ALL SCI-FI

Bud Brewster

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One of the many problems that was caused by the despicable son of our late friend Randy Everett when he forced us to recreated All Sci-Fi by having the PHPbb software installed on my own server by Mr. Raj Patel, and also having the old board's database imported from the web host — Servage One — was the unfortunate way that several punctuation marks (principally quotation marks, apostrophes, and em dashes) were changed into this — ??? — in many of our posts.

Fixing the hundreds of ??? one-by-one is very time consuming, even with the help of Gord Green and Bulldogtrekker, whom I've promoted to moderators to assist me.

However, we've made significant progress, and I'm proud to announce that today I corrected all 54 pages of the posts in our Forbidden Planet thread! Very Happy

I'd like to remind our members that their help in correcting those annoying ??? within their own existing posts would be greatly appreciated.

Meanwhile, The ASF-Team will continue our courageous efforts to purge the board and remove The Curse of Sean Everett, so that if he ever discovers that he failed completely in this disgraceful effort to destroy All Sci-Fi and erase his father's legacy, he won't even be able to gloat over a minor victory like marring our invaluable comments with those damn ???! Cool

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

alltare · Quantum Engineer Joined: 17 Jul 2015 Posts: 351

Bud

ASF was down all day yesterday (3-1-2018). My computer, anyway, was not able to access it at all. I was hoping that Sean had not figured out a way to sabotage your recent reboot efforts, and apparently he has not, since you're online again today. But can you explain to us what happened? Or was it just a problem with my computer?

Whatever the cause was, I'm happy to see that ASF still exists.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 5:27 pm Post subject:

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Rest assured, Steve, that Sean is no longer a member of this board, and his late father's password has been changed. So, the knucklehead son of our old friend Randy couldn't do anything to All Sci-Fi, even if you put his nuts in a vice and told him tp hack this board or suffer the painful consequences! Shocked

We're now being hosted by the same folks Randy used — Servage One — but I have indeed noticed that they've experienced a few short glitches during the last week. Fortunately none of them have lasted very long. I know this because I stay on All Sci-Fi most of the day! Very Happy

Whenever the board does go down for longer than a few seconds, I check Servage One with Is It Down Now?, and I call our tech support guy, Raj Patel, if I have any doubt about the situation.

Raj double-checks the situation and then assures me that it's the server, not the board. Cool

I have no idea why your recent experience lasted so long, but I'm sure it was NOT because Sean did anything. In fact, as far as I know Sean is not even aware that I've restored All Sci-Fi completely after he maliciously destroyed the website his own father loved and helped creates! Laughing

All Sci-Fi is now more safe and secure than it has been since I created the first version in 2006! Due to the failure of two different "Free Forum" sites I used to start the board in 2006, I had to recreate it from scratch in 2007, and then again in 2013 (with Randy's help).

Now it's on my own server, entirely under my control, and it's being maintained on a daily basis by our skilled computer expert (Raj Patel), who is eager to make any adjustments I request, and to fix any problems which arise!

In fact, Raj and I have even discussed creating a complete backup of All Sci-Fi on the server he himself uses, with updates from this current version periodically, just in case the Servage One hardware fails completely the way it did about two years ago, forcing Randy to rebuild the board on another server device at Servage One, using a copy of our database which he discovered on the PHPbb software website!

So, everything is being done to prevent All Sci-Fi from suffering the setbacks it has in the past, not to mention the unfortunate fates of other message boards like the Classic Horror Film Board and the Science Fiction Message Board when they were forcibly converted from YUKU to Taptalk! Rolling Eyes

I've done all I can to make All Sci-Fi the best message board on the web. But I need the help of members like you, Steve, to give it the energy and imagination it must have to inspire our members to add their own unique contributions!

That's what All Sci-Fi is all about!

I know you won't let me down.

Bud
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

orzel-w · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 1876

Out of curiosity I checked for posts dated 3-1-2018 and found about half a dozen before I quit.

On another note, I performed a search through my posts for any occurrences of ??? and came up empty-handed. But having dealt with this search function previously, I know how contrary it can be. So if you turn up any hits for my posts, Bud, let me know and I'll correct them for you.
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:54 pm Post subject: