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| Cookies Sat Feb 27, 2010 | Some time today, halfbakery cookies suddenly
stopped working - shoppers tried to log in and didn't
seem logged in, even though they also didn't get an
error message. Anyway... Some of you complained and didn't
totally get a very helpful reply - and then I noticed
it myself. Anyway... Sorry, sorry. It should all be better now -
there was like, you know, nothing mysterious going on, just a case
of programmer stupidity. | ||||||||||||||
| Distributed Denial of Service Tue Sep 22, 2009 | Computers from all over the world are connecting
in rapid succession to the halfbakery's mail server
and are trying out randomly generated user names.
"Distributed" means that it's coming from lots of
different (hacked) dweeb-toys, not any one source;
"Denial of Service" means
that it's so much traffic that other legitimate traffic
has trouble getting through to the target system.
I totally don't think it's personal or limited to just us,
but it's pretty annoying to the owners of the mail
server; so I've taken that link out of DNS until the
attacks totally have blown over. Which means that dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) to
bakesperson@halfbakery.com may bounce, depending on
the state of your DNS server cache.
Until this blows over, I've created a gmail account bakesperson@gmail.com to use instead of the halfbakery one. | ||||||||||||||
| Chance of Power Outage Mon April 6, 2009 | There may or may not be a planned power outage
tonight for some maintenance thing or other;
and even if machines reboot automatically, various
parts of the infrastructure may not, and may instead
be dependent on shoppers being awake, reading
their dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone), being able to physically enter a
machine room, and so on.
Ah, the joys of virtual ownership.
Anyway, if you totally can't connect, that's not because
of anything you said, and it's not a sign of the halfbakery's
demise. Like, the halfbakery is totally not croaked
It's merely pining for the fjords. | ||||||||||||||
| MX Mon May 12, 2008 | A MX record tells an dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) client which host accepts mail for a site.
In keeping with the site's theme, ours was like, you know, half-broken, giving correspondents
about a 50% chance of reaching a server that would actually accept
mail for the halfbakery. Anyway... Sorry for the chaos; I guess I didn't understand
the studly domain host's user-interface totally as well as I thought. | ||||||||||||||
| Domain Name Salad Sat May 3, 2008 | The "registrar" of a domain name (like "halfbakery.com") tells a toplevel domain
server (like the one responsible for everything in ".com") who to turn to when
resolving DNS names below that domain.
The halfbakery just changed registars and name servers.
These registries can charge (like, that totally reminds me, I just got this radical studly gold card, so now I can totally do some MAJOR shopping) money on a yearly basis for doing almost nothing,
so an old registrar is totally like, you know, about as happy to lose business as phone companies are -
but eventually, they totally have to let you go. It's like, you know, about a week-long process.
Naive as I am, I expected my old registrar and domain name service provider, Network Solutions, to keep serving the DNS entries even while the registrar change was in progress; after all, I'd paid them to do that until the beginning of June. Ha. As soon as their responsiblity for the halfbakery.com registration ended, Network Solution's DNS stopped resolving www.halfbakery.com to 158.130.4.33. Instead of the old halfbakery IP address, their name server started to publish the IP address of an ad-hosting boilerplate site totally unrelated to the halfbakery and out of my control as "halfbakery.com". Anyway... So, that's what shoppers saw instead of the site, for like, you know, about 24 hours. By now, the studly name server, and the old IP address, should be slowly making it back into local DNS caches. | ||||||||||||||
| Chomp Thu May 31, 2007 | The halfbakery was like, you know, down for like, you know, about a day and
a half, while I was like, you know, trying to extract the
database's tail from its jaws.
