{"id":871,"date":"2003-10-23T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/23\/fuckin-unisys\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T14:34:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:34:20","slug":"fuckin-unisys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/23\/fuckin-unisys\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuckin Unisys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just love my VersaCounter. That&#8217;s the hit counter I use on my website. I&#8217;ve been having a bit of difficulty getting it to work on the new server. Four hours of banging on it last night didn&#8217;t convince it to give up it&#8217;s secrets.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a good side&#8230; I asked the nice people at Spenix (my new ISP) for shell access to my account and it was granted in just a few hours. I SSHed into my account to run the VersaCounter Perl script and I had the problem resolved in 15 minutes. :-)<\/p>\n<p>As I had guessed (this was just one of my many guesses last night) Spenix has the latest versions of all the Perl modules. This means that the latest GD module -doesn&#8217;t- support .gif images. Remember how Unisys sat up after 10 years of giving the .gif file format away for free? Now Unisys wants money for their patented property&#8230; Jerks&#8230;. Indian Givers&#8230; whatever&#8230; Well, the free-source community responded by cutting .gif out of the loop. The .png file format works just as well as .gif and uses a different code base. So, all I had to do in my situation was to rename all .gif references to .png, convert the images from .gif to .png and I was good to go!  Unfortunately, I made a syntax error when converting but I caught that in a second by running it from the shell (fixing that error without a shell would have been nigh impossible).<\/p>\n<p>Hurray! Maybe I don&#8217;t hate computers after all.<\/p>\n<p>PS. See <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/06\/versacounter-for-png\/\">my 12-6-03<\/a> entry for the sourcecode :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love my VersaCounter. That&#8217;s the hit counter I use on my website. I&#8217;ve been having a bit of difficulty getting it to work on the new server. Four hours of banging on it last night didn&#8217;t convince it to give up it&#8217;s secrets. But there is a good side&#8230; I asked the nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}