radium thread meta discussion

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Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

by "big storm" of course you refer to Hurricane Katrina

and yeah i remember the running blog someone was doing as he tried to keep the generators running at that data center, and reporting on what he was seeing on the streets below

didnt the forums go down again later also due to a storm in the 2007-2009 time frame? i joined the forums right before katrina so i dont think thats what im remembering

edit: gustav?

# ? Mar 21, 2016 18:25

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 19:38

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

No that other hurricane that wrecked havok on the SA servers, hurricane radium

# ? Mar 21, 2016 19:47

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

pram posted:

epic lulz :

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3766598

tldr lowtax a spineless bitch who got strung along by an entry level network janitor for half a decade +

lol

# ? Mar 21, 2016 21:37

George: Nov 27, 2004; No love for your made-up things.

ahmeni posted:

then read the thread ya dingus

i did but this is some kind of free software thing where instead of buying good software you pay someone to make your own badly

# ? Mar 22, 2016 00:06

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

George posted:

i dont understand why lowtax doesn't jst buy an uypgrade for the forums software

Lowtax posted:

70% of the software running the forums is in house code, so it always amazes me when people who have no idea how the forums work offer their technical advice of "just upgrade the software, idiot." I admit I'm a loving moron, but I'm not such a loving moron that if it was as simple as upgrading to the latest version of vB, I wouldn't do it.

# ? Mar 22, 2016 00:12

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Lowtax posted:

I'm a loving moron

probably could have just closed the thread there, tbh

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

# ? Mar 22, 2016 00:13

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

buy vBulletin for $250, pay someone in india/the philippines a few grand to hack up a lovely HTML scraper to scrape the live forums and archives and inject them into some sane db schema

:smug:

# ? Mar 22, 2016 00:34

George: Nov 27, 2004; No love for your made-up things.

My bad, are we seriousposting in this thread?

# ? Mar 22, 2016 00:35

pram: Jun 10, 2001

if radium made like, even 40k .. that means like $240k of salary over 6 years?

# ? Mar 22, 2016 00:44

qntm: Jun 17, 2009

put the forums code on github

I am 15% serious

# ? Mar 22, 2016 00:45

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Sweevo posted:

appeal to retarded authority. interesting gambit

# ? Mar 22, 2016 01:02

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

pram posted:

appeal to retarded authority. interesting gambit

technically, an appeal to loving moronic authority

# ? Mar 22, 2016 01:05

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

mishaq posted:

buy vBulletin for $250, pay someone in india/the philippines a few grand to hack up a lovely HTML scraper to scrape the live forums and archives and inject them into some sane db schema

what's the $250 vB licence for if you're going with a sane db schema

# ? Mar 22, 2016 02:06

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

jony ive aces posted:

what's the $250 vB licence for if you're going with a sane db schema

my understanding is radium did his own schema with "bitfields" to save space or something horrendously retarded

i presume whatever vBulletin 5 uses is better than that

# ? Mar 22, 2016 02:07

Hed: Mar 31, 2004; Fun Shoe

pram posted:

if radium made like, even 40k .. that means like $240k of salary over 6 years?

health plan made DocEvil his PCP though. which nearly explains the amphetamine benders actually.

# ? Mar 22, 2016 02:15

pram: Jun 10, 2001

cucked im gay cucking

# ? Mar 22, 2016 02:22

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

pram droppin' some truth bombs here

# ? Mar 22, 2016 02:25

Fabricated: Apr 9, 2007; Living the Dream

well we can always look forward to the next doom house when the forums go down

# ? Mar 22, 2016 02:31

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

it just needs a bit of punctuation

having been made complicit in my wife's infidelity and subordinate to her paramour [comma] i realize now my attraction toward other men [comma] sexually subordinating them in like manner

# ? Mar 22, 2016 02:36

fritz: Jul 26, 2003

Hed posted:

health plan made DocEvil his PCP though. which nearly explains the amphetamine benders actually.

obamacare won't pay for all those deviled eggs

# ? Mar 22, 2016 02:41

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

infernal machines posted:

pram droppin' some truth bombs here

# ? Mar 22, 2016 07:16

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

pram posted:

epic lulz :

