Site Update

Today is N’s birthday. Yet I could not make it home for the celebration with S and N and other families. Alone in the office study room to take care of academic chores and class preparation. Finally, I gave up the more productive efforts and in to spending time on upgrading a xoops site under my management.

The site’s core files have not been updated since last September, I suppose. Though quite a few updated patches have come out in the meantime, I simply refuses to integrate them due to the consideration that ruthlessness in this regard may cause site users graver inconvenience. The other reason is simply my want of time in doing it with the utmost care and patience, both of which are essential to a successful and smooth update. I never imagined that the update would finally occur on such an occasion—being alone far away from S and N, having mild headache, and regretting for not being able to attend N’s birthday party.

Yet the update has finally been done and the site now looks running pretty well. Since the server machine was rebooted yesterday to deal with unknown problems, I’ll take a note of how long this time the server will keep running before another needed reboot. The module Protector is a real pain in the ass. I still cannot figure out how it should be set properly and how well it would run with other modules. I’ll just keep an eye on it.