Threads hanging of it

Fit: Feels true to size

Length: Feels true to length

Pros: Stylish, Great Colors

Cons: Threads hanging of it, Poor Quality

Describe Yourself: Career

Was this a gift?: No

Like the way it looks, just very unhappy with how the threads we’re lose and coming of more and more.

(legalese)

In my opinion and experience their:

- customer service lacks, no urgency or proper response
- their DNS system is not intuitive at all and hard to understand even for someone working with DNS for many years

Here is my latest message to them, awaiting reply from them on complaints@crazydomains.com.au.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to lodge a formal complaint about the service I received from your company.
First let me tell you that I have been working with the Internet since they created BBS, I’m no dummy and know what is involved with a transfer, how long it takes etc. (just letting them know so we can skip the usual template reply of you needed to follow this, or wait for that)

I transferred our domain executiveresults.com.au from our other registrar in the hope that we would get better service. (Other registrar failed to notify us via email about our domain expiration)

I initiated transfer on the 25th of Dec and confirmed it . Note the following in your email:
You should experience NO disruption to the service of your domain name, website or emails, and you will be notified once the process is complete.
Our website which brings in about $500 to $1000 per day in leads has been down since the 25th of Dec and is still down as we speak.  Please note that I have warned your staff about taking this further and seeking damages, I’ve had no reply or concern shown in regards to this. I’ve asked for a contact in higher management to get this matter escalated, I’ve had no response, it got completely ignored. Note that you have received all these emails as a ticket is assigned to them. Your staff shows total lack of concern or urgency for a serious situation like this.

NOTE: on the 28th I got an email from May asking to call and renew the domain. See below.

Hello Taco,

Thank you for contacting Customer Support.

Please give us a call to renew it asap.

Telephone number : (08) 9422 0855
(08) 9422 0888
1300 210 210

Regards,
May

I called ASAP as I’m sure your records will show and spoke to some Indian guy who said he could not renew it, I said that I was just asked to call and renew it, nothing I said helped. Asking to speak to someone else did not help either, he put me on hold for a while and then he came back on himself several times. Many more emails got exchanged in between then and now, but the most important thing is that TODAY when I called and spoke to someone else, they asked me for my credit card and renewed the domain. WHY COULD THIS NOT BE DONE WHEN I CALLED THE FIRST TIME!

First off, the domain should have never been down as stated in your auto reply email, secondly once May sent me an email asking to call and renew, it should have been renewed, thirdly, when I asked to speak to senior management I should have been given a contact, fourthly, your staff shold have answered my other tickets submitted with concerns and possible solutions to this matter (i.e. canceling the transfer, or asking whom I can contact higher up to get a solution).

I would like to know from you.
1. are you going to resolve this matter before we take it any further?
2. if not, please forward the contacts and addresses for us to forward proof of loss of income and further action

See below
https://discussions.apple.com/message/1256738?messageID=1256738
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081214155444AAnQfKm
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/68397/
http://www.ehmac.ca/all-ios-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-apple-tv-itunes/86457-itunes-mutes-itself.html
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12058842?messageID=12058842

My setup is as following
Windows XP 2002 SP3
itunes 10.2.2.12
Free disk space is 20Gb
3.5GB memory
Page file is system managed
Audio drivers are up to date
No iTunes plugins
Audio Hardware acceleration is set to full

This problem is driving me nuts and will require me to go back to Windows Media Player and returning the Airport Express I got.

This is what I found after a lot of playing around, if you see any issues with this or have any feedback please let me know below.

On the wp-content folder I applied the following permissions.

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-content
- IUSR with following permissions

• Traverse folder / execute file
• List folder / read data
• Read attributes
• Read extended attributes
• Create files / write data
• Create folders / append data
• Write attributes
• Write extended attributes
• Delete subfolders and files
• Delete
• Read permissions

I also have the following groups and users on there

• IIS_IUSRS
• Trustedinstaller
• SYSTEM
• Administrators
• Users
• CREATOR OWNER

Here are the steps I followed

• Right click wp-content
• Properties
• Security tab
• Advanced button
• Change permissions button
• Add button
• Advanced button
• Find now button
• Locate IUSR and double click
• OK button
• Check box Allow Full control
• Uncheck the boxes; Full control, Take ownership, Change permissions
• Click OK button
• Check box “Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object”
• Click OK button
• Click Yes when asked if you want to continue
• Click OK button
• Click OK button

I’m not making anything in the root writable, like wp-config etc. I change that manually or as a one off.

