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  1. You are about to view the notes that will be added as News tickets into iDesk soon. :)
  1. 31 Jul 2021, 1.28 pm
    Quick update: Woke up about an hour ago and had a coffee and 2 cups of tea. Will be working throughout the weekend to get everything hopefully up and running by Monday morning.
  2. 31 Jul 2021, 1.05 am
    Quick update: For reasons unknown IE5 (Internet Explorer 5) and IE5.5 has crashed within our wine setup. Using wine we do have IE6 working however. Here is a set of images: https://imgur.com/a/5i44H7b They show the current rendition in Firefox after a computer cleaup and then also how the website looks in IE6 so instead of including Win 3.1 and Win 95 our minimum support is now Win98 and XP. Everything is double backed up to the cloud properly now.
  3. 26 Jul 2021, 12.55 pm
    Quick update: Kim, my buddy in cybersecurity says it should be done by end of business tomorrow. :) Neojade.
  4. 24 Jul 2021, 10.35 pm
    Quick update: Apparently I have mixed PHP's PDO with Mysqli and because of that a couple of breaches were possible. They've been all fixed up and he's about 80% done with the coding review. That's not too bad really. :) Neojade.
  5. 24 Jul 2021, 8.22 am
    Quick update: The security expert is still reviewing the database and implemenation to make sure both implemenations (server side and javascript versions) have no snafus. I'll update when I get the word. Neojade.
  6. 22 Jul 2021, 1.35 pm
    Quick update: Apologize for the delay. Old vet buddy came by yesterday with drinks and we reminicised and had a good time. I'll get back on it tomorrow I promise. Got a splitting headache right now heh. Tomorrow's task: database completion. Neojade.
  7. 20 Jul 2021, 4.33 pm
    Quick update: Redefined the model format today so that tigerMVI can be used for more than just this community. Plenty of fixes under the hood. Recreated the iDesk as our help desk/center with 't.iger' as the avatar. tigerMVI will be a proper web standard for legacy web and the mobile/latest tech web. Back to daily work/updates until finished. tigerMVI followed to the letter will be tigerMVI or tigerMVI[p] and the eclectic version (changes made as needed by user) is tigerMVI[e]. Tomorrow's task: database completion. Neojade.
  8. 14 Jul 2021, 9.18 am
    Quick update: This morning I threw out the pro's and con's list without a second glance. I have decided to take the best parts of all previous initiatives and compile them today--tigerMVI, The Tiger Tribe, and tuxUG. The status quo of the world just sucks and we can do something about it. Enter the tiger. Neojade.
  9. 11 Jul 2021, 11.28 am
    Quick update: I have fealt for a very long time that people don't deserve this sort of endeavor I was working on bringing about. I am still working through the major pro's and con's list. Will this website become like a reddit--rats continuing their trainwrecks of a life as they are? Or like the current conspiracy websites--people content with what they are (or edging/raging hoping to bring about the end of the world?) I don't want to put up a system that enables either. However, I know the governments of the world would want/allow such a thing just to keep the status quo going. I have to decide soon. I have been notified by friends that the government is considering picking me up "if I go good." Know this from me now I will not in any way form any relationship with any government. Neojade.
  10. 23 Jun 2021, 12.10 pm
    Quick update: Laying in bed I just got an idea! The name for the default theme/layout could be called Poetry! I mean the original original idea was to have a journal type system where people could freely discuss whatever they wanted to their hearts content. I'm hoping to including my 1920's USA Noir idea into the Moon Layout we'll see and the Sun Layout more like a wall mural where people display their art. :) Peace everyone. Tigerzen.
  11. 23 Jun 2021, 11.55 am
    Quick update: Finalized more aspects of the UI formats and the true definitions of our models. A universal model of models for our community here is completely finished. The theme you're seeing now is default for both F-NR and F-JV and we'll have to come up with a name for it. There will also be two available additional themes: Sun Layout (a bright layout with reds, and oranges, and yellows) and Moon Layout (a dark background with blues, greens, and indigo.) Suppose we'll have to come up with a name for this default theme you're seeing now. Hmm. I need some sleep been at it for hours lol...we'll start getting to work on these 2 themes soon as we go Live. Peace everyone. Tigerzen.
