v6.0 / What happened to the lines? edition
Well, I’ve finally gotten to the bottom of this bloody stupid problem.
If you have Twitter Tools installed and keep getting stupid error messages with no obvious issues in sight then check the date and time on your web server (I used this handy command line guide for my remotely hosted Linux web server).
This has solved all my issues with Twitter Tools in a stroke. Hopefully this will help some of you out there!
I’ve been having one of those annoying problems connecting to my NAS that I wasn’t able to pin down. Finally after a bit of a rummage on the internet I stumbled across the following on Tomshardware.com:
Hi all,
I have a similar problem with Ubuntu Server and Windows Vista and Seven.
I have created a share on Samba with user and password. I opened some ports on the firewall to allow access outside.
I can see the share and mapping the disk with this command:NET USE Z: \\publicIP\share “PASSWORD” /USER:user
The problem is that: When I’m opening a file (Excel for example) this file is always in ready only mode. With Windows XP everything works fine.
Can this fix resolve my problems?Control Panel – Administrative Tools – Local Security Policy
Local Policies – Security Options
Network security: LAN Manager authentication level
Send LM & NTLM responses
Minimum session security for NTLM SSP
Disable Require 128-bit encryption
I basically had the same issue.
With mine it all came down to the fact that windows didn’t like “multiple” connections using different usernames, in my case one username and one anonymous access.
So, if anyone else comes across this bloody simple yet irritating problem do the following:
Sounds simple but it took me ages to figure out purely because I wasn’t logging in to begin with!
Forum moderation. Sometimes I really do wonder why people do it, myself included. Recent discussions in the forums of FreddysHouse really have led me to wonder.
Unlike a lot of forums on the internet that are set up by completing a form in 2 minutes on a free forums website, FreddysHouse has a bit of history behind it. A history that is explained rather nicely here. The community is solid and has a reasonably family friendly feel to it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an internet forum and everyone clashes opinion on a daily basis, but rarely does anyone ever take it deeply personally or get seriously bent out of shape about it.
Unfortunately, despite the rarity, there are still those occasions where people do.
Moderating is always a sensitive area as too much one way is censorship and too much the other way tends to lead to a flood of posts containing nothing more than swearing or personal insults.
On FreddysHouse I tend to take the approach of cracking down hard only when completely necessary and then letting the dust settle. So far it works but it strikes me that it is a shame it is still necessary to kick people into touch in such a friendly environment.
On the other hand someone has to keep out the riff raff, no?
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It’s been a few weeks now and I have to say that I’m really, really impressed with OVH. I now, appropriately, take a pause to thank my good friend Andy for being kind enough to answer my numerous stupid questions. This is an impressive feat given that I was conjuring up questions like a magician does doves before making the switch. So thanks mate!
Slowly, one by one, the sites have been restored. CS-B.net ended up being the guinea pig upon which the redesign of this site itself was based. Consoleforums.org is back on the mean streets of the web and now running on Simple Machines Forum software which brings it somewhat full circle (I’ve definitely had enough of switching forum software!).
The personal sites haven’t made their comebacks yet but this is mostly due to the fact that they really are only used for e-mail addresses and not much else. The work sites are however up and running again and I feel much more secure knowing that they have survived a hosting switch without incident (i.e. no e-mails were lost, so no disruption to the businesses).
Whilst all these site uploads and settings changes were being done, I managed to find time to get some software running on the hosting box. As stupid as it is in reality, I was quite pleased at being able to get an Eggdrop bot to run without any major issue. More pleasing was the fact that all the numerous stupid minor issues were only caused by my knocking out a few typos at my regular rate.
Things are therefore, looking good. Back to the uploads!