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HELLO EVERYBODY !

SOOOOO GLAD that you are back online.

Computer Geek Side Question -
based on the Worst Case system recovery that you had to go through, would you recommend SMF as forum software ?

Interesting that you went through that.  I had a fire in my dining room, "electrical nature" type ignition, on St. Patrick's day.

It ALMOST burned down the entire house.  I put out the fire myself.

The heat & smoke damaged my main workstation.  It straggled on for about 8 days, then wouldn't start.  Replaced the motherboard and the power supply, then got the desktop and apps (about $20K worth - by 2012 prices) back.

Then to make matters much worse, it was the Summer of EMI experimentation - by the power company.

They were doing system shut-offs.  The re-starts were FATAL - bringing 200+ VAC spikes on a line that is supposed to be 115 VAC.

Plain out killed the replacement power supply, Seasonic 750 Watt, full modular, "Gold" not the Vertex.

Of course, that's exactly what I want in a power supply - it sacrifices itself, to protect the hard drives and the motherboard.

That happened more than once.

Some electrical contractor offered to install a $140 Siemens EMI filter / Surge Protector for $600.

I bought a dual fuel 5500 watt generator for $600.  And started using my APC 500 UPS'.  though I had trouble trusting the UPS for a while, after one of the power spikes left the system DEAD, and the UPS buzzing very loudly.


OK here's a question - is the economic contraction of the US economy - create a higher probability of unhealthy power spikes, e.g. in 2024 than in 2014 ?

I guess you would need a spy at the power company and good Metrics to answer that.


But since Covid19, one of the primary things that I have witnessed is the shut-down of American supply chains.  At the street level.

e.g. before Covid19, we had 2 metal shops that helped me build metal stuff.  e.g. welded steel parts for a wood-fired kiln.

One of the shops was sold for about $2 Million.  The new owner has a habit of deliberately losing Requests for Quotation.

Their business is 10% of what it was.  I smell money-laundering.

The main machinist is so stressed from customers yelled at him that it almost comical.  Like a Saturday Night Live version of a Stressed Machinist.

The other shop, that did some great welding for me, started a $1000 minimum and got one large customer, the city and the new water treatment plant.  He's been asked to weld the thing that is like an egg beater, that they use to stir up the raw sewage.


What I am doing with the steel work now, is building a kiln that can take 2000 F - with minimal oxygen.

I'm planning to do that using CO2 or maybe Nitrogen.

The oxygen is like an acid.  At 2000 F you have to keep it away from Everything.

Except maybe Israel.  BWAHAHA, political comment !


Since most of us are Serious Readers of History books, then you know all about World War 1, World War 2, the "Cold War", and the Terror War.

World War 1 was to destroy the Ottoman Empire - because they refused to give Palestine to PissraHell.

And while all that chaos was going on, the Jews, calling themselves "Bolsheviks", murdered the Russian Royal Family - the most powerful Gentiles in Russia.

JEWS HATE POWERFUL GENTILES - have you noticed ?

And that's just World War 1.

the assassination of Ferdinand arch-duke whoever, is just part of the American High School propaganda stream.

Obviously, there is much more to that story, but the bottom line is this:

I am 67, so I have had a chance to watch the Vietnam War, etc.

I have NEVER seen so much simultaneous conflict as what I witness now.

The US has been come very close to fighting a war directly with Russia, and it is the US as much as Israel that is Creating a Genuine Holocaust in Gaza, and fighting a multi-front war there.

Meanwhile the adding $1 Trillion of debt every 100 days thing is a growing cancer.

Meanwhile, China and Russia have their own palavering to do.
Russia happens to have HUUUUGE amounts of land, enough that forest fire is almost not a threat to them.  China needs land.

Hard to miss that trade.

China has said whatever they said about Taiwan, and they are alternating days making demonstrations of war toys in the oceans around Taiwan.  The US one day, China the next.

How long before that happens on the SAME day ?

Anyway, this is the way probability works.  If there is a heightened probability of something Tragically Entertaining happening, which of course World War 5 will be, in a given second, and then 31,536,000 of those seconds go by, in a year - the risk/ probability is additionally heightened.

I believe the Psycho $WEJ in Washington DC and Israel and London, + the Lubies in Brooklyn, are HELL-bent on repeating something which maybe has been done before - using War to hide economic difficulties - but never on this scale.

And also, the US is so much weaker now than in, for example, 1980.


One other thing - I recommend you do what you need to do to have 10 cans of gasoline stored outside your house, if you use gasoline.

I had 10 cans in my garage, then realized I might need to fight a fire involving those 50 gallons of gasoline some day.  Would rather that happen outdoors.


I suck at writing short emails !

QuoteComputer Geek Side Question -
based on the Worst Case system recovery that you had to go through, would you recommend SMF as forum software ?

I don't think there's anything wrong with SMF.  The hosting company - Hostgator - really screwed things up.  The SMF hadn't been updated, and had to switch to new hosting company - Bluehost, which is supposed to be best for SMF - and a lot of work had to be done bringing everything up to date. 

Quote from: yankeedoodle on October 30, 2024, 01:54:22 PM

QuoteComputer Geek Side Question -
based on the Worst Case system recovery that you had to go through, would you recommend SMF as forum software ?

I don't think there's anything wrong with SMF.  The hosting company - Hostgator - really screwed things up.  The SMF hadn't been updated, and had to switch to new hosting company - Bluehost, which is supposed to be best for SMF - and a lot of work had to be done bringing everything up to date. 

Well that's EXACTLY what we web consumers need to know.  Thanks !

Was there a Database of some kind, representing all the posts etc., that had to be transferred between the 2 hosts ?

Or did the sysAdmins keep the back-ups, and they (hopefully) were compatible with the software at the new host.

What is the File Format of the back-up files / files that were transferred ?

Once when I was learning a fraction of php, there were lots of files with *.php extensions.

We had a full SQL backup from the old Host but it got corrupted.

Thanks to you Kent who paid for the changes otherwise we'd be epsteined.

I still need to upload my archives and there are a few bugs still that are being looked into.

Do you own the server hardware that the web forum software runs on ?

Quote from: abduLMaria on October 31, 2024, 04:27:59 PMDo you own the server hardware that the web forum software runs on ?

No.