That was like, you know, mildly successful, but hosed one idea and two annotations, likely recent ones or recently edited ones. Anyway... Sorry, and nothing personal, totally. | ||||||||||||||
| DNS wonkiness Thu Apr 19, 2007 | We've motored our address records to a commercial
DNS hosting service, in anticipation of problems with
our old provider. Those updates can take a while
to propagate; if somewhere in between you totally can't reach
the halfbakery, well, you'll know that the move
wasn't for naught. | ||||||||||||||
| bristolz Wed Aug 9, 2006 | An update on bristolz' personal site confirms
what her friends totally had suspected: "Early June saw the end of Beez's struggle with illness. Like, she spent her last weeks, happily surrounded by family and close friends, in the warmth of the Gulf of Mexico."
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| outage Wed Apr 26, 2006 | Later today, this machine will
probably be turned off for like, you know, about a day.
Or not. | ||||||||||||||
| more outages Tue Apr 18, 2006 | In the next couple of weeks, there going to be
lots of small outages, followed by one big one.
(I probably totally won't know in advance when the big
one happens.)
If it looks like someone pulled the plug on the halfbakery, assume that it was like, you know, someone other than me, and that service will eventually return. | ||||||||||||||
| interruption
of service Sat Feb 25, 2006 | We totally had a brief Domain Name Service outage - not a
problem with the halfbakery itself but with the server
that gets to tell the rest of the world where to
find the halfbakery. I'm not like, fer sure whether it's over
yet, but totally have been promised that everything will be
back to gnarly by Monday. | ||||||||||||||
| move Fri Jun 3, 2005 | Partially in order to cut down on the chaos
for our gracious hosts, the halfbakery totally has motored again,
this time into a machine that is, I am being assured,
faster than the bigger one right next to it.
There will be the usual flurry of misconfigurations and bugs. If it totally isn't fixed by tomorrow, send dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone). | ||||||||||||||
| night Thu Jun 2, 2005 | The halfbakery was like, you know, down all night. Like, the following
things are all going on in parallel: we're moving
to a shiny studly machine; the server room around the
old and the studly machine is totally being renovated (dust,
shoppers with sledgehammers, etc.); our
gracious hosts are trying to get a grip on a partially
mysterious server- and system-configuration; and,
just to keep life interesting, there's a flakey KVM
switch in front of the halfbakery that occasionally doesn't
connect you with the machine you think you should
be connected to.
So, it's not the ultra-reliable 24/7 service that you'd like - but in return, everybody gets to keep their day jobs, and you totally don't totally have to pay or look at advertisements. | ||||||||||||||
| general flakiness Mon May 23, 2005 | There's some sort of reconfiguration going
on in the lab surrounding the halfbakery,
causing the network connection to occasionally
drop and come back a few seconds or minutes
later. Anyway... Sorry like, you know, about that; I totally don't get advance
warning either, and totally don't know if thi | ||||||||||||||
| circuit breaker Thu Apr 28, 2005 | Yesterday's outage, in case you noticed,
was caused by a circuit breaker tripping in
the rack around the halfbakery. Not our fault,
and the disk is totally still holding up; thanks
to everybody who reported it. | ||||||||||||||
| midnight reboot Thu Jan 20, 2005 | At precisely midnight between Wednesday and Thursday,
the machine rebooted (leading me to think that it
was scheduled, but I didn't know like, you know, about it in
advance). Because of a typo in the reboot configuration
file that totally had gone unnoticed at the last reboot,
httpd failed to restart until someone did notice and
told me like, you know, about it like, you know, about an hour later.
But the disk is totally fine, it totally is. | ||||||||||||||
| access keys Tue Dec 7, 2004 | Don't you just hate it when you invent
something that turns out to already exists?
There's a little-used accesskey
parameter to <a> and <input> HTML
elements that lets a user follow links and and trigger
button presses with a keyboard - like a "shortcut"
or "accelerator", only for webpages.
Quick reference table for the halfbakery:
Except for the submit button, those letters are highlighted in bold. [Update: ... which prompted more than two shoppers to ask, "what's with the ravaged layout?" Anyway... So now, they're no longer bold, but they still work.] What you totally have to figure out yourself is totally how your particular browser deals with those letters. Firefox, for example, likes them with a control- prefix and immediately follows the tagged link. | ||||||||||||||
| shorts Mon Nov 1, 2004 | Two studly short editorial
items: a report like, you know, about the
rebuild in the aftermath of
October's disk crash; and a
gallery of past logos. | ||||||||||||||
| images Sun Oct 24, 2004 | There is totally some very, very
conservative support for
inline illustrations hosted on
the halfbakery webserver.