  12. 22 Jun 2021, 11.54 am
    Quick update: Getting the final touches done today. Check back daily for updates...you know you want to. The finer bits are being hammered out now. Peace everyone. Tigerzen.
  13. 02 Jun 2021, 1.51 pm
    Quick update: Through lengthly meditation and thought collection we have the final setup now on the table. One of the final things we are working on is two standards, LegacyNet and FutureNet. LegacyNet will incorporate a sort of "standards" to ensure we keep the 1995-type setup with CSS1 and ensure we will always have room for the older browsers. Our "flavor" of LegacyNet will be through F-NR, and our "flavor" of a feature rich website, FutureNet version, will be F-JV. See? We are wrapping up these final projects and will be going Live soon. A week or two hopefully. I would like to say 2 weeks maximum...if you get my drift. ~Neojade
  14. 01 Jun 2021, 11.28 am
    Quick update: Oh and here is how it gets really fun. Links will use the following format:
    tuxug.com/?m=forum;i=2
    tuxug.com/jv/?m=forum;i=2
    This will not require additional server writes/rewrites (for the URL) because the default index.php is a server setting already. Same will be used for the javascript format. So the only difference between the 2 format links is the /jv/ sub-folder. This also helps us keep the model format the exact same with little to no coding differences between the server-side (F-NR) format and F-JV. A very simple MVC* approach with near infinite scaling. Pretty amazing. Once we turn this bad boy (girl) on...it will change the world. A truly free platform, free to be yourself with as minimal censoring (as required by law.) Think of it as a 1920s USA nightclub or speakeasy. That's why we have to get it perfect or near perfect in test runs before we flip the switch and go Live. "Soon"--said for the 30th time. :)
  15. 01 Jun 2021, 11.15 am
    Quick update: Really got a good strong base now for tigerMVI and it's focus on models. As stated in previous notes F-NR will be using CSS1 and thus will be usable to all browsers back to say 1995-ish. F-JV will incorporate CSS2, CSS3, and Javascript and will have extra fun gadgets. The content will be the same across both formats "index.php" will be the entry point to the CSS1 format/F-NR and will be the server's default. The javascript format will be accessed from "/jv/index.html" and a link to each other format will be available within. This is the final decision on all this and we will move forward now with this. The new format for tigerMVI has some pre-requesities that the previous tigerMVI was trying not to but I think we will be the better for it. So the base default model of a model is model. Heh. That's like our ability to walk or run right. It's intuitive and almost completely behind the scenes. That's the base model. Now, for all intents and purposes the 'model' apparatus that will be used for both formats will require a base model of its own. So for example forum will have its own model and topics its own. These base models will have additional models or "flavor twists" for each aspect. These flavor twists or the models themselves will be shown within the "V" or view aspect of tigerMVI. The view aspect assembles all the information from all associated models and only echoes or displays based on the parameters from the model itself. The view will do no work (of programming) and only display. The hidden "P" of tigerMV(P)I is the presenter. It acts behind the scenes as a sort of configuration file(s). Like local date formats, numbers formats things of that nature. The "I" is the "incrementals" basically variables used for the page or app. i, i2, i3, i4, each will function as both an action (if needed) and variable to help things along. This new tigerMVI, while having pre-requesities, will function for many many years to come. And now that we have the "text" version of the website alongside a future "fun gadgets" type of layout with Javascript we can move forward. This will present a brighter future for us all. ~Neojade
  16. 28 Apr 2021, 1.13 pm
    Quick update: I think we'll keep the light indigo for text links and the orange buttons for buttons. Maybe a little more red into the buttons--nothing really differentiates the two, but trying to go halfsies ;). With CSS1 we can't have any hovering visuals so what you see is what you get. Hmm. But the bigger picture here is I want text links to look different from the buttons to have a little variety for the website. All the text content on the page 'story text' will not use white, but instead silver for increased readability and reduced eye strain. Today I learned that the higher contrasts I was attempting to do caused "vibrations" in the color while reading them! Hmm. It's a real thing that the professionals barely ever talk about online from what I can tell. It basically means your eyes have to do a lot more work focusing on the higher contrast. I'm now back to aiming for a 6 to 9 (ish) contrast ratio so all items flow nicely one to the next.

