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Well, an update on the radio situation while I am at it...

Due to cirrcumstances with the people involved in the radio, the release has once again been delayed until further notice. The timing, and permissions, that we counted on were not there, so we have had to postpond releasing it.

However, this gives us more time to develop the concepts involved with running an online station, as well as create the media and market for it.

We'll keep you posted as updates present themself.

Hello fiends.

If some of you care to know, here's some things I have found out about our original host (which also hosted my site, splatt.org). Since endore.com (the host) went down, all his customers have been left out high and dry and there's been a bit of a manhunt going on for the guy who runs Endore, whose name is Ivan Rainbolt. He has cut off all forms of connection - phones, e-mail, everything. I did a little investigation and was actually able to get some information from his neighbor. I have my ways. Also, a man recently posted on some forums saying that he was able to contact Ivan and that he was talking to him, and so he left his IM information so that, through him, we could communicate to Ivan.

Ivan himself wasn't cooperating too much, even with the mediator, but here's the basics of what happened:

• Yes, Endore IS out of business. His neighbor claims that Ivan is filiing for bankruptcy.
• Ivan claims that there were physical hard drive crashes. I still find this hard to believe since everyone's site went down at different times, and everyone's site was on different servers. There was no way all those hard drive could have crashed in the timespan of a week. The man I talked to said his theory was that perhaps the hard drives were TAKEN, but that still doesn't explain why everything didn't go down at once.
• As such, he claims there is NO WAY to recover the data. There are no backups, there is NOTHING.
• Ivan is also in big trouble with his parents, who he lives with. He's not some kid, though; in fact, the man is nearly 30.

I feel bad since I was the one that referred Neo to this host. If it makes you feel any better, I never got to use the credit I received from that referral. In fact, I still had about a year and half's worth of hosting coming to me, but BLEH. I have also just signed up to use the same host Neo is using, so now HE has referred ME.

On that note, splatt.org will be back up sometime this week, starting out with a forum as fresh as this one. It will take FOREVER to rebuild the gallery, too, ugh. So much lost ...

Thanks for that update Chuck. I'm glad you were able to clear that up with the world.

I will tell you this though about this host...today (the first day that the site was up) there have been a couple up and down times where we couldn't get to the site, but they only lasted for a matter of minutes. But that could be attributed to the fact that my nameservers were transferring to this server, and several other things involving getting the site set up.

As for the galleries and such, you didn't keep the files on your computer? I thought you would do that. Well, perhaps it is just me, but I have a dual directory structure - one on the server, and one on my computer. And I may consider putting one off-site just incase.

If you need any help from us, let us know. We'll see what we can do. (:shock: Look at me...a Padowan offering help to the Master... ) Regardless.

The gallery was enough pain to upload, order, and caption on the live site. I certainly wasn't going to do it on my development site.

I still have all the *pictures*, yes, but it's a pain to put them all back in their respective albums and then to caption them...

Oh, perhaps we're talking about two different things here. I was thinking you were talking about the avatar gallery. I don't have any experience with a photo gallery, and I forgot you had one.

It REALLY sucks how everything is lost! I mean, Neo, You're at only 37 posts! How WEIRD it is to see that! And I'm at one! SUCKS! It had to happen on the week that I didn't have much homework also! Well, I'm glad that 'everything' is back... Well, NOT EVERYTHING! All the old topics are gone! Well, time to start over again!

And that was me... Am I not a moderater anymore?

Not as of right now, but he said that he was going to make you UPS's assistant in moderating the forums.

You can't be a moderator until you join! DUH...I tried to add you before you joined, but it wouldn't let me. And I didn't know you joined until just now. So you can edit your post.

By the way, when you edit a guest's post, just type their name in the Username Box and put a period after it. (i.e. "KD." or "Christie.") I will go back and edit those posts later.

You're telling me KD, I was at almost 2300 posts!!!

And now I had to start over at 1!

Yeah, I don't know what kind of business this Ivan guy was running, but apparently he didn't think it all the way through or something. It's unnerving to lose your data, but then again, I should have made a backup and TRIED to download it.

(I hadn't in the past because it took forever to download)

I don't mean to change the subject or anything... but I don't really know where to put it...

All of the 'boxes' on my Forums pages are light blue to begin with...they stay that way until I post/reply to something. Than all of the boxes in that category are changed to dark blue. I'm having a hard time trying to keep up with the new posts being made because the boxes react to my posting. Help?

It's because your cookies are messed up. Follow the instructions on the My Spot page.

See, that's why I use those so I don't have to re-explain everything every time.

Here's an update for the Freeform Frog online store. With this new server, there also came new scripts. Things that I haven't had access to before. SO, with this new technology, not only will we be running the Freeform Frog online store, but also the new tsnMarket.

The tsnMarket will be an auction setup like there is on ebay, but it will not be as popular . The only way to get it up there would be to offer something that is not normally out on the market. Perhaps custom made things, like comics (UPS), or something. It will have to be spread by word of mouth (since we don't have the capability to make TV commercials ( >_< and Superbowl Sunday is today - that would be AWESOME). But since this is a free script (and now I have a copy of it) it can take a while for things to be sold on it.

Actually, come to think of it...people might want to buy things from here SINCE it is not widely known, thus the prices will be lower ^_^ . Who knows. We'll see what happens.

It's just all a part of the NEW tsnIII theme. (WTF am I gonna do for tsnIV? )

The Almighty One wrote:You're telling me KD, I was at almost 2300 posts!!!

And now I had to start over at 1!

I get to lose my forum virginity ALL over again...cool...what a drain though...ooh...sorry...I'll stop talking now :-\