There has always been a constant shining beacon of light through out the darkness which shrouds WordPress MU and that is of course WPMUDEV, One thing I have to take note of is that they responded to every question I’ve asked in their forums so far even when they don’t immediately have the answer or when their answer might not be so popular which I believe shows integrity.

Out of all the plugins and themes they have on offer there is one which I love more than any other, don’t get me wrong I use many of them and they are all very useful, some are amazing but this one is so simple and gave me something which in my honest opinion should be part of the multisite core install. Site Wide RSS aka Recent Global Posts Feed – upload, pop over to widget and place it where you need, jobs a good en!

How could it be improved?

- Currently the widget which comes with this plugin points to /wp-content/recent-global-posts-feed.php whereas I would prefer it use a permalink out of the box, something like /site-feed/

- One pet peeve is that there are is also a site wide comments RSS (which equally as cool!) and this is a separate plugin, personally I would like to see these bundled together as one plugin thus lowering the amount of included extra files. I think the same could be said for their branding plugings (which are also amazing!).

The great thing is they welcome suggestions and if it is something their membership want then it goes on the development list!

I love that the WPMUDEV plugins just work!

The poor get poorer and the rich….. well you know the rest!

Money dictates how we live our life, what we do and how we survive. It restricts us and in a way it can define us with relation to how giving we can be towards Nobel causes.

So where is our Robin Hood to stave off excessive fuel prices in the petrol stations, or take on the giants that withhold electric and gas unless we pay extortionate prices. What about food and the cost of living, in an ever increasingly difficult world. We are by no means suffering in comparison to what some people have to endure in this world, in fact compared to third world countries we, ourselves would be considered rich, so are we greedy for wanting more?

No, I don’t think we are, its not greed to want a better life for you or your family and lets face it money, the controller, the dictator is what limits us in our ability to evolve as human beings. But this thing we call money which the government and powers that be use to control us, they are numbers, they mean nothing really, only we place value on those numbers because society conditions us to. When a company makes millions every day how does that change anything, it only adds a few more numbers to a balance sheet, or a computer program running a bank. Its not like the old days where you would barter with live stock because you needed something which someone else had.

Our need for money holds us back, it controls the lifestyle we live.

However, the fact is that this is how our society has evolved unless we all made it change then nothing ever will. Nothing can change because humanity is selfish, if you owned a business you wouldn’t give your things away, and if you didn’t need to work because food, water, electric etc was readily available and free, then chances are most people would simply do nothing but then again that is what a fair few draining the countries fictional numbers (money) do. As a world we need to evolve beyond selfish greed to control and dominate.

I digress a little……

If we are to live by numbers, we are to pay by numbers and die by numbers, then there are things we can do to regain a little power. Stop using some of the bigger players or related companies until their prices come down, if they are not making money then they have no choice but to become more competitive. Imagine if we stopped using a whole chain of companies of companies like BP, if they are not selling their petrol they will go under and so we take control in refusing to hand over our hard earned numbers (money) until it becomes more affordable. The same could be done for large supermarkets, stop using them and revert back to the local traders, the market traders, the people who it benefits the most because with our obsession for retail parks, shopping malls and 24 hour large supermarkets this is what is killing independent traders who buy produce locally, get our farms working again and stop relying on the EU to pay our farmers not to farm. Keep abusing your local councils to make parking near down and city/town centres FREE, this is one of the main reasons people go to retail parks and such and thats because it costs them nothing to park. We could even grow our own!

Lets bullet point:-

• Boycott one large petrol manufacturer and retailer for 6 months, 12 months or more. If they are not making money they will need to become cheaper to get people in.
• School projects could be to farm and grow produce to resell locally, keeps the money local for the school whilst educating the kids to grow.
• Use local farmers for meat and dairy products. There are plenty around who you can buy direct from, in fact buying half a pig (which they butcher for you) and freezing it will save you money.
• Use local market traders for fruit, veg, other meat and fish produce, keeps local people in business and employment whilst keeping the money local.
• Move to one supplier across the country for gas and electric (everyone) other suppliers would have no choice to cut their prices because they are simply not making money with no customers otherwise.

Doing this will hit the bigger brands where it matters for them, doing this allows us to gain some control over what we pay or at least who we pay it to and which outside country gets our numbers (money), in essence we are our own Robin Hood, we just need to step up!

In 2005 I reported some content I’d come across on the internet, it both disturbed and disgusted me so I reported it to the police. I was later visited by two police officers who confiscated my laptop and took me to the police station to interview me under caution.

Hold on here!!! I’m trying to help them rid this world of smutty illegal and sickening content and I’m being criminalized for it!!! I really just couldn’t believe what was happening, I was trying to do the right thing and as a result I get cautioned and I lose my laptop.

