Please leave a LINK to any posts from 2003-2006 you would like to see archived in here. We will be deleting all posts up to 1st January 2007.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
nooo! Can't you save them all?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: nooo! Can't you save them all?
Probably put the lot on a 1GB card and send it to you snail mail ?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Darryn/DO:
Would it be possible to somehow archive the whole lot on a separate server somewhere. I have no idea what this would involve, but I'd happily donate server space and bandwidth rather than see these threads wiped from The Internet®.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
How much space have you got ?
I think we're running round the 700MB mark right now.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: How much space have you got ?
I think we're running round the 700MB mark right now.
Well one of my hosts claims unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth for a permanently fixed annual price. It's down at the moment though, lol.
Also, it's IIS and ASP, that sort of thing, not LAMP. Does that matter?
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
That's crazy!
Threads: 30,982, Posts: 358,986, Members: 6,873
Equals 240mb
I've got space as well should you need it
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
yeah, you can't delete this! it's... the past! it's LIFE ITSELF!!! argh!!!!!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Presumably the bandwidth requirements for a TMO Archive would be significantly lower than the live forum, as people probably wouldn't be checking it so often or posting to it.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
also in terms of quality content you'd be better off deleting stuff from NOW and keeping stuff from THEN. if you absolutely HAVE to kill things.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
yeah...
But everything ? keep everything ? There's a lot of rubbish in there that's of no interest to anyone isn't there ?
I suppose we could make a dead 'ghost' forum for the lol and start over with a new bright and shiny installed forum which won't suffer the same spam crap we're drowning under now.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm a hoarder, so personally I'd keep everything.
My ceilings are literally bowing under the weight of all the crap stashed in my attic that I just can't bare to throw out.
Kellifer: "You should really have a clear out up there..." Me: "But you never know when a mid-90s Apple Portrait Display and LaserJet printer (with spare unopened toner) might come in handy" Kellifer: "Hang on, I thought you hated Macs!" Me: "Hng!" Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
well just make a value judgement as to what is shit and what is quality then. rather than deleting everything except things we specifically ask you to save. the whole games forum could go, for example, as could web.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
Fuck off...
Web is the only thing that validates me!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
feel free to delete ralph. I'm sure that'll save you 20 or 30 mb in smilies alone.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
Eh, you know what I mean though. Darryn and Femke are active members of this community. They can judge what's a quality thread and what's a lame crappy one can't they? Or maybe if it's the workload they're worried about, they should nominate trusted people and give them admin status. Those people get responsibility for a forum each and they get to go through and delete the really obviously lame threads. Then everyone can go through the slightly less lame threads and vote on what they want to keep once the obvious dross has gone. I just think deleting everything up until Jan 2007 is completely the wrong way to go about things.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Darryn, how much cash do you want to delete the whole lot by close of play today, no questions asked?
Just send PayPal details.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Me too. I do like a dip into 'the dead' now and again for LOLs and – sad or otherwise – TMO has been part of my life for a few years now, so don't want to lose all the funny stuff that's happened since the creation of 'the dead'. There's been loads of good stuff since. Like, er, that one about ralph's house! That's like a comedy diary of gold.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
It's a veritable comedy trampoline of swimming-pool-sized proportions.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by London: Eh, you know what I mean though. Darryn and Femke are active members of this community. They can judge what's a quality thread and what's a lame crappy one can't they? Or maybe if it's the workload they're worried about, they should nominate trusted people and give them admin status. Those people get responsibility for a forum each and they get to go through and delete the really obviously lame threads. Then everyone can go through the slightly less lame threads and vote on what they want to keep once the obvious dross has gone. I just think deleting everything up until Jan 2007 is completely the wrong way to go about things.
Don't give this crazy-lady access to anything. I made a thread on themoonoffline for her to wank-on about knitting and she didn't even fucking use it.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I think I could be trusted to go through some forums and get rid of all the shit. I've been an admin on a couple of forums. I'm safe.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
*Here's a fascinating time-lapse video of a man stuck in a lift for 40 something hours.
(This is just an example of the sort of off-topic shit posts that you might want to delete)
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: *Here's a fascinating time-lapse video of a man stuck in a lift for 40 something hours.
(This is just an example of the sort of off-topic shit posts that you might want to delete)
He was stuck in an elevator.
Yet another example of a post worthy of deletion.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Darryn, how much cash do you want to delete the whole lot by close of play today, no questions asked?
Just send PayPal details.
8 pouns 60 pences.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
Another post worthy of deletion...
