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Title: Well, hi there!
Post by: CommonSense on 5 January 2005, 06:12: We're back!

And we're on a new server, actually PAYING for hosting now. Which means (a) it should be a hell of a lot more reliable now; (b) there's actually this thing called a "technical support department" that we can bitch to when things screw up.

Our new hosting is Canadian Web Hosting (canadianwebhosting.com), located in Vancouver. Yep, we've moved north of the border -- offshored the whole thing, if you will. Mail is currently still going through the old servers in Orange County, California, but will soon be moved to The Public Internet's home offices in crappy-ass Sayreville, New Jersey.

And we're going to be using vBulletin soon. We've purchased the license and we're all legit; now we just need to import everything. That's coming soon. In the meantime, you can still log in as yourself, post messages, respond to old threads, etc.

Have fun!
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Post by: ecsyle_one on 5 January 2005, 12:50: Welcome back...
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Post by: xyle_one on 5 January 2005, 12:52: Er... Wrong account...

Welcome back :D
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Post by: Refalm on 5 January 2005, 15:02: Welcome back everyone. In three weeks, I will re-assign the moderators.

Tell everyone Microsuck is back, alive and kicking (http://smile.gif)

And... now this forum is hosted in Canada, the COPPA age check is now off, so your 8 year old brother can join our forum too without your parents permission :D

[ January 05, 2005: Message edited by: Refalm / BOB ]
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Post by: Doogee on 5 January 2005, 16:04: Fucking good to see us back.

I will show up more now too (http://tongue.gif)
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Post by: Refalm on 5 January 2005, 16:27: quote:
Originally posted by d00g33 :: doogee.is.dreaming.org:
Fucking good to see us back.

I will show up more now too (http://tongue.gif)

Aye mate, welcome back (http://smile.gif)

[ January 05, 2005: Message edited by: Refalm / BOB ]
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Post by: Calum on 5 January 2005, 19:12: here's hoping for brighter and better things now...

good luck etc.
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Post by: Shiver on 5 January 2005, 19:27: Welcome back. You can't imagine how delighted I was when I tried to open the site. :D
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Post by: M51DPS on 6 January 2005, 02:42: Welcome back, this place has been gone for too long.
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Post by: Laukev7 on 6 January 2005, 02:57: Yay! Welcome back.

[ January 05, 2005: Message edited by: Laukev7 / BOB ]
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Post by: Stilly on 6 January 2005, 06:33: my life has purpose again
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Post by: CommonSense on 6 January 2005, 07:59: Yeah, but like . . . where IS everyone?

Er, I mean . . . everyone ELSE. No offense. ;)
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Post by: skyman8081 on 6 January 2005, 08:05: It's only the mods who are here now.

I think the MES may have finally died.
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Post by: Fett101 on 6 January 2005, 08:10: Whoah whoah whoah... "purchased a liscence" With lord knows how many good, open source forum systems?
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Post by: Stilly on 6 January 2005, 21:19: quote:
Originally posted by sauron.game-host.org:
It's only the mods who are here now.

I think the MES may have finally died.

quit bitchin'. its only been back like a day.
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Post by: Laukev7 on 6 January 2005, 21:23: The MES has resurrected!

Come on, repeat after me. The more we say it, the more likely it will be true.

[ January 06, 2005: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
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Post by: xyle_one on 6 January 2005, 10:23: quote:
Originally posted by Fett101:
Whoah whoah whoah... "purchased a liscence" With lord knows how many good, open source forum systems?

I would like the question answered as well...
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Post by: Refalm on 6 January 2005, 12:10: quote:
Originally posted by Fett101:
Whoah whoah whoah... "purchased a liscence" With lord knows how many good, open source forum systems?

Because vBulletinBoard has an actual helpdesk, and it converts UBB perfectly.
And... vBulletinBoard is much better and flexible than phpBB, admit it (http://smile.gif)

Also, every lil' website in this world has phpBB, so at first I thought about yabbSE, but it didn't come with a decent converter, so vBulletinBoard came to mind. It's quite good, check a forum here (http://www.jazz2online.com/jcf/?styleid=1).

[ January 06, 2005: Message edited by: Refalm / BOB ]
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Post by: Makman22253 on 6 January 2005, 14:03: *achoo!!*
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Post by: Calum on 6 January 2005, 14:16: well said, McMan!

quote:
Yeah, but like . . . where IS everyone?

