What this cliché expression doesn’t add is “if you haven’t got a lifejacket, you learn to make one fast or drown”
Oh the fun of metaphoric rainy days. This week just about everything to do with databases, servers, operating systems and hard disks went a bit squirly. Luckily, it all being digital stuff, I wasn’t prone to panic 
This is what I learned by fighting digital fires all frickin week.
- 1GB of RAM isn’t really enough for a million hits plus website if there are tens of thousands of complex mysql statements happening every day.
- Ubuntu can crash too.
- Linux may be more powerful but that just means the crashes are even more spectacular.
- UKFast have really awesome tech support who can answer your call in two rings and be all geeky with your server and do fantastic things while they talk to you on the phone like you called to chat about the weather.
- Crisis makes you code better.
- An external hard drive isn’t a ‘safe’ place to store important data if you let other people use it to “just copy some mp3′s”
- Having another partition for your my documents folder is a really really good idea.
- Life without tweetdeck on my work pc is a bit pants
- Tweetdeck on Ubuntu is also a bit pants when you can’t unlock your default keyring
- It feels like a genius stroke to send a copy of my menu.lst from /boot/grub/ to my gmail address
- Blogging about it makes it better.
- Coding stuff because you need it, makes it worth more when it works.
- If I didn’t have my missus to ground me, I would have stabbed at least 3 people this week. seriously, with a spoon! (because it hurts more)
- It’s bloody hot in summer when you can’t go out.
What have you learned this week?
Way to let off steam. you could have also streamed this out to the twittersphere one point at a time, or even better as it happened.
Hi Andy,
Oh you’ve given me a dilemma!
Just found commentluv today and think it’s great.
My problem – already using IntenseDebate.
I noticed some earlier thoughts about the two being compatible at some time – is that a goer or is it likely going to be too difficult to keep the code synched up?
Decisions, decisions, decisions!
Either way, great plugin.
Mick
.-= Mick´s last blog ..4th of July =-.
Twitter: andrewkeir
” # An external hard drive isn’t a ’safe’ place to store important data if you let other people use it to “just copy some mp3’s” ”
Ha ha, I’m embarrassed to say how paranoid i am about backing up my data.
I have an online backup.
A second HDD in my PC to store it locally.
An external HDD for an additional backup.
And finally a portable external HDD duct tapped secretly to the back of my desk…
yeah…
.-= Andrew Keir´s last blog ..10 beautiful bottle designs =-.
Twitter: commentluv
mick: there should be another version compatible with ID next month. I’ve been working on the back end scripts and making sure that they work properly first and then i can get into new versions.. thanks for your interest!
Twitter: commentluv
Andrew: lol, I am getting a bit paranoid about backing up too. I used to make changes to my theme and core code for my old blog live on the server but now with a whole network that could go down if I mess something up, I’m super paranoid about keeping backups too!