http://www.cocomment.com/comments/CollectiveCreation Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-22T16:15:41.489+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2594693&comment_id=136498852 undefined Thank you. I have a 6-centimetre-thick foam board underneath the "damper", above the fireplace, at the entrance to the chimney. I will add lots of caulking where the foam meets the brick, so warm, most air does not enter the chimney. And I suppose I'll allow the insulation bags to be less than 100% air tight. 2009-10-30T21:14:21.473+01:00 2009-10-30T21:14:21.473+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2594693&comment_id=136064894 undefined Hmmm, I just read: "If you do not use your fireplace, you may want to seal off and insulate the chimney. Be sure, however, to provide some ventilation for the flue. If you fail to provide ventilation, condensation will form in the chimney." (Lowes.com) Do you know how I could do that without letting the cold air in? 2009-10-28T01:37:08.829+01:00 2009-10-28T01:37:08.829+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2594693&comment_id=136064806 undefined Thanks. I had a similar idea - using only one bag - but your method is better. Even if my one bag effectively stops cold air from entering the chimney from above, the other bags will provide much-wanted wall insulation. 2009-10-28T01:32:37.192+01:00 2009-10-28T01:32:37.192+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2582951&comment_id=132319916 Jonson We need a program to download linked videos without opening the page. In YouTube, if I see a display of 20 video thumbnails, and I want to download all of them, I have to load each page, and then go to each page, download, and close each page. FlashGot would work if the links were to the videos themselves, but the links are to each video's webpage, so FlashGot doesn't work (as far as I know). Does anyone have the answer? 2009-10-03T17:27:09.155+02:00 2009-10-03T17:27:09.155+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2489774&comment_id=83564114 Jonathon This is by far one of your simpler reviews - it does not have dozens of images or videos or analyses of different components - but the review is perfect for this software. (A longer review would be too long for this software.) How could anyone give this article a rating less than 5 stars? Ashraf, may I say you are a gift from God/Allah. I know a lot of highly intelligent people, but it blows my mind that you can write reviews (+ instructions + demonstrations + comparisons) of this quality almost every day, while also studying for your courses, and living. What you write (and image) in a few hours is often far superior to what software companies and magazines write in who-knows-who-long. (Yes, I know some of your articles are quotations from the software developers; I know it's not 'all you'.) I hope this is rewarding enough (enjoyable, skill/knowledge-growing, income-generating/career-advancing) for you to continue this great service to .. well, the world. (I don't mean to pressure you to keep doing this forever; I mean to say thank you for all you have done.) Thanks, Jonathon, Toronto 2009-04-25T18:34:03.850+02:00 2009-04-25T18:34:03.850+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2489774&comment_id=83452833 trackback This is by far one of your simpler reviews - it does not have dozens of images or videos or analyses of different components - but the review is perfect for this software. (A longer review would be too long for this software.) How could anyone give this article a rating less than 5 stars? Ashraf, may I say you are a gift from God/Allah. I know a lot of highly intelligent people, but it blows my mind that you can write reviews (+ instructions + demonstrations + comparisons) of this quality almost every day, while also studying for your courses, and living. What you write (and image) in a few hours is often far superior to what software companies and magazines write in who-knows-who-long. (Yes, I know some of your articles are quotations from the software developers; I know it's not 'all you'.) I hope this is rewarding enough (enjoyable, skill/knowledge-growing, income-generating/career-advancing) for you to continue this great service to the .. well, the world. (I don't mean to pressure you to keep doing this forever; I mean to say thank you for all you have done.) Thanks, Jonathon, Toronto 2009-04-25T13:25:48.277+02:00 2009-04-25T13:25:48.277+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2332070&comment_id=52712303 CollectiveCreation Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply. 2009-01-22T20:19:22.339+01:00 2009-01-22T20:19:22.339+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2332070&comment_id=52674628 CollectiveCreation Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply. 2009-01-22T19:14:49.324+01:00 2009-01-22T19:14:49.324+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2324527&comment_id=51930763 CollectiveCreation Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply. 2009-01-21T22:18:29.332+01:00 2009-01-21T22:18:29.332+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2324527&comment_id=51922639 CollectiveCreation Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply. 2009-01-21T21:56:45.542+01:00 2009-01-21T21:56:45.542+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2324527&comment_id=51920227 CollectiveCreation Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply. 