ILX: Nearly out of the desert wastes

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Howdy all:

Just to update everyone, the new server (henfap) has been bought and configured with ILX. It works pretty well, too -- when I'm the only one using it, at least.

FedEx picked it up this morning, and it'll be in Canada by Friday. The new hosts want a couple of days to unpack and dust it off, so we should have full ILX goodness restored next week.

The shipping costs have been met by a generous anon ILXor, although the final bill's not in so we may have a shortfall. In case the bill's huge, there's a mod discussion going on just now about running ads for a short time, or perhaps a donation link or the like.

There is a non-intrusive google ad plan where we can get cash from the google search box results page, which I'll test out here sometime tonight or tomorrow to see if it's shit or not.

As for the new code: Keith can tell you more, but we'll start a beta test once we're sure the new server is as stable as it can reasonably be with ILX on it. Ahem.

Well done everyone!

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It's been a terrible ordeal.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nmpft.org.uk/images/filmimages/dawnofthedead5.jpg

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

NO ADS! OVER MY DEAD BODY!

no, sorry, joeking. if people (ie you) are gonna end up out of pocket because FedEx are chisellers, i'm all in favour of doing whatever it takes.

hurrah stet. hurrah keith. hurrah all our sinister overlords etc.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm all in favour of doing whatever it takes

(as a temporary measure, natch.)

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Fear not, all will work out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

new server named hen fap?

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

damn straight.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX Escort Service

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

As long as the ads aren't fucking PINK, I don't think people would have much to complain about.

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Er ... there's now a (temporary) pink box on the real one too. Just so we can tell the difference between old code and new beta, like.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd be fine w/pink ads

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

What can I do if it dies?
What can I do if it dies?
What can I do if it's poxed?
Just the thought fills my board with pink box

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

pink ads, eh?

FOR ALL YOUR GLASWEGIAN SHIRT NEEDS

http://www.se-glasgow.dk/images/thompink070301.jpg

(organic cider-proof protection available at extra cost)

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

little pink boxes
for you and me

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/3/1/4/2/562413_356x237.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

As long as the ads aren't fucking PINK, I don't think people would have much to complain about.

I bet Carey Hart would complain.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/030929/185515__pink_l.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

server name = Aja/Dante finally gets its last laugh.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i know that's some real underdog triumphing in the end shit right there

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/800x600/Music_Pink_002660_.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

sry

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't apologise.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of like it here. Will the sandbox be closed? :(

― Servetus (Servetus), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Sandbox = code testing ground. It's not going anywhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That last P!nk is starting to work on me.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to admit it, but seconded.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

YEAH! I mean, uh...thirded

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the ultimate triumph of Aja/Dante would be making ESTEBAN BUTTEZ an admin not giving the server a totally fucking retarded name from one of the more totally fucking retarded memes in history.

I have no problem with ads but I do have a problem with hen fap!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I want some ice cream.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

How is that Pink strumpet doing these days anyway? That last pic is totally Slums of Beverly Hills.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

She's on her own eating an ice cream! Burn the witch!

(seriously, well done Stet and Keef plus associated others, and even though I am poor I will stump up some more if necessary).

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Pink's sloppy ice cream can't hold a candle to this:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/5/50/Minnie_Riperton_Perfect_Angel.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a great album.

― Rodney and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (Rodney J. Greene), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link

update plz

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 10 December 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Server is in Canada and clearing customs, last we heard from FedEx.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 December 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

will they find the ilx fundraising eightball?

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Outlook not so good.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM, Outlook sucks.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 10 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

the name "hen fap" was on a watchlist of some kind, so it was taken in for extra questioning.

― grady (grady), Sunday, 10 December 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ska punk would have attracted no attention. damn.

― jergins (jergins), Sunday, 10 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Daft question but don't they sell servers in Canada?

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Sandbox = code testing ground. It's not going anywhere.

Unfortunately, I don't think this sandbox is any use for testing new code, for reasons the ISP are best at explaining.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Gerry: we were getting a discount price with better service and better spec, and it actually worked out cheaper to get it here, especially since we should be able to reclaim VAT (pre-VAT price is cheaper than Canadian one).

The new code will have to be tested on the live server, aye.

― stet (stet), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

We can just run two tomcats. Likely won't be a big deal.