I was told they would check my laptop out and then once cleared I would get it back, well its now 2010, 5 years later and still no laptop. The laptop is currently worth nothing as its so old and as such I’ve lost money as it was worth about £1,500 back then I believe.

I complained in around 2007 or 2008 and was told that someone would get back to me but it might take some time.

In between these times I simply forgot about it and carried on with life whilst my laptop continued to depreciate in value.

so now, 5 years later and still nothing. How is this acceptable by any standard?

Isn’t theft depriving someone of their rightful property?

This is the first of two complaints this week to the IPCC.

Is this a lesson to all, don’t trust the police? They say report things in confidence, I no longer have any confidence in their abilities.

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This weeks news paper was delivered to my front garden which could be construed as a form of littering, considering the paper could have blown all over my garden and into the streets. I’m sure the snails and other garden habitants would love a read though but I don’t believe this is the target audience of your paper.

I assume that your paper boy/girl is not trained in the art using a letterbox and would therefore suggest an intense training course to help progress their skills, I’m sure they will welcome this in later life when they come to use other equipment in their chosen profession as it may lead onto them developing their own intuition especially when it comes to problem solving such as fitting newspapers through a set size letterbox and not simply slinging it on the floor in someone’s garden.

I jest of course but I would appreciate it if your delivery person posts the actual paper and not just leave it in the garden.

Kindest Regards,
Timothy Bowers.

I did want to comment on a career in some fast food place, but  thought that I should typecast.

You know that what ever Brown says, he really has something to say off camera, a hidden agenda me thinks! Just look at his behaviour when he thought he was away form the cameras and called a woman a bigot, I really wanted him to let rip in that car whilst people were listening. But all that said, it really just shows him as being human albeit a little two faced.

• I have to consider what Labour has done to us, Poor NHS funding and inadequate doctors resulted in my fathers death, my uncles death, my aunts death.
• Treated my mother like a criminal for their mistake, she’s an OAP for Christ sakes.
• Can’t even get their bin men in order but still charge my mother an incredible amount of council tax.
• I needed help from their job centre, but instead got sod all but I’m sure if I’d come from another country I could have had help. All those years of them money grabbing
• DVLA threatening legal action for a vehicle which I’d had sorn with them and later informed them was written off which my insurance company also notified them of. They harassed me for months despite me telling them the numerous times again.
• The list could go on, but for now this will do

We’ve then got the used car salesman, David Cameron. Honestly I think I’d struggle to buy a car from him he just gives off these vibes that he’s after a good commission this month.

BNP, well you know I was considering having a look at what they stand for and today we got a leaflet through the door so I had a quick read. The way I read it is they want to rip our troops out of other countries which could be a devastation not just for use for those countries we’ve gone into but also for ourselves. We need to fix the problems we’ve helped create there and we still need to fight terrorism, if we just pick up and leave places like Afghanistan then we might as well throw them back into chaos and give them some weapons to come get us with afterwards.

The bombings we’ve endured in this country hurt people who didn’t choose to fight in this war, it killed people who were just living their life and if we continued to do nothing they would still continue to come at us. The world is our oyster and we live in it so we have a duty to care for it and not just ourselves because if don’t then when all hell breaks loose we will then be dragged in to it.

BNP also don’t believe in climate change, well regardless of their belief the things we do which scientist claim contribute to climate change are still ruining our world and how we live. Coal, Gas and oil won’t last for ever, landfill sites will still be a mess and will still give of methane. The gases thrown into the Earth’s air will still be poisonous and waste from nuclear power plants still can’t be disposed of easily.

And the other parties……… Well if I’m honest I don’t really understand what they are proposing or what they stand for but I guess I should give them some consideration.

OK after careful consideration I think we should line them all up, blindfold some voters, maybe all of them and give them a paint ball gun who ever gets hit the fewest is in. lol

Maybe not?

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Now the reason I’m blogging about this now is that just last night I came across a little contraption which was close in design to that which my friends and I discussed about all those many years ago, we even dabbled with the idea of making such a thing but never took it any further. It amused me and reminded me of days gone by, so I thought I’d share.

My blog also sends this article out to Facebook, I’m not sure it will include the image as I’m never tried before, if not then please click this link to see the original article and image: Auroral.co.uk

For those looking to turn off the catch all address first, this is how you do it in cPanel:

First log in, then click on the ‘Default Address’ icon:

You will then be presented with a list of option, you need to change the radio from ‘Forward to email address’ to ‘Discard with error to senter (at SMTP time)’:

This will then reply to all e-mails sent to addresses which have not been set up (all catch all addresses *@domain.com), the message sent can be specificied on that page but if not it will simply send ‘No such person at this address’.

