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2011-07-31 --Tech & Moderator Notes
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Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 02:41|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Fastest page load times I can recall. Nice work.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2011-07-31 03:25||   2011-07-31 03:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Here and the O club are rendering really, really quick. It's like I just tuned up my machine. Thanks Fred.
Posted by Skidmark 2011-07-31 05:07||   2011-07-31 05:07|| Front Page Top

#3 This was late yesterday afternoon/evening, right?

I wuz worried...
Posted by Bobby 2011-07-31 06:25||   2011-07-31 06:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Comment showed an error message, but when I ratted it out to Fred, and tried again, it went through.

So maybe try twice?
Posted by Bobby 2011-07-31 06:38||   2011-07-31 06:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Page back and hit submit a second time.
Posted by Bobby 2011-07-31 06:39||   2011-07-31 06:39|| Front Page Top

#6 loads quick
Posted by Frank G 2011-07-31 08:36||   2011-07-31 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Fred thanks for your efforts. Sounds like one of my projects. I think the job should be done in a short time but in reality it goes on much longer.
Posted by Dale 2011-07-31 08:51||   2011-07-31 08:51|| Front Page Top

#8 The project expands to take twice the avaialble time.

It's a lot quicker. Thanks for your efforts.
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-07-31 09:16||   2011-07-31 09:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Yup, the usual project: the first 90% of the project takes 90% of your time, and the last 10% takes the other 90% of your time.

Very fast, snappy performance this morning.

Well done Fred! And thanks Badanov!
Posted by Steve White 2011-07-31 09:24||   2011-07-31 09:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Great work. Thank you.

Mods, Sherry posted a pretty important article about Gunwalker ("Project Gunwalker: The AP Finally Reports...") shortly before the server swap. Could we carry that one over to today? Thanks.
Posted by Matt 2011-07-31 11:23||   2011-07-31 11:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Previous editions of the RDS&TP front pages aren't loading, but you probably already knew that.
Posted by PBMcL 2011-07-31 11:37||   2011-07-31 11:37|| Front Page Top

#12 oh yeah. beaucoup fast
Posted by Chans Tingle5266 2011-07-31 12:38||   2011-07-31 12:38|| Front Page Top

#13 YEAH!!!!

**withdrawal tremors begin to fade....**

Thank goodness you're back. Thank you, Fred, for all you do. We are unworthy.
Posted by Barbara 2011-07-31 13:50||   2011-07-31 13:50|| Front Page Top

#14 And here I was going to write to Comcast and hail 'em.
Posted by S 2011-07-31 14:09||   2011-07-31 14:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Well done, Fred! Since we are heading up to relativistic loading speeds, I am aging slower!
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-07-31 14:49||   2011-07-31 14:49|| Front Page Top

#16 Fred---cannot make the comments post on the O-C yet.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-07-31 14:53||   2011-07-31 14:53|| Front Page Top

#17 Speed -- whoa -- blowing my hair!
Posted by Sherry 2011-07-31 15:38||   2011-07-31 15:38|| Front Page Top

#18 The hour I thought it'd take me to do the changeover stretched into three as I banged my head against the wall

Fred, I think that's amazing. Computers always take longer than one expects. I usually think it's going to take me an hour and that stretches into days.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-07-31 16:18||   2011-07-31 16:18|| Front Page Top

#19 Bloid pix are loading again.
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 16:30||   2011-07-31 16:30|| Front Page Top

#20 Can we take off the "Righthaven lawsuit factory" banner yet?
Posted by gromky 2011-07-31 16:59||   2011-07-31 16:59|| Front Page Top

#21 Fred---no joy on posting on the O-C. I get this message and this site:

Oops! This page appears broken. DNS Error - Server cannot be found.

Linkie
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-07-31 17:10||   2011-07-31 17:10|| Front Page Top

#22 Tried it on Internet Explorer. Got this message.

The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.
•The website has a programming error.

What you can try:
Refresh the page.

Go back to the previous page.

http://www.rantburg.com/bb/?ADD=Y
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-07-31 17:13||   2011-07-31 17:13|| Front Page Top

#23 Fred---my post on #21 was with Mozilla firefox.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-07-31 17:14||   2011-07-31 17:14|| Front Page Top

#24 Can we take off the "Righthaven lawsuit factory" banner yet?

