Comments on: 20six blog archiver for Windows, version 1.6

By: bubb

bubb — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:19:25 +0000

My, bobble’s & some other blogs are all hosted from a single http://www.bluehost.com/ account.

They seem to have a reasonable control panel for setting up wordpress and support all the various server-side stuff one could want.

You can quite happily have different domains or sub-domains on the account.

They didn’t seem to expensive when we looked around for a wordpress-friendly host – no idea how they compare to others any more though.

By: Adam Ball

Adam Ball — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:20:42 +0000

Thanks for this! I managed a full back up of my 20six blog before it crashed and burned. My brother idlebones and sis helsbels are also refugees. I’ve been tinkering with wordpress and am looking for a good host for my blog. What’s a good solution that would host three blogs each with a separate domain and not an enormous amount of traffic – i.e. mostly family and friends. Hi to Belgian Waffle too as it was seeing her name here that got me thinking of a 20six exit strategy!

Adam

By: bubb

bubb — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:11:41 +0000

Hrm, it might not work with the new platform, they’ve probably changed things and I don’t have a 20six account any more to develop it further, sorry

By: Boso

Boso — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:09:20 +0000

Hey, does this software work with the new platform? I just tried it, but it looks like nothing’s happening.

By: Boso

Boso — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:09:20 +0000

Hey, does this software work with the new platform? I just tried it, but it looks like nothing’s happening.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:08:10 +0000

Hey, I just used the version 1.6 and it worked! Woo! It did create a log file which it sent to windows but I don’t think that would be of any help. Thanks so much for this again! Damn, I miss the 20-six sweeties, how crap does the whole new 20-six look?

By: bubb

bubb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:17:28 +0000

Yep, the hard disk in an iPod Mini is actually a Compact Flash 4Gb ‘microdrive’ and you can stick any Compact Flash devices onto it. I was considering ordering up a 4Gb flash card but I’m trying to save cash, hence I just used a 1Gb card we had spare.

Am just uploading the source code for version 1.6 now…

Olivia: It’s possible that its a virus but more likely that there is a bug in the Archiver. Try the latest version, it has a new bug fix. Does it create a log file at all?

By: Kevling

Kevling — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:14:07 +0000

Wait, you put a CF card into an iPod mini? You really are FAR too clever at this sort of stuff.

And speaking of clever, thanks immensely for fixing the bug in 1.5 – you really are a star Bubb!

By: OliviaJoules

OliviaJoules — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:44:17 +0000

Hi there,
I tried using this, unzipped it and downloaded the Windows .Net too but everytime I try to run it, windows shut it down saying there has been a problem. I have restarted but nothing’s changed, does my computer has a vvv…irus?

By: bubb

bubb — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:35:48 +0000

Hi Kevling,

I’ll email about tracking down the problem. Things might have changed on 20six that are confusing the archiver! Or it could simply be a rubbishy bug on my part of course

XML files in general are easily convertable between different formats. The key thing is knowing what format platform27.co.uk is expecting to get! The format of the archive is a ‘standard’ RSS feed so hopefully it will ‘just work’ to a certain extent.

Perhaps I should set up a test account on Platform27 to sort it out…

PS I haven’t heard the ending of Claybourne yet – my iPod mini died and I’ve only just got it working again by putting a 1GB CF Card in it. So I’ll sync up tonight and listen to it on the train tomorrow… No Spoilerz!!!