New and Exciting Things about this New and Exciting Board

[VelvetElvis]

Oh, Chris, you slacker.

[thoughtreader]

and many other have returned

[Noodle]

A Whole bunch of new smilies to choose from:

[starlooker]

[Noodle]

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

after all that work, I'm going to have myself a Limeaid

[Gravity Defier]

My hat's off to you, sir.

Thanks!

[Satya]

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.

[Noodle]

I think might be my favorite smiley ever. Just watch the guy. He goes on for a full 10 seconds.

[zeroguy]

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.

[VelvetElvis]

[Luet]

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.

[starlooker]

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.

[Luet]

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

[VelvetElvis]

What evs. It's a fox. And it's after this chicken.

[Gravity Defier]

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

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

[Luet]

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.

[Gravity Defier]

is , 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.

[Luet]

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.

[Gravity Defier]

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. :)

[VelvetElvis]

I think we're not paying enough attention to this smilie.

[Noodle]

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.

[Wind Swept]

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.

[Gravity Defier]

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.

[Noodle]

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.

[VelvetElvis]

I like to think that we're too awesome for current software.

[Gravity Defier]

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.

:)


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.

[zeroguy]

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.

[Jayelle]

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.

Yes, please make a tech account (and give it whatever capitalization you want) and I'll upgrade it.

[LilBee91]

Could we get the awesome party balloon smiley? I need it in my life.

[Gravity Defier]

Could we get the awesome party balloon smiley?

This one, Shannon?




I'm sure they'd be willing to if they knew which you were asking for.

[LilBee91]

That's the one!

[Mich]

I always assumed it was the 7-Up Dot and his buddies. Please tell me I'm right.

[GS]

I don't know, but this game was awesome.

[Dr. Mobius]

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.

[Dr. Mobius]

I added the smiley and fixed the which wasn't animated correctly before.

I also added another BB code.