Maintenance without pain
Today was a maintenance day for software. Microsoft released their version of a patch for the WMF hole, which seems to work. New versions of MediaWiki (1.5.4) and MySQL (5.0.18) are now running and nothing has mysteriously stopped. I even was able to Google my way to resolving an obscure problem involving “php and mb_string”, which might have had some unexpected effect sometime, somewhere, in a galaxy near you.
The whole problem for a person trying to maintain a test server is that you can’t be sure what update will send you back to square one. I had to rewrite my Wiki data from start after one such session. I don’t know how to back up this blog, so it lives a similar, ephemeral existence…
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