I ordered concert tickets earlier this evening. It costs less, for me, $2.75 vice $4.75, to have them snail mailed to me than to have them emailed… What is up with that? The seller has to pay for the ink, paper, and postage for snail mail and for next to nothing to email. Apparently most people pay no attention and just have the tickets emailed to themselves at nearly twice the price of having them sent via the postal service. Ticket sellers are…wait for it…winning!
Category: Web Sites
Lost Emails
Last night before going to work I noticed that I hadn’t got any email since about 1500. Not that I get that much email but it seemed a bit odd. This morning after work and early this afternoon when I got up, I still had no new mail. I checked my quota on my mail hosting service and had used less than half of my quota. I saw from my Gmail account that forwards mail to my hosting service that my forwards were getting rejected due to a full mail box.
Well that was puzzling. After contacting tech support, I found that I had not used up the physical capacity of my mail box but had reached the limit of the number of messages I could have in my mailbox, which was 3000. The tech kindly upped my quota to 6000.
I asked him what good the record of physical usage was if the quota was based both on that and the number of messages. He said that I had to monitor the number of messages in my account via webmail. I asked if there was any kind of alerting to let users know when they were nearing either quota and was told that there was not.
Thankfully, I am not trying to run a business using this email because the lost emails could cost me money. I think I would have to change hosting services were I to have a business dependent on email. I think that my hosting service needs to reconsider its approach.
Anyhow, I did not get email for about 24 hours starting yesterday at 1500 so I you sent me an email between then and now, please resend it.
Coppermine Photo Album Bug 2, Not!
I thought I had another bug in my Coppermine Photo Album but after much research, a backup of my web site and database, and an upgrade of my photo album software I found that I had just screwed up.
When batch uploading files to my site I got the error “no new file was found.” Finally, and embarrassingly enough, I realized that I had created the server folder containing my new photos using spaces and symbols in the name which is a definite no no as far as I am concerned. I have used filenames sans symbols and spaces for years considering that they were an unnecessary complication in the world of 0’s and 1’s.
After removing the offending spaces and symbols, I was easily able to publish my photos. The PHP software that I use for my photo album just couldn’t handle the offending characters.
Coppermine Photo Album Bug 1
I am not convinced of this yet but it appears that I cannot post photos that have no “EXIF” data to my Coppermine photo album. I have not found confirmation that that is a problem yet on the Web but it is a problem for me.
Photos batch processed using Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 lose their “EXIF” info and can’t seem to be published to my Coppermine photo album.