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Putting in some placeholder documents. Might fill them in later if I could be stuffed.
So I ran mt-check.cgi and discovered this:
Image::Magick
Your server does not have Image::Magick installed, or Image::Magick requires another module that is not installed. This module is needed if you would like to be able to create thumbnails of uploaded images. Please consult the installation instructions for help in installing Image::Magick.
So I guess my thumbnails are never going to work.
*sigh*
As discussed in several previous blog entries, my hosting provider changed something the other day, and since then the thumbnails over there on the right aren't being generated. I could spend hours figuring how movable type creates those thumbnails, or I could just delete the widget. Apart from my mother, who actually comes to my homepage to view my blog, and would miss the widget if I deleted it?
Even though I fixed the permissions on the main blog admin script, and the comments script, whenever I upload images the little widget on the side is not getting the image url. Trying to figure out what script needs its permissions fixed ....
Still can't get it to work. I'm wondering if they've also broken the ability of php to generate images. They broke something a while back which forced me to use recaptcha instead of the inbuilt captcha generator. Of course they denied all knowledge of any changes back then too.
ok so I've been a total slacker. Dave managed to blog his three days in Sydney on the same day. I *still* haven't blogged. 2260 photos. The night I got home I downloaded them all off the camera. Monday night I resized them all and viewed half of them. Tuesday night I attempted to geotag. Geosetter doesn't really like doing 2260 photos at once and took two hours to save against the tracks I had (the photomate recorded nearly 24 hours of tracks and still hasn't filled up yet!). Tonight it was all too hard and I really haven't done anything. Oops.
I did fix the permissions on the mt-comments.cgi so people can comment again now. Didn't take long for the comment spammers to notice :/
Just to add some colour, here's three Nokia 8210s, taken in 2001. The middle one was mine. Obviously taken at uni. One was probably Luc's, don't know about the third... Sami's maybe?
If anyone's tried to comment on my blog today you may have noticed server errors. Then I noticed that the blog admin itself wasn't working. Had a look-see at the permissions on all the perl scripts on the server, and they were all -rw-r--r-- .. ie, no executable anywhere. So presumably some process has gone through and changed all my script permissions. I've mailed support, we'll see if that gets us anywhere. Otherwise I'll be chmodding everything manually!
Hopefully this posts!
Now that I've blogged every day for a month and linked all my Europe photos, don't know were to go next ;)
I did find something exciting tonight.. when I first setup this blog on this new host two and a half years ago, I could never figure out why the email notifications for comments on my blog didn't work. Well it turned out they did, but they were being bounced because this host expected I was also hosting the MX record on the server, which I wasn't. So tonight when I was poking around at the mail on this server tonight because I actually want to bring the MX record across, I found all those emails!! Epic squeeeee!!!!
Seems like the disk on the server my blog is on is full (well, *almost* full). So weird stuff could happen if you try and comment until they get around to fixing it...
So as of today I've been blogging for seven years (!?!)
I didn't realise seven years ago what I was getting into. But now that it's been going for so long, I'm almost dependant on it. I've been blogging for nearly 20% of my life, which means I have a brilliant record of the crap that I've done.
Thanks to everyone that still continues to read my boring drivel, I think I'll be around for a while yet :)
I didn't realise seven years ago what I was getting into. But now that it's been going for so long, I'm almost dependant on it. I've been blogging for nearly 20% of my life, which means I have a brilliant record of the crap that I've done.
Thanks to everyone that still continues to read my boring drivel, I think I'll be around for a while yet :)
I seem to have run out of things to blog about.. should I stop?