time for a full plate of forums?

[Tranceman]

:cry: I miss The cave :cry: and the salvia plane :cry:, hey but at least we have the groove, your doing a good job JRL

[X. Torris]

I feel kinda odd doing so, but I offer up my meager services as a mod, should there end up being an orphan forum when the dust clears.

[cenacle]

tranceman, your wish is granted! heh
X, we'll get you a forum to mod, and thanks

[Anonymous]

baby jesus always wears tinfoil hats  

[senorsalvia]

I remember seeing something called 'wayback machine', or similar that allows old cyber pages to be retrieved..  Anyone with 'puter savvy know if this can be used to retrieve all the great info from the old boards?...  Seems like we will be charting a course on our collective own eh?  Hell, maybe this is something that always resided in the back of Eddys' mind anyway...  I do recall when I first came aboard, hearing Eddys state that he wished to see the board be open-ended in the sense that the collective body of members and their participation would shape the place instead of having a true 'captain of the ship', calling the shots...  Could be this is an aspect of Eddys' masterplan...  At any rate, I say avast ye mateys, full speed ahead.....  senorsal

[Trevyn]

When I finally reopened the Q & A - which took a LOT of soul - searching, let me tell you! - I had destryed all the forum files, so, the first problem I was faced with was how to rebuild without having to re-invent the wheel, so to speak.

The answer came to me in a flash: All of the good search engines, or almost all of them, keep caches of the internet. Why? Damn if I know, but they do.

So, in locating all the html pages I could - and you be DAMN surprised at what I was able to locate - all I had to do was (using the cached html pages as templates) recreate those pages using perl code.

BTW: Here is the original forum - reconstructed using cached html pages as templates and then reverse engineering the perl code to produce the pages:

//http://www.entheogen.st

Obviously, the better you can code perl, the easier this is, but I believe it is the answer you guys are looking for.

One last thing here: If you guys don't want my help, or if you just don't want me around, then, hey, just tell me to bug off and I'll leave you alone.

Peace,

Trevyn

[Stonehenge]

Good job on the new forums. I'd still like to see a general plant cultivation forum because the salvia people need a separate forum for their thing. I'd be willing to moderate it unless someone else is champing at the bit to do it. I'm site mod over at botanical swap and my fav forum is the cultivation one. Other than that, I could send in a few bucks to help out.

It would be great to get the spiritplants.com domain but if eddy is not communicating or doesn't want us to have it, how about a .org, .net, or one of the couple dozen other endings you can get? Maybe even .ca, .uk or something. You don't have to be based in those countries to get the ending.

LW, sorry to hear you're burned out on the admin thing. Going to let someone else take a crack at it, I guess.

Trevyn, good job finding those caches of old pages. We may never get the old pm's but maybe the next best thing.

Stoney

[laughingwillow]

Trevin: The info above sure sounds to be a potential boon for this community. As for the cold shoulder, I'm guessing most of us just don't know you. (I've been trying to remember your name and seem to recall elendil/jb having stories about past battles with a person of the same nick?) Not that that would mean squat around here, but I have been curious since reading your initial post.

Thanks for the info.

lw

[senorsalvia]

Hi 'ya Trevn..  Yeah, don't feel as if it's a cold shoulder or somesuch...  I was thinking just last evening, "I remember that guy, but not the details/wasn't he a mod or wheeel at some other site, etc etc...  It's likely most of the old SPF'ers have a certain amount of neurological handicapps, and of course, such must be considered :lol: ----  I say welcome bro----  senorsal

[thinbuddha]

Aha!  I found you! :!:

I have to commend you (cenacle?) on starting this place up.  On the surface, it looks nicer than the old digs-  I just hope that enough of the good seeds (and none of the bad seeds) join in.

-tb

[senorsalvia]

---------  Welcome aboard TB :wink: --------- senorsal

[Anonymous]

WOAAAAAAAAHHHHH
UPGRADE THIS FORUM ASAP

Unless its patched...

PHPBB 2.0.6?!?!!??!?!!? Were all gonna be owned

If patched, please disregard.

Current PHPbb is 2.0.11

----
"On the surface, it looks nicer than the old digs"

At least someone appreciates the default PHPBB Layout

[andy]

Nitro, the PHP has actually been patched for the exploit you're thinking of so its cool .. This was knocked up as a temporary measure but when I add the attachment mod, I'll see about getting it upgraded as well.

Andy

[Anonymous]

Phew.. I just saw the version and was like WOAH.
Good to see your on top of it.

Yeah, i had to update my attachment mod.

I wonder if people would enjoy some of the many phpbbhacks there are.
Points mod, bank mod, casino mod, fun things to go along side the serious side of SPF

Smartor ezportal page is great for an index also.

But when things get more concrete we can figure those things out. Maybe a good list of hacks should be posted here so we can get some votes on the features people want.

[cenacle]

hey trevyn, hey TB, welcome...

i love when andy and nitro talk admin techie talk, no clue what theyre saying but the site feels safer when they do heh