Jump Domains has ceased operations according to their website. Judging form the internet they really ceased operations back in 2006, but just turned off the lights in March 2010 with no warnings to their customers.

If you, like I did still have a domain registered with them, it’s time to move it ASAP! Like now.

The message on their website pretty much says, it’s up to you to get your domain off jumpdomains.com, good luck.

I was able to do it, but it wasn’t easy, so here’s my help for this unlikely souls:

1. You can still access their domain manager by using this URL: https://domains.jumpdomain.com/cgi-bin/login.pl

2. Once in, make sure your Administrative Contact Email is correct. If it is not, UPDATE IT! You’re doomed if you can’t do this.

3. Turn off the lock on the domain, using the Global Edit. Keep checking back to make sure it goes through.

4. Get another register and sign up for a transfer, to start the process on that end.

5. You need an EPP code, and there’s no way to get it from jumpdomains. You’ll need to find out if you are on ENOM or OPENSRS. I was on Opensrs, send an email to compliance@opensrs.org from your Administrative Contact Email, explain to them clearly (this is important) that your reseller jumpdomains has ceased operations, and that you need your EPP code. Explain several times that you can not get it from your reseller that they need to send it to you. If you are on ENOM, do the same thing but find their email or form from their website.

6. If you’re lucky you’ll get the code in 24 hours. Use this with your new registrar.

7. Now hurry up and wait, This is the step were jumpdomains is notified that you are moving, they’re supposed to send you an email letting you know a transfer is in process and give you a chance to cancel it. I’m still on this step and I’m not holding my breath on getting that email, if noone cancels it within 5 days, it’s automatically approved. I expect I’ll have to wait all five days.

Now, a word of wisdom to those people out there. The domain in question was a non-profit I help out sometimes and they decided to register with jumpdomains for 10 years to save a few bucks. Don’t do anything on the internet for 10 years. It never ends well. I’ll also say, go with a name brand domain registrar like godaddy. It might not be the cheapest or the coolest, but it’s not going anywhere, those couple cents you save on a domain at Bob’s Domain Discount Shack will come back to bite you in lost time one day.

I’ve done something I’ve never done before, I pre-ordered a book!

Book: The Lost Symbol
Author: Dan Brown
Link: The Lost Symbol

I hurried home from work, my package arrived on the release date from Amazon, and began reading Dan Brown’s third book in his Robert Langdon’s series.
I enjoyed it. It was a fun read, and like expected it was action packed. I didn’t like the last 50 pages. The story for all intent and purposes ends with 50 pages to spare. He then proceeds to wrap up a few loose ends but it takes about 40 pages too long.

The story was good, it took a few twists and turns, and if you’re like me, you may be able to guess a few ahead of time.

It probably ranks third compared to The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.

I did enjoy that the book had me googling several references in the book to buildings in Washington, DC and art work. I kept checking google’s rank to see if others were doing it on release day, didn’t see anyone else.

In a final note, I love the research Dan Brown completes in his books, all the computer related sections were fairly on mark (a short section with a hacker). I like when authors do not embellish computer interaction in their novels.

Every once in a great while I need to just return the date of a date time and forget about the time part of it.

SELECT CAST(FLOOR(CAST(getDate() AS FLOAT)) AS DATETIME) as MyDate

Obviously you can replace getDate() with a column.

Recently upgraded my WinXP 32 bit to Win 7 64 bit. There’s been a few bumps in the road, and here’s one that cost me about an hour:

Sometimes I like to publish a website to the local IIS to be able to use it independent of visual studio.

So I went to Build -> Publish “ProjectName”

Put in http://localhost/projectname like I did on Windows XP.

No such luck, I need to be administrator of IIS metabase or front page extensions need to be installed.

So I did the Run As Administrator. Still nothing. I don’t think there is front page extensions anymore, nor do I really want to install them, so I cross that off.

I had to do the following:

Make sure IIS management studio is installed, then create a web site. Give it a unique ip or port number. I used 8080 as my port number.

THEN, I could publish to http://localhost:8080

So far so good. But when I go to the site, i receive:

Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Data’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

So I checked the .NET version, (Tip: That’s under Application Pools in IIS7, not under the site). It was set to 2.0, so that wasn’t it.

A little googling indicated it’s probably my project was a 32 bit app, and I was using a 64bit web server. Great. I didn’t wanna change the project because it works in production, so I don’t wanna mess with anything.

After some research and some good luck, I figured out how to make both work:

1. In IIS management studio, go to your computer (the top most node)

2. Run the Configuration Editor under Management.

3. Under Section select, System.ApplicationHost/ApplicationPools

4. Expand applicationPoolDefaults

5. Set Enable32bitApponWin64 to True.

!! Just like that it worked. You mileage may vary. I was expecting to atleast have to tell the application pool it was 32 bit, but I was surprised I avoided that step.

Well, that’s another transition to Windows 7 I survived, I’m still waiting for the big one.

I’m a big fan of Steve Czaban’s national radio show, but unlike his other foxsports brethen, his shows are not podcasted.

Looks like a station in L.A. has answered my prayers:

http://www.am570radio.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=steveczaban.xml

Commerical Free! It’s going to be a sad day if this ever goes away.  Now I can catch the first two hours after i get to work.