2009-01-21T21:51:31.935+01:00 2009-01-21T21:51:31.935+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2324527&comment_id=51852468 CollectiveCreation Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply. 2009-01-21T19:02:47.131+01:00 2009-01-21T19:02:47.131+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2323574&comment_id=51765329 Jonathon Since "vLite and nLite cannot add applications", I will use them if I want a custom Windows Install, but I will happily use MultiSet to install all my other software. Hurray! Thank God for MultiSet! Ashraf, since I joined 4 days ago I've been thanking God/Allah for you, but today I'm disappointed you did not appreciate what MultiSet does that vLite does not do. Do you think a program could make multiple-software installations automatic without using the 'macro-record' method? If we already have the software installed, can we do a [virtual/pretend] install so MultiSet can record our answers to the installation prompts, or do we have to uninstall our software then install it again so MultiSet can record our installation? That would be a big negative to MultiSet. Is it so? 2009-01-21T16:19:18.185+01:00 2009-01-21T16:19:18.185+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=2147659&comment_id=44628848 Account I'm smiling and crying - beautiful surprise. 2008-12-24T08:32:32.331+01:00 2008-12-24T08:32:32.331+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1770941&comment_id=31131952 Anonymous clever but FALSE. I put highlights of the Republican convention on my blog, including “We must never forget what government is not. It’s not a philanthropic organization. And it’s not the family. And it’s certainly not the church.” - Rep. Michelle Bachmann “I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.” - Huckabee “A government that can give everything to you, can take everything from you.” 2008-09-15T20:56:34.801+02:00 2008-09-15T20:56:34.801+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1770941&comment_id=31131910 Anonymous clever but FALSE. ... I posted highlights of the Republican convention on my blog, including: “We must never forget what government is not. It’s not a philanthropic organization. And it’s not the family. And it’s certainly not the church.” - Rep. Michelle Bachmann “I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.” - Mike Huckabee “A government that can give everything to you, can take everything from you.” 2008-09-15T20:54:48.382+02:00 2008-09-15T20:54:48.382+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1770941&comment_id=31131898 Anonymous (continued) “Now our opponents tell you not to worry about their tax increases. They tell you they are not going to tax your family. No, they’re just going to tax “businesses”! So unless you buy something from a “business”, like groceries or clothes or gasoline … or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small “business”, don’t worry … it’s not going to affect you.” - Fred Thompson Then I realized: Obama agrees - the Republicans were painting a false picture of Obama. 2008-09-15T20:54:06.982+02:00 2008-09-15T20:54:06.982+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1770307&comment_id=31131387 Anonymous McCain ad "Which Side Are They On?": "Obama and his congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants. But are they? The press reports that their efforts made immigration reform fail. The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. - Obama and his congressional allies ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead." But Obama and McCain cast identical votes in the major congressional showdowns on the issue last year. 2008-09-15T20:23:48.773+02:00 2008-09-15T20:23:48.773+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1770307&comment_id=31131365 Anonymous re: McCain-Palin "don't want to debate .. on issues because they are running on 8 more years of what we've just seen", see "McCain for Change - True/Outrageous?" (imagiscape.ca/blog/politics/american/mccain-for-change-true-false) 2008-09-15T20:22:27.336+02:00 2008-09-15T20:22:27.336+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1770307&comment_id=31131342 Anonymous Obama: "They don't want to debate .. on issues because they are running on 8 more years of what we've just seen. .. [So] they .. try to distract .. with talk about Paris Hilton, .. and try to distort my record, and .. what the Democrats intend to do." McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said the "attacks mark a new low from Barack Obama." The Obama campaign responded: "We will take no lectures from John McCain .. His discredited ads' disgusting lies [are] not worthy of the office he is seeking." 2008-09-15T20:20:46.173+02:00 2008-09-15T20:20:46.173+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1770307&comment_id=31124721 Anonymous I expect McCain supporters will see this as a deceptive ad itself - unless they read details. I will post a couple from www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/13/campaign.wrap 2008-09-15T16:10:34.859+02:00 2008-09-15T16:10:34.859+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1770307&comment_id=31124700 Anonymous I expect McCain supporters will see this as a deceptive ad itself - unless they read the details - all the gory details. 