New service

AtomIC Systems are proud to announce AtMail – AtomIC Mail. Many of you have asked about how to access your deardiary.net e-mail, and many of you have expressed an interest in being able to pick up DearDiary.Net email via the web, from AtomIC Systems. Well, now you can. http://atmail.atomic-systems.com/ In order to receive mail to…

MOO now running.

For anyone that remembers, and those that don’t but fancy learning or playing, we are now running a MOO on moo.atomic-systems.com 8888 Please note, the MOO is there purely as a bit of fun, is completely unsupported, might not always be available, may drop you unexpectedly (its not running on the main server), may be…

Forums.

Someone has alerted me to the fact that people don’t seem to be able to find the forums system any more!! Here is my suggestion, as posted on the forum; If you want a quick and easy way to find your way to the forums, bookmark (or add to favorites since most people are on…

The thot plickens…

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…

OK, its back

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…

Database Failure

For some reason, as yet unknown, the database crashed. If you have an entry that you entered between about 19:20 and 19:50 it is almost certainly gone without trace. I can only apologise for that, the database crashed in a hard way. Entries before that should be OK. I’ll give more info as I find…