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by Winston
Sat Jul 27, 2019 2:33 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: Spambot user accounts
Replies: 2
Views: 17503

Re: Spambot user accounts

The general rule is "nothing that can be looked up on google". Or at least, that a bot looking at google would have trouble with.

I have made the questions specific to campaigns I'm familiar with. That doesn't include Chrono, but I assume that there are no new users coming that way?
by Winston
Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:20 am
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: Archiving old campaigns
Replies: 2
Views: 9514

Archiving old campaigns

I'd like to move concluded campaigns, and ones that never launched, into an archive forum just to clean the landing page. That would include:
  • Serenity
    Star Wars
    Battletech 4000
    Odyssey
The latter two can move up into the tier-1 space should they ever launch.

Any objections?
by Winston
Fri Nov 04, 2016 9:00 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: System maintenance
Replies: 9
Views: 22655

Re: System maintenance

Scheduled for Saturday AM, November 5th.
by Winston
Tue Aug 23, 2016 9:07 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: Routing failure
Replies: 0
Views: 12870

Routing failure

I had a route go down on my server - incoming packets fine, reply didn't know where to go; hence you could not get any response if you came to the board address. I think it's fixed now.
by Winston
Mon Aug 01, 2016 6:08 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: Board down
Replies: 0
Views: 12854

Board down

A system monitoring daemon has been crashing the system. I am debugging, and at worst case can disable it, but while I experiment, be aware that this problem will be intermittent.
by Winston
Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:48 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: System maintenance
Replies: 9
Views: 22655

Re: System maintenance

I will be performing system maintenance on my server on Tuesday September 1st but hopefully not Wednesday. Certain conditions are triggering "processor internal error" on both physical CPUs. It could be both CPUs (unlikely), one of the PCI cards (more likely), or motherboard; so I will be ...
by Winston
Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:12 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: Problems
Replies: 1
Views: 8119

Problems

Lost power sometime last night, long enough to drain the UPS - firewall system then decided for some reason that its watchdog should timeout, and force-rebooted the system every 7 minutes from 5 AM, not sure why....
by Winston
Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:14 am
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: System maintenance
Replies: 9
Views: 22655

Re: System maintenance

My server that was serving as a firewall finally gave up the ghost. It had been warning of low backplane voltages for some time and I'd obtained a replacement in case it failed. I just didn't expect it to fail today (I brought it down to replace a NIC and it didn't come back up). So now I go from ci...
by Winston
Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:26 am
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: System maintenance
Replies: 9
Views: 22655

Re: System maintenance

The board will be down for a period of time Friday January 3rd for me to do some rack-and-moving. It will be back up no later than 1500 EST.
by Winston
Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:17 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: Domain expired
Replies: 0
Views: 12981

Domain expired

... without my registrar telling me to renew, so until George called me, I had no idea (other than reduced spam....)

Sorry for the inconvenience.
by Winston
Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:34 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: Database maintenance
Replies: 0
Views: 13055

Database maintenance

The boards will be down for about 15 minutes this evening to allow me to restore an unrelated database configuration from tape.
by Winston
Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:31 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: Welcome
Replies: 7
Views: 17508

Re: Welcome

I've changed the Captchas to some questions that most users here could answer, that a simple Google lookup won't.
by Winston
Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:38 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: phpBB Debug Notice
Replies: 20
Views: 46796

Re: phpBB Debug Notice

It defaults to Hello Kitty? Gah! :) I take it the old Sci-Fi background is no longer available following the recent upgrade? No it doesn't. There are however a set of other styles available. But that is left as an exercise to the reader. MU-HA-HA!!!! :twisted: The gallery 2 integration, as warned, ...
by Winston
Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:37 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: phpBB Debug Notice
Replies: 20
Views: 46796

Re: phpBB Debug Notice

It defaults to Hello Kitty? Gah! :) I take it the old Sci-Fi background is no longer available following the recent upgrade? No it doesn't. There are however a set of other styles available. But that is left as an exercise to the reader. MU-HA-HA!!!! :twisted: The gallery 2 integration, as warned, ...
by Winston
Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:11 pm
Forum: Administration & Users
Topic: phpBB Debug Notice
Replies: 20
Views: 46796

Re: phpBB Debug Notice

Ah, my work is done.