Or, let's post something that looks innocent, and then go back and edit our post later and put spam links in it ;)

Alos upgraded version of IPB (because y'know .. every time I upgraded PHP IPB breaks  )
 

And finally .....

What's up ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

long time no chat.

Just informing everyone, server was upgraded to Debian Buster today, and software was upgraded to latest version 

And just for shits and giggles here's something from a long time ago:

Did I ever actually look like that ? :O

We no longer have community blogs (was never really used)

We no longer have a portal page.
We can discuss this, and decide whether it is needed (It costs money)

We've continued to have intermittent problems with db4 (also known as db3 as we merged both servers into one) in the last few days. So far the problem doesn't appear to be related to XFS specifically but more than likely a memory problem or something with mysqld itself. I'm leaning more towards a memory problem. Testing memory would create a large outage so we're going to have to move the mysqld services to a temporary machine. Unfortunately the server we normally use for situations like this is being used but the service it hosts was planned to be moved anyway.

 

I'm working towards getting this temporary server back online so that we can properly troubleshoot db4/db3. I'm shooting to get this done by the end of tomorrow or the latest by next Monday. Unfortunately, I suspect that the mysqld service on the machine will fail again between now and then so please be patient with us. I apologize for not having a better backup plan in place but we're busy as always.

This will be to enable some hardware updates :) yay!

just in case there's a problem.

Broadly speaking, you can write about anything that you could post in Talk-Talk or Everything Linux, but consult an admin or mod if you're in doubt.

Use the Blogs link at the top of the page to see the current list of blogs. Above the list, there's a Create a Blog link. Use this to create a community blog; if you already have an external blog, you can link to it here. If you enable friendly URLs, you can reference your blog as https://mandrivausers.org/blog/username.

We look forward to finding out more about you!

Thanks scoopy, for all the hard work on the images.

If you would like to be included in the list, please post in this thread: volunteers may receive an occasional personal message requesting their help.

There could quite possibly be some outages while I upgrade.

Of course I am trying them elsewhere first ;)

Paul.

y selecciona "Pieles e idiomas"

Added the Spanish language for our board interface.

Go to "my controls" and select "skins and languages"

Thanks

We have been in contact with our host, OSUOSL, who has been diligently researching the issue. We will also be taking some steps in the near future to attempt to rectify the problem.

We will continue to work on it and keep you updated, but we thought it best to inform everyone that we are aware of the problem and working to solve it.

This is an explanation of the problem

There is a udev bug that marineam has fixed and submitted upstream.. till then we had fixed it last time that vm went down, but the file that needed removed had resurfaced

Again, my apologies.

We have been offered (at least) 5 years of hosting at http://osuosl.org on a Xen box with 10GB's of space. The move will occur later this week, with an estimated downtime of 4 hours (specific date and time to follow). In some places this downtime may be longer due to propogation of the DNS entry out to the rest of the world.

We already have the board up and running at our new host, so the plan is as follows:

1. Turn off this board. Anyone visiting will get a message informing them of what is occuring and an estimated up time.
   
2. Sync the SQL database from this board with the board at the new location, to be sure that all the most recent data is there. Myself, paul and mystified all keep backups of the board - so in the unlikely event that something is lost one of us will surely have it.
   
3. Open the new board, do some basic testing to make sure things are as they should be.
   
4. Update the DNS entries to point to our new home.
   
5. Drink many beers
   

This is the basic plan, there are likely to be a few other small things that will need to be done.

Please note, this move is being done because it's a great opportunity for growth of the board.

At this time, we would like to thank Kernow Webhosting for the hosting that they've provided us, and all the support they've given us when things got bumpy. It's been greatly appreciated :)

Please see this thread if you have any questions.

We wil be moving the board to a new server over the next few days. We will also be upgrading the board to a stable, but RC release of Invision board 2.00.

There will be a period of down time, but it shouldn't be for very long. Once the switch takes place, you may notice some recent posts or topics that are missing. It will take a day (probably less) to update the database with the latest posts and also add in our logo and other board features. If you use a skin other than the default, you may have to wait for it to be added/installed.

The new board is packed with new features that will enhance your visit here, but some will take time to be put in place, i will make a post of some of the new features and how to use them after the upgrade takes place. Please be patient!

Because of some new data base tables that have to be added, this board will be upgraded first, and then moved.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thanks!

