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Dec 21, 2006 10:46AM
As I'm sure at least some of you noticed, jayloden.com went down yesterday for an extended period. Unfortunately, so did every domain I manage through my hosting provider. Tektonic evidently had some nastiness happen with a large block of their IP addresses and had to reassign some customers new addresses. So, after something like two years of using the same IP, my DNS was suddenly pointing at the wrong addresses etc. And since I run my own DNS server too, the mess was compounded. I had to update my domain registration information and my DNS config, wait for that to propagate, etc. All in all, a really ugly situation. Can't say I'm happy about it and I'm a little peeved that things went so badly.
I've been otherwise pretty happy with tektonic for the past few years, so this was an especially displeasing turn of events. In any case, things should be back to normal now and I apologize to anyone who the outage may have affected. Not that my site is so groundbreaking or anything, but if nothing else I try to maintain uptime just for AIMFix users.
In other news, the site is now up and running under Clearsilver 10.4, the current release version. I ported over some changes I'd made to the previous 10.3 release I was running to ensure no loss of functionality, and things seem to be running nicely. If you happen to notice any gliches or issues do let me know through the contact form.
Thanks,
-Jay
Oct 12, 2006 08:57AM
As a user-requested enhancement, I've now added a "silent" mode option to AIMFix. If you run AiMFix with the /s or -s option on the command line, it will hide the window. There may be a momentary flash as the console intializes but it should hide almost instantly. Note also that if you are calling AIMfix from inside another cmd window, that window will be hidden. Please let me know via the contact form should you run into any unusual behavior or problems.
-Jay
Oct 06, 2006 02:14AM
After receiving an email today to let me know that AIMFix was incorrectly parsing the '-l' flag (for specifying a log file location), I corrected the issue. I was still in the mood to program later this evening, and I've been wanting to replace the options code in AIMFix for a while, so I finally got around to that tonight. I did some googling and turned up SimpleOpt, which fit perfectly with what I was looking for. All options in AIMFix are now parsed by SimpleOpt and have been tested to work as expected. I also added some additional error checking, sanity checks on input, and in general revamped all the options code.
Enjoy!
-Jay
Sep 19, 2006 11:01AM
Just received a note from Softpedia, AIMFix has won 5 stars and another Softpedia Pick Award :-)
Hello,
Your product AIM Fix 1.6.918.2156 has been awarded by us with 5 stars and SoftPedia Pick Award !
You can check the following page to see the various graphical formats of the award:
http://www.softpedia.com/awards/
Your product review page is located at:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/AIM-Fix.shtml
Please feel free to link to us using the URL above.
Don't hesitate to contact us for more information.
Sincerely,
The Softpedia Team
Cool stuff, always nice to get another set of 5 stars :)
-Jay
Aug 29, 2006 09:30PM
As some of my friends already know, I bought my first Mac last week (a shiny, well, matte black, Macbook). Of course it's been quite an adjustment for me, having used Windows and then Linux for my entire computer-using life, but it's been mostly positive. One of the first steps is of course to find out how to run all my favorite cross-platform applications, and find substitutes for those that are not cross-platform. Thankfully OS X comes with a decent UNIX subsystem, so I didn't need to hunt down the majority of my favorite command line utilities.
Though I hadn't originally intended to do so, looking at all these UNIX applications made me curious, so I started researching whether I could run the necessary applications to compile AIMFix under OS X. Well, sure enough, after some digging and a small amount of tweaking, I was able to get MinGW, make, and UPX running just fine. Even more satisfying, AIMFix compiled without any changes to the Makefile.
So, the short version is, AIMFix now compiles just fine on OS X :)
-Jay
