p2pnet – Awesome Sauce
p2pnet view P2P:- Hi all: One of my ambitions has been to publish p2pnet without any advertising and I’m now a big step closer to achieving that.
If and when I get there, I’ll continue to run ‘Thank You’ notices for TekSavvy and FrostWire who’ve hung in as supporters. Revenue from them has helped me to keep going.
Meanwhile, back in May, “Like so many other sites, p2pnet was hit hard by the recession and I tried various ways to use the net to replace the advertising support I’d lost because of it”, I wrote, continuing >>>
None of them worked and I decided try something completely different — an off-line venture requiring no start-up capital (well, very little) no previous experience, and absolutely not reliant on the vagaries of the internet.
It’s called Dad’s Westcoast Wildfire Awesome Sauce and of it I say >>>
After years of trying hot, but not tasty, tasty, but not hot, sauces, we decided to blend our own and Dad’s Westcoast Wildfire Awesome Sauce is the result — a Eureka moment!
It’s not East Indian. It’s not Thai. Or Chinese. It’s not Mexican.
It’s just awesome. 
A delicious fusion of 16 different herbs and spices, sun-dried tomatoes, Balsamic vinegar, garlic and seasonings and fresh peppers (including Habanero for that lip-tingling zing), it tantalises taste buds other sauces miss.
It’s a lot of fun and I’m really enjoying myself at local markets here on Vancouver Island —- and watching peoples’ faces as they try it for the first time.
Not only but also, I said, it’s very early days, but a Victoria restaurant is now carrying it, and we’ve had serious interest from a store in a local supermarket chain.
That’s now all-but a done deal. Basically, we’ve been accepted by an island supermarket chain and we’ll be kicking off in one of their stores near us once all the paperwork is done.
I say “all-but” because when we actually see the sauce on the shelves, I’ll believe it. 
And of course, it’ll still have to prove itself once it’s there. But I’m pretty confident it’ll do OK. So stay tuned.
For now, I’m re-building the Awesome Sauce site because somehow, heavily encrypted code got into it so every time the pages loaded, a pop-up for a Chinese porn site appeared.
I can’t find the code, although I have a good idea how it got there, so today I’ll be doing a revamp from scratch while Liz, my wife, and Emma, my daughter, take care of things at the Government Street market between the McPherson Theatre and China Town from 11:00 am until 4:30 pm.
Cheers! And thanks. And all the best …
Jon Newton - p2pnet
… and identi.ca
July, 2010
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July 25th, 2010 at 11:56 am
So you will be closing P2PNet down when you have the sauce doing well.
July 25th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
No he’s not gonna shut P2Pnet down, with his awesome sauce doing as well as it is even in the small market area where he is located and
there’s nothing to say that it won’t go to a larger market if customer reports are favorable, Jon will continue bringing us the news on the
RIAA, MPAA, and others of the Entertainment Kartels, and their continuing efforts to grab control of the net for use as their own personal
marketing tool. As well as continuously spreading their lies and false statements in regards to how many jobs are being lost through file
sharing and how much money they’ve lost. When in fact they’ve lost nothing as independent surveys show and now the courts are
beginning to question the so-called “monetary loss” or “HOLLYWOOD ACCOUNTING” methods wherein they claim, using their own example
of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, that despite the fact that the movie took in over $1,000,000,000 dollars world wide, it’s still over
162,000,000.00 in the red.
The claim of a download being a lost sale has been thrown out as one judge pointed out it doesn’t necessarily
mean that they were going to buy the software, in a lot of cases they download the album or software to see if it’s any good, if not then
they get rid of it, if it is then, as has been shown over and over again, it will be bought by the person who downloaded the program or
album.
The RIAA, makes the claim that they are the music industry, when in fact they are not. They are nothing more than a record rating
service, that has gained power through it’s lobbying and bribing of senators and congressmen and women. The music industry is doing just
fine, with a net profit of 15,000,000,000.00 last year and the MPAA with their bogus claims of monetary and employee losses again is
another load of malarkey as they had their best year ever with $4,000,000,000.00 in receipts at the box office and again they claim it’s
due to filesharing, despite the independent studies from around the world which shows that people that fileshare music, movies and the like
also buy more than people that don’t.
Just my opinion in defense of Jon and P2PNet.net
July 25th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
@ ?
Nope.
@ logan:
That sums it up.
Cheers!
July 25th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
You don’t need to find the malware that’s got on the server (at least not in future*). It’s been infected in the same way as a virus gets on a PC and is dealt with in exactly the same way. The first thing you need to know, is to *never* try to remove the infection, as it uses rootkits and other nasty hidden stuff, so you’re never sure if the computer is clean or not. It can also corrupt files, so your operating system never quite works right again.
The way you deal with that is to have the whole site on your PC. Then, when the server gets infected, you simply do the following:
Wipe it clean – and I mean format all the hard discs. A quick format will do.
Reload the server operating system and web server software and patch it with the latest security updates. (You can reload from an image, which can save masses of time and frustration). You may wish to look for some better, more resistant server software instead, but that’s optional. You may also want to check your firewall and it’s settings are working securely.
Reload your website from your PC onto the server and configure as appropriate.
If you don’t know how to do this, then I’m sure that your friend Cliff can help you out.
*If you don’t have a master copy of your site on the PC, then you’re a bit stuck and I recommend rebuilding each page in something like Dreamweaver or NetObjects Fusion (much cheaper) and then creating that website master copy.
Good luck and what’s the URL please?
July 25th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
@ IT Guy:
Awesome Sauce is now a simple html page.
http://wildfiresauce.com/ [There's also a link in the post -- the name.]
Cheers!
July 25th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
This has to be a first, a blog running on hot sauce. It’s usually hot air.
July 25th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
A restaurant has taken interest in your sauce?! Awesome job, Jon! I wish you all the best!
July 25th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Good to hear that your business is on fire (like your sauce).
As for your site issues, I think you’ve found the simplest yet best solution. You can always throw a basic form there for people to contact you and still be secure.
July 25th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
@ Richard: I guess there’s plenty of that here too, not the least of all from me.
@ kcb: Thanks. The restaurant is nice, but the supermarket is where it could all come together.
@ Drake: Funnily enough I was thinking about making it an html site anyway. All the WP bells and whistles aren’t really necessary for what is, after all, an info page, not a blog blog.
Cheers!
July 26th, 2010 at 9:48 am
I missed the fun.
So you got virus or something? And this is what caused all the porn on my computer? k, now how do I explain to my wife the porn she saw was really all your fault?
On a serious note, when I checked out your site a few times last week I saw nothing. Chances are my firewall and/or av blocked it.