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Jim's Lab Notes — Site News, Baseball Talk, and a Bunch of Other Stuff Sunday, April 13, 2014We’re Moved! (And Burst.net can bite me!)Update Wednesday, April 23rd at 8:30 AM: I’ve been working on the new site set-up. Although things are running pretty well, a few more tweaks should get it running better. I’m also prepping stuff for an upgrade of the site’s underlying CMS. At the same time I’ve been working on the new member group that I set up for contributors. At this point I need to start manually linking member accounts with Paypal. When that’s done I will also need to work on automating that process, although that will have to wait until the CMS is updated and the site is running to my satisfaction. Thanks again for your patience. Update Thursday, April 17th at 11:00 AM: I’ve been bogged down looking for a fix to a domain redirect issue caused by a new php handler that I’m using on the server. For now using some of the old domain names will produce an error if you try to go to a sub-directory (like www.baseballprimer.com/newsstand/). I’ve decided to put off fixing this until later so I can get to some other things on my to-do list. At the moment I’m working on removing ads for people who’ve donated. With the way I have ads called in the old templates, it’s proving to be be a little time consuming. When I get this task done I’ll start moving people into the new member group I’ve set up to trigger the change. This will be time consuming as well as I will need to manually associate the donations with the accounts. Eventually I will automate the process but, for now, I’d appreciate your patience if it takes a few days to get rid of the ads on your account. Update Tuesday, April 15th at 7:30 PM: Got a bunch of things done today. Except when I hosed the web server for a few minutes, things have gone pretty well. I’m still not happy with the way things are running but my mind is fried so it will have to wait until tomorrow. Thanks again for the donations. It’s very much appreciated. Assuming I get things running a little better tomorrow, I will start setting things up for those of you who donated. Hopefully, you can start viewing the site without ads by the weekend. Update Tuesday, April 15th at 1 PM: Things seems seem to be running OK after a few tweaks. There is still work to be done squishing a few bugs (redirects are wonky once in a while). The site also needs some more performance tweaking. Those things will have to wait until a little later, however, because I need to get a little sleep before I make a really stupid mistake. Update Tuesday, April 15th at 7:30 AM: The site is moved over to its new host. I have a lot of work to do getting the servers optimized. Please bear with me. Update Monday, April 14th at 3:50 PM: I will be taking the old server off-line tonight between 3-4 AM to finish moving things over to the new server. There should be only a few hours of downtime but it might take longer for certain DNS server. Update Sunday, April 13 at 7:30 PM: New server set up. DNS redundancy added. Extra domains moved over.Tweaking and testing tomorrow. One day ahead of schedule. Beverage time and GOT time. I am moving the site to a new server host this week. On March 28th my server host, burst.net, disconnected my servers from their data center in Scranton PA, put them on truck, and took them to another data center in North Carolina. I was not given any notification prior to the move even though the move was planned in advance. During the downtime they did not reply to any tickets and, instead, provided an automated response that they were migrating servers. At the same time, they have been trying to charge my account for next month’s bill weeks before the due date. (Luckily I only transfer money into this account when I am ready to make a payment.) This simply is not acceptable, so I am moving the site. I have taken a week’s vacation from my regular job to get this done. The tentative plan is to switch the site over on Tuesday night on April 15th or Wednesday night on April 16th, depending on my progress. Although I’m working to minimize the downtime and prevent avoidable problems, there may be times the site will be down. I will post updates on this thread, on Facebook, and on Twitter. I apologize for the downtime and the inconvenience. |
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As always, thanks for everything you do for this site!
There may be a more obvious way, but that will work.
I'd encourage everyone to donate and to do so in a dollar amount that has some baseball significance. Then come here and tell us why you chose that particular amount.
I donated $19.93. As a Giants fan, the 1993 season will always be a bitter-sweet memory. It was the first season with Barry Bonds, the last with Will Clark and may have been the last great pennant race in baseball history. I also considered $19.89 (as 1989 was Will Clark's greatest season) and $22.22 (as Will wore #22).
Good idea deputydrew on HOW to choose amounts.....
Good luck Dan - hoping for a smooth transition....
good luck in the transition
and whatever donation it takes to stop the half naked gamer ads just post the number.
That ad causes some consternation in my home as well, Harveys.....
Anyway, I would have gladly donated more recently if I knew it would stop the ads. When the ads became more and more prominent I just figured that Jim was (rightfully) making some money off this whole thing.
Here's the link to donate
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/stuff/discussion/support/
Also, after the dust settles perhaps Jim could set up a sandbox copy of the site where we could try out some tweaks to the design, unless he's perfectly happy with the way things are now.
boteman, that's a good idea. I've got a redesign about 90% done but have had trouble finding time to finish it off. There is a lot of stuff in the old design that just doesn't work any more. Making it easier for people to submit links really needs to be completed. With a little luck, I hope to be able to get to some of the stuff on my giant to-do list this week.
