small software upgrade next wednesday

[Greg Bernhardt]

We'll be performing a much needed upgrade. Nothing major will change. It's mostly bug and security fixes. You might notice a few small changes here and there, but the style of the site will be all the same. We're confident most functions will operate as normal. Some of our custom work might need to be tweaked a little and we appreciate patience. The site will likely be down for appox. 1 hour. I'll bump this as a reminder on tuesday. thanks!

[S_Happens]

PM count previous to update... 3 ( :frown: )

The bar has been set.

[Greg Bernhardt]

bump reminder :)

[ZapperZ]

We'll be performing a much needed upgrade. Nothing major will change. It's mostly bug and security fixes. You might notice a few small changes here and there, but the style of the site will be all the same. We're confident most functions will operate as normal. Some of our custom work might need to be tweaked a little and we appreciate patience. The site will likely be down for appox. 1 hour. I'll bump this as a reminder on tuesday. thanks!

This could easily be the famous last words out of Greg.

:)

Zz.

[phinds]

We'll be performing a much needed upgrade. Nothing major will change. It's mostly bug and security fixes. You might notice a few small changes here and there, but the style of the site will be all the same. We're confident most functions will operate as normal. Some of our custom work might need to be tweaked a little and we appreciate patience. The site will likely be down for appox. 1 hour. I'll bump this as a reminder on tuesday. thanks!

Oh, my God ... that's almost as scary as the phrase "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you"

[Dembadon]

Wednesday doesn't work for me.

[Ryan_m_b]

Which hour? I'll have to make sure I'm either asleep or sedated to avoid the panic that will no doubt ensue from being denied my constant drip feed of a PF fix

[Greg Bernhardt]

Oh, my God ... that's almost as scary as the phrase "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you"

ok how about this then... THE WORLD IS ENDING TOMORROW!!!

[I like Serena]

What? Does that mean PF is going down?

[diazona]

ok how about this then... THE WORLD IS ENDING TOMORROW!!!
Hey, isn't that fringe science? We only deal with mainstream end-of-the-world theories here :tongue:

[DaveC426913]

Ok, seriously. Where are we going to meet while it's down? We blew it last couple of minor-software-updates-that-won't-have-any-negative-effects.

[Dembadon]

Here's a map I whipped up for tomorrow's fire drill. Hopefully it will help reduce chaos for future emergencies.

Be gentle; I was on my laptop without a mouse so I had to use the trackpad.

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/dem9180/pfupgrades.jpg

[Greg Bernhardt]

End of the world will happen around 3pm CST.

[phinds]

End of the world will happen around 3pm CST.

"CST" ??? What's that in REAL time :smile:

[Ryan_m_b]

"CST" ??? What's that in REAL time :smile:

A useful resource. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations)

[Evo]

here's a map i whipped up for tomorrow's fire drill. Hopefully it will help reduce chaos for future emergencies.

be gentle; i was on my laptop without a mouse so i had to use the trackpad.

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/dem9180/pfupgrades.jpglol.

[phinds]

A useful resource. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations)

Ryan, you are losing your sense of humor

[Ryan_m_b]

Ryan, you are losing your sense of humor
*sigh, I really should pay attention more rather than trying to be helpful :tongue2:

[DirectCurrent]

Best of luck to PF team for the upgrade :-)

[Borek]

"CST" ??? What's that in REAL time :smile:

A useful resource. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations)

Perfect. Just perfect.

CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30

[dlgoff]

Perfect. Just perfect.

CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30

They need to add CPF time. :devil:

[phinds]

Perfect. Just perfect.

CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30

well,since the US is using China's money, I'm assuming we're going to use China's time. :smile:

[Ryan_m_b]

End of the world will happen around 3pm CST.
"CST" ??? What's that in REAL time :smile:
Perfect. Just perfect.

CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30
So the world will end at either GMT: 9pm, 7am or 5.30am. Good to know.

[micromass]

For the addicts who can't live without PF: http://us3.chatzy.com/66236398987587

[jtbell]

Less than an hour to go! :uhh:

[Borek]

Less than an hour to go! :uhh:

That's finally something unambiguous.

[Greg Bernhardt]

Change to upgrade timeline. I'll look into upgrading it tomorrow at 12:30 AM CST.

[Greg Bernhardt]

Ran out of time tonight. Reschedule to next week.

[Greg Bernhardt]

Looking at tomorrow 4PM CST now.

[DaveC426913]

Wait. What? I thought it happened already and we were in the clear...

Oh noes!

