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I randomly started wondering how things were going here, it's been so long...
I stopped doing any serious programming when I quit working at the hospital due to serious depression and burnout in December 2017. These days, the only programming related stuff I do is make some occasional Minecraft resource packs, and manage a couple Jekyll websites. Sadly forums just aren't the draw they used to be.
I've since moved and now my day job is now repairing and refurbishing stringed instruments. I love working on guitars, but since I'm the new guy again I mostly work on keeping the company's rental fleet in order... lots of violins, violas, and cellos. And occasionally upright basses.
I'm almost recovered from a very ... interesting ... couple years. End of September 2022 I went to the local emergency room for what I thought was a bad med withdrawal since I was changing depression meds... and woke up in the Duke ICU being told I had Acute Leukemia. Short version is I very nearly died. I was so far along my left lung was starting to collapse, I had 52 brain bleeds (2 major, 50 minor), and blood factors that the ER physician didn't think could look that bad.
It's a miracle I'm here. As a man of faith, I truly believe it's a miracle. Despite the brain bleeds, none impinged on my grey matter - they had to do multiple rounds of CT just to confirm because they couldn't believe it. It was a rough road of chemo, radiation, and marrow transplant.
I've been back to work since this past October, and I feel mostly back these days. Since the transplant means my immune system is a clean slate, so I've had to go through the full immunization series again.
The second series I had this past Wednesday really knocked me down, but I've only got one more to go in August. Hopefully this coming February (2 years post-transplant) things will be good enough I can get off the last anti-rejection med (which is also a low-grade oral chemo, and not fun).
Happy to be here, and just randomly though of you guys and wanted to know how things are going with you.
Edit: I was doing some live streaming on Twitch that I hope to get back to soon, and I usually post the vids later on YouTube.
I stopped doing any serious programming when I quit working at the hospital due to serious depression and burnout in December 2017. These days, the only programming related stuff I do is make some occasional Minecraft resource packs, and manage a couple Jekyll websites. Sadly forums just aren't the draw they used to be.
I've since moved and now my day job is now repairing and refurbishing stringed instruments. I love working on guitars, but since I'm the new guy again I mostly work on keeping the company's rental fleet in order... lots of violins, violas, and cellos. And occasionally upright basses.
I'm almost recovered from a very ... interesting ... couple years. End of September 2022 I went to the local emergency room for what I thought was a bad med withdrawal since I was changing depression meds... and woke up in the Duke ICU being told I had Acute Leukemia. Short version is I very nearly died. I was so far along my left lung was starting to collapse, I had 52 brain bleeds (2 major, 50 minor), and blood factors that the ER physician didn't think could look that bad.
It's a miracle I'm here. As a man of faith, I truly believe it's a miracle. Despite the brain bleeds, none impinged on my grey matter - they had to do multiple rounds of CT just to confirm because they couldn't believe it. It was a rough road of chemo, radiation, and marrow transplant.
I've been back to work since this past October, and I feel mostly back these days. Since the transplant means my immune system is a clean slate, so I've had to go through the full immunization series again.
The second series I had this past Wednesday really knocked me down, but I've only got one more to go in August. Hopefully this coming February (2 years post-transplant) things will be good enough I can get off the last anti-rejection med (which is also a low-grade oral chemo, and not fun).
Happy to be here, and just randomly though of you guys and wanted to know how things are going with you.
Edit: I was doing some live streaming on Twitch that I hope to get back to soon, and I usually post the vids later on YouTube.
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All good here, now permanently moved to Spain and enjoying the sun 
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Hey guys
thought I'd stick forever with Snitz, however got a mail that the provider is making changes and that they will only support The latest version of .NET Framework 3.5 soon. Do I have to worry? I looked in the webhost settings and 3.5 Service Pack 1 seems to be already running and the forum is still working,...
thought I'd stick forever with Snitz, however got a mail that the provider is making changes and that they will only support The latest version of .NET Framework 3.5 soon. Do I have to worry? I looked in the webhost settings and 3.5 Service Pack 1 seems to be already running and the forum is still working,...
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Hey guysAre you using the classic ASP version or the .Net version?
thought I'd stick forever with Snitz, however got a mail that the provider is making changes and that they will only support The latest version of .NET Framework 3.5 soon. Do I have to worry? I looked in the webhost settings and 3.5 Service Pack 1 seems to be already running and the forum is still working,...Originally posted by volkerc
(.Net version should work on the latest version of the framework)
Ther is a .Net core version coming at some point, although still working on a few tweaks. The .net core version should also run on linux servers as well as windows (I have even tested it on a raspberry Pi
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Hey guysAre you using the classic ASP version or the .Net version?
thought I'd stick forever with Snitz, however got a mail that the provider is making changes and that they will only support The latest version of .NET Framework 3.5 soon. Do I have to worry? I looked in the webhost settings and 3.5 Service Pack 1 seems to be already running and the forum is still working,...Originally posted by volkerc
(.Net version should work on the latest version of the framework)
Ther is a .Net core version coming at some point, although still working on a few tweaks. The .net core version should also run on linux servers as well as windows (I have even tested it on a raspberry Pi
Hi HuwR,
using Snitz Forums 2000 v3.4.07
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You should be fine. That is Classic ASP, so it is not affected by the .NET framework. However, Classic ASP support may disappear at some point the future.
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vbscript, a common script language for active server pages was announced as deprecated for windows 11 in October 2023. Server 2025 is formally deprecating vbscript. No formal end of life has been announced, only that one is coming, but will be after Windows 11/Server 2025.
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Great and not so great. Would hate to see my forum disappear. 13 years running. 
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I'm sure it won't.
Are you able to get a backup of your database just in case?