Web Space…

Search will be offline until further notice. We can’t have the database continually down, since then there’s nothing to search for! Todays outage was due to the fact that MYSQL decided that optimizing the entries table means deleting and recreating the fulltext index, which we know takes around 8 hours. Its not even like this…

I’ve noticed a couple of occasions where the server has been slogged to the floor. This would appear to be due to search engines unfriendly spiders spamming the site with lots of requests in a short period. Altavista is particularly dastardly for this, and is presently in the banned list that doesn’t even know the…

Bogus

Email addressed to Hotmail will NOT be delivered. Microsoft have blocked mail from our server yet again. Hotmail is in danger of becoming an e-mail island because from what I read elsewhere they’re blocking a lot of legitimate servers from sending e-mail to them. They then make the server administrators jump through a gazillion hoops…

Incidentally, the BadTrans worm doesnt even require you to open the mail, it exploits a known security hole in Outlook Express to execute the attachment without you actually opening it. Nice one Microsoft. Another one no doubt you’ll blame lax sys-admins for? Anyway, anyone using Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express needs to go here and…

Progress on the code moves along slowly at the moment, such is the nature of the week, hopefully i’ll be able to make atleast a little progress in the evenings and at the weekend. Until then, it’s a planning exercise and a dreaming exercise to try and decide what to do and where to go….