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Site/Forum Features / Re: DC Forum Mods Thread

« Last post by mouser on December 09, 2011, 05:51 AM »

New:

• 12/9/11 - Improved custom code to report forum errors and alerts to automatically throttle emails in case of high volume (like forum server errors)
• 12/9/11 - Added a bunch of code to detect spam-like activity, require first-posters to prove humanness; now AUTOBANS users if they are clearly trying to spam their first post

It's wonderful watching the new code catch and kill spam bots.

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody got into the electrical cables again .. Server went down on 12/8/11

« Last post by mouser on December 09, 2011, 02:39 AM »

It's a very good idea.  We need to have another small forum somewhere so we can meet when donationcoder main site goes offline, to provide information, etc.

Meanwhile if you install an irc chat program (lots of free ones), you can always find us chatting any hour of the night on the efnet network, on channel #donationcoder (that's where you go if you hit the chat button at the top of the page).

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody got into the electrical cables again .. Server went down on 12/8/11

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2011, 07:55 PM »

And did it hit all their customers similarly, from that data centre?

yeah it took down the whole data center in seattle as far as i know.

here's what they said to us.. though i would take these things with a gain of salt as my experience is hosting companies stretch the truth a bit to paint things rosier than what they were:

Around 02:54 UTC on 08-DEC-2011 02:54, there was a disruption to utility power to our SEA01 datacenter facility. The backup generator / UPS system subsequently experienced trouble backing up the critical load, and at 03:16 UTC on 08-DEC-2011 a section of our datacenter went offline due to power loss. This power outage took our site core routers offline, which caused a total network disruption to servers in the SEA01 facility. Additionally, some servers lost power.

Power was restored for the network equipment at 03:32 UTC on 08-DEC-2011, at which time servers in pod 02 in SEA01 (fcr02.sea01 & bcr02.sea01) came back online, as well as back-end for pod 01 (bcr01.sea01). The front-end router for pod 01 (fcr01.sea01) did not recover properly after power was restored, and finally at 03:50 UTC on 08-DEC-2011 all network services were back online.

Our facilities and system administration team are currently working on restoring service to any servers or CCIs (cloud instances) that did not automatically recover after power resumed.

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody got into the electrical cables again .. Server went down on 12/8/11

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2011, 04:19 PM »

the crazy thing is we are paying for an expensive hosting company (softlayer) specifically because they are supposed to be one of the most reliable companies with the best redundancies, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to run programs without altering the host pc

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2011, 09:35 AM »

Another vote here in favor of virtual machines.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CNET Download Installer Changes

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2011, 09:34 AM »

That does indeed sound like they are going in the right direction.. "a)developer opt-in, and d)developer revenue sharing".. just the things we were saying they would need to do to make this acceptable.

Looks like we have yet another confirmation on the importance of taking a stand and protesting vigorously when some company does wrong and tries to get away with bad behavior -- bad press is a strong motivator.

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody got into the electrical cables again .. Server went down on 12/8/11

« Last post by mouser on December 08, 2011, 05:25 AM »

thanks for pointing that out rgdot.. that seems to happen every time the server is rebooted.  should be fixed now.

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Official Announcements / Cody got into the electrical cables again .. Server went down on 12/8/11

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 10:02 PM »

Actually it was the entire hosting company (Softlayer) network where the DC server lives.. They lost power for a while.
Sorry for the downtime, and a huge thanks to Gothic for bringing everything back up cleanly.  

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 12:20 PM »

I'm wondering if FARR can use windows USN Journal as well as Everything,that will be perfect.

yes, my plan is implement a kind of api for hooking farr into better search engines transparently, like ntfs etc.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Prayer Minder

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 09:12 AM »

I'm not a prayer, but it looks pretty cool, and i love the idea of high-tech praying
It will be fun to see what you've come up with.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Display FARR Near Pointer

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 06:55 AM »

neat. 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Problem with 1.129.01 when launching rdp-Files

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 06:53 AM »

Hey Michael,

Ok so LaunchBar Commander (and my other program FARR) use this external little helper tool to launch other files and shortcuts, because doing so can avoid some odd slowdowns that occur when launching files directly.  But there are actually a couple of ways to open documents -- and in fact a small bug fix that i haven't released yet, that could be the cause of this problem.  I've been working overtime to get a new program finished and released for the last couple of weeks so i'm a bit behind with LBC and FARR releases. If you can give me a few days I'll try to have a version out which will let us track down what's going on here.

One quick workaround that might work until i fix it is to make a .bat batch file that will open the rdp you care about.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: error message

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 06:49 AM »

Yes, I'm the author.  Glad it's useful to you and thank you for taking the time to post -- it's always nice to hear when someone likes your software. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: askapic.com - Photo Q&A Site

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 06:37 AM »

Adi, those are some serious advertising skills you have! Very cool.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge Teaser: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 05:31 AM »

Alpha version is in testing by my top alpha beta tester as we speak.

Another teaser screenshot:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Pledge: PinPics

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 01:17 AM »

Yay! 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: $380 PDF to Flash [page flip] for free

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2011, 12:51 AM »

If someone posts a reply that is on topic, and not an affiliate link, and it's not a copy and paste job, we do not consider it spam.

However, it is frequently the case that people post such links when they have a relationship with the company and do not disclose this fact.  That we do not allow - we require posters to disclose their relationship with products they post about.

But this may simply be someone recommending a product.

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Living Room / Re: Pretty cool idea for next halloween...

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2011, 08:55 PM »

I have to say thats just about the most brilliant thing i've seen all year.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Pledge: Shelves

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2011, 07:27 PM »

nice

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: attack of uggs

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2011, 05:47 PM »

If we need to, I will add the ability to require first posts to be approved.. It wouldn't be *that* hard to add. Let's see how the latest changes go first.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: attack of uggs

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2011, 05:39 PM »

That's why I mentioned suspicious posts could be subjected to moderator approval.

that really is the best solution, and would prevent all spam.  it's just not trivial to backport into smf1.x (i think it's easier in smf2).

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: attack of uggs

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2011, 02:13 PM »

I wish there were some vigilante groups that would go after spammers and companies that hire spammers.

By now they should have destroyed every company on the web selling their products using spammers, and made the use of spammers something no company would dare do for fear of the repercussions from such vigilantes.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: error message

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2011, 02:11 PM »

LBC (like FARR) uses that little helper tool to launch files, to avoid a slowdown that can occur when launching certain kinds of files.
Sounds like it must have gone missing from your initial installation.

Glad you solved the problem 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: attack of uggs

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2011, 01:54 PM »

well i put in place a trivial little extra protection for first time posters.. let's see if the spider catches any flies and what flies go around the web, and what fellow spiders get sticky feet, before i put in place something stronger..

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: attack of uggs

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2011, 12:30 PM »

working on some prevention code right now.