― KeefW (KeefW), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello Keith.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Presumably the words "Hen Fap" will not appear anywhere visible.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

It'll be in a special typeface only visible to hens.

― C J (C J), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

what, chicken scratch?

― patita (patita), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha I love the idea of ILX going through customs. There's no way we're making it, people.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 91 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I'm now quite tickled by the notion that, as if ILXers don't spend enough time insulting one another, you now want to build a robot that does it as well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

/me forgets how irc works

/invite fishbot #ilx

― Onimo wants ops (nu_onimo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah OPS! And / commands!! /me cackles and slaps you all with trout. Yes, THIS is what ILX has been missing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I keep getting "unable to resolve server" whenever I try to connect. I've just remembered why IRC sucks.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Firewall?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

This might be what Stet was talking about.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that like a snowball? Don't mind if I do!

(yes, I never thought of that)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

the london undernet server seems to be working. everything else i've tried "cannot resolve."

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i r in sinister irc

― Onimo drank ALL the wine! (nu_onimo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I've just been out in the street to catch my bins which were blowing away. This wind is mental.

― Onimo drank ALL the wine! (nu_onimo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Ailsa, are you still fucking about?

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but failing dismally.

(Wind also mental this far down the M8, G)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I scrolled down servers to undernet then clicked on "random eu server" i think. Then /join #sinister

― Onimo drank ALL the wine! (nu_onimo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying random eu server and failing dismally, with or without the firewall bit on Norton turned off.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

fucking hell. i went back and you'd all gone. except for what might have been a robot keith.

i never really got IRC in 1996, and i don't think i'm getting it now :(

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 31 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

You went away for ages, you twat!

Some other time.

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Though you can be my Web 2 Last FM friend, if you like. I'm here:

http://www.last.fm/user/RobotKeith

― KeefW (KeefW), Sunday, 31 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I am in IRC right now! Auntsadie knows far too much about me...

― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Sunday, 31 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

cheers, robot keith. i found the ILX group too, incidentally. hurrah!

― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 1 January 2007 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hi
hello!
l**y a***r!
l**y a***r is, like, a rampant crack whore

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, that came out all wrong because of my pointy brackets, I suspect. The first person was sprog, then me, then sprog again, then auntsadie. Grr.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

seen rjg?
rjg was last seen on IRC 2 years, 212 days, 21 hours, 51 minutes and 58 seconds ago, saying: see ya there

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

auntsadie is just like the enterprise computer but better.

― stet (stet), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I hear auntsadie is like the enterprise computer but better and also a dear.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

HEY SOMEBODY SAY "LATIGO" AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS! I wonder if she's been de-programmed.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Come and join us and try for yourself! It's like 1999 all over again in there!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

[madchen] auntsadie, what is latigo?
[auntsadie] madchen: i don't know

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I am lurking there, I think I might catch the etwee.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa #sinister
haha i downloaded mirc just now and was baffled for the first few minutes but it's aaaallll coming back to me now
except can't connect to undernet for some reason (i think the technical reason is: i'm hungover)

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

omg it worked

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you oldfolky, Ed?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

stop lurking! feel the twee!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Cannot remember what I'm doing. Yikes!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

yes (although also discussing Ulster loyalism and football hooliganism with Gareth and Watching Torchwood)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, i know!
xpost
i just started reading the help file and am going 'oh yeah! right!' every two seconds

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

[madchen] gayometer keith
[auntsadie] keith has a gay-o-meter reading of -31, incredibly straight

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha

― KeefW (KeefW), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

in my head, all ILX chats look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPpcA8Eapw

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

waht

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link

MURKED

― amon (amon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Just how many cats are there?

(I miss poxy fule already.)

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

okay i was in #sinister for like 2 minutes, but there were actual PEOPLE there! WEIRD

― maunders (maunders), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

#sinister is great again!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, nostalgia.

Laurel, it was "lanugo", not "latigo".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

THE EXCITEMENT MOUNTS!

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Wowsers!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/ile.html

Aaaaaahhhhh. Zen.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

haha awesomely enough the cat that popped up when I first clicked on that was "WAIT, I'll fix it"

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, LANUGO! Thank you. A flake-out on my part. Does it still work?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought that NU-ILX was going to be all jsp based?

― akm (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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