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this will zero the unread anything for you, so you can strive forth into the exciting world of the new cookie thing.
Because the board got shutdown again because of a load of database, I had to fettle with the settings again.
As part of that, the server no longer stores what topics you have or haven't read.
IT IS STILL RECORDED!
But now, that information lives in a delicious cookie, rather than the forum database.
Upside: this should reduce the load of database.
Downside: if you use multiple devices to access the board, or you reject delicious cookies, you won't always have that information cookie. But the New Posts feature should take care of that.
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If you cannot Debauch because you get an IP blacklist error, try Debauching again time. It may work immediately, it may take a few attempts. It will work eventually, I don't think I had to click debauch more than three times. Someone is overzealous at our hosting company, but only on the first couple of attempts.
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Some unpleasant miscreant was firing incessant database queries at our server, which forced the Legal Department of our hosting company, via their Abuse subdivision, to shut us down. No I have none.
All I can do it button the hatches, and tighten up a few things. Such as time limits on how long you may take to compose a post and hit Debauch! As of 24/01/10, I've set that at 30 minutes for now.
To restrict further overloads, any unregistered users had to be locked out.
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Is that annoying?
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Your Lifes Work
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dozer
- Hammer Time
- Location: umbc
- Contact:
Your Lifes Work
Interesting video, from a time when there was pride in manual labor.
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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Sisyphus
- Rigging the Ancient Mariner
- Location: The Muckworks
- Contact:
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MagnusTheBuilder
- Arbiter of Beard
- Location: Denver, CO
- Contact:
I thought that video was wonderful. I miss the days when people had to know things about many things and were very knowledgeable on a breadth of subjects. Nowadays, you can take a car to the shop and after they hook it up to the OBD2 port they will tell you that everything is fine... "Are you sure that the front wheel missing isn't a problem?" "Well, the computer doesn't have a code for that."
Mechanics these days aren't all real mechanics, a lot of them are glorified instruction manual readers. I miss the days when you couldn't just 'google it' but by the same token, the amount of stuff that I have learned from 'just googling it' is quite extensive so I am not really dissing the internet but... I miss real knowledge.
Mechanics these days aren't all real mechanics, a lot of them are glorified instruction manual readers. I miss the days when you couldn't just 'google it' but by the same token, the amount of stuff that I have learned from 'just googling it' is quite extensive so I am not really dissing the internet but... I miss real knowledge.
-- The Mag
2003 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic
2017 Chevy Silverado
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"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." --Douglas Adams
2003 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic
2017 Chevy Silverado
1970 Chevelle SS
1951 Chevy Custom
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." --Douglas Adams
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UndertheGun
- Barista of Doom
- Location: Seattle/Olympia
- Contact:
This.
I love stuff like this. I've lost hours and hours watching archival videos through journal, etc. archives that I can access from the school library. Some of my favorite old informational films are essentially union advocacy/propaganda films from the 50s and 60s that employed hollywood production houses and actors. These in depth documentaries on down to idiotically simple old super 8 high school lesson reels are all pretty valuable in my book. This stuff really provides an illuminated lens with which to view our recent history that allows perspective on things that have faded from the living memory of many (most?) sections of society.
People in 'middle' America today are so separate and isolated from the means of production and labor that create all of their convenient widgets it makes me sick.
Watching this just reinforces how in awe I am of my Grandfather (and women and men like him) who started working on steam locomotives during the depression at age 14 in a logging camp, was an engineer in a general combat engineering company through North Africa, Italy and into Germany then went on as a machinist to help build petro-chemical infrastructure on the west coast up until the 1990s. All with an eighth grade education.Sisyphus wrote:Without labor there'd be no wealth.
I love stuff like this. I've lost hours and hours watching archival videos through journal, etc. archives that I can access from the school library. Some of my favorite old informational films are essentially union advocacy/propaganda films from the 50s and 60s that employed hollywood production houses and actors. These in depth documentaries on down to idiotically simple old super 8 high school lesson reels are all pretty valuable in my book. This stuff really provides an illuminated lens with which to view our recent history that allows perspective on things that have faded from the living memory of many (most?) sections of society.
People in 'middle' America today are so separate and isolated from the means of production and labor that create all of their convenient widgets it makes me sick.
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SmAsHeRs
- Super Sexy Skyscraper
- Location: Neo-Tokyo, NE (omaha)
- Contact:
right - it takes plumbers and electricians and assembly workers to make the world go 'round... my brother has a mechanical engineering degree and he's lumberjacking for a living now - he's happy, even if the 'rents are not. i wish more families valued blue collar instead of making the kids who want to do it ashamed.UndertheGun wrote:
People in 'middle' America today are so separate and isolated from the means of production and labor that create all of their convenient widgets it makes me sick.
he kept the promise that me he'd love me forever. he always will.
Disastermined - 1980 GS550L ratbike
"That which does not kill us, makes us stranger." ~Trevor Goodchild
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tucko
- Maltov Rattlecan
- Location: whittier, ca
For some reason this reminds me of something that happened many years ago. I was at a punk rock benefit show near downtown LA, and was drinking a few outside with some kooky homeless dude. For some reason, he started to think I was a cop, and didn't believe me when I told him I wasn't. Finally, he said, "Let me see your hands." After seeing how beat up and cut my hands were, he said, "Hell, you're no cop."SmAsHeRs wrote:right - it takes plumbers and electricians and assembly workers to make the world go 'round... my brother has a mechanical engineering degree and he's lumberjacking for a living now - he's happy, even if the 'rents are not. i wish more families valued blue collar instead of making the kids who want to do it ashamed.UndertheGun wrote:
People in 'middle' America today are so separate and isolated from the means of production and labor that create all of their convenient widgets it makes me sick.
I love being part of the long lineage of tradespeople in this country....
The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.