Changes to the UK Piano Page
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Changes to the UK Piano Page
Some you can see others you cannot. We now have 2 firewalls we also force you to use https. We now have balanced servers which will speed up the site. Also, a robot trolling the site looking for bad files and hopefully blocking those who would try to hack the site.
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Have you also decided to increase the size of the of the print ? I am getting a "zoomed in" version of the pages.
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in September so far we have had 1,096,678 visitors to the site who we let in and 63,620 who we blocked of the ones we let in
25% were real visitors
Desktop 17.4% Total: 239,134
Mobile 7.4% Total: 101,316
and the rest was a pain in the :oops: robots
Bots 75.3% Total: 1,035,148
the real users used Browser
Chrome 50.0%
Firefox 30.4%
Safari 6.0%
Msie 8.2%
Opera 5.5%
Visitors at 8 pm Friday
And one of the losers who is trying to hack the site this is where he/she is in Dublin
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Well done Barrie for developing the site.
I hope to be playing a piano in a community centre tomorrow which you regularly tune.
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The bots are a pain as they eat up bandwidth Some we need like Google bots but the rest are just trying to add spam or collect data to send users to spam if they get your email
Enjoy the piano
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The piano behaved very well and the majority of the group enjoyed playing it. The venue was also well liked.
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Over the last few days UK Piano Pages has failed to open properly in Safari. It is probably because the version is too old; I haven't updated it since buying this computer. It does open for me in Chrome.
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Have been reading on the MAC forums that a wipe clean and a fresh install speeds up older MacBook pros I will let you know when we get it back
I must admit Mojave as first was a pain on my 27imac till some of the apps updated and I have to keep reindexing mail now but I do have emails going back to 1995 on my computer.
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The following warning message is being displayed when I open the pages using either Safari or Chrome.
Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch https://www.piano-tuners.org/xml.php?ty ... d_listings and cache is off in /var/www/vhosts/rssdog.com/httpdocs/magpie/rss_fetch.inc on line 241
Sorry, could not fetch this feed! (items)
Also when Safari does manage to load up all of the forum index page, which it does intermittently, I am not able to log in.
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The Safari and crome thing maybe some of the JAVA scrips what version of Chrome do you have mine is
Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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I will have a look at updating my machine to Mojave. Do you know if I can do it myself ?
Visited the Morecambe Salvation Army hall yesterday to book next year's Morecambe Bay Piano group meetings. They told me about the piano being tuned and that the copper strings needed replacing, giving me the impression that it would be done in the not too distant future.
Wonder what makes the bass string degrade ? Some websites mention accumulation of dirt but I don't think I have seen anything about the effects of age or work hardening.
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As to the upgrade you go to It app store and it should be there on the front page, it a free upgrade.
if you want to do a clean install that is a tad more complex read
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/clean- ... 14-mojave/
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Thanks for the link.
Piano Pages is opening better in Safari this weekend. Perhaps it was the server being a tad slow to load it last weekend and I was being impatient.