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In this thread I will post any updates or answer any questions I might have an answer for.

Ahoj!
Managed to get in. Board seems to work.
Borys

The notification worked alright and everything I've bothered to play with seems to run ok. ;D

Quote from: Earl822 on February 28, 2007, 01:31:26 AM
The notification worked alright and everything I've bothered to play with seems to run ok. ;D

Well thats nice to hear.

I'll leave it to Maddox and the ones he appoints to help him out to make the layouts, and catagories an so on.

At the moment I won't do anything.  This is the germinating offspring of the N-verse.

Ahoj!
Leo, is it possible to import an invision board more or less "as is". Or at least the posts? Directly or through a site ripper/ off-line browser?

Borys

I dunno, I not looking into the possibility either. I will leave that to the people that will run the day to day business. you might want to check the smf website and support forum if such an option exists.

http://www.simplemachines.org/

Judging from all the icons directly above this window I'm typing in, there seems to be a lot of options for formatting one's post.  That'd be a step-up from the existing board for certain.

Ahoj!
UGH! When I look at all those buttons and think about all the eyecandy that can assail my eyes I tremble ...  Could we switch to TEXT only?
Borys

I don't think I'd be using the "Evil Glow" option frequently.  I'm looking more at the table creation and text placement options, really.  Ever notice how poorly aligned the "tables" in my sim reports were?

Ahoj!
Ha!
Who needs tables!
In my time we etched data on CPUs with flint stencils and .... SNORE ..

Borys

Hello

I think Swamphen would like the "Evil Glow".

Quote from: Ithekro on March 01, 2007, 11:17:19 AMI think Swamphen would like the "Evil Glow".

ommminous hummmmm
;D

What is this "applause and smite"  and karma for on other's avatar places?

Hm, I decided to smite everyone who used that "evil glow feature". :P

Quote from: Borys on March 01, 2007, 01:08:00 PM

MY EYS! MY EYES!

You evil one !!
(claps hands with delighted glee)

Ahoj!
I used to be a member of this:
http://www.parma-eruseen.net/main.php?dutch

What the girls there (there was a 200:1 women to men ratio on that board) could do with posts was mind boggling. But the emoticons were really sweet ....

BTW - don't mention my name there - I was thrown out :)

Borys

Quote from: P3D on March 01, 2007, 10:20:38 PM
Hm, I decided to smite everyone who used that "evil glow feature". :P

*returns the favour*  :P




(also learns that apparantly Win95/IE5.0 does not like the 'preview' option)

Cool Stuff!

"Aahhhhh!! My eye!!"
(smites DF on general principles)

Smites Swampy just for fun! ;D

Ahoj!
Wellcome aboard, Carthaginian (explains to others - that's the polite young man from the WarshipProjects board).
I don't like the karma thingy - I prefer to say "you suck" openly.
:)

Borys

Borys, what'd you do to Carthaginian's post? 

I don't imagine I'll take the karma thing very seriously. 

Ahoj!
Looks like it was nuked.
I don't like this ...
Borys

Probably cause for some smitin', I reckon.

test

[attachment deleted by admin]

Smiting feature is gone (not that I used it at all).

Do we have a limit on our Personal Messages?

Yes, karma was removed.
Also, attachments are possible. Up to 128K per attachments - but if the space fills up it would be pruned. We have 150MB available here.

I was meaning a total number of messages that can be kept at one time.  I have 87 now and was wondering if I needed to worry about deleting any soon.

Right now I think it is unlimited.

Some of you may have experienced that the website was down for a while. This was due to a computer problem with the provider. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

Ahoj!
I have 346 messages - I was curious of the limit :)

Borys

There isnt one. There is however a limit set on the amount of users you can send a pm to in one message, and how many pm's you may post in an hour. This is to prevent abuse.

There has been an upgrade to the forum, it is now on version 1.1.4. This upgrade was needed for security reasons. As far as I can tell nothing is missing and all went well, but it might be prudent to check for yourselves.

Also, admins trying to make a backup will find it stops after a few seconds. I know what the problem is, but it is in the hands of the provider to solve it. In the mean time I will backup the database through phpmyadmin.

Thanks.  We're sorting out which of the Mod team will be doing back-ups in the future - I'm hampered by the fact that I'm on dial-up, so it'll likely be one of the others.

That's ok. in the mean time I will perform the backups through the phpmyadmin page. this does mean that until this problem is solved no admins on the forum can perform the backups. I can however give a link to the phpmyadmin page but that would require a person to know how to work with that.

And again there has been an upgrade. We are now up to date with the forum software (v.1.1.5) and known security issues have been fixed.

