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(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I just came across this today, and with recent VMWare Fusion beta for MacOS-X I had to check it out. Pretty cool...

snag- http://pics.middleground.us/main.php?g2_itemId=1063
(Mac VMWare running punnBB accessed by Firefox on XPPro running under Parallels Desktop)

Power outage at the datacenter, should be back up now. Sorry.

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(5 replies, posted in Programming)

On MacOS 10.4.1

Firefox 1.0.4:
Remote: Works fine
Local: Works fine

IE 5.2.3:
Remote: Works fine
Local: Works fine

Safari 2.0 (412):
Remote: Doesn't work- no errors, no real screen change
Local: Works fine

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(17 replies, posted in General discussion)

Stand corrected on the heat...good thing I said "I think"...I'm still poking along on my G4 iBook (which I never hear a fan run)...I knew the dual processors were heaters, but didn't think the single one was that bad...

Regardless, I'm buying one of these. Apple have said that they won't make it impossible to run e.g. Windows on the same computer. A beautiful Apple computer running both MacOS X and Windows. Almost sounds too good to be true.

Well can sort of do that now with Virtual PC. I've a bit slow on the emulated win side, but one can do it. Does sound good having both at full speed on one.

BTW: Did anyone else notice that Steve wasn't wearing his trademark "blue jeans and black shirt"?

Oh yeah..I envision an entire closet of these outfits.

Curious though- it says integer, isn't the power of the PowerPC when it comes to floating point?
Personally I think he'll follow, as in the past, whatever stats make it look good. Remember the less (Mhz.) is actually more (RISC vs CISC) argument. smile

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(51 replies, posted in Feature requests)

mindplay wrote:

I don't see what's pointless about weighing all the pros and cons - if you think it's pointless, you didn't have to participate, but you did anyway, so it was at least important enough for you to to bother writing a reply wink

As a user, however small, of PunBB I tend to notice threads that start off attacking the feature set of a fine package. I felt this is the way this thread started. It would have been very simple to make a feature request for login option to disable the email requirement (which I think would make you happy) when posting as a guest. And perhaps a simple explanation why you would like this feature. Perhaps just my way of looking at things.

mindplay wrote:

What sort of forum do you run, where you expect 10 dumbass kids for every user? ... on our forums, we have about 600 users and 15000 posts, it's been running for about 2 years - we've never been hit by trolls or spam bots yet, I really only think that happens to very large forums? I doubt if anyone would bother hitting a forum as specialized as ours with spam...

Well, currently not much. But as developer of phpCOIN for initial relases, it was quite busy. Within a year, probably close to  1000 users and 4-5000 posts. I had to clean up ads / stupid remarks / unrelated spamming / etc. probably about a dozen or so times a week. Also I said for every  intelligent guest input, I had to deal with 10 dumbass comments. Not for every user as you quoted. I still think that is realistic.

Also I see plenty of "public discussion" sites where there are worthless posts that degrade the actual topic of discussion. Nothing worse than digging through several pages of a thread to read a dozen worthwhile posts.

mindplay wrote:

I look at the statistics, and see the same 4-5 users answering most of the questions. I would like for every passer-by to be able to contribute their knowledge, with a minimum amount of hassle - not only are many of the more skilled and experienced users too busy to bother with a registration, they're also smart enough to know that entering your real email address on a forum potentially means stepping into a spamtrap; if not by forum admins collecting your email addresses, then by email harvesters picking it up.

Perhaps you're putting to much emphasis on your preferences when passing by. Most forums will let guests posts, and while I consider myself fairly busy, I surely don't mind one extra field to post my thoughts, and as I said autofill generally does it for me. Also- most people tend to have some ego component that they will want credit for their thoughts.

mindplay wrote:

But every forum has it's own needs - we're merely trying to figure out what ours are smile

Sorry, like I said I saw it as a complaint about punbb features, when in reality it is a simple feautre request.

What you're arguing is personal preference of different users. I don't think you'll change any minds, so why push it.

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(51 replies, posted in Feature requests)

This has got to be the most confusing, going nowhere thread I've seen lately. Like a Seinfeld episode, a lot of talk about nothing. Ones who complain about time it takes to fill in one extra field, will spend more time arguing about it than it would take to simply do the mod. Maybe I'm just a little thick lately.

