Monthly Archives: February 2013

TrackThePack Shutting Down

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Unfortunate news 🙁 … last night I received the following communication below, stating that the famous packaging tracking system will be shutting down.  I’ve been a fan of TrackThePack since it came out, and I think it definitely helped me tracking all the packages into one place.

Hi there,

I’m bummed to be writing this email, but here we are.

As of March 31, 2013, TrackThePack (Personal, Pro and Commercial versions) will be shut down.

That means no more packages will be trackable and our servers will be unreachable on that date. 🙁

Nearly 7 years ago, what started as me scratching my own itch for a toy business I was running, has turned in to an incredibly useful tool that’s touched the internet lives of ten’s of thousands of users and millions of packages. Unfortunately, the economics of it all just don’t add up for us from a business perspective

Alternatives for tracking all of your packages in one place:
Slice (what I’ve switched to)
Fara

I appreciate all of you giving TrackThePack a go over the years and taking the time to use and provide feedback.

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to reply to this email and ask. I’m still here to help.

Josh Pigford
@Shpigford

Try the other versions and I hope that you get the same if not a better experience.

Microsoft Outlook.com to Replace Hotmail, Microsoft Throws $30 Million into Outlook.com Marketing, Including Attack on Google Gmail Advertising

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Things are changing!!!  How many of you like changes? Probably not that many, right?  Microsoft has decided to actually migrate their Hotmail infrastructure to Outlook Web.  Not to confuse the Outlook native application.

Microsoft Outlook.com to Replace Hotmail, Microsoft Throws $30 Million into Outlook.com Marketing, Including Attack on Google Gmail Advertising – ABC News.

How to access XAMPP from external address – HTTP and MySQL

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Assuming that your internal firewall is open (this is not the right thing to do BTW). you can open a connection from any IP address to your XAMPP server.  This small tutorial will take you through the changes that you will need to do in order to be able to access XAMPP host and MySQL remotely.

for Apache go to the following line “c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf” and do a search for “<LocationMatch”.  Once you find it, make a change to the “Deny from all” to have a # in front of it.  See code below.

 <LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
 Order deny,allow
#Deny from all
 Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8
 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var

Now the next thing is to fix MySQL
Once you find the “my.cnf/my.ini” file, open it up and find the line that has “[mysqld]”.  Under that set of line add skip-name-resolve.  This should fix the issue.  Note that once you enable this, you might have some issues if you are trying to login on MyPHPAdmin.  See code for example.

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port= 3306
socket= "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"
basedir="C:/xampp/mysql" 
tmpdir="C:/xampp/tmp" 
datadir="C:/xampp/mysql/data"
pid_file="mysql.pid"
skip-external-locking
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 64
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
log_error="mysql_error.log"
skip-name-resolve

Sources:
Apache Friends Support Forum • View topic – How to access XAMPP from external adress
XAMPP MySQL Server Remote Access
MySQL: Can’t get hostname for your address