Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: CommonSense on 1 February 2005, 09:06
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There you go. See? It's done. They said I'd never get around to it, but I showed them. The forums have been converted. People began to bitch and whine about three hours after the original UBB forums first went online, some time in 2001, suggesting pretty much every other alternative available. We ended up (more or less) settling on -- well, disagreeing the least on -- vBulletin.
So, a few things to note:
- There is only one username -- what you use to log in is what appears on your messages. Some of you may find this mildly embarrassing.
- I haven't imported the styles, so for now, it's the default, generic vBulletin style, as you may have noticed.
- There are probably going to be random weird quirks until we get it all worked out. Bear with me.
Anyway, have fun, kids. Improvements to come.
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Am I the first person to post on vBulletin?
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LOL!
Why does it say this?
You last visited: January 1st, 1970 at 12:00 AM
I hadn't even been born!
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Am I the first person to post on vBulletin?
Yes, you are, since posting was disabled out of the box for several hours. I've just now fixed that.
Hrmph. This is going to be definitely be a nightmare to configure at first. When and if it's all set up, though, it should be nice and smooth. But expect lots of bugs and weirdness in these first few days.
The incorrect "last visited" date is another weird artifact of importing from UBB. But I expected lots of weirdness, so I'm not really surprised. So far, it's actually not QUITE as bad as I feared it would be.
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Most of the old messages are screwed up (quotes, blockquotes, etc.) and the template isn't what the UBB template used to be.
I'll be looking into the template.
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Can't the old posts be scrubbed somehow? Or VB taught to parse them correctly? I'm no longer user #7 :(
BTW, where's 'fast reply?' I thought that was a feature of VB.
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as long as the forum stops looking and acting like a fisher-price toy, im fine with it.
Mr X
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I'm definetly liking the vBulletin! I post on another site (harmony-central.com) that is still using version 2.2.6 and it's screwed up with Firefox. The new version is pretty sweet.
I'm lovin it!! (thats a contraction for "I am loving it" which is an anagram for "Ailing Vomit"
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I'm definetly liking the vBulletin! I post on another site (harmony-central.com) that is still using version 2.2.6 and it's screwed up with Firefox. The new version is pretty sweet.
I'm lovin it!! (thats a contraction for "I am loving it" which is an anagram for "Ailing Vomit"
You like it? I was the one who suggested this fine piece of forum software.
Btw, I'm not exactly a huge fan of Maddox :p
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The file size limit for attachments needs upped to something more reasonable, like say 100kb at least.
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And I'm guessing vBulletin will not have changeable nicks like UBB? I'm going to have to get another account... with a proper name now.
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I vote for 20 messages per page, 10 is just way too small.
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Yay! A brand new forum!
And no more of those 'edited by' lines that take up space! :D
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What the fuck MS Paint and Word are accepted "standard" formats and OpenOffice.org isn't!
FUCK THIS SHIT!
Try it your self!
See attached as evidence!
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Oh and here's a screen shot of what happens when you try to attach an OpenOffice.org document, vBulletin doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft does it?
If they had any sense they wouldn't do what Windows does and rely on file extentions it should be done the UNIX way!
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Please tell me you're not using Windows sever 2003 because that would really take the piss!
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my names messed up now though...
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Don't worry Aloone, this is a Linux server, as always.
Oh...and this theme is about the most bloated thing I've ever seen. It's like 25% post, 75% shit. I hope the old MS theme works out.
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I vote for 20 messages per page, 10 is just way too small.
Wow. My prayers have been answered! Thanks guys.
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Don't worry Aloone, this is a Linux server, as always.
Then why does it not accept OpenOffice attachents and allow MS Word documents?
Why does it recognise file types by their extention and not their content?
If anything OpenOffice documents should show up as ZIP fromat and be accepted.
PLEASE READ THIS:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Don't you just hate receiving Word documents in email messages? Word attachments are annoying, but worse than that, they impede people from switching to free software. Maybe we can stop this practice with a simple collective effort. All we have to do is ask each person who sends us a Word file to reconsider that way of doing things.
Most computer users use Microsoft Word. That is unfortunate for them, since Word is proprietary software, denying its users the freedom to study, change, copy, and redistribute it. And because Microsoft changes the Word file format with each release, its users are locked into a system that compels them to buy each upgrade whether they want a change or not. They may even find, several years from now, that the Word documents they are writing this year can no longer be read with the version of Word they use then.
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Come on you all know this, don't you think it's FUCKING STUPID that an anti-Microsoft website accepts MS word documants and rejects the free altranative OpenOffice?
Does anyone else give a FUCK?
Did anyone even take the FUCKING time to read my previous post?
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Chill out ;)
I'm currently bug hunting. If it's up to me, no bmp's would even be allowed because of the file size.
Most settings (including the template) are still set default here.
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Chill out ;)
I'm currently bug hunting.
Well I think this is a bug.
If it's up to me, no bmp's would even be allowed because of the file size.
bmp's suck they're big and bloated just like MS Office documents, OpenOffice files are zipped so they take up less space.
