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Loadmaster / Loadmaster 44.0.1.73 - released 12/10/2024
« on: October 13, 2024, 07:59:14 pm »
Updates on the Palletforce import to make things easier.

Also rewrote the Check for Problem Jobs in Utilities.

Note that there is now a special menu item to look up Irish postcodes

Norman
 ;)

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Windows / Windows 10 - going .. going ..
« on: August 18, 2024, 10:05:42 pm »
If you can upgrade from Windows 10 to 11 then it's about time that you did it.

Unlike Windows 7 it seems that Microsoft are not going to let Windows 10 drag on.

If your computer cannot upgrade then you may end up buying a new one.  :-[

Norman
 ;)

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TPN Invoicing / Bug/Quirk in TPN Invoicing
« on: August 16, 2024, 09:20:48 pm »
In these exact circumstances :-

1. You set an account to provide individual invoices for individual jobs
2. The first one has an additional charge of some type
3. You auto email the invoices

The totals on the first emailed invoices do not include the additional charge but if you print the invoice it is fine.

This has proven to be quite an odd one as the emailing of invoices and the standard invoice run use exactly the same code. It's as though it was going to print another page.

Norman
 :o



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Loadmaster / Loadmaster 44.0.1.71 - released 15/08/2024
« on: August 16, 2024, 09:06:43 pm »
Added Eircodes to the Extras menu. Loc8ate was already there.

Both allow an Irish postcode to decompile the associated address. Note that this routine uses Google Maps to decipher it, as supplying an Eircode licence to every user would be a phenomenal cost and require quarterly updating.

Morman
 ;)

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Operational Status / Site swap
« on: April 01, 2024, 06:01:22 pm »
Over the weekend we have swapped the Lincoln and Northampton computers over to test our resilience in the event of a site failure.

We have also moved our main code server from Windows to Ubuntu Linux to stop the annoyance of unscheduled updating which left the computer needing a reboot to install remaining packages.

Norman
 ;)

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Loadmaster / Loadmaster 44.0.1.67 - released 25/01/2024
« on: January 25, 2024, 08:37:38 pm »
New version. Among other things it allows the alteration of the RHA conditions on your invoices.

Norman
 ;)

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Loadmaster / Loadmaster 44.0.1.62 released 20/06/2023
« on: June 23, 2023, 07:54:10 pm »
A full list of changes can be found by going into the HELP menu and choosing the Whats New option.

Added a Sales Ledger type option on this release.

Norman
 ;)

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Loadmaster / Loadmaster 44.0.1.58 released - 26/12/2020
« on: January 02, 2023, 06:08:58 pm »
While containing some customer specific modifications this release allows very large backups of your data.

Previously the ZIP format only allowed individual compressed data files of up to 4GB. The Jobs and Archive files sometimes reached this.

This update works around this.

Norman
 ;)

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Miscellaneous / Code Signing Certificates
« on: December 08, 2022, 03:54:49 pm »
Recently had fun getting a code signing certificate from Sertigo. You can only download it using either Internet Explorer 8+ on a PC or Firefox ESR on a Mac. Nothing else works at the moment.

I used a Mac with Firefox ESR which went as far as stage 5 where it downloaded a file called CollectCCC onto the Mac but it didn't seem to do anything else. I expected it to load it in the Keystore but no such luck.

In case anyone else has a problem, what I had to do was as follows :-

The downloaded file CollectCCC contained the public certificate signed by the certificate provider.

You have to rename the collected certificate to name.p7s (any name but with a .p7s extension)

I then copied this onto a Windows machine for ease of use.

I pulled the public p7s into the Personal certificate store using the Windows certificate manager.

I right-clicked on the certificate and exported it to the base64 format, saving it as name.cer

I downloaded and installed openssl

I then issued the following command to combine the signed name.cer certificate with my previously saved private key name.key

openssl pkcs12 -export -out NAME.pfx -inkey NAME.key -in NAME.cer

This creates a name.pfx file, which you can install directly in the Personal certificate store on the computer to sign executables and you can use the Windows certificate manager to add a friendly name to the certificate.

Norman
 ;)

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Miscellaneous / Some Microsoft web pages won't load
« on: September 04, 2022, 09:52:00 pm »
An unusual effect. You go to most sites and they are OK. You go to log into Hotmail or other Microsoft sites and they just seem to hang.

We use System Mechanic and the Fingerprinting Check was set to ON in Chrome and Edge. Turning this OFF resolved the issue.

Norman
 ;)

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Other software / ParcelTrak
« on: September 04, 2022, 09:34:31 pm »
Yes. We still support ParcelTrak!

It is DOS based but very advanced for its age. The program will continue to function if you run it under VDOS (free). It even supports Windows printers.

ParcelTrak was written in Retrieve 4GL, a 4GL database system sold by Sage. We were a Sage Sovereign Development Centre for many years.

Norman
 ;)

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Operational Status / Zeus down - and up
« on: August 31, 2022, 09:06:23 am »
The SD card which boots Zeus decided to give up on Monday 29th August (Bank Holiday).

The unfortunate effect being that a new OS had to be loaded then Apache, MYSQL, PHP, Lets Encrypt and the SMF software completely reinstalled. The bulletin board was then restored from the last backup.

This all takes time but it's back now. Wednesday 31st August.

Note: The problem with Zeus was the corruption of the Micro SD card. Being a Pi 2 1.1 it wouldn't boot from USB or hard disk. Although there was nothing wrong with the Pi 2, Zeus was replaced with a Snunmu Micro PC running Lubuntu.   

Norman
 ;)

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Miscellaneous / Google Mail & SMTP password issue
« on: June 14, 2022, 11:35:12 am »
If using Google for SMTP mail and all of a sudden it says your username or password is wrong then this is down to new enhanced security by Google.

Go into Settings and Enable two-factor authentication. Now find the App Password entry underneath and ask it to create a password.

Use this password in your SMTP settings.

Norman
 ;)

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This just shows a message on the map telling you to turn off internet explorer compatability mode. It is annoying but not harmful.

The only way to resolve this is to add registry keys in Windows using Regedit.

At two locations add a DWORD called iexplore.exe with a decimal content of 11000

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION

Right-click the key and select New > DWORD.

Give that DWORD the decimal value of 11000. This will make all sites render without compatibility view.

To prevent the notice coming up in a particular program add a DWORD in the same location as follows -

Zipsys - add ZIPSYS.exe with a decimal content of 11000
Loadmaster - add Loadmaster.exe with a decimal content of 11000
Sameday Express - add Same Day Express.exe with a decimal content of 11000

Norman
 ;)


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General discussions / Office moving 01/07/2022
« on: May 11, 2022, 11:35:58 am »
Please note that on the 1st July, 2022 we will be changing our Registered Office address to :-

310 Wellingborough Road, Northampton NN1 4EP

Our contact emails and phone numbers will remain the same as now.

Our banking details will remain the same as well.

Norman
 ;)

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