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Hi folks, Steve has just fixed the Server Maintenance In Progress page which comes up when you try to access someone’s diary directly (ie: http://username.deardiary.net/) Sorry for the inconvenience caused. Other changes: The lost password retrieval page has been fixed so lost passwords can now be accessed by pressing the login button, then the cancel…
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…
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…
I remember now why I try very hard to avoid moving servers… Apologies for the down time. I received some distressing news regarding the previous server (notably the OS on which it was running was no longer being supported, and thus security updates and patches would not be coming out any longer) and was advised…
The server is now logging the correct IP addresses again so the show my hits screens should start to look more interesting again soon. Sorry about that. Steve
I have received too many complaints about a certain, nameless diarist, that I have had to (at least temporarily) revoke our non-interference strategy that was invoked some months back and have made the diary private. I am in discussion with the author and await their response – though I’m not sure I hold out much…