Most settings (including the template) are still set default here.
Well the default settings often suck but allowing bmp and doc attachments is silly are you sure vBullitin isn't anything to do with Microsoft?
Ok I will stop bitching, as there are more important bugs to fix than this.
I like the MS colour scheme, it's funney how something in Microsoft's style is faster and less bloated than something non-Microsoft! :D
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OK, I fixed it. .doc and .bmp are not allowed, but sxw, sit, tar.gz, etc. sure are ;)
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OK, I fixed it. .doc and .bmp are not allowed, but sxw, sit, tar.gz, etc. sure are ;)
Nice one!
Thanks!
Sorry for bitching and whining.
Don't worry Aloone, this is a Linux server, as always.
What distro? Linspire? :D
There is only one username -- what you use to log in is what appears on your messages. Some of you may find this mildly embarrassing.
I've noticed you've only made 3 posts, so did you delete your old account and make a new one because you were embarrassed to reveal your old login name. :D
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1. The theme. Gotta see about changing it to User info on the left side of a post and post on the right.
2. The quick reply box... it's not working. OR at least, you should be able to use it without having to quote soemone.
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1. I'm looking into it. I dislike the new view too.
2. I'll have to ask ComSense.
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1. The theme. Gotta see about changing it to User info on the left side of a post and post on the right.
2. The quick reply box... it's not working. OR at least, you should be able to use it without having to quote soemone.
1. I'm looking into it. I dislike it too.
2. I'll have to ask ComSense about that.
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The quick reply box is functioning the same way it does on every other VB forum I've ever used.
About Word Documents, I see no reason to totally disable them. .BMPs maybe, since they're totally worthless.
BTW, I still can't change my avatar.
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OK, I fix0red it :)
Upload as many avatars as you want (well, not really)
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The quick reply box is functioning the same way it does on every other VB forum I've ever used.
About Word Documents, I see no reason to totally disable them. .BMPs maybe, since they're totally worthless.
BTW, I still can't change my avatar.
OK, I fix0red it
Upload as many avatars as you want (well, not really)
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Come on you all know this, don't you think it's FUCKING STUPID that an anti-Microsoft website accepts MS word documants and rejects the free altranative OpenOffice?
Does anyone else give a FUCK?
Did anyone even take the FUCKING time to read my previous post?
I give a fuck.
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What distro? Linspire? :D
I did a port scan...it appears to be running Slackware! :eek:
No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/nmap-submit.cgi).
TCP/IP fingerprint:
SInfo(V=3.50%P=i486-slackware-linux-gnu%D=2/2%Time=42014C1A%O=21%C=20)
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i use fedora on all of my servers :D
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Jesus, are you Free Software fascists done yet?
The people who wrote vBulletin do, unfortunately, seem to be a little more concerned with Windows than I'd like. The docs keep showing Windows screen shots, even though they're written for both UNIX and Windows. Maybe that's because Windows "admins" are likely to be considerably dumber than UNIX admins (otherwise they wouldn't be using Windows), but it is annoying, certainly.
I didn't pick the Linux distro on the server. Hell, I'd rather it be running a *BSD (which, by the way, the mail server is). But you don't see me bitching and moaning.
Man, I'm glad I have Refalm to absorb most of this whining before I even see it . . .
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I have to agree. Is it SUCH a big deal that vB allows the OPTION for you to upload a file in Ms Word. OOo can read and export .doc or .pdf files, if it is SOOOOOOO important.
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Jesus, are you Free Software fascists done yet?
The people who wrote vBulletin do, unfortunately, seem to be a little more concerned with Windows than I'd like. The docs keep showing Windows screen shots, even though they're written for both UNIX and Windows. Maybe that's because Windows "admins" are likely to be considerably dumber than UNIX admins (otherwise they wouldn't be using Windows), but it is annoying, certainly.
I didn't pick the Linux distro on the server. Hell, I'd rather it be running a *BSD (which, by the way, the mail server is). But you don't see me bitching and moaning.
Man, I'm glad I have Refalm to absorb most of this whining before I even see it . . .
Haha. I bet Aloone is crying in the corner now. :D
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It's disabled now... we should all just drop that one particular glitch. There are far better things to whine about. Not that I'm going to help you find them...
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Haha. I bet Aloone is crying in the corner now. :D
LOL, I like to moan about things!:D
I'm glad it was changed, hopfully it will be easier to change things now, before when someone complained about something it wouldn't change and this proves that this is no longer the case! :)
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I always hate it when someone files a complaint in the wrong topic/section (we have an ideas/suggestions section you know).
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1. The theme. Gotta see about changing it to User info on the left side of a post and post on the right.
2. The quick reply box... it's not working. OR at least, you should be able to use it without having to quote soemone.
1. I fixed it (as you can see). I like this way better :)
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I always hate it when someone files a complaint in the wrong topic/section (we have an ideas/suggestions section you know).
Sorry it won't happen again.
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The quick reply box is functioning the same way it does on every other VB forum I've ever used.
So. It sucks!