Jack’s Site

I’ve been helping someone I know with their website, and they have phpBB3 setup as their forum - and I have to say I absolutely hate it!.

phpBB3 is so god damn crap its unbelievable, trying to make a theme for it is almost impossible!, I thought I had created a new template set as the list said “prosilver” and the theme I was working on, but while editing the templates it was updating both themes.

Then when it came to do the CSS I said to myself “Who the hell did this” they are adding the same things over and over, and over, for example they had

Seriously, who the hell codes like that? I ended up saying screw it and just put override values at the end of the file - I couldn’t be stuffed searching the whole file for every-single-part that had the color I wanted to change on the same element.

Would I recommend phpBB? Never.
Would I use it? Never.
What would I rate it? -500 out of 10.

Have you ever said something to someone or done something and some person has said the most idiotic, stupid or annoying thing? it’s happened to me a few times.

I’ve sent links and images over Windows Messenger and the person I sent it to says “Whats that”, People like that piss me the hell off, I mean why not look at the damn thing to see what it is? lazy noob.

Another thing annoys me most is people that USE CAPS for everything, I mean really - do you have to use caps for a whole sentence? grow up.

Another thing that really gets on my nerves is people who think they are uber and try to talk leet, I feel like saying dude stfu and talk normal - stop trying to be cool, talking leet is lame..

Do I mention those people who like talk “hey wat u doin 2nite? wana go 2 da shopz” ? - people like that need to be shot. Seriously, go back to school and learn to spell!.

I was working on a project and I had some help, I asked how would this thing be done, I get “Don’t worry about that for now, just do the other part”, I tried to explain why I’m asking and again they said “Don’t worry about it”, Well how about you tell me what I want to know and I’ll stop worrying about it, hmm?

I was doing something one time a few months ago, and I picked something up off the floor, and someone turned around and said “No time for that - put it down”, I was like, dude you have no idea wtf I’m doing, I could have been moving it for all you know.

I’ve decided my Blogger page will be my non-personal site, while this one is more for a personal site / portfolio, So I imported all my Blogger posts.

I updated my servers CPanel so I could update Apache and PHP, to try and get the WordPress Blogger importer working.

But I ran into a problem once the update was complete, every site on my server kept returning a rather disturbing “Forbidden” message, and because I knew I hadn’t done anything wrong with the update I started to panic.

I said to myself - stop, think what could the problem be. - I logged into my server over SSH and took a look at the apache httpd.conf file and noticed my SVN setup was gone (oh shit!), so I copied my backup http.conf file over the new one and restarted apache and refreshed my site, it was working now.

But I didn’t stop there, I downloaded both httpd.conf files and compared them with a file compare program and noticed the “group” setting on the bad httpd.conf was “#-1″ and the good one was “nobody”, So after fixing that and adding back my SVN server info I uploaded it and restarted apache, took a look at my site and it was working still.

Now I know for a fact I never changed the group setting, it would have to be CPanel, right? So either CPanel has a bug, or something on my server did that - and the only 3rd party software installed is SVN which Liquid Web setup - unless Liquid Web has added some other things.

Most of the time I watch TV in my room but sometimes I’ll go downstairs to watch it with my family - which I probably wont do for much longer.

Every time I watch TV with them they always talk when I’m trying to watch TV, for example I’d go down to watch House, and they will start talking about something completely unrelated to the show, I mean WTH? I feel like saying “Shut up, I’m trying to watch the show”, but just say “ssh” and get a “No, we’re talking”.

I’d love to hear them talk in the movies, I bet they would get kicked out or at least told to shut up by someone else.