Regular visitors might have noticed some weird errors visiting the site this month. I've had to migrate the server over to a newer Linux distro (to continue security patch support). It had been so long since building the old server that there was a LOT to bring up to speed. That's harder than it might sound; I've been out of the Linux system admistration-as-a-profession for a while now. There's more work to come, as I'm also consolidating some server instances down, so bear with me.
During the process I decided to convert the old SubTalk-BusTalk archives (which were available if one wanted to browse using the old web board code, with various poor results) into threaded text dumps of the messages. I know it's not ideal but at least it'll get reindexed at Google and the like. See here: SubTalk-BusTalk Archives. This will allow me to wind down some SSL certs, vhosts, and databases.
Best wishes to everyone for a Happy 2025!
Posted on 12/29/2024
More chaos! While trying to avoid doomscrolling big social media, I upgraded MediaWiki to the latest version 1.43, and reskinned the site. I'm going to do a little reorganizing of content and I'll be on the lookout for any broken scripts. Thanks for your patience.
