Sub directories of this site
| folder | description | notes |
|---|---|---|
| /css/ | cascading style sheet files | |
| /demo_linux/ | Linux demos | site 3 only |
| /demo_vms_html/ | OpenVMS demo programs | |
| /demo_vms_zips/ | OpenVMS freeware zips | |
| /docs/ | mostly HTML files | |
| /images/ | image files | site 3 only |
| /js/ | JavaScript files | |
| /links/ | mostly HTML files | |
| /misc /misc/exe/ /misc/pdf/ /misc/zip/ |
various documents and manuals | site 3 only |
| /misc/pdf/biology-docs/ /misc/pdf/climate-docs/ /misc/pdf/computer-docs/ /misc/pdf/deism-docs/ /misc/pdf/humanity-docs/ /misc/pdf/science-docs/ /misc/pdf/telephony-docs/ /misc/pdf/vms-docs/ |
various documents and manuals | site 3 only |
| /misc/zip/fft/ /misc/zip/general/ /misc/zip/openvms/ |
Fast Fourier Transform files (courtesy of Citrus Press) |
site 3 only |
| /raxco/ | VAX/VMS Tuning Notes (courtesy of Raxco) | site 3 only |
| /sounds/ | sound files | site 3 only |
My URL's over the years
| Site | Years | My Site URL | Provider + Miscellaneous Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1995-1997 | http://www.hookup.net/~nrieck | Hookup Communications Canada - customer shared space original URL not found at the wayback machine BTW, "hookup" had a technical connotation in those days  Hookup was acquired by the Sympatico division of Bell Canada |
| 2 | 1997-2017 | http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/ | Bell Canada - customer shared space primary home for 20-years (1997-2017) secondary home for 5-years (2017-2022) caveat: Bell Canada discontinued shared space on 2023-02-01 |
| 3 | 2017-present | https://neilrieck.net and https://neilrieck.net |
IONOS.ca (on a virtual
private server) primary home since 2017 only home since 2023 |
- Back in the summer of 2017 I ran out of storage space at site-2 for the tenth time so I decided to move to site-3. Many links at site-2 are now forwarded to site-3 which means that some site-2 directories are now empty.
- Although I primarily work on site-3, for the past 5-years I have been updating "some" pages on site-2 but ran into a problem on 2021-08-23 when I found the server dead. To make matters worse it was down for 4-days (there is no service level agreement on this platform since it was originally provided by Bell Canada in 1997 with the intent of only supporting personal (non-commercial) pages to customers of their Sympatico internet service). On top of that, Google had been bugging me for the past few months about "some pages on site-2" not being "mobile friendly". I would never be able to properly fix them because it was a shared space which means that I didn't have access to Apache config (and the .htaccess file mechanism is not enabled).
- Without a way to tell Apache to redirect to site-3 (remember that I don't have access to Apache config in this shared space), on 2021-09-04 I replaced all the files on site-2 with a tiny bit of HTML-and-JavaScript which will redirect pages for a time. This will allow me to support very old client bookmarks until site-2 crashes again.
Back to HomeNeil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.