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- Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:10 am
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Web site becoming unresponsive more often
- Replies: 35
- Views: 48003
Re: Web site becoming unresponsive more often
Thanks, I've noticed some seriously poor performance in recent weeks as well. On the other hand, this week it seems to be fine. I contacted our host (Dreamhost) last week about the most recent slowdown, but they were unable to find anything wrong. One of these days I should probably update to the la...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:57 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Reality Spaceflight
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1319
Re: Reality Spaceflight
I'm all for anything that drives commercial development of (and public interest in) human space flight.
Hopefully the episodes of the new shows, when they finally air, will be available on iTunes or Amazon streaming... I haven't had an actual TV signal coming into my house for years.
Hopefully the episodes of the new shows, when they finally air, will be available on iTunes or Amazon streaming... I haven't had an actual TV signal coming into my house for years.
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Climate II
- Replies: 129
- Views: 22555
Re: Climate II
First, "global warming" has several meanings. The first and foremost is shown by the difference in the average surface temperatures of the Earth and the Moon. Both are at the same distance from the Sun; therefore both get the same amount of energy per unit area. So why is Earth 33°C warmer? Answer:...
- Sat Oct 12, 2013 6:13 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: At this point kicking me off looks like a cowardly move.
- Replies: 130
- Views: 23880
Re: At this point kicking me off looks like a cowardly move.
This thread also seems to have seriously outlasted its usefulness. If anybody wants to discuss climate change, Southern law, gun control, drugs (both legal and non), or any other off-topic matter, and really can't find some other more appropriate board on which to discuss them, then please start a s...
Re: Climate
Everybody, please settle down. I know this is the "general" forum — which I frequently regret creating in the first place (but suspect that if it were not here, the off-topic threads would just end up elsewhere on the board) — but even so, we need to keep it civility. No ad hominem attacks. If you d...
- Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:38 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Recent forum downtime
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9721
Recent forum downtime
I apologize for this forum's downtime the last several days. To put it bluntly, our ISP (Dreamhost) screwed up, and created "an issue with the apache service that handles [this] site, causing it to not spawn new PHP cgi processes correctly." The problem has been corrected, and we should be back to n...
- Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:14 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45927
Re: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
Just took a look at what kind of question you're using. Without giving away the question I see a few problems: - Definite cultural context. Difficult problem to avoid. Non-native English speakers would be discouraged. - Do I enter the answer as one word or 2? I agree, it's not a perfect solution. B...
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:42 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45927
Re: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
I did my best to make the questions easy for a human. No particular expertise is required; I don't think anyone here would struggle with them. But, if a real newcomer can't figure them out, they can always write to me for help.
- Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:37 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45927
Re: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
Character recognition captchas have been broken for several years. The captchas that remain effective are those sufficiently uncommon that spammers haven't put the effort into them yet. My gut is that multiple choice Q&A tests will be the next to fall, and will fall hard once they become common. A ...
- Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:19 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45927
Re: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
You're welcome. And here's an interesting tidbit about the flood of spammers. About 10 minutes after I got the new forum set back up, I started getting spammer registrations again, several per minute. This was with the board configured to use a standard visual captcha (pick the letters out from the ...
- Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:18 am
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45927
Re: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
Well, here we are, on phpBB3. That took all day. I apologize for the downtime.
I also apologize for the missing theme, Polywell icon, etc. All that will be made right in the next day or two. But it should be safe to start using the board again now.
Cheers,
- Joe
I also apologize for the missing theme, Polywell icon, etc. All that will be made right in the next day or two. But it should be safe to start using the board again now.
Cheers,
- Joe
- Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:10 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45927
Trying again
OK, Dreamhost's "one-click" upgrader is hopelessly FUBAR. I am about to attempt a manual upgrade. This will mean exporting the data from the current DB, and re-importing it into the new DB. Any messages posted after this one, and before the new system is ready, may be lost. Please be patient and bea...
- Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:03 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45927
- Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:13 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45927
Upgrading the forum to phpBB 3 pretty soon
Hi all, I attempted today to do a simple upgrade of this forum through DreamHost's provided script. It failed horribly. So, I've restored everything back the way it was. I'm giving them a chance to fix their script, but if they don't have it working within a week, I'll try a manual upgrade. So, if y...
- Fri Aug 31, 2012 4:20 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a post-modern cult
- Replies: 117
- Views: 41588
I'm closing this thread. It's not news, nor does it have much of anything to do with polywell fusion. If you want to continue discussing the pros and cons of various religions (or non-religion), I'd prefer you find another forum entirely. This sort of thing can be pure poison to a community such as ...