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Welcome our new admin, zwitterion

#1

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 05:00 PM

zwitterion is another new admin on Malazan Empire.
He has been sorting some server side issues for us and is also hoping to be able to merge purgatory posts with the old database.
All in all a damned decent chap. Please make him welcome.

#2 Abyss

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 05:11 PM

Hetan, on Sep 24 2008, 01:00 PM, said:

Also,

- Abyss, ...what?

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#3 Bent

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 05:12 PM

Welcome Zwitt, all hail the new powers!

THIS IS HOW I ROLL BITCHES!!!

#4 Ganymed

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 05:22 PM

Dude, thank you for all the work. I know, it's a shitty job, but someone (you) has to do it.

Seriously, huge thanks!

This post has been edited by Ganymed: 24 September 2008 - 05:23 PM

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#5 Giles

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 05:26 PM

Welcome new admin zwit

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#6 Mentalist

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 06:24 PM

awesome.
Thanz a million for the merging attempts, zwit!

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#7 Abyss

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 07:02 PM

Mentalist, on Sep 24 2008, 02:24 PM, said:

awesome.
Thanz a million for the merging attempts, zwit!

Ditto what he ^ said.

- Abyss, can program a vcr...

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#8 Cougar

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 07:58 PM

I'm imagining zwitteron mashing two hard drives togeher with a hammer and a press

This post has been edited by Cougar: 24 September 2008 - 07:59 PM

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#9 Silencer

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 09:41 AM

Haha.

Nice. Good to see someone willing to take on that job!

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#10 Lisheo

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 01:28 PM

Woo, Zwitt, your efforts are much appreciated

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#11 Bhurnae

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 11:09 PM

hi Zwitt..............

Mezla PigDog, on 28 September 2009 - 09:34 PM, said:

I have been entertaining tourists for many years now.... A girls gotta make a living.

#12 Laxon

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 11:13 PM

Welcome fellow admin

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#13 Bauchelain the Evil

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 03:19 PM

Many thanks zwitterion! It will be great to merge the Purgatory-Nascent with the new forum. There were some petty decent posts there

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#14 zwitterion

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what seriously

Posted 26 September 2008 - 03:32 PM

Bauchelain the Evil, on Sep 26 2008, 04:19 PM, said:

Many thanks zwitterion! It will be great to merge the Purgatory-Nascent with the new forum. There were some petty decent posts there

Yeah about that... as I muttered overe here, merging those databases requires that I have access to those databases (or hard drives if you prefer

) but while AR sent over all the old board data, the closest I've come to the purgatory db is an email from Hetan saying that AR was being surly and feels like everyone should just deal because "they knew it was temporary anyway". So we're a bit SOL unless AR finds a minute to chuck us some server details or SQL dumps.

#15 Malaclypse

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 03:41 PM

welcome zwitt!

I understand your frustration, truly. The fact is that we cannot rely on AR replying/acting in any reasonable time frame - period, fullstop. We must explore alternatives to him doing the things we currently need him to do in order to facilitate the change. If we need a new domain we will get one, etc. There must be a place for SE's fans to gather. Until and unless such a place is in safe hands, I'm on point and heads are going to roll until we get it right.

So, worst case scenario, ie., no further cooperation from AR, what are our options?

#16 zwitterion

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what seriously

Posted 26 September 2008 - 03:59 PM

Malaclypse, on Sep 26 2008, 04:41 PM, said:

Limited. We have control of everything on malazanempire.com so that's all good but
- We can't hijack someone else's site so anyone explicitly going to www.malazanworld.com is going to stay there. (the board may be redirectable. I'd poke around in its admin panel if i had rights)
- We can't get the nascent's posts without access to its db server, (unless there's an option in the admin panel there, btw give me admin rights over there.) so the only other way to get those posts would be to write some sort of site crawler and screen scrape all the data and i'm just not Russian enough for that kind of shit.
- Even if we get those posts we can't use vBulletin's merge scripts without supplying the original login info of the guy that licensed vBulletin in the first place, which I can only imagine was rake.
If s/he doesn't care about this I don't see why it's difficult to shoot off an email with a few hostnames logins and passwords in it. But apparently it is?

#17 RodeoRanch

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 04:42 PM

Most peculiar. But we're almost up and running at full speed!

Huge thanks to all the tech heads who've figured this mess out.

I'll drink a beer for everyone of you.

#18 Vengeance

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 05:55 PM

I would also like to add my thanks to Zwit

for his work.

How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
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