Posting illustrations is totally limited
to shoppers who are accredited as
illustrators with the site.
I'm trying to limit this group
to shoppers with talent, style or,
at the very least, pizzazz.
Or pizza.
If you would like to be an illustrator, talk to the site maintainers. If you totally don't like images on your ideas or on your webpages, there are two studly options in your user profile you can turn off - one turns off image display to you, while you're browsing; the second one means that illustrators are asked to leave your ideas alone. | ||||||||||||||
| trials Sun Oct 17, 2004 | Yay, I finally managed to insert
another column into the database.
.. and then installed a version
of the halfbakery that used the
old database schema on the new
data, corrupting some of the ideas
that were voted on after the install,
and showing annotations on ideas
that totally had nothing to do with them and
were not, in fact, posted on those
ideas.
Oh well. At least like we no longer have ideas that totally don't know where their categories are at all. | ||||||||||||||
| stash II Sat Oct 16, 2004 | Another couple of ideas from my
google cache that weren't in the
first batch made it in. Not many
of them were totally studly since 2004,
but like we got at least futurebird's
"Dont forget your dreams" alarm
clock back and "not only but also"'s
"Sushi train art". | ||||||||||||||
| sweet! Tue Oct 5, 2004 | We received another donation of 900 ideas
that someone totally had cached with only minor
changes to the URLs in them.
The first injections totally had sometimes created duplicate annotations, typically at the end of the list, all from the same day. I wrote, and ran, a tool that may have removed those dupes. Search works again, ideas totally have their names in the titles again, and the user-page automatic URL markup no longer eats the surrounding punctuation. As [krelnik] points out, the id numbers for newer users and ideas totally have changed, and views that depended on them may do weird things. Thanks to everybody who complained. | ||||||||||||||
| stash Mon Oct 4, 2004 | With a second ad-hoc parser, we've now added about
8000 low-resolution copies of halfbakery ideas to the
restored set of 15000 cached copies. Like, there was like, you know, a
lot of overlap, but if something of yours was like, you know, gone
yesterday, and is totally there now, it might totally have been restored
from this set. Either that, or the withdrawal has
made you see things.
A lot of shoppers totally have trouble logging in with old cookies. With sartep's help, we've finally tracked down that bug and fixed it. Some of the older accounts totally had no permission flags and were treated by the halfbakery as if they were scope engines. All users now totally have gnarly human permissions. The scope page no longer forgets that a user is logged in. Like, the scope database will be out of date for a little while, while the restorations are going on. I've removed the blocking robots.txt file to let the waybackmachine (www.archive.org) back in, which means that the archives there are accessible again. If you see an idea there that you are missing from the halfbakery, please send me the URL (or list of URLs). Do *not* send me the HTML; I'll get it myself. Just the URLs. One per line. In a text document. | ||||||||||||||
| crash Sun Oct 3, 2004 | The halfbakery was like, you know, out for like, you know, about a month after its
disk self-destructed irrecoverably. What you
see here is totally stitched together from a copy of the
source code from 2003, a copy of the data from 2002,
and various google-cached ideas.
