There is a maintenance software release available that should help deal with the spammers getting through the captcha authentication. My current plans are to work on this on Sunday morning, October 19th. Access to Dumpshock may be intermittent during this time or downright unavailable during the upgrade.

This should not* have a noticeable effect on the functionality of the board or its appearance.

Please note: I am on Central Standard Time, adjust accordingly.

NOTE: As this is a stable, vendor provided release, minimal testing will be performed prior to the upgrade. This mean an EXHAUSTIVE testing of every feature will NOT be tested. As stated above, I expect no noticeable changes, but if there are please leave my head intact and I (and the other mods) will work through any issues that might arise.

* - Please refer to the military definition of 'assume'.

Go for the eyes boo!

Er... good luck!

Shall we also assume the military definition of "morning"? And may the Great Spirit be with you.

For those already seeing disruption, the upgrade steps are in progress.

I am preparing to run the upgrade through the test instance. If successful, production will be next.

This also assumes that there are no pointers cross-referenced between test and production....

Yeah, what he said...

Have you checked the... RAM? Maybe reversing the polarity might help?

Upgrade completed successfully in test.

Production upgrade will begin now.

Upgrade test complete.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled runs.

And there was much rejoicing.

Thanks for putting in the effort.

Three cheers for Redjack.

This was it? Didn´t feel a thing! Thanks for the work!

I noticed a slight fluctuation in the bi-metal condenser field, but it looks like the quert particles have realigned themselves. All scans on the four neutron towers are green and everything looks ship shape.

Exellent Job,chief engineer Redjack. I will certainly send a report upline informing our superiors of your efficient and professional performance .

Carry on,Soldier.

OH HELL NO!

*bops the Ensign kanislatrans upside the head with a microwave wrench*

We're on a goddamn ship sir so we're GODDAMN SAILORS. I swear to god you Academy punks get slower ever year!

I'm on a bus!

The DS bus... Hehe... that'd be something to see.

The real question is how many firmpoints does the DS bus have?

I was thinking hard points personally...

Huh? well, that would explain all the silly white hats.

Say,you haven't seen a bridge around here have you? Someone keeps paging me,"Ensign Kanislatrans to the bridge!".

I have been all over this ship and haven't seen anything that even remotely resembles a bridge. Maybe someone is inviting me to a game of bridge. That makes sense,although if you are going to invite someone to play cards you should at least let them know where your playing.

Well, I'm off to the..um.. front of the ship to see if I can find the Officers Lounge..

carry on,uh...sailors...

Hey folks -- no more off-topic posts in this thread, please.