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So Um, That Was Unpleasant

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  January 22, 20174:52 pm| 74 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Site Maintenance

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Folks,
The site was down for 1.5 hours or so due to my mistakes. Mea culpa.

In more detail, after re-applying our customizations to the newly-updated theme files, I realized that the site was not working correctly as the theme had changed internally in ways that our changes were affected.

I then tried to use our repository to go back to a previous version of the files and it went ka-blooey. Permissions issues, but beyond my control to fix and not easy to diagnose before the problem happened.

Luckily, John has a great hosting provider – Hosting Matters – and they helped restore the site.  It just took a bit of time.

So should you be considering a new site host for your small, medium, or large site – WordPress or other – please consider them. Their support is top-class, always responsive, friendly, and the definition of technical experts.

I’ll be working on the test server to apply the new changes Tuesday and shall go from there, so there will be some updates coming, but not so dramatic!

 

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  1. 1.

    mai naem mobile

    January 22, 2017 at 4:56 pm

    Josh Marshall has a tweet saying Comey and Lumpy hugged each other at a get together at the WH today. Hope they both end up in Leavenworth as cellmates. Fuckers. Also Leni Reifenstahl says Lumpy is not going to release his taxes.Mofo. Also also, Leni autocorrects on my phone to Lenin. I think my keyboard is trying to tell me something .

  2. 2.

    Baud

    January 22, 2017 at 4:57 pm

    Or a test run for Trump seizing control of the internet.

    What do the Russians have on you, Alain? Or should I say, Alainski.

  3. 3.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2017 at 4:57 pm

    Good to know that it was you not Big Brother!

  4. 4.

    raven

    January 22, 2017 at 4:58 pm

    Don’t feel bad, I’ve been fooling with this new SSD all day! I decided to watch the Falcons eviscerate the Pack and call Tech Support in the morning!

  5. 5.

    Alain the site fixer

    January 22, 2017 at 5:02 pm

    @Baud: I have actually met KGB guys – stereotypical with fur hats – back in the early ’80s. One of the perks of growing up in DC and attending a prep school and having friends with important/interesting connections.

    But truly, the first rule of kompromat is that you never discuss kompromat, so I deny everything and note that I do like ice-cold Russian vodka and ice fishing, but that’s just a coincidence, I swear!

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 22, 2017 at 5:02 pm

    I was at the movie theatre watching ballet all afternoon, so the downtime didn’t affect me. But I notice now that, while we still have the Up arrow on the right, the Down arrow on the left has disappeared (desktop version, iPad, Safari). When you do the next round tweaks, I’d be grateful if you could restore it. Thanks, Alain! You do great work on behalf of the jackals!

  7. 7.

    JPL

    January 22, 2017 at 5:03 pm

    @raven: It is amazing.

  8. 8.

    amygdala

    January 22, 2017 at 5:03 pm

    Thank you for the update!

  9. 9.

    raven

    January 22, 2017 at 5:04 pm

    @JPL: The Bears stole the Packers uniforms!

  10. 10.

    debbie

    January 22, 2017 at 5:05 pm

    And if the scroll buttons could be added to the mobile version…

  11. 11.

    Yarrow

    January 22, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    Thank you for taking care of the site, Alain.

  12. 12.

    Elizabelle

    January 22, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    Thanks, Alain. Comrade.

  13. 13.

    Mary G

    January 22, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    Thanks for the fix.

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 22, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    @mai naem mobile: Looks to me like Trump tried for a bro-hug and Comey really wasn’t into it. Comey knows he put this man in the Oval Office, and probably doesn’t want the video to make him look like a willing accomplice.

  15. 15.

    Alain the site fixer

    January 22, 2017 at 5:06 pm

    @debbie: that was going to be my little happy for the site today while I was doing the other stuff but that plan went up in smoke when the site went down. Tuesday, they’ll be there and working correctly.

  16. 16.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    January 22, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    @mai naem mobile:

    Lamh36 had a video link downstairs. Trump and Comey.

  17. 17.

    Nicole

    January 22, 2017 at 5:10 pm

    Me: Oh god! The Trump camp has come for balloon-juice!
    (2 seconds elapse)
    Me: Or, maybe the site is just down and will be back up later.

    This has been a demonstration of the power of the lizard brain to react, incorrectly and moronically, with fear.

  18. 18.

    Gindy51

    January 22, 2017 at 5:11 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Too late for that…

  19. 19.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    January 22, 2017 at 5:12 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet):

    Looking at that video, what strikes me is the weird combination of obsequiousness and glee that Comey has in being recognized by Fearless Leader. Creepy.

  20. 20.

    p.a.

    January 22, 2017 at 5:13 pm

    YOU were the Reichstag fire!!!

  21. 21.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 5:14 pm

    How the fuck do you get a delay of game on a kickoff after TD?

  22. 22.

    Elizabelle

    January 22, 2017 at 5:15 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Disgusting. Comey looks delighted to see Trump. Jackhole.

