Reflections on Relativity web pages broken at mathpages.com

[m4r35n357]

see https://www.mathpages.com/rr/rrtoc.htm

Hovering over the links within reveals what looks like a failed data restoration (just hover over one to see) - other pages seem unaffected.

Is anyone here capable of contacting the site operators?

 

[Frabjous]

The owner of that website is well known for preserving his/her anonymity.

 

[m4r35n357]

Yes. However, at some point the author will no longer care about anonymity!

I am guessing from the path details that the person doing the restoration is not the author.

 

[Frabjous]

He’s cared at least since 2006.
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/who-is-the-author-of-mathpages-com.146391/

 

[m4r35n357]

Yes, I know all this; my original question stands. If you are unwilling or unable to answer it please leave it to someone else.

The author is not immortal, and I have no idea whether he is even still alive.

 

[Frabjous]

Yes, I know all this; my original question stands. If you are unwilling or unable to answer it please leave it to someone else.

The author is not immortal, and I have no idea whether he is even still alive.

1) the author obviously owns the website
2) the second edition came out on 5 July on Amazon. I doubt that he has died in the last week and a half

Now I am done.

 

[m4r35n357]

Well I can at least thank you for that news! Unfortunately I cannot decide whether to buy the new version (my old paperback is disintegrating) as there is no information on what has been updated, and no online version to check for myself.

Perhaps the author attempted to update the online text and messed up . . . ?

Incidentally, a typical link now looks like: https://www.mathpages.com/Kevin/Documents/Kevin Restore/My Documents/mathpages/rr/preface/preface.htm which is obviously a local file or backup path. I was partly suspicious (that it was done by someone else) because I would not put my own name in my backup path! Doing so gives me the impression that the files are located on a shared computer (so probably not the author's).

 

[Bosko]

I don't think the author wanted to intentionally hide the content.
He just made mistakes on the URLs. When you click on the link you need to delete "/Kevin/Documents/Kevin%20Restore/My%20Documents/mathpages"

For example :
Instead of : https://www.mathpages.com/Kevin/Documents/Kevin Restore/My Documents/mathpages/rr/preface/preface.htm
It should be : https://www.mathpages.com/rr/preface/preface.htm

Edit: The OP is more relevant to the Programming and Computer Science Forum

 

[pbuk]

The owner of that website is well known for preserving his/her anonymity.

Well he is not trying very hard (unless of course the following is incorrect):

$ whois mathpages.com
...
Admin Name: Brown, Kevin
Admin Email: ksbrown@comcast.net
...

 

[PAllen]

Ok, I am confused - every page and navigation I tried works fine.

 

[Ibix]

Ok, I am confused - every page and navigation I tried works fine.

Yeah, looks like it's been fixed some time in the last fortnight.