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Posts made since the 19th of April have been lost. This is, of course, entirely my fault. I run this server, own the hardware and bandwidth. A while back, I turned off MySQL backups to isolate a problem with the backup script. You can see where this is going: I didn’t turn it back on. The server has been happily backing up everything it has except the databases.

A disk underwent some impressive filesystem corruption, so was recovered from backup: Backups which did not include the MySQL databases. MySQL was able to recover its database, but lost recent entries as a result.

 Oops.

Hattix is all about simple but useful services (when I’m not using the blog to rant, that is), such as Upload.Hattix and the simple hosting system. Today, a new service went online. Like the others, it’s simple and effective and does what it should and none of what it shouldn’t. This one simply takes a YouTube link and generates a downloadable FLV (Flash Video) link so you can save your favourite YouTube videos to your computer.

You’ll find it here. I’d like to thank Filoni for the base scripting and Kami for some help testing.

I’ve been threatening it for a while, but I finally thought I’d get my blog online before Kami’s. Work will progress on a non-sucky site design, which will be my first new design since I re-did Runesource way back.