The way onRequestEnd works in ColdFusion 9.0.1 has changed, it now executes the onRequestend method in the application.cfc after a redirect… This can seriously mess up some code like it did mine.

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set(‘display_errors’, ’1′);
?>

- Go to the URL in Internet Explorer
- Click the lock
- Click on Copy to file
- Save as DER to a *.cer file
- Run the Keytool C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\lib\security>..\..\bin\keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -alias mycert -file mycert.cer

But the part where I was failing was actually going to the directory where the carcerts file was, I went into the directory where the keytool was and ran the command, this actually creates a whole new cacerts file which I was not aware of….. After re-installing ColdFusion several times and running the import I finally figured it out.

IMPORTANT
Make sure you are in the directory where the cacerts file is located, which is under C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\lib\security or C:\JRun4\jre\lib\security

I hope this helps someone before they go and re-install ColdFusion Let me know..

update [table name]
set [column name] = REPLACE( [column name], CHAR(9), ' ')

Conversation
- Anyone know an alternative to EzyPay?

- Paysmart is a good debit system, local too.

- https://www.selfbankmobile.com/tdi – the future of all payment transfers i’ve my i-fone activ8ed will b released in australia later this year

- i use peoplehub and have found it very easy and the reports are great…

- ezidebit?

- Debitsuccess. Ezydebit are rubbish

- I use paypal , it seems to work well

- I had a bad experience with Paypal and will be moving across. A client’s husband didn’t recognise my charges on his CC statement. Cancelled the payments (from 3-4 months ago) – then rang the bank straight away to reinstate. Too late, once the ball is in motion, Paypal still take the money out of your account and hold it – and then they refunded it back to the client. Lucky my client is not dishonest!

——————-

We’ll be trialing Paysmart Direct Debit System starting this week, and I will report back on their interface plus customer service as soon as possible. Personally, I wanted to go with PayPal, but the problem there is that customers can cancel the DDR when they want, this is not good when they’ve entered a yearly contract, i.e. we offer them a lower weekly rate because they commit for a year.

If anyone else has any other options, or feedback about the above providers, please post them here.

Everyone must think its some virtual event they are saying YES too… To give you an example; http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114830651891975
more than 20 people said they would attend, none did.

OK, I also just discovered that the link for the event is only accessible by me, or maybe when logged in, not sure!?!?

Have a look at the two screen shots below, take note of the URL, pretty much the same in each browser, only difference being is that in one I’m logged in, and the other I’m logged out. Pretty bad usability from facebook, you would expect to be able to copy and paste a URL and send it someone else to share, if they need to be logged in to view that should be the message, not a 404… Facebook sucks…

Facebook event logged in

What I do know is, I’m done wasting my time organising something through facebook unless it’s something people actually don’t have to physically show up for

<object width='425' height='344'> 
    <param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/Wj_JNwNbETA&hl=en&fs=1'> 
    <param name='type' value='application/x-shockwave-flash'> 
    <param name='allowfullscreen' value='true'> 
    <param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always'> 
    <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
    <embed width='425' height='344'
            src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Wj_JNwNbETA&hl=en&fs=1'
            type='application/x-shockwave-flash'
            allowfullscreen='true'
            allowscriptaccess='always'
            wmode="opaque"
    ></embed> 
    </object>
 

www.executiveresults.com.au
www.clickfind.com.au
pacificfox.com
www.thetoughspot.com.au
www.glovesboxing.com.au
www.cavemantraining.com.au

Following is bit of the CFC

<cfcomponent
 displayname="Eway"
 hint="Eway"
 output="false"
 author="Taco Fleur (taco.fleur@clickfind.com.au)"
 version="1">

 <!--- Set instance variables --->
 <!---
 // http://www.eway.com.au/Support/Developer/PaymentsRebill.aspx
 --->
 <cfscript>
 this.constant.LIVE_GATEWAY_URI = "https://www.eway.com.au/gateway/rebill/manageRebill.asmx";
 this.constant.TEST_GATEWAY_URI = "https://www.eway.com.au/gateway/rebill/test/manageRebill_test.asmx";
 this.constant.GATEWAY = "TEST";                 // TEST or LIVE
 this.constant.LIVE_EWAY_CUSTOMER_ID = "";     // required, customer id assigned to you by eWay
 this.constant.TEST_EWAY_CUSTOMER_ID = "";