If it was up to me (and it surely ain't!) I'd leave it up, but amend the title to something like "Help Rantburg join in a class-action suit to turn the Righthaven shysters and their Myrmidons into homeless paupers."
Posted by PBMcL 2011-07-31 17:22||   2011-07-31 17:22|| Front Page Top

#25 I'm going to move it to the sidebar.
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 18:12||   2011-07-31 18:12|| Front Page Top

#26 AP, if you haven't yet died from boredom, try posting in O Club again...
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 18:18||   2011-07-31 18:18|| Front Page Top

#27 Governor of Texas and Republican candidate for prez Rick Perry has been caught in a possibly deadly faux pas, with video that he was a guest speaker at a Bilderberg conference in Istanbul in 2007. As far as a lot of conservatives are concerned, that will mean his candidacy is over.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-31 18:28||   2011-07-31 18:28|| Front Page Top

#28 That's great. Maybe he can help migrate the server next time.
Posted by tu3031 2011-07-31 18:36||   2011-07-31 18:36|| Front Page Top

#29 Fred,if you notice sites that used to send you hits are no longer doing so, you should advise them to relink to HTTP://rantburg.com without the port number we used to use to avoid the DoS attacks. The old port number stops the page from loading...
Posted by DanNY  2011-07-31 18:39|| http://nygoe.wordpress.com/  2011-07-31 18:39|| Front Page Top

#30 I could comment at the O Club this morning but not now.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-07-31 18:54||   2011-07-31 18:54|| Front Page Top

#31 Are you seeing the pictures?
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 19:04||   2011-07-31 19:04|| Front Page Top

#32 I can see the graphics on http://rantburg.com/bb/ but not the direct link.
Posted by tu3031 2011-07-31 19:07||   2011-07-31 19:07|| Front Page Top

#33 keep smoking, 'Moose. You've got the good stuff, apparently
Posted by Frank G 2011-07-31 19:10||   2011-07-31 19:10|| Front Page Top

#34 Graphics are up on the direct O Club link.
Posted by tu3031 2011-07-31 19:26||   2011-07-31 19:26|| Front Page Top

#35 Looking like the O Club posting bug is with IE9. I dunno how to fix it without an install of my own, which I don't have this week.

On the other hand, I think I've fixed the cookie bug in the Club.
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 19:34||   2011-07-31 19:34|| Front Page Top

#36 That Rick Perry at Bilderberg conference in Istanbul in 2007 has been around for years! Use in each gov race....
Posted by Sherry 2011-07-31 19:36||   2011-07-31 19:36|| Front Page Top

#37 Testing. I can't post in the O-Club, it goes to a white screen. I can see all graphics. Mac (Leopard) + Firefox 5.0.1
Posted by Free Radical 2011-07-31 20:02||   2011-07-31 20:02|| Front Page Top

#38 Ditto Free Radical. Even tried my antique puter.
CIDCO I Phone. No virus problems ever. Looks just like an answering machine but 5 X 4 window.
Posted by Dale 2011-07-31 20:09||   2011-07-31 20:09|| Front Page Top

#39 I can't seem to make posts to the o-club, which is probably just as well as far as everyone else is concerned...

Anyway, I'm currently using mac os 6, firefox 5, but safari also doesn't work, nor do any of the browsers in my various linux VM's.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-07-31 20:42||   2011-07-31 20:42|| Front Page Top

#40 Is there a difference between using http://rantburg.com/bb and http://o-club.org?
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 20:46||   2011-07-31 20:46|| Front Page Top

#41 not for me: white page using FF 5.0
Posted by Frank G 2011-07-31 20:52||   2011-07-31 20:52|| Front Page Top

#42 Now at home, on the other machine. A wide variety of browsers fail in debian unstable. (No jokes please). (It's the only OS they'll let us use here at the Institution).
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-07-31 22:02||   2011-07-31 22:02|| Front Page Top

#43 And I'm pretty sure I haven't used appletalk on a mac in over a decade.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-07-31 22:02||   2011-07-31 22:02|| Front Page Top

#44 The blank page sounds like a page that's failed to compile. Since it works on my machines and other folks' machines I've got to track down what the condition is that causes it to fail.

Nothing pops to mind at the moment but I'll keep messing, which means the O Club page will occasionally look odd...
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 22:08||   2011-07-31 22:08|| Front Page Top

#45 "Is there a difference between using http://rantburg.com/bb and http://o-club.org?"

I use Internet Explorer and they both come up for me. "com.bb" brings up the O-Club with my name ready for commenting, while "club.org" brings up the O-Club with "visitor" in the commenter's space.

