In the continuing saga of the database crashing, I’ve made some tweaks to the query after Matt noticed it was locking trying to remove a temporary table. The temporary tables were created as a result of the speedups we put in place for the old server, which aren’t really necessary on this new server. So…
Yes, skint = broke = no money 🙂 Steve.
GIF’s are not likely to ever be supported on the album, as the software we use will not deal with GIF’s at all. There’s some interesting political reasons for this, but that basis of it all was that originally Compuserve came up with the GIF image format and spread it all over the place. Unisys,…
In response to a feature request that CastleMistress left for us in the Tickets database I just thought I’d expand a bit on why you can only put JPG files into the Atomic Album system. There are two reasons, the first is good old money. In order to mess with GIF files we are supposed…
This should probably be a press release. But noone reads our press releases anyway 🙂 AtomIC Systems Expands AtomIC Systems IP Ltd today announced it was taking on some extra help, in the form of Mr Les Gray. Les will be joining AtomIC Systems as a 33% shareholder and Director. Which basically means he’ll be…
Those using the Atomic Systems Jabber server may well have noticed the ‘You have been disconnected from AOL’ messages that you’re receiving. Sadly, it doesn’t matter what client you use as it is the server that actually does the connection to AOL. We’re awaiting a fix to the Jabber server to resolve the problem (it’s…
I’ve been working merrily (or not so, sometimes!) on the AtomIC Systems Jabber client. A number of people have commented on how unreliable, and how unfriendly the Jabber Instant Messenger (JIM) from jabber.com is and we’ve been working on our own version. However, I have to say, if you find JIM unfriendly this product is…
This entry is to answer the two questions posed in the last entry. Sunshinefiasco asked about the legality of using graphics in their diary. If you are going to use a graphic that is already on our system and comes up in the drop down boxes for areas such as background image etc, then those…
You can switch off secure comments by logging in to your diary, clicking Customize, choosing the General Diary Options, Basic Settings and clearing the checkbox. You can click here for a shortcut 🙂 Steve.