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Notices by Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info), page 2

  1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jul-2026 20:08:45 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Got my ancient gitphp setup and my local git server up and running again! My efiction3-mod repository is now mirrored here. (I may mirror all of my older GitHub repositories here as well at some point.)

    I'll have to manually mirror the git data to the local git server, as there is no auto mechanism to do so.
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 13:02:56 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    One of the drives in the array now has 2 current pending sectors. It was 1 for probably ~2 weeks, IIRC. I am resyncing the array, but I may have to replace the drive at some point if they are remapped rather than simply weak sectors.

    Amusingly, another drive in the array had gained one remapped sector over a decade ago and stayed like that since... Those old Western Digital drives are odd...
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  3. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2026 01:06:09 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Tested the future eFiction 3.5.9 install script, but with PHP 7 rather than PHP 8. Since they are one and the same with 3.5.8.f1, it will work with PHP 8 as well.

    However, I should add a note for efiction3-mod that PHP 8 is technically required despite this oversight.
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  4. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 20:47:57 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Checked the modifications document against the files from eFiction 3.5.9 and only two files would be affected by the future changes: install/install.php and docs/settingstable.sql.

    Won't be hard to alter the modification steps to accommodate for the future 3.5.9 changes.
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  5. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 16:41:54 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    I have a hard-forked repository of someone's future eFiction 3.5.9 and merged those changes to my Testing Grounds, which previously ran 3.5.8.f1.

    This turned out fine (barring the buggy touchpad issues), so I do have a layout of the 3.5.9 additions/changes and my MD5 -> bcrypt password + MyISAM -> InnoDB engine + latin1 -> utf8mb4 collation modifications. (Though, looking back, it seems I may have to force all tables to utf8mb4 in the install script anyway...)

    However, my mods are for the 3.5.8.f1 version, so this will have to be documented for the future 3.5.9 changes.
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  6. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jul-2026 21:55:46 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Today I learned...

    I should not use hyphens or periods in SQL database names! Seems the same goes for tables... 🤦♀️
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  7. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 06-Jul-2026 23:28:07 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Updates!

    Security
    php: 8.5.7 -> 8.5.8
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  8. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2026 06:41:01 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    ...Yes, I formatted the microSD card to exFAT again, but using Linux tools this time instead of the old Windows 7 PC.

    However, the recovered data is still on my main laptop.

    The primary idea was to keep interoperability between my Linux installs and what few Windows installs I do have.
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  9. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2026 06:37:53 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Okay, I can't believe I actually trashed my 2GB microSD card which contained what little of my current Sonic fanfiction work I already had.

    But... this is the sysadmin you're talking about, so I spent the last hour/hour and a half going through a just created image of the microSD card's exFAT filesystem to grab the contents of the current work.

    Some context: on a non-journaled filesystem (which exFAT is), the following is more likely to be trashed: partition info, directory/filename info, its timestamps, and its attributes. (...the actual FAT, or File Allocation Table.) That is because all of that is stored near the beginning of the storage medium. The actual file contents could be further down and are less likely to be trashed... unless you're quite unlucky.

    In short, I have all my data back. 😁👍
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  10. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 19:13:07 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Didn't mention earlier, but I had to chroot the system again and redo the grub-install as a result.

    From there, I fixed the EFI mount in /etc/fstab.
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  11. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 19:11:26 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Finally upgraded the NAS's OS from OpenMediaVault: 7 -> 8; I held off on it for too long. The upgrade was a success, however, the EFI actually broke... which actually had nothing to do with OMV anyway.

    The NAS was originally a build that ran on an ASUS P5N-E SLI board with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 -> Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 with 4GB of DDR2-800 RAM and originally ran NAS4Free/XigmaNAS -> OMV6... from 2018. In other words, MBR/BIOS only, no GPT/EFI. This was getting long in the tooth by ~2024 (or 2025...), so the entire system was migrated to an ASRock J4125B-ITX board... which is EFI only. This necessitated a conversion from MBR/BIOS to GPT/EFI, as BIOS emulators never really worked right with this board.

