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Message 819319 - Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 16:46:38 UTC

Early note as I'm leaving after lunch today. Looks like the translation code on the web broke sometime during yesterday evening. How embarrassing. Code was updated on this site (not by me!) which messed things up. The problem with the translation stuff is that it takes a while to "percolate" - you update the proper .inc files, you look at the web site, it looks fine, so you move onto something else - and don't notice when it breaks 10-15 minutes later. Normally I check in regularly on "off hours" to catch such problems but I was busy last night. Anyway, I don't want to apologize for this, especially as it wasn't my fault, and in fact I fixed it when I got in by falling back to older code.

I believe everything is else is more or less recovering from various mounting/network/reboot issues yesterday. Hope y'all are getting your workunits for the weekend!

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Message 819321 - Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 16:49:14 UTC - in response to Message 819319.  

Early note as I'm leaving after lunch today. Looks like the translation code on the web broke sometime during yesterday evening. How embarrassing. Code was updated on this site (not by me!) which messed things up. The problem with the translation stuff is that it takes a while to "percolate" - you update the proper .inc files, you look at the web site, it looks fine, so you move onto something else - and don't notice when it breaks 10-15 minutes later. Normally I check in regularly on "off hours" to catch such problems but I was busy last night. Anyway, I don't want to apologize for this, especially as it wasn't my fault, and in fact I fixed it when I got in by falling back to older code.

I believe everything is else is more or less recovering from various mounting/network/reboot issues yesterday. Hope y'all are getting your workunits for the weekend!

- Matt

Thanks for the update Matt. And I hope you get to collect up something other than "server kicks" for your weekend. Hope you can enjoy it uninterrupted for a change.
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Message 819330 - Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 17:08:20 UTC

Is this the problem that causes the "Account" page to be inaccessible?

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/home.php

I cannot access that page.
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Message 819332 - Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 17:18:25 UTC - in response to Message 819330.  

Is this the problem that causes the "Account" page to be inaccessible?

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/home.php


Dave is working on that right now.

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Message 819391 - Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 20:32:07 UTC

You're probably aware of this already, but just in case . . .
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Message 819476 - Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 23:29:35 UTC - in response to Message 819319.  

Early note as I'm leaving after lunch today. Looks like the translation code on the web broke sometime during yesterday evening. How embarrassing. Code was updated on this site (not by me!) which messed things up. The problem with the translation stuff is that it takes a while to "percolate" - you update the proper .inc files, you look at the web site, it looks fine, so you move onto something else - and don't notice when it breaks 10-15 minutes later. Normally I check in regularly on "off hours" to catch such problems but I was busy last night. Anyway, I don't want to apologize for this, especially as it wasn't my fault, and in fact I fixed it when I got in by falling back to older code.

I believe everything is else is more or less recovering from various mounting/network/reboot issues yesterday. Hope y'all are getting your workunits for the weekend!

- Matt


. . . saw that occurrin' last night - nice work on THAT Particular 'Fix' Berkeley and Thanks for the Post Update Matt


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Message 819557 - Posted: 17 Oct 2008, 4:15:22 UTC

Thanks for the info Matt, and thanks for keeping your chin up whilst trying to correct problems that you did not create........

Good job......as always.
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Message 819638 - Posted: 17 Oct 2008, 11:40:09 UTC - in response to Message 819332.  

???? is working on that right now.

- Matt

Hey! I thought there was supposed to be no names!

(Then again, I guess there's only ever at most a 1-in-4 guess :-p )

All good fun, and keep up the good work!


(The new streamlined translation code sounds like a very good idea and a good improvement for maintainability. Hopefully, any bugs will be quickly cleared.)

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Message 819689 - Posted: 17 Oct 2008, 14:32:21 UTC

... the upload server needs a boot in the pants again... @ 0730 PDT
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Hello, from Albany, CA!...
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Message 820112 - Posted: 18 Oct 2008, 8:15:08 UTC - in response to Message 819638.  

(The new streamlined translation code sounds like a very good idea and a good improvement for maintainability.

Very streamlined indeed, only the English version is left ;-)

Hopefully, any bugs will be quickly cleared.)

I second that and shall refrain from posting error reports for a (short) while. :-)

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