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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Forum Stuff Oct 17^th, 2005 at 10:02am I changed the avatar limits from 65x65 to 80x80, but only because my own avatar looked squished. -b0b (...rocks on.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #1 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 10:14am I've fixed the attachment feature. I've allowed uploads of attachments up to 10mb with the following extensions... .jpg .jpeg .gif .png .swf .zip .txt .bmp .mp3 .doc .xls .ppt Let me know what other extensions you guys want me to allow. -b0b (...rocks on even harder.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #2 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 10:17am I removed the "notify me of replies" icon, since I don't have an e-mail server running at the moment to process the replies. This might be a fun "rainy day" feature to work on in the future, once I get my other server working. -b0b (...will get around to it one of these days.)
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Reply #3 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 10:34am

There are two problems I'm trying to fix...

1) The time seems to be an hour off. Even though the server is set to GMT -5 (EST) and the forum software defaults to the same, all of the posts are appearing an hour off to me. Are you guys seeing the same thing? (This post should be listed at 10:34am or so.)

2) The "Post last modified on..." label isn't showing up, even though the feature is turned on. I'll have to scrape around within the code a bit to find a fix.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #4 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 10:50am I fixed the time issue. I forgot about Daylight Savings Time, which was a separate option. -b0b (...nods nods.)
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Reply #5 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 11:20am

I renamed the existing pictures from the "More Smilies" column so they made a bit of sense (since I can't read German) and added a bunch of new ones. Here's a few that were added...

Crucifix Smiley

Cry2

Farmer

FlagConfederate Smiley

FlagUS

FlameThrower2 Smiley

Fortified

Jester

Sheep

Soldier-Shooting1 Smiley

Soldier-Shooting2 Smiley

ToiletGremlins Smiley

A zip file of the new ones is attached. If you've got any personal favorites you want added, give me a URL or attach them here.

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(...thinks they're cool.)

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Reply #6 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 2:11pm

More fun with smilies. Lots of cool guns!

BarneyKill Smiley

BullCrap

ChainSaw

Borg

BooHoo

DrillSergeant Smiley

GrenadeBlowUp Smiley

Guns-AK47Animated Smiley

Guns-AR15Firing Smiley

Guns-AK47Reload Smiley

Guns-AR15Reload Smiley

Guns-Assassinate Smiley

Guns-DeckCannon Smiley

Guns-DualFist3 Smiley

Guns-DualFist2 Smiley

Guns-DualFist1 Smiley

Guns-FNFAL Smiley

Guns-Jailed Smiley

Guns-Sniper1 Smiley

Guns-Sniper2 Smiley

ImWithStupid Smiley

Hick

MedievalSword Smiley

LurkersMustDie Smiley

LightSaberBattle Smiley

Microwave

Moped

ShootYourself Smiley

WesDownersMom1 Smiley

WesDownersMom2 Smiley

StewyThePirate Smiley

WTF

This is just a small number of the total I added. There are 187 total now. If you click the "View all Smilies" link underneath More Smilies when you reply to a post you can see all of the available ones. Too cool...

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #7 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 3:21pm Lol bob you went nuts with the gun smilies The attachment option is pretty hot, those that dont host images should love that
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Reply #8 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 3:24pm

Yeah, I can create a virtual directory to link to that folder so people can host their own images here.

How about...

http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Hosted

Then, if you upload a picture, you can link to it directly. It'd look like this...

{Img} http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Hosted/Picture.jpg {/Img}

Sound good?

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #9 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 3:27pm Here's an attachment to test, NotepadHang.jpg.
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Reply #10 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 3:31pm

Wow, never mind. I guess it automatically displays a photo inline if an image is attached. Well, as long as you guys don't leech all my bandwidth, I'll leave the new virtual directory I created so you can use the attachment option to host files for other websites or whatever.

I uploaded BadFragmentation.jpg, so the following URL should work to access it.

http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Hosted/NotepadHang.jpg

I should also be able to use an inline photo tag to display photo attachments in other threads.

So, if you guys want to host a file for another website, just attach it to a post somewhere (we can create a Random Attachment thread if need be) and use the following URL...

http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Hosted/Filename.ext

Be sure to replace Filename.ext with the name of the file you attached. Remember to read the post up top about acceptable file extensions. Only certain file extensions are permitted, but I can always add other file extensions if I missed something. If you try to upload an unpermitted file type, the forum will warn you about the error. Just let me know if I missed one and I'll add it.

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #11 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 3:46pm Sweet deal bob, I've got a few 12 gig files i need hosted. Its ok ill make sure only about 10 people a day download it.
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Reply #12 - Oct 17^th, 2005 at 3:55pm

Live preview is fun too, you can check out how your post looks while you type it. Click the plus near the top to open it.

