Wed. Jan 18, 2006
Today's Lesson for the Ever Growing Geek
When an application you have installed on your server asks to be pointed to a “temporary” directory, [1] if there’s a default already filled in, one that’s been working for 21 months, leave it the %$#@! alone, and [2] if you foolishly decided to point it to a directory of your own choosing, make sure that directory is not also used by other applications, because one may try to run the other’s temporary files, creating a code poison that will make your site keel over like a drunken monkey.
In short, while you might think it’s somehow efficient and “neat” to point all your applications to one temporary directory, it is in fact only efficient at turning your site into a blank white page for a couple of hours, while you seek out those with greater knowledge.
Further Lessons for the Ever Growing Geek will be placed here shortly after they bite me in the ass. And thanks to Filip at TextDrive for patching me up.
Published 02:34PM, Wed, Jan 18 2006
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I also had to note that right now, on an article that mentions the words “ever growing” and “ass,” Google has seen fit to throw up an ad that says “Rid Cellulite with Tights.”
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I didn’t even notice a dead photodude in the middle of the web, so your friends work quick. Since I’m leaving for Chicago tomorrow and have no business even posting comments here, and since I recently upgraded to 4.03, naturally I had to try and post a comment there. Amazingly it worked. But seriously, I “feel yer pain”. You fixed my site that last time that happened.