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Old 22nd December 2007   #1
VelocityBoy
 
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I tried this a while ago and it failed.

This time I'm sober though so I figured I'd give it another try.

Over the next hour or two there might be weird errors and stuff as I upgrade parts of the forum.

Bear with me while I try and force it through fine.
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Old 22nd December 2007   #2
hippy
 
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Bear with me while I try and force it through fine.

Don't strain yourself.. ;)
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Old 22nd December 2007   #3
|³|MA3K
 
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The snow is a pretty good upgrade, could we have rain the rest of the year please?
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Old 22nd December 2007   #4
Stef
 
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damn if snow fell that fast...
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Old 22nd December 2007   #5
VelocityBoy
 
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Well, I think I'm done.

Let me know if anything is not working as it should.
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Old 22nd December 2007   #6
tynan
 
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My kettle has now stopped working, I am boiling water in a pan to make a cup of tea, I am not sure if it is related to the forum upgrade but I would appreciate it if you checked your code just in case.

Mac Quadra + OS 7.2 + Netscape Navigator (V2 - 1994).
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Old 22nd December 2007   #7
RPM
 
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have you checked the fuse? (in the kettle)
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Old 22nd December 2007   #8
big daddy wayne
 
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tynan probably took the glass casing off the fuse to save weight -

you know the water boils faster if the kettle is lighter...
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Old 22nd December 2007   #9
asm
He should get one of those vacuum pump things, water boils at 40 celcius in a vacuum.
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Old 22nd December 2007   #10
big daddy wayne
 
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when i tried boiling water in my vacuum the plastic cup on top melted...
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Old 22nd December 2007   #11
asm
does it take a threaded or an ahead style plastic cup? I'd recommend investing in a titanium one - not cheap but will survive boiling water.
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Old 22nd December 2007   #12
big daddy wayne
 
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i've heard that SF are rocking arrovacs, might try and get me one of those
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Old 22nd December 2007   #13
asm
i knew you were a vacuumenger...
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Old 22nd December 2007   #14
big daddy wayne
 
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thermosenger...
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Old 22nd December 2007   #15
asm
How dare you...
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Old 29th February 2008   #16
Multi Grooves
 
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just testing my icon
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Old 29th February 2008   #17
MrSmith
 
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Blog Entries: 5
Quote:
Multi Grooves:just testing my icon
is it a snowstorm?
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Old 1st March 2008   #18
fruitbat
 
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I love you all, my sanity has been preserved for another day, goodnight
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Old 31st August 2008   #19
VelocityBoy
 
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Things might break over the next 45 minutes... I'm upgrading again.
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Old 31st August 2008   #20
MrSmith
 
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Blog Entries: 5
will my recent really long posts that involved deep cognitive thought go missing?
no great loss i suppose.
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Old 31st August 2008   #21
VelocityBoy
 
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They should be alright. Unless I screw up royally and need to use the backup... I hope that doesn't happen though.
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Old 31st August 2008   #22
hippy
 
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Insert really important comment here
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Old 31st August 2008   #23
provenrad
 
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Is it gonna be carbon or titanium?
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Old 31st August 2008   #24
VelocityBoy
 
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Should all be finished.

Minor changes around the place.

There's a new security rule as well, you can't pick a password that is the same as your username. It's because bots have been created that attempt to login to forums to send spam under the names of registered users. All 24 users who had done this have had their passwords reset and been notified by email.
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Old 31st August 2008   #25
mashton
 
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How did you know their passwords? I'm seriously hoping that this was a username hash == password hash, rather than the more insidious alternative?
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Old 31st August 2008   #26
horatio
 
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as far as I know the forum software has encrypted passwords which the op can't even access (it used to anyway). So don't worry mash. your bank password is safe.
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Old 31st August 2008   #27
mashton
 
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bank?

It's the goddamn porn site access that I'm worried about. Those logons are worth millions, I tells ya.
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Old 31st August 2008   #28
horatio
 
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greedy. you should be sharing that shit (don't tell nimbhus though - he hates sharing).
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Old 31st August 2008   #29
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Originally Posted by mashton View Post
How did you know their passwords? I'm seriously hoping that this was a username hash == password hash, rather than the more insidious alternative?
Basically yes.

I store:
  • username
  • user salt (unique gibberish value to guarantee hashed passwords cannot be looked up in a hash database)
  • password hash
So to check who had set the password the same as the username I:
if (md5(username + user salt) == password hash) {
inform user and change password
}

No actual passwords are stored on the server, and if you read the javascript you'd see that your password is never sent to the server if javascript is enabled (password is hashed in the browser and only the hashed value is sent).
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Old 31st August 2008   #30
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if (md5(username + user salt) == password hash) {
inform user and change password
.
yep...thats what i would have done.
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Old 14th October 2008   #31
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Love the new banner. But Charco is right, and the text is less legible. But I say we f*ck the glasses-wearers.
Godammed four-eyed nuisances!!

Lol.
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Old 14th October 2008   #32
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@VB: when did this happen? do all categories have leaders*?


*overlords
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Old 14th October 2008   #33
VelocityBoy
 
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@VB: when did this happen? do all categories have leaders*?


*overlords
Happened when Social Group leaders could create Forums.

A while ago.

Though that layout is now bugging me.
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Old 14th October 2008   #34
VelocityBoy
 
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Fixed.

Extra HTML tag fail.
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Old 14th October 2008   #35
Donut!
 
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Loving the new headers VB. Looks really fresh. Nice one bruvva! :)
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Old 16th October 2008   #36
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VB.. could we have some sort of alert when threads become slanging matches? similar to a crowd of children yelling "fight fight fight". I tend to miss the juicy kick-offs until long after the event [e.g when the biker boys turned up, the scientologist etc.]

p.s. headers are mint but I occasionally yearn for london eyerospok
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Old 22nd October 2008   #37
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