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I hosed it...
2005-11-28
As you've no doubt noticed, I totally hosed things while working under the hood yesterday. I went to drop a table and dropped the whole database. Inconvenient, but I thought I'd just restore the backup, which would cost us about a half day's post.

The backup was corrupt. I had to use the previous day's. After tearing my remaining hair out, I was able to restore Page 1 by hand. I still don't have the comments done, will probably do that tomorrow.

I usually have an editor page open set to all records, but today I didn't have it on this machine. A family member -- he'll recover, though he'll never play the violin again -- shut down the page I had open upstairs.

My sincere apologies to everyone.
Posted by:Fred

#18  "he'll never play the violin again"

Could he play it before, Fred? ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-11-28 20:42  

#17  Doing well,
Living in a Redneck highrise
Trailor sitting up on bricks
Just as happy as an old Jay-bird
A’way out in the sticks
Do alotta hunting and fishing
Drink alotta home-made brew
Proud to be living in America
Don't like it...then _uck you.

EP
Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding   2005-11-28 20:13  

#16  Thanks Elvis.
Wern't you in Blue How ar ya?
Posted by: Shipman   2005-11-28 18:47  

#15  Fred,

you do a stand up job on the burg. Keep it up!

I point your site out all the time to my friends in the mil and on the hill and they love it. I heard through the grapevine that you may have even replaced Debka over at AIPAC for their daily net intel gathering!

You need to start charging those fools.

My mamma always said if somebody's willing to pay for something then you should charge them for it before someone else does.

Take Mamma's advice Fred!

EP
Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding   2005-11-28 18:34  

#14  Damn it, Captain, I'm a doctor not a psychiatrist
Posted by: Captain America   2005-11-28 17:16  

#13  Fred, You do a great job! Yesterday my home server crashed and after four hours of work on it we got it back running. When I logged back into Rantburg it had changed, did not know of your issues, but I sure was confused when all the postings were different. The fog of the internet wars won out on that one. Thanks again for the great site!!!
Posted by: 49 pan   2005-11-28 11:08  

#12  You have to change the "-at-" to a "@". Prevents email address harvesting by spammers.
Posted by: Fred   2005-11-28 09:39  

#11  Your E-Mail link doesn't work, it gives an error message copied below/

The following problems occurred while processing your request:

fred-at-rantburg.com - This address is too long. Addresses are a maximum of 16 characters.

Your mail has not been sent. Please correct the problems listed and try again.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-11-28 08:45  

#10  Servers, why do they hate us?
Posted by: Steve   2005-11-28 08:44  

#9  That's a tough family you've got there, Fred! And I don't think anybody's terribly upset about the hiccup. I find it miraculous that you keep Rantburg running so smoothly anyway.
Posted by: Jonathan   2005-11-28 07:23  

#8  Not a problem,Fred.Ditto Dawg's words.
Posted by: raptor   2005-11-28 06:16  

#7  What's 'Short Attention Span Theater' supposed to be about, anyway? Irreverent articles? Those should go on page 3.
Posted by: gromky   2005-11-28 02:39  

#6  Fred, thanks for your dedication to the Burg.

Steve, I don't have a page 4 archive, but here is the link to an opinion article I posted yesterday.
Eurabia’s Morass Elicits Mythical “Solutions”
Posted by: ed   2005-11-28 01:35  

#5   My sincere apologies to everyone

fugitabout'it, who make mistakes? me..jus one of dem things.

Rantburg gudd..dittos

worth repeating.

i

Posted by: Dawg   2005-11-28 01:12  

#4  Question for all readers: if you saved a web archive of any of the files yesterday, particularly page 4 (Opinion), please e-mail to Fred or one of the mods. Thanks,
Posted by: Steve White   2005-11-28 01:12  

#3  It's back now.
Posted by: Fred   2005-11-28 00:33  

#2  I think I just found a minor oopsie.

The category "Short Attention Span Theater" seems to be missing from the posting page.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2005-11-28 00:25  

#1  Obviously, Fred, you need to install some miniguns servoed to motion & IR detectors. :)
Posted by: PBMcL   2005-11-28 00:15  

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