so i was forced, once again, to switch host providers. i was having a conversation with the (now) previous host provider, who said that there was nothing to worry about, and then, two days (literally) later, i get an email from him that says he’s going out of business – again… he gave me a [...]
Also tagged rantsmy host provider has decided that he’s going to stay in business for his existing customers but not take any new customers. it eases my concern about finding a new host provider immediately, but i’m still going to move eventually, because i really don’t like being jerked around like that. the first time you said [...]
Also tagged ganesha the car, pictures, snake suspenderzso the host provider that i finally settled with in january, after leaving them for someone else, because they wanted to raise my rates by 300%, but decided not to after i switched to the host provider that decided i couldn’t have a mailing list after helping me set up a mailing list, so i [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning peopleokay, this is getting ridiculous, but at the same time, i’m really glad i got myself far away from 1&1 internet services, and now i’m going to recommend that my associates distance themselves from 1&1 as well… and you spammers have succeeded in irritating me enough that i’m ranting about it in public. it started [...]
Also tagged geek links, rants, spamokay, the server interruption seems to have settled down. i was in the middle of updating the sedentary sousa web site, and i get this email saying that within 24 hours i’m going to be moved to another server, and before i was able to get in touch with them to find out exactly when, [...]
Also tagged pictures, web designyesterday i went to moe’s friend diane’s sheep ranch in woodinville and picked up a chest freezer that diane didn’t need any longer. now we’ll be able to get lamb from diane, when she has lambs for sale, later on in the year. moe is a currently a vegetarian – although i have seen her [...]
Also tagged brain injury, geek stuff, i am a terroristso far, the new-old host provider has been doing an outstanding job, although he just installed suPHP (ostensibly to keep an eye on potential spammers) which requires all of my PHP files to be set with their permissions at 644. unfortunately, that leaves the two configure.php files in my store open to attack. hopefully he [...]
Also tagged art projects, ganesha the truck, snake suspenderznow that (touch wood) the host provider fiasco is behind me, at least for the moment, i can focus on much more mundane things, like the fact that today is the day when the contractor comes by to remodel our bathroom, take out the existing, but broken “garden” bathtub, and replace it with a new [...]
Also tagged house stuffso on 10 january, i filed a support ticket with my new host provider, cpanel-host.us, that email wasn’t working the way it was supposed to. two days later, i learned that my clients’ email, and the BSSB mailing list wasn’t working at all, and i filed a support ticket about that, as well. on the [...]
Also tagged fun with the post office, malfunctioning computers, tina choppi’ve been having a difficult time the past few days: the process of switching host providers again has gone pretty normally, with the normal SNAFUs which have been more or less worked out over the past four days. there is still the matter of getting my clients to update their nameservers to my nameservers(!!) (i [...]
Also tagged brain injury, depression, ganesha the car, swastikasnow that the second weekend of performances are over, i can catch up on my real life… while the servers were down, i got a business card in the mail from Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC… yes, that kevin mitnick. in order to get this business card i had to send him, among other things, my [...]
Also tagged fez stuff, music, philharmonic, pictures, playersthat’s A4R3G3H3 for those of you who are keeping score… you may or may not have noticed that my web sites have been down for the past 24 hours. this was because at 4:00 friday afternoon, i got an email from my “new” host provider that he was going down for “4 to 5 hours [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning computers, malfunctioning people, rantshost problems combined with IPv6 incompatibilities have caused my complete absence from internet for the past couple of days. despite the fact that IPv6 is the latest, hottest thing to hit the net since the ping of death, it is just about as effective at this point, so i have disabled it and am suddenly [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning computersi have probably always been a computer geek, although for a long time i resisted being labeled as such because i was too interested in music, but my father has been a professional computer geek electrical engineer for as long as i have been around. one of the first “computers” i ever played with was [...]
Also tagged forwards into the past, geek stuff, malfunctioning computers, parents, rantsi completed one of the jewelry projects that i was working on, except that i have to get a set of crimping pliers – you would think that i would have one already, considering the quantity of pliers that i own, but no. i’ve decided that there are enough questions i have about the software [...]
Also tagged art projects, banda gozonathe past five days have been definitly ones where i spent way too many spoons. i began a day before halloween by deciding to switch host providers again. the new old host provider had a strong tendency to flat out lie about their service: they say they don’t delete support tickets, but i have had [...]
Also tagged hybrid elephant, malfunctioning computers, workshopi finally got access to cshelpdesk.net (at 4:30 pm zac wrote to inform me that “Your IP was blocked by the servers firewall. This has been unblocked and you can now access the server again” – after the last time, when nathan assured me that “this happens on rare occasions”), but my roster of support [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning people, the very big stupidmy recent conversation with zac o. at cshelpdesk.net went something like this: me: my account has been hacked zac: it’s your fault me: no, it’s not, see? evidence… zac: you don’t understand. it’s still your fault me: yes i do, and no, it’s not. see? more, different evidence… zac: <IP block my access> (that’ll shut [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning peoplethat’s <A2RGH> for you purists out there… but yes, aargh. i discovered that my entire site had the .php files appended with the code i discovered the other day, not just my wordpress installation. furthermore, although tech support has no evidence of a hack and says it was that way when i uploaded it, i [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning people, rantsi actually was IP blocked from cshelpdesk dot net! in spite of the fact that Thecrazedking@aol.com (who is undoubtedly nathan oulman, or one of his minions) said “we dont block anyone from anything” (his exact words), according to tech support goon “Zac O.”, “Your IP was blocked by the servers firewall. This has been unblocked [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning computers, malfunctioning people, rantsmore computer miserableness abounds… as of yesterday, i was going back and forth with tech support about that random mysql user that i found a couple of days ago. i had just found the solution when the tech support goon abruptly terminated the email conversation, and when i tried to refresh the page, it timed [...]
Also tagged i am a terrorist, malfunctioning computers, rantsi had some sort of computer interruption last night that prevented me from figuring out this whole user 123 phenomena – apparently the server got hacked last night, but they TOSed the cracker and went to good backups within 15 minutes of my complaining, which is something… i’m not exactly sure what yet, but it’s [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning computers, rantsi was poking around (yeah, i know, bad idea… 8/ ) in the control panel for hybridelephant and i came across this thing that lists the mySQL databases and users of those databases that are on hybridelephant.com. it listed the two databases that i use, but it listed 2 users whereas i’ve set it up [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning computers, rantsso i started up my linux box this morning and it told me that there were some system updates that i had to download, so i downloaded them and then it said that in order to use those system updates that my computer had to be restarted, so i shut everything down and rebooted… and [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning computersbased on what i have read in a variety of places over the past 6 months or so, i have apparently been one of the few negative interactions with 1&1 which have had positive (to me) reprocussions. i just received a phone call from a very pleasant sounding lady who was a 1&1 representative, who [...]
Also tagged important things to remember, malfunctioning computers, the very big stupid
