hard drive as the "upstream" target in Radio Userland parlance. Jake responded that there was a little used module in Radio that would do just   that. all I needed to do was rewrite a seven line xml document #upstream.xml to make that happen. This is the fix I should have sought out and put in place back in 2007 when the need to sFTP new material up to my U.Md server space first surfaced. At first I thought it hadn't worked. On numerous attempts over two nights it didn't seem to build a new rendered web log folder in the assigned place and I set the whole thing aside until I had time to figure out what I had done wrong. Today after restarting the Radio software for different reasons I noticed that the new folder was there and things were back in operation. I carry on Atomized Jr. now as if this whole unpleasant interlude largely never happened. Although I did like overhauling the old static page into Atomized Mkii. Addendum: turns out the problem is not completely sorted out. Making a folder on my hard drive the target also impels the softer to point all URL's ; interior links and all img urls back to the folder on the hard drive rather than terpconnect.umd.edu.  Pictures that I put in post I could edit the urls of easily enough -- the problem is all the incidental images that belong to the template.  --- 29 January 2010. As a consequence of Radio Userland.com, the weblog software and hosting company Atomized jr has been using, closing down their servers and going ghost I have been unable to update this web log. This goes back to a problem I hacked around three years ago. I am not able to run Radio Userland into a secure server like U.Md's. Until I figure out another hack and either get this weblog running again or switch to WordPress or something I will be carrying on with a simple weblog-like page at  Atomized Mkii. the full URL for that is: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~pbushmil/atomized_mkii/ . Thank you. 10:45:18 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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