Thursday December 24th 2009

	vBulletin 4 Upgrade? 12:06 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Default Permalink So I’m trying to upgrade to version 4 of vBulletin. This is the paid forum software I use. The shiny new version came out on the 21st and I want to use the thing I paid 160 bucks for. I’m not getting far. Right off the bat I got SQL errors at step 3 of 12: Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4: Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO vb3_tagcontent (tagid, contenttypeid, contentid, userid, dateline) SELECT tagid, 2, threadid, userid, dateline FROM vb3_tagthread; MySQL Error : Duplicate entry ‘2-2-3068′ for key 1 Error Number : 1062 I posted in the support forums and put in a support ticket. The forum got the fastest reply from someone inside vBulletin. Someone named Trevor told me to: drop all vB database tables restore your 3.8.4 backup check that ‘tagcontent’ doesnt already exist in the restored database (if it does, drop it) re-run install/upgrade.php This got on past step 3. The next roadblock was an button that lead me in an infinite loop. Which was because not all my attachment folders were chmoded 777. After that I got another SQL error: Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4: Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO vb3_attachment (contenttypeid, contentid, filename, state, reportthreadid, userid, caption, dateline) VALUES (8, 3, ‘8.jpg’, ‘visible’, 0, 325, ‘32545ee6763ba347′, 1199857445); MySQL Error : Unknown column ‘contenttypeid’ in ‘field list’ Error Number : 1054 Which at this point I hit a brick wall. To get past this last error here is what was posted: It looks like you skipped a previous step that altered the attachment table. But the bigger issue is that you have not uploaded all the vB 4 file. Look in the upper right-hand corner. It lists 3.8.4 instead of 4.0.0. First restroe the backup of the 3.8.4 database that you made prior to this upgrade attempt. Then upload all the 4.0.0 files again. Make sure you upload these in ASCII format, overwrite the ones on the server, and that version 4.0.0 shows in the upper right-hand corner of the page. After you have the correct versions showing, run ‘upgrade.php’ again. Best regards, Steve Machol Customer Support Manager, vBulletin Now as I told him in my reply to the support ticket I have done everything as he instructed. I point this out to the guy. A few times. And get this: I’m sorry but it’s not possible to get that error if you followed my instructions. Please follow them to the letter. Make sure this is a clean 3.8.3 database you start with. Best regards, Steve Machol Customer Support Manager, vBulletin I call him out on the typo and he once again tells me that it’s not the software it’s me: Sorry, I meant 3.8.4 not 3.8.3. Simple typo. Here are my instructions again. First restore the backup of the 3.8.4 database that you made prior to this upgrade attempt. Then upload all the 4.0.0 files again. Make sure you upload these in ASCII format, overwrite the ones on the server, and that version 4.0.0 shows in the upper right-hand corner of the page. After you have the correct versions showing, run ‘upgrade.php’ again. Note: You cannot get that same error if you follow those instructions and that 3.8.4 database was clean, i.e., there was no previous attempt to upgrade it. Best regards, Steve Machol Customer Support Manager, vBulletin I’m to the point now were I’m banging my head against that brick wall. In between this guy telling me I’m doing it wrong I inquire about how one gets a refund. Here is the reply I get on the refund subject: Since you have already downloaded the software I can offer a refund minus a $25 administrative fee. Let me know if you want us to proceed with this refund. Best regards, Steve Machol Customer Support Manager, vBulletin And that’s were I’m at. Kinda stuck on if I should just give up and get my 160 (minus the 25 bucks) back or wait for these guys to come up with a solution to the problem. I will update later with what I decide to do. Edit So I took the refund. After reading vBTruth.com I think I’ve made the right choice. It’s not like my forums are active anyway.
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Friday August 14th 2009

	This Is Gay 2:18 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Fucks Permalink This is the gayest thing ever: What a bunch of faggots. And yeah I don’t give a shit if I’m offending these gays/faggots/dykes. Grow a pair. It’s just words. Slang words on top of that. I’m surprised these guys never heard the childhood saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” And for the record here is my count (not counting this post) of how many times I’ve used these words on my blog: Dyke shows up just once. Faggot shows up seven times Gay shows up more than 15 times All of these terms are used in replacement for words dumb or stupid. The exception being the Starbuck post. I still say the chick looks like a dyke.
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Tuesday March 17th 2009

	Sci Fi Renames 5:47 am-Turk Comments (2) Show » Default Permalink Those assholes at the Sci Fi channel are changing their name. “We couldn’t own Sci Fi; it’s a genre,” said Bonnie Hammer, the former president of Sci Fi who became the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions. “But we can own Syfy.” They should be called the Shitty B-Movie Wrestling Channel. They have wrestling for fucks sake. I hope they fail and die some horrible death taken directly out of one of those shitty b-movies they show all the time.
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Sunday March 8th 2009

