Wet but easy Friday

[annathepiper]

Lesson I learned from yesterday: when it's pouring down rain during the evening commute, downtown Seattle gets wacky crazy. As I walked to the bus stop between 6th and 7th on Pike, I kept hearing car after car honking horns and saw car after car running red lights and charging around corners before pedestrians could cross. It made me very glad I didn't actually have to drive in the downpour. And it was a downpour, much heavier than is normal even for this time of year around here.

Last night I mostly spent helping solarbird out with trying to get lodestone back online. Dara did most of the actual work, but I worked on getting Apache up and running. This time we're trying out Apache 2.0, in the hopes that it'll be more robust than the 1.3 version we were running before. We actually wanted 2.2, but there's not a Debian package available for it yet, and likely won't be until after the new year. Big thanks go out to fenton, who provided both Dara and me helpful clues for what to do about getting things running again.

The next question is going to be what to do with PHP--whether I should bother to set up both 4 and 5, or just worry about 5. From what reading I've done on PHP.net so far, it looks like most of the PHP code we've got running on our site should run fine with PHP 5.

Anybody got an opinion on PHP 4 vs. PHP 5 and whether it's worth it to me to run both? Also, anybody have any advice on how to review our PHP code to make sure it's not doing anything stupid in terms of security? Any and all tips are welcome.

Tonight and tomorrow I plan to get PHP online as well as mySQL, so as to get my web pages as well as spazzkat's working again. It'll be a very quiet weekend, since as per usual Paul is in Virginia visiting his family, so Christmas at the Murkworks will be delayed until his return. But mamishka will be joining Dara and me on Sunday and we'll go see King Kong again. Woot!

Rumor has it I'll be able to go home early today, too. Plus the team went out to lunch, so it's been a pretty easy day all around. Which is good, considering I get to go home and bang on the web server.

Thursday miles: 3.45
Friday morning and midday miles: 2.5
Miles out of Hobbiton: 563.15
Miles out of Rivendell: 105.15
Miles to Lothlórien: 358.85

Comments

[cow.livejournal.com]

PHP 4 vs. 5: some programs I use just don't work with 5. I think WordPress is one of them (even if I haven't used it for much of anything yet). If you don't run anything that needs 4, though, I recommend just going with 5. Running two versions at once is double the headache, double the fun!

[annathepiper]

Ah, now Wordpress and PHP is a useful bit of data to know, just because I was vaguely tempted to install it on the system by way of investigating off-LJ blogging systems. And Debian had a package for it. But it's not a high priority thing right now, so I could probably live without it--especially given that there didn't seem to be any form of it I could install system-wide rather than on a single account.

I tried to run both 3 and 4 at one time, way back when, but I think that goes back to the days of anvilite. I remember having to bang on Apache to get it to load both sets of libraries, AND having to make it so that PHP 3 code would only work in files ending in .php3. Whee!

Thanks for chiming in!

[cow.livejournal.com]

Well, I could be wrong re: WordPress -- -something- didn't work with php5. I'm pretty sure it was WP, though. I keep investigating off-LJ blogging systems, and then I realize that, in the end, I am just a lazy bovine.

And yeah, that's basically what ends up happening--you have .php and .php5, or .php4 and .php, and then you get to rename all the files in the programs you use . . .

[annathepiper]

I keep telling myself I'd like to have an off-LJ blog at some point, but I probably won't do any such thing unless I actually sell a manuscript and need to set up a professional site. Hee.

Well, we'll see what happens. Right now Dara's trying to talk with security-type gurus, since we've gotten word that what hit us was a shiny new form of attack whose vector is not yet known--and PHP is still under suspicion. So I won't even be installing it again until this is figured out.

[cow.livejournal.com]

... I'll be very interested to hear more details once they're known. :)

[annathepiper]

Oh, that graphic is good. *chortle* Dara just burst out laughing. ;D

Watch her journal, I'm sure she'll post interesting data as it comes up!

[solarbird]

Just for that, I have to show you now the cow flag:

[cow.livejournal.com]

Why on earth would anyone want a 3 foot by 5 foot version of that hanging outside their domicile?

Insanity! :D

[solarbird]

I think it's cow bait for BBQers.

[(Anonymous)]

when it's pouring down rain during the evening commute, downtown Seattle gets wacky crazy. As I walked to the bus stop between 6th and 7th on Pike, I kept hearing car after car honking horns and saw car after car running red lights and charging around corners before pedestrians could cross.

Having just finished working at the market all day I can assure you that it was the "jaysus it's almost Christmas Eve and we're not done with our consumer frenzy" crowd that were doing that.

Also, in re: your "if I sell a manuscript and need a pro site" comment I must blow a big messy raspberry at you.

What you meant was "WHEN I sell a manuscript".

Have a safe and happy holiday season Ms Anna.

HH

[howlinhobbit.livejournal.com]

Grrrr! Forgot to log in... the comment waiting for approval and signed HH was, of course, my own self.

HH

ps... dang bourbon must be something in it!

[annathepiper]

AH yes, I had failed to remember that this is in fact the week before Christmas. So yeah, that makes sense!

As for manuscripts, *grins a bit*, I need to get back to writing again, but I think I need to get all settled out from the "getting a new job thing" and the "figuring out my proper thyroid levels" thing... I haven't written anything solid in weeks, really, and it's starting to frustrate the hell out of me!

But I'm trying not to worry about it too much at least till after the new year.

Thank you very much for your kind words, though, they are most appreciated. Happy holidays to you and yours as well. :) :)

[annathepiper]

Heh, I had no bourbon this morning when I forgot to log in before leaving a comment on Dara's journal--so what's my excuse? Um! Planetary misalignment? ;)

[pauldf.livejournal.com]

downtown traffic: I think part of that is that that part of downtown is crazy this time of year with traffic going to/from Westlake, Pacific Place, and the nearby dept. stores. It probably won't be that bad next month.

[annathepiper]

howlinhobbit made a similar point. :) And I'm sure that the recent nutbar rain we've had isn't helping any matters either!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with anything, but you might want to look over here.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/rahalia_cat/1067303.html?style=mine#cutid1

I take NO responsibility for it; in fact, I can hardly believe I'm pointing you to it - take it in the spirit of holiday joy. :-)

[annathepiper]

LOL! Okay, that's cute. ;) Thanks for the link!

[teaghlach.livejournal.com]

Ok, this is going to sound very random (and fangirlish but hey, I'm a geek and proud of it) I am sure. But years and years ago, I remember this thing called the MUSH logs. And I got talking to some other Han and Leia fans and they too remember them. So, we set about tasking the Wayback Machine with finding the site. Which it did. It just wound't open any of the actual files that would be great to read again since they were really terrific the first time through. From the archived pages we could access, we set about trying to find the owner/author/etc. of said MUSH logs and it has lead us to your livejournal. Which leads me to asking you if there might be anywhere we could now find and read the MUSH logs. Just shoot me back a comment on my livejournal anywhere you'd like if you might be able to guide us in the right direction. Thanks much!

Happy Christmas :-)

[annathepiper]

Well, hello there!

I do in fact still have all of my Han logs from Star Wars MUSH--the ones I actually posted as well as ones that I never got back around to getting included in the archive.

However, right now my site is down due to our web server's recently getting hacked, and while the server is back up now, I have yet to reinstate my page for assorted reasons. So right now the logs aren't easily accessible on the web.

If you're willing to wait till I reinstate my page, just watch this journal for further updates; if you'd like the logs before that, I'm willing to share copies in email. But they won't be as easy to read in a coherent fashion. :)