http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 711774.stm

Dunno what's worse, Lennon's murderer coming up for parole or people not understanding that the legal system applies even to people who kill their idols.

Once upon a time, I had that kind of free time on my hands... *sigh*

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If we want to harvest the archived threads we have to do it NOW:

Holy Cow! The new Dumbrella boards are open! This messageboard shuts down this weekend. Your account is waiting for you in the new world!

Are the majority of review threads even available for harvesting anymore? Last I checked, all of the archived threads on UBB were never properly re-indexed, and it looks like rstevens didn't migrate the archived threads over to phpBB. :/

The Irish Soberman.

One off from Irish Doberman.

Discuss.

phpBB's edit permissions take some getting used to, though I think the defaults do allow you to delete posts even if they've been replied to, as long as you were logged in when you made the original post. I know on my forum I can delete threads at any time, but then again I'm also an admin so I dunn...

Hey JB, when you undid the avatar option mod did you also remove the anti-spam mod? It doesn't look like it's actually active right now. (If it were there'd be a few <code><input type="hidden" value="[seemingly random junk]"></code>s on the message post pages. And those <>s woul...

Leaf wrote:SING THE PRAISES OF THE ADMIN
Fashioning boards right ,,,,

working late into the night
not giving up love of SongFight
a distant candle shining bright
giving the tunnel its ending light
fucking Artificial Gripe

phpBB lets you enable/disable guest posting on a per-forum basis, and also has pretty good post rate limiting. One of the patches JB installed also prevents spambots from posting (even if they're registered), and since the forum isn't shared with the rest of Dumbrella anymore it's unlikely that any...

Hey JB, when you undid the avatar option mod did you also remove the anti-spam mod? It doesn't look like it's actually active right now. (If it were there'd be a few <code><input type="hidden" value="[seemingly random junk]"></code>s on the message post pages. And those <>s would...

Install ntp, if you have that kind of access.

If it's already installed, there are several good public NTP servers available. time.apple.com is good, even if you're not using an Apple product (they have no way of telling anyway).

Right now I'm listening to the monotonous hum of my air conditioner, accompanied by children playing in the streets and the occasional honking car.

I also have "You Keep Me Awake (Reprise)" from the Vapor Trails soundtrack stuck in my head.

I haven't noticed this.

phpBB lets you enable/disable guest posting on a per-forum basis, and also has pretty good post rate limiting. One of the patches JB installed also prevents spambots from posting (even if they're registered), and since the forum isn't shared with the rest of Dumbrella anymore it's unlikely that any ...

frankie big face wrote:please tell me there is a way to turn off these fucking avatars.

Get JB to install this: http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/classicz ... atures.txt

Then someone needs to also edit the page templates to support it.

Right now I'm shopping around for a MIDI controller keyboard, and I thought others might find this useful. A couple years ago at SFWW I had the opportunity to play with Spud's Casio PS-20, which was amazingly good and turned me on to the fact that Casio actually makes some <a href="http://casio...

phpBB's template system is kinda retarded. There's no logo configuration; that's just hardcoded into the template.

But we <a href="search.php">have that now</a>...

I've made a few anti-spammer mods to phpBB which might be helpful.

Allow guest posting while disabling spambots:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1140171

Prevent spammers from spamming the member list:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=157091