From: Bob Washburn (Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:47 AM)
Due to the heavy storm damage in Southern Illinois the crews scheduled to do
the work on campus this weekend have been called to the Carbondale area to
restore power in that area. As a result the electrical outage scheduled for
this coming weekend has been rescheduled until May 23 & 24.
From: CAOS Admin (Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM)
At this time, I am also planning to upgrade the forum software that runs CAOS sometime tomorrow (Friday), so this site may be down Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I am currently planning to come in on Monday morning to start up most of the CS servers. Depending on whether my building key-card works, CAOS may be back on Monday morning.
Don't lose our posts! ;D
A backup would be greatly appreciated :D
-Scott
When do we start panicking?
right...
about....
NOW
EVERYONE FREAK OUT!
:tinfoil:
WTF LOLLERSKATES! :bluescreen:
Can we bring back seeing the latest 10 (or whatever) active forum topics? Placing it at the top would be a good option.
Greg did some necessary updates and is working on bringing back the front page layout.
SMF released an update to 1.1.9 late last week. There were some major changes (trust me I just spent 50 hours hacking it for galaxyzoo). I'm sure Greg is all over it.
I have a lot of stuff happening at the last minute right now so please do bear with me. I have a parallel installation of CAOS running that I am trying to hack our customizations into right now. The old system had been hacked (appearently way back in March according to the logs), so I wanted to stop running it ASAP so that we wouldn't be serving out viagra adds and sending spam emails to people all over the world any longer. A few lessons learned - keep a closer eye on you logs (even those for a forum that many people use day-to-day). And selinux is your friend - don't turn it off because it is difficult to work with and breaks lots of things. It is the start of the new semester so I have a lot of high priority stuff that is delaying my getting this CAOS site back into shape please make do with this default layout for a few days.
gb
P.S. - In firefox, you have the option of minimizing the header and the section headers so that the recent posts section shows up without having to scroll.
Quote from: Admin on 2009-05-27T12:33:45-05:00 (Wednesday)P.S. - In firefox, you have the option of minimizing the header and the section headers so that the recent posts section shows up without having to scroll.
This works in IE7 as well.
Thanks for getting CAOS back up and running! =)
Well, I think I've got all the edits done. For my own future reference and for anyone who might be interested. Attached to this post is a patch file detailing what edits are necessary to transform a fresh install of smf 1.1.9 to the layout that this site uses (you may have to be logged in to see/download the attachment).
gb
now to work on home.cs.siue.edu ...
P.S. - You will need to hit refresh (F5) in your browser to get the new stylesheet if you had a session open when I made the changes.
gb
The CAOS boards are broken on IE6.
Oh yah. I remember having that problem before. Now I just have to figure out what hack I used to fix it ...
Thanks for pointing this problem out.
gb
Yep, I had missed an edit.
FYI, to fix the problem, all I needed to change was line 88 of Topics.template.php.
From:
<div class="columnleft">
To:
<div class="columnleft"', $context['browser']['is_ie6'] ? ' style="left: -178px"' : '','>
I am now going to edit my earlier post so that it contains a revised patch file.
gb
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