A Father, Photographer and Computer Geek living in Chester County (PA).
My Photo Journal of images taken in Chester and Lancaster Counties, including Covered Bridges, Barns, Nature, Fine Art and Events. Images can also be found on VisitPA.com and ExplorePATrails.com.
As Aaron mentions in his blog and guide, this tools will get rid of EVERYTHING, so before you use it, make sure you have installers available to you for the versions that you are deleting!
Does the following sound like something you have had happen to you?
“I select the Office button > Prepare > Properties, I get the message “the document information panel was unable to load”.”
It seems that several folks have been running into this issue with both 2007 MS Excel and Word, and there is not a very good explanation of why it occurs, but a potential simple resolution for me was the following:
Close your MS Excel/Word application;
Copy the “IPEDINTL.DLL” from
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Designer Tools\Office\121033 > to < C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\121033
Recently, August 6th, 2009, I Upgraded this site from DotNetNuke (DNN) 5.0.1 to 5.1.1, and for the most part, it went well, but there was one nagging issue that was driving me NUTS!
After the Upgrade, the Mode Bar was showing up for ALL Users, including Visitors!
The Mode Bar is only suppose to show up for folks with Administrator rights, so they can perform needed tasks, and with the ‘it’ showing, I thought that Visitors might be alarmed that something was wrong (which it was…).
Needless to say, I spent a great deal of time trying to track down and correct this issue, and posted to several different forums looking for help:
What was really weird was that all of my reads seemed to indicate that this was a DNN 4.x issue!
After about two weeks of trying everything that folks had suggested, I finally “Nuked” the whole website (8/19) and started from a Fresh, Clean install of DNN 5.1.
So that bring me to this post.
I am currently rebuilding the whole Site and Forums area from scratch, and have also done a little house-keeping and redesign.
Unfortunately, even though I backed up all the Forum posts, there is no way that I can recreate the original Posting dates and times.
The content has been preserved, but not the timestamps.
Sorry!
So for the next couple of days, I will be re-posting all the Original content (Oh joy, rapture and bliss!), so please bear with us as the information is being replaced.
I hope to have it all done in the next day or two…
In the mean time, all the Forums are up and running, so feel free to post!
The following steps have been written for a remote shared hosting environment, and have been used in a DNN 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 upgrade.
Backup your website files;
Backup your database file;
Download the lasted package;
Most folks use the “Update” package, but others seem to prefer the “Install”
Backup and then Verify/Modify your web.config (Step not need in DNN version 4.6.2 and above)
Database connection strings in <connectionStrings> section
Data Source=(your server name);Initial Catalog=(your db name);user id=(your db user);password=(your db password);” providerName=”System.Data.SqlClient”/>
Database connection strings in <appSettings> section
Data Source=(your server name);Initial Catalog=(your db name);user id=(your db user);password=(your db password);”/>
Backup and Modify <add key=”AutoUpgrade” value=”false” /> in web.config from true to false;
Change this to prevent accidental upgrade from an outside source during your Upgrade file transfer [Reference Link]
Add the a file named “App_Offline.htm” to your root directory;
By adding this file, it will take your site off line. [Reference Link]
Replace/Move the Unzipped files into the active site;
Some Hosting environments allow one to Upload a Zip file and then Unzip to over write the existing files.
Manually replace files/directories.
Unzip the Update/Install package on your Local Hard drive
Use something like FileZilla to view and move files and directories
This can take 45-60 minutes
Allows one to get a better understanding of the internal “plumbing” of DNN
Backup and Modify <add key=”AutoUpgrade” value=”true” /> in web.config from false to true;
Rename or Delete “App_Offline.htm” to your root directory;
One can just add the “.bak” extension and leave the file in place for future use.
Example: “App_Offline.htm.bak”
Browse to
During this process, all new web.config changes are added [Reference Link]
The Upgrade window should appear, and give a progress status line for each item or event that is happen.
This takes approximately 5-10 minutes.
Your done!
Total time: 60-75 minutes
Additional Resources:
DotNetNuke – “Chat About It” Forum – “Upgrade Steps”
These Inverted Icicles, also referred to as Ice Spikes, were amazing!
We have been watching them grow over the past several days, and when we heard the temperatures were going to be too warm for them to survive, I had to grab my camera to record what we saw.
Overview – Inverted Icicles/Ice Spikes 01
As you can see, these Inverted Icicles/Ice Spikes, were grown on the under-side of a 100-gallon horse troth, that we use in the summer, as a deck pond.
The troth had been up-side down for well over a month, and ‘Mother Nature’ dropping leaves, water and what ever else into the various sections of the horse troth under-side.
During the past couple of days, the highs were in the twenties, and the area was struck with direct sun for 4-5 hours.
At night, the temperatures would easily drop into teens.
There is no roof or over-hang, and the tree branches are too far way to be this consistent.
Overview – Inverted Icicles/Ice Spikes 02
From the Overview images, the tall ones are easily over 2 inches “tall”, but there is obvious variations in shape:
Inverted Icicle (Ghost)Inverted Icicle (Cobra)
I can understand, to a degree, the vertical oriented icicle/spikes, but these?
Inverted Icicles (DoF) Y?Inverted Icicle (Hook or a Check Mark)
I am very baffled in how the angled icicles/spikes are able to grow, and in such perfect form, especially, when one would suspect that they would droop over…
And what about the secondary “buds”?
Updates/Thoughts
Since I originally captured these images, I have been searching for an explanation to this phenomenon.
Distilled Water (Man-Made)
From my cited references below, icicles/spikes are generally “grown” in controlled conditions, using “Distilled Water”; a flash freeze process; in ice-cube trays, and seems to be easily repeatable.
Nature-Made
On the other hand, and less well reported, are the Natural icicles/spikes that do occur, in bird baths or other small bowl-shaped objects. Some examples can be found on “Got Spikes on Your Ice Cubes?”.
When looking at the captures on this page, note the clarity and translucency of the ice, which would seemingly demonstrate the cold temperatures involved.
Size and Shapes
Refrigerator grown icicles/spikes, it seems, tend to be very thin and around 2 inches in length, and the images provided, easily show that these icicles/spikes are over that mark. [Note to self – Need to work out actual sizes]
Impurities
As for the impurities issue, using Distilled Water versus Not, images on this page do not seem to show any impurities as the focus of structure formation.
Measuring Age
If I were to guesstimate an ‘age’ for these ice shapes, 3-5 days, based on looking the air bubble paths.
If one looks carefully, there does appear to be a larger repeating bubble ‘chamber’ along the path of the escaping air.
I suggest that the ‘chamber’ is a result of an extreme cold state, corresponding to a chilling/warming cycle, and would normally seem to occur during the day time hours, or when exposed to warming temperatures.
Static Electricity
It seems in a majority of cases, a plastic compound seems to be the main sub-straight.
I have to wonder if there is an influence of some sort of electrical discharge, in the colder, drier environments that effect that shape.
As for the shaping of the check-mark shapes, consider the idea, that the ‘buds’ are a back-follow condition of the primary side.
