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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby VelvetElvis » Fri Sep 30, 2011 3:11 pm

Oh, Chris, you slacker.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby thoughtreader » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:08 pm

:faceplant: and many other have returned

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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Noodle » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:08 pm

A Whole bunch of new smilies to choose from: :chicken: :angel: :bow: :pirate: :shrug: :jedi: :grumble: :lecture: :kisses: :argue: :faceplant: :deadhorse: :dance: :yippee: :gasp: :hatsoff:
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Postby starlooker » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:11 pm

:yippee: :hatsoff: :kisses: :bow:

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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Noodle » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:23 pm

For those of us in the race, we might soon win the right to wear one of these: :modhat:

after all that work, I'm going to have myself a Limeaid :limeaid:
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:38 pm

My hat's off to you, sir. :hatsoff:

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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Satya » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:45 pm

Thanks to whoever made it so the bots don't show up on the registered users (online) list on the index. :) That was driving me nuts.

And did Satya's title change today or did I miss that before? Hopefully that's okay for him while he thinks of one he wants but in the meantime, *whispers* yay.

It's perfectly suitable. I haven't really thought of anything else.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Noodle » Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:02 pm

I think :lecture: might be my favorite smiley ever. Just watch the guy. He goes on for a full 10 seconds.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby zeroguy » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:01 am

Hmm, so, I've seen my name in the "techie" section in several posts now... I suppose it's not too presumptuous if I created a Tech account, correct?

Does it have to be TechZeroguy or whatever, though? That capital Z is just... so unrainbow not me.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:36 am

:pirate:
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Luet » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:26 am

:faceplant:
Can someone explain what is what in this image? I think we've been through this before but I can't remember. I can't quite see the faceplant in it.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby starlooker » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:33 am

It took me forever to see it. John finally explained it to me so I got it.

Okay, starting from the left. The roundish part is the head (side view of a head that is faceplanted). The white and red stripey things are the arms and hands. Moving over to the top right is the shoe, with a little white stripe separating the shoe and the pants. (The red under the shoe would be the legs.)

Hope this helps. I couldn't see it forever, but once I saw it, I couldn't un-see it.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Luet » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:12 pm

Thank you! I think it would be better with multiple colors...or something.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby VelvetElvis » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:13 pm

What evs. It's a fox. :faceplant: And it's after this chicken. :chicken:
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:14 pm

I think it would be better with multiple colors...or something.

But he really is mostly red (bottom right corner):

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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Luet » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:13 pm

Sorry, Helen, I can't see it as a fox either.

And, Alea, I don't know who that is either. Some video game character, I assume? Was this part of the ten year Pweb challenge? I feel like it was.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:19 pm

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is :faceplant: , just standing up. They're the same Final Fantasy fighter; I was showing you that to say he can't really be multi-colored given his character is all red, white, and flesh-toned.

But yes, I asked about him for the ten year Pweb challenge, precisely because people had a hard time figuring out who he was/what he was from on 2.0.
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Postby Luet » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:59 pm

Well, I can understand that NOW. But seeing as I couldn't even see how he was a faceplant, let alone a specific character...yeah. I had no way of knowing what specific character he was. Although, even seeing him as a standing up character didn't help me to know which character he was. My brothers would have known, though they are more Chrono fans than FF.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:14 pm

Sorry, I misinterpreted your post. For what it's worth, I only know who it is because of Pweb, not because I know anything about any video games. I found the conversation from 2.0 in Wayback a few years ago. :)
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby VelvetElvis » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:32 pm

:dance: I think we're not paying enough attention to this smilie.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Noodle » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:39 pm

I did some cleanup of the smilies, so all the smilies are still available, but for some of the bigger ones you'll have to click on the "view more smilies" button.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Wind Swept » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:23 pm

I did some cleanup of the smilies, so all the smilies are still available, but for some of the bigger ones you'll have to click on the "view more smilies" button.
Hooray! It was really quite distracting with all those animations going on whilst post writing.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:27 pm

I'll just leave this here:
Now may be a good time to ask; are we running backups somehow?

This is rather important, I think. And by running, I might mean "saving" but I don't know.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Noodle » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:33 pm

I'm not trying to ignore the question. It's really a good one. I've tried several backups from within the PHPBB software and they all fail, probably because the database is too large or something.

I've been making backups of the files that will be changed when I install a new Mod, so I can roll back the changes if something goes horribly wrong: see earlier today when I tried installing a spam filtering mod and it borked the board. I was able to upload my backed up files and fix the problem relatively quickly. I'm not sure if others are being as careful about it when they are making their changes.

I'd like to see some sort of automated backup process and an off site backup stored somewhere. I'd be willing to create a dropbox account and grant others access to that account as a place to store a backup of all the site files and database on a different server from the one it's hosted on, but since I can't run backups without installing phpmyadmin or something like that, I'd like to work with one of the other techs to get this set up.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:41 pm

I like to think that we're too awesome for current software.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:48 pm

I'd like to see some sort of automated backup process and an off site backup stored somewhere. I'd be willing to create a dropbox account and grant others access to that account as a place to store a backup of all the site files and database on a different server from the one it's hosted on, but since I can't run backups without installing phpmyadmin or something like that, I'd like to work with one of the other techs to get this set up.
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I moved the question here so you would hopefully know it's directed at more than just you. I'd hate to let that detail fall by the wayside and have it bite us in the butt later, and I think we're all responsible for making sure that gets taken care of.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby zeroguy » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:18 pm

but since I can't run backups without installing phpmyadmin or something like that, I'd like to work with one of the other techs to get this set up.
The initial database extraction I did just ran mysqldump from php, which seems to work fine (it's in /zeroguy/ somewhere still, I assume; I don't have time to look at it now). So, have one page, call it /backup/extract.php, which runs mysqldump to a file, call it /backup/dump.sql.gz. Then just have a cron job run somewhere offsite that loads /backup/extract.php, and 10 minutes later downloads /backup/dump.sql.gz. Protect /backup/ with simple http authentication like I had done in /zeroguy/. "Somewhere offsite" presumably being hosting that some of us already have (I have a few places I can run this from) or just from your own machines at home if you know how. Backups rotation and retention can be managed offsite.

That's pretty basic, but it'll work pretty well for a single backup site. I can work out some details for something more robust later (throw some timestamps or lockfiles in there so you don't get two backups running at the same time).

Also, I'm going to be out of the country next week, so I don't know if I'll be able to do much of anything soon.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Jayelle » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:05 am

Hmm, so, I've seen my name in the "techie" section in several posts now... I suppose it's not too presumptuous if I created a Tech account, correct?

Does it have to be TechZeroguy or whatever, though? That capital Z is just... so unrainbow not me.
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby LilBee91 » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:06 pm

Could we get the awesome party balloon smiley? I need it in my life.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:39 pm

Could we get the awesome party balloon smiley?

This one, Shannon?

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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby LilBee91 » Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:09 am

That's the one!
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Mich » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:03 am

I always assumed it was the 7-Up Dot and his buddies. Please tell me I'm right.
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I don't know, but this game was awesome.

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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Dr. Mobius » Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:15 pm

Thanks to whoever made it so the bots don't show up on the registered users (online) list on the index. :) That was driving me nuts.
It's really only partially working. It was supposed to put the search bots in their own section on another line, but we (Noodle, myself and whoever else was in chat that night) decided it's actually better this way. :)
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Re: New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Boar

Postby Dr. Mobius » Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:25 pm

I added the :party: smiley and fixed the :chicken: which wasn't animated correctly before.
I also added another BB code.
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