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Ozblogistan News, Part Deux

August 10, 2010 – 8:17 pm

Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan Overlord here. Last week I wrote briefly about slowness being caused by attempts to debug a comments plugin used by several Ozblogistan blogs — Brian’s Latest Comments — in the context of Larvatus Prodeo. It transpires that LP’s database of comments was too large to process without causing errors and [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (0)

Sorry, folks.

July 29, 2010 – 11:39 am

You’ve probably noticed some slowness in the past 2 hours. That’s me, your loving Ozblogistan admin / tyrant, trying to debug a plugin. Apparently asking for debugging information is too much for PHP and MySQL to bear, so they threw an unedifying tantrum which choked the site.

By Jacques Chester | Comments (2)

Lawyers and a larrikin lose upgrade lotto

July 15, 2010 – 2:35 am

tl;dr: If the site looks broken, do a shift-reload. Tonight I spent a few hours performing some upgrades on the Ozblogistan server upon which Skepticlawyer.com.au and others reside. This was triggered by my VPS host providing new memory allowances which required rebooting the system. I had two other upgrades in the backlog — the operating [...]

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An appeal to my American readers…

December 13, 2009 – 10:11 pm

This is a fairly blatant exercise in tourism blegging, so if you don’t live on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA, then feel free to ignore it. I will be attending a conference in Washington DC from 19-21 February, 2010, and (having done this once before) would like to avoid flying across the pond, staying [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in General, Society | Comments (3)

WordPress is still half-baked junk

August 2, 2009 – 6:30 pm

Normally-invisible Jacques here. Those of you who know me know that I regularly complain about WordPress. In their rush to add ever more features and introduce new-shineys, the developers of WordPress generally can’t be arsed to close old bugs, write proper tests or confirm that their software isn’t lame rubbish. Latest pet peeve: version 2.8 [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (5)

I broke it

June 21, 2009 – 10:15 pm

Sorry, my fault.

By Jacques Chester | Comments (4)

Happy Birthday to Us

May 19, 2009 – 6:54 pm

I just realised that our joint blog is now over one year old. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! Personally, I’m delighted with the results, and I hope you are too.

By Legal Eagle | Comments (19)

Helping Jacques

May 7, 2009 – 4:36 pm

Our tech-guru Jacques is doing a subject called Software Quality & Measurement at UWA. He’s developed two different procedures for calculating monthly mortgage repayments, and needs people to test which one is better. (For further details from the horse’s mouth, see Jacques’ post at Club Troppo here). It is anonymous, simple and takes no longer [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Blogging | Comments (0)

Another thing I got wrong

April 8, 2009 – 9:22 pm

I misconfigured postfix, the server program that handles the delivery of emails on behalf of WordPress and some other programs. I’d done some fancy stuff to make sure SL’s avatar showed properly but didn’t test it. Consequently postfix began to accept mail into its pending queue, but stopped sending any. Today, looking at the server [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (0)

More kerfupsing

April 4, 2009 – 5:34 pm

A few days ago the server went bonkers and locked up. At the time I was not sure why. I restarted the HTTP server (in our case, Lighttpd) and everything seemed to return to normal. That’s usually how you know everything is completely broken. Today the server went nuts again. For the nerds amongst you, [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (1)