Blog is still alive

Well, some of you may have noticed that my blog was down for several days now. Even google cached the error message displayed by server.

[http://mostafa.foolab.org/files/mostafa_google_cache.png]

I fixed it my self. Well, this comes as a development as I have always feared to learn [MySQL|http://mysql.org] administration and considering it something very alien to me. Well after a few minutes of googling I found that I had to [drop the cache table|http://drupal.org/node/42817] as it was corrupt and recreate it. [This post|http://drupal.org/node/42614#comment-78868] helped me recreate it. Later on i discovered that I only need to use the command __truncate table cache;__.

The reason for this was several factors. [Mohammed Sameer|http://foolab.org] the uber-administrator went to [Uganda|http://www.tacticaltech.org/africasource2], he actually used to fix anything for me. And it seems that they have limited internet access there.

Since all the uber-admins went to Uganda, [Eglug|http://eglug.org] was also down for more than 20 hours and [Manlaa|http://manalaa.net] and blogs hosted on manalaa was also down for a few hours. [Alaa|http://manalaa.net/] managed to bring both Manalaa and Eglug back.

__UPDATE__: and updated to the [latest version of Drupal|http://drupal.org/drupal-4.7.0-beta3].

__UPDATE__: and a fresh new look.