Good Saturday to you one and all! Now that the issue has been resolved, I would like to extend an apology to all group members for its sudden vanishing off the face of the earth, late on Wednesday. Its reappearance did not occur until Friday afternoooneving, (is there such a word as Afternoonevening?). The problem was caused by a very rare and difficult to diagnose technical issue on one of our servers. Without boring you all with the full details, the server in question forgot, totally, about where it was supposed to be, and what it was supposed to be doing. It seems to have gone into an infinite loop of launching and application, crashing same, launching, crashing, launching, crashing … you get the picture!
I am taking steps to try and ensure that this issue, rare though it may be, does not recur. It took me a lot of hours of frustration, tearing what little hair remains from my head, and then much cursing the day I ever met up with a computer! However, I eventually managed to track the problem down, but only after much trawling through system logs, even putting apps into debug mode, then studiously wading through the results. That was how I eventually came upon the problem. Once diagnosed, it was a two-minute quick-fix to get it back on its feet again. In over 15 years of using this application, I have never, ever, encountered this behaviour from it. Anyway, we should now be back up and running, ready and willing to serve the membership as before. However, since computers only respond to the data fed into them, I guess I must assume the blame for the issue. The offending broken file has now been replaced, and the app seems perfectly content again. Perhaps there really is some affinity between an upset computer and an upset woman! But I’d better not go down that road any further or I’ll find myself in serious strife! Sorry folks, we’re fixed again now. ================================================= My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <[email protected]> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! Contact: • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0) 7907 823971 • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 ---------------------------------------- ——
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