Mea culpa
... mea maxima culpa for the down time today. We had an idiotic technical glitch. The main "read" server got too full (350GB only seems infinite). Freeing up space was no problem; 80% were old log files. But we inadvertently changed permissions on a file which caused errors that "looked" like database corruption. Anyway, we learned our lesson, or at least a lesson.
All data is and was safe. Even if we lost that one, we have four more. And nightly backups.*
Thank you for your patience and support. John and I are going to go cry now.
*The topic of backups is high in my mind these days. My MacBook Pro's hard drive died Wedndesday. I was amazed how little I lost. Five years ago, a hard drive crash would have sent me to the sanitarium. But LibraryThing is almost entirely online. I lost a few layered Photoshop files, and my Pando Calendar--which will be a HUGE pain to reconstruct. But all the programming is online, as are my emails, the Wiki we use for business documents, etc. That leaves some music—which I will feel no moral qualms at all about copying from the first person I meet who has it—and a season of Battlestar Galactica I wasn't much interested in seeing again.
All data is and was safe. Even if we lost that one, we have four more. And nightly backups.*
Thank you for your patience and support. John and I are going to go cry now.
*The topic of backups is high in my mind these days. My MacBook Pro's hard drive died Wedndesday. I was amazed how little I lost. Five years ago, a hard drive crash would have sent me to the sanitarium. But LibraryThing is almost entirely online. I lost a few layered Photoshop files, and my Pando Calendar--which will be a HUGE pain to reconstruct. But all the programming is online, as are my emails, the Wiki we use for business documents, etc. That leaves some music—which I will feel no moral qualms at all about copying from the first person I meet who has it—and a season of Battlestar Galactica I wasn't much interested in seeing again.
posted by Tim at 3:33 PM
7 Comments:
Will it cheer you up a bit to hear that LibraryThing was mentioned in this week's Newsweek? (USA version, pg. 80, TipSheet, Technology, "Bookish Friends"). That is pretty darn cool.
I know! Not the biggest mention, but still. It's cut out and in my scrapbook :)
Yeah, it's nice to get the mention. The inclusion of some minor LT competitors was predictable, although the way it was written implies some sort of contrast--as if LT didn't do everything they do. The one that gets me is Whatsonmybookshelf. Don't get me wrong, I like the site and the guy who runs it. But there are a half-dozen swap sites with more users. Picking whatsonmybookshelf as the only swap site is like writing an article about the 2008 US presidential race and only mentioning Dennis Kucinich among the democrats. I hope Newsweek only makes that kind of mistake on fluff pieces...
I hope Newsweek only makes that kind of mistake on fluff pieces...
No, that's actually a well-known effect: ANY time you have personal knowledge of something you read in the media, you'll notice how the media gets the essentials of the story subtly wrong. (Because your knowledge of the subject is less superficial than the journalist's.)
There is no reason to believe that this effect doesn't also obtain in stories where one doesn't have personal knowledge.
But back-ups, yeah: that's one reason that I'm now depending on LT for my cataloging needs - my own iBook isn't reliably enough, and I kept losing data kept in my home-brewed catalog.
Well, it's depressing. Certainly I've found it to be true where my knowledge touches the NYT--tech and ancient history or archaeology.
I think I could write up a one-page guide for reporters writing about tech on "how not to be a dumbass." Step one would be check a site out for competitors and run it and them through something like Alexa.
If you want that season of BSG,I have all of it.
Nadine of leennnadine
Hey, thanks! But we're set.
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