Archive for November, 2007

2mhost Sucked my .com out, now I’m going .Net

November 14th, 2007

Screw this, I’m going .Net!!! … As in http://www.rvdavid.net that is. Due to a mishap which resulted in my domain name being held hostage by my old host 2mhost, I’ve decided to forget about the .com domain and shift to .net!

It’s been a dark couple of weeks, but now that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and the dust has settled, what emerges from the ashes is the my new domain rvdavid.net. It’s a long story but I’ll tell the tale for those who want to read. Continue on to quickly review the way that 2mhost, the cheap web hosting company, services with customers.

update: I noticed that they have added a “why am I seeing this website?” link which is a mailto link to enom’s whois-help.info. Just so it’s known, my gripe is not because my domain has expired. What makes this thing sour for me is that 2mhost had/is deliberately ignoring my attempts to contact them to achieve the resolution that I as a once paying customer deserve. – At the time, I coudln’t access the rvdavid.com domain through enom since 2mhost is the registered reseller – no other routes to take aside from dealing with 2mhost directly – who don’t answer my emails – am I asking them to bend over backwards? no way! but ffs guys, respond to emails.

You had no problems replying to emails when I was a brand new sale! anyway… the story goes…
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How to force a WordPress database upgrade

November 6th, 2007

There are times when you will need to force a database upgrade in WordPress, unfortunately, this did not really solve my problem of fixing “WordPress database error: [Table 'mydatabase.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]” (see this post for the solution), but for those who may need to “force” an upgrade, this is how you do it.
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Upgrading to 2.3 breaks some plugins in WordPress

November 6th, 2007

“WordPress database error: [Table 'mydatabase.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]“

Recently, I’ve started receiving the above error message after I created my posts. A little unnerving, but it seemed to be alright. The site was running fine aside from the errors.

After trying to force an upgrade of my WordPress Database – which did not work, I looked around a little more and apparently, the following tables have been removed from WordPress in it’s latest version 2.3:

  • post2cat
  • link2cat
  • categories

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Running back to Xubuntu from Fedora

November 6th, 2007

After a couple of months stint with using Fedora as the Desktop OS for my home workstation, I’ve decided, to come running back to Xubuntu.

There’s no particular reason, aside from productivity. As much as I’d like to consider myself versatile, I _really_ don’t have the time to mess around with another OS at home.
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