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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: RevDisk on November 03, 2016, 09:06:52 AM
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If things get weird, have patience.
Post on FB APS group if you can't reach the server.
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That's terrific -- if you have Facebook ...
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When haven't things been weird here?
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Post preview will be funky until I get the next patch corrected.
All is going well. Proof is a photo of me working on APS server, showing the smooth upgrade process:
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Excellent. Thanks for the progress update.
"Kill it with fire" is generally a recognized tactic, suitable for most occasions.
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There are very few problems in this world that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.
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There are very few problems in this world that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.
Prostate surgery?
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Prostate surgery?
He is very broadly defining "suitable application". =).
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Prostate surgery?
Depends on who the patient is.
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Prostate surgery?
Well, it would definitely get rid of the prostrate...
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Good news: Wasn't my fault. =D
Bad news: A Wordpress instance on same server was compromised. Which is common, every linux hack I've seen in the last year had been a WordPress compromise. Usually crap plugins, which is most of them. Once the guy got in, he seeded html injection mines everywhere.
The Ugly: I half cleaned APS, but I never trust 'cleaning'. Gonna nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure. The DB does look fine, though I'll be forcing a password change because again, overkill is kinda my thing. Plus we haven't done it to date, so folks might be using passwords compromised by any of the megacorp compromises of the last few years.
While we're at it, might be time to jump to SMF 2.x. 1.1.x is still maintained and looks like it will be for a while.
On the plus side, we're up to the latest version of 1.1.21. =D
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I'll let folks know when I'll be taking down APS for the reinstall. Probably sometime this weekend. Scheduling will be strictly controlled by multiple factors. Such as strategic Yuengling reserve stock levels or whatnot.
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So, it was Fistful's fault?
I KNEW it!
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Thanks Rev!
I completely agree with your nuke strategy.
One thing on the password changes. This may have been fixed with the current upgrades, or will be fixed after the nuke, but for quite a while I was getting PMs from people who had tried to change their passwords and ended up getting locked out. They were only able to contact me from devices like their phones where they were still logged in.
The only fix I had was to reset the password myself with a temp, email that to them, then they would log in with that and would then be able to change their password with no problem. I think all these instances occurred with users who signed on back before we had the minimum password security thing and they were attempting to upgrade their passwords (e.g., old password was "aps" and they were changing it to A$^iP17S).
Anyway, don't wanna cause a headache for you and Nick, but I wanted to give you a heads up that there has/had been a password reset problem. Like I said it may have been fixed with upgrades as it has been months since I got a password problem PM.
If there's a particular procedure you want people to use for the password change, you might want to outline it in this thread.
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I'll let folks know when I'll be taking down APS for the reinstall. Probably sometime this weekend. Scheduling will be strictly controlled by multiple factors. Such as strategic Yuengling reserve stock levels or whatnot.
I vote Nov 9th
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I vote Nov 9th
Now that's just mean. :lol:
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Here's something odd...
I just got a private message from Jamis, and I clicked quote, and it brought the text of his message to me into my response just fine.
No hesitation at all.
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I'll let folks know when I'll be taking down APS for the reinstall. Probably sometime this weekend. Scheduling will be strictly controlled by multiple factors. Such as strategic Yuengling reserve stock levels or whatnot.
I assume you have too much, so I can PM you an address you can ship to and I'll help draw down the surplus.
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Now that's just mean. :lol:
Na, maybe spend that day away from the Internet.
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Here's something odd...
I just got a private message from Jamis, and I clicked quote, and it brought the text of his message to me into my response just fine.
No hesitation at all.
Yeah, I sorted out more of the bad code. I was intending on just letting it go until the blow out of all existing code, but yanno. Geeks gotta geek.
I assume you have too much, so I can PM you an address you can ship to and I'll help draw down the surplus.
I do happen to know the location of the Yuengling beer caves, been there many times. The continuous source of all strategic Yuengling reserves since 1829. Virtually unlimited source of good but still economic beer in a diverse set of flavors. Including their limited seasonal releases. It's quite nice, actually. Especially to be able to drive straight to the factory to buy some cases.
=D
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Especially to be able to drive straight to the factory to buy some cases.
But not "straight" back home, eh? Heh-heh.
Quote button still not working for me 9:40 PM MDT 4 Nov.
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If things get weird, it's the Hillary Russians
(sorry fistful)
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Lot of forums have been switching to Xenforo lately. Not sure why that is, but it seems to be a thing.
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I vote Nov 9th
The gnashing of teeth and rendering of garments would be epic....
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I think you mean "rending," rather than "rendering."
Common mistake.
rendered, rendering
a : to melt down <render suet>; also : to extract by melting <render lard>
b : to treat so as to convert into industrial fats and oils or fertilizer
rend
1 : to tear (something) into pieces with force or violence
(Usually in anger or maybe frustration, as in "rend one's garments and gnash one's teeth." )
Just feeling pissanty tonight because I've got to change all those clocks. Normally I don't correct others unless I'm asked.
