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eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
A look into the history of SA

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www
Aug 4, 2010

lowtax sounds like a real taskmaster, take a chill pill bro

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
I like the parts where he didn't treat you like a boss

Lowtax: Can you do X?

Radium: I don't know what you want!!!!!!!

literally a hog
Jan 5, 2006

Mandarrrrrk! Bring me the head of Dexter and Dee Dee shall forever be yours!

Lowtax posted:

A MUCH BIGGER IDIOT!!!

Also he works for the US Government now.

does he still use the same password for everything?

kjs500

Crash_N_Burn
Apr 19, 2014

wanted to see Titan so bad

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

i love reading other ppls instant messages

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Hell Yeah posted:

i love reading other ppls instant messages

this but unironically

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Lowtax posted:

(9:40 PM) Radium: poo poo, ozma banned me for posting while drunk
(9:40 PM) Radium: can you unban me
(9:40 PM) Lowtax: what happened?
(9:41 PM) Radium: I was asking for some porn torregnt sites but I was drunk... more like DKRUNK am i rite
(9:42 PM) Lowtax: no you are not right

:lol: Did Ozma ever ban other staff? Did she ever ban you??

Also did Radium make insane or funny comments in his code?

Sophy Wackles fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Mar 2, 2016

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

this but unironically

actually i meant it unironically.

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Bill Barber posted:

lmao who would hire such an idiot?

if he was smart he'd have outsourced his work to an indian/chineses man

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord
you shouldn't just toss him into hot water like that, you gotta do a slow boil

PinkoBastard
Oct 3, 2010

Hell Yeah posted:

i love reading other ppls instant messages

:agreed: (unironically)

Fansy
Feb 26, 2013

I GAVE LOWTAX COOKIE MONEY TO CHANGE YOUR STUPID AVATAR GO FUCK YOURSELF DUDE
Grimey Drawer
You should have just upgraded vbulletin and saved whatever ridiculous amount of money you spent on titan or whatever.

Octopus Magic
Dec 19, 2003

I HATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU LIKE* AND I NEED TO BE SURE YOU ALL KNOW THAT EVERY TIME I POST

*unless it's a DSM in which case we cool ^_^
have you considered going to node.js

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james

Why didn't he unban himself? Direct access to the db and admin...

BigBoss
Jan 26, 2012

by Lowtax

Fansy posted:

You should have just upgraded vbulletin and saved whatever ridiculous amount of money you spent on titan or whatever.

This.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

Lowtax posted:

(9:40 PM) Radium: poo poo, ozma banned me for posting while drunk
(9:40 PM) Radium: can you unban me
(9:40 PM) Lowtax: what happened?
(9:41 PM) Radium: I was asking for some porn torregnt sites but I was drunk... more like DKRUNK am i rite
(9:42 PM) Lowtax: no you are not right

this made me literally lol

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post

SpaceAceJase posted:

Why didn't he unban himself? Direct access to the db and admin...

Because he didn't actually know how to do anything.

Skeleton Ape
Dec 21, 2008



Was radium the one who initially set the forums up, or did he come in later? Was he initially competent (enough) when the site was smaller and but then things just gradually got away from him?

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Conversation with radiumsa at 6/9/2011 12:13:25 PM on SAAssLowtax (aim)
(13:13:30) SAAssLowtax: Radium what is the status
(13:14:37) Radium: Today I installed a feature that makes a boner appear randomly instead of posts
(13:15:15) SAAssLowtax: That is not ok radium, the forums are not a joke
(13:15:58) SAAssLowtax: yes they are

Gobblecoque
Sep 6, 2011
DKRUNK

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

the forum software is just as hosed up as the users, on somethingawful.com

Unknowable Hole
Feb 2, 2005


Pillbug
Fix the forums Radium

This is a lowtax

OMG JC a Bomb!
Jul 13, 2004

We are the Invisible Spatula. We are the Grilluminati. We eat before and after dinner. We eat forever. And eventually... eventually we will lead them into the dining room.

Lowtax posted:


Also he works for the US Government now.

