I was thinking of getting a Super Famicom and using it with a powerpak. However I think it's something I'll wait on. I have a big list of things I need to get first.

It was 81˚F today. New record for this day. Sunny. I was working a lot today so was in and out all day. It was nice, even for someone who's sensitive to heat. (First March I can remember that warm.)

Most of this update was all backend and future user side configuration changes.

Changes made in this update:

• Rewrote parts of the IRC output system to be more configurable by a board owner.
• Built functions to generate IRC color code and style tags
• Added feature to print a symbol, color, or both for a user's group on IRC>
• Polls can be previewed before you post them
• IRC now has sex color option. If enabled it will show different board owner specified colors for Male or Female. N/A is default IRC name color
• Fixed date sort on stats.php (FINALLY, sorry)
• Many small fixes and code clean ups.

I am sure I missed some and I'll add them as I remember

IRC Nick Prefix/Colors

For kafuka I've enabled "Gender Color, Group Symbol" which means that if they are Local Mod (+), Mod (%), Admin (@), or Root (~), those symbols will be displayed in the color for the group. Everyone will get their nick printed with the color of their gender set in their profile.

Colors are in flux and will be adjusted over time.

-Emuz

Today looks to be another record setting. I think Colin said it best on another. "When Montreal's warmer than Los Angeles, there's issues." lol. Today ~80˚F Sunny.

Mega-Mario | also editpost shouldn't allow dummy edits like that Mega-Mario | I could make a script that continually sends POST requests to editpost and flood the database :P

Good point, I never noticed that. Adding it to the important list.

I drink diet.. other than that I am brand agnostic. I got on the Mellow Yellow Zero kick as of late. I like A&W's Cream Soda as it's high in Caffeine content.

This one is going to be hard to construct lol. I use many computers:
Mac-Mini

emuz@yachiru:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/disk0s2 465G 217G 249G 47% / devfs 190K 190K 0 100% /dev /dev/disk2 149G 69G 81G 46% /Volumes/Time Machine 2.1

Desktop (copied by hand)

C: 83.5 GB free of 104 GB I got a mish-mash of space. :) Library (D:) 75.2 GB free of 465 GB TB (E:) 153 GB free of 723 GB G: 149 free of 224 GB

Laptop:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/disk1 297G 234G 64G 79% / devfs 183K 183K 0 100% /dev

Indeed they can be.

Right now it's around 57˚F. Sunny and nice. Yesterday it got down to 30˚F after being 75˚ the day before.

I'll repost in the dev forum as it's own thread. That way it won't be lost no more..

Sent by Mega-Mario

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This is something I coded out of boredom. I figured you may be interested in it fo this board. Tested on Firefox, Chrome and IE, and works. Should work on Opera as well.

Basically, it suppresses the need of manually entering a number of options and hitting Preview. Instead, users can add or remove poll option fields directly.

I can give you the .js file directly: http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=4135

However, this doesn't apply to the modified newthread.php. The one I used comes from the leaked AB2.0a1, I could guess about the multivote/changeable checkboxes, but I have no idea how thread tags work. So instead I'll be giving you the essential parts and telling you where they go.

$pollin= "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Poll question:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPt]=question size=60 maxlength=60 value=\"\"></td> ". "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Poll options:</td> ". " $L[TD2] id=polloptions>$L[INPh]=numopts id=numopts value=\"1\"> ". " <div id=pollopt0>$L[INPt]=opt0 id=opt0 size=40 maxlength=40 value=\"\">" ." - RGB color: $L[INPt]=r0 id=r0 size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".rand(0,255)."\">" ."$L[INPt]=g0 id=g0 size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".rand(0,255)."\">" ."$L[INPt]=b0 id=b0 size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".rand(0,255)."\"></div> ". " <input type=\"button\" id=optend value=\"Add option\" onclick=\"addOption(); return false;\"> ". " </td> ". "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Poll settings:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPc]=multivote value=1 id=mv><label for=mv>Allow multiple voting</label> | $L[INPc]=changeable checked value=1 id=ch><label for=ch>Allow changing one's vote</label> "; $polljs= "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src="\"dynapoll.js\"></script>". "<script type=\"text/javascript\">var numopts = 1;</script> ";

Replaces:

$pollin= "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Poll question:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPt]=question size=60 maxlength=60 value=\"".htmlval($_POST[question])."\"></td> ". "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Number of options:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPt]=numopts size=2 maxlength=2 value=\"".htmlval($_POST[numopts])."\"><br><font class=sfont>Press Preview to update the number of fields displayed.</font></td> ". " $L[INPh]=noptcache value=0> ". "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Options:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPc]=multivote value=1 id=mv><label for=mv>Allow multiple voting</label> | $L[INPc]=changeable checked value=1 id=ch><label for=ch>Allow changing one's vote</label> ";

