I'm still looking but I have literally more than a dozen drives and a LOT of cd's/DVD's to sort through with tons of data on them.

I'm doing everything I can to locate a backup file but so far its not looking very good! I thought I'd at least post this up for at least a temporary solution while I keep on looking.

I've been going through my archives and still haven't found anything!

It looks like when the cleanup removed the DB when it wasn't supposed to it also took out the DB backup that I HAD so I guess we're starting over now which REALLY sucks considering years worth of archives and a considerable amount of traffic to them is basically GONE now because Cpanel removed the DB ianag when I removed the ianag username. The DB was NOT associated with that account for anything other than NAME purposes.

Well . . . This sure bites it.

What now, chief?

No idea.... I think I'm going to go bury my head in the sand for a while! I just can't believe cpanel would kill all this stuff :( I sold ianag.com quite a while back so I was clearing that HOSTING account and didn't have the DB listed under the ianag.com account but for some reason it took out my ianag named DB. I had my backups inside of the directory in /var/lib/mysql/ianag so it was /var/lib/mysql/backup so NOW I know thats a bad idea! but its already too late

I don't want to say goodbye, so like make the secret room already dude!

If wwe are truely starting over, do me a favor.

make it a policy of absolutely NO post count alterations... Lets see who honestly posts the mosts...

NOOOOOO!!!! We can't start from scratch....we were doing SOOO good!!!

But no really, that sucks if we lose the old site....I hate backups...they like to disappear. But no, the forum can't go bye bye....shame on blank...bad dog

I don't want to say goodbye, so like make the secret room already dude!

Rule #1 of SR: you don't talk about SR

Rule #1 of SR: you don't talk about SR

EVER........

Rule #1 of SR: you don't talk about SRyeah we did mention the SR back when they decided to have the babes thread in the SR!

Right, but that had a purpose...

Yes it did! :eek:

ROFL!!! What a way to waste time at work ;)

I've finally found who to blame:

Whip69 has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - 5 Years Ago......... - in the Freak Show forum of I Am Not A Geek Forums.

This thread is located at:
http://forum.iamnotageek.com/showthread.php?t=1819118669&goto=newpost

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Now that SOMEONE brought up colon-blow leave it to someone to post tubgirl... :eek: :throwup:
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Rule #1 of SR: you don't talk about SR

If you mentions the SR, do you get sent to the SR??

That depends...if you like it then no...

doh... Thats not fair

oh, but it is...

no, its not fair...

Prove it...

how can you feel it fair to keep poeple out of the SR that want to be there...

Not exactly what I was saying....

its not???

I dislike this flood control...

Oh well...we will get over it....

I get the flood control statement almost everyother post..

lol - I wonder....why?

trying to keep up with you...., you are prolly getting themtooo

OH...those...yeah...before the crash it was only 20 seconds...now it's 30.....

that is about what Im hitting... less than 10 seconds remaining..

Yup and that's the problem...

time to tweak the database some..

oh BLAAAANK.....you need to change something....

Maybe he will get to it tommarow...

eh....that's a BIG maybe....he's a busy man with all his money and toys......

but he still doesn't have a life..

Eh, not really...once a geek,always a geek....

even tho he tried to deny it with the iamnotageek domain..

TRIED...that's the keyword...but look at the traffic he attracted....

traffic isn't anythign now compared to when it was FOC.

Very VERY true....bad bad bad blank.....what aer we going to have to do??

Maybe this clean start will jumpstart the action again...

Hmmm...Maybe....look at us....

more action than this place has seen in a long time..

Yeah, that is very true....I mean we were picking things up before the crash...now we have to start all over...

do you 2 have lives?

this things been back up for like one day and you both have over 100 posts.



Go outside and enjoy the weather...SHEESH!






Oh and get the hell off my lawn
/shakes fist

I can't get outside....I'm stuck at work from 9-5:30 yesterday and 9-6 today...

Besides...I got roasted...and I mean BURNT on Wednesday so I don't plan on going outside anytime soon.....and yes...I have 123 posts...

good weather is usually bad for you anyway, sunburns, dehydration etc.. I like it when it's foggy and drizzly, although you still get a nasty sunburn in the fog. I was out enjoying some of the weather the other day with my detector, found like 2 bucks in change a raiders pendant, and a chunk of gold :) can't go wrong there but my arms got a bit too much sun.