Thank you, Leo.

A couple of announcements.

As of today we are now on version 1.1.6 of the forum software. this is probably the last update of SMF 1, because the first beta's of SMF 2 are already out, and it looks like the transition to SMF 2 stable release will happen pretty soon.  We will not be transfering to SMF 2 the moment it gets out, first I'd like to see how much impact it has before upgrading.

Secondly, Congratulations to all, according to my stats you've now hit the 1 GB transfer a month mark. Nice to see the forum traffic is growing.


Lastly, the whole backup issue is still under review at the ISP. The problem is because of the size of the MySql behind this forum, the PHP server cannot allocate enough memory to zip and send the database data export. I am making backups that are unzipped through PHPMyAdmin. How to restore the data is going to be tricky should the problem arise but that is my problem, not yours.  ;D

Thanks for the update.  It's good to see that we are, in fact, growing.

Your help with the forum maintenence continues to be appreciated!

My apologies for those that some problems with the forum today, as usual every time I try to ad some functionality I have to do some stuff by hand and that doesn't always work from the get go.

Today I added a chat function. It's pretty basic but I think it might help you when conferencing without the need of PM's.

The forum has had another update, we are now on 1.1.7. In case of any problems, just let me know.

Thanks for the update.  The Chat room is proving rather popular, it seems.

Can someone tell me why the data transfers from the site just exploded in the last 2 months?

Off hand, no.  I don't think the board has been dramatically busier.  Is there any way to track what data is going where?

Odd.

*diving into the techie stuff*

I notice that the server is sending these headers:

  Cache-Control: private
  Pragma: no-cache

At any rate, if you need some help crunching access logs, etc. let me know.

*mumbles*

that's some of the sort of stuff I do for a living

Quote from: The Rock Doctor on December 01, 2008, 09:49:38 AM
Thanks for the update.  The Chat room is proving rather popular, it seems.

Very popular indeed, as it turns out, the chat is responsible for 22GB! of data traffic on top of the standard forum data traffic.

is that 22 gigabytes? Or 22 gigabits? Either way: yikes!.

I'd turn that off. We can surely set up a standing MSN or AOL chatroom or something instead.

Before we do that - is the increase in traffic a problem?  Or just a matter of curiousity?

a €30 fine is the result of the increased data transfer.

Over the last 2 months the site went over with 17 Gigabyte, as I had it set to the max of 10 GB per month (So in total this forum hit 37 Gigabyte in 2 months). That is already the maximum allowed for any package.

I don' t want to limit anyones use of the chat or indeed the rest of the forum. But a 30 euro fine every month or 2 months does add up.

I will try to to edit the template of the chat asking people not to lurk around too long, that is the best I can do atm.

As much as I didn't want to do this I have taken off the chat for now. I upgraded the forum software to 1.1.8 so the chat stopes working after each upgrade anyway so I could do that in one stroke. I will see if I can find a different solution that is not so intense in data as the tpvchat.

I added this program to the Navalism site.

Thanks Leo. I've updated the reference in the ship design guidelines, then moved this post here for posterity.

Had a bit of a tense moment there, I updated the forum to 1.1.9 and halfway the upgrade the installer gave an SQL error. I managed to fix it though, some security updates are now implemented.

It seems we are getting rather popular with spammers lately. I will see what I can do about that.

Thanks; it's usually good to be popular, but it does have drawbacks.

Funny, last week Guinnes and me talked about it, and our potential solution is rather simple.

Before approval the "new member" has to explain in a short sentence why he wants to join Navalism.

And it "I like this site" won't cut the cheese.

It's a better answer than, "Your sim needs cheap V1AGGRa", though.

At the moment I've set the registrants that they need to be approved before they can post. Most spam accounts do not wait 24 hrs to see if they can write yet so unless you are pretty sure an account is on the level just wait 24 hours before approval.

I am not quite sure what happened but the forum was not reachable today. There was no error in the database so no data was lost.

I will be travelling all over Europe in the next week, 7 countries in 7 days, so I won't be able to do the daily backup of the forum database.

If someone could take over that job I'd appreciate it. Just go in the admin section under forum maintenance, first click on "Optimize all tables to improve performance", once that is done set the backup settings like so:

(http://www.navalism.org/navalismbackup.jpg)

and click on download.

The download is between 73 and 75 Megabyte so a fast internet connection is a wannahave in this case.

Try not to destroy the forum while I'm away please. :D

As the resident Mod who is also an IT overlord, I'll be happy to take care of this.

My dial-up provider thanks you...