  23. 23.

    Steve in the ATL

    January 22, 2017 at 5:17 pm

    @Corner Stone: seriously. have never seen that before in decades of watching football.

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 22, 2017 at 5:18 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    WOW! Ask and ye shall receive! Thank you, Alain!

  25. 25.

    Raven

    January 22, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    Run it down their fuckin throats!

  26. 26.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    FWIW, you don’t seem to have fixed everything; the back button is broken again.

  27. 27.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 5:23 pm

    That’s a bullshit call on Packer D.

  28. 28.

    Raven

    January 22, 2017 at 5:23 pm

    @Roger Moore: He hasn’t fixed the Packers D either.

  29. 29.

    trollhattan

    January 22, 2017 at 5:23 pm

    @Alain the site fixer:
    Cool! What were Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings really like?

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 5:23 pm

    @Roger Moore: Back button hasn’t worked for me for months.

  31. 31.

    Yarrow

    January 22, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    the back button is broken again.

    I was wondering if it just wasn’t working for me.

  32. 32.

    Mike in NC

    January 22, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    Anybody get that tacky Parade magazine packaged in their Sunday newspaper? Today’s has ads for both a gold commemorative Trump coin (very classy!) and a commemorative collectible Trump figurine. The hands aren’t small enough and he is way too slender.

  33. 33.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    @Raven:
    I think he has a bit more control over one than the other.

  34. 34.

    Calming Influence

    January 22, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    “Folks,
    The site was down for 1.5 hours or so due to my mistakes. Mea culpa.”

    Alain, please stop covering for Cole. You’re better than that. We all understand who you’re working for, and are sympathetic. But John won’t achieve full recovery until he admits that he is unable to control his need to do site upgrades for which he is not qualified. Stand strong.

  35. 35.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2017 at 5:28 pm

    @Yarrow:
    It’s the stupid smooth scrolling on internal links thing that breaks it. That seems to replace a regular html link with some Javascript that scrolls the page around. Browsers know how to follow links forward and backward, but the Javascript trick keeps them from knowing what you’ve done, so using the back button takes you to the previous page rather than the previous link.

  36. 36.

    Raven

    January 22, 2017 at 5:29 pm

    How ya like that call HA HA?

  37. 37.

    JanieM

    January 22, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    Hi Alain, because of prior recommendations from you, I recently transferred a domain name I acquired last year from Network Solutions (always trying to sell you something) to Hosting Matters. The transfer isn’t final yet, but at every step of the way HS has been prompt, helpful, patient, and friendly. I told them right off that you had recommended them. :-)

  38. 38.

    mai naem mobile

    January 22, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): I tell ya Juicers are always ahead of me. I didn’t even know there was video of it. Disgusting. I have no words for Comey. And his reaction to being called over is like of a hs freshman girl being called over at the school dance by her senior jock crush.

  39. 39.

    Hal

    January 22, 2017 at 5:32 pm

    I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m buying my first laptop since 2007. My last Dell XPS died in 2011 and since then I have used smart phones, and eventually a tablet. Just an amazon fire tablet, nothing special, because I’m cheap.

    What’s weird for me is I loved my laptop and used it nonstop. But it took me two days and two cancelled orders of other laptops before I settled on my old Dell. I read reviews, looked up coupons, ordered two different laptops and then immediately cancelled, and finally settled and went with order number three.

    Now I feel like I missed out on the full computer experience and have fallen behind. I’ve been meaning to try out coding and I need to get back to something robust enough to act as a fully capable information/work station, so I’m actually excited.

    Oh, I bought the Asus F55UA.

  40. 40.

    PPCLI

    January 22, 2017 at 5:33 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It wasn’t just the semi-hug and air kiss that was damning, it was Comey’s simpering grin walking over, upon being called out and praised by Trump.

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 5:34 pm

    @Hal: It seems like maybe you have some commitment issues?

  42. 42.

    Shell

    January 22, 2017 at 5:36 pm

    and a commemorative collectible Trump figurine

    The only one Id consider buying is one you can stick pins in.

  43. 43.

    debbie

    January 22, 2017 at 5:37 pm

    @Alain the site fixer:

    Good enough. Thanks!

  44. 44.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2017 at 5:39 pm

    @Hal: I just bought myself a Dell XPS15, so far I love it.

    ETA: Its as good as husband kitteh’s MacBookPro and at less than half the price. I bought it from Dell Outlet, it was refurbished. It has two hard drives, one of which is 1 TB.

  45. 45.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2017 at 5:41 pm

    @Shell: May I suggest knitting needles.

  46. 46.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2017 at 5:42 pm

    @PPCLI: That’s what struck me too. Eeww.

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    January 22, 2017 at 5:42 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    That’s the kind of pointless, “cool” feature that drives me nuts—​especially when it breaks something else. From the same mentality that put tail fins on 1950s cars.

  48. 48.

