A short one for TheElf

The underlying database has been upgraded to a newer and reportedly much faster MySQL version. Unfortunately, due to some technical limitations of the operating system, it took longer than expected, (about half an hour, compared to the 5 minutes it should have been!) but its now back online and should stand a lot more load…

Hi all,      The level of spam diaries has once again become ridiculous. This means that for now I have, once again, blocked the new user signup process. I have in mind a possible solution, but it will require co-operation from you guys. So I'm writing to see if you think it's a viable…

FireFlyII was absolutely right, I’d goofed the private graphics up so they weren’t showing, they are now. I’ll look into the other suggestions when I’ve more time cos I’m a bit busy this morning… Steve.

A database query managed to pull the whole site over, resulting in the need to close down and restart the database. Unfortunately when it came back up it decided to overwrite its replication logs from the beginning and as such would have destroyed the backup database replication. I’ve taken a snapshot of the database now…

Creeping Crustacians Batman, things have been busy today. Well, I’ve managed to get the table structure for P3 lined up and i’ve got about 50% of the screens dumied on paper (control flow only, I figure it’s more important to worry about if the screens are gonna be useful and quick to operate at this…

The time has come for a consideration of something we thought wouldn’t happen… But the signs are all around that the business model of the Free Web is unsustainable and possibly it isn’t here… An article in The Register sums up a couple of weeks of articles we’ve been reading about the revenue stream from…