Year: 2003

We were unaware until today that Reader Comments were broken – at least in some cases. I’m not sure how long it had been wrecked but I think it was certainly wrecked in most cases! Its now fixed, sorry for the problem.

Work has begun on DearDiary 3.0, the long awaited upgrade to the site. However, in considering the radical changes to the site, and the overblown amounts of cruft that DD2.x has laying around, I have almost decided that with the introduction of DD3.0, it its likely that we will destroy everyone’s current diary configuration. I…

I had one this morning…. It looks like its from Microsoft, it has copyright Microsoft all over it. It arrived in my email with an attachment. It is NOT from Microsoft. Microsoft do not send patches by email and are highly unlikely to ever do so. Please do NOT open or run the attachment. If…

If you need support on any aspect of DearDiary, please ask in the forums. If regular users could check the forums and help people out I would really really appreciate it. For why I have to make this request, check My Diary The forums are at forums.atomic-systems.com Thanks, Steve

A new database server (an upgrade to MySQL 4.0.12) which had taken all day to get installed and functioning, is now functioning correctly. In theory this gives us some good performance improvements! Hopefully stability, but we’ll see on that front over the next few weeks. Steve.

Changes to the way Public Email addresses are dealt with has enabled the reader comments to return. Unfortunately its not without some level of pain for people. The problem was that anyone could change their Public Email address in their profile with no validation that the email address actually belonged to them. The pain is…

I restarted the database only to discover it had eaten itself, or more specifically its access permissions. For a while it wouldn’t come up at all, and then when it did, none of the scripts could connect because the access control lists were gone… These are now restored so everything should be working, but if…

We are moving the deardiary.net server onto a machine thats got faster hard disks and more of them… In theory this shouldn’t take long, but we all know the wild difference between theory and practise 😉 So. A heads up, the site will be going down fairly shortly (once I am satisfied that other sites…

As most of you are probably aware, the Reader Comments subsystem is presently disabled – here’s a brief explanation of why, without giving too many details. We’ve received a few emails from people that aren’t quite clear on what the problem actually was, saying that people should only allow authenticated comments if they’re having problems…

Yesterdays system administration efforts were an unprecedented disaster and caused a significant unplanned downtime, for which we sincerely apologise. It had been intended to move a couple of unrelated web sites from the server that runs DearDiary, to another server. However, for some odd reason, which is still as yet unknown, doing so caused the…