-
Too quick to blame Time Warner
I called Time Warner this morning and we worked on some basic troubleshooting steps I should have done before (restart the cable modem and restart the networking on my server). Low and behold, everything worked again. Why? I have no idea.
-
Thanks, Time Warner
My ReeceiptWallet sales yesterday were down significantly (I sold 1 copy) which I thought was extremely odd. When I checked my logs today, I saw that no one had visited my site yesterday which was impossible as search bots hit it all the time. I logged into an outside server I have access to and tried to connect to my site; it failed. Hmmm...my main site (www.gruby.com) worked fine. What was the difference? I remembered that receiptwallet.com was on a different IP address. I switched everything back to the main IP address and will give Time Warner a call in the morning and find out what they screwed up (it appears to be their routing tables) and see about a nice service credit for this. This also explains why someone said that mail to receiptwallet.com bounced, but to gruby.com didn't.
-
Boy, I sure feel old
A few weeks ago in my EMT refresher class, the instructor mentioned something about the movie Airplane! to one of the students. The student, who was about 21 or 22, didn't have a clue what the instructor was talking about. While I can't remember if I saw the movie in theatre (probably not because I was 7 when it came out), I did see it and the sequel sometime during the 80's. I really felt like I was getting old because it didn't seem all that long ago that the movie came out.
-
Stop wrapping dmg files in zip archives!
I routinely download software that ships as a Mac disc image, but when uploaded to a web server is placed in a zip archive. The dmg file is already compressed, so the zip file doesn't reduce the size that much and just adds one step to decompressing (when I decompress, I'm left with the zip file and dmg file; I then have to trash the zip file). My suspicion on why this is done is that the web server isn't setup to send dmg files as binary and people get a mess in their browsers. So solution (for apache servers), is simple. In /etc/mime-types, add dmg to the octet-stream line like: