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System Downtime, Maintenance
When I originally "designed" (I use the term loosely since evolved is more accurate) the system, "Sections" were meant to be for "Data Types"... for example "Book Reviews". A book review is fundamentally different than a Slashdot "Article" because it has extra fields like the ISBN code. At the same time I essentially coded "Skins" because each "Data Type" needed custom look & feel type stuff so that the story could actually display the unique data fields.
So when we created YRO and the BSD section and later on the Apple section, I just reused the skinning part of "Sections".. it was the easiest way to do it, but it created problems later: under the old design a story could only have one "Section"... some sections defined "Data Type" and others defined "Subject Matter" (like Apple or BSD)... thats why bsd.slashdot.org can never include a book review, and apple.slashdot.org can't include an 'Ask Slashdot'. This confounded users of our search page to no ends, to say nothing of frustrating editors who couldn't include topical stories within their appropriate section.
Undoubtedly we'll see some bugs to pop up... so please be patient and submit bug reports. We'll be wacking bugs for a few days... there's always a few of them that don't pop up until you put them in front of the half a million users on the real hardware. Thanks for understanding!
Thanks for the advanced notice!!!!!
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
I'm a geek! What am I to do until Slashdot returns?
Well, I guess I'll just have to go outside, or talk to a girl, or something...
Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
At least it's night time (here) so I can go outside to play. The evil burning brightness is gone for 8 hours.
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20,000 nerds are going to have to find something else to do for three hours...
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
uh oh, no /. for 3 hours! I might have to actually interact with people in meatspace! say it ain't so!!!
You forgot to add, "Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of computer monitor radiation have left
your genitals withered and useless."
9pm eastern... Whats that in GMT? ;)
Good luck with the upgrade, I hope Sod and his law stay far... FAR away.
How can you say that civilisation's do not advance... in every war we invent new ways to kill you.
Just kidding.
We expect to go down around 9 (eastern) and hope to be back up by midnight.
Oh that's just great. Now what the hell am I supposed to do with myself on a Friday night? Go downtown and watch all the cool people on their dates?
Couldn't you guys have scheduled this downtime for sometime during my work hours so I could actually get something done at the office for a change?
GMD
watch this
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This is really a test to see if real life's servers can handle all the slashdot users trying to interact with it at once.
i hotdog.
Taco, all you do is describe what the current design (step of evolution) is, but what are the changes?. Obviously, you will have removed those restrictions, but you don't say so. :)
And re-doing the layout in proper css?
Watch that during the downtime if you can. Of course for me, I don't have cable/satellite TV. So feh! :(
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I was about to launch my DOS attack on /. at that time!
Editing posts is evil! It may seem like a good idea for fixing that stupid typo or the wrong link, but it usually ends in deleted/edited posts where people just don't stand up to their words and nobody can follow what the reason for the discussion/flamewar was.
I see it all the time on other discussion forums, it's no fun!
"We're taking the system down tonight for a some system updates. We expect to go down around 9 (eastern) and hope to be back up by midnight.".
If I had stock options for every time I'd tried that and ended up having to scurry in a panic through the weekend... Oh wait, I'd still be broke. Nevermind.
Best of luck guys!
I think I may just head over to the JBoss forums to spend my weekend. JBoss offers proven open source solutions that are a step above anything available today. Face it, the competition is crap and JBoss is the only Company to offer a viable solution. I do not work for JBoss.
Are you talking about Jennicam or /. ?
wbs.
Huh?
Last Post?!?
... you might as well fix the bug where comments become are skipped in paged mode when a thread has more than the maximum number of visible comments per page. The next page then repeats the supersized thread, instead of showing the following threads. The page after that continues with threads further down, not the thread directly following the supersized thread.
Wow, never thought I'd have to use a Google cache for Slashdot!!
I wouldn't mind an "Add a footnote to post" option though. Just append a small note to the bottom. like "Doh! Misspelt 'gerbil'! I always do that!"
This time, Slashdot will get a taste of its own medicine as it's Slashdotted at midnight when it comes back up from the upgrade (and then goes back down). The fact that it's a Friday night will have little effect, given the audience.
I agree. Anytime *I* have to take anything out of production for our 1500-odd users at the company I work at, they require *AT LEAST* 12 hours notice, if not more. Usually, we give 24.
Do you have any idea how much of a disruption to the workflow at my company Slashdot going down is? If we don't keep the engineers distracted, they'll start interacting with the customers! The customers will be speaking to someone who knows something. Then the customer will know something. Then our business is ruined.
Thanks Slashdot. Thanks a lot. I hope you like your prescious backend update. In Japan.