2008-09-15T16:08:13.700+02:00 2008-09-15T16:08:13.700+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1717300&comment_id=30869813 Anonymous I expected a simple morality tale - good for giving my Mom a night out, but without mature meaning. I started watching it with kind thoughts for these young artists, but before long I was swept up in the drama - not only was it astoundingly funny in many moments, Everyouth was me (and I'm 34). Shockingly insightful - for every one. Yes, I cried. After a standing ovation, I left beaming, grown and growing. 2008-09-07T22:31:32.185+02:00 2008-09-07T22:31:32.185+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1550207&comment_id=29897288 Jonathon But I can't edit files using Tunnelier. In WinSCP I can click a file and it will open in whatever program I have associated with that filetype, so I can edit a php file in SciTE or Notepad++, then click save, and it will save straight to the remote server. Still I want an alternative to WinSCP because, although it would automatically reconnect if I saved my password, it warns against saving your password. Guessing, it seems Tunnelier stores the password for the duration of the session - it doesn't save it permanently, but it keeps it ready to automatically reconnect. My host automatically disconnects SFTP connections at irregular intervals, but usually between 2 seconds(!) and 2 minutes, regardless of whether there is activity or not. Why do they do that? They would prefer I use insecure FTP? Do you know if: - I can make Tunnelier edit files? (I like that it uses less CPU and is faster.) - I can make WinSCP store passwords for the session? - FileZilla will ever be able to support Secure FTP? 2008-08-02T16:59:08.872+02:00 2008-08-02T16:59:08.872+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1278179&comment_id=24581563 Jonathon <b>SOLVED</b> In my htaccess file I had: AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html so the hreview html files were being processes as PHP. A year ago, as I was trying to integrate my original static html site into my new dynamic php site, I read that I should insert that line into my htaccess file. The reasoning seemed cloudy to me, but I knew nothing then, and the author sounded confident. Anyway, that was the problem. It works now - thanks! 2008-03-02T07:34:36.838+01:00 2008-03-02T07:34:36.838+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1278179&comment_id=24581408 Jonathon My error log shows: file has no execute permission: wp-content/plugins/hreview-support-for-editor/hReviewInput.html The directory and folder settings are all 755, as they should be. Do you know what might be wrong? When I click the hreview button in post-new.php, I get "Internal Server Error". System info: PHP version 5.2.4 MySQL version 4.1.22-standard Apache version 1.3.39 (Unix) Operating system Linux Architecture i686 Thanks for considering this Andrew, Jonathon, Toronto 2008-03-02T03:41:41.988+01:00 2008-03-02T03:41:41.988+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1263890&comment_id=24411564 Jonathon Thanks - you were right. That solved this problem and another one (plugins' images not displaying). Some dastardly plugin created an htaccess file in wp-content/plugins/ with the contents: `&lt;Files ~ ".*\..*"&gt; order allow,deny deny from all ` I deleted it! (I wonder what that will do!?) Which plugin did that? If I find out, I'll post it here. Clue: The file has a last changed date of February 15, 2006. That's not the date it arrived on my site; it may be the date the plugin was last updated - perhaps I can find a plugin with other files last updated on that date. 2008-02-25T01:55:57.484+01:00 2008-02-25T01:55:57.484+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=823363&comment_id=24410670 Jonathon It looks like the plugin WP-Email conflicts with WP-FileManager. When I clicked on FileManager in the admin area, I got: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare is_valid_name() (previously declared in [...]/wp-content/plugins/email/email.php:416) in [...]/wp-admin/incl/functions.inc.php on line 139 Can I manually replace is_valid_name() with is_valid_name_fm()? (...5 minutes later ...) I tried it. It worked. I replaced the string in fm.php incl/edit.inc.php incl/create.inc.php incl/rename.inc.php incl/functions.inc.php 2008-02-24T17:57:17.424+01:00 2008-02-24T17:57:17.424+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1263913&comment_id=24394470 author Would periods in titles cause problems for feeds or search engines or other [machine programs]? 2008-02-22T08:09:39.916+01:00 2008-02-22T08:09:39.916+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1263890&comment_id=24394058 Jonathon Hi, I added about 20 new plugins, and one of them is conflicting with One Click Plugin Updater. Now when I click "update automatically", I get: <blockquote>You don't have permission to access /blog/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/do_update.php on this server.</blockquote> I've used Firebug in Firefox and IE Developer Toolbar in IE, trying to see what's causing the conflict, but neither enable me to see what plugins or scripts or causing the bug. Do you know how I can find the culprit? I de-activated all the new plugins. The problem still exists. (Aside: Also some images no longer display on my blog (post-ratings' stars, translator's flags.) After contending with these problems, I found you have just released a new version. I installed it. As expected, that made no difference to the problem another plugin(s) is causing. 