Eric

http://www.intodns.com/atxcommunity.com I believe everything is working as it should be now. Of the three warnings that the above site lists, two of them are quite common, and the other doesn't really matter at this point. I will change the SOA expire time to 3 weeks instead of 5 though. RCooper: Let me know if you still have trouble getting to the site from your office in another day or so. It can take these settings a while to reach everyone's ISP.

Oh no, it's my stinking domain registrar that's creating more work for me. And it looks like I was wrong about the down-time, sorry about that everyone. Hopefully this will be solved for good once DNS propagation completes this time around.

It appears that my domain registrar continues to have problems. I have never had problems like this, and I'm tired of dealing with this company, so I'm going to change nameservers until I am able to transfer my domains to a new registrar. It takes up to 48 hours for these changes to propagate throughout the internet. Once propagation is complete, the problems should go away. (I don't expect any downtime)

What exactly do you get at your office? Is it a note saying the community has moved?

:bday:

:P

There is free VPN software out there, for example: http://www.tightvnc.com/ or http://openvpn.net/ But unless you or a family member is technically inclined, I would suggest hiring someone to set it up since security needs to be taken very seriously.

The headlines are retarded. I think what's wrong with the economy is that there was a long period where "Every five seconds of every working day, somebody buys a new Chevrolet!" Detroit got pretty comfortable with the bulk of Americans buying crap that they couldn't afford like they're entitled to luxury. Shake that MasterCard money tree! You deserve to have nice things! Unfortunately, our government has the same adolescent view of money management. Sorry about the off topic rant, I'll exercise some restraint and shut up.

I haven't got any idea.

I knew the answers to these ones: 7. C - Pants On Fire 10. E - Oh My 16. G - John, Paul, George, Ringo 18. B - Cause I eats me spinach 20. F - Melt In Your Mouth Not In Your Hand Most of the rest I hadn't even heard of. (I'll be 29 next month)

Please send me an email eric dot brissette at gmail dot com My domain registrar has had some problems, and it may be keeping a few people from accessing the forums properly. I've been speaking to them about it over the past week, and hope to have it corrected soon. For the more technical: DNS propagation is not happening correctly for one of my nameservers.

The move is complete. If I suggest doing this again, someone slap me. If anyone has any trouble staying logged in, I suggest logging out, clearing your cache and cookies, and logging back in.

When I say almost even, I mean the two old hosting accounts will cost about the same as the one new one, give or take a few bucks. Keep in mind that this site isn't the reason for the move, my other sites are. There is plenty in the PayPal account to continue paying for this site's portion of resources for a while, but the donations are appreciated. Sometime this weekend, you may see that the forum is in maintenance mode. It can take up to 24 hours for the switch to complete, but it's usually less. I'm sorry about the disruption, but the new home will provide lots of growing room.

No! no more money! By consolidating my two hosting accounts into one larger account, I'll be coming out almost even as far as monthly hosting bills go.

I have taken on a bunch of website hosting customers and am beginning to outgrow my two current hosting providers. There is a good chance that I will be moving all of my sites to a to a single beefy server located at an ultra-beefy data center. The move will happen, the question is when. (don't worry, it wont be during tax season) Is the board sufficiently slow right now that this would be a good time to do it? Should I wait until after tax season? This should be the last time I have to do this (at least, it better be, it's almost as fun as moving into a new house)

Our stray has accumulated thousands in vet bills. He's had chest taps. He's had ultrasounds and x-rays. He was on meds.. six pills a day for a couple years until I decided to ween him off to see what would happen. He's the most loving and affectionate cat I've ever met. Constantly purring, on our laps, following us around the house, and in between me and anything else I might be trying to focus on. We've also got one from a pet store.. he's a bit of a snob. He's decided that he owns the place, and we're the pets. Much too smart for his own good. Then there's the one we got at the shelter.. the only one of the bunch that kills mice and moles. He's affectionate as long as you're willing to pet him, otherwise he'd rather be killing things in the basement and leaving their heads/kidneys/tails around for us to find. We live in an old farm house in the middle of fields and trees, so there's no shortage of rodent parts. We've still got all three, and it's all I can do to keep my wife from bringing home more. "We need an orange one!" she'll say. :rolleyes:

I find those droppers much worse than giving the pills. I had to give one of my cats amoxicillin from a dropper twice a day for 7 days. Pink froth would come out the sides of his mouth, and he'd shake his head violently covering every surface within 10 feet in a fine pink sticky mist. I considered wrapping the cat in bacon and tossing him in the air for the dog.

