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Jim Alfredson

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  1. 2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

    I think that frequency has to reflect the frequency that @Jim Alfredson has to pay. If it is monthly then we need to donate roughly monthly.

    I need to call the server company and see if I can pay for the entire year rather than monthly. 

    As of now, we've raised $1300 + Dan's $130 that paid to get the lights turned back on, so $1430 in total. That's awesome! You guys are great. If I can get it just paid for the entire year, then we don't need to worry about it again until next February.

    I'll look into some subscription models. I think this software supports it.

  2. 1 minute ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

    I'm a member of a football forum and they offer an annual subscription for people who don't want ads while they surf the forums. I think it's $20/year and they offer an option to automatically charge you credit card for you. I & many others choose this and that forum has never had to have any fundraisers. Just a thought...

    That's a great idea. I'll see if this forum software supports that.

  3. Friends,

    I apologize for the extended downtime. To be blunt, the server went down because I didn't pay the bill. This time of year is the absolute worst for me financially and frankly I just didn't have the money to pay it. I should've come here sooner and reminded everyone about donations, because it's been months since I've received one. But I've been working 12-16 hours a day on repair projects, trying to make some money.

    Member Dan Gould paid for this month and to him I'm very thankful.

    Anyway, I'm not complaining, just letting everyone know the reality. As is the case everywhere, the price to run this place has gone up slightly. My server fees are $138 per month and the license to use the forum software doubled from $99 a year to $199 a year. I haven't paid that yet. So in total it's $1855 a year to keep the lights on.

    I wish I could get the Donations tab working again. I'll look into that some more. That was nice when it was working. Anyway, my PayPal is b3groover@hotmail.com

    Thanks!

  4. 3 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

    BTW do we have that RAM upgrade now installed or will it be done in the near future?

     

     

    No, we do not. And I haven't been getting any emails about slow downs. So maybe the server just needed a reboot. Not sure. I'll keep an eye on it.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Are you still receiving them? I've been holding off this year pending confirmation but will donate if it is still working.

    How much is needed for this year?

    I was receiving them through the DONATIONS window. But I just removed it because it bothers me. My PayPal is b3groover at hotmail dot com. You can send money there or PM me if you want to send Venmo, Cash App, or a physical check.

  6. The DONATIONS plug-in was purchased via the Invision Community Forums marketplace. The person who developed it, who has a long history with the community (our old donations code was made by him) has evidently disappeared off the face of the planet. He has not responded to any emails, any support requests, nor has he logged on to the actual Invision Forum (the forum hosted by the company that makes this forum software) for several months.

    I have no idea what happened to him, but as of yet nobody else offers a plug-in for donations. I might have to hire a code expert to make a custom one for us.

  7. Hi friends,

    I was getting inundated with emails from my server about slow downs and processes taking too long. I asked the server company what was going on and it took them awhile to give me a solution. That should've been my warning sign there; I had emails from no less than five different people over the course of a couple days, all with differing opinions. Finally they claimed I needed to upgrade the server from 4GB of RAM to 8GB. They said the database for this forum had grown so large as to need the extra RAM. I asked how long that would take and they said a few hours and we scheduled Wednesday at 3:30am to do it.

    Well, something went wrong and the process failed. I'm not sure how installing physical RAM fails... or maybe it isn't physical anymore... maybe it's virtual. I have no idea. Anyway, I kept waiting for them to say the process was done and then tonight I get an email that it had failed yet again. Then I get an email from a completely different person (this was probably the 12th person involved in my support email chain) who said she had no record of me even ordering a RAM upgrade. LOL! 

    This is the email I got: 

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    I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to bring to your attention that we again received a notification indicating that the VPS resize for the server host2.organissimo.org has failed. 

    After reviewing your recent tickets, I couldn't locate any related ticket concerning the VPS resize. Therefore, I kindly request you to confirm whether this VPS resize is associated with an existing ticket.

     



    Are you fucking kidding me?

    So I wrote back the following: 

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    At this point I just want my server back online. It's been offline for almost two days, which means no emails, none of my websites that I use for business are available, etc. Frankly, it's worrisome that you can't even find a ticket requesting the resize. Then again, I've had probably a dozen different people respond to my initial ticket, which was concerning error emails I was getting from my server every 5 minutes. 

    Can we get the server back online please?

     



    I think I may need to move hosting companies. I've been with Liquid Web for a long time. They used to be great. That was when they were owned by the son of a good friend of mine. Local company, local people. Well, the son sold the company a few years ago and the support has really gone downhill in that time. 

    Anyway, I apologize for the downtime and I need to figure out the next best course of action.

  8. On 2/11/2023 at 7:00 AM, Dan Gould said:

    I find it ironic that after Jim finally upgrades to improve "security" this has started when it never happened before, not at this level. Hope whatever is undertaken works.

    It was happening before. I just shut off all new registrations. The only way to become a member was for me to manually add the person. It was this way for years; probably at least 6 or more.

  9. Interesting thread. It is 100% Larry Young. That's obvious from his solo on Samba de Orpheus and his chord voicings on High Heeled Sneakers. I think the confusion is augmented by the gnarly tone of the organ itself because we associate Larry with that clean, precise tone of the Blue Note records. Also, he's playing a LOT of pedals on Iron City, which he doesn't do on the BN stuff. But my guess is that the organ and the material coaxed him to play it a certain way, maybe a tad more traditional than he usually did. Remember, he did two albums on Prestige that are straight up old-school JOS style Hammond before he started doing his own thing. Those two Prestige albums don't 'sound' like Young at all.

  10. Run it through two Leslies?

    You need a DI box. TrekII makes one. https://trekii.com/products/all/line-output-box.html

    Use that to get a solid line level 1/4" output and then you can put the organ through an amp or better yet put it through a Ventilator (Leslie simulator) and THEN through an amp or big PA speaker.

    That's what I used to do on the road, but not for volume. I did it because we didn't have our own sound guy and most of them had no idea how to mic, let alone mix a Leslie. The Ventilator gave them a mono or stereo output that they could just plug into their board and didn't have to think about. Mixing for dummies.

  11. The developer of the plug-in seems to have disappeared, which is strange because this plug-in has existed for over a decade. It's the same plug-in I was using on the old forum, just updated for the new software. I will try to find another way to make it work. 

  12. 2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    I think you have to add forum at the end. I left that part off.

    I did have the main organissimo page automatically redirecting to the forum. But it isn't doing that now because the entire site is being redone.

    49 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    So the http vs https thing is not at all relevant then, correct? 

    Correct.

  13. 2 hours ago, sgcim said:

    Which is better than the previous message, but is this website going to be totally secure come Dec.1st, or will it be the same as it is now (which seems to be okay, except for insecure passive content such as images)?

    I don’t know if there is a way to secure images. I will ask.

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