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Website News / wow much spam part 2: return of the spam

« Last post by Floyd on December 04, 2020, 07:15:43 pm »

in the last three days a few thousand spam posts and nearly another thousand spam accounts joined the forum (sound familiar?). that is the most activity I've had on here since when the same thing happened last year. i ended up just restoring the most recent backup of the database, which unfortunately, was made about five minutes after i cleaned up the last spam attack, because i'm terrible at actually running a website. if you were one of the like two people who joined and posted since October 31, 2019, i'm sorry, you will have to recreate you're account. guess i'm gonna have to come up with a new fix for the antispam system. also maybe automate some fucking sql backups for once, they really aren't that big, damn.

oh and while i was in here i archived the news from 2016, it's here now.
also here's this year's showlog, it's not like i'll be going to any more shows any time soon anyway.

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Floyd's Random Thoughts / not fest

« Last post by Floyd on December 04, 2020, 06:27:45 pm »

originally posted: November 1, 2020
topic recreated December 4, 2020 because i had to restore an old backup

fest was supposed tom be this weekend. but it wasn't because it got canceled because of the plague that the president refuses to do anything about. i guess this truly concludes bummer summer. i've always thought of fest as more of a new year tha new year's eve, so let's hope that this also concludes the worst year ever, and on tuesday that piece of shit donald trump looses the election a lot. i dont particularly like joe biden either but it is at leas better than the alternative. if you haven't voted yet, then do that on tuesday. if not for yourself or all the people getting killed or left to die or the environment than at least for the hope that fest might happen next year. hopefully fest will happen next year. i miss shows. i miss my friends. i miss fest.

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The Computer Stuff section / Re: How to make Desk.cpl from Windows 2000 run on Windows 8 and 10

« Last post by Clasurol on September 01, 2019, 05:43:46 pm »

It's up to you, but I think a few over there would like that.

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The Computer Stuff section / Re: How to make Desk.cpl from Windows 2000 run on Windows 8 and 10

« Last post by Floyd on August 31, 2019, 12:41:37 pm »

Thanks you! also, Welcome! i doubt you'll be back tho lol.

i wish i had more spare time to do weird stuff like that more often

winclassic looks to have some interesting stuff going on i might have to come over there soon lol.

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Website News / Re: wow much spam

« Last post by Floyd on August 31, 2019, 12:39:00 pm »

i had that once, but the email server i had set up was very unreliable. im thinking of just having as one of the questions "go to [some other place on the website] scroll to the bottom of the page, copy and paste the random string of characters into the answer box." that would probably stop most of them

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The Computer Stuff section / Re: How to make Desk.cpl from Windows 2000 run on Windows 8 and 10

« Last post by Clasurol on August 30, 2019, 10:22:45 pm »

this is the discussion topic for
http://chorusofone.no-ip.org/computerstuff/win8desk2k.html

i'm not reposting all of it to here, that would be difficult, and i'm lazy.

Thank you Floyd for all you've done in regards to getting these old programs up and running on Windows 8+, they've been a great asset to us over at WinClassic. Mad props. 

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Website News / Re: wow much spam

« Last post by Clasurol on August 30, 2019, 10:11:23 pm »

You should look into getting email verification, you'd see less spambots.

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Website News / wow much spam

« Last post by Floyd on July 27, 2019, 05:26:56 pm »

in the last three days a few thousand spam posts and nearly 200 spam accounts joined the forum. that is the most activity i've had on here since 2012. i ended up just restoring a backup of the database from july 2, as nothing had changed since then. now im actually going to have to fix the antispam system.

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Website News / We're Back On-Line!

« Last post by Floyd on July 02, 2019, 09:54:34 am »

well, mostly anyway. the hard drive on the server died, fortunately i was able to back it up and no files have been lost. the whole site is running in vitrtualbox on my main desktop right now, so until i can get a new hard drive for the real server the website will only be online from about 9am till 11pm. maybe more but probably not, i dont like to leave my bedroom desktop running at night. im probably going to get a ssd now so the website will probably run better than before, but it will obviously be a while before i can get one in, i haven't even ordered one yet. pata ide hard drives of any kind are getting hard to find.

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Website News / some updates?!

« Last post by Floyd on December 18, 2018, 10:56:09 am »

wow three posts in a month, that hasn't happened in years.
ok so while i was off tumblr yesterday i made some updates. most noticeably, this isn't "the internet's only strike anywhere message board" anymore, but i talked about that yesterday. also i replaced the chatroom on the radio show page, so that works again. still no idea when i'll do another radio show, i don't even have the broadcast software installed on my computer anymore. there is a new thing in the computer stuff section about running windows media player 10 on windows 10, maybe it will prove useful to someone. people still come here for program manager and desk.cpl. i guess that's all. maybe this won't be the end of the newfound activity on here.