i didn’t want to, but i signed up for a twitter account, allegedly so i could “keep in contact” with the previous host provider… no, this isn’t going to be another gripe about my host provider, although it starts out seeming that way, bear with me… of course, it didn’t work, and i don’t have [...]
Also tagged pictures, rantsi am writing this from portland. to be specific, i am writing this from the back yard of my mother-in-law’s house. when i booted up my battery-powered laptop, it automatically found a network, and logged me in. it also found 3 other networks, for which i don’t have the password stored in my computer. my [...]
Also tagged big brother, corruption, geek stuff, i am a terrorist, rants, the very big stupidHumans will be extinct in 100 years – a wonderful way to start out the post, but i’d tend to treat anything said by the guy who helped wipe out smallpox with a great deal of respect. you can argue about it all you like, but this is a guy who knows what it’s like [...]
Also tagged articles, bizarre, cannabis, corruption, i am a terrorist, the very big stupidseriously, i wonder how conscious even the computer geeks are with this one: we are moving towards a “cloud” computing environment, where “computers” are basically fancified “dumb terminals” and all of your data, all of your information, all of your applications and even your operating system live online, on computers over which other people have [...]
Also tagged i am a terrorist, intellectual property, rantsi booted up my computer this morning and firefox told me it had an update for one of the addons, so i let it install, instead of starting firefox, it looks like it’s going to start, flashes a white screen for a moment and then crashes with no explanation. tried it a number of times [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, musicalong with all of the other SNAFUs i’ve been forced to deal with over the past few days (an itemised list would prove too exasperating to compile at this point), and despite any actual evidence that it is true, i have become relatively convinced that i may have H1N1, otherwise known as “HEINEY”. i felt [...]
Also tagged health, links, web designso 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, host services, tina choppi’m having a tough time, and i can’t even blog about it! i’ve selected a new host provider and begun the process of switching, but because of the fact that new host provider doesn’t feel comfortable allowing me ssh access, i’m forced to do everything the slow way, one file at a time, and “ask” [...]
Also tagged depression, intellectual property, malfunctioning peoplethat’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 host services, malfunctioning people, rantsthere was a fair amount more IPv6 furor to deal with: i got email and firefox working, but it was a temporary workaround, because akregator and amarok (and probably a bunch of other things of which i’m only vaguely aware) were acting extremely screwy. akregator was displaying all of my RSS feeds, but it couldn’t [...]
Also tagged links, rants, the battle of the computerhost 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 host servicesso there’s a new commercial on TV, just in time for xmas, advertising the new HP laptop/netbook/desktop combination with Windows 7, which is “networked together by GeekSquad™”… i have three computers, two laptops and a desktop, and all three of them are networked together, and we didn’t have anything like geek squad. in fact, they [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning peoplei 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, host services, parents, rantsthe 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 host services, hybrid elephant, workshopso i was going through the oscommerce forums last night, desperately searching for the solution to yesterday’s problem, and i came across this comment on a post whose solution i have already tried (and failed) to get working – despite the fact that the installation instructions are only in german, and they produce only a [...]
Also tagged hybrid elephant, rantsi’ve accomplished about as much as is possible for me to do without help… and possibly a ladder. the insulation is left over from an igloo stage-prop that was a part of a movie that jeremy was a part of producing last year, before i went to burning man. he wrote a message to cirquechat [...]
Also tagged links, music, ocf, philharmonic, pictures, the battle of the computer, workshopsomething has gone awry with the CSS part of the admin section for my wordpress blog. i logged in a few days ago and was greeted by a bunch of mysql errors and the blog’s admin page made with no CSS, and, to varying degrees, it’s been that way ever since. i suppose i’m going [...]
Also tagged corruptionso at 10:28 this evening, i posted the following advertisement to craig’s list: i have two computers, i want musical instruments I have: One clone PC in a beige box with Kubuntu Linux, AMD 1.5ghz processor, 800mb RAM, and 6gb hard disk. One turquoise G3 Mac desktop with a Sonnet G4 upgrade, 800 mb RAM, [...]
Also tagged crazy people, rants, the battle of the computer, the very big stupidso i bought a new computer yesterday, and spent most of today getting it set up and running. apparently there is some specific thing that toast avoids doing, resulting in my burning no less than 3 install disks which didn’t boot correctly before i switched to disk utility and actually read the howto for burning [...]
Also taggedi 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 host services, 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 host services, i am a terrorist, 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 host services, 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 host services, 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 host servicesbased 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 host services, important things to remember, the very big stupid
