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I haven't had any issues or seen that message here in a few days. I've mostly had issues occur when I'm here at night, but occasionally they happen during the day as well. That screenshot was from last month, every time there's a new error message that I haven't seen before I get a screenshot just ...

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I presume that is not today? And yes, it kept coming up. I kept blocking but then they kept using IPs. I have several defenses set up that should stop it dynamically. I hope. It would overwhelm it and then phpbb would stop new connections to stop it from happening which would then clear it up ...

I agree, the images are amazing.

Btw, I think I found one forum issue: some bots (alibaba being one) were pounding the server, 1000s of times per minute. I think that it should stop it from being overwhelmed now, but if you see an issue, let me know. Talk about abusive.

TheHeadlessHorseman wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2026 10:37 pm

" Congress shouldn't be a retirement home."

Agreed.

BTW, it nice to know there's another TBBT fan here, us nerds have to stick together.

The launch today was great, btw. We saw it from the dock, my oldest went to watch (speaking of "nerds"):

I hope that you both enjoy your trip.

When I was a kid we went to California and my mother showed us where she grew up with her family, we saw her old house and school, and she even brought us to the hospital that she was born in. I don't know if my younger siblings appreciated, or even remember ...

It is cat and mouse with the bots/spammer junk. I keep having to add things like fail2ban and then adjusting parameters to get them banned properly. Hopefully (fingers crossed) I have the right balance now.

I do love those pictures.

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Andybev01 wrote: Thu Sep 04, 2025 12:51 am Oh cool, I can upload stuff again!

Thanks Chris.

We do need these - it is letting me upload here.

Although I was never a big fan of Black Sabbath, and only a bit of Ozzy's solo work, he was a big part of my childhood because one of my sister's would buy Black Sabbath albums, my mother would throw them away and then my sister would buy them again.

Ah, youth.

I did enjoy 'the Osborns' reality ...

Anyway, posting is back now, sorry about that.


Of course, first time I checked in in how long?
The site isn't working? YOU SCARED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But that's what Halloween is all about, right? BOO!

Ubuntu 18?!? in the 2020s?!? There is a special place in Hell!!! :shock:


Ha ha, yes. I ...

Thanks for the update.

Well, it looks like I jumped the gun and wasted 5 hours of my life the other night, it's a good thing that I don't need sleep or I would be ticked about it. Oh well, at least I have it as a backup.

Speaking of backing up, I found out that this forum was only backed up ...

I "updated" from Ubuntu 18 -> 20 -> 22 -> 24 (that took quite a while!) and to php 8.3 and there turns out there is an issue so I went back to an earlier version and then will update phpbb and then go back to 8.3 sometime sooner vs later.

Anyway, posting is back now, sorry about that.

Well I got my Bachelor's Degree. Turns out that it was only an English Degree and not English with an Education Minor. That was a bit disappointing.
So now I'm trying to jump through hoops to get my teaching license and it's proven to be rather difficult.
I did manage to get a position at a local ...

I am glad it is working for everyone. Some of the notifications went to spam, some it appeared got rejected, but I think everything is back to normal. If not, please let me know.

You can always email me too: cr1776


And that is at gmail. I don't want to put it all together since spammers will spam ...