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Features / Re: Thought system
« on November 15th, 2011, 08:36 PM »
I second the whole moved-topic-attachment-link problem -- learned not to link to attachments. Only to gallery items.
Using a gallery for attachments is complicated because then the attachment can have a permission COMPLETELY different from the topic/board it is attached to, which could be tricky and confusing.
Using the gallery instead of attachments. But that's OT.
Using a gallery for attachments is complicated because then the attachment can have a permission COMPLETELY different from the topic/board it is attached to, which could be tricky and confusing.
Using the gallery instead of attachments. But that's OT.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 15th, 2011, 08:17 PM »
Oh, I own shirts older than you are! Polo, frisbee-golf, footie, gardening, modern interpretive dance, cavorting. It's all good. Maybe your friend Bryan can help you find something suitably dignified to do out-of-doors.
And now that you know I'm nearly old enough to be your mother, it's time for me to drop the motherly advice.
And now that you know I'm nearly old enough to be your mother, it's time for me to drop the motherly advice.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 15th, 2011, 07:51 PM »..taking a break by playing games a lot more than I used to.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 14th, 2011, 09:42 PM »
I apologize for assuming bad keyboard ergonomics were the cause of the problem. I was speaking out of ignorance.
The part about getting outdoors, tending to your health, eating properly, and making every effort to sleep properly -- that still applies, and is the same advice I give to my kids. Take care, both of you.
The part about getting outdoors, tending to your health, eating properly, and making every effort to sleep properly -- that still applies, and is the same advice I give to my kids. Take care, both of you.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 11th, 2011, 05:20 PM »
Please, you two, don't ruin your neck and shoulders by hunching over your keyboard all the time.
Wedge is great stuff, but not worth ruining your health!
Take care of yourself, both of you. Go outside and run around. Eat right. Sleep properly.
Now this is THOUROUGHLY off-topic. Sorry.
Best
Wedge is great stuff, but not worth ruining your health!
Take care of yourself, both of you. Go outside and run around. Eat right. Sleep properly.
Now this is THOUROUGHLY off-topic. Sorry.
Best
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on November 9th, 2011, 09:11 PM »
In http://ttp://sorry-404-wedge.org/wedgecal2.png, I like the subtle inner glow and all that, but I have to say -- it looks like a little moth with folded wings, not much like a wedge.
It is pretty, and the colors are "green". This is a big change in attitude from the "big wedge splitting the entire world" you had once upon a time.
It is pretty, and the colors are "green". This is a big change in attitude from the "big wedge splitting the entire world" you had once upon a time.
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Other software / Re: So, SMF has declared the cold war...
« on November 3rd, 2011, 07:37 PM »
It's Friendly Competition time! Bring it on!
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Other software / Re: So, SMF has declared the cold war...
« on November 3rd, 2011, 07:06 PM »
The plugin manager xml interface to task manager seems like a good idea.
I also like the fact that you've got an "enable/disable hook" for every installed plugin.
I also like the fact that you've got an "enable/disable hook" for every installed plugin.
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Other software / Re: So, SMF has declared the cold war...
« on November 3rd, 2011, 03:39 PM »
I was thinking that, too. Everybody on the SMF team seems to recognize that this was unintentional. I think that, initially, the server team saw it as DDOS. I think your unique choice of user-agent may have helped narrow down the source of the problem.
The simplemachines.org servers do seem to be pretty reliable, but even the most expensive business-critical servers have downtime on occasion (remember the recent Blackberry outage?). In this case, a well-planned, fairly routine hardware upgrade was complicated by a coincidental RAID controller malfunction on the file server.
So a job which should have taken a couple of hours wound up taking something more like 24 hours.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=457093.msg3198013#msg3198013
I hear your point, both of you, about the task scheduler not being so easy to use. I think it is a great feature, which should continue to get attention and improvements in SMF. Just a couple of general-purpose routines would save mod authors from having to roll their own timers. I'll suggest it to the devs.
