Today I learned...

[Lucifus]

you are sick evil person.

Today I learn that my Waldo (goldfish) died because I feed it too much...

Hmm.....I wonder if Gunei pigs and Rabbits work like that.....Lets try it out. =)

Oh, and Today I learned that if I put alot of dust together in a pile and put it in front of my younger brothers computer while hes sleeping that teh dust gets caught in all his fans and makes his graphics card overheat to 91 degrees and made green spots in Battlefield 2 appear on his monitor. =D

[XanBcoo]

Oh, and Today I learned that if I put alot of dust together in a pile and put it in front of my younger brothers computer while hes sleeping that teh dust gets caught in all his fans and makes his graphics card overheat to 91 degrees and made green spots in Battlefield 2 appear on his monitor. =D

Today I learned that Lucifus really loves messing with his brother.

I also learned that Hunter x Hunter is actually a pretty good series, even though it is really similar to every other shounen story out there.

[Assertn]

what about public transportation, complich8?

I learned that laptops may soon have their batteries replaced with fuel cells that last up to 9 hours between charges. This recent change is due to some rule that had been lifted regarding the use of some certain chemical in the fuel cells on aircraft.

[KitKat]

Today I learned that the reason British and Canadians use the 'our' ending in words like 'colour' and 'honour' is that Samuel Johnson arbitrarily decided this would be the standard when he wrote his dictionary. And I learned the reason the Americans use 'or' endings is because Webster wrote the dictionary that served as the basis for standardizing the language there and he hated the British.

[Ero-Fan]

Today I learned (well, actually a few days ago) that the forums move from fusetalk caused us to lose about 3000 members. 10K member thingy. Not that I'm complaining, I'm just curious where the accounts went. I also learned that if I print out Terra's pic and post it on my cubicle wall, people stop popping in so often.
Edit: Also, linking things is much harder in this new format. But do-able eventually.

[masamuneehs]

Today you shall all learn how to link things:

Step one: Copy the URL you want to link to
Step two: Type [url= and then paste the link here. Close it with a ]
Step three: Immediately after the last ] Type the NAME you want the link to appear as
Step four: Type [/url Close it with a ]

LIST OF ALL THE FORUM CODES!

Edit: Ero, I did see that you know how to make links, but I hope this will teach others how to (it took me awhile to learn myself)
This should probably go in the GotWoot FAQ... how is that coming along Kitkat?

[Board of Command]

Today I learned (well, actually a few days ago) that the forums move from fusetalk caused us to lose about 3000 members. 10K member thingy. Not that I'm complaining, I'm just curious where the accounts went.

Those are probably accounts with 0 posts.

[xDarkMaster]

Today I learned if I keep listening to music at the volume I have been I will be half deaf by 30.

[complich8]

Yep, the migration itself didn't lose members. I decided that I would prune accounts, to get a more accurate representation of the forum environment as we have it right now.

I pruned accounts as follows: accounts with zero posts that hadn't logged in in greater than 180 days (1/2 year), and accounts with only one post that hadn't logged in in greater than 2 years (because of the great gotwoot forum crash that would have lost all of their posts). If you happen to run into any posts by "Guest" or "Anonymous" ... well, my "single-post" heuristic was probably not perfect. Such is life.

I'm debating rebuilding the post stats to reflect the actual number of posts in the database, but I'm sure with the whole mut/krb account deletion drama a while back, it would really dramatically impact people's post counts. The purist in me says "fuck post counts, I want database integrity". The realist in me says "nobody's going to be happy to lose 15-20% of their post count, and the integrity thing doesn't mean much anyway". I'm probably not going to do it, but it's still up in the air.

Oh, and today I learned that since activedirectory uses ldap-based dns as its sole name resolution method (where nt domains used wins+dns), it's necessary to make either your activedirectory server, or a domain member server, or a friendly server in your domain forest into the dns server for any hosts you intend to join to the domain. And that I'm slowly going insane, from cramming too much incredibly geeky information into my head.