Note to self - if suspending your MySQL data directory in RAM, make sure you back it up every five minutes or, the second the power goes down, you’ll lose the lot!.
Sorry to all who commented in the last 4 days - in the move back to the old / new server I managed to [...]
Archive > March 2008
Well that was pretty damn stupid
Looooong Weekend Abounds
There’s something about the Good Friday / Easter Bank holiday season that always catches me off guard. And it always seems to come at a very busy point of the year.
This year, I have the (questionable) advantage of the GGF having a pretty nasty rota over the next 3 days which means I can grab [...]
Frustration
I’ve just found a new definition for the word.
For some weeks now (i.e. about 6) I’ve been chasing a bug through one of our internal systems at work. Along the way, the bug was joined by others and then by a couple more until I was simultaneously tracking 5 seeming unrelated, very weird, bugs through [...]
More Speed Improvements
Or at least I hope they’re improvements. As well as shifting the DB into RAM (drastic I know but worth it for this server at least) I’ve also grabbed the pre release of Wordpress 2.5.
This has the advantage of giving the site the benefit of a serious SQL overhaul (Wordpress 2.5 has been very neatly [...]
