Forums going down tonight

[nightwulf]

Upgrading to the newest version of our forum software tonight. This will happen when I feel like it, and the boards will come back up when I feel like it. Eat a dong.

Er, I'll post a warning when I figure out when I can do this. Expect downtime to be 15-30 minutes.

[Stock]

Awesome!

Now we will be able to post Microsoft Excel files and PowerPoint slides.

Thanks buddy!!!

[TβG]

i'm pretty sure excel files have already been ok'd.  (thought i saw one a month or so ago)

[nightwulf]

This is happening at 3am (central).

[nightwulf]

Back up. Tried dicking with the search function while I had the forums down anyway, and mysqld puked.

Making the usual modifications ...

[nightwulf]

Ok. Removed links to various sites below for Gantry, made the logo above link to Dee-Nee, bolded thread titles on the index page, and resurrected the chat button. Remind me what else I'm missing.

The main reason I'm pushing this update is that there is (working) support for Captcha images while registering. This seems to be working, so hopefully we'll see fewer spam fuckers.

[BDawk]

Proper modulation?

[Gantry]

Whoa I missed all this, time to play around...

[Big Hath]

so this down time was not sanctioned by Gantry??

[broiler]

next time nightwulf goes down on gantry, gantry should give him a gorilla mask.

[BeeJay]

I'm not sure if you two read the other thread,  but the search function isn't working, and the search for the search button appears to be missing.

[nightwulf]

Search has gone away for now. I'll try building an index tonight, but this will take the forums down for some time.

Apparently this is a common issue, and stems from your mysql server not supporting temorary tables. Oh Gantry!

[Gantry]

MySQL 3 is starting to become a thorn in my sexy, sexy side.  I can't update any of my wikis anymore...

Dee-Nee server #2 has the hardware just about ready, but I'm saving the test install/upgrade for the next RHEL beta...

[nightwulf]

MySQL 3 is starting to become a thorn in my sexy, sexy side.  I can't update any of my wikis anymore...

Dee-Nee server #2 has the hardware just about ready, but I'm saving the test install/upgrade for Slackware 11...

[Attezz]

Will no search button decrease the amount of guests?

I notice there are  zero guests right now, which seems a bit odd.

[TempoGL]

i don't think so.  the lack of a search button doesn't prevent search web crawlers from finding all of our very special posts.  so i guess if you wanted a rudimentary search, search for whatever you want and "dee-nee" and it might come up.

[nightwulf]

Coming down at 3am (central) again to try and search for the search button. Expect to be down ~15 minutes.

[nightwulf]

Well, I give up. At this point, we can go back a version, or we can wait for the next version (evidently this bug is already fixed for it), or Gantry can upgrade mysql.

Searching does work when searching only topic titles.

[nightwulf]

I take that back. Using a silly hack suggested by another user at SMF's forums, search appears to be working. I hope.

[Gantry]

Search working just peachy! 

It's really time to actually plan the dee-nee upgrade, it's a long time coming...