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$_POST[question]=stripslashes($_POST[question]); $numopts=$_POST[numopts]; checknumeric($numopts); for($i=0;$i<$numopts;++$i){ $_POST["opt$i"]=stripslashes($_POST["opt$i"]); $pollin.="<div id=pollopt$i>$L[INPt]=opt$i id=opt$i size=40 maxlength=40 value=\"".htmlval($_POST["opt$i"])."\">" ." - RGB color: $L[INPt]=r$i id=r$i size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".htmlval($_POST["r$i"])."\">" ."$L[INPt]=g$i id=g$i size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".htmlval($_POST["g$i"])."\">" ."$L[INPt]=b$i id=b$i size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".htmlval($_POST["b$i"])."\">"; if ($i > 0) $pollin.=" <a href="\"#\"" onclick=\"removeOption(this.parentNode); return false;\"><img src="\"img/delete.png\"></a>"; $pollin.="</div>"; } $pollin= "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Poll question:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPt]=question size=60 maxlength=60 value=\"".htmlval($_POST[question])."\"></td> ". "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Poll options:</td> ". " $L[TD2] id=polloptions>$L[INPh]=numopts id=numopts value=\"$numopts\"> ".$pollin." ". " <input type=\"button\" id=optend value=\"Add option\" onclick=\"addOption(); return false;\"> ". " </td> ". "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Poll settings:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPc]=multivote ".($_POST[multivote]?"checked ":"")."value=1 id=mv><label for=mv>Allow multiple voting</label> | $L[INPc]=changeable ".($_POST[changeable]?"checked ":"")."value=1 id=ch><label for=ch>Allow changing one's vote</label> "; $polljs= "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src="\"dynapoll.js\"></script>". "<script type=\"text/javascript\">var numopts = $numopts;</script> ";

Replaces:

$_POST[question]=stripslashes($_POST[question]); $numopts=$_POST[numopts]; checknumeric($numopts); $pollin= "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Poll question:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPt]=question size=60 maxlength=60 value=\"".htmlval($_POST[question])."\"></td> ". "$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Number of options:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPt]=numopts size=2 maxlength=2 value=\"".htmlval($_POST[numopts])."\"><br><font class=sfont>Press Preview to update the number of fields displayed.</font></td> ". " $L[INPh]=noptcache value=$numopts> "; for($i=$noptcache;$i<$numopts;++$i){ $_POST["r$i"]=rand(0,255); $_POST["g$i"]=rand(0,255); $_POST["b$i"]=rand(0,255); } for($i=0;$i<$numopts;++$i){ $_POST["opt$i"]=stripslashes($_POST["opt$i"]); $pollin.="$L[TR]>$L[TD1c]>Option ".($i+1).":</td>" ."$L[TD2] >$L[INPt]=opt$i size=40 maxlength=40 value=\"".htmlval($_POST["opt$i"])."\">" ." - RGB color: $L[INPt]=r$i size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".htmlval($_POST["r$i"])."\">" ."$L[INPt]=g$i size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".htmlval($_POST["g$i"])."\">" ."$L[INPt]=b$i size=3 maxlength=3 value=\"".htmlval($_POST["b$i"])."\">"; } $pollin.="$L[TR]> ". " $L[TD1c]>Options:</td> ". " $L[TD2]>$L[INPc]=multivote ".($_POST[multivote]?"checked":"")." value=1 id=mv><label for=mv>Allow multiple voting</label> | $L[INPc]=changeable ".($_POST[changeable]?"checked":"")." value=1 id=ch><label for=ch>Allow changing one's vote</label> ";

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". "<form action=\"newthread.php".($ispoll?"?ispoll=$ispoll":'')."\" method=post> ". " $L[TBL1]>

Replaces:

". "$L[TBL1]> ". " <form action=newthread.php?ispoll=$ispoll method=post>

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". " $L[TBLend] ". "</form> ".$polljs."

Replaces:

". " </form> ". "$L[TBLend]

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The reason <form> and <table> have to be switched around is that some browsers like Firefox don't like when a form is inside a table but contains the table's cells. In particular, what happens is that adding fields work, but the fields don't get sent with the rest of the POST request.

Sorry for the lengthy PM. Let me know if there are any issues with my code. I tested it and didn't find any, but we never know.

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Posted by Mesia

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What's on my mind: why in the heck is it that I always seem to catch colds around the transition period from winter to spring? And why is it that this year I have already caught TWO? Ugh.

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Seems to be more than one of those transitions this year. Heck in Ohio was a summer for a week..

My work cell's battery may be coming to it's end. I had to charge it three times this week. Normally it's once for a month~ heh

Dr. Cheese of the Cheddar-Swiss Institute did a study that shows a monkey that has thinks are or are related to a donkey are 23% more likely to steal from a barrel factory. They also 60% more likely to invest in pie factories.

I can go up to 40F without a jacket. I usually don't however. ~46F today here.

Yup @"Mega-Mario" has it right. The Local time of the server is AES(or D)T. Which is currently 8:43am Friday (AEST) at the time of this posting

Also Happy Birthday @"Mega-Mario"!!

