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I wasn't on Xepher until this month.

No, No, I know

I thought the banner was dorky at first, but I've been getting a lot of traffic from it that I wasn't expecting, so now I like it.

I keep clicking your banner Mostly because I didn't realize you were on Xepher, and I had not seen your comic since I reviewed the first half.... um... last year So I'm like, "Oh hey," *click*

I don;t really play much more than TF2 and LFD now. Steam is such a great "console" that I think I'd end up just getting PC games forever. Before that I played a lot of Nintendo Systems. Never cared much for Xbox's offerings, and there were only a few Playstation games I wanted to play that weren;t available on Nintendo systems or on PC.

Thanks a lot for finding that; that definitely shouldn't be a short tag. XD I'm doing a major rewrite of that code anyway for the next release... I guess I had better triple check to make sure I didn't use any short tags by accident anywhere else.

*wap*

I think I recall Steve Jobs (could be wrong) wanting to call them "Inter-Personal Computers" once./

See, the errors are always something with something not parsed right in the hard code of the plugin (or theme?) itself. He's not getting any server errors.

But I'll ask him again, and see if I can recall the specific info.

Well, When my family first, finally got a computer, it was MS Dos.. then Windows 3.1

At school, it was always Mac. First it was those weird monochrome computers with everything built it. I actually liked it because it was easy to use, and have various applications. We didn't have much on out PC at home.

Then, as I got older, and the computer changed, I started to prefer Windows because I could do a lot more with the system, versus a Mac holding my hand like I'm an idiot (and the "drag the disk to the TRASH to eject it" pissed me off too... as well as the Mac needing to verify my disk before I could eject it, whereas I could just pop it out on a PC). Also, Macs constantly had "Unexpected Error" and "Program Suddenly quit" without telling you a damn thing. That pissed me off. Then it turned into pretentious marketing. About "how cool" it is, etc... this adds hundreds of dollars onto a something, where that extra money is merely for the name and nothing else.

Mac also had the "we have these awesome programs for free and you don;t need to worry about drivers" thing... well, you buy anything, you either have the disk, or windows has the driver, or you download it. No big deal. Just marketing for people who don;t know anything, ergo, pointless for the most part.

And plus today, I can get a TON of free programs to do various tasks. I don't care if the O/S comes with them.. In fact, I prefer that it DOESN'T.

However, Windows has always had its issues, but the user is always able to have some control over the system. I know where to go to edit various settings and such. As far as a Mac, I never knew where anything was. (keep in mind I know nothing past the iMac), Settings and such that were a breeze to find on a PC, was an amzonian hike without a compass or map on the Mac.

Now, Vista advertising is pissing me off. That "Mojave Project" crap. It's obviously people that have no clue about computers. I bet you they are showing those people aesthetics and other programs for doing things... and not actually showing how the system actually works or runs... which is what an Operating system is for. Anything else can find found via 3rd party programs.

I'm in a position where I know more than the next person about how to operate a computer, however, I am not knowledgeable enough to make a jump to something like Linux. I can deal with Windows easily, but I'm not dependent upon Microsoft programs for the most part. It did take me several days to get my new computer to the settings I wanted, with all the programs I wanted, with new defaults and such.

And since I have not touched a Mac since the iMac first came out, I'd be so freaken lost that getting a Mac now is not a realistic option. And last I checked, they were expensive as Eff-all.

I just had tried to get both PSI and Ardra upgraded to Wordpress Plugins for Webcomic & Inkblot. I was working with the creator on the sites, and no matter what, we could not figure out what the issue was. The error continued to return that there was an error in the script, however, it's the same code that is used on several other sites.

We surmise that the Wordpress theme and plugin combo, merely does not work on Xepher... though we cannot find any sort of explanation. We thought it was the .htaccess at one point, but it does not see to make a difference.

Soooo, mostly I'm making this post to say that if you are considering these for your wordpress-based webcomic, stick with ComicPress, I 'spose.

Thanks! That was what I was looking for! Look slike I'll be looking at loading a few plug-ins for anti-spammer sign-ups and such

I remember it being brought up, but I totally forgot what happened.

Wordpress can allow people to sign-up for an account on say, Ardra or PSI. To do so, it sends e-mail verification on sign-up... also, for lost passwords... As I recall, you have the servers *not* do any automatic e-mailing.

Though I thought there was a work around for that, especially if the e-mail was not through Xepher....

Can you refresh my memory on the whole matter?

Are you looking at bringing your whole site over here or just this comic? You've got a lot going on at the website, so you have a lot of experience and know-how it seems.

I'm for it... ONLY IF YOU UPDATE!!!!

I've been following the comic for a while actually.

Oh, I also saw your Team Fortress 2 rendition of your cast, which gave me the idea to put my PSI crew into the same thing... only I didn't do mine until Halloween 2008.

I'm not sure, I have not dealt with PNG transparency before.

Thanks for the extra info! Next time I update it I'll revise a few things!

A handy guide I hope to expand to show multiple comic styles in various image extension and saving options.

I utilize IrfanView because it is the awesome-est image saver for quality and size. I get better results than saving from Photoshop. I usually open my original files and PSDs in IrfanView and resize and save that way.

I've been using IrfanView for over 10 years.

http://www.fesworks.com/irfanview/