	Don’t Watch Watchmen 3:26 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Bad, Movies Permalink Fuck Zach Synder ok? Here is a bit from the Watchmen movie Wikipedia entry: Moore adamantly opposed a film adaptation of his comic book, arguing, “You get people saying, ‘Oh, yes, Watchmen is very cinematic,’ when actually it’s not. It’s almost the exact opposite of cinematic.” Moore said that Terry Gilliam, preparing to direct Watchmen for Warner Bros. at the time, had asked Moore how the writer would film it. “I had to tell him that, frankly, I didn’t think it was filmable. I didn’t design it to show off the similarities between cinema and comics, which are there, but in my opinion are fairly unremarkable. It was designed to show off the things that comics could do that cinema and literature couldn’t.” Terry Gilliam did not make a Watchmen movie. Anyway who the fuck is Zack Snyder? A Dawn of the Dead remake and 300 are his credentials? Dude is unqualified to make Watchmen. Gilliam on the other had has made some good movies. And if anyone would have done it right it would have been him. I don’t think Terry Gilliam would have included Night Owl seeing Rorschach die. Or even worse upon seeing said death have Night Owl fall to his knees and raise his hands up and to scream into the night. Another thing that bugged me. In Snyder’s Watchmen the name of the superhero group is Watchmen. Hopefully in the director’s cut they say the superhero team name enough that one can make a drinking game around it. The changes this guy made to the ending also bothered me. Blaming it on Doctor Manhattan seems just a lazy way out. I’m sick to death of this 9/11 bullshit. Water down the ending just because something bad happened? It’s a good thing the Japanese are not such pussies or we would have never got any Godzilla movies. If you want to experience Watchmen read the comic. It’s how the creator Alan Moore wanted it. Or wait for someone with real talent to come along and do the source material justice.
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Tuesday March 3rd 2009

	Why Twitter? 1:15 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Default Permalink Why do people use Twitter? I don’t get it myself. I have a website. I have an instant messenger client. These two things seem to be the function of Twitter. What is the need for all of these different social networking websites? Because when you really break it down this is what Twitter is. How many of these place does the world need? There is Myspace, Facebook, and the countless others I don’t want to know about. To me it all comes back to replacing websites and im clients. When it comes to Twitter I don’t want to get it. I’m going to budge on this one. I let blog into my vocab. That is the last time I’m going to give in to this new internet lingo. I’m not going to be twittering or whatever the hell they call it. I am going to be a hypocrite though and use the Twitter Tools WordPress plugin to take advantage of what Twitter has to offer.  If it has anything to offer.
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Friday August 22nd 2008

	High School Friend 6:08 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Default Permalink If you’re from Las Vegas and you went to High School with me, this is for you. Everyone else ignore. See I know you’re looking around here. I can see where people are from. You’re the only person in or around the Vegas area that I know who would do searches for the stuff you searched for. I can’t imagine what you think of me now you been inside my head. I didn’t mean to blow you off. Honestly. It wasn’t you. It was when we talked on the phone when I was at work. We talked about class reunions and how it would be fun to see how people we went to school with didn’t do as good as us. Something like that. I got to thinking, jesus I’m probably the least successful person in our class. That idea just freaked me out. It’s dumb really. I just didn’t know what to say if I came over. I’m the same. I’ve never changed. Probably never will change. I like to think that shit doesn’t bother me. But it does. Anyway. I’ve got your number still. I just was too chicken to call. Sounds like I’m in high school still. So drop me a line if you’re not super pissed off at me. You can use the Contact Turk page to email me.
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Tuesday April 22nd 2008

	Hellgate: Gawain 4:43 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Games Permalink Gawain tries retail Hellgate: London. Below is his e-mails to me detailing how it went. From: Gawain To: Turk Date: 04/21/08 6:56 PM Subject: And now a report. 7:00 – Hellgate Installed. 7:10 – Startup. Hellgate Begins autopatching. 7:20 – Patching Complete. ERROR: You must download the patch from the website. 7:45 – Patch Downloaded. Patch Installed. ERROR: Game is already patched with the latest version. 7:46 – Startup. Hellgate Begins autopatching. 7:55 – Game startup complete. Loading. Game is running. ***HURRAY FOR HELLGATE!** 7:55 – Character Creation 7:56 – Character Creation Complete. Chat window still borked. This doesn’t surprise me. I hope he got some screen shots of it. Here is the post from the beta when he first had the chat window problem. From: Gawain To: Turk Date: 04/21/08 7:06 PM Subject: Further Reporting Visit to knowledge base on hellgatelondon.com = useless Visit to forums = useless. sigh. Again not surprised he didn’t find any help in the Hellgate forums. Not one Hellgate Dev responded to Gawain’s forum post when this stuff happened in the beta. From: Gawain To: Turk Date: 04/21/08 7:21 PM Subject: Update 8:21 – Uninstalled. I’m not surprised Gawain lasted as long as he did. If the bugs didn’t get him, the souless Hellgate gameplay would. The game had so much potential. It’s a shame the Hellgate Devs all had their heads stuck up their own asses.
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