[StevieTNZ]

Seriously... you guys can last an hour without PhysicsForum. Do something out of the ordinary... make love to your wife, walk to the park (maybe even in the middle of the night?), clean the floors with your toothbrush. Endlessssss possibilities. But only those allowable by Quantum Mechanics.

[Dembadon]

Seriously... you guys can last an hour without PhysicsForum. Do something out of the ordinary... make love to your wife, walk to the park (maybe even in the middle of the night?), clean the floors with your toothbrush. Endlessssss possibilities. But only those allowable by Quantum Mechanics.

You, sir, have obviously never experienced PF withdrawals. I'm open for suggestions on how to accomplish any one of your activities1 while convulsing.

1 With the exception of using my toothbrush to clean the floors. :yuck:

[AlephZero]

We always used to do software updates on Fridays.

Then we got an "accident prone" programmer on the team, and we changed to doing them on Thursday, so if something went wrong we had Friday to fix it before it screwed up the weekend's computing.

But one day wasn't always enough to fix the problems, so we changed to doing updates on Wednesdays ...

... and eventually, we got back to doing them on Fridays, and working two 16-hour days on Saturday and Sunday to clean up the mess.

Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.

[StevieTNZ]

Haha, nope! I'm not worried about the short outage. I will survive - I have many other things to do than sit at the computer. :-P

[StevieTNZ]

You, sir, have obviously never experienced PF withdrawals. I'm open for suggestions on how to accomplish any one of your activities1 while convulsing.

1 With the exception of using my toothbrush to clean the floors. :yuck:

You could always make love to a blow up doll... - they can't get pregnant, too. (realised that earlier)

[Evo]

We always used to do software updates on Fridays.

Then we got an "accident prone" programmer on the team, and we changed to doing them on Thursday, so if something went wrong we had Friday to fix it before it screwed up the weekend's computing.

But one day wasn't always enough to fix the problems, so we changed to doing updates on Wednesdays ...

... and eventually, we got back to doing them on Fridays, and working two 16-hour days on Saturday and Sunday to clean up the mess.

Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.We solved many problems by promoting people. Sad, isn't it?

[AlephZero]

We solved many problems by promoting people. Sad, isn't it?

It's only sad if they figure out that's why they got promoted.

[PAllen]

Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.

[Dembadon]

Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something there that deserves a good name.

The Fundamental Theorem of Business?

[gneill]

Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.

That's the Peter Out Principle.

[Greg Bernhardt]

Upgrade is done. Some template will need to be worked on. My apologies for any temporary goofyness. Thanks!

[Dembadon]

Upgrade is done. Some template will need to be worked on. My apologies for any temporary goofyness. Thanks!

Nice work! I barely even felt it; 'twas merely a slight pinch! :biggrin:

[lisab]

Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.

Entropy of Competence?

[D H]

Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.
An inept manager who is in charge of a project and managing people can do much more damage than the most inept worker. Here's hoping that he was fast-tracked to a project of one with no budget.

The problem isn't solved permanently because he's still a drain on and a potential liability to the company. The solution is to keep promoting him! Eventually your competition will notice and lure hire him away from you.

[Ryan_m_b]

A few things I've noticed with the upgrade:

- When I log on I get an invalid message yet when I click on a banner link I'm shown as logged in

- People's blog count isn't appearing in a neat box but plaining written under their post count

All for now...

[Greg Bernhardt]

A few things I've noticed with the upgrade:

- When I log on I get an invalid message yet when I click on a banner link I'm shown as logged in

- People's blog count isn't appearing in a neat box but plaining written under their post count

All for now...

Both of those issues should be fixed now

[AlephZero]

The solution is to keep promoting him! Eventually your competition will notice and lure hire him away from you.

Actually, he got shunted into a corner of the business that was taken over by an outsourcing company. He's probably screwing things up at "international enterprise empowerment evangelist" level by now.

That sort of outcome almost makes you want to believe in karma :smile:

[Redbelly98]

Threads with zero replies are not highlighted.

[Fredrik]

We seem to have lost the ability to highlight a piece of text and type "Alt Gr+i" to surround it by "i" tags or "Alt Gr+b" to surround it by "b" tags. (Not a big problem, but if it's easy to fix...)

Just checking if the spoiler tags are still ugly. :smile: Not an actual problem, but I was curious if that would change since they look so much better on at least one other vBulletin forum I know. Apparently ours cant even hide a smiley. :smile:

[lisab]

Just checking if the spoiler tags are still ugly. :smile: Not an actual problem, but I was curious if that would change since they look so much better on at least one other vBulletin forum I know. Apparently ours cant even hide a smiley. :smile:

:eek: floating ghost smileys :eek:

[Fredrik]

Every time I close my brower, I get logged out. (Yes, I'm checking "remember me" each time).

