The SIMS 2012 Spring Installable has been released and distributed to you on DVD.
Key features are
Installs a blank SIMS system equivalent to the SIMS 2012 Spring Release 2.
Installs a blank FMS system (6.145) with functionality equivalent to the FMS 6.144 Spring Release together with the ability to define a maximum of 18 accounting periods in a financial year.
Provides an installer for Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 R2 (this is a change to last years installable which provided an installer for Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008).
An ISO image is also available – details on how to download this can be obtained by contacting SIMS Distribution or the SIMS Helpdesk.
Redirect setup – should mean all those pesky 404 errors will disappear. Hopefully it’ll aid search bots everywhere rather then having to trawl my sitemap
Ages ago I signed up for a free Pingdom account to monitor my website, www.matt40k.co.uk. After a while I switched the monitor to another website, yesterday, I switched it back, well since yesterday I’ve been getting monthly status reports, not all at once but spread out with a few hours between each one, going back to when, I guess, I opened the account and increase by a month at a time. So I’ve just got an email with my sites uptime back in 2012-01-31, before that it was 2011-12-31. Weird uh?
One of the services I really like about Mythic-Beasts is the domain registrations, not that I don’t like Mythic-Beasts other services. My main gripe with other companies is that it is not instant, Mythic-Beasts have created a system using Nominet automated system (more info here: http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrars/systems/auto/), rather than buying a product of the shelf – or they’ve customized it very well :] – this system, at least I have found, to be instant, changing the DNS name servers are updated by Nominet within seconds rather than hours or even days. The free DNS servers they provide are also instantly updated, the only problem I’ve had is when they upgraded to IPv6 – something I need to check out soon – and DNS stopped updating, a problem that they quickly identified and resolved once I’d logged a call with them, just showing how good their support is.
One important thing to point out about Mythic-Beasts DNS services, one server is housed in house – NS2.mythic-beasts.com, and the other, NS1.mythic-beasts.com is hosted on ThePlanet (or at least it was last time I checked). This is completely separate from Mythic-Beastsnetwork meaning that even if Mythic-Beastsnetwork completely dies, even if the entire of the UK data centres loses power, connectively or whatever, you will still be able to resolve your Mythic-Beasts hosted DNS name, meaning my email will keep flowing.
Before you being, you need to create an account with Mythic-Beasts, this done by logging a call with them. Just remember, they are real humans working 9-5 jobs, being woken up to create an account so someone can register a domain is unlikely to happen at 3am.
Balls, actually, gigantic hairy arse balls. Appears the BIOS flash achieved the erase, half of the bios flash, but didn’t put the putting a new bios on it. Totally f00ked. Just waiting for a reply from PC-Engines with a possible solution, I think it’s going to be a board swap.
“Custom” .net website replaced now entirely with WordPress. My WordPress setup is pretty much right out of the box with a few tweaks. Few problems along the way with permissions and stuff. Hopefully all sorted now. Few bits to pick up later – rewrite from “/blog/…” to “/…” for example.
Bit bored to be honest, just done a quick look to see what other sites share the server I’m on at the moment at Netcetera – just in case some other Windows Web Hosts wants to go looking for business
Been updating my site so it uses only WordPress rather then a “custom” ASP.net website with WordPress for the blog section. Well I’ve added some of the content and been tweeking the site. Basically Netcetera billing has fooked me off again, so the plan is to run it off Alix box. It does present a few possible problems, such has limited disc space, cpuram. I do like a challenge
The nice Mythic-Beasts offered to re-firmware Alix in order for me to gain access to the BIOS over serial. However I forgot to add the MIME setting on IIS so it was getting HTTP 404.4 errors when trying to download.
Ah well. Have posted them a USB pen with the BIOS firmware on it.
I f00ked up the Alix, until tomorrow it’s offline.
Found an interesting offer (by accident) for WordPress.com. It’s gives you the following premium addons for a standard free account for $99 per year – about £64 in real money (after going via PayPal).
Mr Darcy, Supreme Grand Awesome Director of Darcy Transport has stated that any party that has been “injured” in the train incident would be required to submit photographic evidence of injury and a copy of the train ticket in order to claim*. Mr Darcy then left and drove off before answering any questions from the crowd including our question of what he means by *.
We followed Mr Darcy in a hope that we may find out. Unfortantely he was too fast for us. We did however, manage to track him down after his car also crashed leaving a poor teddy dizzy and in need of a cuddle.
Mr Darcy was finally spotted entering his castle. We have yet to seen Mr Darcy since despite breaching his castle – we assume he used the yellow emergency exit.
Today saw a tragic train crash in Ipswich. Hundreds of imaginary train passages were injured when the train collided with a car are high speed. The driver of the car has yet to be found, the police have said that the driver is missing and is presumably badly injured. They have however stopped searching due to the drivers transparent appearance.
A spokes person for the Darcy Transport company has issued this statement. “We apologies for the delay in our service and will have the train repaired and running again shortly”. When questioned with regards to the injured passages the company stated “we’re sure they’ll be travelling again with us soon”.
March training data sets are now available for download from SupportNet (Support | Training Datasets).
These datasets contain additional student data for the spring term in areas such as exams, attendance, assessment and behaviour. Full details can be found in the supporting information document attached to the “CPD programme for the summer term” bulletin on the home-page of the databases or in the SIMSCourse_ResourcesTraining Data Supporting Information folder.
The March 2012 training data has been released in SQL versions compatible with the Autumn 7.142 and Spring 7.144 (release 2) versions.
Additionally a Waters Edge academy FMS database has also been provided to support courses such as What’s new in Asset Management.
PC-Enginesalix3d3 has in the BIOS an option to redirect the BIOS output over serial (com0), this would be ideal as I have serial access (at the moment) to mine which is currently colo’d. However, I never could get it to work and after contacting them regarding this we’ve discovered that it is no longer possible dispite trying the current BIOS firmware (alixbio7) and the older one (alixbio6) and even the beta BIOS (alixbio8).
Many thanks to Michael Steinmann at PC-Engines for trying it out, just shame it’s no longer possible. Have to say I’m starting to regret not getting the alix3d2 (with the RTC battery fitted).
During boot-up which meant / wasn’t being mounted as read-only, found out what was being busy, it was syslogcron – basically the cron logs where set to /var/cron/log in /etc/syslog.conf, so I’ve changed it to /var/log which is a RAMDISK. Reboot and it’s happy again.
I have to say, OpenBSD is bomb proof, it just won’t die despite all my n00by actions. I’ve tried to updated the snapshot again, which failed, I then deleted the bsd.rd by mistake – I forgot I should have renamed and only removed it once I got a new copy – I managed to get a new (updated) copy on the system by getting ssh working again. Just totally amazed how robust OpenBSD is despite killing 90% of the system trying to fix a minor issue. I suppose the key is, redirect over Com0 and have serial access via a console server.
