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Server change timewaster

scott — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:38:44 -0700

Lost admin access to my website. Three hours (over three days) later, found it again.

To DH support:

FYI On my 4.7 installation, I needed to add
$GLOBALS['tempUser'] = $user;
to index.php as per...
http://drupal.org/node/235256#comment-773603

Since my original wonderment was...
> if this week's server move has caused this problem

...I now wonder: Should the answer have been yes?

Time to upgrade.

EDIT

Got a lickety-split response:

Thank you for following up. I dont see how a server move would alter
Drupals roles/user settings or functionality. I'm not sure this is even
possible.

Keeping your software current and up-to-date is highly recommended.

So, coincidence? Beats me.

Empid Anniv

scott — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:01:11 -0700

fyee-byoh (how would you say it?)
fee-bee-o (is RTP's any easier?)
rreeBEEa (why not? it's sibley)

Alder Flycatcher singing from the wet spot a few hundred feet to the west of the deck late this afternoon. Ten years to the day since the first one heard here. Just a dozen "in the yard" all that time, with none in '02, '07, or '08, but otherwise reasonably predictable:

5/27 X
5/28 XX
5/29 XXX
5/30
5/31 X
6/01
6/02
6/03 XX
..
6/11 X
6/13 X
7/04 X

Always a pleasure.

Equinox for the ages

scott — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:16:10 -0700

A pass. Bikes. S is for stegosaurus. Red-bellied woodpecker. Tuna. Locomotion. Selected timeworn beach stones. Sup. Tick. Night.

Rokia Traore, Tchamantche

scott — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:12:16 -0800

Santa granted, but not to me. Very fine. KCRW kudos.

Xī Wàng : to hope

scott — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:48:00 -0800

With 37 sounds and 4 tones, Mandarin is beyond my imminent learning, but I have this start: Xī Wàng (to hope, to wish for, to desire).

Hope OSCAR 68 is the designated name for XW-1, the Chinese satellite that launched December 14 and soon began supporting communications by amateur radio.

The first North American pass with the FM transponder activated was immensely crowded, hampering almost everyone's ability to make a contact or upload a packet. Mostly I listened to chaos. Occasionally, I would transmit a partial syllable and quickly determine I was having no luck with low power and an indoor Arrow antenna.

A day or two later, I managed to get in "1AIA" while the satellite was coming over from the north, prompting a persistent KC9ELU to try an exchange. But no go.

SumbandilaSat Success

scott — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:59:31 -0800

SumbandilaSat launched September 17 and the control team has been stepping the South African satellite through its commissioning activities. Only in the past few days has the amateur radio transponder been activated over the United States, and this morning was the first apparent opportunity for east coast stations to be in the footprint of an active OSCAR 67.

I unexpectedly heard nothing at the appointed hour, but when I cast my callsign skyward the downlink was clear and then I had a call from K8YSE. Success on SO-67! John kindly shared a recording of the entire pass, and ZR1JAK mapped stations heard during this and the subsequent pass (which was out of range for me) based on John's captured audio.

Catching Castor and Pollux before they fall

scott — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:05:31 -0700

I haven't tracked and recorded the ANDE-2 experimental satellites yet, to say nothing of decoding and submitting any data. Best intentions...

Papahānaumokuākea `Ahahui Alaka`i

scott — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:23:41 -0700

...or PA`A... still keeping an eye on it...

Sorry around the Sound

scott — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:36:53 -0700

One hundred three at SeaTac today? That's more than uncomfortable, it's "excessive heat." Hard to think that I have nothing to complain about when suffering under temps in the eighties, dew points well past seventy, and sticky everything.

Seattle's all-time record high. Wonder when -- in this extreme-weather-event century -- that'll be broken. Meanwhile, sorry to all the wilters out there.

And be sure to get that heat cleared out well before the twelfth so my visit isn't stifled!

Moon Landing

scott — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:29:15 -0700

I was awakened to watch it. Age 10. Groggy memories. Wood cabinet black and white, northeast corner of the living room, from the sofa, surrounded by palpable attentiveness.

Borrowing from NASA and encountering other lunar tidbits.

This graphic shows the approximate locations of the Apollo moon landing sites.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

NPR story
Here.

Commentary on story
Here.

Hoax and Futurama
Here.

AMSAT Special Transmission

July 20 AMSAT-NA will mark the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing with a special event on AO-51. AO-51 will transmit a message commemorating the event Monday, July 20 during evening passes in the U.S. and Europe. The message will be transmitted on the 435.300 MHz FM downlink and will contain a Robot 36 SSTV image as well as a voice message.