[DaveC426913]

We seem to have lost the ability to highlight a piece of text and type "Alt Gr+i" to surround it by "i" tags or "Alt Gr+b" to surround it by "b" tags. (Not a big problem, but if it's easy to fix...)

Pretty sure that's actually a browser thing, not a forum thing.

What browser are you using?

[PAllen]

Every time I close my brower, I get logged out. (Yes, I'm checking "remember me" each time).

I get the same behavior. Brand new behavior.

[DaveC426913]

Every time I close my brower, I get logged out. (Yes, I'm checking "remember me" each time).

I saw it once, until I clicked remember me but now it's behaving. I am running FF8.

[Greg Bernhardt]

try clearing the pf cookies

[DaveC426913]

try clearing the pf cookies

We have cookies??

This is the best PF evar!

[Fredrik]

try clearing the pf cookies
:blushing: That actually solved the login issue. I should have tried that before.

Pretty sure that's actually a browser thing, not a forum thing.

What browser are you using?
Firefox 7.0.1. This feature stopped working here today (certainly no later than a few days ago...I'm pretty sure that I would have noticed it quickly because I use italics more than most. I don't think it has ever worked at forums.randi.org, another vBulletin forum where I'm also a member. So it certainly looks more like a forum thing than a browser thing.

[ehild]

try clearing the pf cookies
Hi Greg,
I have cleared the cookies, but PF but still logs me out. And after logging in, I get a message "Invalid Redirect URL (http://physicsforums.com/?)" and I have to click on "previous page" to find Physicsforums again. Any advice?


ehild

[Ryan_m_b]

Hi Greg,
I have cleared the cookies, but PF but still logs me out. And after logging in, I get a message "Invalid Redirect URL (http://physicsforums.com/?)" and I have to click on "previous page" to find Physicsforums again. Any advice?


ehild

Me too. Also when I close my browser and have to log in again all my recent subscribed threads become unread again.

[D H]

try clearing the pf cookies
It still logs me out using Safari. It not only logs me out when I close the browser, it also logs me out with the browser continuously open but after some time limit has passed.

[ehild]

No more log-in problem, thanks!


ehild

[Borek]

I am logged out all the time, even during a single session. Opera.

To add to that I can't delete two of the PF cookies, which may add to my problems. I am more and more inclined to dump Opera :grumpy:

[rhody]

I have noticed a similar thing from two locations. The major symptom being if you leave PF open idle for sometime, when you come back you are logged off and must log back in. Also your ID and password are removed from the login screen, even if you clicked remember me the last time you logged in.

Is this part of the change you made Greg ? If so, what are the new limits before you are logged off and must log back in ?

Edit: I will try clearing cookies and see if it helps, will report back if it does not.

Rhody...

[Borek]

Seems to me like internal links generated on pages are inconsistent - sometimes they are to www.physicsforums.com, sometimes they are to physicsforums.com - this is probably responsible for at least part of the problems.

[humanino]

Cleared all my PF cookies fixed the problem (Chrome on Mac).

[Borek]

When I try to log in on physicsforums.com I get the "Invalid Redirect URL (http://physicsforums.com/)" message (apparently from vBulletin).

[Ryan_m_b]

When I try to log in on physicsforums.com I get the "Invalid Redirect URL (http://physicsforums.com/)" message (apparently from vBulletin).
That works for me (chrome).

[Greg Bernhardt]

When I try to log in on physicsforums.com I get the "Invalid Redirect URL (http://physicsforums.com/)" message (apparently from vBulletin).

Try now Borek

[jcw99]

I'm trying to upgrade to 20 yrs - is this the right place to ask a question? I can't enter an amount in the box where the $49.99 should go, and I keep getting a message about selecting a currency. thanx, john

[Greg Bernhardt]

I'm trying to upgrade to 20 yrs - is this the right place to ask a question? I can't enter an amount in the box where the $49.99 should go, and I keep getting a message about selecting a currency. thanx, john

Hi jcw99, it should be a simple drop down where you select the $49.99. You shouldn't have to enter any amount manually.

[jcw99]

Hi Greg, when I see the 49.99 I hit my return button and the 49.99 disappears instead of going onto the line. when I then click the icon next to the line I go to a new window that says invalid currency selected. I'm using a Mac Lion laptop and don't know much about computers.My daughter will be home from school in a few hours if the two of us can't resolve this. Thanx again.