 variables.instance.userIdentity = 0;
 variables.instance.customerFirstName = "";             // required
 variables.instance.customerLastName = "";             // required
 variables.instance.ewayTotalAmount = 0;             // total amount in cents for the transaction, eg $1.00 = 100, maximum length 12
 // the test Total Amount should end in 00 or 08 to get a successful response (e.g. $10.00 or $10.08) - all other amounts will return a failed response
 variables.instance.ewayCustomerInvoiceRef = 0;         // reference to your own invoice system for the purchase
 variables.instance.rebillCCName = "";                 // required, customer's credit card number
 variables.instance.rebillCCNumber = "";             // required, customer's credit card number
 variables.instance.rebillCCExpMonth = "";             // required, expiry month of customer's credit card
 variables.instance.rebillCCExpYear = "";             // required, expiry year of customer's credit card. Format must be either (yy or yyyy) eg. 06 or 2006.
 variables.instance.rebillInitAmt = 0;                 // required, initial payment amount of the reBILL event. Enter 0 if initial payment is not required.
 variables.instance.rebillInitDate = lsDateFormat( now(), "dd/mm/yyyy" ); // required, date of the initial payment of the reBILL event. Enter today's date if no initial payment is required. Format dd/mm/yyyy.
 variables.instance.rebillRecurAmt = 0;                 // required, recurring payment amount of the reBILL. The value must be greater than 0.
 variables.instance.rebillStartDate = lsDateFormat( now(), "dd/mm/yyyy" ); // required, date of the first recurring payment. Format must of  dd/mm/yyyy
 variables.instance.rebillInterval = 1;                 // required, size of the interval between recurring payments (used in conjunction with RebillIntervalType). The value must be 1 to 31 only.
 variables.instance.rebillIntervalType = "Months";     // required, type of Interval. (1 = Days, 2 = Weeks, 3 = Months, 4 = Years). The value must be only 1 or 2 or 3 or 4. eg. Payments every 3 weeks, enter 3 in the RebillInterval field, and 2 in the RebillIntervalType field.
 variables.instance.rebillEndDate = lsDateFormat( dateAdd( "y", 10, now() ), "dd/mm/yyyy" ); // required, date that recurring payments are to stop. Format must of  dd/mm/yyyy. This date must be after RebillStartDate.
 variables.instance.requestXML = xmlNew();
 variables.instance.responseXML = xmlNew();
 </cfscript>

…………..

You’ll get the component in return for a simple text link, the link needs to stay up for at least a year, once I send the component I’ll trust you’ll do the honorable thing

Several months ago I had to deal with a solicitor from MWLaw (Alan Swanwick) and my experience is the absolute worst I have ever had in regards to promptness, courtesy and business manners. This guy really tops it all in my books.

He is supposed to take care of some legal matter for someone else that employs him; the person that employs him told me that he’d take care of the legal matter while away “Alan my solicitor will be handling the entire project now as time has beaten me. I have given him your details and I will give you his.

Alan Swanwick MW Law…03 9837 2111

He will take care of everything with you.”.

I called Alan as I did not hear from him, I was not aware that Alan was on holiday himself; his answering machine certainly did not tell me so. Or was he really on holiday? Could have been something you say when you are ashamed of the person not getting in touch, they did warn me “Alan is a hard man to get hold of” in other words he’s not much of a communications man.

Weeks of no responses, well… I did get one phone call from him to my wife, unfortunately my wife forgot that we left a message under her name with a business proposal, to see if he would return the call to that, which he did.

At this stage I was pretty frustrated as the matter was and still is of high importance to me (I’m talking sleepless nights, losing money important, which Alan was made aware off), in such a case you simply need a bit of info on where things are at, how long it will take etc., just the usual courtesy call one would expect in a case like this. I took things further with the people who hired him and pay him, again they apologized and assured Mr Alan Swanwick would work on the matter within the next day or so and would be in touch. But nothing again, I waited several weeks.

At this stage we are close to 2 months further down the track, still absolutely not one peep from Mr Alan Swanwick. I went back to the people paying him, they gave me him mobile number, you guessed it, no answer – ever. He was there, as he did reply to an SMS to 0438 608 823, the contents being:

“Sorry about communication problem. I’ll call you tomorrow and sort out what needs to be done, and I will either initiate it before my return or upon my return to the office on Monday.

Alan Swanwick”

Weeks go by, no phonecall, no update or anything.

A few more emails to lans@mwlaw.com.au and alan.swanwick@gmail.com, SMSs and emails were sent by me, but nothing.

