August 15th, 2006 by Jemaleddin Cole

When I woke up on Sunday Morn­ing at 3:30, I dis­cov­ered that there was a new ver­sion of Typo out. Anx­ious to find fixes for the bugs I’d enoutered in ver­sion 4, I started read­ing through the release notes where I dis­coved that the copy of rails on my server wasn’t com­pat­i­ble with the latest Typo. Worse yet, nei­ther was com­pat­i­ble with the ver­sion of Ruby installed.

So, think­ing I knew what I was doing, I did the download-​configure-​make-​make install dance for Ruby, read­line, gems, rails and typo. With all of that going smoothly, I went for the final step: typo install [direc­to­ry­name], at which point every­thing went to hell. It backed up my data­base, but then mod­i­fied the orig­i­nal and crapped out. Trying to back out the changes didn’t work. Nor did any­thing else I tried. The error mes­sages? How about: “unable to find method read!” Yeah, that’s working.

To be honest, I prob­a­bly screwed it up. In fact, I’m sure of it. Which is why I’m switch­ing to Word­Press. Dreamhost’s one-​click-​install made instal­la­tion a breeze, and hope­fully I’ll figure out how to get my old data tran­si­tioned over soon.

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16 Responses to “Old site broken, thoroughly pissed”

  1. How come I got bumped from the blogroll? I was creep­ing up the list and had reached second place after start­ing at the bottom. I was think­ing I was on a roll and would soon top Fresh Caf­feine but now I’m Nowheresville.

    Oh, and I want to thank you for not upgrad­ing my blog soft­ware.

    My home com­puter won’t boot. I was having some prob­lems burn­ing CDs so I unin­stalled the burn­ing soft­ware and ran Norton Win­Doc­tor to clean up the reg­istry. Bad move, now all I get is an eter­nal “Windows is loading” mes­sage. Been that way for a couple of weeks. Haven’t had time to even look at it. Some­thing to that old adage not to fix what ain’t broke, eh?

    — skank August 15th, 2006 at 12:48 pm #

  2. Thouroughly? Thou roughly treated?

    — skank August 15th, 2006 at 6:38 pm #

  3. You didn’t get bumped - I’m still trying to get things back to some kind of normal. What’s upset­ting about the whole thing is that I have pretty great page rank and some good google rank­ings for some of the pages that have died. Which means that I’m miss­ing out on my paltry adsense money for the time being.

    I’ve upgraded your blog soft­ware sev­eral times with­out men­tion­ing it to you. But never in the wee hours.

    Sorry about your soft­ware - What you need is a MacPro. =-)

    — Jemaleddin August 15th, 2006 at 6:43 pm #

  4. I have no idea what you’re talk­ing about.

    — Jemaleddin August 15th, 2006 at 6:51 pm #

  5. Thouroughly vs. Thor­oughly. Never were a good speller.

    — skank August 16th, 2006 at 12:30 pm #

  6. Hmmm. Someone’s been edit­ing your spelling…

    — skank August 16th, 2006 at 12:31 pm #

  7. boo for typo!

    — vampy August 16th, 2006 at 10:28 pm #

  8. Yay beer! Oh wait. Yay Word­Press!

    If I’m not a good speller, I wonder what this says about the rest of human­ity. =-)

    — Jemaleddin August 17th, 2006 at 4:08 am #

  9. Word­press rules your face!

    Sucks about the data “loss”. That’s sim­i­lar to what hap­pened to me. :(

    — jerry August 18th, 2006 at 11:48 am #

  10. Ah! At the top of the blogroll. Finally. I have arrived. My life is ful­filled. :)

    — skank August 18th, 2006 at 12:16 pm #

  11. Well, I’ve got almost all of my entries back, but no com­ments. As I’m having to man­u­ally enter every­thing back in, I can’t see myself typing in 1000 com­ments, so that’ll prob­a­bly have to wait.

    I think Word­press re-​orders the blogroll as the pages on it are updated… So if you want to stay there, keep post­ing.

    — Jemaleddin August 19th, 2006 at 4:41 am #

  12. Just won­der­ing if you’re “thouroughly pissed” at turn­ing 32? Happy birth­day!!!

    — skank August 20th, 2006 at 1:33 pm #

  13. Why does it look like your side­bar is hosed?

    — jerry August 21st, 2006 at 12:39 pm #

  14. I dunno - I’ve been mess­ing with some stuff - send me a screen­shot or something…

    — Jemaleddin August 21st, 2006 at 1:01 pm #

  15. It looks like it’s back now.

    And send­ing a screen­shot would require moti­va­tion, and I am fresh out of that for the day. :p

    — jerry August 22nd, 2006 at 6:47 am #

  16. That’s my Jerry!

    — Jemaleddin August 22nd, 2006 at 12:53 pm #