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#211
Knowhow Trading Post / Re: HOWTO: Lose your shell access.
December 01, 2007, 02:58:35 PM
Yeah, I have no issues with Putty either in that. The other SSH client may, but I haven't used that in years. I do a lot of logging into servers so using a common key is the easiest way to manage things for me (aside the passwords in the password manager just in case). I've ended up with bad keys a couple times now and never had this issue. It just tells me that the key is rejected and asks for the normal password instead.
#212
General Chat / Re: Arrrr
December 01, 2007, 02:55:35 PM
Why can't people do a style like wind waker had for once?  ::)
#213
General Chat / Re: Arrrr
December 01, 2007, 02:18:37 AM
That's the reason it generally doesn't work that well. All you need to do is make yourself a support, tank, and dps char and you're all set.
#214
General Chat / Re: Arrrr
November 30, 2007, 03:40:38 PM
From what I hear the game sucks though. I haven't tried it though, so that's kinda second hand information.  ;D
#215
General Chat / Arrrr
November 30, 2007, 02:41:26 PM
#216
Knowhow Trading Post / Re: HOWTO: Lose your shell access.
November 30, 2007, 03:04:26 AM
Actually, if you still have the original password for the account, you can't lock yourself out using an rsa key. It will fail and request standard login, or should provided that the ssh server is set up correctly.
#217
Applications / Re: Application Status: CLOSED!
November 16, 2007, 05:19:24 AM
Xepher still seems to be ironing out some bugs with the new server, give it some time.
#218
Announcements / Re: Xepher's Moving
November 15, 2007, 11:08:24 PM
Yeah, keep in mind my tutorial is a little dated and I haven't exactly tested it recently. I suppose I should come up with a new one for WinSCP which is what I'd recommend using at this point.
#219
Announcements / Re: New Server Coming Soon
November 02, 2007, 10:49:24 PM
You know what'd be awesome is making an ajax version which dynamically pulls a random banner.
#220
General Chat / Re: Reasons I have a job
November 02, 2007, 10:43:59 PM
Read through them, there are oh so many more. It's great!

In other news, my bank uses that software. >.>
#221
General Chat / Reasons I have a job
October 31, 2007, 04:56:26 AM
See, as I stated, I'm a professional web developer, but apparently unlike many out there I have a concept of things like security. It's for reasons such as a few below that I actually have a job in the first place.

Warning: Some of this is sort tech-coder-geeky

http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Secure-This-.aspx

http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Banking-So-Advanced.aspx

http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Not-Doing-Nothing.aspx
#222
Art / Re: Brain Tricks
October 31, 2007, 01:15:12 AM
What's even more weird is when you take the gif and mirror it, then go back and forth between the two. Because despite the fact that the image is mirrored, it still appears to be spinning the same as the other till you switch.

#223
Announcements / Re: New Server Coming Soon
October 25, 2007, 01:10:30 PM
Don't worry about it man. Everyone here, far as I know, had free hosting and can't really complain about the time it takes to put a new server in place since the costs are nearly, if not all, out of your pocket at the moment.
#224
General Chat / Re: Car Wreck
October 24, 2007, 09:41:21 PM
Cliche! Get well soon.  ;D
#225
Technical Support / Re: my database vaporized
October 19, 2007, 02:25:55 PM
If Xepher had cron scripts enabled I'd show you how to write a script to make a backup of your MySQL database. Unfortunately that won't help in the situation you're having at the current moment unless Xepher happens to have recent DB backups himself.

If you know how to use SSH or use shell access, I would also suggest doing a grep and looking through your php/sql files that exist to see what things would be calling stuff like "DELETE FROM ...", "TRUNCATE TABLE", or "DROP TABLE". Case insensitive search of course, because these commands aren't. Also, and this applies to EVERYONE here, make sure that when you install software like a forum you remove the setup files from the server after you've completed your installation.

Setup programs are well known for not being removed by the user and then coming back to haunt you later because some user decided to play with it, with or without malicious intent. Many new installations now days actually detect themselves after the installation is complete and tell you to remove them, but not all of them do this. I'm sure that comic software especially probably doesn't do this widely yet either.