Please do download our code (and email us at security@slashcode.com if you find any bugs). We quote arguments in the approved fashion before using them in a query string, and additionally we do regex whitelist-style filtering on many commonly-used params (e.g. $form->{cid} is guaranteed to be numeric). Generally we're pretty good at this stuff. Which is not to say we never make mistakes...
Heh. Actually that's a longstanding bug because of the way we write out.shtml files. We don't pick a timestamp and use it consistently on both index.shtml and the articles'.shtml files. Our backend task grabs a list of which stories are "live" and then chugs through all of them writing that list, then when it's done, writes the index.shtml file. But when it's done, a minute boundary may have been crossed, and index.shtml may be pointing to an article.shtml that wasn't written.
For example, when this story went live, the task wrote, in order:
Fri Oct 26 16:52:12 2007 [freshenup.pl] index.pl virtual_user=slashdot ssi=yes section='idle' bytes=19132
Fri Oct 26 16:53:04 2007 [freshenup.pl] updated xxxxx meta:07/10/22/145209 (Slashdot's Setup, Part 2- Software)
so for those 52 seconds index.shtml pointed to a 145209.shtml that hadn't been written.
I should probably get around to fixing this. But at this point it's kinda become one of those Slashdot things. It's barely a bug, it's almost like an easter egg to find a "nothing to see here." OK, I'm rationalizing. I should get around to fixing this. The index.pl and article.pl scripts need to accept a timestamp on the command line that mean "pretend it's this time."
Well, the only star it's flying near is the big yellow one you see in the daytime. I haven't seen anything about the reason it got brighter, but my guess would be it has an icy core that has been gradually heating internally as it orbited closer to the sun, until suddenly it burst out as steam. If that's the case, maybe it'll get brighter as it gets closer and warmer... or maybe the lid's been taken off the pot and after a day of spewing a ton of stored-up H2O now it'll settle down and get dimmer.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what he meant either. We have 2 webheads serving static pages (like the non-logged-in homepage), and 4 serving specifically the dynamically-generated homepage for all logged-in users. Plus 1 that serves all SSL traffic, which subscribers can use.
People often say "subscriber" when they mean "logged-in Slashdot user," not specifically a paying subscriber.
is there a way to get the forgotten ID back if I can give out all the possible email addresses I may have used in registering it?
If you still receive mail at an email address, you can recover the account at/login.pl?op=mailpasswdform. Feel free to try that for a series of emails, though I think we rate-limit you (3 per 24 hours? I forget. keep trying).
If you don't remember which email address specifically, I think if you email help@slashdot.org we might be able to work something out. Don't quote me though, not my department.
No, there were comments. We've had a number of major code updates since then and we did our best to snarf in old comments from the.shtml files but we didn't always succeed.
We'd totally love that. If you'd serious about trying, write a/. journal about it and see if there's interest. If there is, email us (email me directly if you want).
I imagine we could help by e.g. providing a dump of what story sid's and comment cid's pre-2000 we do have...
Once you get above $500 desktop computers, it doesn't much matter. A properly tuned system will only use swap, if at all, to drop a few MB from RAM to disk because it's just never accessed. A server that swaps during use is just not set up properly.
Karma's a big part, at least for now. Multiple people tagging the same thing helps. If you have a history of tagging poorly, that doesn't help. (Read the tagging FAQ!)
There's no delay built-in but a couple layers of caching and the occasional daemon restart may make it appear that way.
(Feel free to mod this comment and thread Offtopic, since it is.)
I'm pretty sure this is just your RSS reader being busted. The feed looks fine to me, both the regular static feed and my dynamic subscriber feed.
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I agree with basically all of what you're saying except the last sentence. It sounds like the person asking the question hasn't spent a lot of time looking at the stars and doesn't really know if it's going to turn into an occasional night out having fun or a serious time investment. For such a person, spending a few nights with a decent no-frills Dobsonian reflector finding celestial objects themselves will tell them how much they love the sky. If it turns out they really love it, they can invest thousands later in something computerized and motorized that points the scope for them and tracks the Earth's rotation -- maybe camera-ready, probably a Cassegrain.
If you thought you maybe liked to draw, you probably wouldn't drop $4000 right off on a fast computer with a big screen, Photoshop, and a graphics tablet. You'd start with a good set of pencils and lots of paper, and first find out how much you really liked it.
An 8" no-frills Dobsonian runs $500 (the Orion SkyQuest XT8 is what I'm looking at) and can be found at most hobby shops. If you have less than $1000 I think that's an excellent start, certainly much better than binoculars. It's a real amateur telescope, better than what most amateurs had in the first half of the 20th century I guess -- and our sky's the same as theirs:)
The main thing I would add is to never buy a cheap refractor, they're basically binoculars on a stick... and never buy a telescope in a mall!
This is the government - and the FBI. Somehow I can't believe it actually works as smoothly as that.
