Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or... Back in a moment. Thank you Santa.
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And if she wakes up and sees her shadow, it'll be six more weeks of cleaning up spam.
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, May 18 2014 08:43 PM (TJ7ih)
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Are we running on slower hardware now? I've noticed that I often have trouble loading my page, sometimes taking upwards of a minute, and sometimes some of the pictures time out.
Also, just now it took me three tries to load this page to get the comment entry box.
By the way, whatever you did that made it so that we didn't have to log in all the time, you need to do it again.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, May 20 2014 03:04 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tuesday, May 20 2014 08:06 AM (RqRa5)
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I second Steven's comment... everything seemed okay for a few days, but
now The Pond is awfully slow. Actually, every member of Mee/Mu.Nu.via
seems to be slow.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, May 20 2014 11:19 AM (ekFa5)
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Steven & Wonderduck - Not a hardware issue this time, but a combination of spammers and web spiders. Whacked the spammers; we should be able to cope with the spiders now.
Pete - Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, May 20 2014 12:21 PM (PiXy!)
Quite a while ago we had a situation where people were having to log in a lot, because their previous login timed out and expired. You made some sort of change that lengthened the timeout, I think, so we didn't have that problem anymore.
Whatever you did wasn't in the backup, and we have to log in all the time, again. Could you make that change again?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, June 01 2014 02:36 AM (+rSRq)
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Preved-Medved
It is a pity, that now I can not express - I ma late for a meeting. I will be released - I will necessarily express the opinion.
Posted by: BenQued at Sunday, June 01 2014 02:07 PM (he/be)
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Just a head's up in case you thought you were finished fixing your websites - Ace's RSS is still screwed up. First, it connects to a page that tries to redirect (probably only annoying to people who have web redirects turned off, like me), and then it loads the article, followed by the comments, and then the next 10 or so articles and their comments as well. All in ever shrinking blockquotes.
Just fyi in case you're bored.
Posted by: Kevin at Friday, May 16 2014 12:54 AM (Mik+4)
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Oh dear. I'll get that sorted, thanks for the heads up!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 16 2014 12:55 AM (PiXy!)
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.... SWG is still down, sir...... as is the mail send and receive function.... is this a DNS issue as well?...... sorry for all the trouble.... I wish that I were there to help... or at least to make the coffee/margaritas!....
Posted by: Eric at Thursday, May 15 2014 10:57 PM (d7gLI)
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Sorry about that Eric! Your blog is up now; I'll get your email sorted out ASAP.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2014 11:14 PM (PiXy!)
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.... any word on the DNS updates, sir?...... still can't get to my .com or the .com mail server to send and/or receive......
.... good luck with all the updates!... .
Eric
Posted by: Eric at Friday, May 30 2014 12:02 AM (d7gLI)
Which is worse, kidney stones or Adaptec RAID controllers?
Hard to say. Both lead to sleep deprivation and intense pain, but Adaptec RAID controllers do not literally cause... Uh, I'll just cut of the metaphor at that point if it's all the same to you.
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Thanks for fixing it up. Are you in the software RAID camp yet?
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thursday, May 15 2014 12:06 AM (IX6IV)
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For most cases, yes. The new servers I just set up are software RAID-1 - a pair of disks and a pair of SSDs each. Cheap and easy to set up, and much less that can go wrong.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2014 12:38 AM (PiXy!)
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Glad to see you are recovering! That was an epic outage.
Posted by: Kurt Duncan at Thursday, May 15 2014 02:00 AM (c/F3T)
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As if you didn't have enough problems, Brickmuppet and Wonderduck are both drowning in spam. (And you are, too.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, May 15 2014 02:02 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2014 02:38 AM (PiXy!)
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Ooooh hate Adaptec RAID controllers. Sorry bout that. Unfortunately, my blog isn't back yet. Still getting the unavailable notice. I tried doing a cache check with Open DNS and it doesn't like it one bit. Luckily I've been too busy fighting with our Adaptec controllers to have much posting time. Ha.
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, May 16 2014 03:40 AM (GxMbS)
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Hi Teresa. Your blog has been restored on the server, but I need to fix your DNS, hang on at tick...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 16 2014 10:20 AM (PiXy!)
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No problem. Like I said, I've been too swamped with stuff lately to blog much. LOL.
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, May 16 2014 10:46 AM (GxMbS)
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Kidneystones. Oh lord on a stick, I had a large kidneystone that threw off what I called kidneygravel for about a year. I thought I was used to the pain.
Then the Big One moved.
What I'm sayin' is, I understand what you experienced.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, May 16 2014 12:40 PM (cx8j7)
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What I had was probably only mid-level on the kidney stone scale. I don't want to think what a really bad bout of kidney stones would feel like.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 16 2014 01:23 PM (PiXy!)
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Steven - the extra bonus plus smilies are back!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 16 2014 01:24 PM (PiXy!)
12I don't want to think what a really bad bout of kidney stones would feel like.
Take what you experienced, then roll it in broken glass. Then set it on fire. Then shoot yourself in the head.
That last part is optional, but it's what I wanted to do.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, May 17 2014 07:29 PM (Izt1u)
Sorry about the outage. We got hit by a meteorite and reduced to our component atoms. It's taken us this long to reassemble into functional molecules.
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Thursday, May 01
Indecision
That Dell 24" 4K monitor is currently on sale for $1019. But the sale ends today. But I've just been paid, so today is actually a good time for me to buy it. But I still haven't decided whether I'd prefer the Dell or the (lower quality but more versatile) Samsung.
On the fifth hand, the last couple of times Dell have had this monitor on sale, the end of the sale was followed soon after by a permanent price cut. (From $1699 to $1499 to $1199.) So it may be selling for $999 soon anyway.
When you transform a square-bracket IMG tag into an angle-bracket IMG tag, could you include width and height for them?
In IE when I have a post with a lot of images, the comment entry box placement and the buttons below them are placed before the images load, so they end up in the middle of the post on top of the images.
Clicking on the box moves it to the bottom, but the buttons stay where they were, no longer anywhere near the box.
The reason is that IE's rendering engine doesn't know how big the images are before they load, because you aren't telling them. If you include width and height fields, then the rendering engine will place everything properly even before the images load.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, May 04 2014 04:49 AM (+rSRq)
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Let me look into that. I can probably fix it without needing to put the image sizes in the HTML. (That's possible too, but the facility to upload zip archives makes it tricky.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, May 05 2014 11:51 PM (PiXy!)