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well I am in australia now, for a couple of weeks. should be back in england after that. guess there is a few things I need to take care of on the board or that?

if there is anything that needs my attention, let me know in the thread. i think someone said i need to do some organisation in the wiki. etc...

laters peoples!

(and a big thanks to my admins and especially chris for the work!!)

df wrote: if there is anything that needs my attention, let me know in the thread. i think someone said i need to do some organisation in the wiki. etc...

there are (or so I've heard) a number of abandoned pages that need deletion. Solar and Pype appear to be the hardest working wikiers, so you might want to wait for a reply of one of them, or possibly give one of them (either one) admin rights on the wiki.

Well there isn't really thing that needs attention(from the board perspective anyway, there was talk about the wiki stuff), although I should probably tell you that while you where gone there was a person who attempted to submit viruses in posts... but I am guessing the person was just a script kiddie because they didn't even realize that putting it in a post the way the did would not work. I banned the ip however so he won't be returning.

Other than that incident, it's mostly just been simple moderation, and clearing out the error logs every now and then.

The tiki stuff? Let's hope that's wiki, or I've really missed something here :-\

Hehe, good catch, I meant wiki.

Chris Cromer wrote: I should probably tell you that while you where gone there was a person who attempted to submit viruses in posts...

Was that the sick guy who made every link go to that phisting site? :-X

No that was not that person, that was just somebody who posted a flash file to redirect people to another site, it wasn't a virus.

I am talking about somebody who posted actual binary code into a post in hopes it would spread the virus to everyone who read the posts.

Actually that does remind me, df, could you remove the the flash tags from YaBBSE in Subs.php? They arn't used here on the boards at all, and they where removed from later versions of YaBBSE because of a security problem.

df, is it ok for me to enable .gif support for attachments? It was requested by Robin Gravel.

Chris Cromer wrote: df, is it ok for me to enable .gif support for attachments? It was requested by Robin Gravel.

Hi Chris

I got answer from DF's private message.

He said:

i dont like animated gif which is why i dont accept GIF

Robin Gravel

i have added gif.

i went to remove the flash from subs and it barfed on me.
i will try again later.

i can only edit via an online web page and i think it ate some of the code.. luckily i duped the file first...

Thanks DF

So I can post screenshots bigger than jpg ones.


Robin Gravel

Robin_Gravel wrote: Thanks DF

So I can post screenshots bigger than jpg ones.


Robin Gravel

--> forward to cluelessnewbie.org

JPEG is made for near-realistic imagery. It allows very high compression allowing nearly all information to be kept (as in, the general idea to be conveyed). Try compressing the JPEG to less than 75%.

GIF is not good at doing most imagery. Only images with repetitive patterns and few colors do well. In any case, most images (especially most modern games) are of the type that is best compressed with JPEG, not GIF.

For a good reason why it's a bad idea, look at Kon-Tiki's new signature image.

On another hand, allowing GZ and BZ2 would help the people on the OS dev (and general programming) boards, since it compresses code lots better (50% better on my code). This because ZIP compresses each file separately, although there is a lot of inter-file resemblance (it's all code right?).

The screenshot capture program I'm using supports gif format not jpeg. When I'm posting a screenshot in the board, I have to convert gif to jpg format.

Now the board supports gif as well make my life easier.

And I have no problem with the new Kon-Tiki's signature.

Robin Gravel

Robin_Gravel wrote: And I have no problem with the new Kon-Tiki's signature.

Darn, and I tried so hard. Maybe I should put the other version of it up ;D

Keep in mind that when Robin posts screenshots, it will be of his AGI games. Any AGI screenshot (16 colours, big unicoloured plains, no anti-aliasing) will
a) look better as a .GIF (lossless compression => no smudgy .JPG artifacts)
b) be smaller in filesize.