Something bad happened.

vanderaj · 2005-06-28T09:49:24+00:00

At around 4 pm today, someone (probably our hoster) uploaded phpBB 2.0.16 over the top of the forum. This stopped the forum. At around 6.30 pm, I tried fixing it, but someone "helpfully" ran the installer which blew away our database. So up until 6.30 pm, we had lost no posts beyond two hours without any access. So we're back to Sunday morning, when I last took a backup. As I don't have a lot of the files of the original site, we're moving to the new version which is under development. If you notice anything odd, please post it here, and I'll fix it. For our sponsors, the ads will return later tonight. I'm off to dinner. Andrew

mscabrio Cabriolet Queen

2,308 posts · joined Jan 2004 · 29 Jun 2005, 1:24 pm

#377077

kombikim wrote:damn, 57 kombi & mscabrio stole my idea for new avatar already - he who hesitates is/was

I don't want to be known as the Invisible person !!!!

🤘

amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 29 Jun 2005, 1:33 pm

#377086

vanderaj wrote:Soon, you'll be able to upgrade from phpBB to this forum software. 🙂 It's better.

Andrew

Why is it better? phpBB was free, thats why I have it. I havent done anything with it, just use as is, striaght out of the box. With the traffic I am getting though, almost a waste of space.

Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf

Octa veedub recluse

406 posts · joined Mar 2005 · 29 Jun 2005, 4:13 pm

#377157

Bummer about the lost posts and U2U, I sent a massive one to a member, I hope he got it before it crashed. The site and the forum look tops.. Great work. :thumb

'We teach best what we most need to learn'

VW no more... sigh.... well, at least it's a cousin

vanderaj Administrator a suffusion of yellow

3,130 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Jun 2005, 1:08 am

#377471

amazer wrote:
vanderaj wrote:Soon, you'll be able to upgrade from phpBB to this forum software. 🙂 It's better.

Andrew
Why is it better? phpBB was free, thats why I have it. I havent done anything with it, just use as is, striaght out of the box. With the traffic I am getting though, almost a waste of space.

phpBB
Free. GPL'd
No attachments
Insecure - 16 patch sets since April 2002, an average on one patch set every 2.3 months
Basic previous topic history - posts since last visit
Very flexible ACL based permissions

Ultima (nee XMB)

Free. GPL'd
Multiple attachments per post
More secure - one small patch since May 2004, an average of one patch every 13 months
Flexible topic history
Lots of forum tools and options
Lots of member tools and options
Flexible plug-ins for URLs across the top header
Simple permissions structure - easier to get right, harder to do esoteric stuff
XHTML 1.0 compliant (mostly ... a few bugs)

I could go on, but ... I wont.

Andrew

Desert Moose Cut Cut Cut

2,098 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 30 Jun 2005, 1:27 am

#377472

Is it only me or is it all Centred

vanderaj Administrator a suffusion of yellow

3,130 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Jun 2005, 1:50 am

#377473

What browser are you using? Some browsers, notably Opera, center the page due to a rendering bug.

The following browsers work fine:

Safari 2.0 - Mac
Firefox 1.0.4 - Mac and PC
IE 6.0 SP1 / XP SP 2 - PC

Andrew

Desert Moose Cut Cut Cut

2,098 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 30 Jun 2005, 2:01 am

#377476

IE 6.0 ????????

Stanley I guess the reward is in the doing of it

4,523 posts · joined Mar 2003 · 30 Jun 2005, 6:21 am

#377488

my work computer centres everything...but all is good at home.

amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Jun 2005, 9:47 am

#377564

I had everything left yesterday, but today it is all centred. Fix it man...tis driving me nuts 🤪

I went looking at the source and got bamboozled by how many times the word center appears. Funny thing is, I saved it to my desktop and opened it in frontpage. In the 'normal' view, everything is left, but in 'preview' its centred.

If you add "text-align: left;" to the tablerow class it fixes it.

When I edit posts I seem to get a "nn" put in there????

nn[ Edited on 30-6-2005 by amazer ]

Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf

winerot Custom Title Time!

1,340 posts · joined Aug 2004 · 30 Jun 2005, 10:45 am

#377612

andrew i notice location is not in the left anymore
but i suppose ppl can hit profile to see what area
ppl are from thanks wally

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