I was standing behind those firefighters. That fire was MASSIVE. The whole city turned out to watch it. It was like a football game, people were appearing with beer cups in their hands, lol. Everyong was parking on yards or random empty baseball fields. You could see the smoke for miles and it was drifting into Canada, making the skies hazy.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #13 - Oct 19^th, 2005 at 3:23pm PoopHitsFan For all those times when TSHTF. -b0b (...which might be TEOTWAWKI.)
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Cait GeekCrew Hax0r Offline Winter is Coming. Giggity. Posts: 380 Pittsburgh, PA Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #14 - Oct 19^th, 2005 at 3:44pm you all should be proud. you live up to the name of "geek". i'm glad to have met you all. cait scrolling marquee! eeeeeee!
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #15 - Oct 19^th, 2005 at 7:23pm It wouldnt be the "geek crew" without us.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #16 - Oct 19^th, 2005 at 8:54pm Yes, and it wouldn't be The Geek Crew without more smilies! Bahahaha! GetOut HugeShock HugeShock 2 PleaseDie WTF2 HeadBang Computer Trouble -b0b (...gotta catch 'em all.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #17 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 9:37am 282, baybee! I might get rid of some of the bigger ones, since they're rather annoying. -b0b (...nodsnodsnods.) Alien-Mononoke (For those of you that liked Princess Mononoke!) BadDog Bomb Car-Cop Constipated Fart Guns-BiggerGun Guns-CaptureFlag Luigi Mario Pong Smurf1 SoapBox SouthParkCartman StarWars-VaderFight2
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #18 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 1:40pm I got rid of that last piece of #c0c0c0 border on the front page, since it looked kind of funky all by itself. -b0b (...)
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #19 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 1:45pm Thanks bob, it was funky but i wasnt in the mood to hunt it down. Which value was it btw?
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #20 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 1:51pm If I remember correctly, it was BorderContainer. From what I can tell, it only affected two lines on the front page. I'm not sure why it needed a separate denotation. -b0b (...pity the foo.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #21 - Nov 1^st, 2005 at 11:26am More smilies! -b0b (...w00h00!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #22 - Nov 1^st, 2005 at 12:05pm I added a few more smilies, and deleted several of the huge ones. Here are some of my favorite new additions. Bump Censored CloudNine DeadHorse EndOfTheWorld DontTreadOnMe Fart1 GrouchoMarx IAmSmiling MickeyMouse OffTopic Oops Same STFU VoteBush Zombie
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #23 - Nov 1^st, 2005 at 1:08pm wtf bob
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #24 - Nov 1^st, 2005 at 1:26pm I never said I agreed with it. -b0b (...so there.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #25 - Nov 2^nd, 2005 at 11:58am Attachment goodness... -b0b (...attaches like a mad man.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #26 - Nov 2^nd, 2005 at 12:01pm FirefoxLove -b0b (...best ever.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #27 - Nov 3^rd, 2005 at 10:10am More smilies!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #28 - Nov 3^rd, 2005 at 10:22am Here they are! Banana Abused BeatChair Chainsaw2[smiley=Chainsaw2.gif] DeadHorse2 BS ButtKick Dropkick Flame Newbie Owned ROFLMAO -b0b (...358 total. Aren't you excited?)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #29 - Nov 6^th, 2005 at 10:36pm ThreadHijack -b0b (...is always on the lookout.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #31 - Nov 7^th, 2005 at 8:18pm BananaDance Good catch! -b0b (...w00t!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #32 - Dec 6^th, 2005 at 2:54pm BananaPoop Brick Gas Hitler Jail King MichaelJackson -b0b (...cheers.)
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Marie GeekCrew Hax0r Offline Posts: 291 Centreville, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #33 - Dec 6^th, 2005 at 5:37pm If anyone can write a story incorporating as many of the smilies as possible, I'll treat you to lunch. That would rock. (the story, not me dishing out for lunch)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #34 - Feb 26^th, 2006 at 10:03pm More smilies! BananaRasta BeatWithStick Bulldozer[smiley=Bulldozer.gif] Gay Crossbones[smiley=Crossbones.gif] DUTroll Greedy Guns-Zombie Horse JackInBox LollerSkates NoImage NoImage2 Penguin PinkElephant RetardedLOL Sheeple Sleep2 Snorkel Spider STFUSlap Survivalist Survivalist2 TooHappy Vikings -b0b (...weeeee!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #35 - Jun 7^th, 2006 at 3:51pm More! More! More! Bananas BlowKiss Cartman Chug CopBeat Couch Deserted Dupe FlagSalute Guns-Gatling Guns-M4 KnightThatSaysNI NutKick TTIWWOP Zombie2 Zombie3 DestroyComputer DomokunFloppy OfficeDance PlzDie RunWithScissors Twinkies Weiner -b0b (...thought he'd spice things up a bit.)
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Marie GeekCrew Hax0r Offline Posts: 291 Centreville, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #36 - Jun 7^th, 2006 at 4:18pm The bananas remind me of the fluffy white "Yay!" things in the movie Rejected. They also make me smile.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #38 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 1:47am Zelda Should I add more as I find them? -b0b (...loves smilies.)
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Reply #39 - Jul 31^st, 2006 at 12:15pm

I apologize for the downtime on the forum over the weekend. Apparently, the edge router Comcast provided for my cable service reset for no apparent reason. That killed the port forwarding that allows traffic to come in to my web server, hence the downtime.

I didn't realize it was down since I still had outbound Internet service and could get the forum just fine myself. Tex let me know on Sunday that he wasn't able to get to it, hence the fix.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #40 - Jul 31^st, 2006 at 12:25pm On a related note, I'm going to be defragmenting the server today, so if things are a bit sluggish throughout the afternoon, that's why. -b0b (...apologizes again.)
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Reply #41 - Aug 3^rd, 2006 at 12:15am

There's a huge (read: AWESOME) storm raging right now, and it's been knocking the power out intermittently. That's screwing with my cable Internet service, so even though my UPS's are keeping the server and my PC running, the Internet service is up and down. That will cause some random outages until the storm has abated.

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Reply #42 - Aug 3^rd, 2006 at 3:38am

GREETINGS FEDERAL AGENTS!!!

I'm sorry to inform you that we are not Al CIA-eda operatives bent on taking down this country! Our own govt officials are doing that well enough! And no, we will not take $40,000 dollars and a video camera to do "terrorist activities"! And no, you shouldn't try to send us 1,000 pounds of explosives in the mail and have us arrested right when it arrives! The internet doesn't have "free speech zones" that is until you bastards try and pass Internet 2. So just go on your merry way and keep plotting to take down this country you might think you are protecting!

63.27.202.103
63.27.196.54
63.27.132.62
Now I'm not saying these are the IP addresses of these govt agents...I would hope they'd be more slick about it!

Although according to your FBI Training Manuals Christians, Gun Owners, and THOSE WHO MAKE FREQUENT REFERENCES TO THE US CONSTITUTION" are terrorists...so I really have no clue if we're terrorists or not. (see pic)

I mean we're not as big as the government is...we're just the patsies!

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Reply #44 - Aug 3^rd, 2006 at 9:31am

That pamphlet is older than dirt, but it's still pretty funny! For what it's worth, the first 25% of the 63.* block is registered to UUNet, so everything from 63.0.0.0 to 63.63.255.255 belongs to them. UUNet is a wholly owned subsidiary of MCI, who now belongs to you-know-who.

The first two addresses are from Dekalb, Illinois, with the third one registering to Boston, Massachusetts.

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Reply #45 - Aug 3^rd, 2006 at 1:34pm

Quote:

(...notes that you really are a patsy.)

He He...that what I was going for.

And while that particular paphlet is old, there are new ones out that describe the same thing. They also add terrorists might "wear blue jeans" and "be nice". I kid you not. I can find you the doc if you want me to. So everyone who is nice and wears blue jeans are terrorists.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #48 - Jul 9^th, 2007 at 3:50pm Ohhh boohoo! -b0b (...cries big sloppy whale tears.)
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #51 - Jul 23^rd, 2007 at 2:38pm Quote: and call b0b a homosexual for me at least once... Yeah once....before the morning meeting, after the meeting, at lunch, when 2nd shift gets here, when Tom yells something stupid. Yeah I have that one covered.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #52 - Jul 23^rd, 2007 at 3:49pm That's alright, I know you mean it in a loving way. -b0b (...!)
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #53 - Jul 23^rd, 2007 at 3:57pm Ya...wishful thinking for Spanky there. Also to keep you up to date with Wes. He no longer is a Wal-Mart stock boy He just got promoted in his carny work and he's actually going to be making a good chunk of change. He no longer has a computer however he did purchase a PS3, surround sound system, and plasma TV. X
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #54 - Jul 23^rd, 2007 at 4:22pm He can afford a PS3 and all the goodies, but he doesn't have a PC at all? WTF? -b0b (...thinks the geekforce is waning in the FatMan.)
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Reply #55 - Jul 30^th, 2007 at 9:52am

The forum was down because I stupidly tried to install FrontPage components on the server. I've never, ever been able to install them on any server without having a metric crapload of problems.

In this particular case, the installation overwrote all of the security permissions on the server, hence the problems you saw today.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #61 - Mar 4^th, 2008 at 5:04pm The forum will be going down for about 20 minutes tonight so I can install another gigabyte of RAM. I'm going to defragment the system drive once I get it back up and running, so expect some sluggishness later tonight. Hopefully this will help reduce the overall slowness of the forum. -b0b (...loves how cheap PC3200 is these days.)
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Reply #64 - Mar 11^th, 2008 at 8:45am

The problem is definitely related to the Interweb connection, not the server. I'm going to troubleshoot the problem after work tonight so expect an hour of downtime between 6:00pm and 10:00pm.

I'm going to replace the slightly damaged cable between the wall and the modem tonight and move it into the network rack. I highly doubt that's the problem, but I want to eliminate that issue before I call Comcast and sit on hold until the sun shrinks into a small black sphere the size of a walnut.

I'm also going to pop an extra gigabyte of memory into the server to keep Exchange 2003 happy. It's one hell of a memory hog, considering I only have a handful of mailboxes on it.

Once all of this is done, I'll call Comcast and try to get a tech to come out tomorrow afternoon. That should resolve the lag issues on the forum.

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Reply #66 - Mar 12^th, 2008 at 9:59am

Well, the good news is that it isn't a server problem and it isn't a cabling issue.

The bad news is that COMCAST IS #@$^%#$^ INCOMPETENT. I spent over an hour on the phone last night trying to get them to fix my connection. During that time, I got disconnected twice, pushed into a voicemail box once, and never, ever got to talk to a business rep.

I'm sitting on hold once again this morning, so I'll let you guys know what I find out.

In case you're interested in the technical details, I spent some time troubleshooting the problem yesterday. Their nearest router is dropping packets like crazy. 15-20% packet loss with an additional 3-5% packet corruption. That's why the forum is loading so incredibly slowly. If I can get a speed test to load, I'm getting 800Kbps up and down, even though I'm paying for 8Mb/1Mb.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #68 - Mar 12^th, 2008 at 10:43am The Comcast technician should be on-site tomorrow afternoon. Assuming they don't send out another moron that wipes out the NAT table on the edge router, the connection should be fixed by 5:00pm. -b0b (...makes a mental note to backup the NAT table.)
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Reply #69 - Mar 12^th, 2008 at 11:28am

I have a kinda Verizon story...but it no way compares to the stupidity of Comcast.

Back in the days of dial up we got two phone lines for the house since we were online so long, it being dial up and all. I only got around to canceling the second phone line and transferring the DSL to our main line. This happened in October and we disconnected the second line completely. That means we ran all of Nov, Dec, Jan, and Feb fine with the DSL on the main line and being billed just fine.

Yesterday we received an email that looked legit, but in today's world I am never not paranoid. Anywho it turns out it was legit, and the bill got fixed to the old second line number and they were unable to charge us for the DSL. The good thing, among many things, that I like about Verizon is that they didn't shut off our service.

I'm still wondering how from four months all can be fine and another something changes to a service we haven't had in five months.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #71 - Mar 13^th, 2008 at 8:49pm In case you guys are wondering, the Comcast guy showed up today. Not only did he not fix the problem, but things are noticeably worse now that he came out. Another tech will be here tomorrow. -b0b (...is pissed.)
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Reply #72 - Mar 13^th, 2008 at 9:54pm

I swear, I am incredibly close to telling Comcast to blow me. I'm a fairly patient guy, but I've frickin' had it.

In case any of you were wondering why the site has been down completely for the entire evening, Comcast swapped out my router this afternoon and forgot to forward my static IP to the new router.

Of course, their offices are already closed, so I can't get anyone to change it until tomorrow morning. I've forward TWNCommunications.Net and GeekCrew.Net to the new IP address until they can get their shit together.

If Comcast had any real competition around here, I would tell them to get their equipment out of my house before I set it ablaze.

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Reply #75 - Mar 14^th, 2008 at 3:12pm

In case you were wondering why the forum has been down all morning, the problem was (believe it or not) Comcast.

I called them this morning to get them to set up the public IP again, which they did. Of course, they decided to reset the router at the same time, which wiped out the port forwarding I have setup for the web server and VPN access. This prevented us from being able to get to the forum, and prevented me from fixing the problem remotely.

The Comcast tech today verified that none of the equipment in my apartment was causing the Internet issue (duh!). The main cable line that runs into the apartment building needs to be repaired, so this may take a couple more days.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #77 - Mar 17^th, 2008 at 8:58am MOVE! Comcast finally got their crap fixed on Friday night. Let's hope it stays that way! -b0b (...still needs to throw that memory into the server.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #79 - Apr 23^rd, 2008 at 4:02pm As soon as the cheap licenses start showing up, I'll snag one. I've played with the Release Candidate and I love it. The EasyPrint feature alone has sold me on 2008 for all future terminal servers. What a godsend... -b0b (...would love to buy a copy.)
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Reply #82 - Apr 24^th, 2008 at 8:39am

The only problem with the new RDP software is that the client SUCKS. Not "kinda" sucks, not "sorta" sucks, but "CAPS LOCK to max" SUCKS.

I don't know what Microsoft was smoking when they release the XP/2003 update of the TS6 client, but it was one of the shoddiest production releases I've seen out of them since NT4 SP6.

First, they shipped it as a Critical Update. I'm sorry, but a variation in RDP is not a "critical" update by any stretch of the imagination. Since they labeled it as critical, anybody running a WSUS server (like me) pushed it straight into production. What a frickin' mess...

The first release (6.0) completely destroyed the RDP client on about 35% of the machines it was installed on. Every time it ran, the client would somehow trigger the NX bit XP SP2 and would fire off a Data Execution Prevention message. This would happen even on 32-bit machines that didn't have an NX-capable processor. How the heck did they pull that one off? Thanks for the QA, Microsoft.

I found an unsupported workaround to get past the NX errors, which would allow the RDP 6.0 client to run, but it would crash with a page fault error every time it made a connection to a terminal server or RDP server. Again, this was on ~35% of my machines, which represents a wide variety of hardware, software, and manufacturers. Suffice it to say that I had to roll those machines back to RDP 5.0, which was a complete pain in the butt.

Of course, Microsoft didn't enable roll back functionality through WSUS, which meant that I couldn't uninstall the client through WSUS. I had a choice between writing a script to uninstall the stupid program or removing it manually at either machine. Scripting to the rescue...

For the machines that didn't have a problem with the new client (and I never did find what the heck caused the problem), the radically different interface confused the heck out of the end users. I understand 6.0 has a lot of nifty features when used in conjunction with 2008 servers and Vista RDP endpoints, but the basic functionality of the client is identical. Why change the interface? What purpose does that serve but to confuse the heck out of the users? I work with factory employees, for crying out loud, not rocket scientists!

Finally, my last rant about the client is the requirement for pre-authentication. Instead of just connecting you to the terminal/RDP server and allowing you to authenticate through the logon screen, you're forced to provide your credentials up front before even connecting to the server. That's not just retarded, it's powerfully retarded. What is the point of that, outside of (once again) confusing the heck out of your user base? Do you know how many phone calls I got about that? It completely screws up the domain authentication factor because it doesn't read Active Directory trusts. If your users don't understand the concept of domains (and I'm guessing 99.5% don't), God help them because the RDP client certainly won't.

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Reply #86 - Apr 25^th, 2008 at 4:14pm

computerjuvenile wrote on Apr 25^th, 2008 at 1:06pm:

Doesn't it pre-authenticate because it's piped through https now. Isn't that worth the hassle. A secured connection is always a plus.

Pre-authentication is great - when the server supports it. Unless you're running Windows Server 2008 or have an ISA Server 2006 box sitting around, pre-authentication is pointless. We've got an ISA server here, but it's sitting between the network and the WAN connections, not the users and the servers - just like 90% of ISA deployments.

Why didn't Microsoft include a pre-authentication check box to enable the option, instead of forcing it on everyone as a compulsory "feature." If it had a check box, Microsoft could even add a Group Policy option to allow administrators to control the feature over the entire domain or forest.

It's a great feature when it's supported, but it's poorly implemented.

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Reply #87 - May 9^th, 2008 at 5:01pm

Sorry about the downtime. Some retarded Comcast technician came to the apartment complex yesterday to install an ingress filter. If you've got crappy equipment that is backfeeding to the cable company, they'll put a filter on your line that keeps your stuff from screwing up cable service for all of your neighbors.

Of course, this dumbass technician didn't put the filter on the cable leading to the apartment with the faulty equipment. He put it on the primary cable that feeds the entire building. As such, any digital equipment (digital cable, cable Internet, etc.) didn't work, including my Internet gateway.

It took five phone calls, a lunch-hour trip from Sturgis to TR and back, and 32 hours to finally get a technician out to my apartment, even though my commercial business contract states a maximum 4-hour repair time. You do the math.

I have to take a picture of the conglomeration of cabling that makes up the "lock box" at the apartment complex. It's a freakin' joke.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #88 - Jun 16^th, 2008 at 10:12pm The forum will be going down for a few minutes tonight so I can finally get around to adding that gigabyte of RAM I bought in February. -b0b (...is kinda lazy.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #89 - Jun 16^th, 2008 at 10:42pm Done! -b0b (...always gets around to doing something sooner or later.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #90 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 6:58pm The forum will be going down intermittently tonight while I install a new SATA RAID adapter and the 750GB hard drive I bought this week. It may run somewhat slow during the file transfer process, too, but it will have lot more storage space when I'm done! -b0b (...yeah!)
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Reply #91 - Jun 30^th, 2008 at 11:04am

If anyone was wondering what happened to Wes and how to reach him. Also, TR paper had an article about Andrew Azzam graduating from Tech...so ya...he's still alive too!

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Farewell dear Colorado....I will miss you....

To any who may have not heard yet that care. I will be flying out of Colorado next Thursday afternoon and moving to Florida. This may be a permanent thing and it may not....either way I wont be back for a very long time.

I'll miss all of you, you were all kick ass friends. I'll miss the parties and the good times I had with all of you.

If any of you don't have my number and wanna give me a call it's 1-386-747-0196
So give me a holla and say goodbye

So remember....

Rock it like you want it, or go the fuck home.

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Reply #93 - Jul 4^th, 2008 at 1:08am

I finished installing the new hardware in the server tonight. It is now sporting 2TB of dedicated FTP storage, in addition to the storage space for the forum, OS, and mail server!

I've still got a few things to move over, but I'll be ready to start working on the FTP server and related networking challenges sometime later this weekend!

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Reply #95 - Jul 21^st, 2008 at 10:19pm

Sorry about the downtime.

I replaced my older DVD writers in the Bobulator last week with some shiny new SATA LightScribe drives, and I took the server down tonight for a bit so I could move the old "hand-me-down" drives into the server. It had a crufty DVD-ROM drive and a completely b0rked CD writer, so this was a much-needed upgrade.

I promise, I'm done screwing with the server for a couple days. I've even put the case cover back on, so you know I mean business! Hopefully, I can start working on the FTP server later this week. I'll keep you guys posted!

I did find a fan that needed replacement, though, but I should be able to do that later this week without taking the server down.

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Reply #97 - Aug 12^th, 2008 at 9:19am

You guys may have noticed several spurts of downtime lately. I'd love to tell you what's going on, but I really haven't figured it out yet. A critical system process on the server (LSASS.exe, which handles logons) has been spiking to 100% for several minutes at a time, and I can't figure out what is causing it. Every time I think I've got it pinned down, the server starts acting up again.

I was hoping to put off rebuilding the server until early winter, but I might have to bump those plans up a bit. The plan is to go with an Intel dual-core 64-bit processor and run Server 2008 Standard 64-bit and Exchange 2007. I'll upgrade the forum software to the recently released v2.2 while I'm at it.

Once I save up some cash (which will be a bit tight during the job change), I guess I'll make it happen. A stable forum is a happy forum!

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Reply #100 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 3:13pm

The forum and mail servers will be going offline for a quick reboot in the next few minutes for an emergency security patch installation.

Just in case any of you guys are running any version of Windows Server at home, be sure you install all of the security patches and update your antivirus and firewall definitions. A nasty security vulnerability on the Windows Server platform is being heavily exploited, and a worm is already in the wild.

The patch was released early this AM, but Patch Tuesday was just three days ago, so a lot of systems won't be patched for a full month. This is definitely a "perfect storm" scenario.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #102 - Sep 29^th, 2009 at 6:41pm Sorry about the downtime. The craptastic Comcast router was locked up and needed a reboot. Hopefully this is just a fluke... -b0b (...really doesn't want to talk to Comcast.)
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Reply #104 - Mar 28^th, 2010 at 2:49pm

Done! I updated IOS and installed some cryptographic options that will allow IPSec encryption and high-security VPN access. I plan on replacing the router with something a little beefier next month.

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Cisco IOS Software, C1700 Software (C1700-ADVSECURITYK9-M), Version 12.4(25c), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Copyright (c) 1986-2010 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 11-Feb-10 22:20 by prod_rel_team

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(4r)XL, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

TWN-Router uptime is 0 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload
System image file is "flash:c1700-advsecurityk9-mz.124-25c.bin"

This product contains cryptographic features and is subject to United
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use. Delivery of Cisco cryptographic products does not imply
third-party authority to import, export, distribute or use encryption.
Importers, exporters, distributors and users are responsible for
compliance with U.S. and local country laws. By using this product you
agree to comply with applicable laws and regulations. If you are unable
to comply with U.S. and local laws, return this product immediately.

If you require further assistance please contact us by sending email to
export@cisco.com.

Cisco 1760 (MPC860P) processor (revision 0x500) with 53479K/12057K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID FOC064006W0 (3619802113), with hardware revision 0000
MPC860P processor: part number 5, mask 2
2 Ethernet interfaces
1 FastEthernet interface
32K bytes of NVRAM.
32768K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

Configuration register is 0x2112

Sadly, this killed off ~2 years of router uptime. Cry

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Reply #105 - Mar 29^th, 2010 at 9:57pm

Sorry about the downtime tonight. I did a quick port swap to provide a bit more upload bandwidth to the server.

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For some reason, the craptastic Comcast modem didn't want to properly negotiate full-duplex on an Ethernet port, so I moved it over to Fast Ethernet and swapped the core switch over to the Ethernet connection.

