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Sorry about the down time tonight. As you know I am at sea at the moment and was away from a computer tonight as I was at a show on the ship.
I am still investigating the issue which caused the problem, but at the moment it appears to be an old modification which let this bot turn off the board with the warning message (which is what you saw.)
Three admins are now scouring the server to prevent this from happening again. For security purposes I don't want to say anything else, but it appears the server, database are secure.
Sorry for the downtime and thanks again for your understanding.
I am still investigating the issue which caused the problem, but at the moment it appears to be an old modification which let this bot turn off the board with the warning message (which is what you saw.)
Three admins are now scouring the server to prevent this from happening again. For security purposes I don't want to say anything else, but it appears the server, database are secure.
Sorry for the downtime and thanks again for your understanding.
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Yup this week was a perfect storm. But it could have been MUCH worse, and today we are A LOT more secure then we were a few days ago.
No passwords were compromised, but as I tell people if you want to change your password then you should change your password.
To be honest (insert embarrassed graphic here) a lot of the issues we had after Wednesday Nights events were MY FAULT. In trying to figure out how to get us back online I disabled a lot of things in the admin panel... I was so frantic I didn't remember everything I turned off. Then another stupid thing I did was I turned off the navigation manager in the admin control panel which messed up the navigation bar at the top of the page. When people were telling me that it was broken I did a restore of a style file to try getting it back... unfortunately that style I uploaded was the wrong one and wiped out some of the settings like Whats New... I do have a backup of the styles at my office, but like a dummy I shut my computer down for the week so I cant remote access it and get the backed up file. And after all of that it wasn't the style what was the problem.. the problem was I turned OFF the navigation manager so I actually overwrote the working settings. (whoops)
The other part of this perfect storm was the updated SatelliteGuys app came out. While I was expecting the update to come out, I was not expecting them to change the URL for the program to be changed from SatelliteGuys.US to SatelliteGuys.COM. That was something we talked with them about doing and they were SUPPOSED to coridinate with us on a cutover date to the .com address. That didn't happen they just cut over and .COM was not ready to go... thats why everyone was getting the error. I had to setup .COM from the ship which was a slow painful process.
The final issue the internet itself... on the ship the internet worked, and sometime when it was snappy and other times it was slow... it was always the slowest the most when I was REALLY needing it to be fast. But luckily (THANK YOU GOD) this was the FIRST WEEK that the ship has ever offered UNLIMITED INTERNET on board. Without it it would have cost me over $1,000 in internet fees.
I am flying home today, I am actually sitting in the airport now waiting to get on the plane back to Hartford. Once I get back tomorrow I will dive in and fix the rest of the things I broke when I was trying to get us back online.
I would like to ask all members to do the British thing and "Keep Calm and Carry On" and no longer discuss the events from Wednesday. There is no reason to scare other members as everything has been patched and fixed and I am confident no user data has been compromised. While no site will ever be 100% hacker proof I have made a number of changes to give us the best security we have ever had. In addition I have taken other appropriate action which I can not publicly discuss. From here on out I will no longer be talking about what happened, its time to carry on and continue working to make SatelliteGuys better for you!
This was a perfect storm for us, and we learned a lot. Again I am sorry for all the issues, as many of them were my fault in trying to get things back online for you! We had a great week on our cruise and some very exciting things are coming to SatelliteGuys.US!
Stay Tuned!
No passwords were compromised, but as I tell people if you want to change your password then you should change your password.
To be honest (insert embarrassed graphic here) a lot of the issues we had after Wednesday Nights events were MY FAULT. In trying to figure out how to get us back online I disabled a lot of things in the admin panel... I was so frantic I didn't remember everything I turned off. Then another stupid thing I did was I turned off the navigation manager in the admin control panel which messed up the navigation bar at the top of the page. When people were telling me that it was broken I did a restore of a style file to try getting it back... unfortunately that style I uploaded was the wrong one and wiped out some of the settings like Whats New... I do have a backup of the styles at my office, but like a dummy I shut my computer down for the week so I cant remote access it and get the backed up file. And after all of that it wasn't the style what was the problem.. the problem was I turned OFF the navigation manager so I actually overwrote the working settings. (whoops)
The other part of this perfect storm was the updated SatelliteGuys app came out. While I was expecting the update to come out, I was not expecting them to change the URL for the program to be changed from SatelliteGuys.US to SatelliteGuys.COM. That was something we talked with them about doing and they were SUPPOSED to coridinate with us on a cutover date to the .com address. That didn't happen they just cut over and .COM was not ready to go... thats why everyone was getting the error. I had to setup .COM from the ship which was a slow painful process.
The final issue the internet itself... on the ship the internet worked, and sometime when it was snappy and other times it was slow... it was always the slowest the most when I was REALLY needing it to be fast. But luckily (THANK YOU GOD) this was the FIRST WEEK that the ship has ever offered UNLIMITED INTERNET on board. Without it it would have cost me over $1,000 in internet fees.
I am flying home today, I am actually sitting in the airport now waiting to get on the plane back to Hartford. Once I get back tomorrow I will dive in and fix the rest of the things I broke when I was trying to get us back online.