Well then maybe you could go ride around in a car....me thinks you kids spend too much time in front of Mr. Puter

Yeah...I if I was to take a ride in the car I'd go broke...now if gas was down around 1.75 again I would in a heartbeat...but the $3.04/gallon is NOT allowing me to take joyrides...

Yeah...I if I was to take a ride in the car I'd go broke...now if gas was down around 1.75 again I would in a heartbeat...but the $3.04/gallon is NOT allowing me to take joyrides...It depends on what you drive. Since I got my car fixed, new motor, clutch, turbo, cv joints, tierods, belts, hoses n stuff, every ride is a joy :)

Oh, my truck is a joy to drive...but i get about 18-19mpg so it gets expensive fast...

okay a bus then....moped?....motorcycle?...


Bicycles are free to ride

Don't have any of those...and buses are dirty around here....

Razor scooter?

Nope...gave it to my younger sister.....

roller skates?

Nope...those also went to my younger sister....

Hmmm...skateboard?

Nope, that was always my younger brother's thing...I was always into bikes...but my last one got destroyed and I haven't bought a new one yet...

did it get run over by a car?

Nope...it was a cheap target one and it couldn't hold up to my ride to and from school every day...

well you do get what you pay for

Yeah....I wasn't going to do any BMXing with it so....

ah, the "gets-you-from-A-to-B" bicycle

Yup...it was a mountain bike with shocks...and it was a nice ride while it lasted....I go the cheap route...I've gotten some AWESOME bikes for cheap...but that one, about a month after I got it...the back wheel bearing got DESTROYED...and then they gave me another one for free...and then that got destroyed...

Oh, my truck is a joy to drive...but i get about 18-19mpg so it gets expensive fast...
my old beetle got about 12mpg, something about bore/stroke and too many carb's ;)

There is NO such thing....

there is if you don't like tuning 4 separate throttle bodies.

Very true....then you just take a couple off...

yeah, that'll run okay

Yup...exactly...why do you need that much gas and air anyways?

it'll actually SAVE on gas

Exactly....

see, always thinking...

Looking out for our buddies...

yuppers....now we can increase it even more but slapping 22s on it:cool:

LOL...NO...I can not STAND big rims...they look FUGLY on most things...

weasel doesn't have much room to talk, he posted 100 posts today...

in the 12 hrs I was at work none the less...

lol...look at my posts though....;)

yea, your about twice what Im at now, but its the weekend and you will have to work and I wont...

Yup....I work 1:30-9 tomorrow and 12-6 sunday...man am I going to be bored...

Yup, tommarow I have to go to the farm/ranch store. and it seems like there was something else...

There was, you just don't remember because you are on here...

Oh yea, I have to go to the parts store.

Time for the 100K maintenance on my truck.

Ahhh...must be nice...Mine hit that before I bought it...now it's at 135k

Yeah...I if I was to take a ride in the car I'd go broke...now if gas was down around 1.75 again I would in a heartbeat...but the $3.04/gallon is NOT allowing me to take joyrides... Once you've got one of THESE (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=water+fuel) built and working the initial investment is paid for by not spending money on gas. From the discription, it looks like it would be similar to driving a diesel with glow plugs.

OH, I've heard about that...but no...that'd take too much...

It's about the same as doing a series of performance enhancements for a turbo car. Coat the p's and c's, change the valves, intake and exhaust, some wiring, testing and tuning... probly spend like 1200-1500 tops on parts and coatings n stuff, maybe another 400-500 on labor if you can't dyi, you might spend over 2300 on gasoline in a year. The big deal is keeping the internals from rusting, all the wear parts and exhaust needs to be converted to non-ferrous metals or ceramic coated, I don't know about the rings but nichrome cylinders won't rust, ceramic piston coating's and maybe chrome rings? I'll try it on my old bug once I get re-established n bills paid. Maybe it'll still have 150+hp with that setup non-turbo'd, throw in a 70 shot of nos for the drag strip.

I'd like to see the performance difference in that...but it'd be cool...

I'd like to see the performance difference in that...but it'd be cool...the first site I checked out claim's that it is more powerfull than a gasoline engine for a combination of reasons, according to the writeup it burns hotter, has a significant amount of effeciency gain, but getting the mixture just right is important. According to the writeup it sounds like the same kinda stuff people go through installing a 15-16 psi turbo on NA engines ;) without mods or an intercooler you'd be stuck at 8psi.

