For Cutypops and Ruffus…

I’ve made a slight tweak to the authentication modules at the recommendation of one of the other users of the MySQL Auth Module (Mark Blair) so I’m trying that one out to see if it stops the Apache box from restarting every hour or so. Most people won’t notice any difference with any luck, but…

Just a quick update: We’ve brought online the other two payment methods supported by our authorised sales agent, IBill – This means that you can now pay in one of three ways: Credit Card (Visa/Mastercard) Online Check (US Banks only) 1-900 Phone Number (US Only) The 900 number works by just charging your phone the…

It seems that the adult verification system caused an unexpected side effect. In order to remember which diary you were visiting when you hit a page that needs an adult ID, we store the diary name in a cookie. Unfortunately, by default, PHP (which the new secure comments system is written in) reads cookies and…

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Please be aware that if you’ve a HotMail account which is used to receive your notifies of updated diaries and/or comments you will not be able to receive them at the moment. I am in discussion with Hotmail about why this is so, and at the moment the IP address of our (new) server is…

Apologies for the serious downtime thats been experienced today, and yesterday. It seems that a bug in the kernel, due to our compiler and perhaps the options supplied to it, gradually consumed more and more memory until the machine ran out and fell over. As a result things would have gradually got slower and slower,…