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Announcements / Re: New BBCode
« on: December 30, 2013, 04:10:38 AM »However, mp3 and mp4 are not exactly new technology.
They have no place in an open web, which is why Mozilla hasn't been too hasty to implement them.
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They have no place in an open web, which is why Mozilla hasn't been too hasty to implement them.
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Announcements / Re: New BBCode
« on: December 30, 2013, 03:58:14 AM »It's far more significant which web browser you're using than which distribution.
The video and audio played fine in both Chromium and FireFox, just to elaborate.
Both work fine for me in Chromium, too.
Either Ubuntu has patched Firefox to support proprietary codecs, or you're using a more recent version of Firefox (they only added support upstream recently).
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Announcements / Re: New BBCode
« on: December 30, 2013, 03:47:42 AM »Just thought you might want to know that not all Lunix distros are incapable of playing video.
Seriously, though, I was just letting you and PP know that the video problem that you had seems to be isolated to you so far.
It's far more significant which web browser you're using than which distribution.
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Announcements / Re: New BBCode
« on: December 30, 2013, 03:28:38 AM »I am running Ubuntu 13.10 and PP's video and audio run just fine.
Cool story bro.
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Announcements / Re: New BBCode
« on: December 30, 2013, 03:15:26 AM »
Testing alternative codecs, since my browser won't play the ones pizaaplanet used.
Update: These both work for me.
Update: These both work for me.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Trek
« on: December 26, 2013, 10:10:31 PM »Perhaps you should move to Stargate?
I've already moved on to Red Dwarf.
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Spambot Alert Thread
« on: December 25, 2013, 12:12:57 AM »
Thanks. Sticky'd.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Trek
« on: December 23, 2013, 05:15:48 PM »I have now seen every Star Trek film and episode in existence.Have you watched the fan films?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_fan_productions
http://www.starwreck.com/
Irrelevant.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Trek
« on: December 23, 2013, 02:53:50 PM »That was a terrible episode, and Riker was so fat!
I thought it was a good finale, given the constraint of having to end the series three seasons early. The writers obviously had a direction they were taking the series in which had to be accelerated once it got cancelled, and the way they wrote the finale was a good way of telling the story they wanted to.
Which series was your favorite?
If I had to pick, it would be a close tie between TOS and Voyager. But not by very much; I like them all. I'd say there's more variation within each series than between the series.
I think DS9 has the best writing of the whole series, and it has the fewest shit episodes.
DS9 is good, but basically all of season 5 was a bore for me. It felt like they just wrote an entire season of filler. Aside from that, it's a great series.
I liked Enterprise a lot in general, but I didn't like the Xindi plot arc at all.
Really? I found the series really started to pick up at that point.
TNG has the best three Star Trek episodes of the whole franchise: Best of Both Worlds I and II, and Q Who.
I'd have to strongly disagree. My three favourite episodes are two from TOS (The Cage and Miri) and one from TNG (The Inner Light).
The main reason I wouldn't say I have episodes I especially favour after TNG is that they started to spread stories across multiple episodes, so it's harder to pick one.
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Status Notices / Re: Forum and Wiki maintenance, 2013-12-22
« on: December 23, 2013, 12:59:02 AM »
I'd also like to clarify what this means for the future.
Previously, things have seemingly randomly broken while PizzaPlanet or myself was making changes to the forum. Now, with the code managed in git, we can easily spin up any number of identical staging environments to experiment with.
PizzaPlanet and I already each have our own staging environment to test changes, and we'll make sure things work there before we roll out the changes to here, so your everyday posting will no longer be impacted by us making untested changes.
Anyone else who wants to contribute to the forum codebase, the source is available on GitHub for you to do so. Please contact me if you aren't comfortable setting up your own environment based on this code, and I can arrange one for you.
Previously, things have seemingly randomly broken while PizzaPlanet or myself was making changes to the forum. Now, with the code managed in git, we can easily spin up any number of identical staging environments to experiment with.
PizzaPlanet and I already each have our own staging environment to test changes, and we'll make sure things work there before we roll out the changes to here, so your everyday posting will no longer be impacted by us making untested changes.
Anyone else who wants to contribute to the forum codebase, the source is available on GitHub for you to do so. Please contact me if you aren't comfortable setting up your own environment based on this code, and I can arrange one for you.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Trek
« on: December 22, 2013, 11:04:07 PM »Even the animated stuff?
Yes.
Do you feel like your life is improved as a result?
Yes.
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Status Notices / Re: Forum and Wiki maintenance, 2013-12-22
« on: December 22, 2013, 10:37:22 PM »My avatar disappeared.
Wow, that was silly of me. I forgot to update the attachments after updating the database.
Fixed, let me know if you see any other issues.
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Arts & Entertainment / Star Trek
« on: December 22, 2013, 05:06:34 PM »
I have just finished watching These Are The Voyages..., which marks the end of my Star Trek journey. I have now seen every Star Trek film and episode in existence.
