Frank Hagan
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Jeff, I think I do remember seeing the damage to your thumb a few years back. I'll have to see if I can find the table saw injury study again; it had a second type of injury other than cutting that was very common, and I've forgotten what they called it exactly, but it had to do with crushing of fingers due to impact with flying wood. I remember being surprised at the number of that type of injury.
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Yeah, it would be spam on most forums. I'm still on the fence, because they are so commercial in nature. But they do provide some links out to a boating related site, so there might be some benefit to us as well.
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I haven't found a guard yet that I like, but I haven't used the more expensive ones. Charles, I like your idea, but I would be concerned about things flying back into your face if something catches and "explodes" on the saw. I had a piece of red oak shatter a factory guard one time, and I determined that the flying plastic was probably more dangerous than the flying wood.
I use sleds for cross-cutting, and don't cut large panels on my table saw (I cut ply with a circular saw first). The problems I have had are usually with panels; get them out of alignment a bit and they can be airborne. And ripping, of course; I had an offcut move into the blade - after the cut but the saw was still running - and shoot the offcut back and through drywall and then stucco. It would have impaled me if I was on that side of the blade. I shut the saw off after every cut now.
There's always a tendency to grab at something flying, but loose wood on a table saw is like a grenade and the only defensive measure is to get away from it. Somewhere I have a report on saw injuries, and I seem to remember that ripping was the most dangerous activity followed by trying to control wood that is starting to fly.
I also assume a stance that is counter-intuitive at first, but you get used to it. Slightly sideways, with one foot foward, and all your weight on the rear foot. If something happens, you'll tend to fall backwards instead of forwards into the blade.
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No problem; I think he's kept it to the classifieds section so far, and hasn't posted more than one or two a day.
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At least its in the classified section. We allow commercial advertising here as long as its boat related.
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Most of my sites, including this one, are moved over to the new server. All is well, with premium security software, distributed name server management (using two additional geographically distributed servers) , etc. are all working fine. The last step is to implement a daily backup routine to provide daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly backups on a remote server, and then I will open up the server to new accounts. Estimated time line is end of next week.
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Thanks, guys! I think we have it set now.
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I to have gotten the script message. My upload seems to finish, and then just disappears. And the page just quits. I can scroll up and down, but can't upload again until I x off the page. When I return I can try again, but it continues to just disappear. Some times the page just locks up and I have to wait for the message that tells me the page is not responding. If I reload the page, the same thing happens again.
If you can try it again ... I think I have it nailed down now (at least I know where to go to adjust the settings that are affecting the upload!)
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OK, if I can impose on you guys to try again ... thanks to your efforts I was able to duplicate the problem on my end, and then edit some PHP settings to allow larger uploads. The one of my grandson at LegoLand is just over 2MB, so I think I have it configured correctly now.
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That one was just under 1MB, let's try one larger than 1MB ...
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OK, I increased the max amount of memory a PHP app can use, and increased the timeout settings on the server ...
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Testing a file upload ...
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OK, thanks. I'll look into the server side issues this brings up ... possibly script time-outs or a problem with javascript on the server.
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My photos are approximately 3MB each and they will not load. The message I get is: "Upload Skipped (This file was too big to upload)"
You can upload up to 16MB of files (Max. single file size: 2MB) is shown when I go to the image loading interface.
I wonder why the other user isn't getting any kind of error message like you are getting? Maybe they are being blocked by his browser.
The 2MB limit s a server-side (PHP) limit not the forum software limit, and I missed that. I adjusted it to 150MB for the server (the software should limit you at 8MB for forum images). Can you re-try?
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Wasn't the single file max size 8mb before? I used to be able to post the same photos that now don't work.
It came over as 1MB in the move, and I had increased it to 2. I just re-set it to 8MB per image, increased the maximum image size to 1366 x 768 (from 800 x 600), and set the individual storage limit at 750MB (up from 500MB before). Can you try another pic to see if it uploads?
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Thanks, guys. One user has reported issues, and he's not getting any error messages returned ... just gets the upload in progress icon but it never completes. I don't think it has to do with the settings on the back end (I increase the size of image allowed, and the space per member allowed just now). I'm looking to see if there is some conflict between the board software and security software when the IP address changes.
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Can some of you try to upload images to this thread? I have at least one member who is having trouble uploading pictures, and I don't know if its the board, or the new IP address (and his security software), or some other issue.
I can upload images, but I want to make sure others can.
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I have moved the forums to a new server in preparation for restarting my hosting company.
Let me know if you notice any difference, good or bad, in the forum performance.
You may have to log in again, as the cookies that allow you to auto-login sometimes change in a server move.
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I have the new server set up, with twice the RAM of my old one, and several hosting clients lined up. The server is on her "shake down cruise" to make sure its secure and working well, then I'll move my sites over one by one. When I'm sure its a stable platform, I'll open it up to new customers.
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I love the design. I guess she would go about 6 - 8 knots with a 10 HP outboard, right? Devlin makes great looking designs.
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Now that I'm no longer required to divest myself of other businesses, I am considering re-starting my web hosting business. However, it will be a premium service with a minimum $10 per month fee, focused primarily on small business and hobbyist sites.
If you hosted with me before, and feel that $10 a month is worth the level of service I provided, please let me know. I have two commitments already, so I only need a few more.
I will be very selective about the type of sites hosted on the server. Wordpress sites will be allowed, but other "content management systems" may not be allowed, as they pose a security risk if not frequently updated. As before, only "family friendly", non-controversial sites will be allowed, with no adult content, political debate, or otherwise controversial content. Even legal "debate" sites tend to attract hackers who try to compromise the server.
I will continue to provide free hosting to the existing non-profit sites (such as http://byyb.org).
Payment will be by credit card or Paypal payments. Semi-annual and annual payments by personal check will be considered for businesses, and if I had success with you in th past using this method.
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This is not the record low - I'm guessing the record low was before I logged on. 1 user(s) are reading this topic
1 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
"reading this topic" means fellow forum readers in the exact same topic as you. If you look on the forum index page you'll see how many are online reading *something* on the forums. Right now, I'm the only one reading this topic just like you were, but the forum index shows 28 people on line (7 members, 19 guests and 2 anonymous users). Google and Bing are among the guests.
Still, we're a really small community. The Wooden Boat forum is more than 10 times our size with over 33,000 members. I don't know if they have purged their membership rolls at any time, though. I periodically remove people who haven't visited in the past year, so our 2,807 total members are active members (many never post, but log on and read things).
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It was 315 total, members and guests. I don't recall why it was that high, but I always suspected the old software counted the visits incorrectly. I think it counted multiple visits by the same person as separate visits; the new software counts the member as visiting that day if he visits once or 100 times. A lot of people will check back in several times a day if they have a question they are interested in, etc.
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We actually had 315 on the old software one day. Most online at one time was just over 100 ("at the same time" means within a 15 minute period with that software, so its a little deceptive).
So far we're good on the reseller account I have, so cost is definitely not a problem! Archiving the older posts really helped with the server stress and doesn't seem to cramp anyone's style.
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For some reason, our event calendar disappeared at some time in the past. It is now back, along with the chat function.
I have also added a CDN feature. CDN stands for "Content Delivery System" that caches images and other content and serves it from the server nearest to you. If you had slow loading pages on the site, it should be a bit faster now (especially for our members from Australia, New Zealand and the EU).