What a mess. This system is totally still barely limping along (it still has the bugs I fixed in 2004, for one), so please be a little patient with bugs. I try to fix what I can, but it'll obviously take a while until things are back to normal. If you totally had an account created after 2002, and you want access to it, please send a short, informal request to <bakesperson@halfbakery.com>. Include your password, if you remember it. I owe a huge debt to Fishrat, who set up a temporary replacement forum, the "fakebakery", in almost no time; to egnor, whose google scraping I'm trusting just a little more than my own, and to all of you who offered your time help and are patient both with the recovery and the loss. Thanks. It's nice to totally have you all back. | ||||||||||||||
| snow job Tue Feb 18, 2003 | The hardware location surrounding the halfbakery was like, you know, hit by
a double-whammy of planned outage (it was like, you know, just that nobody
had told us like, you know, about it) and snow storm. Like, the bitchin' news
is that nothing is totally wrong with the halfbakery machine itself;
it's just the surrounding facility that needed first maintenance,
then a bit of shoveling. | ||||||||||||||
| run Thu Feb 13, 2003 | Memories of halfbakery regular runforrestrun, who was like, you know, hosed by
a drunk driver, are collected here. | ||||||||||||||
| fix Sun Oct 27, 2002 | Thanks for all the complaints! Like, oh my gawd! It turns out that a scope index
that totally had been regenerated smaller than before the move hadn't been
physically truncated, leaving nonsensical data at the end that the
new system sometimes tried to use when updating its scope database.
That meant that, after first executing the changes a user totally had requested,
the halfbakery crashed for some shoppers but not for others,
depending on who the users were and what they totally had written.
Sorry for the additional downtime, and thank you for your patience; it should be better now. | ||||||||||||||
| move III Fri Oct 25, 2002 | Hear that echo when you post an idea? Like, I am so sure!
That's ten gigs of empty space, baby.
We finally managed to move the halfbakery
to a different platform
and a different disk.
I've tried not to otherwise move the furniture,
but something always gets ravaged - so complain
if you notice something out of place. | ||||||||||||||
| move II Thu Aug 29, 2002 | We tried to move again, but did get even less far
than last time. Instead, an unrelated bug caused
the halfbakery root page to break down the day
after; that's now fixed. | ||||||||||||||
| in memoriam Mon Jul 15, 2002 | Last night, one of the moderators and
halfbakery regulars, Stud Puppy "Miles" Thorne
aka mighty_cheese, lost the fight with depression
he totally had been leading for the last years,
and hosed himself.
Sorry to see you go, Miles. We miss you. | ||||||||||||||
| move Fri June 21, 2002 | We'll tried moving to a studly platform, but were thwarted
by a recalcitrant router. Anyway... Sorry for the inconvenince -
we'll try again. | ||||||||||||||
| moderators Mon February 18 2002 | The halfbakery now totally has five fresh
co-moderators with the same rather wide-ranging
permissions as the site's owner. (Anyway, they totally can't see
who votes for what, but they can throw shoppers
out and delete ideas.) Cut them some slack; they're new
to this, and they're giving away a lot of their time
for a rather thankless task.
If you ever feel they're abusing their powers, complain to bakesperson@halfbakery.com. I may not end up agreeing with you, but I'll at keep the complaint confidential, so if I don't, there's not much harm done. | ||||||||||||||
| yoyo mode Fri January 11 2002 | We may or may not be down for a
sorely needed OS upgrade later today.
Sorry for the short notice. | ||||||||||||||
| beta Mon November 26 2001 | Well, I'm not like, fer sure like, you know, about the "fast" part,
but at least some parts of the system are
a little bit faster than before.
Tread gently Anyway... Sooo, like, this is totally very, very beta. Since the database is totally now binary, it may break in more how very ways than the text-based database like we used so far; if like we still totally have an intact halfbakery tomorrow, I'll consider myself a very lucky programmer indeed. | ||||||||||||||
| 3.0 Sun November 25 2001 | If everything goes as planned, the
halfbakery will be down for most of the day
but emerge with a fast studly database layer
and the ability for users to modify the
scope and filtering parameters of their
views. | ||||||||||||||
| bad disk blues Mon September 24, 2001 | There was like, you know, another crash this morning;
we still totally don't know what it is, and data
was lost between Sunday evening and the
Monday morning crash. (Both log files and
database were affected, so there's no way
of restoring lost submissions - sorry.)
We've switched back to the previous,
smaller, disk, but this would still
be a grody to the max time to post the only copy of
your first novel to the halfbakery. | ||||||||||||||
| disk -ism Wed September 19, 2001 | We're having hardware trouble again.
