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A log file on the server grew too big. My server tech said:
Lots of people trying to hack into server
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Measures are being implemented to control the log file growth so it doesn't happen again.
 
The META data folder was probably at capacity. By regularly deleting those files the forum should run faster. I have the same issue with my Windows based server.
 
Fatrat said:
Scum always messing things up...
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Yah, lets put moar crap online.

I just had to change my Medicare Advantage plan. Okay...that usually involves a sheaf of documents, about eight signatures, sometimes a witness, and then mail it in and it's approved.

NOT. NOW.

Nope, the ONLY way I could get into this new (and inferior to what I had) plan was, first, listen to a presentation by an AUTHORIZED Medicare Advantage sales agent (wife of my insurance agent; they've told me how tough it is to get authorized, all the stupid compliance they have to comply with) and then, SIGN ELECTRONICALLY.

No other way permitted.

Unfortunately, my email account wasn't good enough for their server. They sent the page for "signature" over, but wouldn't accept the completion. Because of "security protocols."

Already I'd left the agent's office and gone home, because I couldn't get into my email in the office. I don't do email on my phone, and I didn't remember which password I'd used with the account (you only get one strike and if you miss two, you're banned forever from that email server...) So I had to go back.

Then her computer didn't pass my email server's security protocol - UNFAMILIAR DEVICE AND DOMAIN. So, Plan B, was, send the doc to my phone.

I get it. But I can't get the link-jump to work. Because, smartphones are anything but.

After 45 minutes of trying, it suddenly does work. Fin-pfukkin-lee, it was done. Two trips downtown, two hours wasted, high blood pressure.

Wasn't that easier than mailing in a packet of signed forms?

Enshittification, for real.
 
Casey Jones said:
Yah, lets put moar crap online.

I just had to change my Medicare Advantage plan. Okay...that usually involves a sheaf of documents, about eight signatures, sometimes a witness, and then mail it in and it's approved.

NOT. NOW.

Nope, the ONLY way I could get into this new (and inferior to what I had) plan was, first, listen to a presentation by an AUTHORIZED Medicare Advantage sales agent (wife of my insurance agent; they've told me how tough it is to get authorized, all the stupid compliance they have to comply with) and then, SIGN ELECTRONICALLY.

No other way permitted.

Unfortunately, my email account wasn't good enough for their server. They sent the page for "signature" over, but wouldn't accept the completion. Because of "security protocols."

Already I'd left the agent's office and gone home, because I couldn't get into my email in the office. I don't do email on my phone, and I didn't remember which password I'd used with the account (you only get one strike and if you miss two, you're banned forever from that email server...) So I had to go back.

Then her computer didn't pass my email server's security protocol - UNFAMILIAR DEVICE AND DOMAIN. So, Plan B, was, send the doc to my phone.

I get it. But I can't get the link-jump to work. Because, smartphones are anything but.

After 45 minutes of trying, it suddenly does work. Fin-pfukkin-lee, it was done. Two trips downtown, two hours wasted, high blood pressure.

Wasn't that easier than mailing in a packet of signed forms?

Enshittification, for real.
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i kinda got a snicker out of that cause i did my G medicare plan ...and yes things were all locked up online took several days of trying ....its not like they cant anticipate that millions of people are doing renews this time of year every year ... kinda like when they rolled obama care out system couldnt handle things so yep lets do MORE online .... but i do have to admit i prefer to pay bills online vs stamp pricing
 
Casey Jones said:
Yah, lets put moar crap online.

I just had to change my Medicare Advantage plan. Okay...that usually involves a sheaf of documents, about eight signatures, sometimes a witness, and then mail it in and it's approved.

NOT. NOW.

Nope, the ONLY way I could get into this new (and inferior to what I had) plan was, first, listen to a presentation by an AUTHORIZED Medicare Advantage sales agent (wife of my insurance agent; they've told me how tough it is to get authorized, all the stupid compliance they have to comply with) and then, SIGN ELECTRONICALLY.

No other way permitted.

Unfortunately, my email account wasn't good enough for their server. They sent the page for "signature" over, but wouldn't accept the completion. Because of "security protocols."

Already I'd left the agent's office and gone home, because I couldn't get into my email in the office. I don't do email on my phone, and I didn't remember which password I'd used with the account (you only get one strike and if you miss two, you're banned forever from that email server...) So I had to go back.

Then her computer didn't pass my email server's security protocol - UNFAMILIAR DEVICE AND DOMAIN. So, Plan B, was, send the doc to my phone.

I get it. But I can't get the link-jump to work. Because, smartphones are anything but.

After 45 minutes of trying, it suddenly does work. Fin-pfukkin-lee, it was done. Two trips downtown, two hours wasted, high blood pressure.

Wasn't that easier than mailing in a packet of signed forms?

Enshittification, for real.
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Sounds like MSFT was gumming up the works... for your safety of course!
 
pmbug said:
A log file on the server grew too big. My server tech said:Measures are being implemented to control the log file growth so it doesn't happen again.
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who's putting logs in the file in the first place? That has to stop right now!
 
Maybe if you asked members to donate one tenth of one percent of their PM asset increase over the last year...
 
The SSL certificate expired yesterday and didn't auto-update like it was supposed to. I couldn't get a hold of my server support until this morning. Sorry for the down time. All is well now (at least until the current SSL cert expires again - then we'll see!).
 
pmbug said:
The SSL certificate expired yesterday and didn't auto-update like it was supposed to. I couldn't get a hold of my server support until this morning. Sorry for the down time. All is well now (at least until the current SSL cert expires again - then we'll see!).
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These clueless idiots are the self-styled Masters of the Universe - who want to be able to control access to all communication, and to be able to choke off what doesn't agree with their realities.

WHILE demonstrating superincompetence in simple tasks such as this.

I don't think it's gonna go well for the crossdressing Woke coders and Fact-Checkers, as their fiat-money melts into a MMT puddle, and Minneapolis becomes Fort Sumter.
 
God bless the wood stove.

I had one, in my Buffalo house...unfortunately, the round-the-clock chaos of railroading didn't work well with it. Off work at one, home at 0200, to a near-freezing house. Fire up the stove...and it takes two hours for meaningful heat, and when you get it, it comes in a wave. Too much.

And I did it too quickly once too often, and cracked the stove. Had a fire in the flue-pipe, too...mercifully, the fire didn't get out of the stack, but it showed me how hard it was.

And, with wood selling at $60 a face-cord (2002) I wasn't saving money. The fire was from having an over-abundance of softwood in my pile - I bought trimming scraps along with hardwood.

Buying wood in Gnu Yark wasn't easy - the Department of Environmental Communism practically required a permit and court order for every tree ever cut down...

Nontheless, I remember it well. That, and my childhood two-week summer vacation, on an Adirondack lake, in a log cabin with a wood stove...and yes, even in June, you needed a heat source up near Lake Placid, mornings.
 
i grew up on wood heat .......i was lucky my bedroom was the closest to the stove ..... my sister not so much so ... :D .....im not sure who got the best deal as one of my chores was hand splitting though
 
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