[DevilsAvocado]

Great update! http://planetsmilies.net/happy-smiley-8819.gif

I have one question though: Why am I the only one on PF that has to go public with my stupid infractions? I mean... not even permanently banned bums seem to have gone thru this joyful experience??

Are Swedes and meatballs really so unpopular... that we have to cope with this... :frown:

http://i43.tinypic.com/15eitcp.png


(:smile:)

[Fredrik]

I have one question though: Why am I the only one on PF that has to go public with my stupid infractions?

That line isn't visible to others. At least it's not visible to me. I also don't see a line like that when I look at my own posts, but maybe it depends on what sort of infractions you have received, or when you received them.

(I'm Swedish, and I'm probably going to eat meatballs today :smile:).

[Borek]

Everyone sees ONLY THEIR OWN ACTIVE warnings and infractions.

[Greg Bernhardt]

Hi Greg, when I see the 49.99 I hit my return button and the 49.99 disappears instead of going onto the line. when I then click the icon next to the line I go to a new window that says invalid currency selected. I'm using a Mac Lion laptop and don't know much about computers.My daughter will be home from school in a few hours if the two of us can't resolve this. Thanx again.

hmmm, is it possible for you to try a different browser? What are you using? Can anyone else help test this and confirm?

Great update! http://planetsmilies.net/happy-smiley-8819.gif

I have one question though: Why am I the only one on PF that has to go public with my stupid infractions? I mean... not even permanently banned bums seem to have gone thru this joyful experience??


Only you and staff can see the postbit infraction box.

[jcw99]

I figured it out - I was clicking on the amount when I should have been hitting the enter-return key when I saw the amount drop down - now I just have to wait for my wife to get home to get her paypal number. Sorry for any confusion I've caused you. Have a nice Thanksgiving!

[DevilsAvocado]

Everyone sees ONLY THEIR OWN ACTIVE warnings and infractions.
Only you and staff can see the postbit infraction box.


Okay guys... I have some "deleting pictures" to do... in a hurry... (I probably won’t have time to visit this thread ever again :redface:)...

But, please don’t tell me this has been the case all the time (pre update)??

[No worries, I’m scheduling a meeting with Dr. Alzheimer in any case]

[DevilsAvocado]

That line isn't visible to others. At least it's not visible to me. I also don't see a line like that when I look at my own posts, but maybe it depends on what sort of infractions you have received, or when you received them.

(I'm Swedish, and I'm probably going to eat meatballs today :smile:).

YES!! IKEA FOOD!! :!!)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Food_006.JPG/400px-Food_006.JPG

[Dembadon]

Great update! http://planetsmilies.net/happy-smiley-8819.gif

I have one question though: Why am I the only one on PF that has to go public with my stupid infractions? I mean... not even permanently banned bums seem to have gone thru this joyful experience??

Are Swedes and meatballs really so unpopular... that we have to cope with this... :frown:

http://i43.tinypic.com/15eitcp.png


(:smile:)

You have infinity infractions?!

[DevilsAvocado]

You have infinity infractions?!

Yep, that seems to be the fact. The good thing though, until now, only I and the mentors knew about this horrific user profile... and then... I think I blow it... :frown:

;)

[Evo]

Yep, that seems to be the fact. The good thing though, until now, only I and the mentors knew about this horrific user profile... and then... I think I blow it... :frown:

;)
Actually the two zeros mean that you have no infractions. The 1 means one zero point warning/FYI.

[DevilsAvocado]

Actually the two zeros mean that you have no infractions. The 1 means one zero point warning/FYI.

Okay, thanks Evo, that feels much better... ahh, zero infractions... I am a good avocado after all... ;)

[D H]

Yep, that seems to be the fact. The good thing though, until now, only I and the mentors knew about this horrific user profile... and then... I think I blow it... :frown:
Yep. You blew it. Now everyone knows. Ordinary members cannot see other members' infractions; they can only see their own.

[S_Happens]

Threads with zero replies are not highlighted.

This is the main thing I noticed. When I'm trying to optimize my PF viewing (cram as much PF into a few precious moments of break) I look for new posts this way while flying through forums.

[D H]

Having threads with zero replies highlighted is also an aid to homework helpers, science advisors, and mentors.

It would be nice to have that feature back.

[Greg Bernhardt]

Having threads with zero replies highlighted is also an aid to homework helpers, science advisors, and mentors.

It would be nice to have that feature back.

KAAAAZAM! It is back! :D

[D H]

KAAAAZAM! It is back! :D
KAAAAZAM! Very nice.