http://www.jesselawrence.com/tf/holy.jpg

zwiffs post made it mandatory to dig up this old link 

...though having read the last ten posts, that probably amounts to thread pollution. Erm.

I'm trying to register. After filling in all the fields except URL (cos I don't have one), hitting the Submit button does pretty much nuffink. Cookies, Java, Javascript et al are all enabled, and my browser is set to save form information. Mucking around with settings, turning off firewall and using a different browser (Firefox 0.9.3/IE 6.I.Can't.Remember) haven't helped either.

Any ideas? 

Or Norton Internet Security Blanket or anything like that? 

depending on your browser, you may have to enable "referer logging." 

but closing it down doesn't help.

I'm not sure if I checked the referrer thing. I'll take a look at that. 

I got it.

Thanks. 

At some point i should look at a way to get logins to work without referer logging enabled, since that's caused a problem for a number of people. 

welcome, blackdog. Get to know Shambler, he'll be your best friend. 

Led Zeppelin reference by any chance ? 

Best riff ever.

John Paul Jones is as a god amongst men. 

I haven't been able to access it for the last 8 hours or so. 

i noticed that today. and a little bit last night. Hope it's temporary. 

it was down most of the day for everyone in #tf, been slow the last couple hours here... perhaps server's having a bit of strain atm? 

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obviously 

He is probably hanging around Haight-Ashburry as we write, shaking a tamborine and waving peace signs at tie bearing, Gucci wearing squares while the site burns to a crisp ,unattended. 

This story was told to me by a friend who heard it on the news on the radio about a year or so ago. It is a factual account.

There was a girl and she was messageboard-sitting. Metlslime had gone out to a very big party and had left this messageboard at home with this sixteen-year-old girl. So she was messageboard-sitting and he phoned just to see if everything was all right. She said, "Oh, fine. Everything's great. The turkey's in the oven. Metlslime went, "Oh, okay, fine," and he hung up. Then he looked at himself and went, "The turkey's in the oven? We didn't have a turkey!" He said, "What's the matter?" So he decided he had better go home and see what was the matter. Maybe there was something wrong with the babysitter.

He excused himself from the party and went home. So he walked in the house and saw the baby-sitter sitting in the chair freaking out. She had put the little messageboard in the oven and had thought it was a turkey. 

Due to a massive underground explosion in Baltimore, MD (story in Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20040920-111426-6516r.htm ), the datacenter lost power. The battery backup solution was immediately activated with the loss of power. Our secondary power feed, which comes directly from the city grid, was initialized. After the emergency power cutover, the city ordered the immediate shutdown of the power grid. This grid spans for 26 city blocks and disabled our redundant power solution. We immediately went to our third solution and brought in our generator.

Because of concerns from the Baltimore Fire Marshall that there could be further repercussions of the explosion in the area, it was decided to bring the servers down and wait until we were 100% confident in the power supply before bringing them back up.
 

you can always completely trust everything you read on it. 

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should discussion threads require the same moderator approval that news threads do? 

That would require a lot more moderating, and could get very tedious. I think its safer just to let a mod close a thread that really doesn't belong. But, I've never moderated, so I can't really know what it's like. 

but i'm not a moderator, so i don't know how much mrore work that would be. it would certainly help though. 

I'd imagine it would cause a lot of arguments over what constitutes a worthy discussion topic.

You should start by only allowing registered users to post new threads - that would cut out most of the bullshit anyway. 

You should start by only allowing registered users to post new threads...

That seems like a better solution to me.

P.S. And let me add my voice to the many who want the Reset button moved or removed.