FBML 1.1 Released

Some changes here to make note of, explained in a post on their blog.

Random Video About a Shy Girl

on Traveling Abroad... alone?

David Weekly went to Buenos Aires and had a good time with steak, wine, and ice cream.

Also consider Italy.

Some resources

• sidestep.com
• couchsurfing.com
• hospitalityclub.org

Some examples

• Tunisia
• Stay in a hostel
• Jessica, Campus Minister, Merced

Steps to go

1. Passport
2. Flight
3. Place to stay
4. Go

Planning

• lonelyplanet.com for the area first
• Guidebooks for anywhere in the world - Amazon.com
• Roatan - Honduras - Caribbean - SCUBA - $1100
• Australians and New Zealanders on walkabout
• aborigines
  

David Weekly's plan for a new university. I agree with him.

How to run Invision Plus

• Take PayPal donations
• Make it clear I'm thinking about taking this more seriously (full-time)
• Premium offering
• Want to say "Thank You"
• Be more open with users
• Explain that I'm wrestling with whether or not to quit school and go full-time on this
• Get to know my users
• Get them on the phone, email, IM
• Email a few hundred of them
• Forum admins all need to all know who am
• Less important to connect with participants, but they can if they want (they might start their own forums soon)
• Problem, opportunity, audience - get to know my users and then I'll know what skills to learn and people to bring in
• Be clear on exactly what needs to be done on the site
• People are very excited when they can be used - people want a place in the world where they can be helpful
• So be clear about my needs
• Someone can very specifically provide for those needs
• We have ideas we'd like to implementI
• I'd like to get to know you and what you're doing with the service
  

Possible hosting option
Fremont
8anet.com, 1/2-U
$1500, 6 GB RAM

coloserve.com
Intel Core 2 Duos

How to scale up

• Since forums don't know other forums
• Horizontally partition the db
• 5 smaller servers instead of 1
• Faster and less expensive
• No forklift upgrade
• A-L one db server, M-Z to another server

if statement
connectDb ($server)

To do this while forums are active

• Put a forum into read-only mode
• Users are able to deal with downtime/failure/problems as long as I clearly and timely communicate with them
• Make sure they know what the outage/read-only time is for: to make the service faster and more scalable
• ignore_user_abort()
• memcached - storing cached queries

Finding cofounders and employees

• Hacker / geek friends @ college
• More technical and business friends
• Forum admins may be technical
• Recruited people from your userbase
• Incentive - their forums are hosted on my service

Thanks, David Weekly of pbwiki.com.

I was really worried for a minute...

I discovered that Google Desktop Search does not index inside of files with no file extension, even if the contents of those files are plain text.

This gave me a huge scare just now, as I was frantically searching for my Startup School 2007 notes, and couldn't find them no matter what I searched for.

I used to think Google Desktop Search indexed my entire computer... not so.

The file had no file extension because Programmer's Notepad doesn't automatically add any extension to the file. So it ended up being extension-less.

This is something to keep in mind... I should go through and rename all files with missing extensions to append .txt to them.

on Studying Abroad

Today I talked with Fefe Gong at EVK. She's going to be doing a lot of interesting things in the next few months. First, she's doing a summer internship with BP in Cerritos, near Johnny. She's from Texas, but she'll be staying around the LA area. Perhaps we can meet up sometime during the summer. She's working on energy trading... and she doesn't know about it yet, so she'll be learning about it shortly before beginning work.

Then, for the Fall semester, she's studying abroad in Italy. It was her second choice-- after Spain-- but it should be a lot of fun.

I would like to travel abroad, too. If I take the fall semester off, I should have plenty of time to spend a few weeks overseas. But where should I go? Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa?

I really want to just take a vacation. Escape for a while, maybe to the places that grace my computer desktop. I have a wallpaper cycler that shuffles through this collection of scenic photographs I downloaded. They're really alluring. Most show pictures of the ocean, far away from the worries and pressures of life. I want to sit on the beach and just lie there and just let my mind wander.... maybe with a friend or something. That would be nice. But I can do no such thing.

Instead I have to do my physics homework, do research for my job, finish programming for BoingBoing.net, write a detailed letter to the financial aid office, apply for scholarships, do research for a lengthy paper, find an internship, do the mound of work my parents' restaurant has for me...and more....

It's a really beautiful day outside. I wish I could go outside. But I have to stay here, and watch over my brother, who is ill. My parents are away, working, stressing, working, trying to clamber back on track from an enormous setback...

I don't have a lot of energy these days. I feel like napping all the time, to pass the day, to take refuge in my dreams. I wake up, and I'm always tired. My bones ache weary, and I don't feel like moving.

When I need to motivate myself to work, I feel a muted franticness surging through my mind. Muted, because sensation and feeling are dulled. But it's the feeling that if I don't keep on going I'll die. So I drag myself to do the work.

Henry Yuen's No Time to Think

I can't restore database

Quoted from an Invision Power Board.

Two days ago, I bought a new shared hosting 20GB space. After I have tried to restore my database but I didnt work because the file is so big over 150MB. I have tried my time but it is still stucked. I used phpMyAdmin but I still got trouble with overtime.

So anyone can tell me the way I can restore a big file to my SQL.

Thank you so much,

Tony Tran

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Is it possible to cut it up? I don't know anything, but that could be a solution.

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I've posted a similar post like this.. Don't remeber where..

Look in the General talk for a topic about Mysql.. They have a tool for it somewhere in the help files located online @ the main page ( if I'm right )

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Thank you for quickly reply. I read your two instructions but I am confused with MySQL Document

To install the script:

1) If you wish to password protect the script (recommended)
edit the line $password = ''; at the top of the file
mysql_tool.php putting the password between the quotes.

2) Upload the contents of the extracted zip file
( mysql_tool.php and tile_back.gif ) to your web host.

3) Ch-mod the folder you have uploaded the tool to writable (666)
using your FTP client

-> What is the folder I should edit CHMOD and create? And where I put it in?

Thank you so much,

Tony Tran

A marmot poses for the camera

Back in town

Tony looking cool

Nat enjoying the hike

Meeting the others

Plants at high altitude

Group photo: Elliot, Natalie, Tony, Duane

View from the top

Hiking between walls of ice

I sign the book

It's me

Tony's good at taking pics of himself