nate's New Writeups

Everything2 Media LLC (thing)

2012-01-23T16:49:54Z

It's been wonderful for all these years, but as of January 23, 2012 the Blockstackers have transferred ownership of Everything2 to Everything2 Media LLC. Jay Bonci, a once-and-now familiar face, will be taking over the helm of E2. It's been a good ride for 13.5 years, and I'm very happy to leave my baby cum live-at-home-adult-child in very capable hands.

If you have any questions about what this means for E2 moving forward, I suggest you /msg the new management.

Got milk? A ninjagirls bake sale! (thing)

2003-09-27T19:39:00Z

The ninjagirls are having a bake sale! From now until October 15th, every donation of $10 to the donation box via PayPal will entitle you to a batch of yummy cookies, or brownies, or dessert bread baked with love by a 100% genuine ninjagirl! And karma debt is even making PIE! See Got milk? A ninjagirls bake sale! for details on how to get your lovin' fresh from the oven!

August 14, 2002 (idea)

2002-08-14T04:23:31Z

Tokyo Trip Scrapbook

Current Location: sitting in the small conference room of VA Linux Systems Japan offices, on the 30th floor of the Sumitomo building in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. My point people are Tetsuro Yogo and Taku Yasui.

Tetsuro Yogo

Appearance -- black dress slacks and khaki dress shirt. thin Wire rimmed glasses, short schlacked hairstyle
Language -- fluent engrish
Accesories -- Mild Seven Smokes, business card case, holder of the meeting outline which dictates our schedule for this trip

Taku Yasui

Appearance -- debian T-shirt, Beatle-length hairstyle, Jeans
Accesories -- mini-laptop with Slashdot sticker on the back, which he never looks up from
Language -- Taku speaks almost no english, but the language barrier is almost non-existent as long as the conversation doesn't stray from technical terms. He's a smart cookie -- he's pretty much set up all of OSDN.jp'

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Deacon Blues (idea)

2001-06-30T09:11:08Z

"Drink scotch whisky all night long
And die behind the wheel...

I had had a few drinks before driving home from Sally's place -- no escaping the vast hospitality of the Berens wine cellar. It was a little after midnight and the Drenthe fog had set in. Fortunately for me, 16th street was a familiar and easy drive -- many late nights dropping girlfriends off at their father's homes in Hamilton. Now I was driving my girlfriend home with me. Life had improved.

The crumpled Geo Tracker without any lights stopped in the middle of the road gave me a quick sobriety check. Slowing down, the mood power shifted from mild alcoholic comfort to mild shock to blinking disbelief. There was someone leaning against the side, and he was holding his head.

Stop. Hazards. Get out. "Are you all right?"

"I think I need some help"

His head was bleeding, and his breath stank. He was hispanic, young -- 18 maybe. His white T-shirt had a line of blood…

E2 Lag Reduction Suggestions for Noders (idea)

2001-04-22T17:42:34Z

Check out the Database Lag-o-meter

The Nefarious Everything2 Lag has several potential causes:

Database strain

The E2 MySql database seems to have an upper limit of ~300 queries/second, at least for the type of queries which we do. When queries are sent which take a large amount of sorting or handle large amounts of data (ie doing a user search on pseudo_intellectual) it takes longer than the 0.003 seconds each query is "allowed" - this means everyone else has to wait.

What you can do: Turn off nodelets that you don't care about -- many of them take a decent amount of code running behind them. If you're using the Chatterbox most of the time, try using the Java Chatterbox and save Everything from having to generate the other 100lbs of HTML. If you're not around, turn off the Java Chatterbox so that it doesn't take system resources. Use the "expensive" features on E2 sparingly -- don't reload your user search…

Edev Quest: Jukka Themeability (idea)

2000-12-14T08:08:19Z

A new theme from Sarcasmo, and fondue's ever growing collection of E2 Themes are impressive. We should have them in the system.

but...

It's a lot of work right now to impliment a new theme. I should be able to use HTML from jukka container, replacing things like image URLs and colors as needed -- as well as style sheets, and body and table tag attributes...

An Extremely Brief Tutorial on Everything Themeability

Everything's themeability requires that a developer use the settings in the theme or themesettings nodes. Best way to Theme-ify is to reuse the containers, but add new color schemes or graphics:

Examples:

classic theme -- the basic, horrible design that E2 started out on

classic theme water settings

classic theme wired settings

classic theme goth settings

classic theme charred settings

The way themesettings work -- they have a "parent theme" value. When this themesetting is selected as a theme,

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