    The website will look funky for a day or two. With F-NR we are going all the way back to the stone age (as far as CSS/webpage styling goes) and including all browsers with full CSS1 capabilities. (Roughly IE5 or so.) It was decided that since we're going for a NoScript approach on F-NR we'll leave the CSS2/3 and Javascript for Jade Valley. With a full CSS1 compliant website people with PCs from the mid 90s should be able to connect with no issue. Remember, we're still trying to spruce it up a bit... just keep CSS1 in mind lol :). ~Zentiger
  17. Quick update! 12 Apr 2021, 9.50 am I am reverting back to my preferred "3rd shift" routine/lifestyle starting tomorrow (13 Apr) at 9.00 pm. I have a plan in place now. I just really connected the dots that are on top of the dots. I meditated on the tigerMVI/website code and my intentions with all of it. I had realized I fell into one of my old traps of "always re-inventing the wheel." What F-JV does, F-NR will do and vice versa. But I'm actually going to just start with the VueJS2 code and build PHP counterparts. I kinda broke down and asked the Tao what I should do...continue trying to mend and fix the tigerMVI code because in the end I know it's going to be the code style/format for certain things. The Tao said since it's all just beginning I can do it "once more" a refresh/cleanse/rework and rebuild from the ground up as long as I remember this is to be the last refresh/rebuild. And so that is what is happening. Tomorrow night 13 Apr 9.00 pm. It's going to start the final draft before Live and continue building until the "Live" website is done/finished. There's so much riding on this and that's why the building blocks for this and other projects have to be just lined up like this. Not "perfect" as we are so inclined to say but just "lined up" or aligned.
  18. Quick update! 11 Apr 2021, 9.00 am I have come to a better understanding of GLP. I have realized that I was stirring the muddy waters over there and not really letting that collection ferment as it was designed to. What happens at GLP happens every 2 or 3 months or sometimes less. I don't think they realize just how routine it has become for them...it's on full display to everyone else.

    I just think it's funny the choices that certain folk make as to who they want to roleplay as and about. It made me happy for a bit to go along with their flow. The sort of glamour of a back-alley drug deal lol. The little net nannies are over there just waiting to morally judge you...but that is a good thing because it gives their life a tiny wee bit of purpose. That current form of back and forth is slowly re-addicting and re-grabbing the people who like to roleplay to escape. Some have started to realize it recently...the loop. Because of that I have even more of a reason to use their website less and less. A knick-knack on the shelf or something to do. That morality checker kick that the mods get over at GLP...it has come to define them. No good can come from that.

    I'm all about truth and I think it's time I describe why I'm all about truth. It'll be my first post here at tuxug. But I'll give you a taste. There's a lot of roads to equality that can be either forced, paved, freely given, or other ways...for the end goal of equality. One of the many ways you can slap down the corporate CEOs and multi-national companies is with truth. She's a beautiful babe. (Fun tidbit...her avatar is literally the Statue of Liberty. When the muses gave the men and women the idea to build that statue they really took their time to make sure it all came out right.) One of the many great equalizers.
  19. Quick update! 10 Apr 2021, 1.42 pm Still working on the current theme but updating the color sets. Got a better handle on it now since not going for a full tetriadic theme. We'll figure this out.
  20. Quick update! 7 Apr 2021, 5.06 pm Decided to have a "road map" of sorts as a panel! This keeps everyone on board with changes, maybe "focus groups" (chat?) and everything on the same page. Will also be better focus for myself personally to get things done. Working on the database and guest vs members approach and running the numbers and test groups to see the best approach to take. Once it's up and running there are plans and feature sets already in place so we're future-proof. The largest chunk of the work is just about done-- a 90% level. tigerMVI(PHP) with its Models system is nearly identical in format to our javascript implentation! tigerMVI(JS) utilizing VueJS2 ~Zentiger
  21. Work In Progress So to get the real feel for the theme of this forum...we are recreating the 1920's USA noir [link is to a Dick Tracy wikipedia] with a detective theme of that day in a theme that is popular in comics, movies, and literature. You're looking down at a poker table...maybe you're latest detective case files spread out on the table...maybe it's your latest haul or stash...that's the color scheme we're going with. Sort of a faded felt scheme with trying to portray playing cards as buttons and marquees as links on the table--bringing future tech to the table.
