Bob Ippolito wrote: > On 12/29/06, Uche Ogbuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I just switched to a MacBook Pro for my primary dev box, so I guess I'll >> be hanging out here. I was trying to get started and went to the WIki, >> the FAQ in particular >> >> http://pythonmac.org/wiki/FAQ >> >> The page was spammed/vandalized on the 18th. I checked recent changes >> and a lot of pages got this treatment in mid-December,. I'm surprised >> they haven't been fixed, considering the importance of these pages. I >> know it's probably just a lack of volunteer time but I also know >> MoinMoin has some serviceable anti-spam features. I tried to fix the >> FAQ page myself reverting to the pre-spam version, but there seems to be >> some bug where preview shows the fixed version, but when I submit, it >> seems to be re-submitting the spam version. Really strange. Leaves me >> wondering what's the status of admin on the wiki. >> >> Thanks, and happy hols, all. >> > > The version of MoinMoin that's running on doesn't have anti-spam > features. It's OLD. If someone with MoinMoin experience wants to take > over managing the wiki I'd be all for that, but I can't set that up > until after Jan 3. > > I've been away from the country all month (and am still away), and in > general I don't have much time for the wiki. I definitely can't do > anything about it until next year because I'm in Shanghai and the > earthquake in Taipei basically took out the route between China and > the US (~80% packet loss). The ISPs out here aren't smart enough or > just don't want to pay extra peering costs so it doesn't seem like > they're going to route around the problems. The undersea cables won't > be fixed for weeks. > > On top of all that my MacBook Pro's power supply melted and they > charge nearly twice what it costs in the US for one out here > (infinitely more considering a replacement would be free at home), so > it's hard to get at my SSH keys right now... even if I could make a > working TCP connection to the states (if only Google had a proxy).
Ouch. Sorry to hear of all those problems (I had heard of the undersea cable damage issue). I really have no cycles available to admin the Wiki, but I hope someone is able to step forward. I tried to do my little part by at least documenting what I learned and what worked for me: http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2006-12-30/First_day_ -- Uche Ogbuji Work: The Kadomo Group, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://kadomo.com http://copia.ogbuji.net Lead dev at http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
