Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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The recent unscheduled downtime
After months of inaction, Bravidio (sciencemadness's web host) has finally fixed the intolerable disk space situation: I can now upload content
to the limits of my user agreement, and the forum database can continue to grow. At the same time they also upgraded the web server hardware to 4
processors and 2 GB of RAM (not that the site was especially slow on the old hardware).
There should now be no problems uploading images to scipics or having them disappear from there. Sadly, I was storing images in /var/tmp/ with a
symbolic link to scipics, and those images in /var/tmp/ did not get transferred to the new hardware (unlike files in my home directory). So we may
have a case of disappearing images again. Check scipics to see if that's the case. On the bright side, images uploaded now should stay uploaded
and accessible.
I was worried for a while by the database problems that made this forum inaccessible, but they seem resolved now, and I am much happier with the new
hardware situation. I'm sorry that I was unable to warn people in advance; I didn't know the upgrade was coming either.
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chemoleo
Biochemicus Energeticus
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Good to see it's been only temporary! Thanks for letting us know in that little message - I think we all wondered what the hell happened. This
particular 'error message' about connections being exceeded, I remember having seen it before, about 2 weeks ago.
As to the pictures- shouldn't backups contain all these? I.e. using the latest backup to overwrite the current content of the scipics database?
Anyway, thank you very much, it's great to know we have a caring administrator! 
PS It's odd to see 'Today's Posts' containing only 5 new posts or so!
[Edited on 16-1-2005 by chemoleo]
Never Stop to Begin, and Never Begin to Stop...
Tolerance is good. But not with the intolerant! (Wilhelm Busch)
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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a confession
I have been a good administrator in that I regularly download backups of the forum database, but I have not made regular backups of files from the
scipics directory. Oops.
Someone might want to run wget on the scipics directory once in a while so that my premature senility does not cause any harm in the future.
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mick
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I tried to log in a few times and got the Error message and thought the worst. Well done.
mick
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thalium
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I almost got a heart attak. No I didn't but I did fear the worst. That
message was a good thing.
I don\'t believe in ghosts but they believe in me
Hell was full so I came back.. |
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cyclonite4
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I was up all night pressing the refresh button.
This is probably my number one visited site on the internet.
\"It is dangerous to be right, when your government is wrong.\" - Voltaire
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CycloKnight
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Recent outage
I was beginning to fear the worst!
So, so relieved it was just temporary.
BTW, is it just me or have I got a fan club?
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Reverend Necroticus Rex
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My heart skipped a beat and I must admit I did get a little paranoid then.
I must have refreshed, cleaned my firewall cache and god knows what else at least 35 times that day
The sun is shining on a brand new day
Blackened corpses burn where they were slain
Self-flagellation prompts him to confess, Bless me father, for I made this mess.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Wow.
Just days after our last outage, the forum goes down again. What happened was that the webhost upgraded PHP to 4.3.10 without updating the "Zend
Optimizer" (some sort of PHP accelerator) to 2.5.7, which causes incompatibilities as seen with our forum software. It took me some time to
figure out exactly what the trouble was and then some more to submit a support ticket. Bravidio has addressed the problem by reverting to PHP 4.3.9
for now. Hopefully, they will update the Zend Optimizer and then PHP itself in the near future, since apparently PHP 4.3.9 has some bugs and security
problems that 4.3.10 fixes. I hope it doesn't knock us offline if/when they do upgrade.
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Organikum
resurrected
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Well the message from our overlord soothed me..... 
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Ugh.
Well, we had a bout of trouble again today! The problem this time is that Micfo's nameserver somehow got set so that sciencemadness.org was
resolving to its old address from before we got the dedicated IP address. I didn't notice it for some hours because I was out earlier and my web
browser, which I rarely close down, had the old address cached and kept on showing the site to me correctly. I didn't realize that something was
wrong until several hours had passed without a post and I saw that nobody was logged on to the forum. Things should be fixed up for everyone as the
DNS changes back to the correct address propagate.
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Edward Elric
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OH MY FUCKING GOD
I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF!
OH THE HUMANITY!
OH MAN
OH MY LORD
JEEESUS
*BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
*BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
*BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
*BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
*BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
*BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
*BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
*BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
edit: i went to brimic's site and posted. liek omg did it get taken down? v_V;;
[Edited on 8-5-2005 by Edward Elric]
☣ - Full Metal Alchemist - ☣
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neutrino
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Please keep banging, as this will purify the gene pool.
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
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sparkgap
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Man, all is good now. I thought someone was screwing around with our beloved board. What a relief.
Oh, and screw the guy currently banging his head. Has he contributed anything meaningful lately? 
sparky (~_~)
"What's UTFSE? I keep hearing about it, but I can't be arsed to search for the answer..."
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cyclonite4
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| Quote: | Originally posted by neutrino
Please keep banging, as this will purify the gene pool.
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) |
Oh be nice neutrino
Although I must say he did bang a bit too much for his (or maybe anyones) good.
I was also depressed over what I thought to be the loss of SM, but I chose not to destroy my brain, need to keep some chemistry knowledge handy
\"It is dangerous to be right, when your government is wrong.\" - Voltaire
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Silentnite
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He's been banging his head long before he got here.
For a second I had thought that a nerve was going to be struck as I couldn't reach SM or RS... And I still can't reach RS. I need my chem
fix man.
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solo
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not able to access the forum
I had problems logging in today for more than 10 attempt's with 3 different browsers , the same answer, I wasn't able to acquire a secure
log in with the server scencemadness.org until now......is it a saturation message , because I haven't read of any maintenance shut down
.......solo
It's better to die on your feet, than live on your knees....Emiliano Zapata.
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12AX7
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Ditto, server was phut last night.
.....Uh....works fine now......
Tim
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Axt
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I was being sent to this page: homeequityarticles.com
Whenever I tried to get into http://sciencemadness.org
I pulled the source code for the page and they had a hidden tracker: http://extremetracking.com/open;ref1?login=mfblog check the last 20 referers.
I wasnt the only one ending up there, note that the domain remained "sciencemadness.org" but the content of that page showed up.
[Edited on 19-7-2005 by Axt]
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Homeequityarticles.com is another Micfo-hosted site. I think Micfo monkeyed with the DNS entries like they have twice before. I'll be asking for
a refund this month since the outage apparently lasted for hours.
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Nerro
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Since you have "espace au plenté" now why don't add some improvements to the board? like the latex typesetting they have on http://www.physicsforums.com/
just a suggestion
#261501 +(11351)- [X]
the \"bishop\" came to our church today
he was a fucken impostor
never once moved diagonally
courtesy of bash
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sparkgap
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Yeah, add a way to automatically place subscript and superscript tags at the very least, if you're planning to do board improvements.
sparky (~_~)
[Edited on 20-7-2005 by sparkgap]
"What's UTFSE? I keep hearing about it, but I can't be arsed to search for the answer..."
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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I don't have plenty of time, unfortunately. The physicsforums support for LaTeX was implemented by one of the people running the forum. I would
have to write my own LaTeX support for XMB, and I'm not really enthused about learning any more of the horrible mess that is PHP than I must. I
know subscripts and superscripts are tedious to type in, but I allow HTML here, so you can compose your messages in a graphical HTML editor if you
have a lot of formatting to do.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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The corrupt mysql table has been fixed.
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