2008-02-22T07:34:23.562+01:00 2008-02-22T07:34:23.562+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1263083&comment_id=24372635 Jonathon Unless a MySpace user changes the default setting, MySpace automagically links titles of books, movies, music and perhaps other things to purchase pages on Amazon.com. (The $ commision goes to MySpace, not to the MySpace user.) Is there any way Amazon Machine Tags could work without us needing to look up the book:isbn=1234567890 or amazon:asin=1234567890 machine tag? Or as Janis Joplin sang: Oh Lord, won't you by me a Mercedes Benz? 2008-02-21T19:44:02.384+01:00 2008-02-21T19:44:02.384+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1154744&comment_id=22670123 Imagiscape Caregiving Here are a few false positives - the checker says these are broken, but they aren't. http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Organic-Gardening-Prince-Charles/dp/0297844164/ref=sr_1_1/002-6538492-7010462?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190925978&sr=8-1 http://astore.amazon.com/gristmagazine/detail/1576753611/102-1183543-3665742 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090798/ http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/peint/inv0054/peint_f.htm http://www.algds.com/ http://pressroom.pbs.org/photos/brain_fitness_merzenich?programid=the_brain_fitness_program_with_dr_michael_merzenich (205 links correctly identified as broken, 6 falsely identified.) On the wp-admin/options ..., I selected Link Checker, then clicked "Recheck". It returned "No broken links found". Surely it should say "No new broken links found". Then I checked Manage - Broken Links, and this time it only showed 3 broken links. I re-loaded the page, and it showed 6, then 11, then 60 then 139, then 181, then 189. All the above false positives appeared again. And there's one new false positive: http://www.imagiscape.ca/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Breakfast+of+Champions 2007-12-20T23:47:18.449+01:00 2007-12-20T23:47:18.449+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1154744&comment_id=22669904 Imagiscape Caregiving Thanks - it works perfectly! Suggestion: Add a field/column: Status (published/ draft/ private/ pending moderation/ ...) Perhaps also allow filtering by status. I have 211 broken links, but 175 are from 7 draft emails. (They were published, but I had already found they were a mess, so the proper status is un-published - I wish we could designate them as such, not as drafts, but sorry, that's not about your plugin.) It would be easier to deal with the broken links if I could only address the published ones. OR Add an ignore list, so I can check a box, or copy and paste something, or if need be enter the post id#, so that those broken links won't display, but a note will, reminding: "the following posts/pages are on your ignore list - they may contain broken links not listed above". Thanks again. 2007-12-20T21:59:01.385+01:00 2007-12-20T21:59:01.385+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1081916&comment_id=21851571 MakeMeAChannel Regarding this video, simply stated: Pavarotti is best. While Domingo & Carreras strain, Potts is pure. Domingo & Carreras are probably overall better, more powerful with greater stylistic range - I'm guessing - but in this recording, Potts is the voice that measures up to the song. 2007-10-22T05:59:18.533+02:00 2007-10-22T05:59:18.533+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=1037542&comment_id=20438116 Jonathon Like Adam, When I click on the bookmarklet, the firebux box appears o n the bottom, but the status bar is stuck on “Downloading data http://getfirebug.com/firebug/firebug.css…“ I checked that http://getfirebug.com/firebug/firebug.css exists (it does), and that the script does not include those trailing dots (...) (it does not). David had the same problem, but apparently fixed it - he wrote "I just changed the course of the css file to one on my server." Can the css file really be any css file? Should I copy the firebug.css file to my server? Since the file exists at getfirebug.com, is this really the problem? I tried what David did - I copied firebug.css to my website and, using Notepad++ to edit firebug.js, I changed http://getfirebug.com/firebug/firebug.css to http://imagiscape.ca/web/firebug.css. I did not make a typing error or cut off the &gt; or &lt; tags surrounding the url. The file saved properly. Now when I click the bookmarklet, I get: Internet Explorer cannot load . Unspecified Error Help? Help Adam! Help me! Help others! (P.S. I'm trying to find why my blog's footer appears near the top in IE - at least in IE7.) 2007-10-12T22:52:01.323+02:00 2007-10-12T22:52:01.323+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=428172&comment_id=18868582 imagiscape Otto and others, Good suggestion Otto - On the Options-&gt;General page, I tried setting the blog and site urls to have the ending slash in them, but upon saving changes ("Update Options"), WordPress automatically cut the trailing slashes . (I tried / (forward slash) and \ (backslash, I believe).) Help!? Thank you. 2007-09-16T20:51:08.902+02:00 2007-09-16T20:51:08.902+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=CollectiveCreation&conv=989277&comment_id=18649119 Jonathon N Can I write Expires code without accessing Apache? Can I write Expires code in HTML? in PHP? Can you provide an example for: a stylesheet an image a Flash file a script ? Thank you very much. 2007-09-06T01:10:32.042+02:00 2007-09-06T01:10:32.042+02:00