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Welcome back to the forum everyone.

It's been 2 weeks since Marie decided to delete the server because she was angry at Nate. Those of you who frequented irc.metroid2002.com probably had seen Marie during May and June, and probably wondered who she was ... I know I did, and nobody would tell me.  The reason is because it was 'her' big secret that she is in fact a man... the same man that was deskjockey_.  A case of multiple personality disorder.  Marie emerged early this year and got stronger as people talked to her on IRC, eventually "killing" the dj personality. I'm not sure how Nate first learned of this, but it was something so bizarre he couldn't keep it to himself so he told his girlfriend Rachel, but Rachel knew to not let Marie know that she knew.  Well it was 2 weeks ago that the shit hit the fan and Marie found out and proceeded to delete the entire server.  Apparently she didn't realize that now that she has no access to the server, we're free to tell the world about this... so, deleting the server sure failed to keep her secret.

Nate had to pay for a fresh install from his provider, which they do on a new disk, leaving the old one in the system for 2 days.  Now I'm going to get technical so maybe you'll glaze over this part, but if you really want to love me (and I know you do) you should read it.  While Nate had backups of all the pages and mp4s of the server, the last time a forum backup was done was on May 1.  Also, Nate's friend ant had a lot of .zip files he didn't have backups of.  So, we needed a way to get them back... but with everything deleted, that's not an easy task.  We had to do a raw copy of the old drive onto a new one, resulting in a 55.9GB file.  Then nate downloaded it, which took about 4 days since the connection kept failing, and I started to work on a program to scan the disk image for zip files and forum fragments.  As you've seen, Nate got all the site content back up last weekend.  We could have had the forum back at the same time but it would have only been with posts up to May 1.  Nobody wanted that... so I got busy.  I investigated the format of the database files that resulted from the restore of the may 1 backup, then searched for indications of those files in the disk image.  As I expected, the files were in many fragments.  The smallest fragment size was only 4k, and I spent all of last weekend and monday working on finding the next fragment and pasting them together to reform the file.  I wish I could bill Marie for the time I put in at $20+ an hour.  When we tried to import the files I assembled, the database gave a lot of errors, so I had to check them over again.  I found some parts I'd missed, and there were still errors.  Finally today, after I figured out the format of the files, I wrote my own program to scan them and easily found where the errors were.  In both cases it was because I'd accidentally pasted the same fragment twice.  At the same time I got the idea that we could easily (compared to what I'd been doing) re-integrate the old posts from last year which were accidentally pruned, and then saved on oldforum/.  And now, here we are.  Everything is restored except for a few poll topics which lost their polls, because they're in another file which is so small I don't have any hints to find it.

Hope everyone continues as if nothing had happened!
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no applause, please - just send all your money.

to radix.
Shifty Leader
That M2k2 guy
Oh, great, now we can flame her/him for months to come and build her anger towards us, as if there's absolutely nothing s/he could possibly do to hurt us in any way. To further develop her burning, passionate, hatred of us, don't forget a home address so we could mail letterbombs to him and the such. What was the address of that one topic on that other message board about how to build your own flame thrower out of household objects? That can come in handy for some people.
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Oh, great, now we can flame her/him for months to come and build her anger towards us, as if there's absolutely nothing s/he could possibly do to hurt us in any way. To further develop her burning, passionate, hatred of us, don't forget a home address so we could mail letterbombs to him and the such. What was the address of that one topic on that other message board about how to build your own flame thrower out of household objects? That can come in handy for some people.


Sounds like a plan.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Quote from JaggerG:
Oh, great, now we can flame her/him for months to come and build her anger towards us, as if there's absolutely nothing s/he could possibly do to hurt us in any way. To further develop her burning, passionate, hatred of us, don't forget a home address so we could mail letterbombs to him and the such. What was the address of that one topic on that other message board about how to build your own flame thrower out of household objects? That can come in handy for some people.


Sounds good to me.
BTW, hairspray + lighter = home made flamethrower, it's very simple, just turn off or move the lighter before you stop the hairspray, that results in a lot of pain for the user.
yay, we're finally back. whoopie.
*Turns on his High Tech Flamethrower. It begins to Malfunction and Burns EP's Head* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I am glad the forum is back up now.
I love you, Nate and Radix!!!
and Andy Mills. For having another working Metroid forum.
soaking through
What (s)he said.  ^^^^

Except without the love and the Andrew Mills bits. 

Just can't love a Scotsman...
ITS BACK!!!!.......urm........yeah
damn this marie charaacter. glad were back up I was having m2k2 withdrawl.
What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.
It feels good to be back.  I think...
Wow Radix, just wow. Remind me to send some cash when I submit my tapes :D.
the interesting thing is that most of the posts I've seen end June 30 ...  Is there something in Radix's post that actually says that he recovered all the July posts?
Yay, M2K2 is back! Although I've gotten so used to samus.co.uk that the style is actually hurting my eyes...
Viking
Precursor
Weee. Good work.
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the interesting thing is that most of the posts I've seen end June 30 ...  Is there something in Radix's post that actually says that he recovered all the July posts?


June 30 was 2 weeks ago... there were no July posts.
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Although I've gotten so used to samus.co.uk that the style is actually hurting my eyes...


Your right. Sub Silver is soooo bright. Shocked  :?  :x
lol no way
I'd like to post something from an IRC log, my reaction:

[10:14] * Topic is 'welcome to the temporary home of metroid2002.com #metroid Marie\\\\\ went psycho, we're working to restore, but the forum after may 1 is lost :-('

[10:14] * Set by Radix on Wed Jun 30 23:04:59
[10:15] <Ajbolt89> AAAHHH
[10:15] <Ajbolt89> HOLY SHIT!
[10:15] <Nikok> Hi to you too
[10:15] <Ajbolt89> no, fo' reelz.
[10:16] <Ajbolt89> this is messed up
[10:16] <Xin_> hey Aj

And this as well:

[10:27] <Ajbolt89> wait
[10:27] <Ajbolt89> whoa
[10:27] <Ajbolt89> oh my god
[10:27] <Ajbolt89> this is horrible
[10:27] <Ajbolt89> oh my
[10:28] <Ajbolt89> the forums are like the worst thing to lose.
[10:28] <Xin_> it was that person who set up the IRC server
[10:28] <Ajbolt89> I know.
[10:28] <Ajbolt89> were they male or female then?
[10:29] <Ajbolt89> since apparently dj = marie
[10:30] <Ajbolt89> ahh
[10:30] <JaggerG> s/he/it
[10:30] <Ajbolt89> that's like shit with an added e
[10:30] <Ajbolt89> I'll take it.

But yeah, I was super pissed about the whole thing, mostly about the forum loss though... dunno why, I just really like this place. Thanks Radix\Nate, glad you didn't just be like 'oh well' and quit.


FUCK YOU DJ, FUCK YOU MARIE.
Count on me to miss the obvious :)
The internet soap opera continues...

Ah well, tis great to be back.
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Ready and willing.
Don't hate... (and don't finish this sentence either, wise guys.)

Meh, I just think a lot of smouldering hatred for someone no one here besides Nate is ever gonna really meet ever is not a good thing.

Go ahead and love Radix, tho. Fill him with lovin'. Wink

Of course, the forum HAD to come back up on the day my power supply died...
go go radix! w00t w00t XD
I only just started posting in the forums, but I've loved the site for a good long while.  I'm glad to see it back :)
Radix... you are awesome.