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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by Duckk   » Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:25 am

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Yeah, it's to keep spam levels down. I'm pretty good at authorizing the first post within the hour it was submitted, except during the times I'm asleep, of course.
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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by emo otaku 2   » Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:38 am

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I've just had to create a new account because I had got my password wrong a few (ok probably more than a few) times

I reset the password but the forums now tell me to type in a CAPTCHA to reactivate the account but unless I'm being even more stupid than usual there isn't a CAPTCHA to type.

Is it possible to get my old account unlocked?

Many thanks,

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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by Duckk   » Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:49 am

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Sent you a PM.
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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by EdThomas   » Wed Oct 09, 2013 3:37 pm

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problem reaching infodump
I tried the link in #4 of the rules topic and got the following
A Database Error Occurred
Unable to select the specified database: dahaks_orbit

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 232
Hopefully I made some fgoof and you won'yt have to fix anything.
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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by Duckk   » Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:01 pm

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That's Joe Buckley's site, we don't have any control over his hosting. I'll try poking him, but to be honest I haven't heard from him in quite a while.
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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by Relax   » Sat Oct 26, 2013 2:59 am

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Can we get a larger number of smilies?

http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/posting.php?mode=smilies

There are some real gems in there that are priceless. Like post whore... Head against brick wall, dueling smilies, nuclear smilie, beers smilie, ditto, violin, etc.

Hmm how did the popcorn guy get in from Spacewiki?
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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by Spacekiwi   » Sat Oct 26, 2013 5:15 am

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Hes not in. hes just a gif i and others have googled and added in as an image into the text. its under the size limit and igfs appear to work, so he sits around. just google popcorn gif emote i believe is how i search for it.
Relax wrote:Can we get a larger number of smilies?

http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/posting.php?mode=smilies

There are some real gems in there that are priceless. Like post whore... Head against brick wall, dueling smilies, nuclear smilie, beers smilie, ditto, violin, etc.

Hmm how did the popcorn guy get in from Spacewiki?
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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by yanessa   » Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:00 am

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Spacekiwi wrote:Hes not in. hes just a gif i and others have googled and added in as an image into the text. its under the size limit and igfs appear to work, so he sits around. just google popcorn gif emote i believe is how i search for it.

so no popcorn for the folx :cry: ?


Relax wrote:Can we get a larger number of smilies?

http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/posting.php?mode=smilies

There are some real gems in there that are priceless. Like post whore... Head against brick wall, dueling smilies, nuclear smilie, beers smilie, ditto, violin, etc.

Hmm how did the popcorn guy get in from Spacewiki?


another site with nice smilies:

http://www.civforum.de/images/emo/index.php

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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by J6P   » Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:56 am

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Ok, read the rules, they are fine. ;)

Hate to make this my first post :evil: :evil: , BUT:

Can we get rid of this absurd password requirement so that one can actually type it in in under 5 minutes? Good Grief. An internet forum is not Fort Knox. The type in the numbers thing when registering gets rid of all spam bots.

Caps, numbers, and letters? What the heck on an internet forum containing discussion on a FICTIONAL book(favorite author), requires verification equal to my bank account?

Holy Cow. Sanity please? :!:
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Re: Forum Rules & Information
Post by Duckk   » Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:10 pm

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I'm a computer science major, so I keep an eye out regarding security. I'm not worried about spam bots accessing your account. I'm worried about someone getting access to the database, cracking the password and email list, then using it to hijack accounts elsewhere. Even if you practice safe internetting, not everyone else does. So if they recycle email accounts and passwords to register at other sites, an attacker could easily get access to your entire digital life (there's a great Wired article where that happened to one of the writers). To that end, I want the passwords to be complex as possible, to make the problem space large. No admin worth his or her salt would ever want to make things easy for an attacker, no matter what said attacker's ultimate goal is. But I can't do that and still have a password system the average person could use. Be thankful I didn't enforce a longer password length or a requirement for non-alphanumeric symbols. Nowadays it's quite trivial to crack passwords 10 to 11 alphanumeric characters long, thanks to GPU assisted hashing and selective dictionary based rainbow tables.
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