    The GPT part was easy... EFI, not so much. Needed to be chrooted in order to install some necessary packages and a grub-install command to be run.

    I actually mounted the EFI partition wrong in /etc/fstab in the initial conversion, so it came back to bite me when I performed the OMV upgrade. The mount is proper now; it was missing the umask (umask=0077) entry.
    In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
  12. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 03-Jul-2026 16:13:50 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Yesterday, the media PCs and the gaming PC were turned back on. Nothing since.

    Today, in the basement running the old Redump.org CD-ripping machine, finally. Loads of updates for this build, months behind. It still runs Kubuntu 24.04; may have to update this one to 26.04, but I haven't ripped a CD in some years...
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
  13. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 11:21:56 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Now switched off Sis's gaming PC. That makes it five PCs I turned off here.
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
  14. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 11:14:26 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Okay, had to switch off the two media servers, so only the NAS and this web server remain on.

    I also switched off Mom's mini PC. Earlier (around 5:30 AM ), I switched off my own video converter PC.

    Reason: heatwave + power flickers, so potential brownouts. Not too optimistic, mind you.
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
  15. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 22:26:48 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Apparently eFiction 4 is finally coming soon...?

    https://efiction.org/community/efiction-software-news/efiction-4/
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink

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  16. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jun-2026 22:02:42 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    The NAS finally has a proper case and is no longer using the old original Web Server case from 2011! However, this may make setting up the NAS with entirely new SAS drives a bit more difficult.

    I did keep the old case for other purposes, and the old data integrity notice is still on the case.

    --

    During the migration to the new case, I managed to drop the last two RAID5 drives and the system drive from short distances. Almost surprisingly, they are still running perfectly so far. Not too worried about the system drive as there are backups of that, but not so much the data on the RAID5 setup...
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
  17. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 19:55:28 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Sat on this for ~3 years: finally updated this GNU social instance!
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
  18. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 19:10:16 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Updates!

    Additions
    php: 5.6.40, 8.5.7
    openssl: 1.0.2u, 3.0.21

    Recompile
    httpd: 2.4.68 (again) - due to structural changes with curl support
    php: 7.4.33 (again) - due to structural changes with curl support
    curl: 7.88.1 (after three years) - due to structural changes with... itself. Different builds with different OpenSSL support. Otherwise, different PHP versions will never truly be possible.
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
  19. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 19:01:12 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Speaking of...

    There will be some modifications to the eFiction code on this server. So far:

    * Database tables will be using InnoDB instead of MyISAM. (Though, if needed, Aria could be used on some tables, but then you'll be stuck with MariaDB - no more MySQL. 😈)
    * Managed to implement passwords to be hashed with bcrypt at a cost of 12 and a check for passwords that use the older MD5 hashing algorithm. (Though, you are not warned that your password is using the MD5 hash. However, changing/updating the password changes its hash to bcrypt.)
    * Some visual modifications... I will also have to look through the 2000s/2010s-era 'patches' I have created but never actually shared; some I know are truly outdated.
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
  20. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 18:51:55 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Did some further PHP runs and testing...

    Seems patched eFiction ('3.5.8' Testing Grounds) can run PHP 8.5 without freaking out. This also means my (overly ambitious) personal Sonic fanfiction project can run the latest PHP 8.5 builds.

    Moved old Fanfiction Haven back to PHP 5.6, though it was likely fine with 7.4.

    Moved old DRX Prototype Torrents back to PHP 5.6, which means the (truly) hacky MySQLi wrapper is used no more as a result. (It also wasn't a guarantee that the count issue would have been resolved by using the wrapper, either.)

    Everything else runs PHP 7.4... even this GNU social install.
    In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
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Clarissa Walker

Clarissa Walker

Detroit, MI

http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info

Hobbyist computer tweaker/repairperson, webmistress, procrastinator. Does things on my own time. Also known as CW Cyrix.

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