10-02-2006, 02:01 PM
Subtitled: "Why does he keep breaking it?"
I'm figuring none of you noticed that the forum was down for an hour on Saturday. But it was and for a while, I figured it was going to be down for good.
See, I was trying to be good. The forum kept telling me to upgrade. I was four versions behind. Plus if I upgraded I could use some character recognition on the signup form (check it out. It's just like ticket master) to weed out the spammers and I wouldn't have to delete all those people that had cialis in their names.
I hit the upgrade button and a millisecond later I realized I hadn't backed up the configuration file properly. You know, the little file that tells the forum where all the posts are located in the database and who made them and on what date, etc. I checked. I hadn't saved the right config file. I'd saved a blank one. The one I needed to save was on the server.
It only took about forty five minutes to figure out the special phrases to make the forum work again. It's like any good computer game. What arbitrary selection of key hits will get me the cookie? Its probably the reason you had to login to do your posts.
I hate computers.
I'm figuring none of you noticed that the forum was down for an hour on Saturday. But it was and for a while, I figured it was going to be down for good.
See, I was trying to be good. The forum kept telling me to upgrade. I was four versions behind. Plus if I upgraded I could use some character recognition on the signup form (check it out. It's just like ticket master) to weed out the spammers and I wouldn't have to delete all those people that had cialis in their names.
I hit the upgrade button and a millisecond later I realized I hadn't backed up the configuration file properly. You know, the little file that tells the forum where all the posts are located in the database and who made them and on what date, etc. I checked. I hadn't saved the right config file. I'd saved a blank one. The one I needed to save was on the server.
It only took about forty five minutes to figure out the special phrases to make the forum work again. It's like any good computer game. What arbitrary selection of key hits will get me the cookie? Its probably the reason you had to login to do your posts.
I hate computers.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit