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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…

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…

I have tried to reply to your e-mails – your AOL account replies with ‘This user is not accepting mail from this sender’. Please make sure, if you expect a reply from someone, that your AOL account is not set to block external mail! (That goes for anyone, not just the user named above of…

The proposed changes to the web server config file have now been made. It’s a fair bit more efficient in there now, and more importantly, I can actually (mostly!) read it. It was like a ruddy birds nest before! The httpd process size has dropped by about 1Meg (meaning it should scale a bit better)…

I had a brainwave and ran the optimiser across the tables in the database to clean them all up, sure enough, the machine hasn’t hit a load average of even 0.5 let alone 1.0 (it was going at over 25 previously). To give you an idea what that means, a load average of 1.0 means…

Jade actually did use the HELP button, I notice. But since I’ve been without net access for nearly three weeks I’ve not been able to answer it and clear up the backlog… My apologies, I shall get to that one shortly! Though its sort of superseded now 😉 Steve.