Refunded

Posted: Tue 5 December, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky, Getting Organised, Own Business, Work-related | 3 Comments »

A while back, I changed my account with 34sp to a ‘reseller‘ account, rather than the numerous individual accounts I had for the various websites I own/run/manage/whatever. It also means I pay £15 per month flat rate, instead of norking about with bits and bobs all over the place.

For me, it means that I can now administrate manage (and bollocks to you both, Jann and Gordon *grin*) all my sites (including D4D™) from one place, it costs me a lot less money, and just generally makes life slightly more organised, professional, and easy.

Anyway, as part of the “costs me less money”, once the sites had been copied over to the new server (reseller accounts are hosted in a different location to ‘normal’ accounts) I cancelled the personal hosting accounts for the individual sites. That particular part was a minor nightmare – but eventually got fixed on Thursday. And all the stuff I’d paid for, but not used (i.e. I’d paid for a year’s hosting, but only used six months, that kind of thing), was refunded to my reseller account, so I can use that credit to pay off those £15 per month amounts.

The amount I was refunded? £165. So my reseller stuff is paid for over the next 11 months – which I’d say was a pretty good deal!

Life Tech

Posted: Thu 30 November, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Domestic, Geeky, Thoughts, Travel | 1 Comment »

As I’m coming to the close of the “working away from home” period, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the stuff I’ve been doing, and the way I’ve been living over the last couple of months. While I can’t deny that in many ways I’ve been depressed and demotivated, I know I’ve also been able to get a lot of things done that I wasn’t expecting, or wasn’t necessarily planning on doing. Oh yeah, and I’ve been able to get started on some plans for the next 12 months as well, which is always a good thing, considering that it’s bloody December tomorrow.

Anyway, of all the stuff I’ve been thinking about, there’s been two – OK, probably three, but only two are ‘recent’ additions – things that’ve made my life one hell of a lot easier than it could have been in other circumstances.

Of course, being a geek, they’re both/all techie things, but really that shouldn’t come as any shock.

First, and this is the one that’s not ‘recent’ is just a mobile phone. It’s meant I’ve been able to keep in touch with Herself, as well as sorting out a lot of stuff that would have been far, far harder (and far more expensive) in the days before mobile communications.

Second, and probably the saddest, would be the little USB Freeview dongle thingy. While it was initially shit, and is/was utterly crap with the supplied mini-aerial, once it was connected to a proper “real” aerial, it’s been bloody marvellous. In honesty, I’ve watched some unutterable shite, but again it’s also kept me up to date with the things I do want to watch, and keep up to date. (Which reminds me, Torchwood is improving in leaps and bounds – and it was pretty good to start with!)

And the top thing that’s made my life a lot easier? The new laptop that I got just before starting this job. No, it’s not cutting edge, but it’s a fairly decent spec, and it’s been great over the last two months. The previous one, while it had a shit-hot battery life, was pretty slow, and would have been next to useless for a lot of the things that I’ve been doing – even the simple stuff, like watching a DVD, or the USB Freeview dongle.

All very sad, but it’s some of the things you never really think about unless you’re in the same situation.

Problem Solved

Posted: Tue 28 November, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky | 2 Comments »

Yesterday, Jann pointed out that there was a problem with D4D™ if you tried to get here by clicking on a link from another site. Ooops

Turns out, I’d forgotten to copy over a database user which was only being used for one particular function on the site – yep, the one that checked when people were coming in from other sites. Feck

Anyway, ’tis all fixed now, so all should be well again. I hope.

Finally

Posted: Thu 23 November, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky | Leave a comment »

Hallelujah. The domain switchover has finally happened at work as well. So now I can add and edit stuff on D4D™ in the same way I always used to.

I’ve still no idea why it took so long for work’s systems to change the server address, but at least it’s all done now.

Yay!

Quiet

Posted: Tue 21 November, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky, Getting Organised | Leave a comment »

D4D™ was quiet today – primarily because I could only get to the Old Server from work. I’ve no idea why it’s taken so long to migrate the DNS at work (unless the bugger’s cacheing big-time) but with luck normality will be restored tomorrow.

In the meantime, well, there’s been a bundle of stuff going on today, and I’ll be writing some more about it as I go on this evening – along with probably a back-up set of posts for the morning, just in case the DNS is still playing silly sods.

Bollocks

Posted: Mon 20 November, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky | Leave a comment »

Knew it was too good to be true.

Turns out, while the site’s domain details were saying “I’ve moved”, they hadn’t actually. Which I had a kind of nagging feeling might be the case.

So I’ve lost three posts – and a couple of comments – but only ’til tomorrow. Because I’m a bloody idiot, and the ‘back-up’ text file and database back-up I’d done are, um, at work.

And I’m not.

Bollocks

Paranoid

Posted: Mon 20 November, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Cynicism, D4D™, Geeky, Getting Organised | Leave a comment »

It’s strange, but I’m still really really unconvinced that the server move went that smoothly.

My paranoid little brain keeps saying “It can’t have been that easy. Something’s going to go wrong”.

As such, I’m taking regular backups of the database at the moment, just so that if something does go wrong, I’ve got a backup and don’t lose anything. (Except maybe some time) I wish I weren’t this cynical and paranoid, but well, technical stuff just isn’t that smooth and problem free.

I think I’ll probably be happier about it once I’ve arrived at the B&B tonight, and been able to spend some time furkling in the database on the new server, so I know that these posts are entered on the new database, not the old one. Then I might be more reassured…

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