News and Updates

This category contains information about events that may affect your service such as maintenance or outages. It also contains announcements on new products releases and enhancements.

Tablet Repair

Network Solutions, Inc. has been in the PC repair business from the beginning, but we’ve noticed that many people didn’t know that we also repair laptops and tablets.  Laptops now sell more units than desktop PCs, and we’ve been repairing them since we’ve been in business, too.   Tablets are the new kid on the block, and their design makes them somewhat more difficult to repair.  However, we repair just about all makes and models, including Apple, Samsung, Asus, Acer, HP, HTC, and others.    We can also replace batteries (whether they are “user replaceable” or not).

So, if you’ve had an accident with your tablet, or it has just died on  you, bring it on down to our office and we’ll be glad to fix it up for you!

 

2013-01-25T16:59:48-06:00January 25, 2013|News and Updates, Products|Comments Off on Tablet Repair

NetSol Cloud Desktop Clients Updated

We are happy to announce the release of version 1.2.0 of the NetSol Cloud Desktop Client. This release brings significant improvements in sync performance and feedback, password storage, SSL certificate handling. It also features a brand new icon theme.
Here is a list of the most important changes of the client software:

[GUI] New status dialog to show a detailed list of synced files.
[GUI] New tray notifications about synced files.
[GUI] New platform specific icon set.
[App] Using cross platform QtKeychain library to store credentials encrypted.
[App] Use cross platform notification for changes in the local file system rather than regular poll.
[Fixes] Improved SSL Certificate handling and SSL fixes throughout syncing.
[Fixes] Fixed proxy authentication.
[Fixes] Allow brackets in folder name alias.
[Fixes] Lots of other minor fixes.
[Platform] Improved, more detailed error reporting.
[Fixes] More efficiency for the NetSol Cloud plugin through less HTTP requests to the server.
[Fixes] NetSol Cloud plugin: Improved upload performance.
[Fixes] NetSol Cloud plugin: Do not abort on errors with individual files any more.
[Fixes] NetSol Cloud plugin: Use renamed session cookie correctly.
[MacOSX] Use libneon with proper big file support.
[Win32] Use libneon with openSSL support now.
Get the pre-packaged sync client for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at https://www.netsolinc.com/sync-clients/.
2013-01-24T14:40:01-06:00January 24, 2013|NetSol Cloud, News and Updates|Comments Off on NetSol Cloud Desktop Clients Updated

New Office Hours

To better serve our customers, we are expanding our office hours.  Since 2004, our office has been closed for lunch from 1:00 – 2:00pm, but we are now going to be open during those hours. This includes phone support as well as walk-in access to our main office.   Our phone support will continue to be 8:00am – 9:00pm 7 days a week, and our technicians are  still on call for emergencies 24 x 7 x 365.

 

2013-01-21T23:21:28-06:00January 21, 2013|News and Updates|Comments Off on New Office Hours

MSN/Hotmail on Blacklist

Date: 1/14/2013 – Email from the domains of msn.com and hotmail.com are not coming through currently because of ongoing spam campaigns.  The mail servers responsible for the domains are listed on both the popular SORBS and SPAMCOP blacklists as well as some others.  We currently use SORBS as part of our email filtering, and this results in the messages being rejected.  Technicians working for Hotmail/MSN are aware of the issue and are working to correct it.

 

2013-01-14T20:10:23-06:00January 14, 2013|News and Updates|Comments Off on MSN/Hotmail on Blacklist

Java Recommendations

Date: 1-14-2013 – We have had several customers ask about our thoughts regarding Homeland Security’s recommendation to disable or uninstall Java.

In case you are not sure what Java is, it is a programming language that is designed to run on different operating systems (this is called “cross platform”).  Java can run on anything from a Windows PC, to Mac OSX, to a tablet or cell phone.  Because of this, we use Java in our iFoye technology which allows us to remotely support customers running virtually any operating system.  It is possible to disable Java in your browser so you will not have the security issues brought up by Homeland Security and then re-enable it if you need a support session from us through iFoye.

Homeland Security seems to think there is no “practical solution” to the problem.  However Oracle (the makers of Java) have released a new update which addresses the concerns made by the government.  We recommend that everyone running Java immediately run that update.   However, if you are uncomfortable with keeping Java live, just follow the instructions to disable Java in your browser.  We recommend running the update even if you disable Java.