Personally, I'm going the sackcloth and ashes route.
Terry
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...to treat so as to convert into industrial
fats farts and oils or fertilizer...
Fixed it for you. :old:
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Normally I don't correct others unless asked to.
I had a wife once who used to ask me to correct her.
Then she'd blow her top when I corrected her.
Wife.3 was a serious upgrade from Wife.1 and Wife.2
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I think you mean "rending," rather than "rendering."
Common mistake.
rendered, rendering
a : to melt down <render suet>; also : to extract by melting <render lard>
b : to treat so as to convert into industrial fats and oils or fertilizer
rend
1 : to tear (something) into pieces with force or violence
(Usually in anger or maybe frustration, as in "rend one's garments and gnash one's teeth." )
Just feeling pissanty tonight because I've got to change all those clocks. Normally I don't correct others unless I'm asked.
Personally, I'm going the sackcloth and ashes route.
Terry
Some of the liberal icons such as Rosie Odonnel and trigglypuff and such rendering is perfectly accurate.
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Wife.3 was a serious upgrade from Wife.1 and Wife.2
I know, I know. You had to add that, didn't you?
"Prostrate." Hm. Not sure if you're joking or not.
Prostate ≠ prostrate.
ETA: Had to look up Trigglypuff:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trigglypuff
I see what you mean, and you're right on both counts.
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Quote still broken?
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Quote still broken?
Working fine for me. :P
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The gnashing of teeth and rendering of garments would be epic....
Might be a thing of beauty, like a Ford Edsel.
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No worke for me on Chrome on Win 10
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Quote and edit both come back with a "Loading" bar, then nothing. Chrome and IE. Win 7 Pro.
Brad
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Quote no workie on IE 11 and Edge on Win 10
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quotie quote be brokie broke.
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Quote no workie on IE 11 and Edge on Win 10
Works fine on Brave 0.11.0 on Win 10
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NG Monday 11 AM MST Win 7 IE.
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Considering I didn't make system changes yet...
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May I assume you took the suggestion to wait until after the election to make the changes?
I, among others, I am sure, use the site a lot as a "news tickler" about subjects and then go to the citations to check them out. Would miss that if the site went down before or during the election... which might actually last until December.
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Be an awful shame if the forum went down for maintenance on election day.
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Actually, yes, waiting until after the election.
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Be an awful shame if the forum went down for maintenance on election day.
:rofl:
I think it might be better for our sanity if it goes down the day AFTER election day.
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Be an awful shame if the forum went down for maintenance on election day.
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Actually, yes, waiting until after the election.
Why am I reminded of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC20Ej6E99A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC20Ej6E99A)?
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:old:
quotie quote be brokie broke.
Works for me.
But I do have an issue anytime I want to use one of the emoticons or one of the function buttons.
Doesn't matter where I'm at on the page it adds it to the top left of the typing window -
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Be an awful shame if the forum went down for maintenance on election day.
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Actually, yes, waiting until after the election.
And we closed PolyTicks until after the new year....
>:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D
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And we closed PolyTicks until after the new year....
>:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D
And if you bring up anything slightly resembling poly ticks, banned forever!
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And if you bring up anything slightly resembling poly ticks, banned forever!
mah first amendent!!
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mah first amendent!!
Not here bucky...
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You can't ban me! Sovereign citizen!!
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You can't ban me! Sovereign citizen!!
Even not being one who usually bans people, I really want to ban you just for that. >:D
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Even not being one who usually bans people, I really want to ban you just for that. >:D
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You can't ban me! Sovereign citizen!!
I'm Negan.
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GOLD FRINGE!!!!
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Oh and just for the record
Quotey still brokey, it no worky.
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Fix the site, Rev! Make APS great again!
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Fix the site, Rev! Make APS great again!
THREAD WINNAH!
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Fix the site, Rev! Make APS great again!
Aye, aye. Time to burn it all down!
Na. Plan is this weekend due to the election.
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So... that was fun.
Round 1:
Attempted to upgrade to SMF 2.x. It didn't go well.
Internet at home started cutting out and then died. Which has never happened previously except for severe storms.
Went into work.
Undid the SMF 2.x install, reinstalled 1.1.21. Re-enabled certain add-on packages (anti-spam).
Round 2:
Icons fixed.
Didn't remember the exact order of the boards. So... I just put the boards in an order that kinda sorta made sense, kinda sorta random. Good enough for government work.
Set file permissions to more secure settings. Previously some were 777, which was very bad.
Think that's everything. Going home, today sucked.
Lemme know if anything else is hinky.
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Thanks so much Rev. That did not sound like fun. Go have a beer, or perhaps a bottle of whiskey. :)
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Thanks so much Rev. That did not sound like fun. Go have a beer, or perhaps a bottle of whiskey. :)
Now that testing is complete. Ayep. Giving up on today. It sucked.
