Registration Captcha

Hey guys,
just wanted to discuss the utility of the catcha question: "date -u +%j$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g."
You seriously nearly reduced my to tears. I had a kernel panic, several pacman problems and after several hours of trying to fix the problems myself was sitting utterly distressed in front of a windows pc (yes, windows!) and you ask for a command line answer?
I randomly called my fellow IT-friends to run the command for me (which of course didn't pick up) and started to search for emulators. Finally, I made an arch live usb stick where had to copy the resulting sha string character by character to the windows machine. In case you havn't noticed: it's quite long.
I guess my point is: Is this really necessary?! What about all the newbies wanting to ask some questions about their failing installation process or people with serious problems, confined to a windows machine?!
It should NOT be so difficult to register for a forum!
Last edited by Lina (2012-10-06 11:55:32)

Lina wrote:It should NOT be so difficult to register for a forum!
You are right, it shouldn't be.
It also shouldn't be so difficult to google before posting and find the following (or any of a dozen more just like them):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1101981
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1162785
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104892&p=1
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97222

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About this post I made earily,
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=187286
> I ran into this problem several times before.
I mean that I finally made a successful registration after dozens of trying
in the last two or three years time span.
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Scimmia wrote:If you have your timezones set up correctly, this shouldn't be an issue at all.
I don't know if it has been fixed, but when I tried to register 2 years ago, it continuously failed, even though I was quite sure I had entered everything correctly. On a whim, I decided to check the box that said daylight savings time is in effect. When I did that, my registration went through. So while "shouldn't be an issue" is technically true, it was an issue for me. I had to provide incorrect information in order to successfully register, and I only managed to do so by grasping at straws.
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It looks like they were not hitting the registration url, but may have had a cached version of the page and using that to submit Penny.
Its a good sollution - ideally for properness data- is a html5 attribute so the doctype really needs to be that. In XHML using rel="" on the form with the action in there is a good alternative as well.
As a note Lynda's code was :
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okay to make this shorter ive registered here using the answer of this guy
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sorry for the bad english as english is not my native language. and sorry if i didn't introduce myself.
ey3blast
Last edited by ey3blast (2012-12-26 13:58:31)

well I've read your post on this thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=153660
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