Dawn of the Geeks

The DevCenter is now fully operational and all sections it composes have been forwarded to the new location. Hopefully this will keep people from getting too lost while Google reindexes everything. One of the things I’ve noticed about Google is that it has a hard time letting things go. I still get hits to the locations of files two generations ago. Two gens ago everything was here at www.icarusindie.com, then it was broken into distinct subdomains and now sections are being combined back together. The net result however is a lot of hits to the front page since the front page is also the 404 page. Most requests do get forwarded since Google had them properly linked to the index.php file for the section. Others are still going directly to the files which no longer exist so the user is forwarded here.

The only thing I know of that isn’t done is the Virtual Boy section. I was using server side includes which my new server doesn’t process. I need to download the entire site and then redo it using PHP. Back in the day (1996 or so) it was a popular site (even visited by Nintendo) since I was the first to provide a practical solution to making the VB wearable and comfortable. A number of people tried uses helemts and counterweights which didn’t work well at all and made it far less comfortable. I also had my screenshots stolen and published without my permission in a German game magazine. Pretty exciting times.

One other issue is with the ringtone sites. The Javascript check is messing up being able to download the ringtones to cell phones. You can still download them to your computer. I need to fix that pretty quick. myMobile isn’t affected. myMobile has another issue which is the wall paper generator. Apparently PHP’d GD library saves JPEGs wrong or something because they don’t work with the phone. I have to use another image editing program like Photoshop to get a usable files. Anyway, I’ll get these issues worked out eventually.