Marc Gregoire’s Blog

As some people already noticed our nuonsoft.net domain is down for around 2 weeks now. This .net domain is hosted by www.M6.net. 2 weeks ago, the harddisk in that server died and it is taking the webhosting company ages to replace a harddrive! I’ve send numerous emails and high-priority tickets without success. The latest reply I got was 4 days ago where they said they would contact one of the admins to be able to tell me a timeframe for the replacement. A timeframe for a harddrive replacement?? Why does it take more than 2 weeks to change a harddrive and why does it take more than 4 days just to give me a timeframe?!? After 4 days, I haven’t received any further replies, no timeframe, nothing… Also, this harddrive issue is not the first problem we had with the hosting. A while ago, they suddenly decided to change the drive letter (it’s Windows hosting) for the data drive meaning some of our scripts got broken. Of course, they didn’t bothered to tell customers that the drive letters would be changed or didn’t even send an email after they changed it. We just had to find out the hard way, by noticing that our scripts where failing…

This is simply unacceptable! Of course it’s pretty redundant to say that we will be moving our nuonsoft.net domain to another webhosting company.

On a side note, our nuonsoft.com domain is hosted by www.unitedhosting.co.uk and I’m very pleased with the level of support they provide. All tickets are handled promptly, often within minutes. That is what a webhosting company should be like.

The following new features have been implemented in Wallpaper Cycler:

• A non-administrator can now install Wallpaper Cycler. 
• Added support for MakerNotes in EXIF for Canon, Olympus and Pentax.
• Finished the help file with description of all new features.

 I also made the following bug fixes for Wallpaper Cycler:

• When deleting a wallpaper from a category WPC now selects the next wallpaper instead of jumping to the top of the list each time a wallpaper is deleted.
• Fixed an issue with URL wallpapers when your cycling time is just 1 or 2 seconds.

I also reviewed the complete tags-code, checked that the Lite version is working, changed some DLL registration to allow for non-administrator installations, moved the screensaver from the Windows system directory to the local Wallpaper Cycler directory to allow non-administrator installations and started to prepare the Beta. Closed Beta testing will start this weekend or early next week.