And I agree with Andy... Its Zois butt ugly...... :puke:


Anyone a web designer?

well it sure lost the 914 theme. maybe add back some car graphics!

This is nasty!!!!


[/u]Hopefully Andy can fix this back to the beautifool layout we had before![u]

The important thing is we can surf and we are keeping the Italian out! If you want beauty look at your 914 calendar

I think it was Jaroen that did all the graphics, maybe he can work his magic with this new forum. I am just glad it is back up again. Good job Andy and Brad.

Try the edit function. It's cool!

Yeah now the "Green" page doesn't look so bad huh??

The new look works for me...it fits in with all the other generic information that's "supposed" to be on my computer screen during the day.....

Wow...my .02 is, this looks awful.

still better than the eyeball sucking out of your face font at the the bird these days. i wonder who figured that improvement up?

k

Think of it as "olympic blue".

Considering what it took to get this place up again, I don't think now is a good time for bicthing. Did anyone figure out if we were just a random hit by the Italian?

I hate it when stuff like that happens to other boards I run.

You spend so much time getting it back from something catastrophic...then you are too exausted to put the other Theme back up.

Glad to see everything is back up and running...

I am not bitching... I am trying to recruit a web page person to help with the graphics......

Glad we're back. Red stripes could work

I'm still trying to get the subliminals worked out


KT

Agreed. I'm having a hard time finding all the familiar shortcut buttons I'm used to. Smilies are now less chooser-friendly. Scroll down to bottom to slide to the right, scroll back up to see smilies, scroll back down and slide more, scroll back up to look for smilie... so on and so forth.

Not complaining though. Glad to have all my internet friends back.

Jen

Home Sweet Home.

Funny Trek,
When you said that you hoped the zambezi would go away (over on the bird board)
I was looking at your avatar thinking, "White with red stripes would look cool on the club page..."

Great minds and all... (Or is that damaged minds?)

I miss the look and feel of the old site and I agree w/Jen, the smilie selection box is toooooo long

What was the reason for the changes to the forum software?

Hackers.

The style images have to be modified to work with the new secure software. So it's not just a matter of moving a folder into place. It's a ton of work.

ewwwww... ugly standar look
well good thing we have a long weekend ahead
instead of painting easter eggs I'll throw some paint around here

oh... and thanks Andy/Mark for all the hard work and getting the site up and runnin' again!

Thanks for the info

Has everyone's blog vanished or just mine?

It could use some tweeking and color but I'm just happy its back up and runnin.
Good work guys, thanks for all your hard work.

It hasn't vanished. You just can't see it.

Jen

Were ya'll able to track down the hackers? Was it alpha? adolfred? Mike Z's avatars???

Jeroen,

Make sure that you check out IPS Beyond for info on creating a skin for 2.1. A lot of good help and examples. You don't need to change the basic setup, just dump your new skin into a certain folder.

Oh, I guess that's ok then...a stealth blog.

you guys better stop bitching, mark is getting tired ...

Andy

no, we deleted ALL your blogs and previous posts and pictures and sold everyones email address to the highest bidder ...

thanks for your "trust" in our professional abilities!
apparently, everyone here thinks we're just a bunch of dumb crackheads that don't know shit about migrating software ...


this is what you get for trying to be "nice" and get the new board back up and running fast and then work out the kinks.
instead, we *should* have left it down for 2 weeks to make sure everything looks EXACTLY like the old board so you guys don't get your pansies all twisted up ...

geeeeezzzzz ...
Andy

Give him a couple of burgers and he will be fine.







Thanks a ton McMark.

Yeah, where's the burger fund?

Dude, Decaf....

Take a break,,,stop reading all the crap...
Those of us that have been there done that understand the stress and hard work that you are putting in to make it work again...really a great thing...

Its your baby...take a walk..drink decaf...

Rich

Thanks 914ADminrals (sic) who are doing a great recovery. The changeover colors are looking fine to me.... But I am colorblind.

i just did finished 2 different themes for 2 updated and modded phpbb boards I manage for free...

just think of me looking over your shoulder saying "that looks nice, thanks for adding your personal touch."

