Old MAC board

Geoff · October 05, 2018, 05:56:36 PM

I'll donate $100 if you can add the old posts from the MAC board. I was very disappointed when this new (2005?) Board deleted all the great posts and harmony from the old members.

buswarrior · October 06, 2018, 05:03:40 AM

Cough cough choke

Harmony?

happy coaching!
buswarrior

luvrbus · October 06, 2018, 07:17:45 AM

Quote from: buswarrior on October 06, 2018, 05:03:40 AM
Cough cough choke

Harmony?

happy coaching!
buswarrior

DoubleEagle · October 06, 2018, 10:08:30 AM

Well, harmony might be a little strong, but there were many great and useful posts. I made paper copies of hundreds of them (and now I don't know where I put them). MAK Publishing might not have included them in the transfer of ownership, but it would be good to include them in the archives, just like it would be good to have the archives of the Eagles International site.

Geoff · October 06, 2018, 12:13:47 PM

Where there is discord there is harmony...

plyonsMC9 · October 06, 2018, 01:05:30 PM

Greetings bus folk. Re: the original forum

A number of years ago we had a forum which did not have modern security protections. That forum was hacked, sometimes several times per day, and I would run scripts to fix, and when that didn't work, I'd run manual fixups & repairs to try to recover the content. Fixups ran most every day with sometimes multiple fixups p/day. By the time of the last hack and before the new forum came online I did not continue to attempt repairs.

I will look for the snippets of the old forum to determine whether it can be somehow be mended into anything usable.

Kind Regards, Phil

Krash · October 06, 2018, 01:26:18 PM

What was the forum software? There are converters for converting various forum databases to SMF. Barring that, if you have the database, it might be possible to dump the posts in a format that could be archived.

plyonsMC9 · October 06, 2018, 02:06:51 PM

no database. it was before that. the porn / spammers would wipe out the content files. and there was nothing but flat content files. That is, before they were wiped & replaced.

Krash · October 06, 2018, 02:23:27 PM

Do you have any of the content in a readable format?

plyonsMC9 · October 06, 2018, 02:57:22 PM

Yes, that is what I'm referring to - trying to find anything usable that wasn't overwritten with junk. It's over a decade old as well, so it's taking time going back through old disks.

Krash · October 06, 2018, 03:00:37 PM

Yeah, well, good luck with that.

buswarrior · October 07, 2018, 05:49:34 PM

All the old boards were from before time.

Completely incompatible with newer forum software.

Unless the software (written on stone tablets) is available to run it on, like BNO does with its old archive, the only way is re-typing it... perhaps a "volunteer typist" button, along with the "donate" button?

The loss of the info was lamented at the time, I doubt anyone has bothered coming up with a solution...

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

Dave5Cs · October 07, 2018, 05:50:57 PM

Get everyone back together and we can have a do over.
I will start it.

What kind of oil are you guys using and if so are my tires still good if they were made in 1967 and just lightly cracked on the sidewalls.

Are there inverters that have Ross power steering or are they all Detroits.

Thanks in Ad-Vance!...

buswarrior · October 07, 2018, 06:01:33 PM

Don't forget the arguments about what kind of wire and cable to use.

Multi-coloured extension cords figure prominently, with solid copper house wire taking up a close 2nd place...

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

Dave5Cs · October 07, 2018, 06:29:06 PM

But wasn't the winner always Marine something?

LOL