Web site down!

Kate Dicey wrote: There is no need,

But the phone always rings when you're in the bathroom. Some days, that's the only time it rings.

Yup! And it is the one place I utterly REFUSE to answer the phone! time in there is my private time!

Good luck! Look forward to seeing the site up and running again - it's a source of so much info for novices like me.

In article , Kate Dicey of Customer of PlusNet plc

uttered> Because of the way we have used the house and the phones, there is a >glorious hodge-podge of wires threading hither and yon, to phone points >in every room - and two in some! It's all working now, and we can >relax while we consider what can go off the site, and just how we are >going to rewire the phones so we can have all the points working as >they should... I really think that not only do we need to rationalise >and prune the web site, but we also need to rationalise and prune the >phone wires!

Kate, a wireless router is your friend! (Also, cordless phones, but only if people can be trusted not to leave them in bl00dy stupid places).

The wireless router is the only reason we are up and running now! The trouble was finding a socket that worked to plug it in to that was close to a power outlet... Could not be done! So the router is plugged into the master, the rest of the sockets are bodged to that for now, and we do have cordless phones (two of them at present: we've been cordless for about 15 years on the phone side). These multifarious sockets are from pre-cordless days, when we also wanted to plug the Atari's into the phone so DH could plug into his work network and mainframe servers via a dialback system, and the sockets and wires are A: 20+ years old! and B: largely redundant! Trouble is that they are threaded through the house like grass roots of veins!

In article , Kate Dicey of Customer of PlusNet plc

uttered>The wireless router is the only reason we are up and running now! The >trouble was finding a socket that worked to plug it in to that was >close to a power outlet... Could not be done! So the router is >plugged into the master, the rest of the sockets are bodged to that for >now, a Aha - the broadband thing that splits the phone line. Mine's from NT-hell, so is separate bit of kit (just requires router to be reasonably near modem, which is nowhere near master phone socket). I am, however, glad that we have a cellar here, although we still had to post thin son into floor void in one place. Still beats the rigmarole with

300 miles of ethernet at the old place though.

On 2005-06-19 42b4b143$ snipped-for-privacy@news.bnb-lp.com said: >Newsgroups: alt.sewing >Pogonip wrote: >> Kate Dicey wrote: There is no need, >>> with yer actual modern wireless phones to have a phone point in >>>every room except the bathroom - and that was a close call! >> But the phone always rings when you're in the bathroom. Some >>days, that's the only time it rings. >Yup! And it is the one place I utterly REFUSE to answer the phone! >time in there is my private time! That's why The Gods invented answering machines! [which I don't have because of compatibility problems with my solar power system.]

Tom Willmon Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA

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On 2005-06-19 snipped-for-privacy@my.house said: >

Tom Willmon Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA

Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper.

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I need to pray more. I would love to have one of those buttons on my base unit.

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I turned off the answering machine (those silly people expect you to call back!) and just look at the Caller ID. Sometimes I'll call back....sometimes I won't.....

Solar power makes such good sense out here. I have a 20+-year-old solar water heater, and my back yard and front walk have solar lighting. With sun, wind, water and geothermal sources plus vegetable oils, we could cut loose from fossil fuels. Sooner.....or later.....it's going to happen. Why waste time?

Me too!

Thank you! Trouble is it has got too big and difficult to navigate as well... So roughly what is happening is that I will take down some of the older projects and make a gallery of completed items for things like the Posh Frocks, some of the wedding stuff, the quilts, and the sewing machines. I'll also have to do a rolling program of this on newer projects that go up. I'm trying to keep all the teaching of techniques stuff and the resource lists as they are not so heavy on the pictures.

I'm also trying to make it easier to navigate without adding too many links and graphics as the graphic and photos really take up the web space! There are a couple of HUUUGE new projects to go up, so something has to give unless I pay enormous amounts for it. As it is, to get the package I need to keep it going I have to pay about £100 more per year than I am paying now! :(

Kate, I don't know if this will be useful to you, but I have my hosting done by these guys, I pay $9.95 USD for 2000 mb ( 2 gb) of web space a month.

On 2005-06-19 d94cpv$f77$ snipped-for-privacy@reader2.nmix.net said: >Newsgroups: alt.sewing > snipped-for-privacy@cybermesa.net wrote: >> That's why The Gods invented answering machines! >> [which I don't have because of compatibility problems with my >>solar power system.] >I turned off the answering machine (those silly people expect you to >call back!) and just look at the Caller ID. Sometimes I'll call >back....sometimes I won't..... >Solar power makes such good sense out here. I have a 20+-year-old >solar water heater, and my back yard and front walk have solar >lighting. With sun, wind, water and geothermal sources plus >vegetable oils, we could cut loose from fossil fuels. Sooner..... >or later.....it's going to happen. Why waste time? >-- >Joanne >stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth Yeah, I keep thinking about my next motive power source. This place is 5 miles out of a sort-of-adequate supply town (hardware and car parts, poor groceries), 50 miles from Albuquerque's much better stores. A pair of 20-yr-old Honda Civics at 35 MPG won't cut it when gasoline gets rare. And my '51 MG TD sporty car, 7 dirt motorcycles. Grow grain, get a still, teach them to drink alcohol? Need more than

13" of rain for that! Electric car might do for short haul, could recharge from solar if I add more panels...

Oops, forgot this is sewing, not homepower. Sorry.

Tom Willmon Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA

Why do we park on driveways and drive on Parkways?

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In article , of NMIX Reader uttered

Ummmmm ... bicycle? Treadle to provide the electrickery to charge the asr? Treadle to power the sewing machine? Wahey! Back on topic! Face it, it's that or methane from the chicken-poo.

In article , Kate Dicey of Customer of PlusNet plc

uttered> There are a couple of HUUUGE new projects to go up, so something has >to give unless I pay enormous amounts for it. As it is, to get the >package I need to keep it going I have to pay about £100 more per year >than I am paying now! :(>-- You can halve that at

get 500mb

Judicious resizing of images via photoshop should/ could be possible to get the overall volume down, too. Are you using SSIs to make updating easy on yourself?