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Impromptu Outage

BySteve December 28, 2005

Hello all, I hope you all had a great Christmas – we certainly enjoyed the break and are looking forward to 2006, which promises to be an exciting year for DearDiary.Net so far!

We had a small outage today where I discovered some indexes (or should that be indices?) on the database that were never used and maintaining them was a lot of extra work for the database. In theory it should speed things up although I don’t imagine it’ll really be all that noticeable to end users, but perhaps it’ll stop the disk thrashing and warming the server room up a little…

We’re enjoying some rare snow coverage and looking forward to the New Year.

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Spiders and System Performance

BySteve April 27, 2002

I’ve noticed a couple of occasions where the server has been slogged to the floor. This would appear to be due to search engines unfriendly spiders spamming the site with lots of requests in a short period. Altavista is particularly dastardly for this, and is presently in the banned list that doesn’t even know the…

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Password Change Disabled

BySteve August 31, 2001

Until we can get more time to investigate the problem (I have family over this weekend for example!) I have disabled/removed the code that does the password changing so now if this is someone being an asshole they will just be greeting with a 404 note now. Atleast you can be sure your passwords will…

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Apologies

BySteve October 9, 2001

My apologies also for not removing the Taleban reference earlier. At the time of writing they were sending condolences of their own for the WTC disaster. They seem to (as usual) have gone back on that sentiment now however, so I should have updated the message. Apologies.

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Looking for testers….

BySteve May 15, 2001

I’ve been working merrily (or not so, sometimes!) on the AtomIC Systems Jabber client. A number of people have commented on how unreliable, and how unfriendly the Jabber Instant Messenger (JIM) from jabber.com is and we’ve been working on our own version. However, I have to say, if you find JIM unfriendly this product is…

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Add Reader Comment, a bit more

BySteve April 29, 2001

A couple of minor escaping bugs have just been squashed (thanks to Steve for spotting them!) *mutters something unpleasant under his breath* 🙂 🙂 Something else I didn’t mention in the main announcement is that the emails sent out to diarists are now a little more informative. The biggest benefit will be to those with…

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Seems to be Data Issue

BySteve April 21, 2004

There’s something wrong with the query that runs the last updated screens (the one if you click the Show button) Its disabled, I can’t be fagged to figure out what is wrong with it, its obviously decided to explode in the last few days and frankly its half past eleven and I have better things…

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