    Alain the site fixer

    January 22, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    Yeah so I see some other issues I’ll need to solve on the mobile site post-recovery so once I get that all done I’ll get those buttons working. For now, it works good enough until I can dedicate time and focus Tuesday. ‘Night all, I’ve got food to cook and stuff to watch.

  49. 49.

    Emerald

    January 22, 2017 at 5:47 pm

    @mai naem mobile:

    Exactly. That video is infuriating. Can’t wait till both of them are in jail. Not that it will ever happen.

  50. 50.

    Suzanne

    January 22, 2017 at 5:47 pm

    Thank you, Alain. That narrow column width was making me crazy.

  51. 51.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2017 at 5:48 pm

    @Roger Moore: Javascript is mostly evil.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    January 22, 2017 at 5:50 pm

    @Alain the site fixer:

    Could you at least duct-tape the back button so that it doesn’t close the current tab send you to the last one?

  53. 53.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 5:53 pm

    Just too much.

  54. 54.

    Steve in the ATL

    January 22, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    Beat. Down.

    Rise up!

    You may now return to bitching about site updates.

  55. 55.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    @Corner Stone: What is?

  56. 56.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 5:57 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Falcon’s offensive weapons. They are brutalizing the Packers like a Trump admin member treats the truth.

  57. 57.

    Yarrow

    January 22, 2017 at 6:00 pm

    @Roger Moore: Thanks. I noticed the smooth scrolling thing was back too.

  58. 58.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 6:00 pm

    That looked like a facemask but he may have just had a grip on the inside pad or collar.

  59. 59.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    No challenge? That would have finished this one.

  60. 60.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    @Corner Stone:Football? If yes, I am as qualified to comment as T is to president.

  61. 61.

    JPL

    January 22, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    @Corner Stone: The Packers got away with a fumble

  62. 62.

    JPL

    January 22, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    At least the knees are down that time.

  63. 63.

    Corner Stone

    January 22, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    @Yarrow: Isn’t Smooth Scrolling a great cover band name for like Beach Boy era music?

  64. 64.

    cosima

    January 22, 2017 at 6:09 pm

    If you aren’t watching the football you should watch this. I was chastised in the last thread for not providing a link, so here’s one to his site: http://roger-waters.com/

    That had to sting. Guess the US won’t be having any Roger Waters concerts for a while. Epic. No punches pulled, absolutely brutal.

  65. 65.

    Hal

    January 22, 2017 at 6:15 pm

    @Corner Stone: I’m one of those people that will nickel and dime myself out of money over multiple days, but completely balks at spending one large some of money.

    150 bucks on two weeks of groceries? No thanks. I’ll just spend 20 dollars a day on breakfast and lunch.

    Buying a laptop was traumatic.

  66. 66.

    Hal

    January 22, 2017 at 6:17 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: My last laptop was a Dell outlet “scratch and dent”. The dent was the size of a ball point pen tip and I got 400 dollars off.

  67. 67.

    Colm

    January 22, 2017 at 6:18 pm

    Considering that “Alain the site fixer” is clearly an anagram for “Netflix arise hi tea”, I don’t think it’s safe to conclude that they are distinct entities.

  68. 68.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2017 at 6:23 pm

    @Hal: My last Dell laptop was a refurbished Dell too. I made it work for 10 years. Its still going strong. Its fan needs to replaced.

  69. 69.

    amk

    January 22, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    Thanks Alain.

    Now to sue Adam.

  70. 70.

    SWMBO

    January 22, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    @Mike in NC: How big were the hands? Is the hair detachable?

  71. 71.

    amk

    January 22, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    also.too. the back button is back to being borken.

  72. 72.

    amk

    January 22, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    now back button is back. thanks, Alain.

  73. 73.

    fuckwit

    January 22, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    Always stage your production deploys.

    Always.

    Also, stage your production deploys.

    Before you deploy them.

    Also, test them first. Before you deploy to production.

    Test your production deploys, in staging, first. Stage your production deploys.

    To not do so is madness.

  74. 74.

    HeartlandLiberal

    January 23, 2017 at 7:06 am

    I recently brought a new email server for my personal domain back online, so I could move my email back from the gmail cloud. This time, being retired, I had time to do it right. There is a production server, and a backup server that is a clone. I did every step on the backup/clone first. And a good thing. An attempt to install Spamassassin went haywire, and almost destroyed the clone. I thought I was going to have to reinstall, and here I was at last step of three weeks work. That bad experience made me take an old Dell server I had which had been retired from my final consulting gig, and install a THIRD image of Fedora 25 LINUX on it, so I have a pure test bed to try dangerous stuff in FIRST.

    Anyway, I have done a little with WordPress, too, for a few personal blogs for me and my wife, so I know how insanely complicated it can be, especially implementing themes and customizing them. So I feel for Alain.

    But I am glad to see reference to a test server. ALWAYS do full tests there, and let people use them if at all possible.

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