Technology Kills The life and times of Ben McClure

22Jun/100

Google Docs: Can’t I access my own documents?

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It's been a while since I've created a new document in Google Docs. I usually just need to access old documents or shared documents from others. But today, when I tried to create a document, I received an error to the effect of, "We're sorry, you do not have access to this document."

I was logged in with the same account that I just used to create the document, so the error was baffling. There was a link to request access for myself, specifically displaying the same address as the one I created the document with. So what the hell, I figured--I requested access. Immediately I received an email, at the same account I was already logged in to, requesting access for myself. I approved the request and the document opened without issue.

So I closed the document, and searched for it in , and then opened it again, and lo and behold I received the same Access Denied error.

I then remembered that last month Google indicated they were disabling offline access for while they worked on a new version to re-release later. So on a hunch I disabled offline access and everything is now working as expected.

Perhaps I was not supposed to have been able to use offline, but then why was it still enabled for me? Either way, it looks like I'm stuck using the Online version of until the problem is resolved.

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27Jan/100

Transition to new domain name

As you have likely noticed, my blog is now running on http://technologykills.com.

Links pointing to the old URL of http://blog.benmcclure.com will still work, but will all forward to the http://technologykills.com . To fix, simply change your links to point to http://technologykills.com instead, and they will work like they did before.

If you notice any quirks or issues with the site running in its new location, let me know and I will work to resolve it immediately.

Thanks for sticking with me during this transition!

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12Jan/100

Apache issues resolved, sites back online

Yes, finally, with a little help from the cPanel team, I got Apache/ to rebuild correctly, and my sites are again working properly!

Of course, I am still working on the slowness issue. Even with page caching, Apache and suPHP thrash the CPU for several seconds the first time a large dynamic page is loaded. I'm trying to narrow this down to either server configuration or a issue.

I have definitely experienced this before on an over-allocated VMware array, so it's a possibility my web server is just on a busy box. But I'm still tuning things on the server and trying to minimize the load in every way I can, because more often than not these things are caused by configuration oversight or lack of proper tuning (and user naivety perhaps, in my case).

17Apr/080

Finally got my new blog up!

Yes, yes; I have finally put something potentially useful on my , which has been a completely useless and crappy 1&;1 Blog site for over a year now.

Starting now, I will be posting here about anything and everything.

Stuff about games, computers and technology, my music, writing, random notes, pissed off , and more...

Stay tuned!