Blake Miller's Blog

You know there is allot of great helpful people on the Internet. But there are also some who are careless and really shouldn’t be aloud on the Internet. A friend I know from MyBB’s Community (DrPoodle) has made a site specially for a individual named “DrSmall”. He is the finest example of the true ass holes on the Internet.

Click Here

It is pink and is not a “hate” site but more of a quote site. Enjoy!

I’m writing to you from a very cool program that the people over at Windows Live just released. Windows Live Writer is a easy to use blogging tool. It allows you to blog from any location weather you have a Internet connection or not. It gives you all the functions of the normal writing box but it has a much nicer GUI then the web based one.

The software doesn’t come with any spy ware or anything you have to worry about.

Another cool feature of this program is it has the capability to add Official plug in to improve your blogging experience.

Writer is defiantly a keeper. Anyone wanting to post to WordPress, and many other blogging software, Windows Live Writer is for you!

Today at 6:00PM Apples new iPone will be released in all AT&T stores. I have been hearing alot about it in the many Podcasts and Video Cast. Yesterday Cranky Geeks had a few things to say about the new iPone.

Personally I think there $700+ price tag is more then what I want to spend on a cell phone. Now this thing is a whole lot more than just a cell phone. It has a great web browser, GPS and a whole lot more. Have look at the specs.

I don’t think I will be buying one soon but mabey after a few months I’ll look into getting one. I hope that dl.tv will have a review on it. I’ll post about the iPone again when more is learned after today’s 6:00 PM launch date.

Well as most of you can see I have changed the theme on the blog and on the forum. I Have changed some of the graphics on the forum to mach the blog’s green. I will do a few more changes on the forum background to make the lighter black on the blog. Enjoy!

This notes was posted on DennisTT’s Blog. Please read all MyBB users.

All administrators of MyBB probably know of the MyBB License one way or another. However, it has come to my attention that there are some people who just can’t get their head around one statement in the license. It happens to be this one:

The MyBB Group has several copyright notices and “powered by” lines embedded within the product. You must not remove, alter or hinder the visibility of any of these statements (including but not limited to the copyright notice at the top of files and the copyright/powered by lines found in publicly visible “templates”).

Is the text too difficult to understand? Personally I think we have made this as clear and as inambiguous as possible. Would you not agree? To me, it is quite easy to understand from this quotation that I am not allowed to remove any copyright notice and “powered by” statements which have been already written into the files distributed in the MyBB package. I don’t see any other way of interpreting it.

Is the license too difficult to find? The license is distributed in the Documentation folder of the full MyBB package. It is also displayed when the forum is installed. By installing a forum, the administrator has to at least see one, if not both instances where the license is displayed during the installation of a forum.

Are you that ashamed of running MyBB? I have seen MyBB forums changing the “powered by” line to other software such as vBulletin. I mean, if you like vBulletin, or IPB, or the other software that much, why not use that instead? Why mask MyBB as another software? Is there something wrong with using MyBB? If so, I’d suggest you voice your feedback on the MyBB Community Forums. We respect all feedback, and we take in your suggestions when we’re developing the next version of MyBB. We want to make MyBB something that you and your users want to use. This isn’t just for our own benefit.

I spent an hour tonight surfing the web looking for violators, and with a simple web search, I was able to find around 40 within the time I spent. And that was only for one search. I’m sure there are hundreds of forums out there who have removed the MyBB copyright and/or “powered by” lines.

To the MyBB forum owners who have removed the copyright and/or “powered by” lines, it isn’t a matter of if your forum will be found, it’s when. We enforce our License to the fullest extent possible, including legal action if required. How would it feel if you spent hours working on something to have it taken by another person who claims it is theirs? Not too happy I’d assume. We aren’t either.

Support us, and we will support you. It’s only two lines with links to the official MyBB homepage at the bottom of your forum. Is that too much to ask really?

If you really despise the copyright lines that much, please consider purchasing the privilege of removing the copyright on one board with a small payment to Chris Boulton. Please contact him for more details about this.

PS: Thanks to everybody (the majority of MyBB administrators) who is adhering to the License and thus supporting us