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Sunday December 14, 2003

What's up with Inbox Buddy?

Inbox Buddy Logo I think Inbox Buddy is great software. I'm even quoted as saying this on their products page. They have a good licensing system too - at least as far as piracy is concerned. You are required to get the product number from a menu in Outlook, send it to them, and they'll respond with a serial number. The problem is that you can't close Outlook or the product number will reset itself and the serial number will be invalid. I purchased Inbox Buddy about a year ago and it's been an awesome spam fighter. I've re-installed Windows a number of times, and every time I do - I have to get a new serial number. This has been pretty easy in the past. I've just hit up Scott on IM and he's responded with the serial number in mere seconds.

Here lies the problem with their support system. I've tried to contact them numerous times in the last week with no success. So I'm left with a flood of spam and my trusty friend is disabled. Maybe Scott is onto bigger and better things, but he should still support the software I paid for - or at least give me a permanent serial number. Maybe he'll listen to the blogosphere since e-mail/IM doesn't seem to work.

Posted in General at Dec 14 2003, 06:55:26 AM MST 4 Comments

This Site's Stability

I don't know if you've noticed, but this site has been incredibly stable the last few days. It had been crashing daily for most of last week. I even considered a new hosting provider to get rid of my OutOfMemory errors. Frequent crashing began shortly after I upgraded to 0.9.9. Driving home on Wednesday night, I had a hunch - my old theme showed that I had 24,000 referrers since I upgraded on November 26th. Referrers weren't rolling over (clearing the list) every night like they were supposed to be - and there is a bug where clearing the referrers through the editor UI doesn't work either.

So, lazy me just let them keep stacking up. When my cache was refreshed every few hours, it must've been putting a pretty big strain on the system to fetch all those referrers. Finally, I deleted the referrers manually ("delete from referrer") and the site hasn't crashed since. Of course, I keep logging in and clearing them out daily, but this does seem to have solved the problem. It's funny how satisfying a stable site can be when you're used to one that crashes 2-3 times per day.

Posted in Roller at Dec 14 2003, 05:58:01 AM MST 4 Comments