Probably my oldest friend that I am still in regular contact with is J, famous to some as the bumbling bartender on ROX. I’m on…
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Probably my oldest friend that I am still in regular contact with is J, famous to some as the bumbling bartender on ROX. I’m on…
If you tried to leave a comment here in the last 24 hours you probably got an error message, but I just fixed that problem…
I haven’t posted for a few days because of weird technical problems. I wasn’t able to login from home over the weekend, so I figured…
After a week of delays and two whole days wasted on tech support calls, I was finally online. I was ready to write a damning invective criticizing Apple and an encomium praising the Computer Shoppe. I pointed my browser to my blog, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice:
Your account has been suspended. Contact billing/support.
What? How could this be? Did we forget to pay the bill? I called my webhost immediately and learned that our account had been suspended because of a “massive amount” of activity on b.rox.com.
It appears that b.rox was under attack by spambots.
Without getting excessively technical, I’ll try to explain this in terms my grandma Mildred (may she rest in peace) could have understood, insofar as I even understand it myself.
When last we left our story, we were at something of an impasse. I couldn’t connect my trusty iMac to the internet. Cox said it was Apple’s problem. Apple said it was a conflict with Cox’s modem.
At Todd Kleinke’s excellent recommendation, I took my poor little iMac to the University Saturday morning and plugged it into the local network. Nothing. Damn. Not even a dynamically assigned IP, which I’d at least been getting at home.
Next stop: The Computer Shoppe.