Topics

What happened? We need to get some discussions flowing on here.

Discuss what cameras you own (or have owned) and their pros and cons. The more information you can spew out, the better!

[Su]

As summer rolls around once again, I get the urge for karting. Go-karting, to be specific. I want that chinsy metal frame wrapped around my body and a 5hp Honda motor. I want the mud in my face and the exhaust in my lungs! I want to drive go karts.

Several years ago, we started work on the grand-daddy of go-karts. With the power of an 80-something Honda Accord engine, we figured we could make it move quick enough to satisfy that ever-present longing to fly on four wheels (so to speak).

Of course, the winters crept in, the springs thus followed, and the engine probably needs to be rebuilt. But that longing is still present. This topic is intended for ideas about this Super Rice Boy Kart.

To read the stories about what we've done so far:
    Go to the Suriboka Stories page.

Ok, here's the question: does the bumper buddy need a kickstand?

(Or, some legs to hold it up when it's not attached to the trailer hitch?)

[wp-config]

We're still working on a good setup, but this very simple tweak to wp-config allows you to drop the whole Wordpress installation into another directory. When you run it for the first time, it'll set up the database by prepending the subdomain name.

We decided to prepend all "www" database tables with an underscore. All subdomains will be the subdomain name plus the underscore. To do this you only need to change three files.

Find /wp-config.php.
Change the following from:

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// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
//$table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!


To:

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$table_prefix = ereg_replace( '^(www\.)', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );
$table_prefix = ereg_replace( 'yourserver.com', '', $table_prefix );
$table_prefix = ereg_replace( '\.', '_', $table_prefix );


Now the root site will prepend the tables with and underscore. All subdomains will be prepended with the sobdomain  name and an underscore.

All done!

[Main Site]

We're trying to organize the site in a way that makes sense. The old way was ok, but there were frankly too many categories with too little information. Instead of the old randomland.net/whatever approach, we'll be using vaguer subdomains.

Here are the proposed subdomains. Shoot 'em down or raise 'em up. The day of reckoning is near! It's time to unite! Stand as ONE fellow Randomlandians!
...err, um. Just give your input.

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  Main Site: will contain site news and links to subdomains via the sidebars and a sitemap. Also, useless little promo-type things we can't find a better place for.
  
  
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  Dev: the programming and computer development section. It will contain everyday tips and tricks for programming. It will probably also contain larger how-to style programming projects (ie: "Creating a Simple Flash-Based Side-Scroller")
  
  
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  Forum(s): here! Each subdomain would be obliged to have its own forum...or forum section. That's my thinking anyway. Can we set it up like: forum.randomland.net/photo?
  
  
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  Gallery: redirect to photo.randomland.net
  
  
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  How-To: it's a good name but breaks the categorization. Maybe make this a launching-pad for searching specific sub-domains. This needs some thinking through.
  
  
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  Motors: the home of everything that goes vroom! Car how-tos, the classic tale of the tempo, and land of the future SuperRiceBoyKart.
  
  
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  Media: I like music. Lots. I suck at playing it, but maybe I could put those stupid techno songs here and others could do similar things. Maybe music and movie reviews too. I am going to say that this eats the previously suggested "games" subdomain as well.
  
  
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  Opinion: remember all those old stupid things I wrote which were offensive and/or brainlessly stupid? Yep, that's what will go here.
  
  
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  Photo: we all like taking pictures. We will probably have a gallery and links to camera reviews and stuff.
  
  
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  Rec(reation): what's even better than taking pictures is taking pictures OUTDOORS! The woods and the goods. We'll post camping stories, suggestions, outdoorsy things, geocaches, and artsy things that don't belong anywhere better (like the good 'ol lightsabers page)
  
  

Ok, stab away. We need to hammer this out!