As I said earlier, I'm planning on replacing my edge router with something a little beefier. Probably this:

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Reply #106 - Apr 11^th, 2010 at 10:33pm

OMG FORUM DOWNTIME! I tried checking the forum Thursday from the hotel lobby in Chiba, Japan, to no avail! I couldn't connect remotely to either of my routers, either server, or my PC, so I knew it had to be a network issue. I figured out the problem as soon as I got home, but unfortunately it was entirely my fault!

When I was making the "work-around" fixes last week, I forgot to write the configuration changes permanently. There was a nasty storm sometime this week that wreaked a ton of havoc in the Schoolcraft/Vicksburg area, and apparently it caused a lengthy power outage here. My routers and switches are on a UPS array that provides ~2 hours of backup power, but the outage must have exceeded that.

Long story short, the core switch lost power and my temporary work-around configuration was lost. When the power came back on, the switch came back online with the old configuration. Suffice it to say that it didn't work.

The good news is that I had a chance to throw the memory in the router that arrived while I was gone. That should give it a bit more oomph! Also, I plan on buying the replacement router listed in the previous post sometime tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully it will arrive by the end of the week!

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Reply #109 - Apr 24^th, 2010 at 10:40pm

The forum will be down most of the day Monday while I do some massive overhauling of my network. I'm replacing my puny Cisco 1760 router with a massive 3745 router, and upgrading the 24-port Cisco 2924M switch to a 48-port 2950 switch.

I'm also implementing three VLANs (sub-networks) to separate my secure traffic, laboratory network traffic, and guest traffic. This will require every device to be migrated to a new IP which will take some time.

Things should be much smoother once I'm done. I'll put pics and details in the Networking Fun thread.

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Reply #115 - Sep 4^th, 2010 at 9:23am

Sorry about the downtime last night. I finally convinced Comcast to disable the routing functionality on the crappy SMC cable modem they gave me. Now, everything flows directly to my router from the Interwebs instead of being double-routed through the SMC and my router. Yay!

Although this won't really increase my outbound connection speed, it will drastically increase the number of connections I can support simultaneously (great for Torrents). It will also make it much simpler for me to add new services because I won't have to forward them through two routers anymore.

If you have any trouble getting to anything, let me know!

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Reply #116 - Sep 27^th, 2010 at 12:11pm

The forum will be going down for roughly one hour sometime this afternoon. I'm throwing a new battery expansion on the UPS to extend battery power from ~15 minutes to ~85 minutes. Just in time for winter!

I'm also throwing a network analysis module in the edge router so I can get a better idea of what's going on with my network traffic. Pics later!

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Reply #117 - Sep 27^th, 2010 at 2:15pm

Bob,

I know we don't say it enough...but thanks for all that you do for keeping this forum up and going. When I tell people who my friends are I can be one of a few people that say I'm still friends with the guys I knew in high school. This forum is a huge factor in that and that's what I tell people.

So, thanks again for all that you do!

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Reply #119 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 9:51am

The forum will be down most of the day Saturday for a complete network overhaul. All of the equipment I've been talking about in the Networking Fun! thread is finally going to be implemented. It'll offer a significant improvement in security and scalability over the existing configuration.

While I'm at it, I'm also going to revamp the battery configuration to use the new UPS I picked up a couple weeks back. Both servers and all of the "production" networking equipment will run off one large battery, as opposed to the two smaller batteries I'm currently using. This will allow me to control power to all of my hardware remotely using a single power distribution unit.

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Reply #121 - Nov 5^th, 2010 at 9:02pm

The forum will be down again intermittently tonight and throughout part of the day tomorrow as I continue to implement the firewall, VPN concentrator, and intrusion detection/prevention systems. Hopefully, I'll be able to wrap up most of the project by the end of the day tomorrow. In the meantime, here's an "in progress" picture of the overhauled rack after I got everything installed last week, but before I started running cables...

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Reply #123 - Feb 1^st, 2011 at 8:49pm

The ongoing snowpocalypse finally motivated me to develop a script for a "graceful" automated shutdown of the forum server and network hardware in the event of a power outage. I haven't actually had a chance to test it, but hey - what's the worst that could happen? Cool

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If the power goes out, we've got approximately 45 minutes of battery power for the production network hardware, forum server, and mail server. The mail server should now shutdown after 15 minutes of power loss, and the forum server will shut down after 30 minutes. The script will save the running configuration on the network hardware and shut it down at the 35 minute mark. The script is running on a laptop that has ~90 minutes of battery life after the UPS fails, and it will automatically turn everything back on if utility power is restored. If the power outage lasts longer than two hours and the laptop shuts down, everything will have to be turned on manually.

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Reply #125 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 1:06pm

I bought some hardware and finally got around to building my new VMware server out of the remnants of the Bobulator VII. I've got the VMware infrastructure completely built and I'm starting to assemble the new forum server.

The new forum server will run on Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7. This should provide improved security, but won't have a noticeable effect on the operation of the forum itself. Once I get everything transitioned over, I'll upgrade the forum to the latest version. We're about five versions out of date, mostly because I'm a slacker.

In short, expect a bit of downtime. Once I'm ready to do the transition, I'll throw the forum into maintenance mode for a couple of hours to ensure no posts get lost.

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Reply #126 - Apr 22^nd, 2011 at 11:32pm

The shipment from NewEgg arrived today. I've got two Intel Pro/1000 NICs installed along with 8GB of RAM (the maximum for this motherboard). With this installed, I can get to work on completing the VMware infrastructure. Hopefully, I'll be able to move the forum over sometime this weekend or early next week.

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Reply #127 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 12:52pm

I got the mail server migrated last night. Since I upgraded that server a few months back, I simply imported the system from the physical server directly into VMware.

The forum server will be a total rebuild from scratch. It's running Windows Server 2003 and I really need to upgrade the OS anyway, so it'll be in our best interests if I just build a brand new system on VMware and manually migrate everything over.

Once I get all the non-web stuff moved over (encryption/certificate services, Active Directory, etc), I'll move the forum over in one big chunk. After I make sure everything is running properly, I'll upgrade to the latest version of YaBB. I've got to work most of the day Saturday, but I might have a chance to do it Saturday evening or sometime Sunday. I'll let you guys know.

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Reply #128 - Jul 3^rd, 2011 at 3:52pm

Well, it only took me two and a half months to get around to it, but I finally migrated the forum to the new VMware server. As you can probably tell, the forum has also been upgraded to the latest version.

We were five versions out of date and I didn't feel like upgrading through each version, so I did a new install of v2.5 and migrated the old forum data into the new infrastructure. It took a couple tries, but everything seems to be working now. I locked down the forum application and files as tightly as I could on the back end, so if you encounter any problems, let me know.

To Do List

Fix "Advanced Settings" under Forum Administration
Create a new CSS for forum coloring (Might need Briney's artistic talents)
Upload all four million smilies we collected years ago...
Verify operation of the mail server.