Just thought you ought to know.
Just thought you ought to know.
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Status Notices / Re: Forum and Wiki maintenance, 2013-12-22
« on: December 22, 2013, 08:59:19 AM »
One consequence of this move is that the happy-new-year forum theme has been removed. We've been making loads of changes to the tintagel_fes and Christmas_Season_2 themes to make them work with our modifications to FES, and will be continuing to maintain those to work with future versions of SMF. The other available themes are maintained by SMF itself; they come with the core distribution, and will be updated when a new version of SMF is released.
happy-new-year was unmaintained and subject to bit rot. If somebody else is willing to take on maintainership of that or any other theme, I'm happy to include it, but not if it's only going to sit there and break every time we make a change to the forum software. Providing a theme which doesn't work with our forum software is worse than useless; it gives users the apperance of choice, only to confuse them when they try to use an alternative.
happy-new-year was unmaintained and subject to bit rot. If somebody else is willing to take on maintainership of that or any other theme, I'm happy to include it, but not if it's only going to sit there and break every time we make a change to the forum software. Providing a theme which doesn't work with our forum software is worse than useless; it gives users the apperance of choice, only to confuse them when they try to use an alternative.
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Status Notices / Re: Forum and Wiki maintenance, 2013-12-22
« on: December 22, 2013, 08:15:50 AM »
We're now back up and running, and not a single post was lost that day!
As previously stated, this codebase is slightly different from the old one, so some things might not quite work. Please let me know if you notice any problems.
As previously stated, this codebase is slightly different from the old one, so some things might not quite work. Please let me know if you notice any problems.
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Status Notices / Re: Forum and Wiki maintenance, 2013-12-22
« on: December 21, 2013, 09:00:59 PM »
Moved the time two hours earlier, as that's less disruptive for my schedule (and thus I can give this 100% of my attention when the time comes).
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Status Notices / Forum and Wiki maintenance, 2013-12-22
« on: December 21, 2013, 08:54:22 PM »
The Flat Earth Society Forum and Wiki will be down for maintenance for up to an hour, starting at 08:00 UTC on 2013-12-22.
For convenience, this means:
EST (USA east coast):
2013-12-22, 03:00
UTC (UK):
2013-12-22, 08:00
AEST (Australia east coast):
2013-12-22, 19:00
I don't expect to use the full hour, but I'm scheduling this window to allow for the unforeseen.
The intent is to switch to using our git-tracked forum source in production, which is going to be hosted under a separate account on the same VPS which is better-managed for deployment. This will also enable us to test changes before deploying them, resulting in less unexpected downtime when things break.
Since SMF is really dumb about the way it stores its configuration, this will involve dumping, editing and re-importing the database to change a bunch of stuff to account for the new setup. I'm also taking advantage of this window to install OS security updates on the VPS hosting the forum and wiki, which is why the wiki is also affected.
I will be putting up a static maintenance page during the cutover to inform visitors of the situation and when the website is expected to be operational again.
Thank you for understanding.
For convenience, this means:
EST (USA east coast):
2013-12-22, 03:00
UTC (UK):
2013-12-22, 08:00
AEST (Australia east coast):
2013-12-22, 19:00
I don't expect to use the full hour, but I'm scheduling this window to allow for the unforeseen.
The intent is to switch to using our git-tracked forum source in production, which is going to be hosted under a separate account on the same VPS which is better-managed for deployment. This will also enable us to test changes before deploying them, resulting in less unexpected downtime when things break.
Since SMF is really dumb about the way it stores its configuration, this will involve dumping, editing and re-importing the database to change a bunch of stuff to account for the new setup. I'm also taking advantage of this window to install OS security updates on the VPS hosting the forum and wiki, which is why the wiki is also affected.
I will be putting up a static maintenance page during the cutover to inform visitors of the situation and when the website is expected to be operational again.
Thank you for understanding.
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Announcements / FES forum source is now on GitHub
« on: December 19, 2013, 07:27:21 PM »
It took me a while to wrangle the massive blob of changes we've been making to SMF into logically separate git commits, but I've pushed our source to GitHub:
https://github.com/theflatearthsociety/forum.tfes.org
The GitHub source is slightly different from what the forum is currently running on, as I've made small fixes where appropriate. We'll be migrating to a new and better-managed deployment system based on the code in git Real Soon Now.
https://github.com/theflatearthsociety/forum.tfes.org
The GitHub source is slightly different from what the forum is currently running on, as I've made small fixes where appropriate. We'll be migrating to a new and better-managed deployment system based on the code in git Real Soon Now.
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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles
« on: December 19, 2013, 01:04:28 PM »In reality, this would overwrite all of your hard drive with random data.
Not necessarily.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Drugs should be legal.
« on: December 19, 2013, 08:33:59 AM »
Even if we assume for the moment that all drugs are bad for you, why does that mean they should be illegal? Eating McDonald's is pretty bad for you, should we outlaw fast food?