17 June 2005 @ 08:52 am
 
I broke STN.

There's a database I use every Friday morning which charges by the second I'm in it so I have to be really careful about everything I do. I mistyped a command and now it's stuck in a loop and won't let me get to the directory I need to be in, get to the help files, get to any page other than the one I'm in and most importantly of all - it won't let me logout.

I started the command sequence at 8.28. It's now 8.48 and I can't get out of the loop. I shut it down by doing a local disconnect and closing the telnet session, but as far as I know it's still ticking away in the background. Every time I try to boot it up again it re-connects to the session I interrupted and gets caught back in that same loop.

Gah!

I've been doing this for months now - I've got it down to a fine art of getting in and out of the database in less than three minutes. This just sucks!

In other news, I was chatting to [livejournal.com profile] emeraldswan last night and I mentioned that I couldn't do anything icon related because everything I did was just crap. I made Summer Glau look buck-toothed last night. How the hell I managed that I'll never know! (and I shut it down without saving in disgust so sorry, you can't see it!). Anyway, after our little chat I kinda decided to play around with some colouring just to see what I came up with. I think they worked out okay in the end! Icon post over here

Now I'm going to have to wait till my boss gets in and apologise profusely for breaking this fricking database and hope to hell there's some way she can rescue it!

ETA Yay! It fixed itself! I thought - I'll give it one last try before the boss comes in and hey presto it was working!
 
 
Current Mood: worried
 
 
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[identity profile] willowmina.livejournal.com on June 17th, 2005 01:12 am (UTC)
Glad it fixed itself - 'coulda been embarrassing if it hadn't.

And pretty icons - I especially like the River one. The poem the lines are from is something that speaks to me. a lot.

Hope the coughs feeling better today.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 17th, 2005 01:17 am (UTC)
Thansk! The text didn't quite work out the way I wanted it to on that one - might play about with it some more over the weekend! (y'know, in all the copious spare time I have in between Solstice preparations, writing this [livejournal.com profile] with_character essay, finishing the Faith/Xander scene on [livejournal.com profile] _inthedarkness, updating [livejournal.com profile] _dontcomehome, finishing off chapter 16 of CR, working some more on two other fics which are almost ready to be betad... you get the picture! *g*)
[identity profile] willowmina.livejournal.com on June 17th, 2005 01:48 am (UTC)
So - 'bout as much spare time as I have evenings next week then.

Which other fics are you working on at the moment?
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 17th, 2005 02:01 am (UTC)
All of them really, but the two specifically are 'There's Always Time' - my Nhamo EOD ego-fest... and 'Off Course' - a BtVS/Lost crossover.