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Ian! big_brother is classic Thats in the top ten for sure!

Jim Ive spent more time in front of my workstation than most and have never even fired up a game of hearts.

Howdy, Thought I would post in the Hardware forums about my plunge back into AMD goodness. Going to build a new PC for myself. Here are the specs. CPU AMD2500+/333 ATHLON XP BARTON Retail Boxed Motherboard Epox EP-8RDA+ With the nForce2 chipset Yea Yea, I bought a Epox. I personally think they are awesome boards. HD (Going with IDE Raid) (2) 80GB Western Digital 7200RPM 8MB Cache WD800JB Is there any other drive to buy rather than WD CDRW LITEON 52X32X52X CDRW Black This will be my 3rd or 4th Liteon CDRW. They all have been excellent DDRAM (2) 512MB DDR400 CAS 2 PC3200 Kingston I really like the Kingston Modules. I have had great luck in servers with them. VIDEO VGA ATI XPERT2000 PRO 32MB 4X AGP I am not a gamer! ATI is all thats spoken in the Kish household. CASE Enermax 10B M ATX CS-3051L-B3A My personal favorite case maker, although Antec and Codegen have always done well for me. It will run Linux and Windows 2000 Dual Boot. I will get some photos of the build when I am done. Just for fun! What amazes me, is out the door with overnight delivery. I am under $800 for the entire build. newegg.com has great pricing btw.

The TCH monitoring server (the server that monitors all the services and servers and pages us if they go down) is being replaced. Last night the hard drive failed. After spending many hours I was able to restore another drive and get the server back online. However, tonight it is showing more symptons of its impending doom. So I thought we could have some fun. Name the Monitoring Server! This server has been known as Server1, but last night we started to come up with good alternate names. My vote is - Hawk_Eye Can anyone else come up with cool name for the Server that keeps a "eye" on our family?

Dont get me wrong... I love Linux... but C:\>uptime //banta has been up for : 492 day(s), 19 hour(s), 47 Minute(s), 51 Second(s) C:\>

This is a known issue with cPanel. This is effecting every cPanel host right now. cPanel is aware of the issues and we hope they are working to resolve the issue.

Dig a bit deeper and you will see that the 'block' is listed, but not the IP. It means that nac.net has some unresolved issues within that class C block of IP's. As it states - This does NOT mean that we ever received spam from 66.246.87.127. It just means that the upstream owner of that address block (which seems to be nac.net) is listed here for spam support. That upstream needs to resolve the below issues. "added 2002-10-26; spam support - auto-forwarding spam complaints directly to their spamming customers" "added 2003-04-05; spam support - hosting admanmail.com on 207.99.77.11"

Jim, Thanks for the kind words. Welcome to my family.

Answered via live chat. Thanks

Submit a ticket for the dedicated IP request. Chances are we will 'not' approve your request for dedicated IP. We require a technical reason for giving dedicated IP's out. With the limited technical reasons you list, its not within our guidelines to give you a dedicated IP. Funny thing is, your the only site on Server16 that has ever complained about their IP being blocked. Reason is, the IP is clean. Like I said, we dont host spammers, we dont host sites that would cause IP's to get listed. Im afraid this is a case of your husbands employer controlling his employees and attempting to increase the bottom line. Its a sad fact in todays internet world, but its true. Let me inform you a little bit about proxy filtering. Key word filters! The proxy that your husband filters thru at work is most likley using some sort of filter. Every request it process will filter its content and will ban sites based on a predetermined set of values, usually put in place by the IT Department. I can be very confident in saying that one of these key words could be Photography. When a site is hit with that keyword it can be filtered. I mean the chances that one of the other 200 or so sites on server16 causing a world wide global ban is pretty slim.