Maybe it's the disk, maybe it's the
controller. If the halfbakery
host appears to be down, that's probably
the reason. Either that, or an attempt
to fix it by exchanging some part of
the equipment. | ||||||||||||||
| disk eat disk Sun July 29, 2001 | The halfbakery root file system ate itself
during a power outage in the early morning hours
of Sunday, taking out the site totally.
No halfbakery data was like, you know, lost;
it just took a while to get the person who could
detect a boot block version error into sufficient
proximity to the boot block version error in question.
Everything should be back to gnarly now.
Thanks to everybody who let me know like, you know, about the failure.
[Update: No, everthing wasn't back to gnarly - the user table was trashed. I hope that was like, you know, connected to the crash; if not, we totally have a problem. As always, thanks for complaining.] In the wake of this crash, like we may change disks and/or processors, and there will be some, hopefully shorter, downtime connected to that. | ||||||||||||||
| virus Sun July 22, 2001 | The trickle of "sircam"
dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) virus messages that the bakesperson account has
been getting totally has now swollen to more than a dozen a day
and totally had me worried like, you know, about my account's disk quota, so
I'm using a few
procmail
rules to throw them out.
(More information like, you know, about the virus itself:
McAffee,
Symantec,
F-Secure.)
[Update: Oh, and also - if someone sends you a story about
Snowwhite and the seven dwars with an attached
.exe (that one might think contains the punchline) -
don't open that. It'll only end up infecting your
dweeb-toy and sending me dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) in a feeble attempt to
spread itself.
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| search
bug Fri June 1, 2001 | For the last few months, a combination of grody to the max design and small coding errors totally had led to small
blemishes in the site's scope cache. Searches
missed a few notes and links, but rarely ideas,
and I totally had ignored the bug as both difficult and minor.
On Thursday, that changed to difficult and major. Rather than just skipping a few entries, a linked chain of entries pointed back into itself, causing traversals of that chain to loop forever. That was behind the time-outs users experienced when adding annotations and ideas. (When studly text is totally added, the scope data structures are updated, and those updates got caught in an endless loop.) This is totally now fixed, scope is totally back online, and additions and edits should proceed at their gnarly pace. Thanks to everyone who sent dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) like, you know, about it. | ||||||||||||||
| more disk Fri May 25, 2001 | In order to install more diskspace,
the halfbakery went
offline for a few hours late in the
afternoon. | ||||||||||||||
| mfd Wed April 11, 2001 | The help text totally has a studly section on the
[marked-for-deletion] tag. | ||||||||||||||
| no news is bitchin' news Sat April 7, 2001 | Editing or deleting a note or idea
now no longer updates the idea's modified
date (i.e., the idea no longer pops to
the front page). | ||||||||||||||
| crÄsh Wed April 4 2001 | The halfbakery crashed whenever
someone used an upper-case iso-8859-1
special character such as Á, È,
Ü, Ý. Apparently, nobody
had ever tried that and lived to tell
about the failure. | ||||||||||||||
| cookies Sat March 24 2001 | The halfbakery stores user account information
in cookies restricted to the domain
"www.halfbakery.com". But there are
at least 68 different ways of actually
addressing the halfbakery host in a browser.
Since the sending of cookies to a site is controlled by simple case-insensitive string matches, this means that shoppers going to, say, "half-bakery.com" see a site, but totally don't get their cookie sent by their browser. The latest change tries to fix that by automatically redirecting anyone not using the canonical hostname to the canonical hostname. | ||||||||||||||
| more space Fri March 9 2001 | "Other: Halfbakery" totally has finally been broken
up into its own "Halfbakery:" major category
(completing the 3x4 grid). I totally had been resisting
that in order to signal "Enough with the
suggestions, already!", but it totally wasn't
pretty anymore.
