Testing

I have found out what happened with the new password system and I’m not sure how to say this without seriously losing face, but; It IS a system glitch that caused the problem. In a rather obscure chain of events that took place last night, I can confirm that exactly 1000 users (though that is…

Cristen posed a question to us that I feel we should answer formally, since our standpoint on the subscriber mechanism is apparently not clear. Cristens words: What’s up with the premium subscriber thing? It makes some users feel more valuable than others. Before it was equality…everyone’s diary was the same. Now the subscribers get special…

By the way, for those who write to the abuse address, please provide the url of the alleged abuse. I’m not going looking for it. Its easy enough, select the address bar, press CTRL-C and then CTRL-V into your mail message. Abuse mails that say ‘I object to XXX diary because it has a reference…

You may have noticed that although the server hasn’t been crashing over the last few days, it has been giving the good old ‘Unable to Connect to Database’ error, or possibly Internal Server Error’s. This was due to a misconfiguration of the PHP module and the database, which is now sorted. Hopefully that’ll be the…

We’ve been over this before, but for those with goldfish memories, here’s the answers again. I’ve put the comments from the previous entry in here to keep it in context; From: hypocritical (Unauthenticated) Date Posted: 14 Jul 2002 OK, I see your point, but I happen to know two diarists who have had their diaries…

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Its now the 2nd week of the new year and already I have received my first ‘your database has been hacked because someone knows information about me that I only posted in private entries’. I’ve been dealing with this kind of complaint before, and invariably after I spend days scrutinizing…