Gynis

I never said it was going to be me. I have Og on speeddial.

This fund drive can show up at your house with a baseball bat. If NPR were to employ the same tactics, I'm almost positive they'd have a better success rating.

There should be an option if you click the paypal link to subscribe, if you want! Otherwise, a one time sum of a few dollars goes a long way. Typically, the December drive lasts an entire year!

So, since we've updated Vent, I've had to renew our subscription and I noticed something. There is $9.69 in the paypal account. Do you know what that means? The holidays are finally here and the fund raiser drive has arrived! Please donate some spare cash to the Paypal account so that we can continue to keep vent, the server, the boards, and other services up and running. This means YOU you cheap bastard. Ever year the same number of folks contribute, and I'd like to see a few extra names on the tab. Vent runs us about $25 per month alone, coupled with hosting fees ($15 per month because Hykos holds some of his porn collection on a back end server) and one off fees like upgrading forum software has set us back and tapped us out. Log on. Pay up. Sleep soundly. Thanks!

Our server is now 3.0 . . . in Other News: SEE the donation thread.

Joni Mitchell

HA! Your kids look exactly as I thought they would. Cute as buttons.

Wait... is that a picture of Tammy and.... Tammy?

I was pointing more to the person who found a gun and had amateur hour with photoshop and decided it was good enough to share.

Actually, I don't mind them so much. They are doing things a bit wonky, but from the sounds of it, they're upgrading. What's most important is that anytime I've had an issue, the response time is spectacular. Their assistance has always been spot on, but most importantly, I get this on the cheap. We moved hosts some time ago to these guys, and I'm glad we made the switch. Other hosting companies are usually quick to cite "user error" or "there's a problem with your code" before even reading the subject of the email. These guys don't assume that you're the moron (or if they do, they pretend like you might not be.)

someone is bored at work.

Why do fighting games have stories?

Uhm. This has nothing to do with our message board. It has everything to do with our host. I can convert to phpBB2 (I won't, but I COULD) and we would still experience downtime this evening. I prefer powerboard. There is much greater support, it's more secure, and there's less punky kids who send me suggestions on "improvements" I could make if only.....

This is from the powers that be: This Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 10:00PM Pacific time we will be performing emergency maintenance on our core routers. We are going to be upgrading the operating system on one of our core routers in our main facility, and one primary distribution router at our LAX facility. The total downtime shouldn’t be much longer than it takes these to reboot into the newer operating system, and reestablish the links to the outside world. The maintenance window is two hours, though we hope everything from a network standpoint will be completed in 30 minutes. These upgrades will address many of the issues we have been having over the past months. Cisco has recommended this version of IOS to potentially solve a network flooding issue we have seen intermittently, and if it does not, will allow us to escalate the case even further. The upgrade will also give us support for new hardware we have purchased for the routers themselves, increased diagnostic gathering capability, and bring online our redundant supervisor line card. We apologize for the short notice and overall inconvenience of this upgrade, however this will hopefully fix various outstanding bugs that crop up during the day. We are attempting to do as much as possible with this reboot to minimize further downtime. All systems will be affected by this upgrade.

I wanna do it! Sounds fun.

looks hippy

No joke! I'm surprised too. I will order my copy when I get home!

Shamans don't get pets.

Numbers have no place in Team Sauce. Team Sauce, as far as I can tell, is about Rabid Hamsters and Chrome Polish.

Amani War Bear is basically like saying the ARMANI War Bear, and we all know that Gynis loves Armani.

/dreamroll

"Can I flirt with stang" . . . . this is joke right? Everyone flirts with stang. Or the gay mafia redecorates your closet. Besides, I thought it was Ben married a ghost (casper? I always thought he was a little bi-curious). SOMEONE get this freak story straight and start fact checking!

I want the voodoo bear! Where does that come from?

Congrats on your marriage!

Dragon, check your PMs.