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New and Enhanced Features (v2.2.1 through v2.5AE)
- Caps Lock detection
- Accessibility in Admin Center, Forum side
- Added "None Selected" Radio Button in Extended profiles
- UK Time Selection
- Context Help
- CSS Fader Text
- Add to YaBBC and ";don't parse"; checkbox
- [noparse] also for Smilies
- Number Format
- ";X Posts Before Signature";
- Gender selection on Register page, if admin enable it
- SyntaxHighlight implemented in Code Box
- Image List implemented (default, ordered and images)
- Username, Display Name and Email Check (Ajax) on Add Member (Admin Center) Register and Edit Profile Page
- Clipfish and Gametrailers Media support
- Admin: add IP to registration log
- Improved Search Engine bots list
- Added Search Engine bots auto-sort feature
- ALL CAPS Alert; Admin can select number of uppercase characters to cause alert
- Layout of Registration page improved
- Improved free disk/host space checking; added two methods: find, and quota
- HTML-label tags to support screen readers
- Random function to News Fader
- Facebook and MySpace options in contact information
- Register button in login section at bottom of Board Index
- Selectable static/dynamic clock at top forum bar
- Media support for .3gp, hulu, vimeo, thenutz.tv, and dailymotion formats
- Transliteration for non-latinic language characters in uploaded files
- Option to disable Smilies in the row below the Post window
- Ability to change existing User Displayed names to include capital letters without getting error
- Expand/collapse feature to seldom used input boxes under the Post window
- Ability to turn off recent posts by user or set a maximum number of returned posts by user
- Function to end Polls automatically
- Registration form validation via Javascript
- Server Environment Module Checker
- Media support for My Video, MySpace,
- Search within YaBBC tags option
- Net::SMTP::TLS mail option
- More accurate last online X days and XX:XX:XX hours ago
- Recovery feature added to Backup
- Ajax &; Javascript enabled for Favorites, Notification Clicks, Moderator/Member QuickSearch and Admin Delete
- Post sort arrows for Topic View in Boards
- Password Strength Meter
- Output Compression methods available on server determined and only shows appropriate options
- Enhanced move popup
- New sessionid after profile login
- Quick Reply Advanced Edition
- Reverse Post in Topic Advanced Edition
- YaBB Backup
- Top of Page Button
- Pie Charts for Polls
- Showcase Poll
- Preselected Smilies
- Category Pictures
- Image Resize
- Multi-Attachments
- Avatar Uploader
- Split/Splice Advanced
- Expand/Collapse Advanced
- New Members E-Mail Notification (to Admin)
- Extended Profiles
- Spell Checker
- Improved speed/performance in deleting Member Groups
- Speed/performance improvements to Rebuild and Recount maintenance functions
- Code improvements to allow single setting of max process time
- Color selection palette added to Forum News settings
- Ability to search by Email in Member list
- ";Go back to search"; link added on search results page
- Ability to search by user name in PMs
- Made PM text area resizeable consistent with Post text area
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- Revised Pop-Up PM/email notifications and added selection functions to Admin Center
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- Direct link to new PMs
- Improved PM listing background colors
- Selectable option for either pictures/picture links in quoted posts
- JavaScript-alert on multiple login clicks
- Default forum language selection at forum setup
- Support for 10 additional fonts in posts and PMs
- New icons (online, info, login)
- Reason tag for approved registration E-mails
- Carsten's Advanced Tabs Mod
- Post Reply Textarea resize
- Reorder Post independent Member Groups
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- Google Video (just copy the browser url to the Google Video in between the media tags)
- .flv files (just copy the url to the file in between the media tags)
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Reply #133 - Jul 6^th, 2011 at 8:17am

Awesome, only took three years to get there! For what it's worth, I could use more prayer in that same direction. Wink

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I changed the registration completion timer from 168 hours to 12 hours. We get a ton of spam registration attempts that never complete (~30 per day), and the new forum software blares the incomplete registrations across the top banner. Besides, I can't imagine why someone couldn't complete a registration in 12 hours.

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Reply #134 - Jul 11^th, 2011 at 9:52pm

The forum should now open immediately instead of opening an interstitial "Go to the site forum" page. This might require a browser refresh.

I'm still working on the CSS issue, but I've not had much time to dig into it. I got it a step further, so now you'll get a "Can't find default.css" page instead of a 404 error. Progress!

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Reply #137 - Jul 17^th, 2011 at 9:55pm

Following the judicious use of Process Monitor, I finally tracked down the offending Perl path that was killing the CSS template doohickey. We should now (finally!) be able to update the crappy color scheme.

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Edit: I put the old logo back. It'll do for now! Also, all of the style sheets from the old forum can be viewed here for reference. TheGeekCrew.css is the default sheet from the old forum.

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Reply #139 - Dec 14^th, 2011 at 6:55pm

Whoops, sorry about the downtime today. The web server automatically rebooted after some updates were applied earlier today (I need to reschedule that...) and IIS wouldn't process any anonymous logons because the DC certificate wasn't renewing properly. I was swamped at work so I didn't have a chance to troubleshoot it until this evening.

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Reply #140 - Jan 3^rd, 2012 at 2:32pm

After eight years of service, Comcast decided to start charging me for my commercial modem. I figured it was only fair to have them come out and replace the flaky model they gave me years ago with a DOCSIS 3.0-compliant model. Sadly, I forgot to update my NAT translation on the router, so all incoming traffic to the forum was getting blackholed.

Stewie was kind enough to alert me to the error this afternoon. Sorry about that, guys!

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Stick wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 2:51pm:

Check this out bob! Might be related.

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It is peripherally related. Comcast "announced" the new fee in the November bill, effective the following month. My bill is automatically debited so I don't even see a paper copy anymore.

Meh, I'll just pick up a Motorola SB6121 in a couple weeks and Comcast can take their crappy modem.

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Reply #143 - Jan 29^th, 2012 at 10:08am

Sorry about any forum sluggishness/downtime lately. My ISP has been screwing the pooch the last few weeks with ridiculously high packet loss and latency. After calling them five different times, they finally found and corrected the problem. Some junction box in the neighborhood was apparently a bit jacked up, and thus causing signal degradation during high winds and other crappy weather (namely, winter in Michigan).

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Reply #144 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 1:18am

The forum will be down for several hours at some point in the next couple days. My office has been hitting 85 degrees this week with the air conditioner going full tilt, and it's only been around 75 degrees outside. I really don't want my office to burst into flames this summer, so I've decided to stop being lazy and move my network equipment and servers into the basement.

We've finally started painting our Pepto Bismol-pink basement in preparation, and should be done with the majority of it by tomorrow evening. Moving the network racks, servers, and other stuff is a bit of a monumental undertaking, so it will take several hours to relocate everything and run new cabling.

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Reply #146 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 9:13pm

If you can see this, it works! What a huge, huge project. I forgot how much all that crap weighed!

Special thanks to my lovely Mere who toiled with me for many hours over the past week painting and doing prep work. She even helped me carry the endless piles of equipment down to the basement!

There will be intermittent downtime tomorrow (today?) as I run some new cabling. I need to get to bed, so some of the Cat5 runs are temporary.

Thanks guys!

