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May 27, 2010
16:06
Lots to do - but now my site is back up.

I have been very busy lately. My server's HDD died (I didn't get around to raiding the second disk) and so it sat there doing nothing for around a month because I was too tired to get over there and fix it. I'm sorry about any data I have lost!

I have moved to a Jumba VPS (I required cheap, generous and Australian) which costs $10 a month and so far it has been good except that I was not automatically allocated an IP when I signed up. While signing up I pondered whether I should get 10 IPV4 addresses so that I can release them for a certain amount of money. But that would be evil.

Luckily I manually backed up my personal part of the server the night before it died, so I was able to restore my Storytlr instance last night after a bit of fiddling with dependencies. I shall document the exact setup process for Storytlr on my new Wiki, and then probably get that pushed upstream.

Yes, I have set up a wiki.

MediaWiki is pretty nice and I rather it over that crap that Russell prefers. Even if it is PHP. I was holding off creating a wiki previously not only because I was lazy but because I was hoping that they would soon add better static content managment to Storytlr.

The todo list for the next 4 days is pretty long. *sigh*

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Comment by russell on 28 May 10 at 9:59 EST
and here you are telling me raid is not backup. bet you wish you had raid1 now!
Comment by russell on 28 May 10 at 10:01 EST
oh for pete's sake. storytlr has a bug: it you enter an invalid name, fix it, then click "Post", it doesn't update the page. thus an idiot like me will hit post a few more times thinking it didn't work.
Comment by russell on 28 May 10 at 10:04 EST
so, it has nothing to do with the name it didn't like. storytlr just doesn't give any feedback at all once you hit post, at least not if you are using ifrefox 3.5.9 under debian squeeze.
Comment by DDevine on 28 May 10 at 10:59 EST
Hadn't noticed this... I usually comment as the Administrator so maybe it is different however, IIRC it does have feedback. Do you have JavaScript running?
Comment by danieldevine on 28 May 10 at 11:01 EST
Testing now
Comment by danieldevine on 28 May 10 at 11:02 EST
Ok, you are right it's a bug. I'll go lodge this over at http://code.google.com/p/storytlr
Comment by DDevine on 31 May 10 at 8:56 EST
Created tickets http://code.google.com/p/storytlr/issues/detail?id=73 and http://code.google.com/p/storytlr/issues/detail?id=74 related to this issue.