Or however frustration expressed in a loud voice is expressed. 👿 Been trying to install and configure Ubercart for several hours now and am almost there I think. Still not sure what I did or didn’t do to begin with but must have been something or there was a glitch at one end or the other or somewhere in between.

Tried installing it just as I had on the test site. Created the database and user and input the information and after what appeared to be a good install told me that there was a problem that might be corrected by installing again. So I did. And got a page full of errors about weird stuff in the database. So deleted the database and recreated it. Ran the installer again and it seemed to work. Went to the site and it was there. Then started customizing and configuring it. Got an hour or so in and it sent me to a page that wasn’t there. 404 big time. OK, lets try again. Same thing. Went elsewhere and started configuring the cart it’s self. Got it about done and then noted no payment gateway. So went to the modules and there they were but not turned on. Turned the ones I needed on and submitted and got another 404. Did it again and again (trying different selections each time) and same thing. big BAD 404. 👿 So found a update script and ran it to get hit with errors out the wahzoo. Decided to try adding the modules in again and it worked. 😯 Have no idea how or why. But am gonna continue to continue, or keep on keeping on or try to go forward in some fashion anywho.

Coffee breaks over, time to return to the inverted position… 🙄

One Response to “Aarrrrgth”

1. Steve says:

   January 22, 2008 at 10:19 pm

   Sounds like a Monday on Tuesday. Had some of that today meself…

   Wasn’t all bad. There was a poet came to the schools today and spoke to the kids. I helped him get the sound going for the first assembly, the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Really cool guy, name of Brod Bagert. (For some reason, every time I think of his name, I hear Leonard Nimoy singing “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”. Arrrgggghhhh!) The parts of the day that included him were neat. He was a lawyer for 21 years (and a two-time member of the New Orleans city council), and then became a poet and speaker full time. The dude is good-speaks the poems in the voice they are written in. In other words, if the poem was written in the voice of a 2nd grader, he spoke it like a 2nd grader, voice and mannerisms and all. I checked Kayla out of her last two classes and carried her to KSE to see him do his 3-5 grade show. The dude is good, and has a book of poetry about middle school kids (supposedly written by 5 girls and 6 boys during their 6-8 grade years, but done by him) called “Hormone Jungle” coming out in July, and I am going to do my best to remember and get it. I mean, he’s good.

   He also gave advice about how to write. He says not to try and write your best, but write your worst-typos, misspellings, whatever. And they go back and rewrite it a little and make it a little bit better. And then rewrite it again. And then again. And so on. He said he averages 30-50 rewrites. He read the poem that he said was his obsessive-compulsive champion, over 300 rewrites! It was about 8 or 12 lines! But it was great, really hilarious. Really neat guy, he had three different groups of 200+ kids’ attention for about an hour. That ain’t easy to do…

   Found an HD that was TWO DAYS different from that one yesterday, but it didn’t do the trick-spun up, but wouldn’t show up. The model number was different-the one I found (which isn’t bad, BTW, just a little hinky) was a 75-AAO, while the one in question is a 32-XXX (can’t remember the exact numbers). and the boards were oh-so-slightly different-one very small chip was a different color, kinda orange-yellow rather than black. AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH! (sigh)

   Well, it’s getting late, and work awaits tomorrow.