No Notifies After All

Hi guys,      I just need to make a quick comment to all who are helping with the spam diary removal effort, after a small accident today. I know this didn't happen on purpose and is purely a slip but I'm keen to try to ensure we don't have any false positives so here's a…

To follow up from Matts post yesterday here’s an update; Matt did some tracing through the logs and the bits he pasted to me looked suspiciously like Code Red problems. Interesting how the media spin on this is how brilliant Microsoft has been when in reality its their crappy code that caused the problem in…

In a few days DearDiary.Net will be 5 years old… On that day in 1999, we served about 100 pages, most of which I suspect were me and Matt playing around… Today, in the last 20 minutes, we’ve served 12,467 diary pages alone, that’s not including pages such as the front page, or reader comments…

Apologies, I don’t get much time to warn about impromptu reboots these days, mostly because I only get to work on the server in the evenings. Anyway, I rebooted the server with the new Linux kernel version installed. This new one has various kernel semaphore fixes which should improve the SMP (dual processor) capability. And…

We’ve got some fairly lucrative advert campaigns running at the moment, the first since approximately the end of 1999 and the number of showings the customer wants is significantly higher than we’ve been able to deliver in the first week of the campaign. As such I’ve been asked (and agreed to) add some adverts to…

Work officially began on the long awaited DearDiary 3.0 software. Matt’s busy on other projects (one’s that actually enable this server to be paid for these days, so we won’t stop him!) so DD3 is all down to me… Don’t hold your breath, but I shall be working on it flat out and will be…