They recomend using a water/methenol injection setup to cool off the egt rather than retarding the timing, that's why you gotta have ceramic coatings and stainless valves and stainless exhaust so it doesn't rust everything. So you'd have to be going after it with the same fervur as boosting an NA for more power, except your going for cleaner cheaper fuel. With the water injection, you are effectively replacing space inside the chamber, so it's like having a variable compression ratio that also acts as a bigger heatsink :P

you have to watchout for gross politics though, I tried moving towards some other fuel and dmv started shoving laws in my face that serve no other purpose but to perpetuate gasoline industry... can't have natural gas in your personal car, can't have cng or liquified propane gas unless your car is over like 12 tons or some crap, can't register your personal alternative fuel automobile without paying an extra 300 something in registration every year for the gasonline tax that you aren't paying anymore.

Ahhh...must be nice...Mine hit that before I bought it...now it's at 135k

I got mine at 10K, now at 106K. only took about 4-1/2 years

you have to watchout for gross politics though, I tried moving towards some other fuel and dmv started shoving laws in my face that serve no other purpose but to perpetuate gasoline industry... can't have natural gas in your personal car, can't have cng or liquified propane gas unless your car is over like 12 tons or some crap, can't register your personal alternative fuel automobile without paying an extra 300 something in registration every year for the gasonline tax that you aren't paying anymore.

That crap is BS. That's why I think the GOV't is behind the gas prices even though they deny it....

I got mine at 10K, now at 106K. only took about 4-1/2 years

I've put 11k on mine in just under 5 months...

That crap is BS. That's why I think the GOV't is behind the gas prices even though they deny it....

There are a few vehicles around that are converted to run on propane.

Also, there are propane kits for Diesel engines. You can run as much as 50% propane.

Right, but those are diesel...

no, there are a couple gassers that were converted to propane.

but road tax laws vary by state and some states may require a tax fee to make up for lost road taxes for running propane.

That's a good point. I'm sorry, but we want to reduce our dependence on oil, so we charge people more for using less oil???

There is a new Biodiesel plant going in a few miles north of us.
Combine that with a methonol plant that is cranking up operations again.

Depending on where you live, I have noticed very different attitudes towards oil consumption. I live in a rather rural area, its a 5 mile drive from my house to the closest store. 30 miles to work. Yea, I know, I live here by choice, but there are quite a few people that live in middle america that have to drive 20K or 30K per year as daily life. I have friends that grew up in major cites that didn't learn to drive until they were 30.

Personally, I think that if every soccer mom would stop driving an excursion to take ONE child three blocks to a friends house, we could cut consumption nicely.

I agree with that. I have to commute about 20mi. one way to work, but I also live like right next to EVERY store needed so...

used to commute 51mi each way....took over 1 1/2 hours. Damn DC metro traffic :mad:

now I got a cushy 10mi ride :)

Must be nice....I used to work that close to home...but for $4 MORE /hour I decided I could live with it...

I love how you guys deviate from the thread subject so naturally!

Blank, you need to get spanked and give up your admin rights till you locate that freaking backup! :rolleyes:

I know, I won't be holding my breath on it... :p

I was gonna say TL....don't hold your breath..

By the way - welcome back and nice first post...and yes, we try our hardest to deviate from the topic.

Thanks Gizmo....btw, less than a month on this new dingy (comparing to the old one) site and you already got close to 900 posts?!

Does this sound like a post-whore or is it just me?? :eek:

hehe...:p :D

Nah...I just don't have a life ;)

Thanks Gizmo....btw, less than a month on this new dingy (comparing to the old one) site and you already got close to 900 posts?!

Does this sound like a post-whore or is it just me?? :eek:

hehe...:p :D

you have two posts...

post-whore, you are not...

I think TL was talking about me...;)

oh, I read that as "does this sound like a post-whore like me".. my bad..

Nope...I'm one...I guess....

Yea, you are... but you have slowed down considerably.

your below 100 ppd

oh my, your down to 44-1/4% of the total posts.. you need to kick it up a few notches...

Yeah I know...I need to get moving again....but I'm not into the HJT that much.

They should change this Forum name to IANAP (I Am Not A Postwhore).

:p :p

Nah...that'd take all the fun away.

FUN? What fun?

Gizmo, we need to find you a girl (a female) who might help you redefine the word 'fun'. ;)



...or in some cases, the word 'hell'! :eek:

...lol. :p

No, TL - I am perfectly fine in that area. I've been engaged since September 13th, 2005. So I don't need any help there, and I perfectly understand what you are talking about.