Banned from Geehack

Stevie Wonder · 01 Jul 2012, 22:04

Damn, you dudes post a lot.

didja · 01 Jul 2012, 22:09

hoggy wrote:It suddenly occurred to me that it would be unethical to travel back in time and not try to kill Hitler (based on arguments elsewhere in this thread).

Tarantino did it in Inglorious Basterds. Who cares about historical accuracy when you have the chance to kill Hitler.

metafour · 01 Jul 2012, 22:22

Make sure you travel back to the correct time!

http://xkcd.com/1063/

TexasFlood · 01 Jul 2012, 22:32

webwit wrote:The real question is if the nazis used mechanical keyboards.

The enigma was actually a series of machines, starting before the war commercially to keep business secrets safe. There is a U.S. Patent, number 1,657,411, granted in 1928 for the technology. Hitler and the Nazis of course used it for their own ends. There is a good page on the various versions here. There is also some info about WWII versions here including Purple, the machine for decrypting Japanese messages. Purple is lesser known but apparently yielded as good if not better intellegence than Enigma as it had greater weaknesses than Enigma and the Japanese would sit in on German meetings and report back in great detail. This is the best picture I've found of the key mechanisms.

dsjbirch · 01 Jul 2012, 22:35

Stevie Wonder wrote:Hey, I SEE what you are doing there.

In case you're blind and missed this check it out, man!
http://www.reddit.com/r/keyboards/comme ... a_summary/

Ahhh, i SEE what YOU did there.

iMav then.

ripster · 02 Jul 2012, 20:37

Damn, being UnFriended feels WORSE than being PermaBanned.

Forum Moderators have NO sense of humor!

Oh well, time to MAN UP and MOVE ON!

Like Clint!

http://www.reddit.com/r/keyboards/comme ... a_summary/

Feels Good!

Soarer · 02 Jul 2012, 20:47

ripster wrote:Oh well, time to MAN UP and MOVE ON!

Aww, why stop now? You've hit this thread with a defibrillator so many times it almost looks alive!

Input Nirvana · 02 Jul 2012, 21:00

Soarer wrote:
ripster wrote:Oh well, time to MAN UP and MOVE ON!
Aww, why stop now? You've hit this thread with a defibrillator so many times it almost looks alive!

Hahahaha...good one Soarer!

ripster · 20 Jul 2012, 20:29

Damn. Banned AGAIN!

ORANGE U SURPRISED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bar81 · 20 Jul 2012, 21:05

That didn't take long.

codehead · 20 Jul 2012, 23:58

Related to ripster...

I couldn't login to new GH. Is the wiki gone in there? If it is, I couldn't be bothered to register. Related to ripster because the GH wiki wouldn't had been jackshit without his contributions! But hey... let's just ban the guy everywhere and forget about his works, right?

ripster · 21 Jul 2012, 01:41

Could you rephrase that?

Rofl. Stevie posted 16 times before he was banned at DT. And LittleStevieWonder was banned at GH even before that!

Racism!

DanGWanG · 21 Jul 2012, 01:57

ripster wrote:Damn. Banned AGAIN!

ORANGE U SURPRISED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those legos are awesome!!!

codehead · 21 Jul 2012, 01:59

So I was wondering, does the new GH have the wiki somewhere or is the GH wiki gone for good? I quickly checked the site today but couldn't find it.

"related to ripster" was meant to be like "speaking of ripster"..

Gaah I'm doing it wrong!

TexasFlood · 21 Jul 2012, 02:17

Seems like I read they are there but hidden for now, dunno why, to make an appearance at some later date.

ripster · 21 Jul 2012, 21:37

Actually you can not say "ripster" there without being censored.

Rest of my GH login attempts here.
http://imgur.com/a/KuSG5#0

Pretty funny actually.

Hit the "Cog" symbol to view full resolution some of the screenshots. Arrow keys move you through the pics.

Soarer · 21 Jul 2012, 21:43

happy rainbows Guides

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RedAlien · 21 Jul 2012, 22:00

There's another "Easter egg" in the Simple Theme about Demik Farts.

Soarer · 21 Jul 2012, 22:08

Whoopee Doo.

It all stinks without any of the old pictures/attachments, and there's apparently little intent to do anything about it, even though most of them would be recoverable.

ripster · 21 Jul 2012, 22:12

It'll be fine.

You've got over a dozen smart Admin/Moderators there and SIGNIFICANT resources of Intel/McAfee behind them according to Geekhack Facebook.

http://deskthority.net/geekhacker-refug ... tml#p58980

I dunno about that McAfee SW preventing me logging in though. Hire a summer free intern to simple relate attachment IDs to images.

I mean, everything was backed up.

Right?

Right?

Bueller?

webwit · 21 Jul 2012, 22:21

It's a real shame, all that info, all those mods, all those google results...

I also don't understand why they're so locked up. Elitists! When you're down for 3 weeks, it seems to me your priority is to be very open and get your community back to activity. Now they're acting like they have floods of traffic to handle, while they don't. Should have first gotten the floods back. It's like they are playing Russian roulette with their community site mojo.

Djuzuh · 21 Jul 2012, 22:24

I'm currently pretty sold at staying mainly on DT and reddit, and only use GH for the nice shiny keycaps, and the vendor subforums.

Soarer · 21 Jul 2012, 22:58

webwit wrote:... all those google results...

Sad but true.

-site:geekhack.org

Not ideal, but will maintain correct distance of palm from face.

Soarer · 21 Jul 2012, 23:02

ripster wrote:Hire a summer free intern to simple relate attachment IDs to images.

Yes, it would be fairly simple. ID to filename lookup, and then modify the page display code. No need to change the database even.

Same for fixing links. The thread and post IDs are the same as before, so it's even simpler than fixing attachments.

webwit · 21 Jul 2012, 23:50

Some url rewrite magic could fix that. On the other hand, google will find the new pages. Except those closed for public eyes.

Soarer · 22 Jul 2012, 00:13

The URLs are a side issue.

The real disaster is that google will now start indexing the picture-less threads, that once used to be wonderfully complete and useful. Like...

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=8110.0
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=8865.0
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=8893.0

JBert · 22 Jul 2012, 00:14

For once I'm happy that certain articles used Photobucket and similar sites... At least not everything got disfunctional.

ripster · 22 Jul 2012, 07:25

Yep, the GH mods confirmed they won't fix pic attachments.

Re: Please repopulate this forum!
« Reply #2 on: Saturday, 21 July 2012, 19:00:58 »
much like demik's romantic life, we've decided to shelve this iteration of the pictures forum (too depressing with so many missing attachments) and start anew. huzzah!

It's like regressing to BBS days.

They really need to fix up those security holes too, Even I have no problem sockpuppeting into the place. Think what a HTML pro could do!

mkawa wrote:@ripster (and anyone who decides to become part of his personal nunnery): if you make any attempt to test the robustness of your permaban, i will happily spend a saturday writing a ripster module that actively and silently keeps track of you and anyone who choses to help you and makes sure that they never ever have write access to the forum again.

Hey, wasn't today Saturday?

Soarer · 22 Jul 2012, 16:27

Maybe they will spend Sunday rewriting the swear filter to cope with accents

fossala · 22 Jul 2012, 16:37

They really blocked the word ripster? How childish.