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Locking in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 7 2008 23:36 Profile Homepage #20
I don't want to appear uncompromising, so I propose a deal. We stop locking stupid topics, and you stop starting them. Kay?

Seriously, look at that clone thread. WTF?
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What is .sit? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 7 2008 22:56 Profile Homepage #13
EV:N is worth twice what you pay for the full version, and then some.

Polaris forever!

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 7 2008 22:55 Profile Homepage #54
I'm getting pretty irked about this. I'll contact support this evening to see what's happening on the server. If it's my fault, I may have to slow down PPP archiving which could become a real burden when the forum is very active.

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Instant death nodes in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 7 2008 04:26 Profile Homepage #45
All this takes me back to '94 when I began to learn Logo... :)
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What is .sit? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 7 2008 02:34 Profile Homepage #6
tar.gz is probably the best way to offer anything for download. I don't know a platform that doesn't support it natively - I know OSX contains tar and gzip, and WinZip can extract tar.gz as well (not sure about compressing).

Privately, I've switched to 7zip for storing files. I've compared it to gz and bz2, and it is usually at least as efficient while being several times faster.
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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, January 6 2008 18:04 Profile Homepage #48
It's been a busy weekend, but I've managed to fix things up.

Slight change of plans: To avoid confusion, please use the newly created "Resource" type for anything that isn't actually News. Allowed extensions now include zip and several more.

Edit: Also, since I hadn't mentioned it here yet:

http://blades.ermarian.net/lyceum/csr

Updates once a day.

[ Sunday, January 06, 2008 18:07: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Welcome to our Newest Bot in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, January 6 2008 17:08 Profile Homepage #26
Yes indeed.

Now let there be peace.

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GOOD GRAVY it's been a while. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 4 2008 10:28 Profile Homepage #62
quote:
Originally written by It hates Iffy:

I can't access the places in those links.
Still works for me.

Perhaps you're not waiting long enough? The database is now around 600 MB in posts and may take a while to search, and Dreamhost must have been hosting my site on a slashdotted pron server lately judging by the performance.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 4 2008 04:58 Profile Homepage #46
- "Talking" added to BoE graphics categories.
- "Graphic template" added to News entry categories.

Just tag it incrementally. Enter tags, press "Add", enter more tags into the now empty field.
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300 in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 4 2008 04:44 Profile Homepage #13
I blame that awful movie.
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GOOD GRAVY it's been a while. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 4 2008 01:18 Profile Homepage #59
Forgive the double post, please. I am presently unable to edit posts.

The collected posts of Lord Llama
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GOOD GRAVY it's been a while. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 4 2008 01:12 Profile Homepage #58
Could not confirm, works for me.

So whatever it is that is rubbish, it appears not to be the search engine.
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GOOD GRAVY it's been a while. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, January 3 2008 06:02 Profile Homepage #43
In an unrelated note, I subconsciously associate Alo with the Death of the Discworld. Don't know why, exactly.
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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, January 3 2008 01:12 Profile Homepage #43
Policy question. They're not intended to be viewed in the browser, so I wouldn't necessarily class them with graphics.

I could make an extra type for "miscellaneous resources".

Or, since I established precedent with that chatlog, you could attach the xcf template to a news entry. I can add another category besides chatlogs - "Graphics templates" - that it could be placed into.
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2008! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, January 2 2008 02:11 Profile Homepage #48
2008 is now here, and this topic has outlived its usefulness.
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Who Killed General? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 1 2008 08:59 Profile Homepage #54
I forget what exactly is the matter, but some part of the date handling in the Endeavor breaks for dates before 1970. These dates are therefore set to 1970-01-01 00:00 GMT. Hence the 38th birthdays.

Edit: Which is 1969-12-31 evening where the server stands. That's why the birthdays were yesterday, not today.

