D. V. Devnull

Banned because your post and Kirschen's are FIVE HOURS APART! How can you say you weren't willing to wait for him to post? <_< ~D. V. "total confused" Devnull

The formula I've stated above does account for the double/wrong number posts. It has the effect of purging them and denies them the damage they would have done to the sequence, placing us back on track with the total actual posts in the thread. The original intent in this thread was always to just be one after the other without losing track of position, resulting in the 30,001st post being the actual "who won", as it all comes down to strategy and/or timing. We could have tried not resyncing using true post count after those disrupting posts, but then the count would take a lot longer to actually count down and inflate the total posts to the thread far too extremely. Given the total posts so far to this thread, can you imagine how many additional years it would take to finish the game? I think we happened to be theorizing that it would be sometime near 2020 already? I'll admit, it does push along the position at the point of correction, possibly decreasing the number that you'll actually post by a little bit. However, I think we're looking at "lesser of two evils" here, seeing as the count is usually corrected very quickly. :( 27323 ~D. V. "I know, it's sometimes a mental mess to put up with." Devnull

<*DVD suddenly finds himself and Alg in a large hallway, and Alg's standing where another hall crosses with it. A flame blast suddenly comes roaring across that hallway's path, and the next time Alg can be seen, they look like they were totally flame-broiled. DVD pokes his head around the corner down the path, and sees Bomberman standing there, looking a little shocked that a normal human survived that. DVD realizes what might happen next, and grabs Alg as he teleports both of them out of the area and off to a forest about five miles or a little more away.*> Banned because I am not letting Bomberman do that to you twice in the period of an hour, at least! :o ~D. V. "You do look kinda funny being flame-broiled, though." Devnull

Not really... with this post, it's... 30,000 - 2675 (the post count to the thread before this post) = 27,325 ...and shows you how extremely simple the above formula... 30,000 - 'current post count' = 'number for you to post' ...happens to be, especially since there's no "Post Zero" in existence. :thumbsup: ~D. V. "Or have I made this look too easy?" Devnull

Banned because I did click the hide tag and link, and I'm at least a little shocked, due to how the pokemon looks. :eek: [spoiler=Something Blaze might not want to see, but available for Kirschen's view of my opinion...]It makes me think of a female edition of Blaziken! :shock: ~D. V. "Holy Flaming [bleep]!" Devnull

Hmmm... You might want to change that to just simply follow the following formula... 30,000 - 'current post count' = 'number for you to post'... in order to try to dodge another goofy moment in the future. :D 27327 ~D. V. "How to break the chain of errors..." Devnull

<*DVD watches a Venusaur appear suddenly overhead of Blaze, which then falls from where it is and pins Blaze to the ground under itself. It looks down at Blaze with a look that says "I'm sorry, but this isn't my fault.", and then walks off into the bushes in the direction it happens to be facing.*> Banned because some other trainer (and not me) pulled the Venusaur out of a Pokeball, only to release it in midair over your head, but both of us didn't see the red beam that usually indicates what direction the trainer fired from. :? ~D. V. "It makes for a hilarious moment, but now I have to watch out overhead for a bit." Devnull

Guys, you already know the formula for always having the right post count... what gives? :( Anyway, we're at 27329, so let's try not to mess it up again, alright? :| ~D. V. "Fixing and moving along..." Devnull

@susnisk, you might also try PhotoRec from CGSecurity (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) in order to restore your accidentally deleted images. Just make sure you have a second hard disk drive handy to put what it finds over on until you've retrieved everything that you've lost. Unfortunately, they can't do in-place recovery/repair. :geek: ~D. V. "Good luck fixing your problem!" Devnull

32*(1+(3*22*11*(3+(22*5)))) = 27333 :geek: ~D. V. "Nesting like mad..." Devnull

Banned because your sentence should look like this: ~D. V. "There was no need for the extra 'er' on 'both'..." Devnull

<*hugs @Star.*> Glad to see you! ^_^ 5*7*11*(1+(2*5*7)) = 27335 ~D. V. "Hi... w00t!" Devnull

I'm confirming the fix on the "Tip.It Theme" default. Everything is back in shape here. Thanks for fixing this!!! :thumbsup: ~D. V. "It's back to normal!" Devnull

