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Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden |
![]() OK, for those of you who may have noticed, and for those of you have not, the Asylum was down for ... ahem, unscheduled maintainance for about 4 hours today. I made a simple, silly little change to the primary CGI that runs this thing, and then my FTP connection to dreamhost froze, in the middle of uploading it. It took a couple of hours for things to get back to normal, FTP-wise, but by that time I'd already attempted to upload the file about 50 times, and managed to "fix" it some more, thinking one of my changes changed something else. The last hour was spent figuring out that once I deleted the bad file and re-uploaded, I need to make the darn thing executable again! D'oh! OK, fixed now. Wired, jazzed on adrenalin I am. Spent $250 for the upgrade to UBB6 which I don't really need right now. Life is back on a normal track for me! So, how're *you* doing, eh? =) |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: A little lower... lower... ahhhhhh, thats the spot |
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Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: the Psychiatric Ward |
![]() ah.... ahhhhh.... it feels so good..... |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: down under |
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Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: |
![]() Hey krets, you should check out the latest issue of Stuff magazine. Has a nice article on Sanchez. |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: A lost remnant |
![]() I am doing well now, thanks Doc. |
Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden |
![]() Yah Maruman, I kind of agree about UBB6, it's got the creeping featuritus, too much stuff, I'd be working for hours stripping it all out of there! YoYo, the sig is *perfect*, that was just kind of what I was imagining you'd do with it, looks good. My frigging god, it's 5:30am, and we have guests coming this afternoon, I need to go sleep! Take care all, back soon, glad we survived this all! |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: |
![]() Well that worked out perfectly for me, I slept for about 4 1/2 hours last night and before I went to sleep the asylum was still up. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Long Island, NY |
![]() Whew. I was worried that the Asylum was down because I was playing with the server. Glad to hear I wasn't the cause this time. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Rochester, New York, USA |
![]() Christ it scared me. I was editing my .htaccess file, and it was throwing error 500 at me. Then I try to respond to a post here, about the same topic and I get an error 500. It scared the shit out of me, I thought I did it to the asylum by messing with my files... |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: down under |
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: New California |
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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Styx |
![]() Sleep tight Doc! |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Belgrade, Serbia |
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Maniac (V) Inmate From: A little lower... lower... ahhhhhh, thats the spot |
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Belgrade, Serbia |
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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Netherlands |
![]() I heard that UBB costs $199 right now, its a special offer or something... |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Borneo Island |
![]() Oh.. I didn't notice that. I was sleeping.. I got a pain on my back.. but that sure will go very soon.. |
Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden |
![]() Well, what I felt I was buying Infopop was not the scripts for UBB6, but instead the lifetime licence to keep using *this* set of scripts! When I first built this place, all that was available was the 1 year licence deal, but now thye offer the lifetime gig, so now I'm legal again. (The last licence appears to have expired, perhaps sometime around our 1 year birthday? |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: under the bed |
![]() I'll have to agree on the 'not upgrading' bit. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: |
![]() I am pretty lost here...What is wrong with UBB6? Is it too much to administrate or just a big waste of functionality? I went over to the infopop site and got this list of new features: |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Netherlands |
![]() Yeah, I am with Prospero, whats the problem, ah well atleast this board is legal for a 'lifetime' Its better than nothing, right!? |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: down under |
![]() yeah but who needs that shit, it just makes the forum run slower with all these features no one ever uses. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Azylum's Secret Lab |
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers From: Cell 53, East Wing |
![]() I'm not sure how well this suggestion will go down but given the talent available here I've always thought it was a bit odd that the message boards didn't run on an inmate-developed board (PHP/mySQL). That way we could avoid such feature laden upgrades (after a while there can't be many extra bells and whistles that can be added which aid functionality) and introduce things like threaded discussions (such things seemed to have disappeared with the explosion of UBB-clone boards). It shouldn't be too much trouble to rip up an already exisitng one (neoboard [at: neoboard.org or net] is one of the few offering threaded dicussions for example) and introduce some inmate-friendly padded walls, remove the door knobs from the insides of the doors, automate pill dispensing, sort out the room numbering etc. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Belgrade, Serbia |
![]() Prospero, the main reason that I have against UBB is that it still uses flat files to store data!? Accessing flat files (especially if they are large) is extremely slow, and therefore searching takes ages. It would be much better if it used SQL backend. Also, the coding style of UBB developers is extremely ugly (not to mention that it doesn't even follow PERL strict guidelines). And last, but not least running PERL scripts is slow (since PERL interpreter has to be called each time), and mod_perl should be used to speed thing up, but UBB doesn't use it. |
Neurotic (0) Inmate Newly admitted |
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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Styx |
![]() I for one do not like threaded forums. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers From: Cell 53, East Wing |
![]() Mr Max: I am suprised that you've found people don't seem to understand threads although looking at the mwforum it could get a little tricky with multiple sub-threads. |
Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden |
![]() I remember doing a lot of worry and thinking about this way back when, threaded, or non-threaded? I grew up with USENET, so threaded boards made sense to me, but I became totally enthralled with the dialog that is possible with this style of board. Too many threaded boards lead me down into a mess of twisty sub-threads and digressions, only to find that that's not where I really wanted to be! Then it's click-click-click or back-back-back (back-back) to get to a point of reference I'm familiar with, repeat as necessary. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: The year 1881 |
![]() I prefer a non-threaded board, for just the reasons the Doc mentioned. I hate having to navigate my way through a thread. I'd rather just scroll down the whole thing. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Belgrade, Serbia |
![]() Emperor, I've realized that average people are either stupid or don't want to learn. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: |
![]() Yeah, I got you Max. I never thought UBB was as efficient as it could be, but it gets the job done I guess. |
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA |
![]() They should make some sort of a *combination* of the two... like, it's linear like UBB, but if you want you can reply to an older post in the thread and sort of split it off at that point into two threads with different topics. And it could all be DHTML driven so you could load the entire thread at once, and whenever it split off, just choose which way you wanted to go and it would quickly appear below what's already displayed. |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX |
![]() If my two cents are worth much in this topic, I'd like to offer them. I like this style of message navigation rather than the back-and-forth, threaded style. But, the one thing that I'd love to see is some visual clue to which post in the list I last read. It's a little difficult sometimes, especially in long topics, to tell where I left off. Maybe just a dot next to the post like in the forum list. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Raleigh, NC |
![]() Just wanted to say Thanks to the Doc and all the rest of the you who do all the work to make this all happen. As a newbie I have been lurking for a while and learning a lot from all of you! It took a while to get the courage to come in and speak up, but now I'm even working on my first sig...Thanks again! |
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Belgrade, Serbia |
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: The Demented Side of the Fence |
![]() Ggotta agree with Max. Although, I think it would be fun if you could add a line there yourself. Like the occupation part of your profile. Fill in "yedi knight" on "wannabe" or something like that... |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Here, There and Everywhere |
![]() Aw, come on Max, conflicts and arguments between members? That wouldn't happen around here. |
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