Test entry, ignore

After much toing and froing (heh) they are now online. There is a strange quirk with the Reader Comments that means on occasions the comments aren’t showing up even though they are posted correctly and are in the database. If you see this happening, please send me the URL to the entry so I can…

You didn’t leave a mail address and I can’t be bothered to trawl the database 😉 I have no idea about money orders… If you’re in the US you can use IBill to pay using a normal cheque. If you’re in the UK we can give you our bank details or you can send a…

We’ve made a couple of changes, notably to the web server software itself, that appears to have done the trick with the lockups. We have a secondary option up our sleeves just in case but it looks like we may well have fixed it. For those that noticed no slow down for the last 90…

As promised I have just finished adding the ‘choice factor’ back into Dear Diary. There is now a new configuration option under the Customiser, in General Diary Options and then Basic Settings. It’s called ‘Secure Comments’ – it defaults to ON (the new mechanism that requires an Atomic account). If you clear this checkbox and…

And as you can see from the autochosen date, its past midnight here in the UK… I don’t yet know what caused the initial crash, and I may never know, sometimes software just goes belly up. But the initial data loss was caused by indexes being invalid and MySQL not alerting me to the fact…

This, is what my logfiles tell me about the initial cause of the problem.. > Security Violations > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jan 9 14:23:41 linux1741 sendmail[26797]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 38 > Jan 9 14:23:43 linux1741 sendmail[26797]: rejecting connections on daemon MSA: load average: 44 > Jan 9 14:23:58 linux1741 sendmail[26797]: rejecting connections…