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26th September 2017, 16:14 | #1 |
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We apologise for the inconvenience
phew
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27th September 2017, 20:13 | #2 |
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And the crowd goes "echo".
But also fuck yeah!
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27th September 2017, 20:20 | #3 |
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I seriously thought we'd lost the content. I was shitting myself.
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27th September 2017, 20:33 | #4 |
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Where is the forum hosted now?
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27th September 2017, 20:46 | #5 |
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Wheresmyserver, welly.
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27th September 2017, 20:52 | #6 |
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First!
Oh wait, never mind. Edit: Huge thanks for to those that contributed to getting this back up and running.
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ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ Last edited by Cyberbob : 27th September 2017 at 20:54. |
27th September 2017, 21:12 | #7 |
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OMG OMG OMG!
Woo! My goodness I have missed this place.
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27th September 2017, 21:40 | #8 |
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Me too 😉
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27th September 2017, 22:11 | #9 |
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Big ups to all to get this back up and running...
Think I saw somewhere we are running on a newer version of vbulliten, does it support Tapatalk? |
27th September 2017, 22:25 | #10 |
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Shut up Ashley!
I missed this place.
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27th September 2017, 23:09 | #11 | |
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28th September 2017, 00:17 | #12 |
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28th September 2017, 01:38 | #13 |
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Well holy shit, I thought this place had finally turned up its toes. Well done to the nerds behind the scenes for resurrecting nzg once again like it's fucken Winston Peters or something.
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28th September 2017, 02:30 | #14 |
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Huh. Well. Wasn’t expecting to see this again. Nice one!
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28th September 2017, 06:46 | #16 |
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Back like an itch. How we miss you NZG!
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28th September 2017, 07:26 | #17 |
HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE
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Yay!
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28th September 2017, 07:46 | #18 |
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Wheres Liz?
Also, wooooooooo Yearly check-in complete.
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Go on, prove it was me! Last edited by Gerbs : 28th September 2017 at 07:48. |
28th September 2017, 08:55 | #19 |
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So the most recent iteration of addresses - http://www.nzgames.com/forums/ - doesn't work, so anyone with bookmarks etc that wasn't a part of the facebook group will probably miss out.
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28th September 2017, 09:56 | #20 |
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UUuuuuguuguggggghghgg
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28th September 2017, 11:22 | #21 | |
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nzgames.com forums.nzgames.com (here) I only have administrative control over the latter. So I can try something at DNS level (tried yesterday, failed, but that might have been firewall blockheadedness on my part - update, retried, seems to be working) to rewrite requests for nzgames.com/forums to forums.nzgames.com, or take down the historical record that is "the front page" and point the whole domain at the new server. I *think* I have a content archive of the main page but some of it is so old that it exists only as raw html somewhere if at all. Like, 1996 old. I know there's a chunk of 1997's posts missing from when we moved hosting back then and nobody remembered to get archives before closing the old account, but I don't want to walk away from the front page and its content until I know I've done everything I can to duplicate it. Just for historical reasons of course. Over the years lots of people have put in lots of hours on this fucking blackhole of time and effort and I'd feel like it was a little bit less than completely unjustified if the stuff was still online as a record of a simpler time when most of us were punk kids with nothing more important in our lives. |
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28th September 2017, 11:49 | #22 |
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Here's the official 2017 blackout thanks list, in sort of chronological order:
A guy whose first name starts with J at Vodafone for being helpful as much as he could and when he was no longer in a position to rescue shit personally he put me on to someone else. Pimp-X for offering to help and for pointing me in the direction of others who might also be able to. Ender for much the same, and for making himself available if the people I was already talking to couldn't/wouldn't help. A guy whose first name starts with S at Vodafone for being helpful as much as he could and when he was no longer in a position to rescue shit personally he put me on to someone else. A couple of guys at Vodafone that I never interacted with personally but whom an email trail reveals were asked by S to look at shit that wasn't their problem. A guy whose name starts with A at Vodafone for being the guy who got physical access to the dead old server, confirmed it was fubar, yanked the drives, found a working server of comparable vintage with similar hardware, put the drives in, confirmed the data looked intact, and who then ran out of time to help more and then yanked the drives and just hung on to them so they didn't get wiped and thrown out as junk (oh jesus this came so close to happening I want to kiss this guy). BaM for helping me set up new hosting in Welly and for also making himself available as a destination for the drives if I could get them picked up from A. Vorlon for physically going to Voda and collecting the drives from A, then delivering them to Crankshaw. Crankshaw for managing to get the ancient drives in a box, boot it, get the box on a network, find the forums db sql, and export it and upload it to me. Everyone who emailed, texted, and left messages on FB offering support and for generally reminding me that I wasn't the only person who didn't want to see this place just die. Edit - the fact that I could draw on so many people whom I still know more by their gamer tags than their actual names is either terribly cool or terribly scary. Edit - photos from A. Pour one out for the departed nzgames.paradise.net.nz, with its old SCSI HDs, floppy drive, serial and parallel ports, analog VGA video socket, and dead mobo. Originally set up by Goldie back in the day it served us well until it didn't. Lol look at that asset sticker - December 2000. |
28th September 2017, 12:04 | #23 |
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yay
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28th September 2017, 12:09 | #24 |
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Good work everyone! Are we putting the band back together?
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28th September 2017, 12:50 | #25 |
I... err - F*ck It.
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Super happy to see this back - thanks for the effort Ab (and co).
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28th September 2017, 15:39 | #26 |
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All credit to Vorlon (Shay), Crankshaw (Joe), and Voda guys S and A. They did the heavy lifting.
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28th September 2017, 16:43 | #27 |
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Yay! I'm so happy nzg is back. I missed you.
Thank you all.
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28th September 2017, 19:56 | #28 |
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oh, thank you!!! Glad to back here, I always click shortcut URL to nzgames.com forums everyday lol..
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28th September 2017, 20:53 | #29 |
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Congratulations all - missed the vibe
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28th September 2017, 21:23 | #30 |
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Habitually typed in the address. Damn. Nice work.
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28th September 2017, 23:11 | #31 |
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29th September 2017, 15:36 | #32 |
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The facepalm emoticon didn't make it. This is devastating.
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29th September 2017, 16:11 | #33 |
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Yeah nah it made it, it's just the path to the image is b0rken somewhere. I'll fix.
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29th September 2017, 18:11 | #34 |
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29th September 2017, 18:50 | #35 |
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Well done all involved.
Rescuing a fucking SCSI disk set on this day and age is no mean feat.
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29th September 2017, 19:39 | #36 |
I have detailed files
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Pfft - Next you'll be saying Cobol'76 programmers were underpaid for Y2K!
PS - I can't back up that comment... |
29th September 2017, 20:28 | #37 |
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Ahahaha, I accidentally clicked on the bookmark instead of some other site and holy shit that was a surprise.
Pi...ahh fuck it.
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Great to see you back forums. Just waiting for Ashley now. Ciao Bene (I'm learning Italian ))
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30th September 2017, 09:44 | #39 |
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Phew.............
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30th September 2017, 10:33 | #40 |
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Well done...
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