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by xon
Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:39 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Replies: 2364
Views: 223473

Re: Testing Chat II: CHAT HARDER

Every time I try to put a couple emoji into a post the board gives me a General error: SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\x84\xF0\x9F...' for column 'post_text' at row 1 [1366] Fucking MySQL. Broken by design , and non-trivial to actually fix (changing the character type cau...
by xon
Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:23 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Testing Chat Thread
Replies: 2504
Views: 181600

Re: Testing Chat Thread

I had a whole rant written up, but to sum it up I dislike HR.

An entire day of my time isn't actually worth a single extra-night at a hotel after attending a week long training/conference thing
by xon
Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:02 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Testing Chat Thread
Replies: 2504
Views: 181600

Re: Testing Chat Thread

adr wrote:beta tester: "the interface is too cluttered"

boss: "let's remove all the whitespace and add more crap in the newly freed space! oh and animate it all too"


i wish i was making this up

i really do
Just remember, it could be worse.
by xon
Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:56 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
Replies: 2735
Views: 193491

Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution

adr wrote:or is are they serious about computer shopping?
I need to kick my computer hardware habit.

2 modern computers at home running as a servers, media box, desktop, pfsense firewall appliance box and colocation server.

So expensive :(
by xon
Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:36 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Testing Chat Thread
Replies: 2504
Views: 181600

Re: Testing Chat Thread

This CentOS 6.x VM has required more reboots due to kernel updates over the last 6 months than some of my Windows installs.

What the hell.
by xon
Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:47 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Testing Chat Thread
Replies: 2504
Views: 181600

Re: Testing Chat Thread

Oh Fun. The ISP providing this server's internet connection is getting DDOSed again.
by xon
Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:17 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Testing Chat Thread
Replies: 2504
Views: 181600

Re: Testing Chat Thread.

Zod wrote:I can't find an option to stickify threads. Annoying.

Code: Select all

update phpbb_topics set topic_type = 1 where topic_id = 885;
Worked
by xon
Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:47 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Testing Chat Thread
Replies: 2504
Views: 181600

Re: A New Dawn

Our search works, right? Yup. Isn't going to be a problem for a long time to come. Amusingly, the thread with ~10000 replies was actually starting to cause the SQL server to take almost a second due to counting every post before the post you are viewing so it can do pagination. Throwing more memory...
by xon
Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:01 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

At worst, I've got an SSD to put the database on if too many queries start taking longer than a second. http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/laserdisk/sw5/gathering19.jpg ??? One of these, which is almost as much overkill as your image: http://newsroom.intel.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-214...
by xon
Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:43 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

Oxymoron wrote:Well, I've stopped caring about that place for a few months now, so I haven't been able to observe any recent changes there could have been.
SDN has basicly lost it's purpose since it was created in mid-2002-ish, and it sure as hell hasn't weathered the years well.
by xon
Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:36 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

Gands wrote:Whatever happened to the policy of "stuff said on other boards is irrelevant"?
That's only for the small people.
by xon
Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:10 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

Hey adr, how much did the sites traffic go up? idk xon has access to that now sudo cp ./testingstan_bandwidth.sh /home/adr/ testingstan was just a total of 500mb or so since it transfered to my box(aka fuckall). At some stage I'll throw some bandwidth monitoring stuff up. the who's online list seem...
by xon
Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:11 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Board RPG Thing?
Replies: 143
Views: 20123

Re: Board RPG Thing?

Some admin might want to create a specific games subforum for this type of thing too
by xon
Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:33 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

starku wrote:and indeed some of his best proper fantasy is actally about people exploring and understanding a world of difference
The vast majority of Lovecraft's works was racist shit over the "horrors" of interacial interactions.
by xon
Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:30 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

Director of Celestial Intelligence wrote:Number of people surprised Vashon would get booted=0
I'm amazed he lasted as long as he did.

SB falling over due to neglect must have pushed him to spam elsewhere.
by xon
Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:07 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

RogueIce wrote:
evilsoup wrote:hey what happened to the trollface smiley
I think Phant was finally butthurt about it enough and deleted it.
Fairly sure the image is still there, so if you can dig up the URL it you can link to it via the img tags
by xon
Sun Jul 08, 2012 2:37 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

I'm sorry, I really don't get the nerd love for android. Is it because it claims to be open source? Speaking of opensource, phpbb is such a a pile of shit it's amazing. Reading the dev forums is an great way to crush someone's hopes for humanity. mysql_real_escape_string >:[ Holy fuck, who ever tho...
by xon
Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:40 pm
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

Questor wrote:I'm sorry, I really don't get the nerd love for android. Is it because it claims to be open source?
Speaking of opensource, phpbb is such a a pile of shit it's amazing. Reading the dev forums is an great way to crush someone's hopes for humanity.
by xon
Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:21 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

timmy wrote:Jesus, I do not like the precedent on this
This is you passing an intelligence test.
by xon
Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:45 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
Replies: 2735
Views: 193491

Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution

Expires header should now be correctly set so browser caching should work better.
by xon
Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:15 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

JME2 has been trying to get a job in that one industry for what? 4-5 years now?
by xon
Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:45 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

adr wrote:
Questor wrote:Do we have a testingstan chat? we should.
this thread is the testingstan chat
I'm kinda tempted to make the site's favicon rotate between a banner of browser icons.
by xon
Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:40 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

but then i realized broomstick would probably remind everyone she had a story plagiarized at some point If you take about a dozen posts of beating her over the head she apparently claims it was a manuscript being physically stolen. Of course this took me comparing her writing to fanfiction (boy did...
by xon
Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:16 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

The horrible part is how Dalton defends the systematic bias which produces the crappy results.
by xon
Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:02 am
Forum: New Testing
Topic: Godammed SDN
Replies: 12193
Views: 762824

Re: Godammed SDN

I wonder what Dalton thinks about this?: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/health-care-ruling-scotus-cnn-gaffe-fox-news-154347515.html Dalton's hardon for white knighting Fox News who have had a court protected right to lie and get away with it, over thier constant gaffes and one-sided nature is a...