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If anyone tried to add columns to an existing table between Saturday and a few minutes ago, you may have encountered a bug which would not allow you to successfully add the new column. This was discovered and fixed this morning, so you should not be experiencing this problem any longer. This was caused by the fact that we moved the Sensorbase backend to a different machine this weekend and as such, had to reconfigure the MySQL server running on that machine (specifically the user permissions) to be as close to the original machine as possible.

I apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.

Thanks!

The day has finally come. The MySQL backend of Sensorbase has been separated out from the front end and placed on the massive Thumper machine with a much larger quantity of disk space. As stated in the email sent out last week, if you haven’t logged in lately, you will come into problems when trying to access your account. To remedy this, simply go to the log in page and click on the “Forgot your password?” link. Your password will be reset and emailed to you. You can then log in using this new password and change your password back using by clicking the settings link at the top of the page once you’ve logged in.

Also, if you’ve recently changed your password using the settings link on the top of the page, you might still run into the same problem and require a password reset. We’re sorry for the inconvienience, but there isn’t much we can do to avoid these problems since the MySQL databases had to be transferred over different physical machines with different architectures.

Please let us know if you come into any problems and we’ll address them as soon as we can.

Thanks!

Edit: Also, I should mention that if there was any data slogged during the early afternoon on March 21st, it is possible that the data was not exported since the database dump was occurring during those hours. If so, please notify us so we can make sure to move that data over to the new machine as soon as possible.

It is now possible to create your own account through the account creation page. Currently only a certain types of email addresses are supported, but the list will be expanded later. If you think your email domain should be included in the list, please let us know.

When you account is created, you will be sent an email to confirm your email address containing a link to activate your account.

Please let us know if you encounter any problems.

People have been asking about the progress that is being made to improve Sensorbase, and so I thought I should include a snippet of the latest blog entry (where most of the progress is docuemented) on the front page. Whenever a new entry is made in the blog, a snippet of it will be shown on the front page of Sensorbase. A link can then direct you to the blog where you can find the rest of the entries you may or may not have missed. Hope it’s helpful!

So, seeing how in the last week I’ve only seen 16 of the 330 registered users log into sensorbase, I thought I should add functionality to automatically reset a password and have a new one mailed to you. This lets anyone reset a password as long as they know a valid email, but only let’s this happen once a day.

Once a password is reset, the owner can log into sensorbase with this password and change it to another more appropriate password through the ol’ user_setttings page linked to from the top of the page when a user is logged in.

Perhaps I could make the resetter also be prompted for the the full name associated with the email before allowing a reset to occur, but for now it will just be an email that is necessary. Let me know if you encounter any problems.