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #148 - Mar 20^th, 2012 at 12:44pm Whoops, somehow managed to get the time service (NTP) screwed up on the web server, hence the previous posts occurring two days ago despite actually being posted today. -b0b (...fixed!)
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Reply #149 - Mar 26^th, 2012 at 11:32am

I finished up the last of the wiring this morning, and everything seems to be humming along just fine.

The difference in temperature and noise in my office is astounding. The hard drives on the server were reaching temperatures of 108 degrees Fahrenheit in the office with the AC cranked with an outside temperature of 80 degrees. Now that I've moved the servers and network equipment into the basement, the hard drive temperature is now holding steady at 79 degrees Fahrenheit with no AC with an outside temperature of 80 degrees! That's a 30 degree drop in internal temperatures even with the loss of AC!

The difference in noise in my office is also quite astonishing, and it's honestly a bit difficult to get used to. I haven't had a quiet office in years! I still have the faint whir of the Bobulator (so much quieter than its predecessor!) and a single Cisco 2950 switch, but it is eerily quiet in here by comparison. It's really a bit disquieting after so many years of white noise.

Other upgrades:

Installed a newer video card in the file server.
Installed a newish KVM switch that offers bare-metal access over IP, so I can fix broken servers remotely.
Installed an Ethernet surge protector between the cable gateway and the router to protect against lightning strikes.
Installed surge-protecting receptacles to replace standard power receptacles. This should prevent lightning surges from even reaching the UPS.

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Reply #151 - Aug 8^th, 2012 at 8:50am

Apologies for the downtime, guys. The UPS that runs the server and network equipment has died a noble death. When the power flickers, the UPS switches to battery temporarily, but it has been failing to switch back over. Eventually, the battery dies and takes everything down with it. It's effectively doing the exact opposite of what it's built for.

This morning, it finally failed to wake up at all following a complete power down. I jumped on eBay and bought a used replacement that will still work with the external battery pack. In the meantime, I have everything running on a much smaller UPS, so hopefully we don't get any extended downtime in the next 5-7 days.

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Reply #152 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 2:13pm

As you might have noticed, I've upgraded the forum. It was a couple of minor revisions (2.5 > 2.5.1 > 2.5.2), so don't expect anything too spectacular.

I've also made a couple changes to forum settings:

Fixed e-mail services! This has apparently been broken since November 22nd, 2007, which just goes to show that I procrastinate almost as much as Briney.
I've increased the maximum number of attachments per post from 1 to 5.
I've added the new Office file formats of .docx and .xlsx to the list of allowed extensions. Let me know if I missed any: jpg jpeg gif png sf zip txt bmp mp3 mpg doc xls ppt ico avi pdf docx xlsx
I've increased the file attachment limit from 10MB to 100MB.
File attachments with the same name as an existing attachment will automatically be renamed upon upload instead of overwriting the original file.
The maximum avatar size has been increased from 65x65 to 125x125. We may need to go derper larger.
The maximum size of an avatar file was increased from 1MB to 10MB. That should be enough even for Briney.
Increased search results from 100 to 250.
The registration timeout (to receive an e-mail and click on the registration link) was reduced from 168 hours to 72 hours to cut down on the ridiculous number of active registrations from spammers.
Add god, love, sex, and secret to the list of banned passwords.
Increased personal message limits to absurd numbers (10,000+).

I also updated some registration settings that are apparently bugged. I was sending an e-mail to new users (all 0 of them) with an automatically generated password, but the password contained special characters that are blocked by IIS. This effectively prevented them from ever logging in. I eliminated the automatically generated password so new users can specify their own passwords upon registration.

Here is the complete list of changes from the YaBB update:

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New and Enhanced Features:
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- "X Posts Before Web Links"
- YouTube media support
- Admin: added 'Required on Registration' Extended Profile entries to registration log
- Admin: added choice to allow users to delete their own accounts.
- Admin: added choice to send 'registration denied' emails when no reason is given for rejection.
- Anti-spam modules: SpamFruits, HoneyPot and Anti-Spam Question with admin choice to activate
- Censor checks on PM and attachment names
- URL Encoding (Ban Email and Attachments)

Bug Fixes:
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- Display names in UTF-8 character fixed
- Fixed deprecated code in Admin/Backup.pl, Admin/ModuleChecker.pl, Sources/Subs.pl
- Hide Login, Register, Reset Password in Maintenance Mode
- Incomplete date in Last Zip backup
- Language Dropdown Menus fixed
- Mail to Groups fixed
- Rebuild Membership bug fixed
- Missing YaBB tags in ManageTemplates.pl
- Optional Gender on Registration
- Javascript error in BoardIndex.pl
- '+' in email and file attachment names
- Ex-Member stops ability to modify other posts
- Date bug in Extended Profiles
- Extended Profiles: Required on Registration with Admin Edit Only blocking User Profile editing
- Security/IP blocking issue with downloads with bad names
- List images in Personal Messages
- Erroneous contexthelp messages on Smilies in Personal Messages posting screen
- Redirect problem in Login screen
- N/A after post delete
- Incorrect error text in UserCP
- Negative number of PMs
- Images in quotes
- Changing case in Display Name triggers Duplicate warning
- Send Topic can be accessed when disabled
- noparse disables Newsfader
- Extra Javascript line in Subs.pl
- Forum Jump not disabled in Maintenance mode
- Greybox images fixed
- Space in Displayname bug with Password reminder/reset
- Issues with all-number user names and Admin Approval of Registrations mode
- /me code reformatted

Documentation Fixes:
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- Updated Quick Guide
- Graphics Changes/Cleanup
- Language fixes/improvement

Edit: I restored the silver default.css we came up with the for the last upgrade to replace that awful blue theme.

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #154 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 4:33pm The theme is called Dark Shadows, made by a "Derek Barnstorm" I will change some of the images/font colors soon, and I can't say that I like the "new posts" flashing gif on the main page. But I'm glad we are back to a dark theme!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #155 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 4:52pm MediaMaster wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 4:33pm: I can't say that I like the "new posts" flashing gif on the main page. I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that. I thought I was being a bit persnickety. ;p -b0b (...maybe just a little bit persnickety.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #156 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 5:40pm Fun fact: We've had 89,825 user registration attempts by spammers.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #157 - Jan 2^nd, 2013 at 11:49am I'm updating a bunch of Perl modules that underpin the forum, so there might be a bit of wonkiness for the next hour or so. -b0b (...yay for updates!)
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Reply #158 - Feb 8^th, 2013 at 7:42pm

I got a promotion, so I'm celebrating with more Internets. Hopefully, the forum will be a bit snappier. I upgraded from 12Mb down/2Mb up to 27Mb down/7Mb up.

With the 2mb upload, it was going to take me nearly two years to complete the initial backup of my file server to the cloud. Hopefully I can cut it down to 4 months or so now!