So at this stage the only thing I can do is make sure that anyone typing in “Alan Swanwick”, “MW Law” or mwlaw in google will find this experience first and think twice before putting their case in his hands.

Some other pages I found Alan Swanwick related to:

-    The Caveman Foundation (Director of The Caveman Foundation, Legal Department)

-    The Caveman Group

-  The GR8 M8TES

-    The Great Mates

I don’t know the guy personally, never met him or spoken to him, if I would not have had this experience with him I would have said, probably a good guy since he is involved with some good stuff. But unfortunately this experience that deals with something so important to me left such a bad taste in my mouth, I’m so bitter, I could almost say that I have developed a hatred for the guy.  I can’t seem to let go of this, so all I can do is write about it and make sure anyone searching for Mr Allan Swanwick or A Swanwick from MW Law or Caveman Group finds this and thinks twice before doing any business that involves him.

• fitness events
• health and fitness jobs
• discussion of personal training
• free pt ads
• discussion on personal training software

The URL is http://www.personaltraineradvertising.com/forum/

http://www.google.com/support/urchin45/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=28710

This extra information appears in the Google Analytics reports under Traffic Sources.

Following is a ColdFusion CFC to get the values passed in the URM variables.

<cfcomponent
 displayname="UrchinTrafficMonitor"
 hint=""
 output="false"
 author="Taco Fleur (taco.fleur@clickfind.com.au)"
 version="1">

 <!--- Set instance variables --->
 <cfscript>
 variables.instance.referrer = "";
 variables.instance.campaignSource = ""; // referrer: google, citysearch, newsletter4
 variables.instance.campaignMedium = ""; // marketing medium: cpc, banner, email
 variables.instance.campaignTerm = ""; // identify the paid keywords
 variables.instance.campaignContent = ""; // use to differentiate ads
 variables.instance.campaignName = ""; // product, promo code or slogan
 </cfscript>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="init"
 output="false"
 returntype="UrchinTrafficMonitor">

 <cfargument
 name="referrer"
 type="string"
 required="yes">

 <cfscript>
 setReferrer( arguments.referrer );
 doInitialize();
 return this;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="setReferrer"
 output="false"
 returntype="void">

 <cfargument
 name="referrer"
 required="yes"
 type="string">

 <cfscript>
 variables.instance.referrer = arguments.referrer;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="getReferrer"
 output="false"
 returntype="string">

 <cfscript>
 return variables.instance.referrer;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="setCampaignSource"
 output="false"
 returntype="void">

 <cfargument
 name="campaignSource"
 required="yes"
 type="string">

 <cfscript>
 variables.instance.campaignSource = arguments.campaignSource;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="getCampaignSource"
 output="false"
 returntype="string">

 <cfscript>
 return variables.instance.campaignSource;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="setCampaignMedium"
 output="false"
 returntype="void">

 <cfargument
 name="campaignMedium"
 required="yes"
 type="string">

 <cfscript>
 variables.instance.campaignMedium = arguments.campaignMedium;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="getCampaignMedium"
 output="false"
 returntype="string">

 <cfscript>
 return variables.instance.campaignMedium;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="setCampaignTerm"
 output="false"
 returntype="void">

 <cfargument
 name="campaignTerm"
 required="yes"
 type="string">

 <cfscript>
 variables.instance.campaignTerm = arguments.campaignTerm;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="getCampaignTerm"
 output="false"
 returntype="string">

 <cfscript>
 return variables.instance.campaignTerm;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="setCampaignContent"
 output="false"
 returntype="void">

 <cfargument
 name="campaignContent"
 required="yes"
 type="string">

 <cfscript>
 variables.instance.campaignContent = arguments.campaignContent;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="getCampaignContent"
 output="false"
 returntype="string">

 <cfscript>
 return variables.instance.campaignContent;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="setCampaignName"
 output="false"
 returntype="void">

 <cfargument
 name="campaignName"
 required="yes"
 type="string">

 <cfscript>
 variables.instance.campaignName = arguments.campaignName;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="public"
 name="getCampaignName"
 output="false"
 returntype="string">

 <cfscript>
 return variables.instance.campaignName;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

 <cffunction
 access="private"
 name="doInitialize"
 output="false"
 returntype="void">