The ______ Agenda
If it doesn't work, then I'm guessing that Slashdot will move to the ultimate in stable, secure and scalable web architectures: ASP.net.
The downtime will be between 1090026000 and 1090036800.
Well, all the links seem to be going to "example.com"... (i.e. read more takes you to example.com)
Someone apparently forgot to remove an "example.com" placeholder! It's good to see that slashdot hires people so well versed in RFC 2606!
( Read More... | science.example.com )
( Read More... | 91 comments | yro.example.com )
And so on...
- JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
I feel a disturbance in the force, as if a million virgins were crying out, then suddenly silenced...
I didn't know what to do, so I tried going outside!
/. to come back.
It's DARK out there!
I'm just going to wait here and watch my screensaver while I wait for
Oh, wait, NM.
I've actually had to work for the past few hours.
[shudder]
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
I didn't know what had happened. I was starting to wonder if slashdot had referenced itself and somehow experienced the slashdot effect
A lot of the time you just want to fix a typo or broken tag moments after posting (even when you *did* use preview).
So how about only allowing edits so long as the post has not been modded and no one has replied yet? As far as I can see that avoids every objection to editing posts.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I mean, tables? C'mon!
For a site that's constantly running stories on how people should switch to Mozilla and the like, they've decided to keep compatibility to Netscape 3.0.
No geek runs a browser so old that they have to rely on tables for layout. Get with the program, /.
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
Oh, wait...
Let's play Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I'll be Pestilence.
No it didn't help me.
/. got /.'ed which made me laugh a little on the outside, inside I cried.
I was wondering if perhaps
500 dollar reward for tip(s) leading to the arrest of the person(s) who stole my sig.
No "Bugs" link to my left!
Just kidding, made you look!
/^([Ss]ame [Bb]at (time, |channel.)){2}$/
Upgrade? That sounds more like pretty substantial foreplay.
Thanks to my good slashdot karma, the only time I was busy today was from 9-midnight and entirely missed the blackout. I knew it'd pay off eventually!
Thanks for upgrading the rss code. Now I don't have to load the RSS for all the subsections separately, because the main rss has all the stories.
Five percent of one year's DoD budget puts us on Mars.
Those dirty rotten #*($#*%( only gave us 15 $#*(@ minutes warning before shutting the #*$% place down. I thought the place had been slashdotted or something, I wasn't able to get through. May they roast in hell for a thousand years with no Internet access!
The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
oh really
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w nl oad.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
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t er nates/
Here I am in FreeBSD using Firefox
I go here
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/do
I get this message
Macromedia Flash Player Download Center
We are unable to locate a single Web player that best matches your platform and operating system.
Please visit our table of recommended Web players.
Please go read this page
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/al
and revise your opinion on the ubiqity of Flash
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I had no warning about this scheduled shutdown, so when I tried to load up the page and it failed, the first thing that flashed into my head was "Sweet Zombie Jesus, Slashdot's been slashdotted!"
/.ED!"
I had all these images of newspapers like in the movies, where the front page of the New York Times and stuff has the article title in size 120 font, with such classic direct titles as "WAR!" and "ALIENS LAND" or "DEAD!"
Just imagine the front of the New York Times declaring "SLASHDOT SLASHDOTTED!"
Or better yet, "/.
You'd also need something in place to check if a post you're replying to has been edited since you clicked on the 'Reply' button (or the 'moderate' button) so that you don't get this sequence:
Poster: "I like dogs!"
Another poster clicks reply, and starts to type.
OP clicks edit, and changes to: "I like sex with dogs!"
The 2nd poster now clicks on submit with "It's good to find someone with the same interests as me."
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
-- With a Henry Rollins song now in my head.
I'm so glad that Slashdot finally made the switch from Windows 98 to Windows98 Second Edition. I expect that this will make thing run much more smoothly.
about professionalism when slashdot is upgrading, and instead of a nice, slashdot-style page coming up saying "The system is down for maintenance".. we get a big, ugly HTTP error.
9 AM or 9 PM?
will my daily fix disappear in 10 hours 30 minutes, or 12 hours sooner, which is..... wait, that's obvious, isn't it?
Forget that I asked, please....
"Sorry, you are not allowed to edit this comment. Either someone has replied, or it has been moderated."
The unofficial
google turns up a few useful-looking links on the subject of flash and freebsd. Nonetheless you're running a desktop which is marginal in popularity at best as a desktop OS and you're bitching about not having a supported version of flash player? Next you'll be complaining about a lack of mozilla for the atari 800.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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