Samir
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I can't believe both other forums are having so many registration issues. It's actually not that hard to get a forum online and running smoothly, but some of the server side settings just need to be right and tested to make sure they work. I guess maybe this is where some skill and experience come in.
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One thing you could do is crop it down to the size that it would have been as your avatar and then see how it looks here--that's one way to carry it forward. :)
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I forgot I had a bunch of these open on another system (some were threads I had not saved to pdf) and I was able to save them to pdf in my archive. You should be able to do the same and then close them after checking your print to pdf. 🙂 Everything that's older was lighter on servers--case in point is firing up a vb3 instance on modern hardware and it just flies. There's still a few small boutique forum platforms that actually mimic vb3 to the t and are still super-light. But the drawback is scalability which is quite important.
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Hey, were there any Toshiba threads? I'm working on an older L555 and wanted to know everything about it. Of course I start working on this after NBR1 goes down...
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Just when I needed NBR, it's gone. :( So anyone remember this model? I want to know everything about it! I couldn't find anything in the archives, but that's probably because I didn't know where the treasure might be. I checked the two Dell links but didn't find anything in the first few pages. (Happy to look again if someone knows where to point me.)
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As long as they would be linked, they would still be crawlable, so I don't think that would be an issue.
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I believe I have a 1500 in my collection so some really great info here! I've tested 4GB, but don't have a 4GB DDR2 module (yet) so I haven't tried 6GB yet. But honestly, I'm probably just keep it at 4GB and use it as a portable xp gaming system. I have several laptops of this era so playing a nice session of NFS underground with a bunch of peeps should be fun once I get it all set up. :D
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And what gets to me about this is that if you look for information on almost anything--cars, computers, photography, you name it--the answer will always lie in a forum, not on social media. Sometimes you'll find answers on an independent blog, but searching a good forum is almost always a sure fire way to find the answer if it exists or others to discuss the issue with. In the advent of social media, the past is blown away like dust in the wind with a memory of just microseconds. Almost like the idea is to forget history or prevent it from even existing. And this flies directly in the face of forums which build knowledge based on the history of posts in the forum. Personally, I don't understand why forums are dying since they have the answers.
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Very cool to hear about the history of the site. Storage review is my go-to for storage lookups so that's really cool to hear! Thank you for sharing! It's interesting how when the few people at the core of the company moved away from the front, that's when the quality seemed to reduce. This is an interesting business lesson for those of us that own forums. I'm so glad to hear it! So if an article like this existed, what aspect would you most enjoy reading about? I think every mod has dealt with some sort of crazy issue. I call them 'stories from the trenches', lol. Very cool to hear about the effect of the xenforo transition. I wasn't on NBR then, but remember seeing the same falloff in traffic on other sites that moved to xen and thought it was just a perception--but it seems to have some real truth to it. Hey Receiver or other mod, I think these historical posts should be spun off into their own thread with the title 'What Happened?'. It would be great place to have all the real history of NBR from those that lived it. 🙂
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Seem quite seamless in terms of what we as forum goers would expect when one thread ends and another begins. I wonder if search engine spiders are going to crawl it and attribute it to NBR 3.1b or the hosted domain? This is why in my mind it makes sense to have the archives hosted here as well--so that the seo will bring this site to the same level as NBR in terms of search results. But the potential caveat to this is that it could bring TT's eyes for a DCMA take down request. I would actually hesitate on making the archive this seamless until some time has passed. TT needs to forget about us and NBR. Then I think it will be safer to 'deep link' into the archive.
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Sounds like it was the perfect storm of resources coming together. :) I'm glad it did as I think the legacy posts of NBR are going to be safely online for years to come.
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Very cool to hear the story on how all this came together. It's almost like there's a movie plot in here somewhere, or at least a cool documentary. 😉 Get some much needed rest. We'll be here when you wake. :)
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Yes, big hats off to Charles for alerting the userbase via PM. I wouldn't have known either otherwise and would have lost all the capability to max out my laptops. :( I hope one day he can share his story of the last days from the inside. It would be a fascinating read and give a lot of us answers to burning questions.
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It'll probably be in the archive. :D Or in one of my pdf prints of threads if you posted in one of them.