As you can see, you can also discard the message totally (no reply to sender) but keep in mind if someone sends a genuine email they will not be aware they mistyped your e-mail address and thus assume .  The other option is to pipe all e-mails, this is commonly used in scripts like help desks (PHP, Pearl).

Disabling  catch all by default for new cPanel accounts in WHM:

If you are running WHM on your server and want to have catch all disabled by default then it’s simply, log into WHM and go to ‘Tweak Settings’:

Then scroll down to ‘Mail’ and change the setting from ‘Local’ to ‘Fail’:

Save the settings and then all new accounts will have catch all disabled.

Removing existing emails.

So now you won’t receive any more, you still need to get rid of the existing mail which could be taking up copious ammounts of space, for this you may require assistance from your web host depending on how they have everything set up because you will need to delete some files outside of your web root.

If it’s your server the path should be ‘/home/user/mail/’ if it’s not and you just have a cPanel account then you should just see ‘/mail/’.

Within the mail directory you will see three folders, cur, new and tmp:

You need to delete the ‘cur’ directory and then recreate it (basically, your deleting the contents of the folder), you then still have a cur folder with absolutely no contents.

That’s it, that’s everything!

Note: In cPanel you might still see the usage for the catch all account still takes room, well that’s not strictly true, the server simply needs to update which it will do but be rest assured the space is not actually being taken up.

As you can see in the image, there is a note stating that space usage is recalculated every few hours.

You can force an update, but I wouldn’t bother, just let cPanel do it, it’s safer.

To whom it may concern.

To be clear my customer number is: ********

I refer to all accounts within my name and registered to me. I’ve had an ongoing issue with your poor technical and customer service including your billing methods and how you have illegal took money from our accounts without having permission after explicitly being told not to do so. This has damaged my family financially and left us with further bank charges to pay. I’ve tried to tackle this in a polite manner and got no adequate response, I’ve tackled this in a more aggressive manner due to you enraging me with your petty games and still no adequate response.

I have been in the process of transferring all my products away from you and to a reputable host who is capable of performing the simplest tasks which you seem incapable of doing. it’s a great shame, I’ve been a loyal customer of yours since around 2003 and the way you have treated me is disgusting.

Take this as my notice, you are to cease (that means stop) with any billing and renewal of any items. They will either be transferred away, renewed with another provider or left to expire. Please close down my account after completion. Should you require further clarification then please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Kindest Regards

Timothy Bowers

Your once loyal customer.

Its really sad, there a bunch of idiots who really don’t read or listen to what you say. As a company they have really let me down and I know I’m not the only one, across the net they get stinking reviews because of it.

All in all I’ve had some 15 to 20 people who’ve contact me with similar complaints about YES LTD, some had agreed to have their story published but then backed out, others didn’t wish to because of their continuing working relationship with YES LTD.

I have to note though that I’ve seen little if any complaints about the American counterparts who distribute these machines and I wounder why. Some suggested different climates cause didn’t issues for machines which I can appreciate and then another suggestion was made that perhaps it was relating to the actual training given. I’ve had two offers from people whom believe they can offer sound advice to make this machine work as expected, one has offered to give me some kind of tuition over the phone to get me on the right track.

Because of these offers I’ve decided that perhaps the machine should be given another go, so I’ve started to source a new print head because no doubt this one will be no good now, although I will test it first, I’m also trying to find a source for dampers and await some feed back from a company. I’ve also found a new supplier of DTG inks within the UK which seems very promising indeed.

I’ve received a fair bit of advice who a chap in the UK who runs what seems a fairly successful company with this machine although he’s had many, many issues and blatently also thinks very little of YES LTD. I believe he also still screen or silk prints for larger orders (this is his heritage into the fabric printing world).

No doubt it will take a while for me to find all the funds required for this, so I’m not sure at what point this year it will happen, but when it does I guess I’ll be going back into business.  I’m a little more optimistic this time based on the advice I’ve received and this whole recession thing isn’t of major concern to me.

On a side note, a few weeks ago my domain registrars forwarded me a mail, it seems YES LTD were trying to find out the webmaster of this site, but my registrar refused to divulge my details and just passed it to me. I replied to YES LTD politely reminding them who I was and asked how I could help them. So far, no reply!

And finally to add, it seems only moments after YES LTD supplied us with the DTG Kiosk, they launched a new version called the DTG Kiosk HM1 (HM-1) , maybe they were just eager to throw the older model out of the door at as quicker pace a they could so then they could entice the companies back with a newer version within months. (They still stock the DTG Kiosk as well).