D. V. Devnull

Hello again, everyone... So, this morning I went to log in to Tip.It Forums, but only to be suddenly greeted with a "Security Error: Domain Name Mismatch" dialog from my browser. Why? The cert is marked with "*.netdna-ssl.com" instead of the proper "forum.public.cdn.tip.it". Having denied connections in secure mode to that server, I was still able to log in, but the login page looked terrible. :( Anyway, I wanted to know whether that mismatched certificate (and the associated connections) are safe to accept, or if I should hold off until someone here can get that fixed... :?: ... Particularly since this can leave considerable security concerns for anyone who runs into this situation. :mellow: ~Mr. D. V. "On the sidelines, running smack into those ugly bugs..." Devnull

Nice F2P Newbie Blog. I'll be watching this. :shades: ~Mr. D. V. "Hmm... Interesting." Devnull

Nice fix. :thumbsup: I just wish it didn't have the downside of meaning that Peter doesn't get to see the problem directly. :wall: Ah well, I guess he can ask you for a description of what it looked like? That, or I get to go find another example for his eyes. :blink: ~D. V. "Eh... *facedesk* ..." Devnull

Thanks for the fixes so far! :thumbsup: As for the Post Snapback Issue, I'll direct you to an example of what I'm talking about. Have a look at... "Golden/Holiday Scythe Discussion" (Location: http://forum.tip.it/topic/303410-goldenholiday-scythe-discussion/) ...and notice the linked quote down in the 20th post there of the first page. I see proper snapback images on all the other proper quotes with proper links on that page, but not on that one specific proper quote even though it has a proper link. I'm thinking this is an anomaly-class bug due to how rarely it occurs, but it finally got to me. Heck, I wouldn't be at all surprised if for some unknown reason, it fails to reveal itself to you, and you see the snapback image right where it should be. I've even bypassed my own cache to check. :( As always, I'm not trying to be pushy here. I'm just trying to help fix the bugs. Please fix it at your own speed? |^_^| ~D. V. "This is definitely a weird one..." Devnull

Another fine masterpiece you have there, teezkut. Well done! =D> ~D. V. "Nice one!" Devnull

Alright, thanks for the heads-up. :thumbsup: We decided we had no use for it and it was creating annoying problems for people anyway. We did say it was likely nothing would come of it. Ah... Oh well, I'll just keep my eyes open for whatever awesome idea pops up next on the forums. :wink: ~D. V. "Mhm... Alright." Devnull (p.s.: Thanks for the fast response!)

Hi, Tip.It Forum Staff... While I was running the recovery on my account, as well as 'reading'/'posting replies to' a couple of threads, I hit some very odd bugs that could make people question if they're really on Tip.It's Forums. I think I'll just get to business, and list them off here, in the order that I noticed them (with appropriate emote for how much it annoyed me)... Missing Favorite Icon <_< (Probably not the first priority, but might be a good first-up for a second. Having that customary "Rune Tips" favicon screams "We Are Tip.It!", and not having it there could make some people question if they've come to the right website.) Advert During Recovery Process :angry: (Okay, this one NEEDS to be a First Priority. It's a good thing I run ABP and have it set to kill BurstNet Ads due to my past bad experiences with them and a 'no ads' house policy on the computers here, or I would have as equally been stuck with a "Not 100% Secure" warning. Removing the Advert during the recovery process is Deadly Critical for making sure people don't stop in their tracks and discontinue attempting to recover because they don't think they've reached the right website and/or don't think they can attain a secure connection for some reason. Which, BTW, if BurstNet is doing any odd peeking they haven't made you aware of, you don't want them to see users' account recovery processes! So get that advert out of those pages already!!!) Post Snapback Image Missing :unsure: (This one's probably last place for priority. It does help, however, to see those snapback icons because it quickly identifies a quote. Yes, even quicker than the boxing around the quote, in my opinion.) RS stat signature missing :( (Anything but last priority here. I don't know if you're waiting for the on-server process to re-cache the missing stat data before sigs are properly generated again, or if there's considerable hand-work still to be done yet such as needing re-ups from users for images and such. I can tell you it was pretty disconcerting, however, to see a "MySQL Error" image in-place of my friendly purple stat siggy.) ...and I'll leave it at that for this thread. (I didn't notice any other immediately obvious items, but I'll start a thread for them if needs be.) Feel free to reply or not, but I would at least hope the two most critical of these gets fixed quickly. (PLEASE?) Until then, pardon me while I stick with this worrisome look on my face... :wacko: ~Mr. D. V. "Your Friendly Bug Finder on these forums..." Devnull (p.s.: What became of the "Members+" Group? It was helpful in finding newbies to greet, among other things!)

