Technology makes my blood boil
Technology is great when it works. But when it doesn’t it can be a world of pain. Productivity is slashed and stress levels rocket. Just one thing going wrong hurts, but multiple failures? Eugchhhh. I’m sure they are unrelated, but this has been a particularly bad Monday. Somehow I’ve lost administrator rights on my laptop. This means that lotus notes no longer works and I’ve got no access to email, other than via web-mail. Worse, I can’t roll back to previous back-ups or install any admin tools. Slingbox has crashed and requires a reboot. Hard when it is in a living room the other side of the world. I need VPN access but my version of Windows XP is x64, and as far as I can tell Cisco do not have any drivers for it.
I wouldn’t usually use my blog to moan about my technical gripes. But wordpress has pushed me over the edge. Every comment on my blog has been replaced with:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘wp_comments’ is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed]
Where do I start?
(Of course you could comment, but it won’t work because of the error. Doh!)
aha! mySQL database repaired thanks to http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/05/31/how-to-quickie-repair-mysql-tables-in-phpmyadmin/