For those who had idiots for CWP instructors, or idiots giving advice at the local gun store, Cataline has an excellent post on how to deal with the aftermath of a shooting [https://darkherald.net/2019/04/06/so-youve-just-killed-a-man/]. > Now the lights have gone out of his eyes. You have just killed a man in the comfort of your own home. Your life has changed for-ev-er. You will never be the same man you were before you pulled that trigger. Old you is as dead as the now cooling lump of meat…
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I've not only gotten the site restored to a new server instance, but re-established backups, pulling them down off the new server. It only took editing a few settings in my backup scripts to get the backups rolling again, and one CRON job/script on the new server. Things should be returning to normal around here. Thank you.…
Now I know why the NodeBB integration broke. Short version: the official method to export and import involves dumping to a JSON file. Despite exporting the unique ID numbers of each post, when they are imported, it generates a new set of unique ID numbers - which do not match up with the entries on the NodeBB side. I believe the next time I do this, instead of importing a JSON file, I should follow the backup / restore procedure I'd already tested, namely, replace the database. The ID / verifi…
First, my apologies for the downtime the last couple days. Second, why? Went to access my site and write a post, and nothing, zip. Not even an nginx-based "nothing to load here", no IP ping reply, nothing. So I went to the instance management panel - yes, it was powered on. Local console? Unresponsive. Soft reboot? Nothing. Log files for the instance were showing a series of input/output errors. So I pulled the virtual plug. Annoying - but crap happens. Even more annoying and less likely that…
Data is re-imported but I'll have to upload images. The new instance will have better snapshot and backup capabilities even without me personally downloading the backups to have a separate copy.…