Looking forward to the new one.

Chris

No offense meant towards anyone...Should have inserted some smileys, I guess. I was just going to post some new pictures and couldn't find the tab. It will show up eventually, I'm sure. Everyone's hard work is appreciated.

Uh huh. You just load new "skins" into the skins folder on the server. You download the skins directly from Invision © *or* make one, if you've got someone who knows how to.

EXACTLY what we did before and will do again. And it's a ton of work. We fuching know how to install skins. Do you think we downloaded the 914Club skin the first time around?

The 1.1 skin we had before is not compatible with 2.1.5 and doesn't cover all the new buttons in 2.1.5. So a ton of work has to be done.

Maybe I'm just tired, but what a freakin' stupid comment.

i'm sure Mr. "Know it All" could do a much better job than all of us in much less time ... or maybe not ...

i mean, hey dude, all that custom coding and custom graphics you did over the last 3 years, dude, you could have just dowloaded all that from invision, like, you know, they offer all kinds of custom skins, dude, they do all kinds of cool stuff, eh, for real man, all your custom crap was just a waste of time bro ...

Andy

time for a little to keep this floating on top (like a turd in a pool) ...

and yes, i'm feeling better now, thanks for asking!
Andy

A true operations guy...you are a glutton for punishment.

Keep up the good work..again I will help if you get pissed.

I found afew good, free firewalls for linux..
If you are on linux, let me know..they have good ratings.

Also, I could help with your router config...if that is allowed..

rich

thank you sir!

right now, i'm pondering options and a hardware solution like one of the "cheaper" (note, i didn't say "cheap", i said "cheaper") Netscreen Firewalls is looking pretty good to me ...
Andy

We have some relationships with some firewall/ips companies - we might be able to score something for you. I have a really nice device on my home network. I'd really like to get more info on what happened - perhaps you could should me an email or IM?

that would be cool ...


simple:

hacker guy exploits bug in old BBS software and installs custom PHP script and runs it to get domain user acocunt info and other stuff off the machine. luckily, he didn't get any passwords.
he then adds some virus/backdoor/trojan code to the main BBS index page to attack members machines.
he then proceeds to run a "brute force" attack on the FTP and NetBios Ports, trying to crack the password and hack his way into the machine with domain admin access.

that's where we catched him and closed the door on him. that's why you see blue instead of green.
we updated the BBS software to the latest version and we upgraded PHP and mySQL as well.
the system *should* be safe now, just not green anymore.
but jeroen is working on that ...

Andy

Netscreen ain't all that Andy...

Because I have WAAAAY too much shit in my basement as it is... If you want, I'll donate a Nokia IP440 firewall to the cause. Consider it my "membership fee". It was decomissioned at my work, but our bandwidth requirements are are alot more than here, so it should be MORE than adequate. Anywho, if you don't mind paying for shipping, it's yours. And I also have the latest os for it. Let me know.

Howz that for "cheaper" ?

I guess I should add..

Your box was rooted from an exploit in the software you were using. So no amount of firewalls would have protected from that. I'm not telling you your business, just the facts. A firewall would have only stopped a few of the things you menthioned. A firewall is not a replacement for patch management. Keep the box updated as much as possible.

A firewall will definitely help though, and the Nokia is yours if you want it.

I use Netscreen firewalls, and have been very pleased with them. I started with a little 5xp several years ago before Juniper bought them out. I like the separate hardware unit better than running a software-based firewall on the server.

Just a heads-up (I'm sure you are already aware of, but just in case...) The subscription to keep them updated is not cheap.

yes, never said it would. there's another thread here somewhere where i go more into detail. i've been around this stuff for a while. firewall DOES help protecting against the "brute force" attacks he was running, at least on the NetBios Port as there is NO reason to share this one with the world.

i'll gladly pay shipping! you rock ...
Andy

no problem there either. box has always been up to date with everything, EXCEPT the BBS software.
as said before, the reason behind that is/was the TONS of custom code that went into our old BBS.
all of that is lost now and has to be re-created ...

and no, i'm not just talking about downloading some pre-made skin from invision ...
Andy