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by admin
Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:54 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: ATTENTION ADMIN - AVATARS??
Replies: 7
Views: 1850

Re: ATTENTION ADMIN - AVATARS??

Hello all I haven't touched any settings to do with avatars since moving to the new forum script (which is an update on the old, no longer supported one). It is often difficult to track down intermittent problems like this. I can see avatars, so I just assumed I was seeing all avatars. Since there i...
by admin
Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:30 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Slow forums and other weirdness
Replies: 50
Views: 8475

Re: Slow forums and other weirdness

sorry to annoy you all with the changes, but the previous forum script had become way too vulnerable to hackers and spammers. I had to change it. I will do my best to work through the issues you're having. I was able to upload a picture of under 90kb and the correct size from my computer without any...
by admin
Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:57 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Slow forums and other weirdness
Replies: 50
Views: 8475

Re: Slow forums and other weirdness

Test #1 by Don...
450px.sample_9640.jpg
This shot of Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz (mid-Jan 09) is 450 pixels wide.
The above picture should appear ... if I have the settings right...
455px,sample_9640.jpg
This shot of Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz (mid-Jan 09) is 455 pixels wide.
This pic is 455 px wide
by admin
Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:53 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Classifieds beta: Please check and comment
Replies: 1
Views: 978

Classifieds beta: Please check and comment

Hi all I've set up a very bare bones classifieds section for RealSurf. You'll find it here: http://www.realsurf.com/?page_id=3098&_action=classified Any thoughts will be appreciated this end. For instance, are there any categories that should be added? Does the design render okay in your browser? Is...
by admin
Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:41 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Slow forums and other weirdness
Replies: 50
Views: 8475

Re: Slow forums and other weirdness

Hi all, Fixed that placeholder page. It was late and I forgot I'd left that in place. re: request to get links to go to first post rather than latest post, I'm not sure how to do this in a way that still lets the user choose which option suits them. If any of you have come across a site that does th...
by admin
Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:43 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Slow forums and other weirdness
Replies: 50
Views: 8475

Re: Slow forums and other weirdness

Ah! Just before the midnight hour, mighty Ross, our tech guru has once again ridden to the rescue and pulled your flailing webmaster from the swamp with a single bound. We're getting good speed at this hour, so fingers crossed that come tomorrow, it'll still be going along at the same clip... Again,...
by admin
Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:53 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Slow forums and other weirdness
Replies: 50
Views: 8475

Re: Slow forums and other weirdness

Interesting that the new post page pops right up, but the regular post page takes 32 seconds for me... so, clearly not the ad code stuffing things up then. We did the database thing and found and blocked a suspicious IP address, but otherwise our efforts seem to have produced not much. Well, apart f...
by admin
Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:44 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Slow forums and other weirdness
Replies: 50
Views: 8475

Re: Slow forums and other weirdness

Thanks for that info Trev. Leading suspect at this moment is a database issue of some sort. I tried clearing out a cache, but if it had any effect it seems to be pretty slight. I'm currently getting 25 sec delays when I go to a new page. Once I've visited a page, it pops up quickly from my browser c...
by admin
Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:59 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Slow forums and other weirdness
Replies: 50
Views: 8475

Re: Slow forums and other weirdness

So far no luck fixing things. Been trying stuff too. Thanks for the amusing remarks one and all, but particular thanks to dUg for the suggestions. Sorry to make a hash of things... this is top of my fixit list now. As for layout, I basically looked at how others were laying out forums with ads. I'll...
by admin
Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:41 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Slow forums and other weirdness
Replies: 50
Views: 8475

Slow forums and other weirdness

Hi all I've been trying to figure out why our forums are running so incredibly slowly, but to date I have not found any obvious issue. I've tried upping the server resources and that doesn't seem to have changed anything. I've tried decreasing the pic size, but I seem mostly to have just cut Butts's...
by admin
Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:17 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: IS REALSURF LOCKING UP YOUR COMPUTER?
Replies: 19
Views: 4476

Re: IS REALSURF LOCKING UP YOUR COMPUTER?

Hi All Bummed to hear of this problem. Since I haven't experienced when accessing with Firefox 3, IE7, Safari, and Google Chrome (all from Windows XP box), I had no idea it was going on. The next time any of you get lock up or browser hang, it would really help me if you could let me know a) the thr...
by admin
Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:53 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Travel camera - SE Asia
Replies: 20
Views: 6307

Re: Travel camera - SE Asia

Don just testing a post here! Canon G10 is a very nice piece of kit by the way. If I was going to get a new point and shoot, it'd be that one.
by admin
Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:25 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: === RS FORUMS UPDATED ===
Replies: 13
Views: 3189

this is taking a long time. Apparently it requires one to sit and click 'continue' at one minute intervals for 3-4 hours...
by admin
Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:09 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: === RS FORUMS UPDATED ===
Replies: 13
Views: 3189

okay, we're just having a go now as of 2010 Sunday night. All those Butts pics mean we have a shiteload to shift to the new instance... hope it works!!! IMPORTANT: we can't guarantee that your brilliant postings made from this point on will get transferred. Everything posted before 2010hrs should be...
by admin
Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:26 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: === RS FORUMS UPDATED ===
Replies: 13
Views: 3189

=== RS FORUMS UPDATED ===

Hi all MONDAY: Okay, we seem to have survived the update process... so far! SUNDAY: Don here with a head's up re the forums. I'm planning to do a major upgrade to the script that makes these possible. At a minimum it will take several hours to transfer the data. (our number one goal is not to lose a...
by admin
Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:04 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: ads.realsurf.com??
Replies: 1
Views: 1055

Sorry about that folks. Just me messing around with things. When I first made the changes, it seemed to be okay. Obviously got caught out by a cacheing issue. Back to the drawing board... normal service should now be re-established.
-Don
by admin
Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:38 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: RealSurf Christmas Drinks, FRIDAY 12th DECEMBER
Replies: 351
Views: 52307

I'll be in as long as it's in the Sydney region. I prefer a central location fwiw.
Don
by admin
Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:53 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Calling KK to the white courtesy phone ...
Replies: 89
Views: 18668

Ummm... could someone put me wise as to the point of this exercise? The way I see it is that some folks here are having a few laughs trolling on another forum. Personally I don't get the trolling thing, but on a more practical level I think that having RealSurf's forums getting a name for launching ...