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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Commenting problems again
Feb 12, 2011 Blogs I now have the ability to switch off Captcha, so I'm going to try this to see if it makes any difference to the ongoing problems with comments and timeouts and so on. Let me know if it helps.
Update on Feb 13, 2011 by
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill
Impressions of switching off captcha seem to have been favourable, but unfortunately I'm not going to be able to cope with the volumes of spam. I've had to switch it back on again.
Advice seems to be to avoid using preview and edit repeatedly.
Reader Comments (62)
So there is.
I never use preview, never mess with HTML, am OK with captcha and never have had problems.
Shub
Astrology is a science, court rules
And of course, an alchemist is a pharmacologist?
I have a
witch doctordoctor I would like the the learned judge to have treat him.I wonder if a high proportion of CAGW fans are Pisces ;^)
Bishop Hill
I think you have a great deal to learn about the internet, particularly on my side of the pond. Your service provider is doing a randy job on you outside the UK. Alexa doesn't tell you diddy squat about the problem which is the goddamn Captcha handing server, which had NOTHING to do with Alexa.
You are a bright lad, but there is much you need to learn about networking.
My point is your service provider is PISSING off your clients. That is BAD MANAGEMENT. You appear to have an attitude right of the MET OFFICE which is "Well It looks good."
When it is frecking freezing and your customers are saying that it is, please don't tell us it is balmy and warm.
Get out of the #$%$#* UK and see what a mess your site is.
And as for paying you to be a member of the #$$(#* site, good luck. It sucks as it is now. Get them to fix the #$($*# problem, which is they have a single threaded queue for the Captcha server for your site, which isn't smart enough to buffer to disk. Damn stupid and beyond belief. Christ, I fixed problems like this 40 years ago. You would think they taught it in computer grammar school by now.
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Don Pablo,
I just learned that our friend, the beloved Professor Cox managed to tick off the Astrological Association of Great Britain with his comments about astrology. So the Telegraph piece was interesting. :)
What a bunch of strange people, these Cox, Singh, Goldacre etc are! Taking on astrologers....heroic indeed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/jan/24/1
Don Pablo
The vagaries of the BH blog are a pain. Granted. But at least it's here ;-)
Hmm, I wonder if Cox, Singh, and Goldacre approve of people with buttons? The last time the UK ejected a band of annoying puritans, it didn't turn out too well.
BBD
Don Pablo
The vagaries of the BH blog are a pain. Granted. But at least it's here ;-)
Perhaps if you had the day I had yesterday (Saturday) you would call it more a pain than "vagaries", but, as always, you are right on, my good friend. At least it is there. And this does belong to BH, not me. It is his ePub, not mine. I just wish some of the hired help washed their code more carefully.
Shub
You don't suppose the saccharine personality will finally wear thin? Nice boy, but still a boy is our little Brian the Brain. Loved "in the interests of balance on the BBC, yes astrology is nonsense." I wonder when he will say ""in the interests of balance on the BBC, yes AGW is nonsense."
Best expect the server to stop puking first.
“I fixed problems like this 40 years ago”
Ah those were the days coal fired computer systems with a laptop the size of a house. Steady!
martyn
Ah those were the days coal fired computer systems with a laptop the size of a house. Steady!
I'm talking IBM 360 and 370's, and DEC PDP-11 and VAXs, You could heat your house with a PDP-11, and I actually spent one night sleeping on top of one. It was very common in Maynard, Mass among the software hackers (as we called ourselves) to do all nighters and nap where it was warm. Several cats lived in the Mill as well and were fond of the larger PDP-11s and then VAXs.
When I worked for DEC at Bell Labs in Holmdel Labs, they actually heated the whole building by moving air from the computer rooms to the rest.
Yeap, them were the days. Today I have a IBM 370 195 emulator running on my older computer for fun. It uses nearly 6MB of "core" and about 25 MB of disk space. A monster machine in its day. Today, the average smart phone is two or three magnitudes faster. Yet, we still seem to have software from the 1960's . Very sad.
More about the 'skeptics'
http://www.hampshireskeptics.org/
Pretty cool, eh?
How come, they have all the energy in the world to fight homoepathy, superstition, gods and angels, creationism and ghost hunting?
Nothing for CAGW?