In both cases, it goes to a completely white screen when I try to post something.

If that helps.
Posted by Barbara 2011-07-31 22:08||   2011-07-31 22:08|| Front Page Top

#46 I'm gonna reboot into windows, see what happens.

Tu: Leopard is 10.5; 10.6/Snow Leopard is basically 10.5 with bug fixes. 10.4 to 10.5 and 10.6 to 10.7 were larger changes.

I have a 10.4/Debian dual boot machine at the office I can check with tomorrow. Woohoo, dual g5's! Risc power, baby!
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-07-31 22:11||   2011-07-31 22:11|| Front Page Top

#47 I have no idea what you said, Thing, but it certainly sounds impressive. ;-p
Posted by Barbara 2011-07-31 22:15||   2011-07-31 22:15|| Front Page Top

#48 Fred---nothing on either o club site with either Firefox or I/E. But the burg and comments work fine.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-07-31 22:18||   2011-07-31 22:18|| Front Page Top

#49 Yeah, the appletalk thing was just a shot in the dark. 10 years ago sounds about right. That's about the last time I built a Novell box. We were rolling them over to Exchange when I left.
Posted by tu3031 2011-07-31 22:26||   2011-07-31 22:26|| Front Page Top

#50 Could someone who can't post give it a try now (its in debug mode) and tell me what you see. Also, what's the content of the address bar on the browser?
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 22:39||   2011-07-31 22:39|| Front Page Top

#51 no luck: response -
ADD Y
sname Frank G
comments test
User: Frank G

address bar = http://rantburg.com/bb/?ADD=Y
Posted by Frank G 2011-07-31 22:50||   2011-07-31 22:50|| Front Page Top

#52 Also no luck (Safari 5.05, Mac OS 10.6.7)
ADD Y
sname PBMcL
comments Testing...
User: PBMcL

address bar: http://www.o-club.org/?ADD=Y
Posted by PBMcL 2011-07-31 22:57||   2011-07-31 22:57|| Front Page Top

#53 Well, that means you got as far as that point, at least. I'll keep debugging...
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 22:57||   2011-07-31 22:57|| Front Page Top

#54 Ready for another try, with more info...
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 23:02||   2011-07-31 23:02|| Front Page Top

#55 OK, in Windows 7 x64 on the lenovo now. Still can't do O'club with firefox 5. Let me try IE.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-07-31 23:04||   2011-07-31 23:04|| Front Page Top

#56 ADD Y
sname Frank G
comments test
User: Frank G
Editor: NO

http://rantburg.com/bb/?ADD=Y
Posted by Frank G 2011-07-31 23:04||   2011-07-31 23:04|| Front Page Top

#57 ADD Y
sname PBMcL
comments Test #2
User: PBMcL
0NO

addr bar: http://www.o-club.org/?ADD=Y
Posted by PBMcL 2011-07-31 23:06||   2011-07-31 23:06|| Front Page Top

#58 tfsm again.

IE 8 doesn't work in rantburg.com/bb/

Maybe it's my routers, which are both ancient linksys thingies.
Posted by Dopey the Infinitesmal3009 2011-07-31 23:06||   2011-07-31 23:06|| Front Page Top

#59 Getting it isolated now. You should have gotten a few other lines. Give a try now...
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 23:10||   2011-07-31 23:10|| Front Page Top

#60 ADD Y
sname PBMcL
comments Test #3
User: PBMcL
Editor: NO
Add is set...

same addr
Posted by PBMcL 2011-07-31 23:13||   2011-07-31 23:13|| Front Page Top

#61 Using IE8, could visit /bb/, did not take the post, kept the cookie though.

Cold one for the phantom chasers.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-07-31 23:16||   2011-07-31 23:16|| Front Page Top

#62 It should work now. The bug was in the spam filtration module, which I'll have to fix tomorrow. I'm way too tired tonight. I've just turned it off for now.

Check and make sure it works, please.
Posted by Fred 2011-07-31 23:19||   2011-07-31 23:19|| Front Page Top

#63 Comment posted. I'm now a suspected spammer.

ADD Y
sname PBMcL
comments Test #4
User: PBMcL
Editor: NO
Add is set...
Counter is 0
Insert complete.

G'night, Fred!
Posted by PBMcL 2011-07-31 23:24||   2011-07-31 23:24|| Front Page Top

#64 worked. Nite Fred
Posted by Frank G 2011-07-31 23:31||   2011-07-31 23:31|| Front Page Top

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