I would like to ask all members to do the British thing and "Keep Calm and Carry On" and no longer discuss the events from Wednesday. There is no reason to scare other members as everything has been patched and fixed and I am confident no user data has been compromised. While no site will ever be 100% hacker proof I have made a number of changes to give us the best security we have ever had. In addition I have taken other appropriate action which I can not publicly discuss. From here on out I will no longer be talking about what happened, its time to carry on and continue working to make SatelliteGuys better for you!
This was a perfect storm for us, and we learned a lot. Again I am sorry for all the issues, as many of them were my fault in trying to get things back online for you! We had a great week on our cruise and some very exciting things are coming to SatelliteGuys.US!
Stay Tuned!
Just know it's 35 deg up here and drizzly cold You might not want to get on that plane for Hartford 
Dang 75 degrees here and Sunny. 
I checked in my coat in my baggage. I forgot its not summer in Connecticut.
I checked in my coat in my baggage. I forgot its not summer in Connecticut.
Dang 75 degrees here and Sunny.
I checked in my coat in my baggage. I forgot its not summer in Connecticut.
Enjoy it while it last and welcome back and I am glad you had a great trip
Dang 75 degrees here and Sunny.
I checked in my coat in my baggage. I forgot its not summer in Connecticut.
Might not be so bad. It's sunny and in the 50s here in Milwaukee.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Hello everyone, new guy here. I'm trying to solve problem I'm having with Dish bonus view channels. When I'm watching the bonus view channels then I switch back to regular dish channels, after few minutes the screen flips to black and after 30 seconds flips back to regular channels and continues to flip back and forth until I turn off TV. After I wait 30 minutes and turn back on , I can use regular channels again. So, its after I switch from bonus view channels to regular dish channels the problem starts. Been trying to fix this for a month, but no luck
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
Here what I've done.
i contacted Dish support and they sent me a new Joey3, but no help. Switched to a different HDMI input on TV, no help. Used different HDMI cable , no help. Used different electrical wall plug, no help.
Finally got a Dish tech to check it. He ran all systems check and was OK. Finally he brought in a small TV and plugged in the HDMI out from the Joey to the small TV. He could not get the problem to occur on his small TV, so the new Joey was working OK. So, then the problem must be myTV. He made some phone calls and came back with the answer that there must be a problem with the analog to digital switch in my TV. Has anyone ever heard of a problem like this, or is it time to be looking for a new TV? My tv LG OLED65C8PUA. TV has been trouble free til now. Thanks
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We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so...
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Pork shoulder, refried beans, cheddar and chopped green chile burrito with a pint of pale ale.
Its nice being able to have a pint with lunch during the week or whenever. I've been enjoying the retired life.
Its nice being able to have a pint with lunch during the week or whenever. I've been enjoying the retired life.
Congrats! I love retirement, no wake ups, no e-mails...Pork shoulder, refried beans, cheddar and chopped green chile burrito with a pint of pale ale.
Its nice being able to have a pint with lunch during the week or whenever. I've been enjoying the retired life.
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Leftovers for lunch, bacon wrapped salmon fillet from Saturday and a KFC thigh from Friday, Tea.
I had a very unusual but delicious 1/4lb hotdog with cream cheese, raspberry preserves and chopped Hatch green chile. It is an unlikely combination but it works.
New low power station has been granted by the FCC and the new call leter is K33OB-D on RF ch. 33.
Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.
It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.
This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.
Will run at 15 KW ERP, this one runs from the Westside same location as KWPL-LD a HC2 owned station.
It's going to be aimed at eastern part of Albuquerque, so it's tightly focused beam pattern.
This new station is owned by Digital Network and what kind of programmings is unkown at this time.
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Yeah, there are some diginets like Heartland, Retro, The Family Channel diginetworks that we already have here in this market and we don't need duplicates, but bring the new diginets on like the Rev'n, Karate Acton movies, different kind of music videos on the new station. 
Yeah, there are some diginets like Heartland, Retro, The Family Channel diginetworks that we already have here in this market and we don't need duplicates, but bring the new diginets like Revn, Karate Acton movies, different kind of music videos on the new station.
I watch MovieSphere Gold channel a lot. Many recent movies on that digitnet
Yes that's a good channel MovieSphere, only thing is the missing CC on it. 
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Did anyone have a price increase today on their equipment? I own my VIP211k's, and they have been $5.00. My bill that I received last week shows the "add-ons" as being $5.00. However, I just logged into my Dish account, and my "add-ons" are now $10.00. Did the additional receivers go up by $5.00 recently?
As I mentioned, my last bill shows $5.00 and under the notes, nothing is mentioned about a price increase.
As I mentioned, my last bill shows $5.00 and under the notes, nothing is mentioned about a price increase.
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However, when I make a change (tried to add the Columbian pack for $2 so I could generate my bill) and there is a new line - it says "Access for TV" - whereas previously that line item was not there. I hope they aren't charging $5.00 for the initial TV now...
Possibly. In theory, $9 of the base pack has a rental fee built in. But now is this $5 a chance to get a little more? I don't know for sure. According to chat, it is a glitch and will be resolved in a timely manner, but we shall see. Part of my thinks there is a going to be a new charge, whether it is now or this fall. Here in Illinois, the law requires we are given 30 days notice of any fee changes, but I have not been given anything.