The servers at burst.net are leased. The lease will expire this week.
As always, if any member of your BTF staff is caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
Good luck, Jim.
37.31: The sum of the date, year, and score of my first-ever in-person MLB game.
Thanks for everything you've given us, Jim!
OK, I guess that's Barry Bonds' HR total divided by 10 if you want to be pedantic.
$19.18$20.04$20.07$20.13, but saw that for just a little bit more could be a "Supporter" of BTF instead of a "Booster," so I made it an even $25. Thanks, Jim!Have you considered maybe offering memberships or subscriptions? I don't really care about a mug or a t-shirt, but I'd like to support the site since I'm here a fair bit.
Not at a penny a homer.
762 * .01 = 7.62 * 10 = 76.20
2004, 2007 and 2013.
The day exactly 9 years ago when the Large Tub of Goo threw the first real pitch back in our Nation's Crapital.
The donation link appears for me right above the Hot Topics and personal bookmarks on the sidebar. Is it not there for everyone?
SOON.
SOON.
**In honor of the Nationals' first playoff season.
It's times like this that we remember these sites exist because somebody works hard to keep them there.
edit: Just wanted to add that I rarely comment, but I spend an unhealthy amount of time here reading about one of my favorite things. Thanks for all of your hard work to keep this place up and running.
Actually, what's way more annoying is the occasional video ad with sound.
Good luck and thanks for the efforts, Jim
The number of times that Andy Pettitte REALLY did PEDs?
He did face Pettitte 51 times with a slash line of 267/353/444
2004, 2007 and 2013.
I liked that, so I added the years the Marlins won the WS (and got a pretty boring number).
You learn something new everyday, I didn't know the card number.
Seconded. I am enjoying reading how posters are choosing the amounts of their contributions.
Edit: that comment was for #59
I hope that's referring to Boog and Matt, and not to what you paid in taxes. (smile)
That's what she said.
Same song, different verse. Now I get taken to a page that says this...
Not really comfortable disabling cookies. I'm not that tecnology savvy that I'm sure what I can and cannot do with settings for my work computer. I can access with IE now however. The problem is just FireFox.
Clearing all the BTF cookies makes no difference.
Works in Chrome.
1) Forced full refresh. It always seems to change on me; it's either Ctrl-F5 or Shift-F5 or something-F5, but I'm pretty sure F5 is involved in some way. I know F1 is almost always Help, so there's that.
2) It could be that the changes to the DNS entries simply have not propagated to your ISP yet. AFAIK there aint nuttin' you can do but wait for the old entries to time out and get refreshed with the new i.p. numbers. This happens under the hood, you can't influence it. I noticed I was getting the site fine on my desktop machine on my Comcast connection, but on my AT&T smart phone this morning I still got the "site down" error page. AT&T just hadn't gotten the updated phone book listing.
3) If you think you've waited long enough, you could poke around in Firefox's awful cookie management window, locate the cookies for bbtf.org and baseballthinkfactory.org and just delete them outright. Then the site will think you've never visited it before and maybe that will fix it. Or it could start World War III.
If this is the case, or any time you are having issues with your DNS servers, you can change your network settings to use OpenDNS or Google's DNS servers. How to change that depends on your OS obviously, but it is easy to do.
It's not a DNS issue since it works fine in chrome, I think.
Are there cookies for this site that aren't labeled baseballthinkfactory?
For the Apache buffs, I'm having an issue with the way redirects are being handled in Apache while using mod_fcgid to handle PHP. Does anyone have a workaround for the apparent mod_fcgid/mod_redirect problem?
My office instructed to advance you up to $25,000. Stop.
Hee-haw and Merry Christmas. Adam Wainwright.
(Hark the herald angels sing...)
Edit:
(I didn't notice that David Nieporent beat me to it. Oh well, still a good number.)
Jim, you are one of the great heroes of modern times. This site is essential to a civilized life.
But you guys complaining about the half-naked women are just....confused.
we don't get to see all those awesome mostly nekkid MALES ads. which i could get behind
um
so to speak
Maybe the complaint is they're only half naked.
I’ve been occasionally getting the site hijacked by a virus scam trying to get me to “update my Java” (and download an exe file). I find this very concerning.
I go to a new page, and suddenly the page is hijacked and a box descends from the top of the page, saying "your Java needs to be updated, click here" and the box (if you were to click on it) tries to download an .exe file. It's happened 5-6 times in the last couple of days.
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