Justin's blog

I just bought a wonderful new graphics card off eBay, only to have to call Paypal up for about the tenth time about restrictions they’ve mindlessly placed on my account, and have never been able to resolve. This company does NOT know how to do business, and may all its employees die violently in a fire. This company is a pain to deal with, and unless you wish to someday find yourself with an item PayPal refuses to let you pay for, only because you don’t wish to deal with their insane demands (they were asking for ID information and various other documents which they have no reason to see), do NOT ever use this retarded excuse for a company. They can kiss my behind and die in a fire.

Meanwhile, I have to discuss with the seller other ways to pay for my item.

Sorry, I never posted this yesterday
But JDC v5 was officially released midnight, first thing Christmas Day, yesterday, Central Time.
Its goal: To pwn Myspace.
Myspace is well, full of noobs. They probably don’t even know what OS is on the computer they’re accessing it from. They could probably still see this and not be able to identify what OS family is on Myspace’s servers. http://www.myspace.com/folderthatdoesntexist/lol
My goal is simple: To provide a place for geeks. A place where you can fill the chat areas with a heated flame war between Windows and Unix without some retarded noob screaming “SHUT UP YOU FREAKING IDIOTS. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT LOLOLOLOL!!!!!111ELEVEN”
(although sadly, I find noobs who actually use all caps a lot, even as IRC ops in moderately decent channels)
Anyway, join JDC v5, and help us on our quest to pwn Myspace!

Well, the Christmas Day release of JDC v5 is coming quite quickly, and will be available immediately at 12:00AM Christmas Day Central US time (about 4 hours, 34 minutes from now). If you haven’t noticed, justindaigle.com now redirects to a protected page. This is a step in the release, and makes it much easier for me to open the new v5 content promptly at midnight. I’ll post again announcing the official release.

I just upgraded WordPress to 2.7, and while my blog looks the same on the outside, the admin panel looks entirely different. (not to mention it fixed a few files I lost during the server move)

Also, WOW. It seems the Akismet plugin’s caught 3200 spam comments on my blog since I enabled it.

Anyway, JDC v5’s basically ready for release, all I’ve gotta do is edit one file on Christmas Day and change a setting in cPanel, and it’s here!

Christmas is three days away, meaning of course the release of JDC v5!

It is on track for a release on this date, and since it’s drawing so near, I’ve decided to redirect JDC to my blog for the rest of the time, as it’s much more informative than Hacker Barrel forums on the situation.

Anyway, seems Wordpress 2.7 is out, I’m gonna make a backup and upgrade right after writing this post!

Also, I got a bit of an early Christmas present, my Wi-fi detector shirt from ThinkGeek!

Well, JDC v5 is nearing release, and most of it’s finished.

I’m still not giving the faintest hint as to what it is though.

Christmas Day, 2008, JDC v5!

There may be a short-lived public beta the day before though

As my VPS was performing way too slowly, I moved to WhirlHost.

So far, most of JDC is back in order. A few notes on that:

Getting my Joomla install working again was quite a chore. Apparently directories past a certain depth didn’t copy over. There’s probably still stuff missing. If you run into any problems besides what’s mentioned below, please comment on this post letting me know.

The /screenshots/ folder is still uploading. Meanwhile, use the gallery at justindaigle.com/gallery, which is what I reccommend you use anyway unless you SERIOUSLY need massive BMP files.

All links for stuff linked to in /download/ are broken. Yes, I know. Some of those things will return. Eventually. Some will return in improved form. Some may never return. And entirely new things will come.

No sites besides JDC have been moved yet. I’m working on V5 next.

Anyway, hope everyone enjoys the speed, now that I’m on a fast server!

I’m on the Reseller Extreme package at WhirlHost now (http://whirlhost.com) and I highly recommend it

If you’ve clicked a certain link at the top of justindaigle.com recently, you’ve found out a “Hacker Barrel forums” is coming. And it marks JDC v4.5 (wow, wasn’t v4 just like last weekend?) Anyway, just a little history on how Hacker Barrel got to its present state. A few weeks ago, I went to Cracker Barrel. At school (I come up with quite a few ideas at school, instead of doing what I should be and paying attention, either that or I wind up falling asleep because of how late I stay up at night; notice how I’m writing this at 5AM) I thought… “Hacker Barrel,” why don’t I make a site called Hacker Barrel?

So I then decided it should be a social network… you know, like Myspace and all those other sites I’ll never use? But due to problems installing and running the necessary software, that idea sorta went out the window. So I decided to make a forum out of it. It was going to be phpBB, but due to some weird issue I kept having with something, I had to drop that idea as well. So then I went with ZetaBoards, perhaps the greatest forum software out there. Its only setback: you have to use their hosting with it. But I decided to go with it and so far I’m very happy with my decision

The link: http://hackerbarrel.justindaigle.com

Anyway, join and get posting! Since it’s Thanksgiving break and I don’t have school to worry about, I’m not concerned with getting much sleep. But it’s 5AM and I’m starting to get sick (probably a combination of my massive 37 inch 1920×1080 screen and being tired), so I haven’t anything more to say, except, since I probably won’t write anything else between now and Thursday, I’ll wish you a happy Thanksgiving! 

Well… after I’m done writing this post, I’m bringing the parts of the site that are new/redone back online for the official v4 release!

Anyway, here’s the list of what’s changed:

The Joomla portion of the site’s been entirely started over, because I couldn’t remember my login credentials. It now has a different skin and will have links and summaries of my blog posts in it, as I started to do with my last install.

The only change on my blog is a “Home” link on the right side.

A new image gallery, with all my OS screenshots

An organized downloads section

A preview of Hacker Barrel forums can be accessed, although it won’t be usable until v4.5

Also, I’ve cleaned out my stuff, so if you have a dead link to anything, it’s probably something I’ve moved or thrown away

Okay, I know I’ve said it time and time before, but this time it’s really happening… JDC v4! By the way, there’s the first part of v4 now!

From now on the official abbreviation of the site is JDC instead of JD(.c). Most sites don’t have punctuation in their abbreviations so mine shouldn’t either.

Anyway, I’m not revealing any of my v4 plans besides that, except that it all starts this weekend!

According to current plans, my blog will remain online the entire time, although there’s no guarantee that any other part of my site will. I also can’t say how long “the entire time” will be, but I do plan to take everything except my blog down to sort stuff out as well, so it may be two weeks or more before v4 is officially complete, but I will post updates as to v4 and which parts of the site are back and such.