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Posts: 45 06/01/05 09:13 PM |
WM,
I'm sorry your board also was hit in the ezboard meltdown and it looks like you lost your most recent threads from Season 2. That sucks. |
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WideMaster |
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Posts: 10468 06/02/05 09:36 PM |
Yep.
Thanks for the kind words, newslady. This sucks beyond belief. We all put a lot into this forum, in particular. I'm just hoping against hope that ezboard will be able to restore some of it. Otherwise, I think my days of rallying around a show like Carnivale are done. We've had so many great shows get cancelled, lots of time and effort went into trying to bring them back, and now losing all these posts..... I give. I cry uncle. I'm toast.   |
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Leafy |
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Posts: 244 06/03/05 02:29 PM Infinity Frequent Flyer |
A lot of forum hosts were hacked. A friend with a Yahoo board said that they were hacked the other day too.
Hey, WM, don't give up on the good stuff! It is better to rally and lose than to watch shows that are too mediocre to need rallying. 
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WideMaster |
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Posts: 10468 06/04/05 09:38 PM |
Thanks, Leafy.
I appreciate the kind words. Ezboard's gonna have to work long and hard to gain my trust again. Something like this should've never happened, in my opinion. They should have security issues up the wazoo to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening. Obviously, they didn't. Just as a side note...the petition is up to almost 7100 signatures. That was quite a jump since the last time I looked. |
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Leafy |
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Posts: 244 06/06/05 07:03 AM Infinity Frequent Flyer |
My earlier reply posted after all?!?!?
I wonder if the cancellation was a "punishment" for the creators of Carnivle committing to come other project. The petition will show that there are quite a few people who will be unhappy with HBO. As far as security, if there are hackers that can hack into secure government sites, the Pentagon, for example, I doubt if ezboard would be much of a challenge no matter what they do.  I hope they catch whoever hit ezboard, and throw them under the jail.WM, I discovered that I still have your synopses of the season 2 episodes. I was going to print them out, but haven't gotten to it. If you don't have copies of them, I can send them to you as attachments. Where would you like them sent and what format would you prefer? I'll translate them to it if I can. |
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newslady |
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Posts: 45 06/06/05 10:56 AM |
Leafy,
That's so nice of you to send those synopsis' back to WM. His episodic takes were what I looked forward to every Sunday after watching that night's offering on HBO. They were classic! |
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Leafy |
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Posts: 244 06/06/05 02:41 PM Infinity Frequent Flyer |
Thanks, Newslady ....
Widemaster has done so much for the fans here, and for Carnivle, it's the least I can do .... |
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WideMaster |
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Posts: 10468 06/06/05 07:52 PM |
Wow, Leafy! That is so nice of you!
Yes, I'd love to have copies of those synopsises (sp?!). I was really stupid not to keep copies of them, but again, never really had a reason to think that something like this could happen. You can e-mail them to me as Word documents, or RTF documents, or whatever you have them saved as, for that matter. I'll be able to re-post them here in the Carnivale forum. My e-mail address is: widemaster@widetoinfinity.com Thanks again, Leafy! I also appreciate the kind words, newslady. You both made my day!  |
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Leafy |
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Posts: 244 06/07/05 06:12 AM Infinity Frequent Flyer |
I'll get right on it ... They are saved right now as Clarisworks documents, but I have MacLink, so it's easy to translate them to Word. A matter of mere seconds. I'll send them sometime today. I have an appointment with my chiropractor this morning, but I'll get 'em on the way when I get home.
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WideMaster |
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Posts: 10468 06/07/05 06:29 PM |
Leafy, I have 6 words for you...
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I received the first of the episode synopsis', and I will be re-posting them here in the Carnivale forum....just for posterity. Or whatever you call it. You're my hero, Leafy!  |
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TVChick |
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Posts: 1679 06/07/05 06:37 PM |
Leafy, are you a Mac person too? GREAT!
Your kindness is so appreciated!!! |
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Leafy |
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Posts: 244 06/08/05 05:51 AM Infinity Frequent Flyer |
Macs rule!!!
Glad I could help.
