And now my boy's in love. All hearts and flowers. But, doesn't it freak you out that she used to change your diapers? I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hm. There should be a play.

Angelus ,'Damage'


Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


§ ita § - May 21, 2007 5:25:53 am PDT #9318 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

DCJ mentioned that during the site-out he was starting to get organised at PeoplesForum. I forget the order of our lines of defense.

PF irritates the hell out of me these days, and I think I don't even have an ID over there anymore.


§ ita § - May 21, 2007 5:26:47 am PDT #9319 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Here's the text from support:

It should be up now. We ran into a problem with the migration. The utility that converts the backup from the 7.5.4 based server to the 8.1.1 server failed. Now that we have a 7.5.4 backup from your server we can use that to debug the problem with the conversion utilitity. Once we have that issue resolved, we'll plan another live data migration. This utility is new to Plesk 8.1.1 and probably has a few kinks that need to be worked out.


Tom Scola - May 21, 2007 6:10:34 am PDT #9320 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I think it's getting to the point where it would be easier for us to do a backup, they do a clean install, and then we recover everything ourselves.


§ ita § - May 21, 2007 7:00:03 am PDT #9321 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Let me talk to them about that.


§ ita § - May 21, 2007 7:22:16 am PDT #9322 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, found out why it failed--there's a table in the MySQL databases with a period in it, and all the MySQL utilities are balking at it--it's what frelled the upgrade.

I don't actually think it's one of ours, but I'll have to make sure.


§ ita § - May 21, 2007 10:52:44 am PDT #9323 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

They've cleared up the issue with the wonky DB and tested the upgrade on the new system and it worked.

I'm of the mind that we should just let them at it Sunday at 9pm board time.


DXMachina - May 21, 2007 2:53:46 pm PDT #9324 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Go for it!


Pix - May 23, 2007 2:50:57 pm PDT #9325 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Um...we seem to be in imminent need of a new Bitches thread name and, shortly after, a new Bitches thread.

Some Spikey possibilities:

Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
Help me out here, Spock, I don't speak loser.
I'm not the first choice for heroics.
Some truly spectacular kickings of my ass.
Hasn't got a death wish? Bitch won't need one.
Did I sully our good name?
Impure as the driven yellow snow.
I made a promise to a lady.


Cashmere - May 23, 2007 3:47:52 pm PDT #9326 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I'm partial to Did I sully our good name.


Pix - May 23, 2007 3:52:40 pm PDT #9327 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

That's my favorite too!