I like everything the way it is. Simply filling in a username / password has troll / spam bot written all over it to me. If you disable verification, it is simply username / password / email address to register. Don't see the problem. And I'm sure most people has form autofill on, so two letters and all the fields are filled in anyway (after the first time the field name occurs).

I also do not allow guest to post, for same reasons mentioned above. Also require verification in that for every person who passes on a quick bit of knowledge post because they don't like to register, I can keep 10 dumbass kids from posting stupid things. I feel I'm to the good in that tradeoff.

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(17 replies, posted in General discussion)

erissiva wrote:

To be more technical, however - It's like running a stripped down version of windows without Explorer.

I seriously doubt many would call OS-X a "stripped down version of Windows.....".
{.....resisting the flame bait?......}

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(17 replies, posted in General discussion)

Connorhd wrote:

darwin isn't mac os x is it?

From my phpinfo:

System     Darwin MDLG4IB.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh

and     Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.10

and from link above, appears darwin already available for x86:

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(12 replies, posted in Programming)

I played with perl before messing with, and loving php, and found it to be a little strict for me. Not as forgiving perhaps, but that was a few years ago. On the other hand, if I remember correctly, one can do a ton of stuff in a few lines of perl that would take several in php.

Maybe unrelated (and completely without backing), but I know a lot of hosts are frowning upon Perl due to resource usage, preferring client use php instead...

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(17 replies, posted in General discussion)

I think this is fantastic news. I think I would still stick with Apple hardware (flawless in 15 years of owning one), but the option to throw it on my kids dell would be sweet.

As for cost, and comment on wouldn't be cheap, the current MacOS is can be easily bought for $110 per user (with no activation at this time), and 5-user for $200. Compare that to current WinXP prices and very comparable, especially on the multiuser front.

As for hardware- Apple has maintained its control, as done when they allowed others to build macs, through the requirement of the Apple CMOS. Not sure if this is still the requirement, but would easily permit Dell to slap in Apple CMOS and the OS and be off and running.

I think it is sad that the G5 may be the last of the PowerPC. Speeds finally getting 2Ghz+ and I think it is a much cooler running chip. And with comparable speeds, much more power (no pun intended) per cycle (the old RISC vs CISC debate).

Anyway- I think it is great, woohoo!!!!!

vBulletin has a addon for this that is used over at  NexusPortal. Currency is weebatix (hey- they're from australia). Generally is as mentioned- you get certain number of credits for new topics, slightly less for replies. But has some cool things to make it useful:
- Store: to spend your credits of course. They have setup to where you can buy extra hosting things (disk space, bandwidth, databases, etc.). They even have a lottery where you buy tickets and random draws gives them out to the winnder.
- Select forums to participate. More important- forums not to participate. For a while, General Discussion was blocked to prevent worthless threads (original concept was to reward those who help others).

Word count might be a good idea, they used to get a lot of replies like "yeah", "ok", "cool", etc...

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(21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

I think legally you can do what you want. But it is also a common courtesy to give credit where credit is due.

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(11 replies, posted in General discussion)

I think the idea of a referenda would be quite pleasing. Face it, here in the states, elected representatives DO NOT always vote for the people. They vote right down partisan (Republican / Democratic) lines. Although I also agree with the statement that majority of people are quite capable of being completely wrong (hence GW)....

Representatives are swayed by special interest groups, their own political agendas, their own politcal party, and any number of other things. If they would vote on each item as they believe, then maybe it would work. Funny how most bills turn out to be all Dems one way, and all Reps another. Votes are bought with "pork" projects promised for the representative's districts. The vote cast is rarely the right vote.

I think the advantage of the referenda would be in key decisions that "the people" could over-rule the government when it is obvious decisions are made by religious / moral beliefs and not true law. A fine example would be current legislation here in the states to "lighten" up the restrictions on how stem cells are obtained for research. Majority of people want it, congress / senate majority created and passed the bill. HOWEVER, good old GW promises a veto. A nations wish completely discounted by one mans religous / moral beliefs.

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(5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Looks great...but what caught my attention was the "dover", and you're from mount wolf. I am located in dover, pa- not far down the road if I'm not mistaken. Two punbb fans in the same county?? Conspiracy I say smile

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(69 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Rickard wrote:

No. It's one e-mail per subscriber. You can't mass e-mail out those notifications for two reasons:

1. Using a large list of hidden recipients upsets spam filters.
2. You can't just CC it, because then other peoples e-mail addresses will be revealed.

