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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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It was 16th April that the dear, sweet people at http://www.bluedomino.com moved us from the old server to the new server.
The ordinary pages moved ok. HTML works on any server. Simple sites work on any server.
But this site uses cgi script. Perl. Access control systems to make sure that areas like the messageboard and the site search engine can run, that "The Story of Tim" is protected with warnings, that the mailing list works. Simple things like that.
And the very sweet and wonderful host changed us from Zeus to Apache which should have been fine, and changed some access control elememts which was never going to be fine, and changed some methods of loading files into memory, which meant both that we had to reindex the entire site AND has prevented the mailing list form running until we get some timely technical help.
I have even spent two and a half hours on an alleged interactive chat to get help, where the help desk seemed to ignore me entirely and totally, though were very sweet and polite.
I know that when we get it right all will be smooth, but why did we have to do it?
Oh, not that this affects any site visitor, but we used to have access to a stats program that was helpful. We could configure it so that it showed pages visited in groups, so we could see if stories were popular not log visits to pages we didnt; care about. They have now stopped us from being able to configure the stats program, so we see miles and miles of total unmitigated crap.
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Cuz I am in Thailand...my home...The Land of Smiles...with my Man!!
Got here Thursday night (Asia time). Staying until May 5th.
Got over the mole removal, the pneumonia...then got gout...and the medicine for the gout gave me fits of running to the toilet...but never mind, I am HERE!
God, I needed a break! All the whining people at my office right now, my 4 page To Do list...all are just waiting in the wings. YAY!
For some reason, Yahoo isn't allowing me to check my other email addresses, or my other email addy isn't allowing yahoo to check...either way, it's just the Yahoo for now, so if you've sent me something elsewhere, please re-send to Yahoo. Thanks!
Yippee...skips off back to Man...YAY!!!
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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mihangel
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Location: UK
Registered: July 2002
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... is due to you, Tim, for putting up with all this crap and steering the board through all the stupidities. No doubt you get a kick (at least when things are going smoothly) out of running this board; but, heaven knows, we get a kick out of using it too. Where would we be without it? So thanks - more than our usually unspoken thanks - for all you do.
And while I'm at it, welcome back to bruised and battered David. Your rest-cure in Thailand sounds just what the doctor ordered. Hope when you have to drag yourself back to HK you'll be fully restored (a whole Man again?!).
Mihangel
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http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.e@mm.html
It's all fun-fun-fun... Lucky me I can't get infected this way (and I have antivirus software of course), but it's still annoying.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Charlie Smith
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Registered: January 1970
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I am so pissed off right now 
Re: I am NOT pissed off right now!! 
Welcome back dude, hope you enjoyed the room service. ;-) 
