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  • #496
    Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

    ISP-related issued cause the forums (as well as other servers) to be unreachable.
    The Forums continued to run, but were inaccessible.
    Looks like they are available again.

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    • #497
      Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

      Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post
      ISP-related issued cause the forums (as well as other servers) to be unreachable.
      The Forums continued to run, but were inaccessible.
      Looks like they are available again.
      When we called the ISP to find out about the outage their pre-recorded messages was "We are experiencing nation-wide packet loss" Doh!
      PGP Key: https://defcon.org/html/links/dtangent.html

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      • #498
        Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

        Waiting period has been altered:
        The official notice has been updated

        Now instead of 24 hours forced lurking , 48 hours to only post replies, and 2 weeks before being able to start new threads they have been changed:
        Less than 24 hours = forced lurking
        24 to 47.99999 hours = able to reply to open threads, and make new threads in select forums
        2 days to 13.99999 days = able to post new threads in all open forums.
        Over 2 weeks and a few posts in the the postcount provides a slightly larger PM Box.

        We've been silently running with this for a few months to compare spam levels and abuse with the shorter periods to the longer ones. They were close enough to be equivalent.

        Thanks!

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        • #499
          Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

          Maintenance on forums tonight around 9:00pm Pacific Daylight Time, and they will be down from 1 to 2 hours.

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          • #500
            Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

            Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post
            Maintenance on forums tonight around 9:00pm Pacific Daylight Time, and they will be down from 1 to 2 hours.
            Postponed till 10pm

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            • #501
              Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

              Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post
              Postponed till 10pm
              Unexpected problems;I'll work on this tomorrow with little announcement or notice.

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              • #502
                Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post
                Unexpected problems;I'll work on this tomorrow with little announcement or notice.
                10:30pm down for 1 to 2 hours. I mean it this time. (Too tired yesterday.)

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                • #503
                  Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                  Maintenance complete. Please let us know if you observe strangeness or problems with the forums.

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                  • #504
                    Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                    Email confirmation was broken for a while. It looks like it is working again. If you tried to register with the forums over the past few days, and never received your email confirmation, we can do it manually. Email defconforums andatsymbolhere gmail.com fro the email address you used to register with the forums, and we can manually validate your email address.

                    The same waiting period and rules will apply as with other users, but the waiting period starts from the day and time that you first registered with the forums.

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                    • #505
                      Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                      "Defcon 101: A lurkers Guide to Defcon" renamed to "Defcon 101" by request of organizer.

                      Added new forum for 10,000 cent pyramid based on post from Nikita.
                      Last edited by TheCotMan; May 1, 2009, 08:39.

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                      • #506
                        Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                        i get a "broken crypto" icon on the forum main page (well, for me that's the "search results" page since i link directly to "new posts" in my bookmark) at presnet. when viewing threads, however, the SSL indicator appears fine. anyone else seeing this?

                        i'll try later to mess with settings and isolate what elements mozilla thinks are not being encrypted.
                        "I'll admit I had an OiNK account and frequented it quite often… What made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store… iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc... OiNK it existed because it filled a void of what people want."
                        - Trent Reznor

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                        • #507
                          Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                          Originally posted by Deviant Ollam View Post
                          i get a "broken crypto" icon on the forum main page (well, for me that's the "search results" page since i link directly to "new posts" in my bookmark) at presnet. when viewing threads, however, the SSL indicator appears fine. anyone else seeing this?

                          i'll try later to mess with settings and isolate what elements mozilla thinks are not being encrypted.

                          Were the DefCon Forums that only site you were viewing in your browser? If there were other ones, especially if they use SSL as well, then this is a bug in firefox... If it was just the forums open, then it's most likely something else.
                          And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him.

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                          • #508
                            Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                            Originally posted by Deviant Ollam View Post
                            i get a "broken crypto" icon on the forum main page (well, for me that's the "search results" page since i link directly to "new posts" in my bookmark) at presnet. when viewing threads, however, the SSL indicator appears fine. anyone else seeing this?

                            i'll try later to mess with settings and isolate what elements mozilla thinks are not being encrypted.
                            I don't see that. Can you provide screen shots?

                            Are you using a proxy of any sort, including a caching proxy?

                            Do you have any extra plugins that don't come with the browser? Can you verify that this problem appears when you don't have any plugins installed?

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                            • #509
                              Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                              Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post
                              I don't see that. Can you provide screen shots?
                              arg, didn't take them... and now the issue does not present itself.

                              Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post
                              Are you using a proxy of any sort, including a caching proxy?
                              nope, not that i know of. Tor was disabled at the time. Comcast's network may do something upstream from me, but i have no local proxy.

                              Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post
                              Do you have any extra plugins that don't come with the browser?
                              quite a few. AdBlock, FlashBlock, and NoScript are the primary "i like my internets like they were in 1999!" plugins. Also there are TorButton and User-Agent Switcher.

                              Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post
                              Can you verify that this problem appears when you don't have any plugins installed?
                              if i see it again i'll disable and re-enable them one by one and try to see if i can learn anything.
                              "I'll admit I had an OiNK account and frequented it quite often… What made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store… iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc... OiNK it existed because it filled a void of what people want."
                              - Trent Reznor

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                              • #510
                                Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

                                Originally posted by Deviant Ollam View Post
                                arg, didn't take them... and now the issue does not present itself.
                                I've made not changes to the forum settings or web server settings between the time of the report and now. Please let us know if you see it again.

                                nope, not that i know of. Tor was disabled at the time. Comcast's network may do something upstream from me, but i have no local proxy.
                                They have done slick things int he past. I would more likely guess they hoarked up their DNS in some way, or were providing incorrect resolution to name lookups. That (dns issue) has happened to comcast customers.

                                quite a few. AdBlock, FlashBlock, and NoScript are the primary "i like my internets like they were in 1999!" plugins. Also there are TorButton and User-Agent Switcher.
                                Ah. But if it is not presenting the issue now, then it would seem it is unlikely that a plugin was munged during of the few firefox upgrades that have been pushed out.

                                if i see it again i'll disable and re-enable them one by one and try to see if i can learn anything.
                                Cool deal. Thanks man. Repeatability of problems really cuts down on troublshooting and diagnostics.

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