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Hopefully it’ll come back if I disable integration between the two. Possibly. If not, it’s been needing a prune for a while and I might just start from scratch rather than restore backups (incidentally, Evolution makes it impossibly hard to backup your contacts list, and it’s in a closed format. Far out. It seriously sucks at that whole thing.)
Will work it out sometime tomorrow.
Someone remind me next time I say I’m going to do something stupid like reinstall an operating system too quickly, that databases aren’t stored in my home directory. Far out. I’ve just created hours of work for myself trying to piece together what used to be in various MySQL databases on this computer. Yeah, I know, I should backup, but seeing as I never make major changes (it’s all just incremental little stuff for sites still in the development phase) and really don’t understand how things are meant to be backed up with MySQL (do you export queries, or do you copy the folder, huh? HUH!??) I don’t anywhere near as often as I should.
For me, the databases are generally ancillary things that are merely there to fill in spaces in CSS-based designs, so I always backup design aspects, but rarely the database itself, because there’s no original content there. Well, yeah, but there’s vitally important structure that’s just been thrown away. Doh!
Oh well, nothing I can (read: should) do about it now, maybe between tomorrow afternoon and Thursday. Think of it as post-humous ITF study. Because that’s all it’s going to get.
Note to self, PHP’s mktime() function breaks when you use leading zeros. Thankfully, that means I’ve got 18 hours left to cram, and not nine. Bizarre.
p.s. Now’s a good time for the RSS people to come out from the trees and look at the now fixed hh:mm countdown on my site.
p.p.s. The first post-script will be irrelevant this time tomorrow.
p.p.p.s. Trackback spammers, have a heart. I haven’t got time to deal with your crap right now, and really won’t feel like it tomorrow afternoon. Just go away for a while, okay? Thanks.
I had written a post praising Elinks’ capabilities, featuring not only HTTPS and FTP support, but also tabbed browsing and more-than-respectable rendering of table-based pages — heck, it even works well with Gmail, albeit in plain HTML mode. But then I accidentally hit the wrong arrow key. And it ate my post. So now I feel less like saying nice things about it than before.
Nevertheless, impressive considering the limitations of the medium. I used it to download Breezy from iiNet’s FTP (because ISP.net.au still doesn’t have the ISOs), and averaged about 750KB/s — which is about a third again of what I was getting from ISP.net.au, so I think I’ll change the sources.list to that. It’s a shame Telstra’s files.bigpond.com is so useless/HTTP-only/slow to respond to new releases, because I’d love — and I’m sure they’d save some bandwidth/peering expenditure — to be able to get quota-free downloads of this stuff. I probably could have got Breezy from there, albeit via HTTP, albeit in a few days time whenever they get stuff up there (haven’t checked, might be there already, but generally they’re pretty sluggish), but it’s just so much easier this way.
Anyway, I’ve burnt it to CD now (no, Elinks doesn’t do that too) and will hopefully be up and running again soon.
Posted from Elinks
On the subject of the film Thelma and Louise:
(surprised) Do they die?
Yeah, they drive off a cliff!
That’s feminism for you…
Shrug, I thought it was funny :P