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #160 - Mar 13^th, 2013 at 10:22am Whoops, forum was down for a couple hours because I'm retarded. I've been implementing stronger, unique passwords for everything and forgot to update the password used for the Forum service account. -b0b (...sorry!)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #161 - Mar 13^th, 2013 at 2:44pm One more screw up and we are replacing you with a robot sir.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #162 - Mar 13^th, 2013 at 5:44pm The_Fat_Man wrote on Mar 13^th, 2013 at 2:44pm: One more screw up and we are replacing you with a robot sir. Plot twist: I am a robot.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #164 - Apr 11^th, 2013 at 1:15pm My Internet connection was mostly borked this morning. Called Comcast and found out the whole neighborhood was down. Apparently, squirrels chewed through a distribution cable, exposing the copper core, which then kept shorting out from the rain. -b0b (...now hates squirrels.)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #165 - Apr 11^th, 2013 at 3:40pm Is this why I couldn't post an awesome news article this morning?
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #166 - Apr 11^th, 2013 at 3:51pm Yup, but don't worry, I've got Top Men™ on the job. -b0b (...Top. Men.)
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Reply #167 - Jun 13^th, 2014 at 1:32pm

Not that I'm complaining, Bob - it may be just me - I have been having trouble in the past month being able to load the forum. Not sure if you're working on it or whatnot, but just wanted to let you know in case you needed to.

Thanks again for keeping this up and running - I think we can thank this and the past forums that allows us to keep in contact and remain friends after all these years.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #168 - Jun 13^th, 2014 at 2:22pm I haven't had any issues over here, but I access the forum locally 99% of the time. I also pulled it up just now using a cellular modem with a VPN and it came right up. When you have a problem with the forum does it just load slowly, load partially, or not load at all? -b0b (...will dig around.)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #170 - Jun 15^th, 2014 at 6:08am You know I had the same problem the other day, but when I tried again a few hours later it was fine so I just chalked it up to a bad connection or internetz woes.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #171 - Jun 16^th, 2014 at 10:54am On a hunch, I went full-bore with some anime torrents and maxed out my VPN connection, just to see if that would impact external access to the forum. At ~25Mbps download, my upload rate is still good and I can get to the forum instantly from a cellular connection. I'll keep digging, thanks guys! -b0b (...boggles.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #172 - Nov 24^th, 2014 at 5:33pm The forum will be going down repeatedly tonight while I complete upgrade VMware on the box running the web server. Sorry for the short notice!
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Reply #173 - Nov 26^th, 2014 at 12:59pm

I'm doing some hardware upgrades this week on the VMware server that runs the web forum, so there will be some limited downtime today and Friday/Saturday. Here are the highlights:

Installing additional RAM, bringing the server from 96GB to 138GB.
Installing a new Adaptec 71605Q RAID adapter, five more hard drives, and (temporarily) a 128GB SSD for flash acceleration. My goal is to use three 512GB or 1TB SSDs for flash acceleration down the road, but I've got the 128GB drive laying around and may as well put it to use now! The new adapter also has twice the cache (1GB instead of 512MB) compared to the existing adapter.
Installing a dual-port 10Gb fiber network card to replace the existing 4-port 1Gb network card. Only one of the two 10Gb ports will be connected right off the bat until I can afford to buy another Cisco switch with more 10Gb ports. They are still incredibly expensive on eBay.

I'm also hoping to upgrade the CPUs in the server in February/March. The server is currently running two Xeon X5620s with four 2.4GHz cores. I'd like to swap them out for two Xeon X5690s with six 3.46GHz cores, bumping overall CPU power from 19.2GHz to 41.04GHz. That should help this beast last a few more years.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #174 - Dec 2^nd, 2014 at 9:56am The forum will be going down for a few hours today (assuming my SAS cables arrive) so I can install the new RAID adapter and reinstall the VMware OS. -b0b (...yay for flash acceleration!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #175 - Dec 3^rd, 2014 at 6:10pm The forum is back up for now. The 10Gb network cards will be here Thursday or Friday, so there will be another 30-60 minutes of downtime while I get that configured. -b0b (...weee!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #177 - Jul 14^th, 2015 at 8:54am Something caused the forum index to blow up, so the index wasn't showing any posts. I blew away the index and rebuilt it. Let me know if anything looks shady. -b0b (...fun!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #178 - Nov 4^th, 2015 at 3:06pm I've been implementing some stronger crypto on the network, so apologies for any interruptions to the website or FTP. I'm done, so I don't expect any further interruptions. Also, I upgraded my Internet connection from 27x7Mbps to 75x15Mbps. Hopefully that will help with some of the outbound bandwidth issues. -b0b (...AES baybee!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #180 - Jan 21^st, 2016 at 2:49pm I upgraded my mail server last month and forgot to update the server name in the forum configuration. Let me know if you guys see any e-mail related weirdness. -b0b (...thanks for letting me know Stewie!)
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Reply #181 - Mar 30^th, 2016 at 10:11pm

As a heads up, the web server VM that runs the forum and the FTP is getting really flaky. It's about time to rebuild anyway on a more recent server OS anyway. I've started building the new VM and I'll take the forum down for a few hours later this week (maybe tomorrow?) to migrate everything. The FTP will also be down during this window.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #183 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 4:08pm The web forum is back online, now running on a shiny new VM. I think I've got all the kinks worked out, but please let me know if you run into any trouble. -b0b (...so fast!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #184 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 5:12pm The web forum is back online, now running on a shiny new VM. I think I've got all the kinks worked out, but please let me know if you run into any trouble. -b0b (...so fast!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #185 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 5:27pm The web forum is back online, now running on a shiny new VM. I think I've got all the kinks worked out, but please let me know if you run into any trouble. -b0b (...so fast!)
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Reply #186 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 5:32pm

Had to fix a PERL issue.

I couldn't find the solution anywhere else on the Internet. Just in case some other poor bastard is googling this, YaBB kept generating a 502.2 error when attempting to post a message. Newer versions of ActiveState PERL x64 generate an error message when calling a particular single name parameter. I edited out lines 399-407 in CGI.pm (by default, located in C:\Perl64\lib\CGI.pm) to prevent the warning message (and with it, the IIS 502.2 Bad Gateway warning) and get it working again.

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Reply #189 - Apr 2^nd, 2016 at 2:47pm

Here's another PERL issue I found with YaBB 2.6.1 running on ActiveState Perl 5.22.1 with Server 2012 R2 and IIS. Posting it here in case some other poor bastard runs into the same problem, since I couldn't find the issue on Google. When running Setup.pl on the new version of YaBB, I got another lovely 502.2 Bad Gateway message...

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HTTP Error 502.2 - Bad Gateway

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are "[Sat Apr 2 13:09:56 2016] Setup.pl: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/ { <-- HERE yabbbr} / at Sources/Subs.pm line 1861. HTTP/1.0 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang='en-US'> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>YaBB 2.6.12 Setup</title> <style type="text/css"> html, body {color:#000; font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size:13px; background-c...

The error message was incredibly long and was obviously mostly HTML bullshit. I fixed this by breaking out the left brace in line 1861 of Sources\Subs.pm. It originally looked like this:

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$message =~ s/ {yabbbr} /\n/gsm;

I put in a leading backslash before the left brace, to make it look like this:

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$message =~ s/ \{yabbbr} /\n/gsm;

All fixed.

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