Macworld's offices are closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hints will return as normal tomorrow morning.
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Macworld's offices are closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hints will return as normal tomorrow morning.
-rob.
Welcome to 2010! No new hints today; we'll be back as usual on Monday.
-rob.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone, and we'll be back as usual on Monday.
-rob.
As Macworld is closed today and tomorrow in recognition of the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA, there won't be any new hints until Monday morning. If you're celebrating the holiday, have fun, be safe, and we'll be back as usual next week.
-rob.
This was one of the promised features from the Geeklog upgrade, and after resolving an issue with the theme, it's finally working -- at least, it's working in my testing. Feel free to leave a comment here and edit it to make sure it works for you, too. Note that there's a one-hour time limit on changes to comments.
We're still working on the character set issue; hope to have progress on that front shortly. -rob.
I really didn't want to do it, but after over 150 spammy story submissions in under an hour, I've had to enable a captcha on the story submission page, as well as on the new user registration page. For now, I'm using the "simple" images, and hopefully that'll be enough to stop the spambots.
The captcha shouldn't be active anywhere other than those two pages; comment spam, while problematic, isn't bad enough to merit that move (and thanks to everyone who uses the Report Abuse link to point out the spammy comments). Again, sorry I had to take this step, but I don't have the time to manage all these fake submissions by hand. -rob.
Some notes after a day of working on the assorted upgrade-related issues here:
-rob.
Whew. That was a huge project, and fraught with more peril than I had expected. Nonetheless, we're done now, at least for the most part. I'm sure there are some things I've missed. In particular, please let me know if you see a story or comments with odd looking characters in them; things like "é" or "’". There were some character set changes in the Geeklog core that caused us some trouble with special characters. I think we cleaned up most of them, but there may be some lurkers.
So what do you, the reader, get out of this? Quite a bit, but here are a few things to note:
Thanks to plattapuss for the expert assistance during the upgrade. At one point, I did something really stupid. Thankfully, he was able to come up with very slick SQL recovery, which saved me from having to start over from scratch! And finally, thanks to all of you for making this site what it is. It's been nearly nine years, and it's still a blast to "come to work" every day and see what all you brilliant folks have discovered. -rob.
I haven't yet added them to the RSS feeds page, but there are two new Snow Leopard-only RSS feeds available:
Earlier today, Apple announced that Snow Leopard will be available on Friday, August 28th. So that's when we'll start running Snow Leopard hints, in their own category (as with 10.4 and 10.5). When submitting hints on Snow Leopard, it will help me if you note that it's a Snow Leopard hint somewhere in the hint or title -- just include 10.6 somewhere and I'll know to code it when we run it.
Thanks! -rob. |
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