1 Two words, my darling Pixy: Tip jar

2 I promise to have a tip jar (or something) set up by 2011.

1

Did you know about this? Australian tax rebate on computer equipment

Maybe it might apply to you.

2 I'd heard of it, but hadn't looked into the details.

I was looking at getting a new development server...

1 It appears that many of us have lost all posts made after June 4th, Pixy!  Glitch, reboot, bad backup, or feature?

Thanks!

2 Glitch.  Sorry about that, it should be fixed now.

I'm not sure why, but the database has been acting up recently.  Ran fine for nearly 18 months, then got a little confused.

We're moving to the new server later today, and in the process I'm doing a full database reload, which will make this problem go away.  (And hopefully it won't be replaced with a new problem...)

3 It is, and you're my hero!

1 Teraflop!

2 Hi Pixy!

About 30 minutes ago tried to load my page (c.a.2030 gmt) and got this (email addresses munged)
---------500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 342, in respond
cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 15, in __call__
return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "Minx.py", line 144, in index
return go(cherrypy)
File "Minx.py", line 105, in go
notify(cp)
File "Minx.py", line 130, in notify
send_admin_email('splat*ta*mee.nu',subject,text)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 46, in send_admin_email
send_email(sender,to,subject,body)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Util.py", line 73, in send_email
s.sendmail(sender,[to],msg.as_string())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/smtplib.py", line 695, in sendmail
raise SMTPRecipientsRefused(senderrs)
SMTPRecipientsRefused: {'andrew*ta*pixymisa.net': (550, 'Verification failed for *ta*mee.nu>\nNo such person at this address"\nSender verify failed')}

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Just tried again. Page now loads ok, but three posts made today (the only ones I've done so far this month) are gone. They also don't appear in the EDIT->Posts list.
The count next to the June 2009 archive link still shows "3".

3 Additional silliness at doubleplusundead (see comments).

4 Sorry!  Everything should be back now.

5 We had corruption on an index on the posts table.

I don't know why, but it's happened twice recently.  We're moving to a new server this weekend, and when I do that I'll do a full database rebuild to remove any potential issues.

6 That index isn't hosted in Chicago, by any chance? (Because that'd explain the corruption... hah-hah!)

Hey, I'm not gonna complain about free ice cream, even if it IS occasionally squash flavor.  The only reason I didn't sit quiet was the "recipient refused" part of the error message.

Thanks, as usual.