Austin Improv

I've sort of fixed email. That stupid error should be gone now.

Goddammit.

Sorry for the inconvenience - looks like the database crashed and crapped up the forum's session table (where your login gets recorded, blah-de-blah.)

Anyway, I just found out about it while Mo & I were stopped at a little coffee shop in Ithaca NY so one reboot and a bit of fork-poking in the ...

Once again the black monolith that is the server hosting the AIC forums took a dump Sunday night. My Guardian Admin pressed the Big Red Button this morning and the forums are back - otherwise you wouldn't be reading this.

To avoid further flakiness, please excuse further downtime as I move the ...

So for some reason the IP blacklist module keeps IP addresses in the database (apparently) forever; if the Project Honeypot blacklist subsequently unblacklists an IP address, the forum never grasps that and lets the user back in. Not cool. There should be an expiry time after which the IP address is ...

Russian Spammer, I want you to insert your head in your butt, like the picture of the snake eating its tail, but backwards so your butt is eating your head.

Skidmark.

Most of it should be fixed. I had to reset the time fields in a couple of tables (sessions, search results, topics, etc.) to convince the software that nobody's flooding the systems with searches.

It just goes to show you how important accurate time is to computers.

Also I found the reason for the ...

Ok, here's the story as I understand it:

I updated all my systems today and rebooted everything. The only problem I noticed was that the system clock was off by a month. No big deal - sync the system with a known-good time source, then start the program that sits in the background to keep time ...

What the ... ?!

In addition to the normal marshmallows, it appears that someone's added a magnet (possibly a turkey neck), an ovary or gall bladder, and a misshapen creme brulee or meringue. This lepre-child offends Me - I shall turn him into a pillar of bran for his apostasy.

North Korea is one seriously fucked up country, insular and Stalinist in the extreme, run by a goofball who kidnaps Japanese directors to make films for him while his people gnaw bark off trees like starving deer. Kim Jong Il is a nutcase, but he's a nutcase with a totally punked and obedient ...