I don't have control of browser updates here, which is exactly why I'm concerned about security. As you already know, I use NoScript and ABP both, as well as a few other things to help do everything I can to prevent abuse of this old browser. :geek: Anyway, I've noticed my login session bounce properly from your change to the cookie setup and flushed my cookies in response to it. Thank you for making those cookies not be a headache anymore! I'm feeling an extreme amount less nuts, finally being able to sign out once again. :thumbsup: I am left with a question, however, which is that I'm wondering why the 'pass_hash'-suffixed cookie was an exact match of contents between both the old one and the newest one after the upgrade and changes? Maybe I'm crazy, but I would have thought that the hashes for everyone change after a patch to prevent sniffing and abuse? :-k ~D. V. "I try to keep it bolted down... Thanks! Wait, why's this?" Devnull (Edit by post author due to lack of mental thought clarity in the second paragraph... This should be the only edit.)

Banned because that's not such a bad thing, seeing as some people actually do better at thinking when they're recharging their own body with food. :) ~Mr. D. V. "You don't need to be so down on something so natural!" Devnull

3*13*(1+(22*52*7)) = 27339 ~D. V. "2 more..." Devnull

I want to use the IP.Board theme, the other is too dark for me. Also, there's a slight problem with the "Tip.It Theme" at the top right now. The uppermost menu bar is currently not aligned where it should be, and a font has failed to come through. :geek: Worse than this whole issue, I currently can't properly log out of these forums. I'm literally staring at cookies that I'm sure have a matching server session or they wouldn't work, I can't get the forum to properly clear them, and I can't just simply dump them because it would leave an open backdoor into my account. You can read more @ http://forum.tip.it/topic/321159-7-sep-2013-forum-downtime/page-2?do=findComment&comment=5452889 and below if you wish. As for me, I'm a bit crazy from it. :wacko: :wall: ~Mr. D. V. "If it ain't one bad problem, it's another." Devnull

27343 :? ~D. V. "6 more..." Devnull

27345 Next annoyance in 8... <_< ~D. V. "You know what I mean." Devnull

Please pardon this turning into a triple-post due to time (another 7 days) elapsed, but are the Admins still watching for bug reports and information here? I've got yet another update as I start to go completely nuts... :wacko: I just flushed any cookie mentioning "member_id" and/or "pass_hash" that had a zero value, and then attempted to sign out, only to find my login status change back to logged in after restarting my browser again. The two cookies remaining that won't self-flush have a domain value of ".forum.tip.it", as well as they keep getting their lifetime reset on page travels, and the domain I'm getting on two that appear when I click to sign out have a domain of ".tip.it"... All four of these cookies have a name of "tif_member_id" or "tif_pass_hash" present on them, and it appears the server is accepting from either domain prefix/suffix. It should only take from one or the other and tell the invalid domain name form to flush, clearing the session entry on the server's table at the same time, preventing all backdoor access of accounts by unwanted third parties. As it stands, I haven't seen any recent posts that I hadn't typed as of yet, but this is worrying me to no end. :ohnoes: Would any Admin versed in knowledge of this subject please post back to this thread as soon/quickly as they safely can? I'll just be face-to-desk until I hear from anyone that can help. :( ~D. V. "Ready to lose my mental marbles... Help, Please?!?" Devnull (p.s.: Has this thread reached the point where part of this needs to be split into the "Forum Suggestions/Updates/Discussions" area?)

27347 Next annoyance in 10... <_< ~D. V. "You know what I mean." Devnull

33*(2+(3*(1+(3*24*7)))) = 27351 I expect somebody's brain is about to crash... :anxious: ~D. V. "Just try parsing that breakdown..." Devnull

Come here more often... I think you'll find other numbers that can be broken down a lot more heavily. Heck, we still haven't been able to figure out how to easily include more operation signs yet. ;) 27354 ~D. V. "You can read old posts on this thread to see what I mean." Devnull

Don't worry about it too much... I was trying to understand other cultures with my question, and I failed to notice your listed location. :wall: <*deflates Gandalf's mental balloon*> ... You're a thousand too high, dude. :shame: Current position? 27357 ~D. V. "Picking up some dropped thoughts..." Devnull