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Geek Culture / strange disappearance of teh forumz0rz...

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 17:17
Yesterday, nobody could enter the forums. And you know why? Because all the IRC users were BANNED!!! But it appears that a combination of tea, muffins, and torture got it back on.

I'm certain somebody has a log of the chat yesterday...yes? Anyhow, some of the leading theorys include aliens, split coffie, and a hijacking. Hopefuly kent or IanT can post a log of all the suggestions, I showed up late yesterday and missed a large portion of the chat.

lagmaster
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 17:31
yeah i tried logging on at 5am and i was confronted with a white screen

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Eddie Gordo
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 17:38 Edited at: 7th Sep 2005 17:39
I heard it was unsavory actions involving rich, servers, and a waterbed in the server room...

But i didnt make that up...someone else told me that...

Who am i...i don't know anymore...its been a long time since ive walked here...
Megaton Cat
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:04
Am I the only one here that simply shrugged when I hit the white screen and went back to modelling?


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Hawkeye
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:09
OMG! He has a life???? No fair! Die the nice kitty, DIE THE NICE KITTY!

spooky
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:11
I heard they got new cleaners in and they unplugged the server to plug the hoover in.

Boo!
Dom
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:16
Quote: " Am I the only one here that simply shrugged when I hit the white screen and went back to modelling?"

Well I shrugged but didn't go back to moddelling, I went back to playing KalOnline, Im still trying to figure out what to actually do

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BatVink
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:19
It was a new stylesheet...white on white, suppress images.

I got to work on time for a change.

Benjamin
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:20
Quote: " Am I the only one here that simply shrugged when I hit the white screen and went back to modelling?"

Most of us were just sitting here furiously tapping away at the refresh key.

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DBAlex
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:24
Quote: "Quote: " Am I the only one here that simply shrugged when I hit the white screen and went back to modelling?"
Most of us were just sitting here furiously tapping away at the refresh key.
"


LOL

I thought lee had enough of coding FPS Creator, and decided to be the 1337 forumz0rz hack3r... I also clicked the hell out of the refresh key...




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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:26
i have log. i sec:

ok, click source.

if anyone wants to edit that to a readbale format, go ahead.

i r such a prankster. then mouse ruined my good fun.

Benjamin
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:28
What? Huh? I don't use Tiscali.

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:29
by the way guys, you should all try out our IRc channel...

Mikey P
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:43
Hehe, Just so you don't think I'm stupid or anything in the log, I caught on, and so joined Goorf in the prank ^.^

Peter H
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:49
Quote: "Am I the only one here that simply shrugged when I hit the white screen and went back to modelling?"

actually, no, it didn't work for me so i went back to my modelling for 3D Pak-Person...

Quote: "Most of us were just sitting here furiously tapping away at the refresh key"

LOL

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:52
i just stayed in irc and pranked some...

Megaton Cat
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:55
Quote: "actually, no, it didn't work for me so i went back to my modelling for 3D Pak-Person..."


No....YOU burst into tears and hugged yourself in the corner, rocketing back and forth, untill the forums went back online. Can't weasel your way out of this one.


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Louiz ofRohr
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 18:59
Quote: "Am I the only one here that simply shrugged when I hit the white screen and went back to modelling?"

No

I thought I was banned
And started to think about averything I said here..
well.. "did I offend someone?", "nope.. impossible.."
"so.. lets go back coding and modelling "

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soapyfish
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 19:21
Quote: "Most of us were just sitting here furiously tapping away at the refresh key."


Yup, sounds like me.


ROFL, me thinks one or two people had a few harsh words for Rich. Anyone know what really happened?

*tries to think of witty and original signature*
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Raven
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 19:42
I for one was happy the IRCer's were banned for a while, as we finally got to have that civilised discussion about the merits of Dark Basic and Blitz Basic we've all been dying to have without some huge flamewar.

And I think it was super nice of Rich to then take the entire forum out for ice-cream this morning just before he let those banned back in.

David T
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 19:59
Quote: "I for one was happy the IRCer's were banned for a while, as we finally got to have that civilised discussion about the merits of Dark Basic and Blitz Basic we've all been dying to have without some huge flamewar.

And I think it was super nice of Rich to then take the entire forum out for ice-cream this morning just before he let those banned back in."


