Mike1 vs. the Software Update: Who will win?

[Panache]

Folks it's a pitched battle of Man vs. Machine!

Our own Mike1 is locked in a desparate Life or Death struggle with an evil piece of Software with the future of our X Marks the Scot forum at stake!

It's like Rob Roy vs. HAL from 2001

It's like William Wallace vs. the M-5 Computer from Star Trek

It's like Connor Mcleod vs. Colossus from the Forbin Project

It's like Groundskeeper Willie vs. a Commodore 64!

Who will win?

[Freelander Sporrano]

The force is strong in this one :rolleyes:

[Alan H]

I've never found an .exe file yet that isn't cowed by a big claymore...*grin*

[Randy]

I have to say it looked bad last time I tried to log in, but I am typing this now. My coin woiuld be on Mike.

[TimC]

Remember, the software is windows based - ie; drag and drop. If it gives you trouble, drag ithe computer over to the edge of the desk and drop it to the floor!! My $ is on Mike.

-Tim

[Blu (Ontario)]

Mike may get very frustrated.... but he will spit fire, raise his sword high, throw his head back and beckon the gods with a mighty voice.....


The software, trembling at his presence, will submit.

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[MacWage]

I'll post here, as I can't access the appropriate area.

the Forum button is broken, I can't get to it (the "normal" forum). Only the new post button link allows me to get to the posts.

Mike, we have confidence that you can overcome!

[mkmound]

Remember, the software is windows based - ie; drag and drop. If it gives you trouble, drag ithe computer over to the edge of the desk and drop it to the floor!! My $ is on Mike.

-Tim

Love it!!

[Mike1]

LOL, I just saw this. I've been working in the Admin Control Panel and decided to take a break to see what you misfits have been up to.

All of the problem was with the files for the CMPS, or portal page. Those of you that have the forum home page bookmarked should have been experiencing only minor difficulties, as I was frantically moving files and changing file names, trying to make the portal light up.

Just to show you how completely stupid I was, I spent over 5 hours FTP'ing files to the Web site, changing permissions on those files, running installers over those files, removing those files to try again and again and again...

When it finally became obvious that nothing was working, I decided to start examining every file until I found what was wrong. I had narrowed my issues down to just 22 .php files, so I started looking.

For those that are not familiar with the process of upgrading files on the Web, you just upload a new file, right over the top of an old file, a process that is simply called over-writing.

Somehow (and I still cannot understand why), 10 of those 22 files failed to over-write the old files. Multiple times, no less. And the CMPS software has gone through enough upgrading that it simply could not read the old file versions. It would tell me a file wasn't there, so I would look and clearly see it.

After all that time, I suddenly noticed that although the 10 files were in place, the date stamp on them was for May 2005. So, I deleted all ten files and then FTP'ed the new ones into place and it was amazing to see how well everything worked. It was a simple matter of taking the numpty out of the equation.

And now, you know the rest of the story.

[Scott Gilmore]

Well done Mikey. I understand the pain. These kinds of upgrades are what I do for a living. That's where all my hair went. If it were up to me, you guys would get gold kilt pins.

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