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Further to my earlier entry
Sage-Virus-attack-Defeated I have now made several further
changes to my website. Most things may appear cosmetic but in
fact it took many hours of research, trial and error to get
things working. the latest version of PHP is version 7.x but most
things were written and created in the era of version 5.x. Due to
this the creators of software such as PHPBB3, Coppermine and so
on have been upgrading their software accordingly. However not
all of the software has been or can be upgraded for one reason or
another. I have now managed to work round this problem by creating TWO web sites on the same computer, the main website runs PHP7, anything that doesn't work or does not work correctly is maintained on the second website running PHP5.4 It was quite a feat setting this up and for anyone interested, while it was still fresh in my mind I have written a guide here. |
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On our way back from London we called into the
Coventry Transport Museum. I have been to plenty of similar
museums in the past but I consider this one to be the best so
far. There are several floors of exhibitions ranging from pedal
cycles - penny farthing, cycles with multiple seats - right
through to self driving electric cars. From Double decker buses
to vehicles that have broken land speed records. Entry is free but there is provision for voluntary donations. In addition there is a very nice cafe. |
Sunday, September 24. 2017
Coventry Transport Museum
Sunday, September 10. 2017
London Palaces and Castles
| During August Carol, John, Gail and
Steve had a lovely 5 day mini break in London. Please click a Photo to see the full album |
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| Buckingham Palace | Hampton Court Palace | Kensington Palace | London By Night |
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| River Thames | St Giles Hotel | Tower of London | Windsor Castle |
Saturday, August 26. 2017
BBQ's and Family get togethers
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24 June | BBQ at Pauls New House |
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2 July |
Family get together at Meriden for Twins 5th Birthday Please click on the picture to see the rest of the album |
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31 July | Daniel And Faustine came and stopped for 2 nights. This time they brought along Faustines Mom and Dad |
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5 August | BBQ At Christines to celerate Liam going to work in Denmark with "Lego" |
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15 August |
Paul and Zena's Driveway makes the news.
Featured in several newspapers both local and national, also
on BBC Midlands Today Please click on the picture to see the video. |
Tuesday, August 22. 2017
Sage Virus attack Defeated
| Early in June 2017 our computer systems were
attacked by the
"Sage Ransomware Virus" - this virus is almost identical to the
widely publicised
"Wannacry Virus" that hit the NHS and a month later the
"Petya Virus" that hit Mondelez (Cadbury's) and a large number
of Government Departments across Eastern Europe. So severe were these
attacks that a South Korean Web Hosting Company actually
paid a $1 million ransom. Fortunately I was able to restore my affected computers despite the virus making 3 seperate attempts to attack my network at roughly two week intervals. Following this I have been updating the software used to run this website. This is an ongoing process because it seems that not all of the latest versions of an item are happy with the latest versions of other items. One such example is when using PHP 7.x the right hand column of the front page of my site no longer displays unless I disable the coppermine plug-in. These conflicts have been reported to the appropriate Forums. (Coppermine) - (Serendipity) |
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Friday, June 16. 2017
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Saturday, May 13. 2017
April 2017
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Wednesday, March 15. 2017
February - March 2017
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| Alisons Birthday:
On 4 March there was a large family gathering at Moor Hall Hotel, Sutton
Coldfield to celebrate Alisons 50th Birthday Party. |
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| Booths Farm: "Twice Tried, Twice Hanged, Twice Buried" - the remnants of Booths Farm, Great Barr | |||||||||||||||
| Fore Meadows: I shall update this album every now and again to see how the building site develops. | |||||||||||||||
| Pauls House: Paul and Zena have now moved into their new property | |||||||||||||||
| Queslett Nature Reserve: My album of the area behind Asda, Queslett | |||||||||||||||
Friday, January 06. 2017
Déjà vu
| Déjà vu, from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past. Déjà vu is a feeling of familiarity, and déjà vécu (the feeling of having "already lived through" something) is a feeling of recollection. | |
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During
May 2016
Carol, John, Gail and Steve spent a week on the Isle Of Wight stopping at
the
Langham Court Hotel
Shanklin. Gail and Steve had room 202, Carol and John had room 203. Both
couples had booked the holiday with
Travelstyle.
Both couples plus Pete and Karen decided to book a mystery tour
with
Harry Shaw Holidays
to see in the new year 2017. Not only did we all end up in the
Langham Court Hotel
but Gail and Steve were allocated room 202, Carol and John room 203!
We found this to be a great Hotel who went that extra mile and did lots of extras to make this a fantastic stay. The Manageress hosted a couple of quizzes. Pass the parcel, Provided a buffet To let in the New year. On new years day during the afternoon everyone was treated to a bowl of soup and several sandwiches, later tea/coffee and cakes. Everyone at the hotel was given a new years day card, every guest even had a surprise gift at the dinner table. Everyone had a great time. Live Entertainment was provided every night. |
| 02 | Amongst our Christmas presents this year (2016) Christopher bought us a "Raspberry Pi 3" pre-loaded with about 20,000 games. This little box connects to our 49" Television set, you then add a couple of game controllers wired or wireless and any of the popular controllers such as nintendo, snes, sega and so on. Then you play all of those favourite computer games from the past such as Space invaders, frogger, bomberman, donkey kong, super mario brothers, lemmings - you name it and it is more likely to be there than not! All of the games are identical in every way to the originals. |
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Meals a plenty! Every Thursday during December our group of 6 booked festive meals at various local pubs before going to the Thursday night quiz. Christmas dinner and also our Boxing day meal this year took place at "Farmer Johns." |
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In other news, Daniel and Faustine came over
from France for the Christmas period between 24-31 December 2016. Paul and Zena's house is nearing completion and so hope to be moving in soon. Georgia has finally taken her first steps. |
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