By the way, here's a link to a larger version you can actually see:  Large Version.


-b0b
(...pixelation FTW!)

It's 5:00AM, do you know where your forum is?

I've finished the final push of the network upgrade.  Both firewalls and the intrusion prevention system are now online and fully operational.  If you encounter any issues, let me know!


-b0b
(...is exhausted!)






Sidenote:  New, uber forum speeds:

But I need to post Wes' mom jokes and kittens in costumes at a moments notice!!!

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The shipment from NewEgg arrived today.  I've got two Intel Pro/1000 NICs installed along with 8GB of RAM (the maximum for this motherboard).  With this installed, I can get to work on completing the VMware infrastructure.  Hopefully, I'll be able to move the forum over sometime this weekend or early next week.




Before


After



-b0b
(...w00t!)

Well, it only took me two and a half months to get around to it, but I finally migrated the forum to the new VMware server.  As you can probably tell, the forum has also been upgraded to the latest version.

We were five versions out of date and I didn't feel like upgrading through each version, so I did a new install of v2.5 and migrated the old forum data into the new infrastructure.  It took a couple tries, but everything seems to be working now.  I locked down the forum application and files as tightly as I could on the back end, so if you encounter any problems, let me know.

To Do List

• Fix "Advanced Settings" under Forum Administration
• Create a new CSS for forum coloring (Might need Briney's artistic talents)
• Upload all four million smilies we collected years ago...
• Verify operation of the mail server.

-b0b
(...now remembers why he never updates the forum.)






New and Enhanced Features (v2.2.1 through v2.5AE)
- Caps Lock detection
- Accessibility in Admin Center, Forum side
- Added "None Selected" Radio Button in Extended profiles
- UK Time Selection
- Context Help
- CSS Fader Text
- Add to YaBBC and ";don't parse"; checkbox
- [noparse] also for Smilies
- Number Format
- ";X Posts Before Signature";
- Gender selection on Register page, if admin enable it
- SyntaxHighlight implemented in Code Box
- Image List implemented (default, ordered and images)
- Username, Display Name and Email Check (Ajax) on Add Member (Admin Center) Register and Edit Profile Page
- Clipfish and Gametrailers Media support
- Admin: add IP to registration log
- Improved Search Engine bots list
- Added Search Engine bots auto-sort feature
- ALL CAPS Alert; Admin can select number of uppercase characters to cause alert
- Layout of Registration page improved
- Improved free disk/host space checking; added two methods: find, and quota
- HTML-label tags to support screen readers
- Random function to News Fader
- Facebook and MySpace options in contact information
- Register button in login section at bottom of Board Index
- Selectable static/dynamic clock at top forum bar
- Media support for .3gp, hulu, vimeo, thenutz.tv, and dailymotion formats
- Transliteration for non-latinic language characters in uploaded files
- Option to disable Smilies in the row below the Post window
- Ability to change existing User Displayed names to include capital letters without getting error
- Expand/collapse feature to seldom used input boxes under the Post window
- Ability to turn off recent posts by user or set a maximum number of returned posts by user
- Function to end Polls automatically
- Registration form validation via Javascript
- Server Environment Module Checker
- Media support for My Video, MySpace,
- Search within YaBBC tags option
- Net::SMTP::TLS mail option
- More accurate last online X days and XX:XX:XX hours ago
- Recovery feature added to Backup
- Ajax &; Javascript enabled for Favorites, Notification Clicks, Moderator/Member QuickSearch and Admin Delete
- Post sort arrows for Topic View in Boards
- Password Strength Meter
- Output Compression methods available on server determined and only shows appropriate options
- Enhanced move popup
- New sessionid after profile login
- Quick Reply Advanced Edition
- Reverse Post in Topic Advanced Edition
- YaBB Backup
- Top of Page Button
- Pie Charts for Polls
- Showcase Poll
- Preselected Smilies
- Category Pictures
- Image Resize
- Multi-Attachments
- Avatar Uploader
- Split/Splice Advanced
- Expand/Collapse Advanced
- New Members E-Mail Notification (to Admin)
- Extended Profiles
- Spell Checker
- Improved speed/performance in deleting Member Groups
- Speed/performance improvements to Rebuild and Recount maintenance functions
- Code improvements to allow single setting of max process time
- Color selection palette added to Forum News settings
- Ability to search by Email in Member list
- ";Go back to search"; link added on search results page
- Ability to search by user name in PMs
- Made PM text area resizeable consistent with Post text area
- Language selection at login
- Revised Pop-Up PM/email notifications and added selection functions to Admin Center
- Birthday greeting for user on their birthday
- Direct link to new PMs
- Improved PM listing background colors
- Selectable option for either pictures/picture links in quoted posts
- JavaScript-alert on multiple login clicks
- Default forum language selection at forum setup
- Support for 10 additional fonts in posts and PMs
- New icons (online, info, login)
- Reason tag for approved registration E-mails
- Carsten's Advanced Tabs Mod
- Post Reply Textarea resize
- Reorder Post independent Member Groups
- Media Player
- Google Video (just copy the browser url to the Google Video in between the media tags)
- .flv files (just copy the url to the file in between the media tags)
- *.mp4 files (opens up Apple Quicktime player)
- *.xdiv and *.divx files (opens up windows media player, only works if codex is installed though)

Yeah, I don't understand why anyone thinks the default silvery BS looks good.  It's

blinding

!


-b0b
(...boggles.)

Negative, I did get a 2008 PM for a prayer request for you on a sort of secret job interview.

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The forum should now open immediately instead of opening an interstitial "Go to the site forum" page.  This might require a browser refresh.

I'm still working on the CSS issue, but I've not had much time to dig into it.  I got it a step further, so now you'll get a "Can't find default.css" page instead of a 404 error.  Progress!


-b0b
(...is sleepy.)