Well, it’s official – the server is dead.
Over the last two hours I’ve tried everything imaginable, and it will not allow me to upgrade or reinstall FreeBSD. I’m forced to the conclusion that there’s been some sort of hardware failure that’s beyond my abilities to fix, and beyond my finances to replace.
Over the next day or two, I will be working to move all my websites to the new hosting, and to find a way to put up all the KMorg journals in archive form so people can download them to use elsewhere.
On a related note, I was going to recommend that users get a livejournal or blogger account and import their KMorg journals, but neither of those sites allows importing. So I was going to recommend they find a host that will let them install Movable Type – but they just changed their licenses to where it’s no longer free unless you’re running a single-author weblog (meaning rusted may not be upgraded to the new version).
Anyways, there’s still some thought to be done on my part about what to do with the killingmachines.org domain – There’s a possibility that I will allow it to be hosted somewhere else and give someone else the dubious priviledge of running the site – the only problem is that would take Rusted with it… So maybe Rusted will get a new URL, maybe lots of things will change, maybe nothing will change. I don’t know for sure yet.
Oh, and the whole “falling apart” thing is better now. I’m not going to get into it, but suffice to say things were very stressful around here for awhile for a variety of reasons, and they’re slowly improving. I don’t feel quite so out of control now.
Anyways, I’ll post more later when I’m a little more sure what the next step is.
woebegone
‘ts a damn shame.
Fortunately, I think most of the entire Nebraskan high school with km blogs had about seventeen more blogs each, into which they can copy and paste the history of their tribulations. (They’re like the Hebrews, these highschoolers.)
As for me, I’ll have a .edu-based site for the foreseeable future.
We all- or effika and I- know you’re doing all you can, Scott. And we appreciate it.
Just Nick!
So there is no hope for Kmorg being back to normal?
effika
At the very least it’ll be nice to have my posts back, even if KMorg is no more. Thanks for all the work you’re putting into this.
Any clue what format the posts will be in?
Ryan
Wouldn’t it be funny if Scott archived all of our posts for us, but ran them through one of those online language-translator websites first?
Then we’d all spend hours uploading and re-formatting our new blogs, and look at the result and be all “Hey! What’s the big idea?”
Scott
Well, now I’m definitely going to format yours into Jive, Ryan. ;)
As for the format, I’m still thinking about that. It will probably be in the Movable Type* import format, just because that’s plain-text and easy for me to set up. If Blogger or LiveJournal had an import format, I would use theirs instead, but neither of them allow imports.
* http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtimport.html
Ryan
I’m totally fine with that. It would make my old posts more interesting, anyway.
gripewater
I feel so homeless.
Thanks for doing what you could.
fraz
Thank you so much for all you’ve done, Scott.
I’m truly glad I found this place, and it’ll be tough losing it.
Duo
SCOTT. I just wanted to let you know that, I’m sure you could just start KMorg new from scratch and run it from there. That way there would be less crap to deal w/ (like journals no one used) if that might help. Or, you could always go Penny Arcade style and see if someone could donate money to pay for hardware repairs. I know I would try. Because livejournal and other journals just dont have the same love the KMorg has. But thats just my opinion.
Duo.
Urn
That would work just fine and dandy, but I fear that Scott is more a web designer than a sysadmin or programmer, and probably doesn’t have any interest in being either.
Duo
Yes. I spose you are right. But I was just being hopeful.Just not a huge fan of LJ. I also wanted to see KMorg in the old days when there werent 1000 journals on there that no one used. And it was actully not a huge spot for high school drama queens of the midwest. ::tear:: Ah the old days.
sean
i miss peons.
scott could design a new kmorg to look better and more fantastic, but there’s no way he could even code the site to function like the old kmorg, let alone get a new server fully functional.
it’d be nice but he’d need a new programmer.
Duo
Well dammit, I will learn the programming code to get KMorg up and running again. Whatever happened to Steve anyway? can’t he offer some helpful advice or even a hearty handshake? for the love of god! I need KMorg, I’m addicted! dont you people understand!!!!!! ::sob::
sean (connery)
‘Whatever happened to Steve anyway?’
good question. if you find out, let us know, will you?
maybe he faked his death like andy kaufman.