Archive for September, 2009

Just some songs i have been listening to…

Dizze Rascal  – Bonkers on Jools Holland

Billy Bragg and Milkman of Human Kindness

Tried to switch domain name registrars….. When the domain went down for a while I am guessing it crashed my MySQL database. When I got back up and running Wordpress was messed up asking me to re-install. When I tried to refresh my Wordpress install I got the error….

Error No. 1033 Incorrect information in file: ‘filename’

This, let me tell you, is NOT shits and giggles to fix. After 2+ hours of research I found this error is usually associated with server crashes and an incorrect version of .my.cnf the configuration file for MySQL.

The problem is most people, not running a dedicated server, have no access to the etc/ folder on their MySQL server.

Was coming to accept the loss of my database and starting again when I randomly decided to check my site and it was back up and running. Why! Why! WHY! Even though I am amazingly grateful that my history of bad political/tech commentary has been saved I would love to know a reason for this.

I know I am going get Google hits for this error and all I can say to you guys is no solution here yet sorry!

Answers on a postcard….