Seymour Digital Consulting, LLC

Category: Outages

  • A Time I Logged Off the Internet 001

    I wish to dispel a myth…

    For years, folks have accused me of NEVER logging off the internet…

    I DO!

    At LEAST once a week, during the spring, summer and fall!

    You want Proof?

    A Time I Logged Off the Internet 001
    A Time I Logged Off the Internet 001

    How is that?

    I setup my camera in the far corner of my yard, and used my iPod Touch and TriggerTrap to record the “session”…

    Then in Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1, I combined over 30 individual images into a composite, which you see above.

    This was very painful, and required a lot of RAM and numerous files… and ‘Yes”, I’m still 32-bit…

    But the end result, I have ‘proof’ that I have done ‘work’ outside of the internet!

    I am still working on a proposal to ‘off shore’ this task to non-terrestrials…

    Details to follow…

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  • Change over! – DotNetNuke to WordPress!

    OK folks, about about to pull the trigger!

    Already have a Temp html page on the Main Domain…

    Backups are done…

    I will be monitoring over here during to change, and email and phones are still in place!

    See ya on the “Other Side”!

    – Andrew
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  • My Site Blew up!

    We are back up and running normal!

    Sorry for any problems that you may have run into!

    Updates – Please read the full post for more info.

    A-)

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    Sorry folks!

    I was adding some ‘stuff’… Then BOOM!

    I was Off-Line!

    Only now, am I getting over it!

    More Details to follow!

    A-)

    Update (11/16/2010 10:32 PM) – Not sure what happen, but I can tell you what I did…

    Initially, I was just updating my blogs, and was doing some Category editing, when I made Modification, and BOOM!

    At first, the site would not come up, and when it did,it was limping…

    Within an hour, I was getting emails from my host companies tech support:

    “Recently your website has been moved from your regular application to a suspect pool because your site has recently been crashing the application pool numerous times along with crashing the suspect application pool.”

    This was kinda bad…

    Finally, I got to the Admin pages, and started to poke around, the logs where not helping…

    After some testing, and removal of “stuff”, I narrowed it down to just the “Blog” page…

    Got a good backup of my database, and deleted the DNN Blog 4.0.0 module and associated dbs tables, after which, I was finally able to access the Blog.aspx page.

    During this, I managed to also do the following:

    • Upgraded to 05.05.01 (22)
    • Telerik.Web.UI.dll 2010.2.713.35 is in my /bin
    • Blog Upgraded to 04.01.00 RC

    From here, I created a fresh new blog with 04.01.00 RC, and then did a very lengthy restore of the database info back into the blog.

    Unfortunately, it seems that I have lost the date/times on my comments…

    Needless to say, something NAILED my Blog!

    – Andrew
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  • Website Rebuild (May 2010)

    Well, I’m doing it again…

    After much playing since the August 2009 site rebuild, I decided to do it again.

    This time, a fresh install of DNN 5.1.4 and UMG 6.2.1.

    I have also decided to move my Forums’ posts into the Blog, and stay with the base DNN skin, and work on my CSS a little.

    Highlights of this Build

    DNN 5.1.4

    • New Admin Interface –
    • Seems quicker –
    • New HTML/Text Editing interface –

    DNN Blog 4.0.0 Module

    • Moving from WordPress –

    Ultra Media Gallery – Ultra Media Gallery 6.2.x Module

    • Looking into a new Portfolio/Gallery presentation –
    – Andrew
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