IRCers were never banned. Didn't you see in the log? The real reason was Rich has wiped the HDs by accident

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Peter H
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:02
yeah, i've only used the IRC once, yet i was banned

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MiR
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:15
lol. One question though. If he wiped the hdds and the back tapes (tapes?!!) then how did he restore the forum? Don´t tell me he had 2 backups? Wait. That can´t be it. No one can uload a backup of this forum using a 56kb connection.
And there was me saying how over rated tier 1 providers are


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Mikey P
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:17
Quote: "IRCers were never banned. Didn't you see in the log? The real reason was Rich has wiped the HDs by accident"


Rich actually wiped the HDs? Mouse spent like 2 mins 'pasting' each line of his convo with Rich, so I figured he was typing it out... Didn't think he was telling the truth

Neofish
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:17
Quote: "IRCers were never banned. Didn't you see in the log? The real reason was Rich has wiped the HDs by accident"

Raven WAS being sarcastic wasn't he

Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:20
yeh they're being stupid mikey. mouse did make that combo up, im annoyed he had to end the joke at the same tme as making me look a fool >.<

no, rich never f'd up the hdd's.

DBAlex
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:24
What the hell?

Me is confuzled ...

So what REALLY happened...?

*gets DarkBASIC triangles thrown at him...*


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MiR
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:28
Yes. What happened then? If we weren´t banned and Rich didn´t wipe the drive then did the codez go all funny? I remeber Rich saying something about MySQL gremlins.....


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Neofish
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:30
I ate the forumz

Jeku
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 20:34
Quote: "IRCers were never banned. Didn't you see in the log? The real reason was Rich has wiped the HDs by accident"


Raven was being sarcastic.

Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 21:08 Edited at: 7th Sep 2005 21:09
Quote: "Most of us were just sitting here furiously tapping away at the refresh key."


I tried to get on the forums with 3 different computers before I gave up and went back to playing Dungeon Siege 2... it's uh... game research.
Benjamin
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 21:32
Quote: "Yup, sounds like me."

Honestly though, I was coding something when I suddenly realised I had been switching to firefox pressing the refresh key every 5 minutes.

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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 22:12
^_^ you know what I'm a little confused about is why it was a blank screen.

I mean usually when you do something completely stupid like wipe data you get a 404, but it was like nothingness. Seemed kinda weird.

Oneka
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 22:15
I knew all along I just played along

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UnderLord
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 22:25
Quote: "by the way guys, you should all try out our IRc channel... "


Yes lets all join the IRC chat so we can all get banned by a nooblet that thinks he has power.....BTW ima own j00 all with my new alien powers....

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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 22:52
Quote: "^_^ you know what I'm a little confused about is why it was a blank screen.

I mean usually when you do something completely stupid like wipe data you get a 404, but it was like nothingness. Seemed kinda weird."


Same. The only thing that does that for me is when I'm using Output Buffering and the script encounters a serious error and so has to die immediately.

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 22:54
hence my little joke about rich making a custom ban page for the banned irc'ers ^_^

MiR
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 23:04
Blast. Rich has put a do not disturb sign on his messenger. Just as I was going to pester him aswell.


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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 23:38
Quote: "No....YOU burst into tears and hugged yourself in the corner, rocketing back and forth, untill the forums went back online. Can't weasel your way out of this one."

damit!!! how did you know?


I think rich forgot to pay his bills....

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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 23:44
i had a heart attack and was on life support until the forumz came back and then i felt much better

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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 23:45
He was probably just locking the forum down while making subtle changes and checking them.

Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 00:03
what subtle changes are these? i havent noticed any...

Mikey P
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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 00:14
Quote: " He was probably just locking the forum down while making subtle changes and checking them."


I'd of thought he'd of left a message if he was. Not saying he has to, but I just thought he would have

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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 00:28
Quote: " what subtle changes are these? i havent noticed any..."


Because they're subtle

I actually think there was a bug somewhere, and the forums were down without Rich realizing until the next day.

TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 00:31
or he decided to make the subtle un-noticable changes that no-one cares about over night while you english folk are supposed to be asleep.

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Neofish
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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 00:41
But we weren't due to having no lives

TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 00:45
Congradulations Mr.....Mr....(looks down at roster)...AH!....Mr. Neofish. I am giving you an A+ in my class for reaching my conclusion.

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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 01:06
yes odd, none of us have lives, but I'm excoted, I've almost got one! woot!

But what the hell with the forum, luckily, i'm sad enough to live at many forums, I weren't so lonely, whatever happened, doesn't matter, those who pranked deserve a newb slap, and well see if Rich can explain it, if not run around like headless chickes until we find out its a hacker of um...EA games no wait, make it microsoft, trying to tear down each little possibility of any future competitors, Rich did you make an OS thats cheaper and far superior to Windows and were going to announce it?

TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 01:43
Hey, i take offense to that. I actually have a life.

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Posted: 8th Sep 2005 03:33
rofl

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