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ShosuroHametsu |
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Posts: 1422 06/08/05 08:26 AM Infinity Honcho |
Lets see.......TVChick.....Leafy......and Steve Wozniaks Mother.......that makes three Mac users.....
 but seriously folks......been an Authorized Apple Technician since 1979 and still haven't forgiven Steve Jobs for dismantling one of the great tech developement teams in the mid '80s. Thank God I've also been an Authorized IBM PC tech since '82.......not to mention a scad of other worthless pieces of paper to hang on my wall....... I kid Mac users mercilessly but admit that it's still the most viable machine in the graphic arts field......  Did ya hear that Apple has signed a huge new developement deal?.....with Playskool........
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Leafy |
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Posts: 244 06/08/05 08:52 AM Infinity Frequent Flyer |
Sho, but you know what they say about Apple, at least they knew the century was coming to an end. "Macintosh - drink upstream from the herd." 
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WideMaster |
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Posts: 10468 06/08/05 07:19 PM |
I don't get it.
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TVChick |
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Posts: 1679 06/08/05 10:45 PM |
We've been covering the story all week about "Apple's plan to drop the PowerPC chip from IBM" and "build future models around Intel's omnipresent microprocessors". But I'm an artist so I really don't understand all the technical stuff. What did you say your tech support number was Sho?
Seriously, though, why Intel rather than IBM? You would know.
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ShosuroHametsu |
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Posts: 1422 06/09/05 05:47 AM Infinity Honcho |
The Power PC chip is made by IBM exclusively for Apple. It includes a lot of programming that IBM and Apple agreed upon about fifteen years ago. It was a poor decision, from Apple, to try to become compatible with the majority of the software market.
Intel makes the chips that are used in the majority of "PC"s and are without question the industry standard. IBM has never been 100% compatible with Intels "PC" standard and seems to keep moving further away. So...... Apple will make their machines more universally compatible by switching to Intels chipsets......Plus....I'm sure they won't have to pay through the nose for the privilege, as they did while dealing with IBM. It's 6:30AM and I hope that was a close approximation of English...... I'd have to dig out my paperwork to find my number......I think they still chisled them on stone tablets back then.....
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WideMaster |
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Posts: 10468 06/16/05 06:01 PM |
Well, how do you like that!
We got a lot of our Carnivale stuff restored! Bravo, indeed! This just made my day! Currently, a lot of stuff is out of order...but still, at least a lot of stuff is back! Fantastic!!! |
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ShosuroHametsu |
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Posts: 1422 06/16/05 11:45 PM Infinity Honcho |
WooHoo!!!......I see we got season twos posts back....and....all of last seasons Lakers posts!!!!
...... ..... Happy it worked out WM........  Now EZ-Boards needs to make a backup method available to everyone. If they do...and it costs....I'll chip in. |
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WideMaster |
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Posts: 10468 06/17/05 06:51 AM |
Thanks, Sho!
 As far as the backup issue, ezboard has made mention of making it possible for the individual owners to be able to backup their own boards, something that might be in the works for the next update. It should be included in the regular cost of the subscription, though. I'm already paying $54 a year minimum for keeping this place ad-free. They shouldn't hike up the price for this feature, though. That's another thing that really pisses me off about ezboard. They charge a LOT of money for these services! The mimimum price for the Gold Status (which is just a lame excuse for getting rid of hundreds of pop-up ads everytime you click on a link) is $30 every 6 months. But, it's all based on traffic. During our peak traffic days, during the finale of Carnivale, we went from averaging about 200 to 300 page views per day to over 2000 views per day. On the stats page, they also show how much the renewal fee would be, based on that traffic. Mine went from $30 per 6 months, to over $50 per six months!!! Fortunately, I had already paid my renewal fee for the entire year back in January. Still, for the more popular forum boards that get thousands of hits per day, I can't even imagine how pissed they were for paying so much and then losing their posts during this whole fiasco! Ezboard's got a lot of saving face to face! And I guess the Lakers stuff was restored since I last checked. Excellent! |
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ShosuroHametsu |
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Posts: 1422 06/17/05 10:00 PM Infinity Honcho |
This seasons Laker posts had dropped to page two of the NBA forum.....but they all seemed to be there.......
But then....Do we really want to remember this season?.....
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