Testing Bugfix 1

The removal of entry of the week has prompted some good discussion, like any change that is made to the site. In this entry I shall try to answer some of the issues raised in Reader Comments from the previous entry. The notify list issue raised by InStitches was a bug and is now fixed…

We’ve got some fairly lucrative advert campaigns running at the moment, the first since approximately the end of 1999 and the number of showings the customer wants is significantly higher than we’ve been able to deliver in the first week of the campaign. As such I’ve been asked (and agreed to) add some adverts to…

HUGE numbers of people who have, at some point, had deardiary.net email addresses in their address book, can expect to receive unsolicited emails from our server, telling them that they may have a virus on their computer. Why? Because they may have a virus/worm on their computer, quite simply. I’ve checked the logs today and…

In a desperate bid to actually earn SOMETHING from this site, I’m investigating getting some DD.Net T-Shirts printed, if anyone is interested in purchasing (they’ll be about 12 quid ($18) each, less if lots and lots of people want them) one or more, drop me a note and I’ll add you to the list 🙂…

Hi all, bugs abound! Actually that’s not necessarily true, but there are a couple that have been fixed this evening, bizarrely in stuff that I thought I already fixed a while ago. The show my hits scripts are (or were) showing zero hits for the last 24 hours, which was clearly wrong – thanks to…

And a whole lot more besides. It would seem that the Plesk backup utility is a worthless pile of crap. ( for googles benefit when spidering this article – psadump does not backup everything properly. If you use only psadump and then wipe your system you will lose things ). Fortunately I took a filesystem…