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I haven’t starting blogging yet because I’ve been working on my fan site .::A Tribute To The Pointer Sisters::. it isn’t live yet.  Since I started the upgrade it has been a trilogy of errors and a nightmare of horror yet I pursue.

January 28, 2009

Recently experienced a major crash.  Thought it was my server but after doing a Google search discovered it was the new anti-virus software I had installed.  If you get a “page load error” message it may be the anti-virus software creating it. It has been a nightmare to completely uninstall the software.

Yesterday I was updating the forum and updating mysql database when all the sudden everything disappears.  I checked my ftp and everything is gone. My first thought was I did something to make all this happen.  So immediately began to restore everything from backups (that was a mistake).  While restoring the uploads were intermittent, slow and crashed because the anti-virus software was blocking them. Why did I think I was the cause of all this? Because I was multi-tasking, was updating the forum via ftp, updating the forum’s database on the server and working on another website on the same server, while cleaning house. Plus was once a beta tester for Microsoft because I possessed this unique ability to crash software.  When my uploads stopped thought I had reached my bandwidth limit with the server and they had shut me down. For a minute thought because I was working on mysql and ftp at the same time I crashed the system.  There was no need for me to restore anything. In restoring everything a lot of errors occurred and things didn’t upload correctly.  It was a mess.

Once I removed the anti-virus software everything started working fine, right away noticed an increased speed on my computer and the speed of my internet connection greatly increased.  So much for free software, you get what you pay for.  Am now using Kaspersky.

And that was only the beginning of my nightmare.  But am pleased to say have made progress and the updated version of my forum will go live in a couple of days.  Once that’s done will begin blogging.