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2008 14 October :: 12.57pm
Woke up, sites were down. Got to the building and Consumers Energy is blocking off the area around the building and apparently doing massive work.
So.. At least the power was on when I got here, but the main web server isn't on backup at the moment so it went down along with the TC servers. Now I guess I'm going to hang out around here for a while or something in case they bump the power again..
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2008 13 October :: 3.02pm
Bzoink Friend Tests I got 100%on andy's Test!
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2008 11 October :: 8.06pm
It was the best of weed, it was the worst of weed, it was the weed of wisdom, it was the weed of foolishness, it was the epoch of seeds, it was the epoch of stems, it was the season of Northern Lights, it was the season of Matanuska Thunderfark, it was the spring of seedlings, it was the winter of roaches, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to 7-11, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so awesome.
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2008 4 October :: 12.22am
Going to see Nine Inch Nails oct 28bth and 29th... I think those are the dates at least.
Anyways, uuhhhhhhh. Fuck I'm drinking beer and therefore I have nothing to say but
blah.
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2008 19 September :: 1.24am
:: Mood: sick
Currently sick. Still working for at&t.
Hurricane Ike was rather bothersome; power was out for a few days. Got eaten alive by mosquitoes. Not cool. I think the bites are starting to fade now.
Being sick makes me think too much. Also, it makes me inclined to be far too impulsive. After all, life is too short when you're looking at it from the viewpoint of someone not feeling well. It makes me want to just save up as much money possible and find a way to start that long-term era of being with that boy.
It makes me feel like there's absolutely no reason to be so cautious with life -- like I shouldn't bother with doing things "the right way" (by others' standards) or anything like that. Like I should be doing what I want, what I feel is right.
Now... that's a very dangerous mindset. I'm sure it'll fade a wee bit once I'm healthy again, but it's always there, honestly. When not sick, it's easier to think more.. clearly, I guess you'd say. Rationally. Responsibly. Like I should be thinking. :P
Anyhow. Just a short public update.
Off to possibly snack then rest/sleep.
-Ash
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2008 18 September :: 5.23pm
New security images in place. They work, and they don't cause pages to randomly load halfway. Yay.
You can even reload them if you can't read them.. Or LISTEN to them! Intense. Added to all my sites that currently used captcha.
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2008 18 September :: 1.07am
Nobody has reported it (because nobody does until it's been that way for 3 years) but I'm running into errors across all of the sites on this server.
I've only been able to make it happen on 'Post Comment' pages. Sometimes the page will load completely and everything will be fine, other times the page will error out completely, or else only a portion of the page will load.
I have NO clue what is causing this. However, the only thing all of these pages have in common that other pages don't is the captcha image.
So, pretty much I'm just notifying everyone that this is a problem and I'm working to resolve it. I've never noticed this problem until I had to move everything to this server on the 11th so I think it's server related. I'm going to try to get the error to be produced on other pages now.
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2008 11 September :: 8.51pm
So.. A run down of today and why there was 3 or 4 hours of downtime.
I was looking into playing with the YouTube API but it requires PHP5, my servers run PHP4 still. I decided I would try to make the upgrade and was going to wait until the wee hours of the morning but was too eager and didn't want to stay up all night.
I went around and attempted to upgrade PHP around 4 or 5pm, not sure really.
Immediately things went horribly wrong, and it really had nothing to do with PHP at all, but some other aspects of the operating system that were trying to be installed and updated that PHP5 needed before it could install.
After playing with that for a long time I decided it was a lost cause and that server was now, until I can do a more serious fix, unuseable. So, RIP "zed" (the server) you were long lived and the first and original web server.
At this point lots of stuff was installing and trying to happen and I became aware of the fact that I could no longer log into ZED at all, so with the few areas that I still WAS logged in, I had to make it count. I backed up EVERY web site on the server, EVERY FILE on those web sites. Except user icons. I realized this and freaked, but luckily the main console was still open and logged in and as my luck would have it, that server was connected to the cache server so I could zip all the user icons for Bzoink and Woohu and transfer them to the cache server. Once done with that, I grabbed the files from the cache server on the new server and unzipped and placed accordingly.
A labored switch of IP address in the DNS and everything is back up and running as far as I can tell. There were some file permission issues.. And I'm still concerned that there will be more (specifically with user icons) but I can't find any.
So that's about it. If you find anything going wrong LET ME KNOW.
As for now, I'm either heading home or taking apart zed and trying to give him a fresh install.. But probably not because I'm keeping it running and logged in just in case I discover more files that I need to copy from him.
Meh. It's days like this where I'm bawling my eyes and frustrated and tell myself I want to be a truck driver.
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2008 11 September :: 8.26pm
We're back.. On a new server.. With limited amounts of problems still. Working on it.
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2008 3 September :: 11.45pm
Statistical Surveys!
Statistical Surveys are here!
They might be buggy, I almost promise you that. And they might even mess up the old surveys somehow, specifically the creation process. If you find anything, PLEASE tell me. They need to be fixed as quickly as possible.
Once I get done posting this I'm going to try to come up with some good surveys to create so that people can start seeing them around the site. I encourage you to create some too! Same way as creating a normal survey, only now when you try to create a survey you're presented with 'Original' and 'Statistical'.
Yay for new features!
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