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Well, sort of. Challenges of internet access out in the countryside will make appearances on line somewhat limited for a while.

In the meantime, here’s a view from the new finca.

(It actually looks much nicer than that. See, I said some internet issues were yet to be worked out…)

Thanks to those who have kept things active during my absence.

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17 March 2013

Advisory

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Blogging–by me, anyway–will be almost non-existant till the very end of March or early April. The move to the Davis area is upon us at last!

Those who have the keys to the virtual orchard are invited to plant (as Alan did earlier today). I will be checking comment threads now and then; if your comment lands in the moderation queue, it may take longer than usual for me to spot it and clear it.

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27 July 2012

Gremlins again

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Twice this week, we have had the return of orchard gremlins. It had not happened for a while, but now and then the blog software automatically re-sets all comments to off, and tells readers they must be “registered and logged in to comment”.

This is not a setting I am doing¹; I have no idea why it happens, and no one ever needs to register or log-in to comment at F&V. Whenever I catch this having happened, I will reopen comments.

I also never close old threads. F&V works best when readers remember and locate an old thread and post a comment when something new has happened that is relevant to the thread.

There will be times now and then when I am unable to check for a day or two to make sure that comments are, in fact, open.

Thank you for you patience and for your comments.

First time commenters will have their comment put in the moderation queue until I can confirm it. [↩]

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02 October 2011

Comments are open

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Not that I ever closed them.

Somehow the comment forms automatically close–now for a third consecutive weekend. I have to manually reopen them (using a Batch Status plug-in, fortunately).

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25 September 2011

Settings

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Once again, the setting requiring users to be registered and logged in to comment was auto-checked over the weekend. I have no idea why this happens. I have manually unchecked it. Again.

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18 September 2011

Back on

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The blog seems to have taken Shabbat off. And why not?

For some reason, readers could not post comments yesterday. When I went into the Word Press “dashboard” this morning, I found that the option “users must be logged in to comment” was checked. I had never checked it.

We’ve had this problem before, and I have no idea how to prevent it. But I was able to uncheck the setting, and everything should be open for business again.

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10 July 2011

Growing again

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The gates to the virtual orchard had been locked for about a week.

I have no idea why this had happened, but Steven found they key, so everything should be functional once again. Thanks, Steven!

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06 March 2011

Not again

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No comments had appeared for a couple of days, at least. And not even spam. That always makes me suspicious. Sure enough, the settings for “users must be registered and logged in to comment” and “administrator must always approve a new comment” were checked again. I did not check them.

So, even with the changing of passwords, upgrading to new Word Press, and stripping out of some suspicious code, something is still amiss.

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07 February 2011

Comment problems again?

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I should know that when even the spammers stop “commenting,” as they did sometime last week, something is wrong.

I just checked the Word Press settings and found that the box that says that one must be “registered and logged in” in order to comment was checked. I did not check it.

How can a setting check itself? The answer, the previous of several times this had happened, seemed to be a hacker. I changed my password and made other fixes (with help of some of this blog’s greatest supporters). And yet this has happened again.

As of the moment, all recent posts should be open for comments. Older ones are still automatically shut down. I hope to insert some code in the near future that will automatically re-open them.

As always, thanks to my readers for their support and patience as we work out the bugs.

Bugs can be the downfall of any orchard, including the virtual kind.

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20 January 2011

Updating

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I am in the process of updating Word Press, which powers this blog.

Some features may be disabled for a bit.

Update (to the update): The new version of Word Press is installed, but at the moment you need a direct link to get to any post other than this one. This process may not be complete today, but please be patient.

Further update: It seems things are back in order. (Thanks, Steven!) There remain various other things to be done before the virtual orchard is completely back in business.

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17 January 2011

Blog navigation

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Espen sends this note, which may be of use to folks trying to get around the latest spontaneous combustion of the virtual orchard:

To access comments, chop off the last bit of gibberish which as of now is included in the links. It seems all posts have gotten new addresses, namely date, title, and something like the following:

%&evalbase64_decode_SERVERHTTP_REFERER.+&%/

This needs to be taken off to get to a post. Of course, most of them will say that the “soil has been over-planted”, including the latest update on comments (Blog problem update). Also, fruitsandvotes.com now leads directly to that last post.

Again, I have no idea why these things are happening; I have not tinkered with settings or installed any new plug-ins.

Thanks, Espen, for the note.

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14 December 2010

The setting that checks itself

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Suddenly the comments stopped.

Turns out that in the Word Press “settings,” the option, “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” was checked.

Now, I know I never checked this setting. So I guess it checked itself.

It is now unchecked. Of course, what its status might be tomorrow is anyone’s guess..

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12 December 2010

Comments

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It looks like Word Press is playing a trick on us. The comment forms are shut. I have no idea why. It was not anything the Head Orchardist did.

In the meantime, I have opened a few manually. But I can’t exactly go an open them all that way.

As always, WP advice is welcome in comments here–assuming the form stays open.

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17 September 2010

Blog problem update

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FURTHER UPDATE: It looks as if the standard links are working again, as of Friday mid-afternoon (Pacific time zone in the USA). It wasn’t anything I did, that’s for sure. So, if it can fix itself, it could just as easily break itself again…

It seems that links within F&V work so long as “/blog” is in the URL, but not without it. Up to now, URLs have worked with or without “/blog”.

URLs for navigating around the blog do not routinely have /blog in them, but adding them gets you to the desired page–including the comment form.

For instance, if you wanted to comment on the recent entry on Afghanistan’s elections, the default for the comment form is http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=4274#respond. This will not work. But the following modified URL will open up the comment form: http://fruitsandvotes.com/blog/?p=4274#respond

It might be slow and inconvenient, but it works.

Advice for anyone who is able to read this…

(corrected)

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31 August 2010

F&V rises again!

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We had an outage lasting 18 hours or so, caused by some problem at the host.

Once things were up and running again, I finally replaced the finca photo in the banner. I figured it was about time I stopped having what is now someone else’s house on my blog.

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