News - Page 14

gd_barnes · 2011-05-04, 04:14

I am happy to report that the CRUS pages are now back up.

After accessing a page for the first time again, you may need to hit refresh on your browser to bring up its new version.

gd_barnes · 2011-06-14, 18:25

I will be out of town on vacation to the southwest from Weds June 15th thru Fri June 24th. I will only be on the internet once or twice during the entire trip and will update the "easy" stuff on the pages as I see fit. The more difficult stuff will have to wait until I get back.

Find lots of primes and prove many conjectures while I am gone!

gd_barnes · 2011-07-20, 18:43

I have been following up on reservations that are more than 2-3 months old so several of you will have PMs from me.

It is requested that everyone please provide a status on any outstanding reservations that have gone more than 3 months without an update. Huge reservations such as for conjectures > 100000 with 100s or 1000s of k's remaining can go longer but it is preferred that statuses still be provided at least every 6 months on those.

Thanks!

Gary

gd_barnes · 2011-07-21, 22:36

It appears that our bases 101-250 thread has disappeared. I certainly didn't unsticky or delete it. I have a PM into Mike (xyzzy) about the problem.

In the mean time, if you have a reservation or status in that range of bases, please reported it in the bases 251-500 thread and I will move it over after the missing thread has (hopefully) reappeared.

rogue · 2011-07-22, 01:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by gd_barnes

It appears that our bases 101-250 thread has disappeared. I certainly didn't unsticky or delete it. I have a PM into Mike (xyzzy) about the problem.

In the mean time, if you have a reservation or status in that range of bases, please reported it in the bases 251-500 thread and I will move it over after the missing thread has (hopefully) reappeared.

Very odd. I had posted to it a few hours ago with some results.

MyDogBuster · 2011-07-22, 01:27

I don't even know how to delete a thread, so I'm innocent (I hope).

gd_barnes · 2011-07-22, 05:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogue

Very odd. I had posted to it a few hours ago with some results.

I was splitting that post up (since it had a base 101-250 along with bases 251-500) by copying it over to the bases 251-500 thread when the bases 101-250 thread just disappeared. Fortunately I got your post copied along with the results before it deleted itself.

Mike has been unable to help. He sent me a bunch of logs but they don't tell me anything.

I guess it is gone and although I usually pull the results off right away, if people have cut-pasted primes into a post, I don't necessarily put those in a file on my machine so there could be some lost data.

I guess I'll start a new one with my own recent reservation.

I'm now concerned about the stability of things here.

Puzzle-Peter · 2011-07-22, 05:49

Aren't there any backups to restore at least the better part of the thread?

gd_barnes · 2011-07-22, 06:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Puzzle-Peter

Aren't there any backups to restore at least the better part of the thread?

I have sent an inquiry about that.

gd_barnes · 2011-07-22, 07:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by gd_barnes

I have sent an inquiry about that.

There is no easy way to recover the thread. Backups are only made once/month and it's not easy to pick out individual threads.

Although I never received a screen that asked if I wanted to delete anything, Mike says that there was a "soft deletion" request that was executed by me and then the "housekeeping process" deleted it. This must have occurred almost instantly after I copied Mark's post because I almost immediately could not find the thread.

Personally I'm very confused why a soft deletion would be acted upon immediately by any housekeeping process, especially one where it was a huge thread of posts.

Edit: For historical reference, the URL of the deleted thread is http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=12992. Perhaps that will help with any recovery in the future.

Mini-Geek · 2011-07-22, 11:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by gd_barnes

Edit: For historical reference, the URL of the deleted thread is http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=12992. Perhaps that will help with any recovery in the future.

The Internet Archive site crawled the entire thread on Nov 6, 2010. Google crawled the last page of it on Jul 10, 2011 (by googling for page=1...30, you should be able to find all of it; the first page was crawled Jul 3, the last Jul 10, I'd expect most fall somewhere near that range). There might be better mirrors, but not at a glance.

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2011-06-14, 18:25	#145
gd_barnes May 2007 Kansas; USA 101×103 Posts	I will be out of town on vacation to the southwest from Weds June 15th thru Fri June 24th. I will only be on the internet once or twice during the entire trip and will update the "easy" stuff on the pages as I see fit. The more difficult stuff will have to wait until I get back. Find lots of primes and prove many conjectures while I am gone!

2011-07-20, 18:43	#146
gd_barnes May 2007 Kansas; USA 101·103 Posts	I have been following up on reservations that are more than 2-3 months old so several of you will have PMs from me. It is requested that everyone please provide a status on any outstanding reservations that have gone more than 3 months without an update. Huge reservations such as for conjectures > 100000 with 100s or 1000s of k's remaining can go longer but it is preferred that statuses still be provided at least every 6 months on those. Thanks! Gary

2011-07-21, 22:36	#147
gd_barnes May 2007 Kansas; USA 101·103 Posts	It appears that our bases 101-250 thread has disappeared. I certainly didn't unsticky or delete it. I have a PM into Mike (xyzzy) about the problem. In the mean time, if you have a reservation or status in that range of bases, please reported it in the bases 251-500 thread and I will move it over after the missing thread has (hopefully) reappeared.

2011-07-22, 01:27	#149
MyDogBuster May 2008 Wilmington, DE B24₁₆ Posts	I don't even know how to delete a thread, so I'm innocent (I hope).

2011-07-22, 05:49	#151
Puzzle-Peter Jun 2009 684₁₀ Posts	Aren't there any backups to restore at least the better part of the thread?