 <cfscript>
 variables.queryString = listLast( getReferrer(), "?" );
 variables.url = structNew();
 </cfscript>
 <cfloop
 index="item"
 list="#variables.queryString#"
 delimiters="&">
 <cfscript>
 variables.key = listFirst( item, "=" );
 variables.value = listLast( item, "=" );
 if ( not structKeyExists( variables.url, variables.key ) ) {
 structInsert( variables.url, variables.key, urlDecode( variables.value ) );
 }
 else {
 listAppend( variables.url[ variables.key], urlDecode( variables.value ) );
 }
 </cfscript>
 </cfloop>

 <cfscript>
 if ( structKeyExists( variables.url, "utm_source" ) ) {
 setCampaignSource( variables.url[ "utm_source" ] );
 }
 if ( structKeyExists( variables.url, "utm_medium" ) ) {
 setCampaignMedium( variables.url[ "utm_medium" ] );
 }
 if ( structKeyExists( variables.url, "utm_term" ) ) {
 setCampaignTerm( variables.url[ "utm_term" ] );
 }
 if ( structKeyExists( variables.url, "utm_content" ) ) {
 setCampaignContent( variables.url[ "utm_content" ] );
 }
 if ( structKeyExists( variables.url, "utm_campaign" ) ) {
 setCampaignName( variables.url[ "utm_campaign" ] );
 }
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

</cfcomponent>

Code to call the CFC.

<cfscript>
 variables.UrchinTrafficMonitor = createObject( "component", "UrchinTrafficMonitor" ).init( referrer = "http://www.clickfind.com.au/?utm_source=clickfind&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=advertising&utm_content=ad1&utm_campaign=online+promo");
</cfscript>
<cfdump var="#variables.UrchinTrafficMonitor.getCampaignMedium()#">
<cfabort>

Source
Every referral to a web site has an origin, or source. Examples of sources are the Google search engine, the AOL search engine, the name of a newsletter, or the name of a referring web site.

Medium
The medium helps to qualify the source; together, the source and medium provide specific information about the origin of a referral. For example, in the case of a Google search engine source, the medium might be “cost-per-click”, indicating a sponsored link for which the advertiser paid, or “organic”, indicating a link in the unpaid search engine results. In the case of a newsletter source, examples of medium include “email” and “print”.

Term
The term or keyword is the word or phrase that a user types into a search engine.

Content
The content dimension describes the version of an advertisement on which a visitor clicked. It is used in content-targeted advertising and Content (A/B) Testing to determine which version of an advertisement is most effective at attracting profitable leads.

Campaign
The campaign dimension differentiates product promotions such as “Spring Ski Sale” or slogan campaigns such as “Get Fit For Summer”.

 <cffunction
 access="private"
 name="doPercentEncode"
 output="false"
 returntype="string">

 <cfargument
 name="stringToEncode"
 type="string"
 required="yes">

 <cfscript>
 variables.encodedString = arguments.stringToEncode;
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "!", "%21", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "*", "%2A", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "##", "%23", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "$", "%24", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "%", "%25", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "&", "%26", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "'", "%27", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "(", "%28", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, ")", "%29", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "@", "%40", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "/", "%2F", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "^", "%5E", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "~", "%7E", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "{", "%7B", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "}", "%7D", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "[", "%5B", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "]", "%5D", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "=", "%3D", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, ":", "%3A", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, ",", "%2C", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, ";", "%3B", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "?", "%3F", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "+", "%2B", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, "\", "%5C", "all" );
 variables.encodedString = replace( variables.encodedString, '"', "%22", "all" );
 return variables.encodedString;
 </cfscript>

 </cffunction>

Category listing looks like this http://pacificfox.com/listing/computers/programming/languages/

An actual listing looks like this http://pacificfox.com/web-listing.cfm?listingIdentity=521128

It has some great integration with social networks like facebook, twitter and other sources.

There is still lots of work to do on the directory, the data is currently based on several sources including ODP, but we are working towards creating a completely separately maintained data source that can be queried and managed via a Web Service. It costs to lists in the directory, however, the fee is very minimal and is basically there to make sure the listing is still active. People don’t notify a web directory when their business is closed down or the listing isn’t relevant for some other reason, which is why we charge a fee of less than $2 dollars a month simply to make sure the listings is active.

Flickr integration is not far away, and many other features will be added over time, including integration with www.clickfind.com.au. We are also working towards setting up a approval system that is like ODP but improved, as the procedures currently in place are not working, people own categories but do not approve anything, don’t participate but also don’t allow others to. Open to partnerships in this area.

PS. the directory also uses our free social bookmarking links code from http://www.socialbookmarkinglinks.com/, the code is handy on WordPress where you don’t host the blog yourself.

We’ll buy another one to use at home now as well.