I support this as well. Things should be 'opt-in', NOT 'opt-out'! Hell, how hard could this be (Of course, now that I've asked, Murphy's Law will kick in, won't it?) to change anyway? :mad: ~D. V. "SUPPORT! Yay for 'opt-in' layouts!" Devnull

Glad to see Tip.It Forums are back online. Thanks to all those who have been working in the background on it. I've changed my pass, so my account is back to secure. :thumbsup: As for those who wish to gank whoever did this, I would love to join that party. :twisted: BTW, I've spotted a few issues worth catching. I'll make a thread about any ones that don't already have a thread in short order, that's for sure. I get the feeling I've only spotted the tip of the iceberg, though. :-? ~Mr. D. V. "Welcome Back, Tip.It Forums!" Devnull

Consider me on-board, now that you've got that small hole patched up. FULL SUPPORT, and I hope this gets through to Jagex's ears! :thumbsup: Gonna be fun, though, once they do implement this and I have to go visit my Game Inbox to gather that useful security data. :P ~Mr. D. V. "Woot! I'm in!" Devnull

Calypsan, got an extra question for you, seeing as I haven't run into you in-game yet. What time zone are you in? :huh: Also, realizing you might want to know this, we don't drop partially-inactive users like some clans do. :thumbsup: ~Mr. D. V. "A question, and a thought." Devnull

Congratulations on becoming a TET Leader, RussetAlpha! :thumbsup: Hopefully now we'll see a bit better event planning, even if I can't get in on events lately due to IRL issues. Not to insult the guys, but in my opinion it always helps to have that womanly touch on stuff. :D ~Mr. D. V. "Yay, it's a new TET Lady Leader!" Devnull

Kind of sums up what I feel. Is it really so hard to buy genuine? things cost money, of which i have little. i also happen to have been completely desensitized to piracy due to decades of bootlegging culture. Just to stack on that, there probably wouldn't be so many pirates if the prices for genuine software weren't all the way into 'overkill ripoff ionosphere' territory. That, plus a bad economy, equals drive to pirate stuff. For those of you bent on pushing genuine, go stick that in your sebsi and smoke it, and then come back after the prices for genuine are 33% or less of what they are now. The end of piracy starts with a lack of overly high prices, as people will then better reason between the real mccoy, and the stuff that might be loaded with malware! :angry: ~Mr. D. V. "Sheesh... Talk about a way to get me smoking mad!" Devnull (p.s.: I'm no pirate, but I do get how many of them feel. I'm just communicating that emotion here. "Gotta think like them to beat them", I would say.)

On the serious side of things: Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. I just wish he hadn't left my parents mad at him and Apple Inc., for multiple reasons. BTW, I sense he was one of the few forces keeping things stable in the tech markets. Here goes the neighborhood! :( On the not-so-serious side: The four of you crack me up! Nice jokes! ROTFLMDCFLYAO!!! :XD: :razz: :lol: :P :twss: ~D. V. "From the sad, to the hilarious, and yet I fail for quick summary..." Devnull

Wizz, do you have any extra details, such as specific pieces that you think they might have remixed? Right now, your question feels so vague that I couldn't give you a certain answer even if I tried. I have nothing to use to correlate and narrow the possibilities here! :( ~Mr. D. V. "More Details, please?" Devnull

Seeing as your idea isn't 100% fleshed out, I can't support just yet. However, here's an idea to patch to it... Read on. Idea: "Upon the first usage of this Perma-PIN to recover the account, a new one is generated (changing the attached Perma-PIN) and shown to the player just after they set a new password. This would all happen while in Secure (https) Mode. This could potentially use the same style as the Original Perma-PIN, and would therefore be shown as a one-time-only message in the player's account's inbox, but only as long as the connection doesn't drop from Secure Mode. If it does drop from Secure Mode, the inbox will wait to reveal the message until Secure Mode is re-established with the same computer that first launched the recovery sequence." Yes, this 'patch idea' would mean that the PIN could change, but that only Jagex's password recovery system could change it; and that a player must write down the newly changed PIN for their own account. However, if the player has some smarts, and cleans their PC before recovering their account, then the chance of anyone else getting this PIN basically drops to zero because everything would be happening in Secure (https) Mode! And even if a connection loss suddenly happens, the recovery system wouldn't show the message to anyone except the original user at the same computer where the recovery process began, blocking anyone else from getting the new Perma-PIN. :shades: I'll leave it to you now to decide whether you wish to include this, and I'll check back later. ;) ~Mr. D. V. "Is that secure enough for you?!?!?" Devnull

Don't worry, we're the same HYT which you heard of back then... And yes, we really sure have been around that long. :shades: In fact, just so you can see it, here's a link to our clan's page... :arrow: http://services.runescape.com/m=clan-home/clan/HYT (I really wish the forums would quit shortening url text...) ...which will help catch you up on plenty of our history. :thumbsup: ~Mr. D. V. "Have fun reading!" Devnull

teezkut, you should get in-touch with Jagex, and see about creating a new department with you at the head of it. Then you could make tons of money to live on from all these fantastic ideas that you keep coming up with. Just imagine it... Living happily because of your dreams! :thumbsup: ~D. V. "Dream-loaded Living... now that's something." Devnull