Haha, be looking at this Agent Smirnov! I am accessing secret database because stupidnik admin is using same password for all things! It is not even having the search function!

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

a starwar betamax posted:

Oh good I cant wait to read these icq chatlogs!

Actually these teaches me how to be a job creator

Michael Bayleaf
Jun 4, 2006

Tortured By Flan

hahah

canned from the band
Sep 13, 2007

I'm a man of intensity. Of cool, and youth, and passionately
Jesus Lowtax you sound like an awful manager. Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of Agile and Jira. My rate is $150/hours and it'll probably take about 6 months to deliver less than previously, but at least you'll be agilllle.

Attitude Indicator
Apr 3, 2009

lowtax: the forums are dyin' radium
lowtax: fix it
radium: i cannot


E: sorry for hacking your irc lowtax

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord

B1axident posted:

Jesus Lowtax you sound like an awful manager. Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of Agile and Jira. My rate is $150/hours and it'll probably take about 6 months to deliver less than previously, but at least you'll be agilllle.

lol @ Jira

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
you were kind of being a dick to that guy :shrug:

Raere
Dec 13, 2007

Of course he'd go work for the government. With his competence he'd fit right in

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Fansy posted:

You should have just upgraded vbulletin and saved whatever ridiculous amount of money you spent on titan or whatever.
If it were that easy, do you not think I would've done that

Ape Fist
Feb 23, 2007

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
Does vBulletin still charge $199 dollars for a licence to access their loving 2004-tier "software"?

spud
Aug 27, 2003

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

BORLAND STARTEAM GO!

Ape Fist posted:

Does vBulletin still charge $199 dollars for a licence to access their loving 2004-tier "software"?

I remember when SA had a custom "powered by vBulletin" thing about and it was glorious. THen vBulletin got all pissy and lowtax had to pay Radium $200 to change it.

The Walrus
Jul 9, 2002

by Fluffdaddy

thathonkey posted:

you were kind of being a dick to that guy :shrug:

no he had every right to be even more upset and vocal - lowtax be more direct and less passive agressive imo

ethanol
Jul 13, 2007



lowtax why are you having passive aggressive chats with the robot that banned me for using the attention tag

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer
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.

Ape Fist
Feb 23, 2007

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
Oh my bad its $249.99 for a vB licence and $399.99 for an include mobile version of the software.

Still built on PHP. Still breaks if you have any more than 1000 users online.

Back in 2004 I remember so many webdevs in irc channels who would :smug: hard over owning a vB licence, glad to see their emotional investment paid off an this piece of poo poo software is still around and hasn't been trashed and replaced with literally any alternative.

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.


yeah I know SA is barely a vB forum anymore, I'm just making GBS threads on old vB elitists from way back when.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
what version of php does the latest version of vb run on?

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Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

quote:

(3:01:50 PM) 19629905: so I was wondering if you're any closer to having a rough ETA, so I could let the other mods and admins know the plan
(3:03:30 PM) Radium: I hate to even give ETAs anymore, but I'm working on it all the time
(3:04:30 PM) 19629905: I know you don't like giving ETAs, and I know you're working on it all the time, but I don't have any idea if it will take a month or a year or it can even be done at all
(3:06:49 PM) Radium: yeah I realize its aggravating... I guess I'd say a month
(3:07:24 PM) Radium: I guess I should have written another crap search engine first to tide us over, instead of writing this giant thing first
(3:07:42 PM) 19629905: well I dont think any of us predicted how long it would take
(3:08:46 PM) Radium: I knew it would take long, I definitely didn't think Id still be working on it in 09 though
(3:09:04 PM) 19629905: has it just been more difficult than you anticipated?
(3:10:41 PM) Radium: no, its just very time consuming because I'm so cautious of exploits or even just simple bugs... things were so dramatic when I started all this, I guess I started out setting the bar way too high
(3:11:54 PM) Radium: after you left, nobody really defended anything me or anyone else was doing, so I was just trying to avoid dragging the site further through the mud with more buggy poo poo

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