If libertarianism leads to slavery, the road runs through the state of denial.
As the last two free Americans are being herded onto the train for the concentration camp, the Republican will turn to the Democrat and say "don't worry, we'll be fine. Public transportation never works."
Research firm IDC also has Apple in the third spot; data it released last month put Apple's share of U.S. sales at 5.6% In other words, 1 laptop out of every 18
Incorrect. The text you quote could have been better phrased, but if you had clicked through on the link on the words third spot before you copy-and-pasted them, you would have seen that the 5.6% is not only a different research firm talking about a different time period, it's for all types of computer system, not just laptops.
17.6% of laptops, 5.6% of all computers.
Or, slightly more than 1 laptop out of every 6 -- and 1 computer out of every 18.
Urban heat is accounted-for in the statistical analysis already.
Stop making up FUD about established scientific fact. The globe is warming. There is no doubt about it. That used to be debatable but there is no longer any doubt.
The next step in the chain was proving that it is to some significant degree human activity, specifically greenhouse gas emissions, that has been causing global warming. There is no real debate about that any more either (it's accepted to a very high degree of certainty).
The next steps after that are to demonstrate the effects that warming is having on the ecosystems of the planet (consensus is a probable effect so far, though not proven) and to find ways to slow, halt, and reverse it (not purely a climate-science question, as the best ways will require input from economists and politicians).
What do you think you're doing with this BS about temperature monitoring stations? You're not seriously trying to make people doubt that the earth is getting hotter, are you?
Yes, that is correct, Mr. Soros has given money to Moveon.org, and Moveon.org has given money to Media Matters.
Did you think that means it is correct to say that Media Matters was funded by Soros? That is not correct. Do you understand the difference between things that are false and things that are true?
Just in case you're going to start in on other lies being told about Media Matters, go read this and this too.
Oh, and the reference to "admitted liar David Brock"? Yes, David Brock has said that when he was being paid by right-wing smear artists, he put out false information on their behalf. That was part of the experience that led him to start exposing all the other lies from the right.
Finally, what does any of this have to do with the webpage on mediamatters.org that I linked to? It describes an erroneous report on Fox News, and includes a transcript and a video recording of it. Do you have some kind of problem with people documenting the instances where Fox News misleads its viewers?
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Ads, I'm guessing. That's not really something we have control over, I don't think.
I mentioned this phenomenon here -- but ironically, this morning the databases have been hallucinating (sigh)
Often like apart from this morning? Because (ironically) we had database replication problems this morning. First time in months though.
If so please shoot me a private email and we can try to figure out what's going on.
You have to be a subscriber, and go directly to https://slashdot.org/login.pl.
Please do download our code (and email us at security@slashcode.com if you find any bugs). We quote arguments in the approved fashion before using them in a query string, and additionally we do regex whitelist-style filtering on many commonly-used params (e.g. $form->{cid} is guaranteed to be numeric). Generally we're pretty good at this stuff. Which is not to say we never make mistakes...
Heh. Actually that's a longstanding bug because of the way we write out .shtml files. We don't pick a timestamp and use it consistently on both index.shtml and the articles' .shtml files. Our backend task grabs a list of which stories are "live" and then chugs through all of them writing that list, then when it's done, writes the index.shtml file. But when it's done, a minute boundary may have been crossed, and index.shtml may be pointing to an article .shtml that wasn't written.
For example, when this story went live, the task wrote, in order:
so for those 52 seconds index.shtml pointed to a 145209.shtml that hadn't been written.
I should probably get around to fixing this. But at this point it's kinda become one of those Slashdot things. It's barely a bug, it's almost like an easter egg to find a "nothing to see here." OK, I'm rationalizing. I should get around to fixing this. The index.pl and article.pl scripts need to accept a timestamp on the command line that mean "pretend it's this time."
The workaround is to create an account and log in so you get dynamic article.pl pages :)
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Well, the only star it's flying near is the big yellow one you see in the daytime. I haven't seen anything about the reason it got brighter, but my guess would be it has an icy core that has been gradually heating internally as it orbited closer to the sun, until suddenly it burst out as steam. If that's the case, maybe it'll get brighter as it gets closer and warmer... or maybe the lid's been taken off the pot and after a day of spewing a ton of stored-up H2O now it'll settle down and get dimmer.
(Like a balloon when something bad happens!)
Yeah, I wasn't sure what he meant either. We have 2 webheads serving static pages (like the non-logged-in homepage), and 4 serving specifically the dynamically-generated homepage for all logged-in users. Plus 1 that serves all SSL traffic, which subscribers can use.
People often say "subscriber" when they mean "logged-in Slashdot user," not specifically a paying subscriber.
If you still receive mail at an email address, you can recover the account at /login.pl?op=mailpasswdform. Feel free to try that for a series of emails, though I think we rate-limit you (3 per 24 hours? I forget. keep trying).