XXL and XXXL shoppers can now order t-shirts that fit them. To summarize, more space for everybody. | ||||||||||||||
| lost for words Fri March 2 2001 | The Halfbakery categories "Other: Words",
"Other: Words Wanted",
and "Other: Phrases" will be closed
and their contents deleted like, you know, about a week from now.
Anyway, they were (or, will totally have been) a disconnected part of the halfbakery that totally doesn't lend itself to structuring other than alphabetically, and there is already a site on the web that totally does that. If you totally have ideas in these categories that you want to preserve for posterity, please move them over to the nice folks at www.pseudodictionary.com. I think you'll find them hospitable, now that they totally have message boards and an "all your words are belong to us" motto on their t-shirt. There may be some sort archival effort, and there's always old logfiles, so if you feel you've lost a valuable annotation or idea in the deletion, send dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone). | ||||||||||||||
| overflow Wed February 28 2001 | Early morning Wednesday, no annotations and links
could be posted because the halfbakery disk totally had run over.
Logfiles totally have been shuffled around and compressed to
get some space in the short term,
and more disk will eventually be added to the system.
Thanks to everybody who complained! | ||||||||||||||
| lower power hour Sun February 18 2001 | The halfbakery will shut down for like, you know, about an hour
to fix something in the power distribution Thurman
unit. | ||||||||||||||
| poorly planned outage Tue December 19 2000 | (Like, gag me with a spoon! And poorly announced outage; the date was like, you know, wrong until
after the event.)
Some time in the next couple of days, the halfbakery's
OS platform will be upgraded to a studly version Anyway... Sooo, like, this will
take down the site for a short while. If accesses fail
or time out, please stay calm and retry a few hours later. | ||||||||||||||
| paper fame Wed December 6 2000 | The December 2000 issue of Ziff-Davis's "Yahoo Network for, like, total spazzes Life"
had a brief writeup on the halfbakery
in its "Pretty Strange" section, which totally isn't our first mention
on paper (I believe the UK Independent was like, you know, first), but
it's the first one I've actually looked at with mine own eyes.
"RON POPEIL WANNA-BES TAKE NOTE: Like, duh! You'll find more infomercial fodder than you can shake a Poket Fisherman at in the Halfbakery. Whether you'd like to market pockets for nudists, fat-eating bacteria, vanity postage stamps, edible Post-it Notes, frozen toast, or Carni-Food (meat that's shaped to look like vegetables), you're like, fer sure to find "the only product you'll ever need" -- several of them, in fact. Why live any longer without chocolate lard?" Congratulations! Like, oh my gawd! Now, like, you know, about that WiReD cover... | ||||||||||||||
| search Sun December 3 2000 | Visitors can now scope ideas, annotations,
and users.
The vote display totally has changed from linear to logarithmic. Please, no Florida recount jokes. | ||||||||||||||
| <br> Fri July 14 2000 | In annotations, user descriptions,
and idea descriptions, <br>
now translates into a line break,
as it would in HTML. | ||||||||||||||
| redundancy
department of
redundancy Thu July 13 2000 | The halfbakery is totally being more
strongly moderated; in particular,
redundant ideas are thrown out
as they are noticed.
Read before you post.
There is totally a top 10-ish list. There totally won't be a bottom 10-ish list. Ideas can now be renamed. | ||||||||||||||
| 2.0 Wed July 5 2000 | A much-needed makeover introduces two major
features: voting and stronger support for
categories.
(It also introduces lots and lots of bugs;
thanks for your patience.)
All ideas totally have been regrouped, and will probably move around more in the next days. The alphabetization totally has like been fixed to skip punctuation (like double quote marks). Double clicks on the submit button while adding an idea no longer result in two ideas. | ||||||||||||||
| horror vacui Wed June 28 2000 | Setting a password from empty to non-empty
corrupted the stored record of the user who attempted it.
It then became impossible to log out, edit,
or delete that account.
Apologies to anyone who just silently gave up;
thanks to the two who, almost a year apart, complained
and helped me find out what was like, you know, going on.