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And I think this is the lesson about digital technology that we all need to be aware of. I still remember that I lost all my Eclipse to Galant bushing cross reference work that I posted on The Galant Center when it when down due to a database crash. Even without an intention forum closing, data loss can happen. I've learned that even if I find a thread on something that I can reference later, I not only save the bookmark, but I print it to pdf and file it where I can find it (usually something like Dell\Model_number\yyyy-mo\filename.pdf) just in case. I did this with so many threads on NBR once I found out it was going down, and I probably only scratched the surface of what I need. :(
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Yep, and the Internet in all it's unregulated connectivity has really caused a huge grey area because if this was a print publication the rules are quite cut and dry and very clear. And that's one thing I think needs to be brought to bear on all the electronic publishers--liability that is equal to their print counterparts--it would keep their feet close to the fire so that when teenage girls commit suicide because of things your site published to them, the parents have very clear grounds for justice. Right now, the legal loophole allows sites to literally get away with murder. And the nation states of the world have noticed and have weaponized this into world war 3--which is being fought online in a perpetual cyberwar that is escalating every day. There's a reason countries have borders that aren't penetrable. Each country's Internet should be the same really. There's no reason anyone should have russian and chinese hacking packets hitting their routers in the US. We don't allow the same people to come and knock on your door without permission, do we? You know what would make a great article in a few years? 'The Last Days of the NBR Forum--Voices From the Inside' -- An article with interviews from those that were on the inside and what went on in the last days and the decline. Someone could interview everyone now and then publish the article a year or so later on the anniversary of NBR going offline.
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Never thought if that, but sounds logical for sure. Neat! Might explain how my samsung's always got the time on the screen and still has great battery life. 🙂 Yeah, I think I've only seen one or two vb5 in the wild and then I never saw them again.
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Except this is where the legal waters get muddy. Supposed there is a user in the EU that somehow has their GDPR rights violated unbeknownst to the site owners and files suit in the EU. Because there are relationships between the EU and US as far as judgements, etc, if a EU judge adjudicates the case in favor of the user, the user now has a mechanism to seek retribution from the US company. It's a rare case, but the EU itself has done this against places like FB and google, so there's case law there already. And for most companies this potential liability over something that doesn't necessarily swing the bottom line is nix the liability.
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Hmmm...what did you set the /mt to? Or did you leave it to the default of 8? The reason I ask is because I think I caused one of my HGST enterprise 2TB drives to die with /MT:128 on a nightly remote backup. Usually there wasn't much data and the files were small in size so wasn't so much head trashing. But when it did get to some larger files and because the remote backup pipe is relatively low bandwidth (1-2MB/s), the result is that a bunch of files could get queued up and the drive could end up in seek city on both ends. Your idea of creating a large files, sending it over and decompressing is actually going to be the fastest method. I haven't done that since the win9x days, but it was always faster when dealing with thousands of small files.
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How about--New nice forum, Same great community.
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Rule number one when building a forum for a community--make sure it is easy for the community to register and post, lol.
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Seriously--I think that was the biggest slap in the face. I read those and was like wha? But the more I looked at those links and started thinking, there was some sort of financial/business case for shutting all these forums down--potential lawsuits or other huge debt creating problems must have loomed on the horizon if they kept them open. Maybe a big GDPR lawsuit? Who knows... You guys did a fantastic job in the face of everything. Only pure selflessness and love for the community brings that. You should be proud. Ditto. Second round on me. And this has got to be a sore point after all the time and effort put in. But that work wasn't for naught because like a phoenix this site rises out of the ashes...
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Robocopy is really good at handling large operations like that from ssd to ssd with the /mt option that you can set up to 128 ime. It will work your drives though!
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Along with the large massive archive operations, I'm sure we all had our 'little piece of the old' that we wanted to keep. What was yours and how did you do it? I saved almost every page of every thread related to the 8760w and m6800 as a pdf. I then found some cool stuff on the D610 and C400 and got some of those before I called it a night...and that was the end. I didn't have a chance to search for even 1/10 of the models of laptops I own. :( How about you?
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Thank you for the insight as I wasn't around for the vb transitions although I know I never went beyond vb3 on my own site because vb4 was pretty much a trainwreck with the departure of the original developers to create xenforo. And after the dust settled it was pretty clear who has the best system as almost every forum now is xen powered. IPB has always had a strong product, especially with their fully hosted series which is completely turnkey but has a hefty per month commitment. You're welcome for the link. It was trivial at the time, but now that I think about it, it was another data point that would have been otherwise lost with the shutdown. The thing about styles is that I've always found them to be productivity driven. People want a dark theme so they can be on a night more easily. People want a mobile theme so they can be on their phone. People want a fluid theme so they can utilize their bigger monitor, etc. I actually only had one theme for my site since I've always been 'function over form'. But a little eye candy also helps to grab people's initial attention.
