System_administration

I accidentally found out that all ahnve.* domains where down today. It has been three years since I last renewed them, so I had forgotten all about it. The big problem was that the contact emails where being sent to an old address, so I never got the warnings I assume GoDaddy sent out.

According to Feedburner, some people have tried to reach the site and failed, sorry about that. It is all good now. But I got quite a scare as we are about to go on vacation, which will make me internetless.

I’ve previously mentioned that I’ve unsuccessfully tried to migrate my personal domain to Google Apps. I also blamed Google for it not working. I was wrong.

It seems that Textdrive has some nifty Apache security going on which denies the Jakarta HttpClient to connect, returning a “412 - Precondition Failed”. Big thanks to Doug for finding this out.

Having two kids does limit blogging quite substantially. I still managed to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of b2evolution tonight which took quite a while. I managed to screw up the db upgrade, and when I tried restarting it choked on all table modifications and creations. So I had to step through all of the scripts and comment out all sql that flunked. PHP is quite unreadable really.