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Postby gstark on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:23 pm

And so we're back.

With, hopefully, pretty well most of the messages.

There has been some loss from the day on which the event occurred - the backup dataset seems to have been from earlier than what they indicated, which is ok; certainly better than being from later and reintroducing the problem.

I have not restored the PMs from over the last few days however. If that causes you an issue, please snd me a PM and I'll see what I can do to help you.

I have also decided to not update the words table, which will cause some minor loss of search functionality.

Them's the breaks!

Thanx again for your patience and support; enjoy.
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Postby Manta on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:25 pm

Thank you so much Gary for all your hard work.

I, for one, would have been totally lost without my on-line D70 encyclopedia, as well as all the great imagery that's crossed these threads.
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Postby BBJ on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:29 pm

I agree, thanks Gary for the work, not having this place is nealry like not having my camera or cutting right arm off.LOL
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Postby Oneputt on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:37 pm

Well done Gary and thanks for your work. It is appreciated.
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Postby kipper on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:43 pm

GARY NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I LOST A POST DAMN IT!!!!!

:)

Nah just kidding and top effort.
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Postby BBJ on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:56 pm

My mailbox looks cleaner now. :lol:
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Postby stubbsy on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:58 pm

Thanks Gary (and Leigh?) for all the work and effort in getting this fantastic resource back in tip top condition.
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Postby waspo on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:59 pm

Wow, this is great!! Thanks again Gary for an excellent job well done! :D
This place almost feels whole again. :lol:
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Postby Glen on Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:59 pm

Thanks Gary
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Postby gstark on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:01 pm

stubbsy wrote:Thanks Gary (and Leigh?)


Nah .... he's still sleeping.

Actually, he has been a big help in terms of what we're hoping to do to automate this all for the futrue.
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Postby birddog114 on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:04 pm

Thanks Gary!
I lost more than 200 posts :lol: :lol:
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Postby birddog114 on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:11 pm

And got my honour tittle back, was stripped off by warriorvirus :lol:
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Postby gstark on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:12 pm

Only 200 Birdy? I done good! :)


The major part of the posts that we have lost seem to be from sometime late Monday, I guess (I've not checked thoroughly) until I prepared the turkey for dinner.
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Postby Glen on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:17 pm

Gary, very impressed you managed to save most of this week also. Very impressive :D :D :D
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Postby birddog114 on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:19 pm

Glen wrote:Gary, very impressed you managed to save most of this week also. Very impressive :D :D :D


What should we ask more????? :wink:
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Postby radar on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:19 pm

Thanks for all the work Gary,

well done,

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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:20 pm

Your efforts are very much appreciated - thanks Gary and Leigh
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Postby birddog114 on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:24 pm

sirhc55 wrote:Your efforts are very much appreciated - thanks Gary and Leigh


Where's the D2Hs, should be part of the game by now Sir! :wink:
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Postby johnd on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:27 pm

I also would like to thank Gary and Leigh for all their work to get our forum back and complete again. Very much appreciated.
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Postby leek on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:35 pm

Well done guys...

Did you get anything that would help track the idiot down Gary? e.g. ip
address...

I notice that if you search on turkish warrior virus on Google, he seems to have taken out a large number of phpBB boards...
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Postby kipper on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:40 pm

Leek if he was smart he wouldn't of used his own IP address.....I know I wouldn't be if I was doing anything illegal. Universities, tafes, libraries, $2 netkiosks, netcafes are probably all places you can do this stuff from and from these sort of environments it makes it very hard to track down who is responsible.
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Postby birddog114 on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:42 pm

leek wrote:Well done guys...

Did you get anything that would help track the idiot down Gary? e.g. ip
address...

I notice that if you search on turkish warrior virus on Google, he seems to have taken out a large number of phpBB boards...


I would send him a full load of "hot manure" from which kipper said he sent me a truck load of it if we can locate them :twisted: :twisted:
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Postby Jamie on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:43 pm

Great work Gary and all involved.

Big thumbs up! :)
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Postby Killakoala on Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:53 pm

Fantastic Gary, job well done.

Thank you so much for doing this.
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Postby DVEous on Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:04 pm

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Postby MATT on Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:20 pm

Yeah great work. :D


When I logged back in I only had 1632 new messages to read :D

or is that Old messsages to read.

Good work


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Postby Geoff on Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:33 pm

To Gary and Leigh,
This forum has become like a second home to me...
So many friends made through it...
so much information learnt and shared.
This is because of you guys!!
Thank you so so much for restoring the forum to its greatness!
You've both done an incredible job!
Thank you thank you thank you...oh....


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Postby joet on Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:54 pm

Gary

Sincere thanks from Joe and Chryssine.
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Postby fozzie on Sat Sep 10, 2005 5:31 pm

To Gary, Leigh and any others involved. A very big thank from me, for your diligent work to restore the forum :D

If this has come at a cost, I am more than willing to contribute.

The easy part for me is to read some 1490 past posts. I was not doing anything tonight anyway.
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Postby Aussie Dave on Sat Sep 10, 2005 5:32 pm

thanks Gary (and all else that assisted) for your hard work in resurrecting the site back to normalcy.

I hope you can all now relax & enjoy your weekend :D
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Postby Hlop on Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:13 pm

Thanks a lot Gary! I know, it was a hell of a job! Well done!
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Postby Greg B on Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:14 pm

Good work Gary and thanks - it is good to have everything back up.
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Postby Frankenstein on Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:31 pm

I can only echo everyone else's thoughts - thanks Gary and Leigh for all your efforts...it's very much appreciated.

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Postby gleff on Sat Sep 10, 2005 7:24 pm

Well done Gary..

Glad to see all is back to normal.

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Postby gstark on Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:51 pm

gleff wrote:Glad to see all is back to normal.


What's "normal" ???

:)
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Postby the foto fanatic on Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:01 pm

Congratulations to Gary & Leigh, and also a big "thank you".

I really have no idea of what precisely would have been involved, but I can only imagine that it would have been horrendous.

The easy thing would have been to say "Sorry, out of our control, but all our archives have been lost!"

What did we get?

We were included in the process - we were actually asked whether we would prefer to ditch everything up to a few days ago, or try to recover it, knowing that:
- it may not have been possible
- it may have taken many man hours

Well, here we are, just about fully functional again.

And, for all of those like me who can't do without their daily fix of DSLR users, thanx for a terrific and dedicated effort. :D
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Postby moggy on Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:08 am

Thanks for the hard work, Guys.

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Postby PiroStitch on Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:02 am

Great work Gary and Leigh. Thanks for all your hard work in restoring the forums :)
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Postby kinetic on Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:10 am

Hey gstark and nnnnsic,
Thanks for getting the site up and running so quickly :D . It would have been such a same for all those lovely images to go down the toilet!

Cheers, K PS - For the record, I haven't received any spam since the site was hacked.
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Postby cordy on Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:54 pm

Great work Gary, so much dedication. Thanks for all your hardwork

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Postby jdear on Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:57 pm

website restoration sucks!

thanks for your hard work!
Hope this wont happen too quickly again.

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