Some of you may have noticed that Ive been absent for the past week or so.
Ok I went for a visit somewhere and on my return found myself with a dead "main PC". The machine is a bit of a workhorse and has run faithfully for many years, but it also "acts as a server" and has all my work stuff on. I knew it was getting old and although I had another PC that was due to take over, I'd never found the time to set the new system up quite how I wanted it as I'd too easily get distracted by working on the site.
Everything was and is backed up, but it was also my aim to build a more robust backup system in line with the different demands I place on the system these days.
I dunno if it was the hot weather or what - but in the end I now have 2 dead PCs - you know the saying everything goes at once when its old... and you mess with something then sods law something else goes wrong
Therefore I put myself in self-exile to concentrate on getting everything set up totally differently and re-organise the network. Some of the delay was time, some of it was financial (pay day this week and its beans on toast for the rest of the month
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So apologies for my absence - but it was something that had to be done so I wouldnt allow myself to be distracted... and I also wanted to make sure that the new system was ghosted when totally clean and before it went into action.
I have a backlog of emails/PMs to look at which I will get around to hopefully soon, so please bear with me on those if youre one of them.
... and finally a big thank you to the mods and regs who have done a fine job keeping everything ticking over during this period.
Thanks