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uhhh... no idea what you're talking about.

I'm Oedipus in the technical woods. Not only am I a babe. My ankles are nailed together.

A lot of this is made worse by Apple's misguided attempts to make the system 'more friendly'.

Anyway, I don't have proper access to a mac right now, but I think it's this:

1. In finder, go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
2. This should give you the command prompt.
3. Enter the following command exactly - cut-and-paste is probably best:

rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts

4. If fugu is running, shut it down.
5. Launch fugu, try to connect

Let us know if that works, or what happens if it doesn't...

Fugu keeps telling me
"warning remote host identification has changed"
and won't let me connect.

This may be a case of the blind leading the blind, but try deleting the xepher.net line from ~/.ssh/known_hosts.

If Fugu is a proper unix app (rather than a Classic app or something) it should work, if not it's probably keeping the ID somewhere else.

I have to admit that my initial reaction was to completely nuke ~/.ssh, but I'm pretty sure there is more... refined way of doing it >:3

EDIT:
Actually, that could be difficult if you're not a command-line junkie.  Finder seems to have hidden .ssh and I'm not sure how you make it show it.

Worst case, go to the command shell and:

rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Next time you connect, it should rebuild the file with the new ID.

Ah, I thought this might have happened when the SSH key changed.  I meant to ask before... you mentioned in the other thread about possibly having a failover server.  Does that mean that you've devised a plan for system backups, or would this be two machines in the datacentre that are physically linked (and therefore able to mirror the data over their local net)?

If anyone is interested, I've finally completed my somewhat-overdue fifth album, Three Little Pigs - A Tale of Vengeance.  This is a 1970s-prog rock effort written and recorded by myself.

Since my main site is eating up a lot of bandwidth simply by existing, I've put the MP3 files onto a mirror site, at least for now.  I was tempted to use the space on my xepher account, but since it's primarily for the comic, that seemed a bit mean
If possible, try to use the Jamendo bittorrent thing when it becomes available - hopefully in a few days.

Here is the link:  http://www.dougtheeagle.com/tlpatov.htm

The cover art was done by Keaton, and I have Turnsky (Foxfire Chronicles) to thank for the new logo.  There's also some art from my own Project Future comic on the inlay.

Guest vocals include James Rolls as Daniel Ti'Fiona on "The Death of a Thousand Splices", Jairus as Bill Clinton and Tezkat as the news anchorman.  Mastering was done by Alex Balzama at Swift Audio Solutions, London.

A PDF version of the cover with full lyrics and liner notes can be found in the link above.

The bulk of the album, the first 'side' is a concept piece about the children's story.  Basically I started out with the premise of "Why might the wolf have a good reason to break into the house?" and the result was a set of songs that turn the story on its head.  The track titles were shamelessly inspired by Roger Glover's 'Elements' album.

In some ways I'm a little unnerved by it... the resulting suite is probably one of the darkest pieces of music I've put together and the flipside of the album doesn't really balance it properly.  I've made a vow that the next album will be happier.

I think one of my favourites on this album is "The next, a pig on fire".  This started out from a sample of Bill Clinton's infamous "I have sinned," speech, later replaced for copyright reasons.  It took some time for me to find a suitable replacement voice, but I have Jairus to thank for that.  Thanks also go out to Tezkat for his newsreading on the same track.

As usual for me, there is a song inspired by Amber Williams' DMFA comic, this time 'The Dark Price of Eternal Youth', which deals with the quandary any incubus or succubus is likely to face, whether to slowly age and die, or prolong your already generous lifespan by stealing the souls of others.  This is a central theme in my webcomic 'Project Future', from which the illustrative picture of Jakob is taken.  Thanks Ren, for all you've done to make it possible.

All tracks were recorded on 8-track tape at 15ips except 3, 5 & 8, which were  recorded 16­track using two synchronized tape machines.

http://www.dougtheeagle.com

From this:  http://www.texasbar.com/saywhat/weblog/2006_04_01_archive.html


The Court: Next witness.

