Hi:
Today I did some IT support and consulting work for a guy in Acton. The work was worth $50. I may have future jobs of this sorts in the future! .One of the task was getting a site to function correct, on one of the guys computers, I had to put IE into comparability mode. Also someone visited my site from an IP address in
Codero.
-Jamie Marchant
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
I have updated my website:
- A mobile phone friendly version of the site is now available. Just visit the site as usually through your phone. A reminder that the URL is: http://jamiemarchant.blg.lt/public_html/drupal7/#!
- Google Analytic(or something similar) may be added in the future(I am having problems withe module at the moment.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Site update
My website(http://jamiemarchant.blg.lt) has been updated. Updateds include:
- Backend security update
- Minor backed changes which will make it easeir to adminastor
- Deleted a theme I was not using.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Two things:
-Jamie Marchant
- The IP tracking emails are now going to my Gmail since they are taking a while and I think the Spam filters might be taking time to "processes" it. Gmail seems to worked and worked with the old site. Does this mean Gmail has worse Spam protection ? No, it just means it recoanizing messages like "76.69.4.57 has connected to you blg.it site" to be legit. By the way, I don't get too much mail this way because my site is very low traffic at the moment, mainly spammers and bots :(.
- Try out my Clip Reader at http://clipreader.codeplex.com/ and let me know what needs improvement, if enough people "like" it, I will bring it out of beta
-Jamie Marchant
Friday, February 15, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Sheridan email and Office 365
Attention all Sheridan Alumni who read my blog:
If you use your Sheridan email, you probably noticed a message a while back stateting that your web-mail we soon be replaced with Outlook 365, which is currently being run in palely. Setting up Outlook 365 is not as easy as it looks and took me several hours over several days to final figure out, espessly in Thunderbird which they don't support. I had given up on it but when it went down a few days ago, I decided to take another poke at it now that it's back up.
For Thunderbird, create a new account and enter your email, you need to use manually settings as Thunderbird will automatically detect the Webmail POP servewer not the new fancy outlook sever. Here is a visual guide, showing you where to find the main settings you need: https://it.sheridancollege.ca/selfhelp/email/student-alumni/o365server-settings.html. I'm not sure if all Alumni/Students have the same setting here or not, so make sure you check out the setting in your actual outlook.
Here are the tricky parts:
a) If outlook asks for TLS then select "STARTTLS" but if it asks for "SSL" select "SSL/TSL" and if your setting are like mine you will have to use one for incoming and one for outgoing mail.
b) This is the part that I was stuck on, your user name is NOT your email OR your Acass Sheridan user name(last name and a few characters of your fist name). It's "<Acass Sheridan username>@sheridancollege.ca.
I hope this helps some sort out there problems, the IT department did not help me that much(in fact they told me my user-name WAS my Acass Sheridan user-name). If you want to get your mail with some other program you can get help here:
https://it.sheridancollege.ca/selfhelp/email/index.html#students.
P.S. To their credit they did remind me of this link though :).
If you use your Sheridan email, you probably noticed a message a while back stateting that your web-mail we soon be replaced with Outlook 365, which is currently being run in palely. Setting up Outlook 365 is not as easy as it looks and took me several hours over several days to final figure out, espessly in Thunderbird which they don't support. I had given up on it but when it went down a few days ago, I decided to take another poke at it now that it's back up.
For Thunderbird, create a new account and enter your email, you need to use manually settings as Thunderbird will automatically detect the Webmail POP servewer not the new fancy outlook sever. Here is a visual guide, showing you where to find the main settings you need: https://it.sheridancollege.ca/selfhelp/email/student-alumni/o365server-settings.html. I'm not sure if all Alumni/Students have the same setting here or not, so make sure you check out the setting in your actual outlook.
Here are the tricky parts:
a) If outlook asks for TLS then select "STARTTLS" but if it asks for "SSL" select "SSL/TSL" and if your setting are like mine you will have to use one for incoming and one for outgoing mail.
b) This is the part that I was stuck on, your user name is NOT your email OR your Acass Sheridan user name(last name and a few characters of your fist name). It's "<Acass Sheridan username>@sheridancollege.ca.
I hope this helps some sort out there problems, the IT department did not help me that much(in fact they told me my user-name WAS my Acass Sheridan user-name). If you want to get your mail with some other program you can get help here:
https://it.sheridancollege.ca/selfhelp/email/index.html#students.
P.S. To their credit they did remind me of this link though :).
Site news
Google is working on re-indexing my website and soon all references to the old site will be removed. The links to the old site are dead links now, so hopefully it will be removed soon. The thing about Google is, it's a lot harder to get them to automatically remove a link then it is too get them too automatically "index" you.
An IP address from Microsoft visited my site, I have not applied to any jobs at MS, so I think it's a spider from Bing(the Microsoft search engine), I can't find my search yet on Bing but it may have been disorganized or toke to long to load for what Bing would like. Even though this service supposedly supports Drupal, it's still prity slow.
Lastly a couple of points: the site is sometimes a bit slow to load, please give it time to do so. Also don't worry about any errors talking about the server being busy, just wait a bit and then refresh the page. Please let me know if the problem prosists too a point where you can't load the page at all.
An IP address from Microsoft visited my site, I have not applied to any jobs at MS, so I think it's a spider from Bing(the Microsoft search engine), I can't find my search yet on Bing but it may have been disorganized or toke to long to load for what Bing would like. Even though this service supposedly supports Drupal, it's still prity slow.
Lastly a couple of points: the site is sometimes a bit slow to load, please give it time to do so. Also don't worry about any errors talking about the server being busy, just wait a bit and then refresh the page. Please let me know if the problem prosists too a point where you can't load the page at all.
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