Attn: John McAdams (Re: Your Websites)

[David Von Pein]

Hi John M.,

When will your two sites linked below be operational again? I sure hope
they aren't gone for good, because I have linked to them thousands of
times throughout my own webpages....

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/wit.htm

Those sites have been broken for weeks now. Is the outage still the result
of Marquette forcing you to upgrade to Windows 10?

P.S. / BTW --- For people (like me) who regularly use GOOGLE DRIVE for
hosting videos, have you had problems with Drive videos not processing
since mid-December? It's quite an annoyance, and Google just won't fix it
(for some reason). Very frustrating.

[John McAdams]

On 28 Dec 2019 23:17:02 -0500, David Von Pein <davev...@aol.com>
wrote:

>Hi John M.,
>
>When will your two sites linked below be operational again? I sure hope
>they aren't gone for good, because I have linked to them thousands of
>times throughout my own webpages....
>
>http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
>
>http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/wit.htm
>
>Those sites have been broken for weeks now. Is the outage still the result
>of Marquette forcing you to upgrade to Windows 10?
>

Well, the site has been down for going on three weeks now.

Marquette absolutely insisted I had to have a new computer, and the
tech who brought and configured it did not know how to get IIS
working.

Nor how to install Apache.

The situation has been complicated by the fact that the day after the
new machine was installed I was in the hospital for four days, and
then under the gun to get grades in, and then faced with the usual
Christmas hubbub.

And Information Technology at Marquette has been closed a lot.

But I expect to get something moving Monday, and have the site back up
in a couple of days after that, at most.

.John
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http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

[David Von Pein]

Excellent news. Thanks.

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[19efppp]

On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 11:22:01 PM UTC-5, John McAdams wrote:

Maybe I shouldn't say so, but I have missed the radio transcript and the
Warren Commission testimony sections of your website. I find them easier
to search than other options. But, being forced to use other options, I
see things I would miss otherwise, so it's all good.

[Bud]

On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 11:17:03 PM UTC-5, David Von Pein wrote:
> Hi John M.,
>
> When will your two sites linked below be operational again? I sure hope
> they aren't gone for good, because I have linked to them thousands of
> times throughout my own webpages....
>
> http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
>
> http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/wit.htm

I really missed the witness page, I hate paging through the testimony on
the Mary Ferrell site.

If you need information you can try a google search and use the "cached"
version to bring up the testimony (hit the down triangle to bring up the
option).

But that wasn`t foolproof, you only get what is cached and the "russ"
witness page often has the affidavit and sometimes multiple testimonies.

This makes me wonder whether .John has made arrangements for all the
important resource material he has put together to be available after he
goes to that big conspiracy conference in the sky. Mary Ferrell and Harold
Weisberg still have their material available, even Tom Rossely`s crackpot
website is still up, it would be a shame if Prof McAdams` work died with
him.

But if it went somewhere else, you`d likely have to redo all those
thousands of links throughout your work, Dave! I guess we`ll both have to
hope that McAdams outlives us.

[John McAdams]

On 29 Dec 2019 13:26:22 -0500, Bud <sirs...@fast.net> wrote:

>On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 11:17:03 PM UTC-5, David Von Pein wrote:
>> Hi John M.,
>>
>> When will your two sites linked below be operational again? I sure hope
>> they aren't gone for good, because I have linked to them thousands of
>> times throughout my own webpages....
>>
>> http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
>>
>> http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/wit.htm
>

You can get this on archive.org for the moment.

> I really missed the witness page, I hate paging through the testimony on
>the Mary Ferrell site.
>
> If you need information you can try a google search and use the "cached"
>version to bring up the testimony (hit the down triangle to bring up the
>option).
>
> But that wasn`t foolproof, you only get what is cached and the "russ"
>witness page often has the affidavit and sometimes multiple testimonies.
>
> This makes me wonder whether .John has made arrangements for all the
>important resource material he has put together to be available after he
>goes to that big conspiracy conference in the sky. Mary Ferrell and Harold
>Weisberg still have their material available, even Tom Rossely`s crackpot
>website is still up, it would be a shame if Prof McAdams` work died with
>him.
>
> But if it went somewhere else, you`d likely have to redo all those
>thousands of links throughout your work, Dave! I guess we`ll both have to
>hope that McAdams outlives us.
>
>

I don't know how old you are, but I think Dave is a lot younger, so
that's unlikely.

It's easy enough for me to buy space on an ISP server, and put the
site there. The problem is all the links pointing to
mcadams.posc.mu.edu.

Ideally, when I retire and/or kick off, I can persuade Marquette to
point the DNS to whatever static IP address the site occupies at the
time.

Essentially, I blundered in 1995 by thinking my desktop machine was
mcadams.posc.mu.edu, so that would be fine as a domaine name.

I wasn't thinking a quarter century ahead.

At any rate, I'll be on the phone to Marquette's IT people tomorrow
morning, and pressing them to help me get the site back up. Either
get IIS runing in Windows 10, or Apache installed, or such.

.John
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http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

[David Von Pein]

On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 1:26:24 PM UTC-5, Bud wrote:
>
> But if it went somewhere else, you`d likely have to redo all those
> thousands of links throughout your work, Dave!
>

Indeed. But I've grown accustomed to having to constantly "redo" stuff on
my sites. Seems like it's all I do. Some link is always broken it seems.
Or some site I've linked to has gone belly-up and I need to replace it.
I've spent literally hundreds of hours over the years "fixing" broken
stuff on my blog sites. It's frustrating, but I guess it's to be expected
in this constantly changing Internet world. I only wish certain sites (the
JFK Library and Sixth Floor Museum, in particular) didn't feel the need to
change their individual page URLs every few years (and for no apparent
reason either). THAT is really frustrating and maddening. But, what can ya
do?

[Anthony Marsh]

And don't forget tht your old HTHML might be obsolete.

[David Von Pein]

Update (for those keeping an official logbook)---

John's websites fixed on: January 13, 2020.

Google Drive videos fixed on: January 4, 2020.