New Server thanks to TOAF
Yesterday, we migrated PT to its new server: Proteus. Proteus is a beast of a machine: FreeBSD 8.2, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T processor, 16GB of memory, and 5 2TB drives in a ZFS raidz2 array. Most of the hardware was provided by the Talk Origins Archive Foundation. If you want to support PT, you can donate to TOAF.
The server migration is the first step in a series of improvements that will hopefully make PT better. The second step has also been completed: requiring registration to comment. Hopefully, registration will go smoothly, but if you are having problems email us at thecrew@pandasthumb.org.
You many need to clear your cache if you are having problems commenting.
47 Comments
shebardigan · 20 June 2011
Interesting. Could sign in using wordpress, but didn't immediately find a way to create an account independent of the array of other authenticators.
Reed A. Cartwright · 20 June 2011
Yeah, I don't have a "register" link up yet.
Reed A. Cartwright · 20 June 2011
Now there is a "sign up" link on the log in page.
Flint · 20 June 2011
Kewl. Now, how do I find the login page?
Flint · 20 June 2011
OK, take 2. My comment vanished. I don't know where to look for a log in page.
jgulner · 20 June 2011
Hitting CTRL-F5 may help anyone that is having trouble. Some old javascript may be cached or something like that.
Reed A. Cartwright · 20 June 2011
Local registration disabled until I figure out how to protect it from spammers.
paul.paulburnett · 20 June 2011
Now if I could only figure out how to log in directly instead of via my Gmail account. [grump]
Reed A. Cartwright · 20 June 2011
Registration reenabled. Let's see how the CAPTCHA works.
SWT · 20 June 2011
So far so good?
Mike Elzinga · 21 June 2011
Seems to be working.
That CTRL F-5 did the trick. Don't know why.
Reed A. Cartwright · 21 June 2011
Some of our scripts have changed to support the new commenting format. You need to do a hard refresh to clear out your cache.
CTRL-F5 or CTRL-SHIFT-R might work for you.
Mike Elzinga · 21 June 2011
Testing. ∇ Δ ⇒
Yup. :-)
Mike Elzinga · 21 June 2011
Another test.
Mike Elzinga · 21 June 2011
What triggers a comment to be held for approval by the administrator?
xubist · 21 June 2011
Yee-hah! I can comment!
MichaelJ · 21 June 2011
Testing Testing Testing. Why couldn't Pharyngula make registration this easy
Paul Burnett · 21 June 2011
Much better. Thanks, folks.
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmZQ_ZOt5jAlL9YRFwmxqDJ1It_Uari8KI · 21 June 2011
working? ...
DS · 21 June 2011
Tasting. Tasting.
Oh man, spell checker said that was right.
Dave Wisker · 21 June 2011
Works fine.
Karen S. · 21 June 2011
I'm in! Any trolls yet?
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkSEda1RaPlIt1hdMLNIFcQc_0GcOg4iRY · 21 June 2011
Google sign in shows a mess as my "name".
D. Robin · 21 June 2011
This is a good start. Thanks to all who have made it possible.
dpr
https://me.yahoo.com/a/XwX54Ugxg_zA.giOl0_NAACpyNmwv0SJVLRoxnK4QTct#e9300 · 21 June 2011
Dale Husband here. This signing in process is what many blogs in Scienceblogs does, including Pharyngula by P Z Myers. I don't like it, but if it keep spammers out, I can tolerate it.
david.utidjian · 21 June 2011
OK. That was awkward. I am running Linux (Fedora 14), Firefox and Chrome. I got it all to work in Firefox but there still seem to be issues for me in Chrome. Other than that (and the login suff) I don't notice much difference yet.
david.utidjian · 21 June 2011
Ok works in Chrome on Linux.
Gary_Hurd · 21 June 2011
That seems to have worked.
phhht · 21 June 2011
Will the Bathroom Wall ever be back? Thx.
phhht · 21 June 2011
Will the Bathroom Wall be back as it was?
Science Avenger · 21 June 2011
No sweat. Now let's see if it is trollproof.
oclarki · 21 June 2011
OK...try this again. My first try vanished...
Henry J · 21 June 2011
What's the "Password recovery word/phrase *" for? (It's one of the boxes in the registration page.)
circleh · 21 June 2011
This sign in system is what is used on Pharyngula, the blog by P Z Myers. I just hope it keeps the spammers out.
Dale Husband
Test User · 21 June 2011
testing
Test User · 21 June 2011
test
Reed A. Cartwright · 21 June 2011
Sorry, we had a spam filter enabled that was marking every comment that wasn't by a "trusted" commenter as spam. It is now gone.
Reed A. Cartwright · 21 June 2011
John Pieret · 21 June 2011
Testing ...
Henry J · 21 June 2011
wynne3617#39925 · 22 June 2011
Testing
Henry J · 22 June 2011
A link like
http://pandasthumb.org/cgi-bin/mt
/mt-comments.fcgi?__mode=xomment&id=4838&a=0
used to get all the replies for a given thread number (4838 in this example).
Now what it gets is "403 - Forbidden".
Did the URI argument syntax change for that feature?
Also the ampersands in that kept getting replaced by & so I stuck a line break in the middle of it so that the second part would be treated as plain text.
Reed A. Cartwright · 22 June 2011
Yeah:
pandasthumb.org/mt/comments.fcgi
John · 23 June 2011
I posted two comments yesterday, but the one on this thread was deleted. Let's see if this works now or else I swear I'm some weird variety of mendacious intellectual pornographer.
Henry J · 23 June 2011
Reed A. Cartwright · 24 June 2011
I designed it, QED.
Reed A. Cartwright · 25 June 2011
testing