 

2013-01-14T15:08:45-06:00January 14, 2013|News and Updates|Comments Off on Java Recommendations

WordPress Issues

Since we have updated to Version 3.5 there have been a few glitches with some of the sites. If you have noticed anything strange with your website in the last few weeks, please send me an email along with your URL and a description of what the issues are.

Thanks.

Nick – nwebb@netsolinc.com

2013-01-02T21:58:53-06:00January 2, 2013|News and Updates|Comments Off on WordPress Issues

Planned Maintenance

December 21, 2012 – AT&T Network Engineers will be performing a planned maintenance on Birmingham-Alabama Gigabit Access Router 1. The work will be performed on 1/15/2013, during the maintenance window of 12:00AM-6:00AM, local router time. AT&T’s goal is to successfully complete the task and restore service within the stated time frame.

AT&T Network Engineers will be performing an IOS upgrade.

Due to the redundant nature of our network, very limited service interruption is expected although some increased latency may be experienced as the routes adjust when the AT&T circuit drops.

Update: 1/14/2013 – This maintenance has been canceled. We will notify users when it is rescheduled.

 

If there are any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance, please email support@internetpro.net or call 256-547-6817.

2013-01-14T20:30:18-06:00December 21, 2012|News and Updates|Comments Off on Planned Maintenance

NetSol Cloud Updates

December 20, 2012 – We’ve applied a bugfix update to our cloud product today.  This update addresses several issues including:

  • Show drag and drop shadow for Firefox
  • Fix setting of sharing password
  • Several sharing fixes
  • Fix versioning during sharing
  • Fix mounting of external filesystems
  • Fix several PHP warnings
  • Show /Shared as standard directory
  • Fix WebDAV quota enforement
  • Restore send sharing link by email
  • Fix mimetype icons for new files
  • Fix the folder size calculation
  • Fix for deleting multiple files
  • Security: Auth bypass in user_webdavauth and user_ldap
  • Security: XSS vulnerability in bookmarks

 

The desktop sync client has also been updated.  The new version is 1.1.4.

This is a bugfix release for the 1.1.x line that fixes two significant bugs.

  • [Fixes] csync: Fix encoding issues on MacOSX clients, now the client sends normalized unicode on that platform.
  • [Fixes] csync: The client does a more sophisticated handling of server error states which avoids data clearing in some cases.

Known Problems

  • Files > 2GB size can cause problems.

 

2012-12-20T18:22:59-06:00December 20, 2012|News and Updates|Comments Off on NetSol Cloud Updates

WordPress Updates

Monday December 17, 2012 – As part of our full service hosting, we will be upgrading WordPress-based sites on our servers to the new 3.5 version which was released a few days ago.  We wanted to wait a few days to make sure there were no critical bugs.   During the upgrade process, the sites will go into “maintenance mode” and the site will be unavailable.  The maintenance mode usually lasts less than 30 seconds as the upgrade is applied.   We will check to make sure the site seems to be working once the upgrade is complete, but we do recommend that users thoroughly check over their sites to make sure the upgrade did not cause any issues.  We will post an update here when we have completed the upgrade on all sites.

 

Update: Wednesday December, 19, 2012 – All updates to WordPress sites have been completed.  Again, please check your site functionality – especially plugins.  If there is a problem, please let us know by calling 256-547-6817 or emailing support@internetpro.net.

2012-12-20T16:48:03-06:00December 17, 2012|Internet, News and Updates|Comments Off on WordPress Updates

End of Dial-Up Internet Service

We regret to inform our customers that we are going to discontinue providing dial-up internet services. The time has come where the technology is too outdated to be useful and as a result very few customers are still using it making it no longer feasible for us to provide the service.

The dial-up service will terminate on December 31, 2012. If you have pre-paid for service beyond December, we will be issuing a refund to you.

If you are currently using your internetpro.net (or other email) that is hosted with us, you CAN continue to use that address even after dial-up service stops. We charge $24 per year for the address, and it will work with any internet provider you decide to change to (DSL, Cable, cellular, etc.). Please let us know if you wish to continue the use of your email address so we can adjust your account accordingly.

Thank you for your business, and we do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please contact us at 256-547-6817 or support@internetpro.net if you have any questions.

2012-12-03T20:17:36-06:00December 3, 2012|News and Updates, Products|Comments Off on End of Dial-Up Internet Service
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