If you don't remember which email address specifically, I think if you email help@slashdot.org we might be able to work something out. Don't quote me though, not my department.
No, there were comments. We've had a number of major code updates since then and we did our best to snarf in old comments from the .shtml files but we didn't always succeed.
We'd totally love that. If you'd serious about trying, write a /. journal about it and see if there's interest. If there is, email us (email me directly if you want).
I imagine we could help by e.g. providing a dump of what story sid's and comment cid's pre-2000 we do have...
Porn for Nerds. Stuff that splatters.
If you manage to organize a party in Soviet Russia, we'll send you two Slashdot Cruisers...
If you're right, I guess Windows can't be properly tuned. I wouldn't know :)
Once you get above $500 desktop computers, it doesn't much matter. A properly tuned system will only use swap, if at all, to drop a few MB from RAM to disk because it's just never accessed. A server that swaps during use is just not set up properly.
Karma's a big part, at least for now. Multiple people tagging the same thing helps. If you have a history of tagging poorly, that doesn't help. (Read the tagging FAQ!)
There's no delay built-in but a couple layers of caching and the occasional daemon restart may make it appear that way.
(Feel free to mod this comment and thread Offtopic, since it is.)
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=CADUSD
I'm pretty sure this is just your RSS reader being busted. The feed looks fine to me, both the regular static feed and my dynamic subscriber feed.
I agree with basically all of what you're saying except the last sentence. It sounds like the person asking the question hasn't spent a lot of time looking at the stars and doesn't really know if it's going to turn into an occasional night out having fun or a serious time investment. For such a person, spending a few nights with a decent no-frills Dobsonian reflector finding celestial objects themselves will tell them how much they love the sky. If it turns out they really love it, they can invest thousands later in something computerized and motorized that points the scope for them and tracks the Earth's rotation -- maybe camera-ready, probably a Cassegrain.
If you thought you maybe liked to draw, you probably wouldn't drop $4000 right off on a fast computer with a big screen, Photoshop, and a graphics tablet. You'd start with a good set of pencils and lots of paper, and first find out how much you really liked it.
An 8" no-frills Dobsonian runs $500 (the Orion SkyQuest XT8 is what I'm looking at) and can be found at most hobby shops. If you have less than $1000 I think that's an excellent start, certainly much better than binoculars. It's a real amateur telescope, better than what most amateurs had in the first half of the 20th century I guess -- and our sky's the same as theirs :)
The main thing I would add is to never buy a cheap refractor, they're basically binoculars on a stick... and never buy a telescope in a mall!
Lions sometimes make friends with antelopes.
This is the government - and the FBI. Somehow I can't believe it actually works as smoothly as that.
If libertarianism leads to slavery, the road runs through the state of denial.
As the last two free Americans are being herded onto the train for the concentration camp, the Republican will turn to the Democrat and say "don't worry, we'll be fine. Public transportation never works."
Incorrect. The text you quote could have been better phrased, but if you had clicked through on the link on the words third spot before you copy-and-pasted them, you would have seen that the 5.6% is not only a different research firm talking about a different time period, it's for all types of computer system, not just laptops.
17.6% of laptops, 5.6% of all computers.
Or, slightly more than 1 laptop out of every 6 -- and 1 computer out of every 18.
Please RTFA carefully before you post.
Urban heat is accounted-for in the statistical analysis already.
Stop making up FUD about established scientific fact. The globe is warming. There is no doubt about it. That used to be debatable but there is no longer any doubt.
The next step in the chain was proving that it is to some significant degree human activity, specifically greenhouse gas emissions, that has been causing global warming. There is no real debate about that any more either (it's accepted to a very high degree of certainty).
The next steps after that are to demonstrate the effects that warming is having on the ecosystems of the planet (consensus is a probable effect so far, though not proven) and to find ways to slow, halt, and reverse it (not purely a climate-science question, as the best ways will require input from economists and politicians).
What do you think you're doing with this BS about temperature monitoring stations? You're not seriously trying to make people doubt that the earth is getting hotter, are you?
Yes, that is correct, Mr. Soros has given money to Moveon.org, and Moveon.org has given money to Media Matters.
Did you think that means it is correct to say that Media Matters was funded by Soros? That is not correct. Do you understand the difference between things that are false and things that are true?
Just in case you're going to start in on other lies being told about Media Matters, go read this and this too.
Oh, and the reference to "admitted liar David Brock"? Yes, David Brock has said that when he was being paid by right-wing smear artists, he put out false information on their behalf. That was part of the experience that led him to start exposing all the other lies from the right.
Finally, what does any of this have to do with the webpage on mediamatters.org that I linked to? It describes an erroneous report on Fox News, and includes a transcript and a video recording of it. Do you have some kind of problem with people documenting the instances where Fox News misleads its viewers?