You may not notice anything, but I just updated WordPress to the current version.
Unfortunately (and this is kind of a disaster), I can’t see to type new posts. The text in the text box is white on white. Anyone know what the problem might be?
[Mid-afternoon update]
OK, per a comment, I fixed the stylesheet for the administrator, and I can now see these words as I type. That’s a dumb bug. You’d think they’d have fixed it by now.
I installed it a few weeks ago, at someone’s suggestion. It is a complete failure, as far as I’m concerned. I have seen no diminution of spam from it. The only improvement is that I get more information about them in the email notification. Moveable Type used to have a feature that automatically blocked an IP address that posted more than X comments in less than Y time. This seem like a no brainer to me. Why can’t WordPress do it?
Or maybe it does, but I have to upgrade to the latest version? Anyone know?
Just in case anyone was curious as to the resolution of my computer issues, I haven’t had a hiccup since I swapped the memory sticks with each other. I still can’t get into the BIOS, though, not that I have any immediate need to. I can live with it as is for a while.
I’m running Fedora 11 on my primary desktop. The mobo is a couple years old. Lately, it’s started randomly freezing, or occasionally shutting itself down without warning. I was going to run memtest on it, but I can’t even get into the BIOS to change the boot sequence. I hit “del” repeatedly during boot, but it ignores me and always goes to the hard drive. Does anyone have any suggestions (other than just upgrading the board, processor and memory, which I’m considering…)?
[Wednesday morning update]
For those asking, no, it is not a wireless keyboard.
And so far, I’ve had no problems since swapping the memory sticks.
…to whomever purchased the big screen via my Amazon link. As it turns out, I could really use the money right now. I’m in between gigs, and things are tight, though I’m hoping that will change soon.
I’ve been suffering with a crummy DSL connection for months, since the move back to CA (I’ve had to reboot the modem often, because it seems to slow down and start dropping packets periodically, with multi-second delays on pings). But yesterday, Verizon fiber finally came to the house.
This is real broadband, for the first time at home. It’s like night and day, in terms of page loads and video.
[Update a few minutes later]
No, I don’t know why the date is wrong. I did the test today. Maybe I should try a different site.
[A couple minutes later]
Bandwidthplace says that it’s about 4 Mbps up and 15 down.
Since several people have had trouble commenting, I’ve removed my blacklist, at least temporarily, to see if that clears up the problem. I hope it doesn’t result in a deluge of spammers.
I visited some relatives this morning in Phoenix, and then drove back this afternoon. From a sunny day in the eighties to a gloomy evening in the sixties at the beach, with rain in the forecast for tonight. I love it.
I’m driving over to Phoenix for the conference, and unfortunately, it’s bad timing, because there’s going to be a 2 PM EDT teleconference with high-level NASA officials to flesh out the new plans. I guess I’ll find out what they are when I arrive this afternoon.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“Major Tom” comments over there that the purpose of the announcement is to define the roles and missions of the centers in the new direction.
[Evening update]
I arrived a few hours ago, but this is the first time I’ve gotten on line. Alan Ladwig of NASA is describing the new plans. Not in the mood to live blog, though, and I have to think about what I’ll say on my panel in an hour or so. The topic is technology requirements for transportation beyond low earth orbit.
[Bumped]
Several people have had problems commenting recently. I’m guessing that the issue is that I recently added the word “Successful” to my blacklist, because I was getting so much spam from malicious morons using that as a user name. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t distinguish between strings from user names and content, so that was probably the problem that commenters were having. I’ve removed it, and we’ll see if that solves the problem. Unfortunately, it will recreate the problem with my moron spammers.
As an aside, I have to say that I’m very unhappy with WordPress’ inherent comment-spam-blocking system. It seems to me that multiple comments to multiple posts from the same IP in a few minutes should be automatically blocked, or at least held, but it doesn’t seem smart enough to do even that. MT, for all its flaws, could do that years ago. I have to look into a better solution.
I hate to go to a captcha system, but that may be the only solution. I’ve always wanted to make commenting here relatively painless, but apparently the spammers are going to ruin it for the rest of us, as they have with email.
[Monday morning update]
OK, per advice in comments, I’ve added the WP-Spamfree plugin. We’ll see how it goes.