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3766598

tldr lowtax a spineless bitch who got strung along by an entry level network janitor for half a decade +

lol did u read gbs :pram:

# ? Mar 22, 2016 07:41

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

code:

(9:28:58 AM) 19629905: so do you think the stuff you're working on will be done this month?
(10:57:20 AM) Radium: handwich

# ? Mar 22, 2016 09:07

Tatsujin: Apr 26, 2004; EVERYONE EXCEPT THE HOT WOMEN

dang i would have expected lowtax to have an ICQ# under 8 digits

# ? Mar 22, 2016 10:14

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Tatsujin posted:

dang i would have expected lowtax to have an ICQ# under 8 digits

straight up n00b

# ? Mar 22, 2016 14:10

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

mishaq posted:

my understanding is radium did his own schema with "bitfields" to save space or something horrendously retarded

i presume whatever vBulletin 5 uses is better than that

back when chooch was working on on the forums he said the problem was that radium didn't use bitfields. so instead of easily testable bit flags for has_platinum, has_archives, is_an_admin, etc he'd made separate categories for each combination, so users with platinum, users with archives, and users with both platinum and archives were three totally separate groups and that it made all the related coding a huge mess

# ? Mar 22, 2016 14:16

Just-In-Timeberlake: Aug 18, 2003

Sweevo posted:

back when chooch was working on on the forums he said the problem was that radium didn't use bitfields. so instead of easily testable bit flags for has_platinum, has_archives, is_an_admin, etc he'd made separate categories for each combination, so users with platinum, users with archives, and users with both platinum and archives were three totally separate groups and that it made all the related coding a huge mess

lol

can you just picture this schema?

makes what I have to deal with daily look sane.

# ? Mar 22, 2016 14:37

vodkat: Jun 30, 2012; cannot legally be sold as vodka

can anyone think of a time radium got something right?

# ? Mar 22, 2016 14:38

Zam Wesell: Mar 22, 2009; [Zam is suddenly shot in the neck by a toxic dart; Anakin and Obi-Wan see a "rocket-man" take off and fly away, and Zam dies]

when he stopped posting

# ? Mar 22, 2016 15:04

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

vodkat posted:

can anyone think of a time radium got something right?

didn't he start his internet career as a half-life modder?

# ? Mar 22, 2016 15:18

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Sweevo posted:

back when chooch was working on on the forums he said the problem was that radium didn't use bitfields. so instead of easily testable bit flags for has_platinum, has_archives, is_an_admin, etc he'd made separate categories for each combination, so users with platinum, users with archives, and users with both platinum and archives were three totally separate groups and that it made all the related coding a huge mess

lol

# ? Mar 22, 2016 15:35

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

didn't he start his internet career as a half-life modder?

they're waiting for you kenneth
in the gas chamberrrrr

# ? Mar 22, 2016 15:47

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

vodkat posted:

can anyone think of a time radium got something right?

http://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php?adminid=&actfilt=7&ban_month=&ban_year=#list

# ? Mar 22, 2016 15:49

Satellit3: Oct 21, 2008

Sweevo posted:

back when chooch was working on on the forums he said the problem was that radium didn't use bitfields. so instead of easily testable bit flags for has_platinum, has_archives, is_an_admin, etc he'd made separate categories for each combination, so users with platinum, users with archives, and users with both platinum and archives were three totally separate groups and that it made all the related coding a huge mess

lomarf

# ? Mar 22, 2016 16:34

lampey: Mar 27, 2012

mishaq posted:

the forums were hosted in a data center in louisiana and they went down during a big storm related power outage

why the gently caress would anyone build a data center in louisiana

why would anyone build a datacenter in SF? or any place prone to floods and earthquakes

# ? Mar 22, 2016 19:40

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

lampey posted:

why would anyone build a datacenter in SF? or any place prone to floods and earthquakes

because there's enough concentrated technology business in the bay area that requires data center space

have your DR site somewhere less natural disaster prone

what the gently caress is in louisiana besides daiquiris and racism

# ? Mar 22, 2016 21:16