Ms. Olschner: Your Honor, at this time, I would like to swat Mr. Buck in the head with his client's deposition.

The Court: You mean read it?

Ms. Olschner: No sir, I mean swat him in the head with it. Pursuant to Rule 32, I may use this deposition for any purpose, and that is the purpose for which I want to use it.

The Court: Well, it does say that. (pause) There being no objection, you may proceed.

Ms. Olschner: Thank you, Judge Hanes. (whereupon, Ms. Olschner swatted Mr. Buck in the head with the deposition).

Mr. Buck: But, Judge.

The Court: Next witness.

Mr. Buck: We object.

The Court: Sustained. Next witness.

I'm not a great one for photography, but I'm impressed with this.  The photos themselves are very clear and the colour treatments are quite creative.  I'm not quite clear on what his plan is for the site itself if he gets it - maybe that could do with some elaboration - but IMHO he's certainly got talent artistically.

1. when naming a comic, is the a way of finding out (easily) if that name is taken.

As they say, google.  However, if you're planning to go the whole hog and buy a domain name for it, use whois or something like that to see if it's available.
'Project Future', for instance is actually named after an obscure game from the 1980s, though it also refers to the underlying project in the first two story arcs (the protagonist in the story having stolen the name from the game himself).  It's also a play on the original story title, "The Future History of Jakob Pettersohn"... the comic version being a separate project that I was half expecting to crash and burn.

But I digress.  While searching for available domains, I found that projectfuture.org, projectfuture.com and project-future.com were all taken by housing projects, grand visions and other such stuff.  I was actually surprised that project-future.org was available... if it had been taken I'd have gone for projectfuture-comic.com or something like that.

3. what are the key thing to include on the webpage.

What I did was see how my favourite comics did it, and then use that as a base.  The layout is liable to be redesigned in future, though.

Sweet.

It's a comic about three girls who are chosen to be the apprentices to the goddesses of fire, earth, and water.  Actually, it's more like a furry, a fae, and a succubus.

Are those based on the DMFA model, out of interest?

I'm not sure how to convince you that it's original.  so...... ya.  I'll think of something.
I don't have a previous website.  I tried webs.com, but the layout is really bad there.

Have you considered uploading example art to photobucket or something?

What URL are you trying? I see two in your .htaccess file, and you can't use the awstats one, as that's been hijacked by the awstats redirect already.

Ah.  That would explain everything.

I'm gonna work on getting this working so that everyone's stats will be accessible from their site itself, with just the /awstats/ url added.

UPDATE: Done. http://project-future.xepher.net/awstats/ should work, and so should http://project-future.org/awstats/ (or any other domain you have configured.)

Thanks very much.

Apparently I've gotten a few "hits" from someone using IE2. I'm not sure what to think of this.

I seem to recall seeing CP/M users browsing mine.  While there might be some people masochistic enough to use IE2, at this point in time I'd guess they're either doing it for fun, or spoofing the user agent tag.

Shift+refresh the original URL in the browser. There is no caching on the server side for .htaccess options/redirects.

That's curious.  I've replaced the 301 directive with a 307, but attempting to access it with wget returns a 301, to the broken URL.

Traditionally I've done redirections using the meta-refresh tag, but since this is generally considered to be a Bad Thing(TM) these days, I decided to try and set up a 301 redirect.  Unfortunately, I got the destination wrong - but it seems to have cached the incorrect destination for good.

Any ideas?  This is something I built for my own testing purposes rather than a critical part of the site, but it is very annoying.

As far as the 404s go, these are rather interesting:

/images/trans.gif   19   http://www.project-future.org/
/java/prototype.js   19   http://www.project-future.org/
/java/scriptaculous.js   19   http://www.project-future.org/

Any idea what this is about?  My guess would be some worm looking for common vulnerabilities.  I've never heard of them before and unless I'm much mistaken there are no references to them in any of the code.

It works fine now. ^_^

Yeah, there was an issue - see the other thread for details.