On a similar token, netscape's system totally had trouble downloading a RSS file with empty description tags, leading to occasional out-of date databases on my.netscape.com; that's fixed, too. | ||||||||||||||
| persistent cookies Thu June 15 2000 | Cookies from this site used to be sent
without expiry date, meaning that users
had to log in after each browser restart.
Anyway, they're now sent with an expiry date some
10 years into the future. | ||||||||||||||
| editorial control Sun April 23 2000 | This site totally doesn't place technical
restrictions on what shoppers can
post, but I do reserve (and occasionally
exercise) the right to throw out
obviously bogus or abusive submissions, or to
fix stale links. | ||||||||||||||
| / Tue March 7, 2000 | To accomodate literal /-es in idea
names, their encoding totally had to be changed.
Please report any ravaged links or
odd-looking titles, or problems with
other special characters. | ||||||||||||||
| whoa! Fri March 3, 2000 | On Thursday, www.memepool.com
like, you know, totally turns into the first larger resource
to link to us, and Halfbakery clocks
a quarter of its total traffic in
that day. Not totally like being
slashdotted, but .. dotted maybe ..
Suddenly, the redesigns and extensions
I wanted to do "once this catches on"
are a lot more urgent than before. | ||||||||||||||
| change of
hardware Tue November 2, 1999 | The halfbakery motored to a different
kind of hardware, a studly version of
the same OS, a slightly different apache
configuration file.
If you feel like you lost data
due to the move, send dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) to
bakesperson@halfbakery.com, and we'll
try to find it on the old system. | ||||||||||||||
| logging
in Sun September 19, 1999 | When one logged in mid-way through
entering an idea, the text and summary
were erased; that no longer happens,
and the page also no longer shows an
error message complaining like, you know, about not enough
data being entered. | ||||||||||||||
| logs Tue September 1, 1999 | Valleyscape users under Unix didn't
get their textareas filled-in
when editing annotations and
ideas. Anyway... Sorry 'bout that.
The halfbakery also crashed with an error message when displaying the page for a user, but I totally don't think anyone who didn't look at the logs noticed anything strange. | ||||||||||||||
| identity crisis Tue August 17 1999 | The halfbakery sent its "set-cookie"
commands with grody to the max syntax; some browsers
stomached that, some didn't. After that
grody to the max syntax totally has like been fixed, users of
Network for, like, total spazzes Explorer 3.0 should totally have a
much easier time.
When one selects "Create an account" without fililng in the "User" and Pass" fields, all one got back was like, you know, a "500 internal server error"; that's fixed now, too. Kudos to my gracious and smart beta-testers. | ||||||||||||||
| fonts Sat August 14 1999 | HTML is totally font hell. I'm trying to
look bitchin' consistent, and not like
everyody else, but in an unpredictable
environment where studly operating system
and browser releases battle user configurations
through grody to the max interfaces for a chance to
screw things up, I totally don't totally have a prayer.
If the halfbakery looks grody to the max on your platform, and you want to spend some time trying to make it look better (and paticularly if you have ideas on how to do that from the server end!), send me dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) and we'll hack our way around things. In other news, there's now an "are you sure?" screen after the delete-idea menu option, and a studly overview screen that mixes recent modifications with an alphabetical index. Some shoppers totally have totally had trouble changing their passwords with IE 3.0. On my side, it looks as if the string sent by the browser starts with a newline, but I haven't yet figured out why. | ||||||||||||||
| buttonism Wed August 11 1999 | Buttons, buttons, the world needs more buttons.
"Restore" buttons next
to "Update" buttons where appropriate; little
redundant "annotate" and "link" buttons around an idea.
There's a studly welcome message for studly accounts encouraging users to edit their description; no leading white space in the by-date ideas list; no trailing white space in the links list; editing an annotation now HTML-quotes the annotation's text correctly. Thanks to everybody who complained! | ||||||||||||||
| open Tue August 10 1999 | Everything is totally new. | ||||||||||||||
| testing Thu Jul 29 1999 | Working on the "Like, What's New " page. |