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(we're typing at the same time)
And in Wedge too, of course.
The simplemachines.org servers do seem to be pretty reliable, but even the most expensive business-critical servers have downtime on occasion (remember the recent Blackberry outage?). In this case, a well-planned, fairly routine hardware upgrade was complicated by a coincidental RAID controller malfunction on the file server.
So a job which should have taken a couple of hours wound up taking something more like 24 hours.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=457093.msg3198013#msg3198013
I hear your point, both of you, about the task scheduler not being so easy to use. I think it is a great feature, which should continue to get attention and improvements in SMF. Just a couple of general-purpose routines would save mod authors from having to roll their own timers. I'll suggest it to the devs.
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(we're typing at the same time)
And in Wedge too, of course.
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Other software / Re: So, SMF has declared the cold war...
« on November 3rd, 2011, 01:50 PM »The task scheduler actually isn't really an option, without creating a separate 1.1.x and 2.0 branch of Aeva,
I understand that Nao has fixed the problem in AEVA light, and it is much appreciated.
One of these days, the currently-installed AEVA lights will be uninstalled, and the AEVA hail will begin to slow down.
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Other software / Re: So, SMF has declared the cold war...
« on November 3rd, 2011, 01:22 PM »BTW Pete, Aeva Media was already (since last April) modified to remove the auto-update code.
I mean I was expecting that if it was a load on the server, I should have received a request about it when I was active on Aeva -- i.e. over a year ago.
The problem arose because the server was offline for a day. By that point, all these AEVAS had begun checking for updates.
And not once a day. Multiple times per second. In every call to aeva_parse_bbc2. Because when the check fails, the timer is not reset. With all of them trying at once, even when the server came up, none could succeed. So they are all still trying and failing. Day and night. On every spider traverse. The hail of AEVA requests is still falling on the servers, but now the site and server teams have opened an umbrella to block the user agent and protect the file server.
Epic.
The task scheduler is always an option for future "phone home" activity. The task would run once a day, whether it succeeded or failed. The task could even log its success or failure, so that the user could find out what is going on.
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Other software / Re: So, SMF has declared the cold war...
« on November 2nd, 2011, 02:24 PM »
I appreciate the update Nao. I think it was the honorable thing to do. Everyone who uninstalls their older versions of AEME and AEVA light will be doing a little bit to reduce the unending barrage of AEVA requests on simplemachines.org.
I'll install it. I've scheduled some time for that tomorrow (I always like to do some testing before even a very simple install like this).
My little forum is not going to make a big difference to the hammering AEVA installs are giving the site, but I'll do my little part.
The AEVA mod was completely invisible for only a short while -- only until the folks at Simple Machines and the SMF customization team found a less-restrictive way (blocking your unique user agent) to give the customization site some relief from AEVA's barrage of requests. I am told that it would be difficult to re-enable auto-update access now. The AEVA traffic level is that heavy.
Thanks again!
I'll install it. I've scheduled some time for that tomorrow (I always like to do some testing before even a very simple install like this).
My little forum is not going to make a big difference to the hammering AEVA installs are giving the site, but I'll do my little part.
The AEVA mod was completely invisible for only a short while -- only until the folks at Simple Machines and the SMF customization team found a less-restrictive way (blocking your unique user agent) to give the customization site some relief from AEVA's barrage of requests. I am told that it would be difficult to re-enable auto-update access now. The AEVA traffic level is that heavy.
Thanks again!
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Features / Re: These two bytes may not matter to you...
« on October 6th, 2011, 03:08 PM »
In the code tags above, The "\" in "\n" seems to be supressed on display. The serialize line looks like this:
Code: [Select]
file_put_contents($cachedir.'/test4.php', "<?phpnreturn '" . serialize($myDataArray) . "'; ?>");45
Features / Re: These two bytes may not matter to you...
« on September 8th, 2011, 10:23 PM »
Very interesting. Does the earlier SimpleDesk do this, as well?