Ok here we go. I have checked the IP address of your site and it is not blocked. http://www.samspade.org/t/rbl?a=wollernet.com&r=on As you can see this IP is not blocked. I dont host spammers! I think this problem boils down to this. When I was in the consulting business I was asked this same question by IT Managers all the time. What sites do we block. Normally my answer was none. However, some business owners did not like that answer. The thing to remember is most if not all IT Departments monitor all http traffic. My guess, is they have blocked access to your url intentionally. They may have audited workstations and found traffic to the site and blocked it. I think even if we placed you on a dedicated IP, they would still find it and block access to that IP. It is their right to block access, so I am not sure where we can go on this issue.

Your not blind. Have not posted any thing about the PC or its contents yet. Still trying to get the rules of the game worked out...

Yea plus the after effects of tasting all that chili... egads!

Sure we could have a Chili Cook Off! You must have missed the TCH party plans? It really is wide open.

Maybe it has nothing to do with websites at all? Maybe it best family vacation photo? Remember this is wide open. It doenst have to revolve around tech or web sites.

lol name that right winger... thats funny

It has come to my attention that a certain customer has sent instant messages to the staff members here. These IM's contained pornographic links and other nasty things. I am not sure how it started but here is my take. If you spam with your IM we will treat it the same as if you spammed thru your hosting account. Now you ask "Bill, what does that mean?" If you send a IM to a guru here and that IM contains vulgar, pornographic or any other profane message you will get one warning. If it continues you will be reported to your ISP, your hosting account will be terminated and your posting privys here will be terminated. Thanks Bill

heheh HG is a blues kinda guy. albert collins, bb king and others

mitch = Dance

How about best web site?

Hey i just noticed your rotating avatar. LOL For a second I thought I needed glasses.

Borfast. Maybe you need to have your vision checked? Drop me a support ticket in and I will take a look in the morning ok? Good to see you around here, your posts always are educated and packed with good info. Your a great part of the family. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. G'Night

Game on? Taking ideas for the latest round of "Forum Give Aways"! This time I will let the users choose the game. Lets play it this way. People post as many ideas for the giveaway as possible. If someone has posted an idea you like simply acknowledge that persons idea. We will let the thread go for awhile and then grab the top 5 ideas, and place the ideas into a poll. Users will then vote on the poll and then we will have a winner and game on! There is only one rule for the game, it has to be family. No adult themed games. These forums are about family and so are the games we play! Lets get it going on! The prize - A custom built computer! Yes you read right. Kustom Choice Computers will be delivering to your door a brand spanking new Custom built computer. I will let Matt post the details of the Custom Rig a little bit later. Valued at over $1,500.00 *disclaimer - Winner pays shipping and insurance. This is the biggest game yet! Lets make it the best yet! Bill (edited by AndyB, just to update a couple of late night typos from HG who never sleeps)

Well my two cents. I have the following installed on my main workstation. Opera IE 6 Mozilla Firebird Firebird was rough going for abit, however the Glendale release is much improved. It still isnt my daily browser. Opera is plenty fast. I havent seen many bugs with the latest versions. I use it very little. IE 6 is garbage. No, it is worse than garbage, It is the stuff that garbage turns into after sitting in the hot sun for a few days., I use it only when I have to. There are many sites I visit daily that require IE. So I am stuck with it. Kinda like a birthmark. Just stuck with it. Mozilla is my daily browser. I use it 95% of the time. Keep up to date with the service releases and follow the web site, the dev team is way fun to watch. I have played with IE addons like Crazybrowser and MYie, they just seem to be to buggy for me. Anyways that my 2 cents. Long live Mozilla!!!

There are several known bugs in the cPanel hotlinking protection. Here are some that I am aware of. when you go to your url, make sure you have / at the end domain.com is not the same as domain.com/ when it comes to hotlink protection ------------------------------------------------- Add the following to an .htaccess file and place it in Document Root for the account in question. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://your_domain.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.your_domain.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.trusted.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|)$ - [F,L] The 'RewriteRule' is where you include the same file extension of the files to be protected. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------