Yeah... got Sky so can get it on interactive, which is what it's on most of the time to be honest.

I'd be lost without that option now I have it... it's the absolute BEST thing the BBC has EVER gave us in my opinion

psketti wrote: Where's the jealously smiley?

I've got to rely on BBC2 and 301

Not bothered

The Hendry and Higgins match is fantastic viewing irre... it's got EVERYthing in it


You really DO need to catch up with this one later.

What a miss-cue by Hendry on the yellow! Then Higgins missed the pink!
"Chalk your cue Steven!"

Hendry just took 7 of the 8 frames and needs only 1 for a place in the quarters.

Higgins has to come back tomorrow morning to play a possible one frame.

Man must be truley gutted.

You never know, he could make the comeback of the century. Nothing to lose, less pressure, Hendry only needs one frame so he drops his concentration a bit...

Okay I'm being a bit optimistic but it's not over yet. I was like that on Mario Kart Double Dash on the Gamecube. I used to play with my bro, and his cousin and uncle. No matter how far behind I was, I'd keep on going and claw my way to seemingly unlikely victories. It came down to the last race once, I took my bro on the final bend to win the championship
I dominated for months Only suffered about 3 defeats.

It's only over when it's over...c'mon Higgins!

Oddly enough... I'm rooting for Hendry on this one irre


It will prove that even if you've been past it for years, you can still get it back.

Although I do have alterior motives for this of course... looking at the longterm prospects for Ronnie should he ever disappear of the circuit for X amount of time

I get you, I'm not entirely displeased to see Hendry in this kind of form. I wasn't considering Ronnie though
It's good to see a player who everyone thought was well past it, playing really good stuff.

Ronnie with his abilty will always be a threat I reckon

Here's hoping irre

It's all good so far today in the land of snooker... and Judd coming on in less than half an hour... bring it on


yeah yeah, nobody's listening but I care not

I can't believe you went to all the trouble of salvaging this sinker from the old place! Out of all the threads in all, the world you had drag this one over here.

You BETTER believe it froggy....




*but if you'd care to take note... I also enquired as to whether there was an easier way to transport threads and that if there is, then I'M willing to learn how and move over some more just as worthy threads

So is there?

I'm afraid there is no easy way to migrate data in to here from there. First you have to set up a bot to craw the old site, which extracts the critical data, Title, Cat, thread and post id, time, date, member an content blar blar. That is passed back to a text file, which passed to another script which packages up the data into an sql dump on the fly, that injects the data into a phpbb3 sql database.

There are three package which need to be processes in that way members less passwords, categories etc. and finally the actual post contents. Once that's process has been completed you have major parsing issues within the migrated data. Which means lots of posts are poorly formatted, smiles are messed up and no poll data can be migrated. There are a few other issues. The only parsing tool I could find is for an older version of BB3 and is in fact quite old.

Once the data is in BB3 it needs to be exported and migrated into the Joomla Kunena data sql database and again some elements are lost in translation. The parsing errors are also still effecting the BB3 data so you're punching poor data into a nice new clean database.

Once all that's done, you need to sort the users out by giving each member a new password unique password, which has been posted into the data base before the members try to use it.

Oh and the forumotion guy check for the bot traffic which is crawling and extracting data. Too many hits to quick for example, and they block the bot and you're back to square one. They also move the goal posts with the javaacookie which you need to use as a hook to start the trawling.

I have all the software here to do it and I have done tests with Novums test site over there and imported that into a local install of BB3. It works your admin password gets splatted, so you need to run an sql command to inject a new admin user, so that you can manually get into fix the original admin account PW. There wasn't enough complex data in my test data to do full tests on the parsing and migration to a joomla DB with Kunena. If you fancy taking a crack at it I can provide everything you need.

The tools may need to be tweaked so that they can ignore any string value equal to snook* 'n you will be good to go.

*runs away*

That's what we said. We probably could have done it but the time factor and the final results were a major consideration. This place isn't even finished yet it's just the bare bones and virtually untested. Novum and I were doing 48 hour days to get this far for nearly two weeks. We lost our migration time due to some server provisioning hiccups. That took a number of days to sort out, when it should only have taken 24 hours max. We didn't keep a diary but it has been an interesting few weeks. Oh and this is the second build because we have a proof of concept build which we ran our initial tests on. The build was a bit of a dirty alpha, so I started fresh with a clean install to build this site. I have two phpbb3 builds and the pre deployment beta build of this place. So you can practice on those when you stop running away.

Frog wrote:
I have NO idea what ANY of that meant in those last two posts of yours... and I mean NO IDEA

BUT... I'm willing at some point in the future to give it a go if you think I could

psketti wrote:
If you can read and type then of course you can do it! You need a bit of patience and quite a bit of time other than that it's doable. Trust me I'm no expert or webmaster.

Stop being so modest froggy




*I can't really read that good by the way so this may be an issue