[ Tuesday, January 01, 2008 09:01: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 1 2008 08:57 Profile Homepage #39
You know, if the site suddenly does something it doesn't normally do, this is almost always because I am working on it at this very moment. The next time this happens, you can find out pretty much immediately by messaging me on AIM (RealArancaytar), while leaving this topic for actual bug reports. ;)

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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2008! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 1 2008 05:50 Profile Homepage #29
This was the first new year I spent pretty much alone. Parents were busy, my sister was elsewhere, so I just hung around IRC for a long time while watching the fireworks outside. :(

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When bullying goes galactic.. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 1 2008 05:02 Profile Homepage #36
quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

I find the concept of photons confusing. I first learned that light was composed of electromagnetic waves, and then they discovered photons.

It's hard to keep up with technological and scientific advances these days.
Particle models were dominant until the mid 19th century, when the wave model became widely accepted (although the wave model had already been proposed in the 17th century by Newton, Huygens and Hooke).

Today we know that light is both a particle and a wave. :)

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Who Killed General? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, December 31 2007 16:19 Profile Homepage #52
quote:
Originally written by Archmage Alex:

I propose the creation of back-up boards. Some one who has time, and the desire and knowledge do so, should make a set of boards set up exactly like these ones. Same sub-forums (Exile trilogy, General, etc.) same links, and so forth.
Well, the archives look like that already. And the database backend is essentially a forum - it's just one that can't be posted to directly.

Right now I don't have time to implement something that will only be used in case of catastrophic collapse of UBB (after all, if the archives were directly writable while UBB survived, they would no longer be proper archives). But depending on urgency, I think as little as one week might be sufficient... :)

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Blades Chat! (Time TBA) in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, December 29 2007 08:14 Profile Homepage #14
IRC takes two clicks, no local installation. Or one local installation and browser at all. Take your pick. ;)

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Who Killed General? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, December 29 2007 07:55 Profile Homepage #40
quote:
Originally written by King InuYasha:

quote:
Originally written by The Ratt:

I have a question, are internal server errors the same as 500 errors? Because I have never got 500 errors, only internal server errors, in fact I got one just now.
Internal Server Error = HTTP 500 Status code

A 500 error is an internal server error. Generally you are supposed to get HTTP status code 200, which means the connection worked and content is being downloaded. Occasionally a 301 or a 302 status code, which means the site moved. 404 is missing destination. 401 is forbidden, and i think that wraps it up...
This does, actually.

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While the 500 error is not directly caused by the UBB software (it is a server message), the load on the server is a function of what software is running to display the pages. They wouldn't happen if UBB was more efficient with server resources.

Web servers are now optimized for different things than they were when UBB was new. UBB Classic uses flat files (it's older than cheap DBMS like MySQL and PostGre). Wide replacement of flat files with a separate, dedicated DBMS layer is one of the technological shifts that have occurred since then. A modern webserver configuration would assume that an application uses a database backend and may just not be cut out for interpreted scripts reading and writing large text files very quickly.

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About OMS being cut short: Database hickup. No data loss, the topic record was set to a length of 194 for no obvious reason. Fixed now. I'd look into what caused it (I suspect it's happened at least once with another topic), but it's so rare and non-fatal that I'm putting it a bit further down the todo list.

[ Saturday, December 29, 2007 07:59: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Blades Chat! (Time TBA) in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, December 29 2007 03:18 Profile Homepage #11
Oh, ceterum censeo: Is there a reason besides tradition why we eschew the use of IRC in favor of AIM? Just a general question.

It's no problem for me personally (although you'll see Arancaytar42 instead of RealArancaytar in all chats), but you would be surprised how much more convenient it is for AIM users to join an IRC network than for non-AIM users to register at AOL.

[ Saturday, December 29, 2007 03:19: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Blades Chat! (Time TBA) in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, December 27 2007 10:59 Profile Homepage #6
quote:
various issues between the Lyceum and the Forge
That sounds almost as if there was some kind of conflict that I didn't know about. :P (No, really, I don't intend to compete; more to cooperate.)

I'll be there. I can currently be online at any hour, so 2200 local time is no difficulty.

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Who Killed General? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, December 27 2007 10:51 Profile Homepage #25
quote:
reliable free forum hostings
I'll add that one to the list.

- MS Works
- Friendly Fire
- Military Intelligence

...

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