Topic: Bitrot at the Asylum (Page 1 of 1)

Fear not, follow inmates - apparently the world outside the asylum has shifted
and the physical laws have changed, but the doctors nurses and construction nanobots
are working on getting everything back into top shape again!

testing, one two.

->Tyberius Prime

are we still overriding the message?

->Tyberius Prime

apperantly

->Tyberius Prime

but why oh why?

->Tyberius Prime

is this not working.

d'oh, because I broke it

(Edited by Tyberius Prime on 06-09-2010 09:35)

oh great, unicode's broken. Let's check if slimy/linkword disabling works...

:D ->wiki

(Edited by Tyberius Prime on 06-09-2010 09:42)

and linkwords themselves?
Check out ->aboutUBB



(Edited by Tyberius Prime on 06-09-2010 09:42)

javascript test

Ok, I will need to dig for the problem with the "entities" being mistranslated, but I need to get to work now.

Please holler if you find any warnings or misbehaviour of the asylum!

->Tyberius Prime

Keep the fire burning!

Wow, you managed to make the site a lot quicker in the process

Wow.

What happened?

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

Well, apparently dreamhost finally upgraded away from php4 (php 5 is out for 6 years now),
and while the asylum's code had been prepared for the switch, uh, 5 years ago,
there were some incompatible changes within php 5 since then that broke it at a quite fundamental level:
it couldn't understand the parameters passed in from the forms and urls anymore....

Unfortunatly, that's not the only change. There's something nasty going on with the html entity quoting,
and unfortunatly we don't have a test base to discover every breakage, so just keep your eyes open for warnings and the like.

->Tyberius Prime

I was starting to suffer from withdrawel...

forums should be banned as narcotics

Ah, PHP, so classy.

.net til i die :P

<stabs flazza>

Indeed, I hadn't done any php for three years before this...
horrid, but back in the day, the borg were cool.

I have a pimple on my nose.
It was not there yesterday.
The pimple that is.
Not my nose.

What knows what tomorrow will bring?

well, high up in the mountains, you can look till next thursday. and tomorrow's gonna bring more rain...

...o'er meeeeeeeee

hm, afaik dreamhost was offering php5 for quite a while already.

see, if you'da written it in Perl like I said, you wouldn't *have* this problem!

Hah! Here's a funny one:

Q: When is $DOCUMENT_ROOT not the root of the document?
A: When it's $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]!

Ha hah hahha! [cue laugh track]

OK, so not so funny, but I'm sick today, and learning Mercurial because I have to. :/ I'm busy building repositories of the http://deepfling.com/ website, so I'm mucking about trying to make http://gurusnetwork.com/ work again while I wait for the clones. I really miss register_globals, truly. And there's about 8000 references to $DOCUMENT_ROOT in the GN site.

When Dreamhost stopped supporting PHP4 I was [kinda] prepared, everything was already upgraded to PHP5, but I had a lot of anomalies, and our ecommerce site was flaky until I tracked the last bits down. (I hope I've tracked the last bits down, I meant to say...)

Ozones.com was also down!

Handson.nu was expired, and now a link-farm!

Mostly all fixed now. Mercurial calls to me- come ye, merge with us! Be one with our distributed objects!

I hate being sick. Fortunately there are drugs for making me loopy.

Your pal, -doc-

great to hear from ya. look closely, there's a .hg in the asylum dir

now all I need to find is why the htmlentities are messed up.

get well soon,
Tyberius Prime

never mind me, just testing'

->Tyberius Prime

Ok, this might have been a lot easier to find than I expected...

Test 1,2',3 ßàéîêëöù

Well, I officially declare this emergency to be over, the quotes are back, the warning has been removed, any more errors you find, please forward them to me.

so long,

->Tyberius Prime

Three cheers (and beers) for TP

No more &#039's

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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.