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Website Problems mostly fixed

Monday, May 17th, 2010

I am glad to say that most of the problems I had with the website are now fixed. I have been able to recreate the menues and pages from a older version I had. There may still be some bad links and other errors but I will be looking at them tomorrow. I have also started populating the new gallery with photos. Here is one example to take a look at and if you would like to see more you can find them in the gallery.

Milford Sound at dawn


Website Problems and maintainance

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Hi guys it has been a while since I have posted a message and once again it is to report an error. I have recently had my website moved from my old server to a new one and some where in the moving an error seems to have occured and all but a few pages would not display correctly and the menu was not functional. The error was not picked up for a week or so and I have only been able to work on it today and it. The only was we could see it to be workable was to wipe it out and do a fresh install of Joomla which it is based. This has left me with the website empty of content. I will work on it again tomorrow and it should be all fixed then. My gallery I had been using on the old web server also did not migrate correctly and so that has been wiped out and upgraded to the RC1 of Gallery 3 which means all old links to any photos are not going to work and if the website had been working as it seems they have changed the file name from main.php to index.php. The gallery will be populated tomorrow also with a lot more content that last time including a few thousand photos I took on a recent holiday in New Zealand. This new gallery does not have a theme yet to intergrate into my website but I will be working on that in the coming week or so. I will be posting some photos here when I add them to the gallery.

Shawn Sobey

BrainBeat Productions

website was down the last 2 days

Friday, June 12th, 2009

It seems this blog has lately become a record of my server problems but anyway If you tried to access my website during the last 2 days you would not have gotten anything. On Wednesday night we had a power failure and the server and router lost power and it seems that the server changed its IP address and the router kept redirecting the website requests to the old address. I only found this out just now and it is now up and running again and hope I do not have any problems for a while.


Merry Christmas

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy and safe new year.

As a new years resolutions I aim to be writing more posts on here next year again and so I hope to see you next year.


Webserver Hardware upgrade

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Hi everyone It has been a long time since i have posted anything onto my blog. I hope everyone has have a safe and enjoyable time. Anyway I am writing this post to inform you of the reason why my website has been down on and off for the last few days. A bit over a month ago I upgraded my desktop PC to and Athlon x2 4800+ with 2 gig ram new motherboard and a geforece 8600gt, from an athlon xp 2800+ with 1 gig ram and geforece 590tx. I decided over the weekend as it was a public holiday to upgrade the web server with the bits from my computer  and added a new 500gig hard drive this should allow more flexibility with what i host on the website. I am working on a redesign of the website also and I hope to have it up by the end of the week.

Hi all

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Hi all. I know i have not been updating my blog for a while but I am hoping to get back in to doing more regular updates from now on. I have Found that i have have had lack of motivation to keep writing as i have not gotten many legitimate comments to posts i have written. I have also not had a huge amount of time recently as we have had some work done on the house and to do it we have had to pack up and unpack the house.

In the coming weeks i will be posting a guide to how to set up a Linux media server, as well as restart my series looking at different Open source projects. I am always welcome to suggestions and if you ever read any of my posts please feel free to write a comment.

Internet problems again

Friday, June 1st, 2007

To all my readers and visitors i have once again had major internet problems. The problem this time was something totally out of my control which i found out from hanging on the end of a phone for over a half an hour was that for some unknown reason my port had been switched off at the ISP which was making it impossible to sync with the DSLAM. The connection has now been up for 5mins and so it appears that the problem had been fixed.


Happy Easter

Friday, April 6th, 2007

I would like to to wish every one a safe and happy Easter weekend and hope that you have a relaxing time and not getting sick from eating too much chocolate.

My router is dieing

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

This a an urgent post to say that it appears that my router is not going to last much longer as every time it re-syncs it seems to be getting slower and slower. To this end access to the website will be very slow. I am currently looking for a replacement one that is more stable and fully ADSL2+ compatible.

spam comments getting worse

Monday, January 15th, 2007
After many attempts by me to filter out all of the spam comments that are being posted onto my blog they still seem to be getting worse. I am not sure what to do as if I keep adding filter words a lot of wanted posts may be blocked. I guess I will have to put up with it unless I can find a solution. If anyone who is reading this knows something I can try please feel free to email me or post a helpful comment to this post.