Maintaining the wiki is definitely a way that an interested individual can help who isn't necessarily into chip design. JHB came out of retirement briefly to help out, but it's not his job anymore. It would be really fantastic if someone would volunteer for this.
People like to talk a lot, showing a lot of interest in the project. Maybe one of those interested individuals could materially contribute by helping with the wiki. Then there'd be a place to put the OGD1 schematics that Dieter wants. On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Russell Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > I just upgraded the wiki to tiki 10, which gives some better management > tools, and was able to wipe out a few hundred spam pages. I'll hit the > rest of them as soon as I can. I've disabled new user registration for the > moment, I'll turn that back on this week. > > I examined every page, but a couple of logic "orphan" pages under 7408 > might have gotten hit in the crossfire. I have a DB backup, I can pull > back the content if needed. > > --Russell > > On Dec 23, 2012, at 10:49 PM, Russell Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The wiki got attacked again tonight. Since no one has stepped up, I > will be taking this into my own hands sometime this week and will be taking > steps to prevent spammers from bring the server down. I haven't decided > what form that will take yet, but I can't keep restarting the server due to > excessive SQL queries. > > > > Currently I've firewalled off a large chunk of Chinese address space - > that's currently where most of the attacks are coming from. > > > > Thanks. > > > > --Russell > > > > On Dec 17, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Russell Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> The wiki is getting attacked by spammers. There are a few rogue > creators. I've blocked most of them at the firewall. Who is currently > responsible for maintaining the wiki? Can you please clean out the > offending users? > >> > >> This rate of creation is causing quite a load on the DB. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Open-graphics mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > >> List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Open-graphics mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/<http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti> Open Graphics Project
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