My laptop is now running macOSX Leopard as the main OS and using Parallels and Bootcamp to run Vista and XP.
And, also, Darryn, check yo' darryn @ tmo addy
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by sabian: My laptop is now running macOSX Leopard as the main OS and using Parallels and Bootcamp to run Vista and XP.
hello. I'm interested in this.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
Your laptop has to be SSE3 rated and ideally an Intel chip. There is an AMD work around, but it's not as stable.
Then download your favourite flavour of hackintosh (isohunt.com) Leo4All Kalyway iAtkos
(having tried each, Kalyway was the only one that worked for me)
Partition your drive 4 ways. 1-vista 2-XP 3-Leopard 4-shared
Install Vista as per normal, then install Leopard choosing your designated partition. Once it's installed boot back into Vista (you'll not have a boot loader yet).
Download tboot and put it in c:\ (unzipped ofcourse)
This will return a long alpha-numeric string which is your {ID}
Then, once you have your {ID}
bcdedit /set {ID} device boot
bcdedit /set {ID} path \tboot
bcdedit /displayorder {ID} /addlast
Reboot
After POST, you'll have a bootmenu, choose Leopard.
If everything went ok AND your hardware supports it, you'll be greeted with a macOSX account set up where you go through the motions and sort yourself out with an install.
Once everything is setup (be warned, getting drivers that work is impossible... You'll either find drivers that will work with existing hardware or you will not. My setup everything worked (vid/audio/keyboard/trackpad/dvd/...er...everything EXCEPT wifi and there are no drivers for it. So, I either spend £60 on a supported mini-PCIE wifi card or, make due with the USB dongle I had laying around).
Once everything is set up, install XP to the other partition and then add it to your bootmenu using easyBCD.
Now, you have a tri-booting machine.
Then, download and install bootcamp to both the vista and the xp installs.
Then, download Parallels and install to the Mac install. Parallels, once set up will see the bootcamps for the other OS's and there ya go. Sorted.
[ 16.04.2008, 09:21: Message edited by: sabian ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
That's exactly what I'm after on my new machine. I'm even hankering foer the right graphics card for the much fabled TRI-BOOTER
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You should put a few versions of Linux on there too, for good measure.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I've heard good things about Ubuntu Wanky Weasel. Beats the crap out of Menopausal Marmoset, anyway.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Damon's Off - you can delete this thread.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
How come no-one's voted for any except the ralph house thread? Don't you have old threads you like enough to fight for, or are you sunk into such a depression you can only moan helplessly and rabbit on about computers?
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: [QUOTE]Don't give this crazy-lady access to anything. I made a thread on themoonoffline for her to wank-on about knitting and she didn't even fucking use it.
You did? Where? Anyway I have gone off knitting now. I decided to try knitting something more complicated than a scarf. BIG mistake.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
that sounded arsy. Didn't mean it to.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Serial killers with fruit on their head was good. What was that in?
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
that was probably the last thread I actually contributed to.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
[ 16.04.2008, 12:38: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
YOU CAN'T DELETE IT DARRYN. Please don't delete TMO. Please. Really, please. Don't.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Good. Does that mean you're back, louche? I hope so.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: YOU CAN'T DELETE IT DARRYN. Please don't delete TMO. Please. Really, please. Don't.
Listen, if people like Darryn don't go round deleting the internet from time to time then scientists are predicting that within the next ten years human beings will simply have nothing left to talk about, at all.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: Listen, if people like Darryn don't go round deleting the internet from time to time then scientists are predicting that within the next ten years human beings will simply have nothing left to talk about, at all.
In ten years we'll all have been killed to death by Peak Oil, Dang, as you well know. We must keep TMO whilst we can. It's important.
Posted by yanda (Member # 302) on :
Also chiming in that if you want to just transfer everything rather than pruning the crap, i've got the server space and can lend a hand with the move.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
If the transfer stuff proves too difficult, you could just get the whole of TMO printed out and bound into hardback books (TMO - The Complete Archive 2001-2007) which could then be sent to all registered members.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
What do you think the cover of such a book would look like?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I like Misc's idea best.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: What do you think the cover of such a book would look like?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I'll take 20 copies.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
[ 18.04.2008, 11:08: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: That's it, I'm sueing...
What the fuck's that?
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: That's it, I'm sueing...
sue away cheapskate...
Invision = Shit
Free invision = free shit
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Can't one of you just rename the site to Dark Side of the Moon or something? I nominate Ringo, seeing as he didn't even bother to buy a domain name.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
Or a legit copy of vBulletin! Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
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