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large about a recent clandestine attack by proprietary interest through

covert adoption of EU Software Patent Legislation.

In direct contravention of the recent vote by the European Parliament to

curtail Software Patents, the Irish Presidency of the European Union has

surreptitiously reinstated unlimited software patent language into the

text of a statement to be adopted by the European Council of Ministers

on Monday May, 17th, without further debate!

The new text, if adopted, will extend Software Patents to every piece of

software, including computer programs, data structures, and process

descriptions. This will directly harm most software firms and all Open

Source projects unable to pay patent licensing tribute, and amounts to

an appropriation of the public domain by proprietary interests. A

direct beneficiary will be a new class of pure patent companies without

any real business or contribution to employment, which will use the

threat of litigation to extort payments.

Of note is that a sponsor of the Irish Presidency is Microsoft,

currently building a large patent portfolio. If the Software Patent

text is adopted, Microsoft may use this patent portfolio against Linux

and other Open Source projects.

Mandrakesoft would like to forewarn and mobilize its users and the

software community about the very real threat of such a law. Please

contact the media, your political representatives, and your government,

and urge them to vote against unlimited Software Patents and to revert

to the previous European Parliament position.

For further information please see the following links:

http://swpat.ffii.org/journal/04/cons0507/...7/index.en.html

http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn

Mandrakesoft Online Team.

Admins note

This forum is just for announcements, I am sure many of you wish to discuss this news so please open a topic on this subject in the Everything Linux forum.

anon

For your information:

As of May-09-04 new members joining this board will be placed in a "New here" group .

This means that the Off topic Forum and also Forum discussion will not be visable to new members until they reach ten posts.

New members will also be restricted from voting or setting up polls until they have reached ten posts.

Regards to all.

He has tweaked the cumalative efforts previously put forth by other members here. Prior to this it was moderator scoopy who shined up the board's logo and added the three dimensional look to it.

The original design was the brainchild of admin paul, who is also to thank for making the script work to allow those IE challenged visitors to view the transparent png file and our banner as it was meant to be.

I'm trying to find a fix for this, BUT do not try to send the PM or e-mail again, the mail HAS been sent even though the error tells you it has not

This seems to be a common error that affects all BB boards from time to time. I have yet to track down the cause, but i suspect its php related as sendmail is working fine.

The server crashed, the engineers couldn't find the fault, but suspected the motherboard.

Im now running a brand new server, but its taking a while to get it all set up.

Please bear with me.

This should fix some errors were having.

Board will be offline for a short period of time. Sorry for any inconvience this may cause.

Also feel sorry for me who has to do it, and Paul who will be monitoring for any PHP problems that may occur,....... instead of going for a beer :P

Thanks and sorry for the inconvience.

A few people have been asking recently "who runs this board?"

The domain name mandrakeusers.org is owned by Paul.

The domain name mandrakeusers.com and mandrake-forum.org is owned by myself.

The board is currently hosted on my server.

The database is backed up in three different locations.

No one person controls this board

We have four administrators "in charge" of the overall running of this board.

Any Admin can make minor changes to this board, "as and when they see fit"

Important or major changes are discussed in the closed Admin forum, or by e-mail or PM.

At least two Admins must agree for major/important changes to take effect.

In many cases, the Moderators and Development team are invited for their input/ sugestions.

The Moderators have been entrusted to move/edit/delete posts or topics, as they deem necessary, according to the guidelines.

We now have a spell checker to use when you reply to posts.

Its capable of learning also.

If you twist my arm, and you really really insist. will add it to the "quick reply" also.

(when i get more time)

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Thank you,

MUsB Admins

I have added a members home page category ( added bvc's home page as a test)

And a Linux news category, more will follow soon.

You may have experienced some slow down in this boards performance lately.

To rectify that, we are going to use a new type of php board, this board is faster, and has more user features than our current phpbb board.

In the next 24 to 48 hours or so when you visit here, you will be redirected to :

http://mandrake-forum.org

which is our backup site, and home to our download area.

Posting is enabled in all forums, and you can login with your existing username/password.

Please view the new features available to you, but wait for the redirect before posting your questions there. At the moment only the Moderators and Admins are logging in to ensure the transfer goes OK.

As in life, there maybe one or two hicups or problems in the first few days, but we hope that you will find the new site a pleasant experience.