October 24, 2008 CCH Small Firm Services Acquires IntelliTax Addition Expands Unit’s Ability to Serve Small Tax and Accounting Professionals Kennesaw, GA. (October 24, 2008) – CCH Small Firm Services (SFS), part of Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting, today announced that it has acquired the tax preparation software company IntelliTax®, formerly known as Orrtax Software Solutions. SFS provides the ATX™ and TaxWise® lines of tax compliance and accounting software to 45,000 small professional firms in the United States and Puerto Rico. IntelliTax offers tax compliance software to 4,000 similar firms, who will now be offered the TaxWise program for the 2009 tax season. The acquisition further expands the ability of SFS to serve as a partner to small firm professionals, delivering tax preparation software and services to increase their productivity, efficiency and accuracy. "The acquisition is great news for small tax firms that specialize in individual and business tax services for their clients,” said Jeff Gramlich, SFS President. “SFS already focuses on the type of high-volume electronic filing that is so important to many IntelliTax users. In addition, TaxWise will offer them an even wider range of tax forms and features than they have now.” “TaxWise is a proven software product,” said Matt Scheuing, President of IntelliTax. “We’re pleased that our customers will benefit from the additional features and services that TaxWise will offer them.” SFS processed and electronically filed more than 15 million tax returns this year to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and state revenue agencies. And for the past 11 years, TaxWise has been the exclusive provider of personal tax software to more than 10,000 IRS-sponsored Volunteers in Tax Assistance (VITA) sites and IRS walk-in offices. The terms of the agreement were not released. About CCH Small Firm Services CCH Small Firm Services (SFS) is a provider of tax and accounting software solutions, research products and training to 45,000 small professional firms throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. SFS offers both the ATX™ and TaxWise® product lines, including recently launched accounting and practice management products, for a growing customer base of small firms. For more information visit www.cchsfs.com. CCH Small Firm Services is part of Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting. About Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services globally for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer has annual revenues (2007) of €3.4 billion, maintains operations in over 33 countries across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific and employs approximately 19,500 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Visit www.wolterskluwer.com for information about our market positions, customers, brands, and organization. Forward-looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by words such as “expect,” “should,” “could,” “shall,” and similar expressions. Wolters Kluwer cautions that such forward-looking statements are qualified by certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from what is contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Factors which could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements may include, without limitation, general economic conditions; conditions in the markets in which Wolters Kluwer is engaged; behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors; technological developments; the implementation and execution of new ICT systems or outsourcing; and legal, tax, and regulatory rules affecting Wolters Kluwer’s businesses, as well as risks related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestments. In addition, financial risks such as currency movements, interest rate fluctuations, liquidity, and credit risks could influence future results. The foregoing list of factors should not be construed as exhaustive. Wolters Kluwer disclaims any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. http://www.wolterskluwer.com/WK/Press/Corp.../pr_24Oct08.htm

Honestly, I can't understand how people can get excited enough over the two major candidates in this election to buy bumper stickers and put signs on their lawn. I still haven't decided who I'm voting for. In the past, I've voted Libertarian, but am leaning more toward the Constitution Party candidate this time around. I'm one of those crazy people who is all about personal AND economic freedom, which apparently has become quite rare--we're expected to choose between the two. I wont go into any detail about my political views right now though.. those discussions always seem to get noisy, and I don't want to derail Monkeyman's thread. (feel free to start a new one, though)

I hear VMS recently got a fairly large contract and might be hiring, is that true? My brother may be applying for job there.

I've added the extra question to the registration form. Do you think that the wording above is clear enough?

I just thought of an additional method to keep out automated spam bots, and possibly even human spammers from other countries. I could add a question to the forum's registration form, such as "What four digit number is associated with the federal individual income tax form?" People registering for this forum wouldn't have any trouble getting the answer right, but automated bots wouldn't know what to put there.

A group of people in Russia have released a new version of their software which allows spammers to bypass spam protections in all kinds of websites.. even Google and Microsoft's spam protections have been cracked. This allows an automated process to go and register for forums and blogs and email accounts to spread enormous amounts of garbage very quickly. I've banned 9 IP address ranges and a few e-mail domains which has blocked many, but not all of them. The company who makes the forum software has released an update tonight that will hopefully fix the mess, which I will install tomorrow. Not sure if it'll do the trick or not, we'll just have to wait and see.

I'm sorry about all of the trouble we're having with spam at the moment, and wanted to let you all know that it's not limited to us. Many other forums and blogs are having the same trouble right now. I'm going to shut the forum down for a couple hours tomorrow to make a few changes. After that, unfortunately, I'll be gone for the weekend without much in the way of internet access. I'm thinking about suspending new forum registrations during that time to keep the filth out... what do you folks think?

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