Er, I mean . . . everyone ELSE. No offense.

well, probably etting on with their lives, it's been 2 months since these forums have been online, they're not still going to be checking if it's back up every single day!

anyway, face it, many of the posters here were 100z0rz and 5|<r1pt |<16633z anyway, so you're probably better off this way for a while.
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Post by: Refalm on 6 January 2005, 14:18: quote:
Originally posted by Makman:
*achoo!!*

You want me to revive your original account? (http://smile.gif)
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Post by: KernelPanic on 6 January 2005, 16:16: Hello and stuff.
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Post by: Refalm on 6 January 2005, 16:24: quote:
Originally posted by Tux:
Hello and stuff.

Hello Tux, welcome back.
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Post by: Makman22253 on 6 January 2005, 17:37: quote:
Originally posted by Refalm / BOB:

You want me to revive your original account? (http://smile.gif)

Naw its coo.
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Post by: WMD on 7 January 2005, 00:19: So, Webmaster...excuse me, ComSense...can we trust that you'll post here now? (http://tongue.gif)
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Post by: Paladin9 on 7 January 2005, 00:59: IM BAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!

its been so long, and so much has happened...
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Post by: WMD on 7 January 2005, 01:04: Interesting signature update, Paladin. :D
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Post by: Laukev7 on 7 January 2005, 01:32: Hmm, time to plug my forum.
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Post by: Paladin9 on 7 January 2005, 06:29: quote:
Originally posted by WMD:
Interesting signature update, Paladin. :D

Yeah, i thought about changing it to something like "Hilary Clinton for President 08" but i dont think i want her to be president personally.
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Post by: Aaron Ni on 7 January 2005, 10:10: Huzzah!

Nice to be back, though from the looks of it I bet all the shitposters are gone by now.

Which is good!
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Post by: Stilly on 7 January 2005, 10:29: nah I came back too
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Post by: Aaron Ni on 7 January 2005, 11:15: Ah man.... :rolleyes:
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Post by: Makman22253 on 7 January 2005, 20:42: (http://graemlins/scared.gif)

Hahah, awesome emoticon.
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Post by: Refalm on 7 January 2005, 21:09: quote:
Originally posted by Makman:
(http://graemlins/scared.gif)

Hahah, awesome emoticon.

Have you seen the others?

(http://graemlins/displeased.gif)
(http://graemlins/fu.gif)
(http://graemlins/thumbsup.gif)
(http://graemlins/thumbsdown.gif)
(http://graemlins/macos.gif)
(http://graemlins/tux.gif)
(http://graemlins/bsd.gif)
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Post by: Fett101 on 7 January 2005, 23:50: So..... now what do we do?
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Post by: WMD on 8 January 2005, 00:22: quote:
Originally posted by Fett101:
So..... now what do we do?

Whatever we were doing beforehand.

With that in mind, I suggest Refalm gather up the emails of users who were posting before the outage, and tell them. (Already did this for the mods.) For example, how about that guy Aloone? He was funny. :D
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Post by: Refalm on 8 January 2005, 00:36: quote:
WMD: Whatever we were doing beforehand.

With that in mind, I suggest Refalm gather up the emails of users who were posting before the outage, and tell them. (Already did this for the mods.) For example, how about that guy Aloone? He was funny. :D

Well... those are a lot :eek:
They'll discover it again (http://smile.gif)
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Post by: WMD on 8 January 2005, 01:16: Wait...another idea.

Does the forum software support mass-emailing? (Old or new...we could wait.)
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Post by: Refalm on 8 January 2005, 01:34: quote:
Originally posted by WMD:
Wait...another idea.

Does the forum software support mass-emailing? (Old or new...we could wait.)

Yes, the forum software does actually... however, I'm unable to activate it since we don't have mail installed on this server (http://tongue.gif)
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Post by: WMD on 8 January 2005, 01:38: Well, now that we pay for hosting, I bet they'll actally obey if you tell them to install something. :D
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Post by: Fett101 on 8 January 2005, 01:42: Wait wait wait.... there's no way to email via script in this server? You got gypped.
Course... you could always write a quick script to pull all the email addresses from the database and simply mail them all (if it's just that the forum doesn't support a method for email, but the server does)

[ January 07, 2005: Message edited by: Fett101 ]
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Post by: WMD on 8 January 2005, 03:48: No, we have the scripts, just no mail service running as of now.
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Post by: CommonSense on 11 January 2005, 05:34: Does the mail service have to run on the same box? Or can it use another SMTP server (provided that server allows relaying from here)? Because the latter can easily be arranged.
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Post by: skyman8081 on 11 January 2005, 21:46: You can probably get away with either. Most modern forum software packages can use an external SMTP server, or the local MTA.

vB should DEFINATELY support this, but as to whether or not UBB does, is another question entirely.
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Post by: Refalm on 11 January 2005, 13:12: quote:
Originally posted by ComSense:
Does the mail service have to run on the same box? Or can it use another SMTP server (provided that server allows relaying from here)? Because the latter can easily be arranged.

