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About tabacco
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tabacco
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http://www.dougtabacco.com
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San Francisco, CA
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Codesman
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The original idea was, because we didn't have a second server to replicate mysql to, we had to stop mysqld to get a consistent nightly backup. At the time it was pretty quick (maybe 15 minutes) so we sort of called it 'okay for now' and moved on. From what you described, I'm guessing other stuff has been tacked into that time window, because the original backup job pretty much did "stop apache, start lighttpd (which served the downtime page), mysqldump, stop lighttpd, start apache". Not exactly elegant, but it worked okay.
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vBulletin's licensing got weird with version 4. And honestly, at this point, I'm much happier with IP.Board (which we use for Idle Thumbs). From the admin side, it's easier to use, and it has better SSO support should we need it (the SSO in the telltale forums was a hack based on reverse-engineering vB's auth code). But also it retains the more manageable "Buy once, then pay maintenance for upgrades" licensing of vB from the Jelsoft days.
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Just so you know, the 1280x1024 milkman wallpaper seems to be a corrupt jpeg. Also, where's the 1600x1200 love?
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Who’s Admin, Super Mod, Mod, etc?
tabacco replied to Headroom's topic in Let's Talk About Double Fine
I'm guessing Klint is the web guy, sinec the emails are all From: him -
No-one loves me
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Nice, a feed has appeared! You really need to Alias news.php to something nicer though