Diary: December 2004

We Love Christmas

I have had my first christmas present - at 16.40, notnet was hacked. Some poorly written amateur php script (phpbb) let someone break in and replace every index file on the server with something else, so I now have the fun of going through all my (or more importantly, my clients) websites and fixing them. That'll only take a few hours... (Update: took a total of 3:30 to replace the files with my local copies, but have not started reconstruction)

Well anyway, Happy Christmas everyone! Oh, and you're all miserable for not commenting on my card - I ...

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Ho Ho Ho

This evening I went off to Tescos at 11pm. It really is the best time to go - nothing on the roads, you can park right outside the door, there are no screaming children or indecisive housewives, the night army have been on for long enough to restock all the shelves so everything you want is there, and no queues at the checkouts. It's great.

The rest of the day was spent setting up my new server (well, old hardware brought together in a second-hand case to replace an older server) and changing the naming scheme of my MP3s so ...

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