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If anyone has any idea how we can transfer the DB from drupal to a system that actually works, that would be good
* NB - the fact that no-one seems to be able to access the DB is the complicating factor ...
If you know how to achieve such a transfer, please contact Webdiary. Which might be easier if they’d left an email address. In other pointless internet news, this site just recorded its most popular month yet—at least since the dawn in May of the Sitemeter era. More than two million happy customers in six months.
I’m pretty sure its the doovahickey or the thingamabob, though it could be the whatsit.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 10 30 at 12:46 PM • permalinkI’m not that familiar with the way Drupal structures its data (I did take a look once, a year ago), but I’m sure I could extract it and convert it to suit some other platform.
Ain’t offering. Just saying I could.
Got better things to do… like cleaning the vomit off my kitchen floor. (Rough night. Don’t ask.)
Please, one of you, help the Webdiary folks out: it is too amusing, watching them through this site, to let them screw themselves out of existence.
Posted by marc in eugene on 2006 10 30 at 01:16 PM • permalinkanyone has any idea how we can transfer the DB from drupal to a system that actually works, that would be good
Well, for what it’s worth, I entered the above question in that cheap universal translator that I bought from Paco Industries and here’s what I got:
DB = double boldening
from drupal = they have to pay cash money
a system that actually works = they pay what they can afford which is 0 or possibly some old Margo Kingston stock shares
that would be good = Hamish doesn’t have to go look for a job, a real job
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 30 at 01:30 PM • permalink#2, What he said.
Well done Tim, thats more than 12,300 hits per day.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 10 30 at 01:56 PM • permalinkRemember how Webdiary posted that little notice in the corner of their page that read “Webdiary currently has funds in hand to keep going to *insert the inexorably nearing day that signifies the clock chiming midnight and the death of Australian democracy*”
How we laughed at the way D-Day kept being moved forward, seemingly unnoticed by the terrifically delighted Webdiarists. We all thought this a ploy to keep those ostensible idiots - bizarrely titillated by some kind of rapture caused by a sense of their own impending doom - to keep signing the cheques. We now must face the consequences of our cynicism.
We laughed at them - fools! - we laughed at them! Did one of us stop to consider that it might come to this? What will we do if the Webdiary vision has been snuffed out? How can we possibly go about replacing that? Perhaps the country’s seminal forum for alternative political debate has been smashed! Verily, the citizens of the world must grapple with their consciences! That they stood by and let a priceless artefact of humanity - a unique and irreplacable component of the Australian Way - be crushed in front of their unseeing eyes.
As for the uncomprehending Blairites; we may have won, yet we lost and we must now reap the consequences of our hollow victory. Imagine a world without Webdiary. Now I know you know what I mean.
As an unrelated aside, I’m really enjoying this duty-free cognac.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 10 30 at 03:13 PM • permalink“If anyone has any idea how we can transfer the DB from drupal to a system that actually works, that would be good.”
I dunno, ma’am, but all that smoke don’t look very good to me…
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 10 30 at 03:44 PM • permalinkI could do it, but it ain’t gonna be cheap.
I won’t accept anything less than the annihlation of democracy and the installation of a RWDB ruling class.
Also two forms of photo ID.Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 10 30 at 04:59 PM • permalinkNot all of us are your “happy customers”, Mr Sponge-Tim Blair-pants.
Many of us only visit this site for a laugh because you got a mention from the overwhelmingly popular Ant Loewenstein.
Hey, didn’t you promise to give us some cushy jobs at Fairfax?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 10 30 at 05:35 PM • permalinkWediary’s got technical problems.
So okay, who was the last one to wind up the rubber band?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 10 30 at 05:51 PM • permalinkSomeone tell them how to do it but only on the condition that David Roffey writes a piece on Webdiary thanking Tim Blair and his readership for Webdiary’s survival.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 10 30 at 06:27 PM • permalinkThey’ve updated their page. (AEST. 10:30am when I looked). It turns out it wasn’t the drupal, etc, but their hosting provider.
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It turns out that the database was deliberately suspended by our internet host because of the load it was imposing on their server: they didn’t, however, bother to tell us this until today (Monday). Unsurprisingly, we will be moving to another hosting provider as soon as possible.
If you have any contacts in the IT industry, tell them to never use OnSmart as a hosting provider.
Seriously, what did they expect…
The webdiary capitalists started turning a profit (ie went MSM) - and OnSmart are positively swarming with zionists.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 10 30 at 09:01 PM • permalinkI love the “If this page does not redirect after 20 secs, go to” blurb on the new error message…as far as I can tell, there’s no working redirect code in the page. It’s like a Communist economy - they’re trying to look like the real thing, but have no idea how to make it work.
And yeah, I don’t buy the idea that Webdiary is suddenly a resource hog either, unless they recently did a severe downgrade of their service package.
BTW, apparently they seem to have trouble telling the day of the week, too…when ekb87 pasted the error message in #23, it was still “today (Monday)”, now it says “today (Tuesday)”.
#23 - I wonder whether that’s libellous? If you’re right about #24, it could well be…
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 10 30 at 10:31 PM • permalinkMy site runs on Drupal. I haven’t the foggiest idea how to install it or whatever - reasons I have people with some IT savvy doing that sort of stuff. Supposedly it requires some sort of knowledge of programming to get it to work properly. If you CAN get it to work properly, it’s fantastic software.
In this case I’m left wondering how a bunch of clowns like them got it up and running in the first place. I thought they were using typepad. They should have stuck to basic blogging software.
Sorry for the double post. I forgot to say we’re also hosted by Onsmart. They’re usually pretty reasonable and helpful if there’s a problem and will work with you to fix it. We’ve had the “server load” problem before - mostly due to spammers trying to hit us. Sometimes your site goes down for a while. It’s the way of things. Suck it up guys.
Congrats, Tim. Couldn’t happen to a snarkier guy.
Posted by miriams ideas on 2006 10 30 at 11:47 PM • permalinkAccording to the link at #15, Drupal can “... enable additional behaviors. The modules available for Drupal provide a wide assortment of features ...”.
Perhaps some person(s) became too enabled by the assorted features, and ‘things’ became ‘mixed up’ amd ‘misbehaved’.Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 10 31 at 12:57 AM • permalink
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If anyone has any idea how we can transfer the DB from drupal to a system that actually works, that would be good
Well, looks like the finnegan pin came loose from the pulley on your skyhook, probably as a result of a microHenry surge. I’m afraid we’ll have to take it into the shop.