Server Down

Assuming 1and1 ever gets their act together and my server re-appears on the net once more, I’ll be sure to let everyone know…

The really frustrating part is that I use 1and1’s provided FTP backup to keep about a month’s worth of my blog’s backups on a physically separate machine, but that FTP account is only available from within their network (to prevent people from using it as mass storage for hosting), so I can’t even get to those backups to manually restore them elsewhere.

To top it off, it looks like Media Temple is having problems once more. I’ve temporarily moved the DNS for incoherentbabble.com back to my (gs) account, but it’s running as slow as molases. It took quite literally 10 minutes to delete the prior Wordpress directory left over on my account and perform a fresh SVN checkout of Wordpress 2.3.1. Just spectacular, guys…

And here I thought I’d earned some karma points lately. First I’m in the final 3 job applicants (out of about 500 I’m told) and I lose it out to another guy, and now this series of unfortunate events… I’m beginning to think someone up there doesn’t like me very much.

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10-30-2007
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Who is Ron Paul?

As a follow up to my last post, I thought I’d post the list of brief facts about Ron Paul that came on one of the info cards. It’s really a great representation of some of the things he’s stood up for during his long congressional career.

  • He voted against the Iraq war.
  • He voted against the Patriot Act and a National ID Card.
  • He voted against the Military Commissions Act.
  • He voted against regulating the internet.
  • He has never voted to raise taxes.
  • He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
  • He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
  • He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
  • He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
  • He has never taken a government-paid junket.
  • He is against amnesty and in favor of securing our borders.
  • He is against the North American Union, NAFTA, GATT, WTO and CAFTA.
  • He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
  • He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

Can you name another candidate who’s done half of that?

Please, check out some more information on Ron Paul. I think you’ll agree he’s the best candidate for the job.

I highly recommend the Youtube channel. Hear his stance in his own words and realize the passion he has for restoring America to its former glory.

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10-27-2007
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It Came In The Mail Today…

Who is Ron Paul?

I’ll be wearing it out tonight, even though it’s supposed to be in the 40’s. Hopefully I can find a long-sleeve shirt to wear under it.

Even though they sell separately on the store, the folks at Ron Paul HQ tossed in a couple of matching ‘Who is Ron Paul?’ pins and cards with info on him. Kick ass! In the next month or so, I’ll probably be ordering a sweatshirt version.

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Plesk Backup Error: Specified file is not accessible

After upgrading my Plesk install past 8.1.1, I encountered a problem with the builtin backup utility. When attempting to create a new backup (either locally or to an FTP repository), I would almost instantly be handed back the error:

Unable to create backup session: Specified file is not accessible

I googled around and found a couple of results, including a support forum that actually had the answer to my problem burried back on the second page.

For whatever reason, Plesk loses the ability to write to its temporary directory, where all backups are held until they are completed (even for FTP destinations). I was easily able to solve this problem by (as root):

chown -R psaadm:psaadm /var/lib/psa/dumps

Note that the original author of the suggestion I used said to chmod 777 the files, but this proved to be unnecessary. I saw that the parent directory was owned by psaadm, and it just made sense that the dumps directory would need to be as well.

In any case, it worked for me. Hope this helps someone…

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10-8-2007
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Paris Hilton on Letterman

Thanks to Holy Shmoly, I found this hilarious video of Letterman roasting Paris Hilton. The ending absolutely made my night.

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10-6-2007
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