I remember one of the boards, can't remember which one, using BCC to not reveal email addresses.

Curious- is there an "email queue"? Some hosts limit number of emails sent in a given shot. Preferring to do, for example 2x1000 rather than 1x2000.

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(11 replies, posted in General discussion)

So many "hosts" are giving away a ton of both space and bandwidth (most of which most people never use, but it sells). Two things you mentioned would make me look for a generous offering of both- photos and attachments.

I wrote this to try to give an idea of both disk space and bandwidth. Maybe it will help.

You can find some excellent host with good packages fairly cheap, but be careful. Those who promise the world are most likely overselling their resources. I've used these guys and was satisfied.

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(13 replies, posted in General discussion)

Rickard wrote:

The same thing happened with OSX. Well, that is until Apple started releasing security updates just as frequently as Microsoft.

They are releasing them, but not quite as fast as M$, but do have (5) so far this year (most averaging 5-10 mb):

2005-01-29 15:41:37 -0500: Installed "Security Update 2005-001" (1.0)
2005-02-23 21:33:56 -0500: Installed "Security Update 2005-002" (2.0.0)
2005-04-08 22:01:25 -0400: Installed "Security Update 2005-003" (1.0)
2005-04-21 08:36:08 -0400: Installed "Security Update 2005-004" (1.0)
2005-05-08 01:04:09 -0400: Installed "Security Update 2005-005" (1.0)

Wasn't trying to start the OS War again, was only noting that a lot of times it is a combination of apps and OS, not just apps. If the OS underneath is flawed, any app sitting on top of it is as well (sim to the php flaws a while back).

I've commented before, I believe the reason most "hackers" do not go after other non-Win boxes is because they are for the most part script kiddies who download their goodies and see what damage they can do. Anyone truly skilled enogh to break into a *nix box is not going to waste their time on the iBook (through both the router and software firewalls).

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(13 replies, posted in General discussion)

Doesn't seem to effect MacOS smile

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(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

RainMan wrote:
middleground wrote:

Looks great, Sad to not see the copyright/credit though?

It's on the left side of the main page's footer.  Right at the bottom.

Saw that, powered by, I meant the "© Copyright 2002?2005 Rickard Andersson"

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(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Looks great, Sad to not see the copyright/credit though?

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(12 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Here is a site that list some XSS things to test / try.
http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html

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(36 replies, posted in General discussion)

middleground wrote:
oneill_2000 wrote:

Or if you can't dose anyone know a great free service like PunBB but as a chatroom?

SigmaChat from Raidersoft is a decent free one. Have to use once every 60 or 90 days to keep it active.

http://www.sigmachat.com/index.html

If you guys are still looking...hosted by them, no real ads I notived, and works great.

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(1 replies, posted in General discussion)

Konfabultor is cool, I use it on Mac OS-X. Mostly the weather, cpu usage, mini to-do, calendar, pop-up reminder, and occasionally a floating itunes controller. Its cool, worth the dollars...

BUT- Mac users don't run out and get it if you plan on going into tiger:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/

Samething, different name (sort of M$ish of them on this one- even call them widgets)

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(36 replies, posted in General discussion)

oneill_2000 wrote:

Or if you can't dose anyone know a great free service like PunBB but as a chatroom?

SigmaChat from Raidersoft is a decent free one. Have to use once every 60 or 90 days to keep it active.

http://www.sigmachat.com/index.html

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(92 replies, posted in General discussion)

zaher wrote:

I am always put my desktop folder in D:\Desktop as like My Douments and Outlook Express daya, so when i format my C will not lose anything.

i like "middleground" wallpaper, i would like to have the source?

Sure do- http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/

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Glad someone noted about formatting / reinstalling windows and the potential to lose the desktop. I also, when in windows world, put things on c:\ and ghost out boots (D:, E: and F: for now). Fresh restore is only minutes away, C is also always a 2GB FAT so I can get to it with boot disk/cd...On mac- everything important in non boot drive.

As for quick access, best thing for mac user is quicksilver, type command, first couple letters and can find anything fast. Also fruitmenu dynamic right click to get contents of a single folder keeps it all clean.
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