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Help Test Exciting All-New Slashdot "Banjo"

After far too long in development, Slashdot is ready to move to the latest version of Slashcode. To this end, we really need people to test our development box, aka Banjo. This is not a load test, so please don't beat the crap out of it (yet!). Please read comments, post comments, and test out wacky new features like Journaling and the assorted new messaging options. It is mostly identical but there are several cool surprises. We have many optimizations still to add, and only have a fraction of our "real" hardware on Banjo so don't worry about speed, instead look for things that don't work right (or at all!) and send those bug reports. (Known issues: imported comments are misattributed, and comment searching is disabled. Don't report these things please ;))

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  1. Too many teeth by HerrGlock · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    It says I have too many teeth to play a banjo, whatever could that mean?

    DanH

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  2. Why doesn't Slashdot get "Slashdotted"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If everyone else on the internet suffers from the "Slashdot Effect" then how come Slashdot itself doesn't get "Slashdotted"? ;) The company I work for was recently interviewing for new programmers. They asked me if I had any questions for the potential employees that I'd like the manager to ask at the interview. Only two... ask them what "31337" is and ask them to explain the "Slashdot Effect". Only one person answered both questions right... and he also got the job. :)

  3. Format error in light mode ... unclosed tag. by Skapare · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    In light mode, the text of each article in the main page just extends horizontally as far as it goes all on one line. I have to use the horizontal scroll bar just to read it. The bug here is that the <NOBR> tag for the menu row is not properly closed. The slash is missing in the closing </NOBR> tag.

    BTW, a <NOBR> tag is a bad idea for that menu for light mode, as it will cause horizontal scrolling for itself.

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  4. Maximum Users Viewings Exceeded! by Feynman · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    When trying to log in, I get:
    • Maximum Users Viewings Exceeded!
    • You've reached the maximum number of times you can access users.pl: 121 accesses over 4 hours.

    Two comments:

    What in Brian Boytano's Green Earth does "Maximum Users Viewings Exceeded" mean?! I'm not even sure if it's grammatically correct.

    If this is your obfuscated way of saying, "You're a dumbass. You've tried unsuccessfully to log in 121 times in the last 4 hours," please rework it. I've not tried that many times (though I do have a tendency to forget my password). Why 121? And what's the point?

    Maybe it's just some effect of being banjo-dotted.

  5. Bug. by Punto · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    I tried to login, but I got a 'wrong password' error on users.pl. I entered the passwod again, and I got this error from users.pl:

    You've reached the maximum number of times you can access users.pl: 123 accesses over 4 hours.

    I waited 2 minutes (maybe it's doing some werid average calculation), and I got that error again (the number of accesses changed to 144, then 148, etc).

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  6. FAQ not found by Feynman · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    404 File Not Found

    The requested URL (faq/) was not found.

    If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to nobody@banjo.slashdot.org

  7. from the more-then-just-a-sea-monkey dept. by Kartoffel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    THAN

  8. Get rid of these stupid limits by kinnunen · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "You've reached the maximum number of times you can access users.pl: 201 accesses over 4 hours."

    Well, I'm pretty sure I haven't. Lose it, or at least check the hostname of the client with a pattern like /(cache)|(proxy)/i and not apply limits if matches.

  9. Anyone tried PHPnuke? by asv108 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've used slashcode for a variety of projects, but then a couple of months ago I found Phpnuke It's really similar to slashcode except in PHP. Its much easier to install since you only need Apache,PHP and Mysql instead of intalling all those PERL modules. It has a lot of cool features that slashcode doesn't have so check it out.