Author Topic: What the heck is going on? (Read 11183 times)

Anonymous · « **on:** December 07, 2003, 04:55:28 pm »

Is there some kind of problem with the forum? Will it be coming back with all the posts from the last few days?

offroadgeek · « **Reply #1 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:18:53 pm »

Sorry all... we just lost 4 days of work on the ZUG.

There was unfortunate mistake made by the host that caused an overwrite of the zug db with a backup of 12/3.

I\'ve tried more recent backups to no avail... I hate to say it, but we\'re stuck with this.

I\'d like to appologize to everyone. In a time where Sharp\'s site went down, and were people are possibly looking for a reliable place to go for Zaurus stuff, this happened to the ZUG.

Hopefully you won\'t hold this against me and flee to another site. My goal is unchanged - to provide the best Zaurus site possible.

If you\'ve registered with the site since 12/3, you\'ll need to re-register. I appologize for any inconvenience.

Regards,

Michael

Foxdie · « **Reply #2 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:21:46 pm »

Oh dear, it appears to me that there\'s been more posts in the last 4 days than there has been in the last fortnight on the ZUG. Easy come easy go I suppose.

Greg2 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:22:28 pm »

No problem Michael, I\'m just glad to find out it wasn\'t a time warp.

Greg

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offroadgeek · « **Reply #4 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:25:02 pm »

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Oh dear, it appears to me that there\'s been more posts in the last 4 days than there has been in the last fortnight on the ZUG. Easy come easy go I suppose.

you\'re not kidding... this was a *bad* time for this to happen...

maybe now\'s the time to re-think some major things with the ZUG....

IE... what do people really want out of this site... would people rather have a different board software? do we really need to have a downloads section? etc....

Foxdie · « **Reply #5 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:28:58 pm »

I think the current board software is the best around, you can do a lot more with it than most of the others. As for the downloads section I\'d say YES because it draws more people here. I think if you\'re looking to make this one fo the most successful Z sites than we need a comprehensive database of what we can do and what we can download for our Zaurii.

My suggestion would be to contact killefiz and integrate his website directly into the ZUG site, not just a small link of the most recent software on the main page.

I wouldn\'t worry about the DB loss, I think it\'s murphy\'s law that puts it as \"anything that can go wrong WILL go wrong at the WORST possible moment\". All I can suggest is keep making daily backups and fix the login problem

Greg2 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:32:59 pm »

I think in light of what has happened here and at the devnet, the download section is more important than ever.

Greg

b2bpro · « **Reply #7 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:56:30 pm »

I think the ZUG format etc are all great. Being a Zaurus newbie and considering the amount of help I\'ve had over the past couple of days, I\'d say keep everything the way it is.

So the site hoster made a mistake, its a drag but what\'re ya gonna do. Stuff happens.

omin0us · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:56:54 pm »

yes, keep the download section for sure. This is where i come for most of the Roms i need.

offroadgeek · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2003, 06:02:08 pm »

OK.. so we\'ll just re-build with what we have. Once the community.zaurus.com site comes back up, I\'ll start grabbing all the files to add to our downloads section.

I\'ve emailed the ZSI owner about joining forces, but they don\'t want the burdon of actually hosting the files to be downloaded. I like the ZSI and all, I just don\'t like how it\'s a link only site... it just relies on too many external hosts for the files. Besides, they also said that they want to make the site an embedded linux software index, not just Zaurus...

By the way... the ZUG download section actually allows anyone to upload files (ie. zaurus apps) directly to the server, up to 2mb, which is fine for most apps. I just scp the ROMs up to the server. So anyone can help contribute to the downloads area as they see fit.

Regards and thanks for the kind words.

mussi · « **Reply #10 on:** December 07, 2003, 06:18:35 pm »

Ah, hence the reason why my Account got zapped as well...rember to always have backups, and preferably one more.

Foxdie · « **Reply #11 on:** December 07, 2003, 06:19:50 pm »

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Ah, hence the reason why my Account got zapped as well...rember to always have backups, and preferably one more.

I think he realises that better than ever, mistakes are made and learnt from. I say we just forget it happened and rebuild what we lost

Greg2 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 07, 2003, 06:27:32 pm »

Itâ€™s good to see a positive attitude about this. Now that I know about the D/L section if somebody needs a file or ipk I have, I can upload it for them.

Cheers,
Greg

Anonymous · « **Reply #13 on:** December 07, 2003, 08:54:17 pm »

What sort of bandwidth/storage requirements are we talking about to support the site ?

May be able to help...

Just need an idea to see if it worth offering/looking into etc.

Zuber

offroadgeek · « **Reply #14 on:** December 07, 2003, 09:12:05 pm »

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What sort of bandwidth/storage requirements are we talking about to support the site ?

May be able to help...

Just need an idea to see if it worth offering/looking into etc.

Zuber

The site itself takes up about 3gb, including the downloads (roms, apps). Monthly bandwidth is about 30gb. I would expect both to rise significantly once we add all the files from the community.zaurus.com site to the downloads area.

How are you thinking you can help?

offroadgeek

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