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New IP address
This morning our isp gave us a brand new, shiny IP address to replace the useless old one. We know now how useless it was because everything is loading more quicky. Happily, I can now access my messageboards at speeds I’d forgotten existed in the past.
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500 Internal server error
I visit a particular messageboard quite regularly and I’m one of the moderators. Around the middle of the year I started having regular slowdowns on accessing the website. I would get through but it usually took a while. At the end of last month, the server went down and the web hosting company moved the website to a different server. Since that time, I’ve not been able to access the website at all. At first I thought the site was down but after two days I contacted the owner directly just to check. Turns out I am alone in the problem as far as users of the website are concerned.
Since then I’ve had what I call an expert team working on it to find out the problem. This has involved the Scientist, the owner of the website and her husband, my isp, the webhosting company, a co-worker of the Scientist, and members of a big broadband forum here in Australia. I can get through via an anonymous proxy but not with our isp proxy and not without a proxy. There are others in our area with our isp who have the same problem so it’s looking as though it’s a blacklisted ip address problem.
Meanwhile, I am accessing the site via the anonymous proxy and it’s a pain due to all the pop up ads which seem to by-pass the blocker. It also seems to cause problems for posting on the forum so I’m not too pleased but I can at least access it from home. Fortunately, there are several moderators and we hardly do anything anyway so my absence hasn’t been an issue.
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Bugging me
I’m still a novice at working with this website stuff but I have become a bit more cluey over the last couple months. Now that I have slightly more of an idea of what I am doing, I have figured out my mistake when I installed WordPress. I intended it to be in the subdomain blogs with a directory of tmi instead of /blogs/tmi and whatever.
Although I have no plans to change blogging software, I’ve been playing around with Movable Type, mostly to see if I could do an installation on my own. I tried this quite a while back and was confused so put it aside until recently. I set up a different subdomain and installed the latest Movable Type and it works just fine. It’s quite a sense of accomplishment. I am especially satisfied that it’s done properly so that it appears under its subdomain. I don’t know if I will create any permanent blogs with Movable Type, but I like the look of the interface and it seems easier to use than the Typepad one for some reason. Perhaps Typepad is using an older version of Movable Type.
To get back to this blog…I am itching to fix the subdomain problem here because it is bugging me and I know that I can do it properly. At least I think I can.
Update: Have redone the blog more satisfactorily under the subdomain at this new url. The old will be deleted in a few weeks.
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Trackballs and websites
I ordered a trackball in February from a local retailer, eventually received it, then discovered the wrist rest that was supposed to be included wasn’t. The wheels moved quite slowly for resolving the issue and I had to follow up several times because communication is not exactly a strong point of the retailer. The trackball had been shipped directly from the supplier and that’s where the hold up was…Anyway, last week, I finally received another trackball and will be able to keep the original too. I took the wrist rest and the Scientist has taken the new trackball to use with his new notebook computer. It took awhile but satisfaction was achieved.