The afternoon did indeed see the clouds part and some sunshine break through.
I have been working with my crayons all day trying to depict a lot of information in a visually pleasing manner.
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I see the news in the sidebar is updating
The funny thing about that is that it could have been working all along
When admin (of blessed memory) and I set it up some years ago, I had it working by fetching the CUK main site's RSS feed and updating with any new stories. But when we deployed it to the server, it didn't work. It turned out that admin had various firewall rules set up to protect the server and one of them was blocking it from fetching the feed over the web.
It was late and we'd already been working on forum deployment stuff for hours, so we went for a quick and easy fix: he set up a cron job, which was exempt from the relevant firewall rule, which fetched the feed and saved it to the server. Then my scheduled task could read that file and update the news that way.
When admin moved on, the new administrators moved things over to their container-based systems. But they missed the cron job, because I suppose they never thought to look and admin had probably forgotten all about it. So the news remained stuck because the file was never updated.
Anyway, yesterday when I'd sorted out the memcache stuff, I went and had a look at the code for updating the news; I was wondering if I could work out how to get it working. I'd also forgotten all of the above. But what did I see: the line that fetched the RSS feed directly, commented out, above the three or so lines that got it from the file
So I commented out the stuff for reading the file, and uncommented the original line that fetches the feed directly, and it works!
We should probably have documented this stuff but as I say, it was late
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Two birds, one stone: went for a walk round one of the various blocks available to me, and dropped off the recycling at the place of bins on the way out
It's getting quite misty out
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Here's a good one for your Monday links thing Fizzy Knickers:
Drunk animals far more common than previously thought, scientists say | The IndependentHowever some cases in insects appeared to point to a social link with ethanol consumption. In one 2012 study, male fruit flies were found to increase their alcohol consumption after being rejected by a mate, while females of a closely-related species were found to be less selective in their choice of mate after consuming ethanol.Leave a comment:
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Lunch has been leftover chicken bits
Hope they hadn't been left over too long
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Morning.
Wednesday.
Dry.
Grey.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 16.8 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 15 deg in the leanto.
1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (up from 1022 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 26th of November 2019 Brillo and xogg hated people, xogg loved wasps and spiders, I was in with the hoi polloi in the library with fewer Universal Credit claimants being introduced to the interweb and the keyboard, however the farter turned up, and the morning walk was muddy and chilly, sufficiently so to use the road rather than the woodland paths.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 10:20.Leave a comment:
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