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Dial up is King!

on: Jan/13/04 and its been viewed 565 times

This will probably be the one and only time that you’ll ever, ever hear me say this, however . . . .

Thank goodness for dial-up!

Please, don’t order a public flogging for my saying so (…or on second thought. . . ).

Why would I utter such obscenities?

Because tonight, while Chris was updating the banned IP’s in our web server’s firewall. . . the huge, long text file of IP addresses, somehow, included our own.

That’s right - we were locked out of our web server.

Normally? No big deal - - email the server admin for a quick fix, right? Except that we ARE the server admin! So how does one log back into a server to fix it when your fixed IP is banned?

Why - by dusting off Ye Ol’ Dial Up Account - that’s how!

Posted on: January 13, 2004 |

Posted in: Blogging

/*--- 5 Responses to “Dial up is King!” ---*/

  1. DramaQueen
    6:16 am on January 14th, 2004

    blog it forward
    The rules are really simple. For those of you who are new to this, all you have to do is pick someone from your blogroll and post (on your site) just what makes them blogworthy. Whassat? Ok, you can pick…

  2. DramaQueen
    6:16 am on January 14th, 2004

    blog it forward
    The rules are really simple. For those of you who are new to this, all you have to do is pick someone from your blogroll and post (on your site) just what makes them blogworthy. Whassat? Ok, you can pick…

  3. Geoffrey
    7:09 am on January 14th, 2004

    I’m on my PDA, but if you drop me an email I can send you a fairly easy way to get around this, should it happen again.

  4. Fluffy
    1:47 am on January 15th, 2004

    wow.. thats a true bugger of a fuckup.. thank god for the dial up indeed.. when Sir blatted our main comp and reformatted the thing he reaslised he had lost one of the broadband install/driver cd’s. I was almost hopping mad! But INNER POISE prevailed.. and so did dial up. We got the stuff online (after hours of downloading argh) and have lived happily ever after since!

  5. pharmacy
    4:07 am on March 27th, 2006

    Hi ! :D

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