News Displaying 101 to 110 of 107 The work to future-proof the site and get it running on PHP 8.x has progressed quite a bit.
Most of the site runs OK on it, but there is an issue in the media indexing system, where the PHP debugging is making no sense.
The sidebar script does much the same job via a slightly different method and this works fine.
So there will probably be a day next week when I flick the PHP version over to 8.4 and chip away at the problem until that indexing issue goes away.
I had to put a new installation of Windows on my laptop the other week and haven't installed all the relevant extensions into Clickteam Fusion to get work on X-Bomber the Game moving along again.
I will try to get that done and get the game under development again before long. I got fed up with some of the results of the usual search engines that I use and I decided to give Freespoke a whirl and see if it could find me some new Star Fleet material.
It took me to this Spanish-language blog, where I found some images of the Spanish VHS covers.
The style is a bit strange, but I quite like the 'redesigned' termoid.
On the other hand, the character illustrations are dreadful.
Meanwhile, I'm working on getting the site running on PHP 8, which is an enormous pain of an update, and takes PHP away from its original intent of being a language for personal homepages, in the interest of increased performance for web applications.
I see that phpBB 4 is in its alpha release and requires PHP 8.1 at minimum.
It's not as though I'm taking the forum over to a new major build of phpBB anytime soon, but it feels as though I need to get the site ready for PHP 8 in case the need to switch to it becomes pressing. After I pushed the PHP version on the server to 7.4, I hadn't noticed that the modules required by the Sphider search feature had been disabled and that Sphider had stopped working...
The required modules have now been re-enabled.
One further problem was that Sphider knows not to touch anything in the forum directory. The SIDs encoded into the forum's URLs that it serves cause Sphider to go around and around in circles.
After I changed the path of the forum directory, that was exactly what Sphider was doing and it wrote about 4GB of search data into the temp table of its database and a huge number of access requests into the logs. 😀
Now Sphider should be working correctly again.
I think I'll adapt the site slightly so that themes and other functionality carry over to the Search pages.
Edit: This has now been done.
Next, I need to tweak the sidebar module so that it's context-aware and goes into the right mode when displaying the search results.
I am very grateful to CaptainQuirk for his continued work on Sphider. There have been quite a few updates at X Blogger since I last posted an update about it.
Quite a few further episodes have received write-ups over the past few months, including episode 21 as of just now, and also the Bloody Mary's Promotion episode that was never English-language dubbed.
I would have signposted those here but for some reason, I hadn't been receiving email notification from substack in the intervening time. It really wouldn't do us any harm.
The Dai-X is more memorable and iconic but X-Bomber is their home for most of the series - even if it is a bit rugged and functional. There's been a huge one going on since about 17:00 today.
Since these attacks are always directed at our forum, I moved the forum directory to a new, temporary path, so the attackers are just getting served 404 errors.
Even so, the new server has 13% CPU tied up, just serving that many endpoints with 404 pages.
It will be interesting to see what they do with that.
I want to see whether they register that as a victory on their end and leave us alone for a while.
Anyway, that leaves us with plenty of overhead and the site is running fine.
As soon as the attack rate goes down, I'll swap the forum directory path back.
It seems to work pretty well in its new location actually, so feel free to keep using it.
The worst of it is over again, so I named the forum directory back to how it was.
The PHPBB server settings have been changed to throttle back after 50% CPU time is used, or after 100 simultaneous sessions (which would probably come first).
In any case, changing the forum directory name worked well.
We'll probably do that again next time. I found this really nice model of X-Bomber by Japanese twitter user indo301B.
It looks to be a build of the Mark model kit with a great deal of improvements.
Only two photos were published. Both have been added to the Fan Models page.
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