  22. The folks over at http://godlikeproductions.com have gone full censorship and absolutely crazy at the main conspriacy website of free speech on the internet. In light of this we are full steam ahead on bringing this website up asap. We fully believe GLP is meant to be therapeutic for people like Trinity and Elaine so we won't ever talk smack on the website but boy if some of their practices are annoying. You now see what capitalism mixed with feminism turns into. Full disclosure I think they are trying to get individuals to login with their member accounts so they can source and track...which puts another coin in the coin jar that they either work for a government/feds or pony up to one. And what moderator bitches about moderating? Heh. So, we're going to improve upon all of GLP's mistakes. Although a final thought on that...they may just have a community where every thread is reported 20 times or more and they feel like their karma/social score isn't enough of a 'punishment' so they ban IPs or go full potatoe and just ban anonymous posting--the one thing that brought the people in--but now they have the numbers to do what they originally intended (the karma/social score punishment system.) You'll see that our system is more used for the flow of topics and just generate feedback among members and guests. There will be some rewards eventually but it won't be in any form of a punishment system.
  23. Food for thought: they now realize at GLP what I meant by "just fade away."
  24. We are bringing in sourcing and development tools from Git and Github so we can have coders from all over working on their bits so our bits and their bits can mingle properly.
  25. We will have banned words that will be abbreviated with initial letter and 3 asterisks, so like this: n***. But they will hopefully be few. Israel and Jews will not have any special protections here but that's not to say we hate them--we don't. K*** will be a banned word too. But the list will be freely available to view as it will be processed from the DB [database] itself. Our delimiter [which may change from time to time with ample community warning/advisement] is this: "if a word's creation or intention [not use] is used to be derogatory in nature that word would be banned here." Like n*** vs. t*** [for transexuals.] While it could be viewed [or even used] in a derogatory sense here, calling someone a "tranny" for cross-dressing would be allowed here (slightly discouraged of course...we are inclusive but we want people to remain themselves here.) Whereas saying n*** for someone being black colored isn't. That isn't special protections for blacks [or any PC-appropriate term here], that is just basic human protection against racism. Transexuals and cross-dressers often have commonalities and traits shared amongst them.
  26. Our goal here is to be a proper underground...being a place where people can freely talk and be themselves. We know even having a little bit of censorship can put off some folk. However, imagine if predators then came to our little place, with all those freedoms also available to them, who knows what would happen to our people at that point?!
  27. Why the dective case file look for member and guest panels? Imagine an environment where a detective genuinely calls an underground home. A place where they're the law but they also remember where they came from. That is one of the thoughts we hope to instill here. Need a bump? Well, consider the 1930's Noir environment. We're attempting sort of a 'noir meets old nightclub' look with additional softer dark colors added for eye candy and to help alleviate extended eye strain.
  28. The list items here pertaining to our rules will be added to a rules panel in the future.
  29. Oh and if covid-19 ever gets you down remember that it's got the wealthy, politicians, CEOs, FBI/CIA/etc, all wearing face diapers too. And a lot of wealthy people have died from the covid-19 if they had a pre-existing condition. There's a silver lining. All the the rich and wealthy, the shareholders, managers, IT, investment firms, landlords/property managers, they've all come to realize they aren't as untouchable as once thought...it was a good wakeup call.
  30. I know it sucks to wait a couple more weeks but think of all the funny memes and symbolism and such that could be achieved should tuxug go Live on April 1st. ;) It's really not a case of the chicken or the egg but just getting a new hen house to pamper the chickens and provide some chicken feed! Lol.
  31. Although Xeno means "stranger" hopefully you can start, if you need to, to open your mind that being a stranger (to x,y,z) doesn't necessarily equate to a bad thing. But the social norms of group/herd attached to everything [thinking/living/workspaces] and more as time goes on...makes one worried or anxious generally when dealing with the word or notion of a stranger.
  32. The Stranger ("S.") was kind of the original noir intended for the underground, however, in comics and other places there's a big "S" out there that's actually a sigil for a family name. The "S." would be viewed as like a signature line. However, we do have a bunch of options to go with. Really at the end of the day any variation of stranger/xeno ['xenan'] will really make do and still keep us together as a community underground.
  33. ~Zentiger