Will’s View

Okay, nice to see some of you are using this blog (as lame as it is at the moment). Sorry about the moderation process, it was turned on by default, now I’ve just left it so that if you’re a new user, you have to be moderated on your first post, or something like that, I think.

I know not many people check this site, and that none of you would be checking it this late, but if you had, you would have noticed that the site was down for a while. “But Will, why on earth…” you are all saying… Well kids, let me tell you a story about permissions:

See I was trying to edit some of the page styles (what you see now is almost completely stock - see the footer) and to do that I had to make some of the files writeable. I thought that this meant they all had to be writeable by me and so started fiddling with what who was allowed to do, and where they were allowed to do it.

Sounds complicated enough, but then, just as I thought I had it sussed, I managed to lock myself out of my own files…skillful huh! So half an hour of hocus-pocus later I’ve managed to get it all back up and running, and with even less of an understanding about permissions than I had before, and no edited files…. hmph

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