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2250 Kilometer round trip

February 28, 2006

I’ve just returned from a trip to Toronto and already I’m missing the T.O. Thankfully I drove back with a trunk full of Canada’s finest Hops and Barley. I did two segments on Call for Help, episodes 340 and 344 which will air March 10th and 23rd respectively, and one live episode of The War Room with Jenn Cutter.

So back in the states and ready for action, Wess, Alli and I are shooting the last segments of Hak.5 episode 8. We hope you’ll join us for the regular online release party on March 5th in #hak5 on irc.techphile.ca. We’re working on setting up a LAN (Or would that be WAN?) party & VOIP madness that night. I’ll keep you posted on game, servers, etc when I get the deets so prepare for a good old fashion Hak.5 fragfest.

As for the forums… FileFarmer has still not responded and I think it may be time to fold our cards. I’m not giving up on retrieving our database but at this point I feel the community has been disrupted for too long and if starting from scratch is what we have to do, we’ll just have to bite the bullet and do it. On that note if you’ve got forum software suggestions other than phpBB I’d love to hear them.

Take care all,
–Darren

Written by Darren · Filed Under Hak.5 

Comments

27 Responses to “2250 Kilometer round trip”

  1. Sparda on February 28th, 2006 11:03 am

    Perhaps SourceForge has some ideas…

    http://sourceforge.net/search/index.php?words=forum&form_cat=183

  2. Harrison on February 28th, 2006 11:50 am

    Check out Invision PowerBoard. We’re using it over at SploitCast and it r0cks

  3. Nathan Nate_LapT on February 28th, 2006 2:56 pm

    We use vBulletin over at videopimp.org and it seems pretty nice. we used to use invision board prior, vBulletin though costs from what ive been told. Most/all non profit groups I know use IPB Invision Power Board.

  4. gamngeek on February 28th, 2006 5:07 pm

    I think you guys should just bite the bullet and start from scratch. It looks like filefarmer isn’t going to come through anytime soon. And I know you guys don’t want to let us Hak.5 fans wait too long. We might have withdraw syptoms starting soon. So do what you have to do get things done.

  5. hak5fan on February 28th, 2006 5:53 pm

    Yes start from scratch, so what i’ll register again with the same nick. And who reads old stories anyways (or someone will make duplicates)

  6. bonlebon on February 28th, 2006 9:00 pm

    If the fragfest is on ut2004 I’m in, and don’t get discourage with the forums maybe starting them all over would be for good.

    Best of lucks. Bonlebon

  7. Manuel on February 28th, 2006 9:26 pm

    How about Fusion BB http://www.fusionbb.com/ ? — Leo Laporte uses it on his site and it seems like it can handle a lot of users.

  8. ET on February 28th, 2006 11:53 pm

    How about the forums that the TWIT private boards are using. Its open source and kinda cool. At first i wasnt a fan but now i am really liking it now.

    ET

  9. ET on February 28th, 2006 11:57 pm

    http://lussumo.com/

    Forgot the link

  10. Bigbro69 on March 1st, 2006 12:37 am

    I like IPB, personally.

  11. eznug on March 1st, 2006 2:29 am

    what time is it gonna be? so i can set my alarm :P live over in europe with gmt+1
    doh! i need to get some games to this laptop only have one at the moment :P

  12. Pantera on March 1st, 2006 4:59 am

    Hi guys, I enjoy your shows very much.

    Although I wasn’t a user of the forums, I can recommend something better than phpbb.

    http://www.simplemachines.org/

    It’s a very nice forum system which is free and much better than phpbb. As an fyi it’s what they use as forums for joomla.org which has like 24471 users….

  13. Michael on March 1st, 2006 4:59 am

    vbulletin seems nice to use are is very feature rich stright off altho phpbb can be modded lots and also can be skinned very well. eather way how long till they are up ;) also any chance of getting the show notes listed on another page for now?

  14. middy on March 1st, 2006 8:45 am

    The main forum I frequent uses Invision Power Boards. It’s not free, but it’s pretty robust… and it’s (sorta) compatible with phpBB databases (sorta).

  15. Computer_kid on March 1st, 2006 6:33 pm

    Something Ajax-y would be cool

  16. Jeff on March 1st, 2006 11:29 pm

    http://simplemachines.org

  17. Cooper on March 2nd, 2006 4:44 am

    Hey, something’s awake at http://www.hak5.tv :)
    No forum on there yet, but we’ve got a live one, captain!

  18. Administrator on March 2nd, 2006 7:27 am

    Good catch! It’s not taking my admin login yet but it’s a good sign.

  19. PJ Cabrera on March 2nd, 2006 2:05 pm

    Hey guys, sorry to hear about the forums. Starting over might be for the best, though. I suggest you check out SMF from simplemachines.org

    BTW … You guys rock!

  20. Nikon on March 2nd, 2006 3:13 pm

    I’ve been a long-time user of phpBB for quite a few years, and honestly, still like to use it. However, I’m also looking into the Simple Machines forum (http://www.simplemachines.org) as well, as I’ve heard a lot of good buzz about them. Honestly though, that means another learning curve to get them up and running for yourselves.

    Was the problem with the old forums a result of using phpBB, or just a crapped-out server? Don’t be so quick to toss out the baby with the bathwater just yet. Regardless, hang in there, and keep on swingin’!

  21. Administrator on March 2nd, 2006 10:33 pm

    The issue is that the ISP hosting hak5.tv crapped out on us and hasn’t brought our domain back online for almost 3 weeks now. That’s absurd.

    At least the domain is resolving to an apache page right now, which is better than nothing but still no FTP or admin panel access. Considering this new development I’ll wait a little longer before giving up on them and starting from scratch.

    –Darren

  22. Quadlazer on March 2nd, 2006 10:37 pm

    I’ll put in my vote to stick with phpBB. I’ve posted in pretty much every type of forum, and am most comfortable with phpBB.

  23. LuckyPhil on March 3rd, 2006 2:28 am

    Well hak5.tv and alifirekat.com both came alive at the same time.
    Great sign, i just hope and pray to the flying spaghetti monster the data’s safe and sound…
    come join us on /server irc.techphile.ca in #hak5 NOW… or i’ll rip your bloody ears off!
    *takes another long sip and hits Add my comment*

  24. wetelectric on March 3rd, 2006 4:31 am

    They’ve left the help docs on their server aswell. crazy.

  25. JoeM on March 3rd, 2006 9:37 pm

    http://punbb.org -> great forum script. I use it all the time.

  26. Andi on March 4th, 2006 3:36 pm

    Yep, I would also recommend PunBB, it’s very very fast and clean.

  27. Cousin Larry on March 16th, 2006 10:03 am

    You should take a look at IAMBS, the software they use at http://www.houseofbugs.com . Email timon@codelsve.com about it. It’s by far the best messageboard software I have ever used.