I got 8 points? I am surprised I got that. Lately I Wakeup->Work->School->board code->sleep.

We're No. 10! We're No. 10! yay!

I can only remember pi to 3.1415926(well 7 since it needs rounded but heh).

You do know that this thread is the least serious thread on the whole board? The topic is non sequitor to the thread. lol

So much to respond to lol.

Posted by Insectduel

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Risking my ass going to Red Bank NJ from the Bronx this Wednesday. Video Games Live concert will be produced.

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Well it would be cool. Let us know how it was!

Posted by Mega-Mario

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Exactly. That's 'cause ROM hacking is losing interest over time.

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So true. For me once you have a filesystem I kinda think of it less as rom hacking and more like tweaking an OS (reminds me more of the stuff I used to work with from my OS hobbyist days.) It would be nice to start up a good ROM hacking project but it seems either the people who I know who would like to get into it are less on time. It's 10+ years later and so everyone from the ABI era either moved on to other things, or lost interest. It happens. There are a few people I know who want to, and plan to work on ROM hacking projects, but work usually kills the time.

Still it's a dying art...

Posted by Marzen64

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I'm also back if anyone gives a shit.

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Welcome back I was wondering why you weren't posting the last week. (See you were missed)

The meat and potatoes of the reply.

Posted by Nicole

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Posted by Kiyoshi

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Posted by Nicole

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Posted by Kiyoshi

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Why am I losing my interest in this board?

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Hm, that's not good... but, I suppose maybe it's just the "new board" enthusiasm finally wearing off?

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When we started, I saw @Acmlm and @Emuz and had hopes this would be like the original AcmlmBoard, living those good times @Kawa often told me about.
But now, after 3 months, we have just 80 users. As @Trapster said, so many oldbies not appearing here, and Jul or even board2 have so much bigger user lists.
You could say, give it some time. But in the past 2 months, just 10 new users have registered, and these have written a mere 19 posts in total.

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Well, the board attracted me, who hadn't been around much in the non-Jul group before then. But yeah, I don't know... the original Acmlmboard was a different time, and had a lot to attract people to it... Kafuka is still extremely obscure.

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The original AB was something special. It was born from ROM hacking, built on the connections that Acmlm made, and those people's connections etc. The focus was ROM hacking. A community was built from that.

Kafuka is from scratch with nothing but word of mouth. The Oldbies left for a reason, they returned for a little while, and some will come in and out.. however some just came to say hi. That's life sometimes. They did come

Kafuka lacks a big project itself. If people have a reason they will come and stay. The second thing is, since we don't have a project our growth is purely word of mouth. Thus if it's to grow we need to tell everyone we know about it and if we all run out of people to tell we plateau.

However that is something that can be fixed...

When I started this board project I said to BH, Ailure, and KP that I wouldn't have a lot of free time. However what I had would be dedicated to the board and the things supporting it. This is true. I am spending every bit of my free time I ca n working on the code base side. The more it's worked on the close to public release it gets, the public release than could be that project this board needs.

I am very big on the community model. I think the community as whole should shape the community not just the people running the board. In this light I think there two simple things you can do (if you haven't already):

The first one is easy. Just ask people you know to join. It's better if you have a link to a thread they might be interested in. I think by now everyone has done this, but if you haven't think about it. The community of AB1 was groups of friends that only had one small thing in common...

The second one is harder. If you have a project, consider using Kafuka for the forum that backs it. You can gain both have an instant community for your project, but you can help grow it too. Also AB2.5/Kafuka is built around the model of being able to provide both public and private forums for projects hosted. Now a lot of the time using your own forums is best so I don't know how many people will want this service, but it's something that can be offered. However one of the caveats really is the project has to be big enough to not just end up being another empty forum the board. (IE: start a thread first and contact me about it. We can talk if you are interested.)

Acmlm's Board had hundreds of users. it had 20~30 online at peak times with ranges of 65~200 posts per hour. Yup, we don't have that, but remember that was built up.. it took months and years to get that. At 3 months we get over 100 post per day on average. If/when we get more users that will go up.

You can't focus on the past. Past is the past. You can however make the future. If you want the AB1 experience you can't, BUT we can make our own version if we want. It will take effort and time. I tried almost every people I know who would even like the board, and I am working on the code, and trying to foster projects (Kawa has noxico as well as others).

Not having time is a pain I tell you what. Back in the ABI days I had soooo much free time. Now I think per day on average I have about 5 hours or so on the weekdays, and I spend most of my weekends doing errands.

So I guess that's some of what's on my mind. That and 3.1415927 now..

More like "It's a paradox it's 1 part serious, 2 parts non sequitor and 1 part first thread. Add two slices of limon and enjoy."

What I did is I've changed the function to use non-UTC time for it. It.. umm kinda follows your timezone but it's a little early and drops off a little late. We'll see if that works better for everyone.