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The fonts and colors and, basically, everything about the index pages look very different. (Firefox 45.4.0 running under Windows XP). Looks more normal once I get into a thread, but the menus and everything outside of the actual discussion posts look a bit strange.
No functional problems yet, though. Thanks for all the hard work.
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The fonts and colors and, basically, everything about the index pages look very different. (Firefox 45.4.0 running under Windows XP). Looks more normal once I get into a thread, but the menus and everything outside of the actual discussion posts look a bit strange.
No functional problems yet, though. Thanks for all the hard work.
Interesting. Everything looks exactly the same to me.
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What Hawkmoon said.
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The fonts and colors and, basically, everything about the index pages look very different. (Firefox 45.4.0 running under Windows XP). Looks more normal once I get into a thread, but the menus and everything outside of the actual discussion posts look a bit strange.
No functional problems yet, though. Thanks for all the hard work.
Everything looks now like only the preparedness subforum used to look.
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Muchas Danke !
Bless you and all your issue unto the fifth generation.
Background oolors weird though as mentioned above 2X. Livable with. Settings on my own machine?
Win 7, IE.
Sehr gracias !
Terry
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For those with funny stuff, maybe try clearing your caches. Otherwise if you customized your browsers, that might be part of it as well.
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For those with funny stuff, maybe try clearing your caches. Otherwise if you customized your browsers, that might be part of it as well.
done. still looks funky. downloading chromium to try that.
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done. still looks funky. downloading chromium to try that.
Font's and colors new on Chrome with flushed cache but it doesn't bug me AND QUOTE WORKS!
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The "Reply with quote" and "Modify message" icons are missing and I'm getting the Alt text BTW.
Thanks for all the effort! I well know what a PITA this can be! Believe me, I'm not complaining, just trying to help by letting ya know the little things that I see that may be issues.
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Chromium (linux), still looks funky. It works, but doesn't look the same.
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Change your theme to default/core, it's in your individual profile settings. Under Look and Layout Preferences.
Babylon is outdated, from when forum was first installed. I'm debating whether to fix the theme or mass migrate everyone.
Instead, working. Literally got home when my cell went off. Been a rough day and not improving
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Change your theme to default/core, it's in your individual profile settings. Under Look and Layout Preferences.
That might be the ticket. I've always run on the default theme and as I mentioned, everything works / looks as normal.
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Changed from Babylon theme to Default. All is good.
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Change your theme to default/core, it's in your individual profile settings. Under Look and Layout Preferences.
Babylon is outdated, from when forum was first installed. I'm debating whether to fix the theme or mass migrate everyone.
Instead, working. Literally got home when my cell went off. Been a rough day and not improving
I'll give it a try.
Don't sweat it. I can be patient on a fix, if a theme change doesn't do it.
BTW, the look and layout page says 3000+ people are using Babylon, 300 some odd are using "Forum or Board Default" (which actually looks OK), and no one is using Manas or whatever the other one is.
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I'll give it a try.
Don't sweat it. I can be patient on a fix, if a theme change doesn't do it.
BTW, the look and layout page says 3000+ people are using Babylon, 300 some odd are using "Forum or Board Default" (which actually looks OK), and no one is using Manas or whatever the other one is.
I reset everyone to default.
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Which theme blocks out posts from those deplorable Trump voters?
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Huh. I had thought I was on default, but turns out I was on Babylon. When Rev changed everyone to default, my layout changed. I just changed back to Babylon and that still works fine. Anyway, first world forum problems. :laugh:
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Lookin' good!
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Looks normal now. Miles de gracias.
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I'm really terrible at this "screw it, being lazy for the rest of the day" thing. Ah well, at least everything is working
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So... that was fun.
Round 1:
Attempted to upgrade to SMF 2.x. It didn't go well.
Internet at home started cutting out and then died. Which has never happened previously except for severe storms.
Went into work.
Undid the SMF 2.x install, reinstalled 1.1.21. Re-enabled certain add-on packages (anti-spam).
Round 2:
Icons fixed.
Didn't remember the exact order of the boards. So... I just put the boards in an order that kinda sorta made sense, kinda sorta random. Good enough for government work.
Set file permissions to more secure settings. Previously some were 777, which was very bad.
Think that's everything. Going home, today sucked.
Lemme know if anything else is hinky.
Thanks, Rev.
I had at one point mirrored the software on a VM, and had all kinds of difficulty getting it to upgrade.
I probably could have sorted it, but it would have taken a lot of time, which I didn't ever seem to have. I appreciate you dealing with this.
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Thanks, Rev.
I had at one point mirrored the software on a VM, and had all kinds of difficulty getting it to upgrade.
I probably could have sorted it, but it would have taken a lot of time, which I didn't ever seem to have. I appreciate you dealing with this.
I did the same thing. Problem is, neither of our VMs acts like the current hosting provider. With only FTP access and indirect SQL access, it's significantly harder. The patches went fine, but the upgrade to SMF 2.x would not work. Whenever we want to go down that path, we're going to have to kick the ball to the hosting people.