"The UBB provides two methods for handling all functions that involve email: Sendmail for Unix/Linux based servers and SMTP for Win32 servers. Sendmail is installed on most Unix/Linux servers by default. The SMTP option for Win32 requires you to have an SMTP email server that will allow email relay from your domain."

But I tested it with my ISP's server (thanks Doogee!), and it didn't work, but that really doesn't say anything (http://smile.gif)

AIM chat:

quote:
Doogee: START THE RIOT BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM START THE RIOT BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
Doogee: The SMTP server returned the following message: 550relaying mail to refalm.com is not allowed The SMTP server has rejected the email address the UBB tried to send mail to. Please ensure that the UBB is allowed to relay mail through the SMTP server, and that the From: email address ([email protected]) is a valid email address for this domain.

[ January 11, 2005: Message edited by: Refalm / BOB ]
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Post by: CommonSense on 12 January 2005, 21:30: Well, yeah, of course THAT didn't work. It isn't supposed to.

The soon-to-be-online MES mail server can do it. I'll make sure it accepts connections from the web server, since I don't know what SMTP server I'm able to use from the web host (if any), which is in Canada. It's a little less than ideal to have the web server, which is located in Vancouver, connect to a box in New Jersey to send out mails, but it should be fine, since the bottleneck is likely to be the speed of the mail server's connection (1.0 / 768 DSL) anyway.

Mail server should be up within a week or less . . . I'll let you know. I'm sure Refalm will nag me via IM anyway. ;)
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Post by: Refalm on 12 January 2005, 17:22: quote:
Originally posted by ComSense:
Well, yeah, of course THAT didn't work. It isn't supposed to.

My ISP's mail server was famous for accepting anything (http://smile.gif)
Guess they're getting smarter now (http://tongue.gif)
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Post by: elisa on 12 January 2005, 20:29: hallo!
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Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 15 January 2005, 06:12: So after all this time Microsuck is back up again!

But why hasn't anyone posted here since 12th January?

How are we going to eradicate Microsoft if the shitty Linux server running this site can't even keep running. :D Even my machine running Windows XP has longer up times!

Anyway it's nice to be back!
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Post by: WMD on 15 January 2005, 07:09: It's kinda dead right now. But I'm here. And I missed ya, buddy. :D
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Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 15 January 2005, 16:47: Looks like the MES was back on the 4th but since the 12th it's been inactive, did it go down again?

Where have all the members gone?

Look on the bright side, hopefully this little break has got rid of some people we don't want back like Great_Satan.
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Post by: NikS on 17 January 2005, 21:54: MES's back... Sweet (http://smile.gif)

PS Uh, hi (http://smile.gif)
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Post by: CommonSense on 17 January 2005, 23:50: The web host changed IP address on Friday, and I'm not sure if they changed physical boxes, too. If they did, then it means they must've backed up all the data to the new box. I did the IP change on the name server within minutes of receiving the e-mail from them, so hopefully we didn't lose anny posts.

Also, there were some weird DNS issues that caused site access to be kind of spotty. I'm HOPING it's OK now, but I'm not entirely sure.

Conversion to vBulletin is coming soon, but the thing holding it up is that it can only convert from UBB 6.3 or later. This is 6.1.0.2. So we may have to do a conversion to phpBB, then convert from that to vBulletin. Which could be clumsy.

Oh, if only I had a copy of UBB 6.3 or later . . .
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Post by: MrX on 18 January 2005, 06:34: just wanted you remind you all to check my new post (dude wheres my ram)
i havent got any replies yet, and ... do you guys even have any extra ddr 266 ram you dont use any more? well, i wont hate you if you dont, just go ahead and tell me in the reply.

Mr X
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Post by: AdM1nOfLOVE on 18 January 2005, 07:36: this whole site has some interesting potential to it...ppl start making interesting threads