Hard to believe I joined this forum 13 years ago... Well 13 years ago on August 19th that is....
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Hard to believe I joined this forum 13 years ago... Well 13 years ago on August 19th that is....
Where did you find the exact date?
You can look under your Profile on the about tab
Your join date is Feb 24th, 2005
May 15th, 2002... that was a very auspicious day... I remember like it was yesterday... problem is I can't even remember what I did yesterday...
-tg
Probably still on dial up modem. Sitting there watching the screen paint. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by techgnome
April 13, 2001 here. It was also a Friday!!
Me: Feb 8th, 2002 - 17 years 7 months 5 days - also on a Friday :)
October 2001 for me.
August 6th, 2002. Until then the place was a howling wasteland...with a hairy lurker waiting to pounce like a hungry wallaby.
well this is Fun to say... I am the youngest one, June 7th 2017....
heading for the age of 60 though
My Usual reply to posts like this-> "Great - Now Get a Life."
I have a couple of 1999 join dates.... And remember when it was a big deal to break a 1,000 Posts..
BUT, after all these years, it still makes my little heart go pitter patter when I see total strangers helping one another out:blush:
Quick!! Keep helping people or steve's heart will stop beating!!!
For me today is exactly 13 years :) Sep 15th, 2006
You might be the shortest timer here, but you're way more active than me.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisE
I joined Jul 6th, 2013, with fewer posts.
Giving me a coronary or a reason to beat you with a ban stick isn't advisable:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
..............Just Kidding.........
14 years today. Been doing my best to keep Steve alive. Giving bad advise still counts as helping, RIGHT????
June 4th 2002
Clearly my first 2 months was just me and tumbleweed :wave:Quote:
August 6th, 2002. Until then the place was a howling wasteland
My sig shows 2005 but I'm actually fairly sure I joined in 2002 or 3. I think my account got reset in a forum crash.
I remember because I finished my degree in 01 and got my first "proper" programming job about a year later. I lurked for a bit and then signed up to tell people how much better .Net was than 6... as was the fashion at the time.
Sep 23rd, 2002 for me...That coincides with me moving off the IBM mainframe to the Windows platform at a new job (after taking a "Learn VB in Ten Days" course). Seems like a lifetime ago...
It was...just not yours.Quote:
Originally Posted by TysonLPrice
Amazingly 17 yrs later the 6/.Net argument is alive and well.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Yep, it has aged like a fine whine.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Alive, yes. Well... not so much.Quote:
the 6/.Net argument is alive and well
Oct 4th, 2006.
I was working on the Ministry of Labor(good times good times. Was also playing in a band in the spare time cuz the public sector is tolerate to time delays. Meaning getting there at 10 and leaving a 3(!) ) and I was starting to use visual studio 2002 or 2003 .
I think I was making an epic windows explorer like service control application with green red yellow blue lights for service star stop starting stopping pause etc.
Getting the service root -- tree etc. I was struggling to make the services interact with the desktop and start services on remote machines so I joined to asked some question.
OK. I've read my initial post. I though I would be talking stupid but the post is actually well formed :rolleyes:
I just went over there and gave rep to the member that helped me. Lol, it only took 13 years to do so but, well, he got the rep!
Edit JMC jumped in on my 3rd thread. He was really nice and polite back then :p :D
I refuse to believe that :/Quote:
He was really nice and polite back then
Me too. I has trying to catfish him :p
:)JM and I have butted heads once or twice but I think he knows I've got a huge amount of respect for him. He does a huge amount of work on the forum (probably more than any other member, I think) and, while he could be friendlier, he's never abusive or trolling. He's just very blunt and very curt. We've definitely had members who were outright rude before and we banned them. We've never (that I'm aware of) banned JM because he's never deserved it.
If you're ever on the receiving end of one of JM's tongue lashings you can tell yourself that it's maybe a little harsh, but you should also reflect on the fact that his underlying criticism is probably right.
Make him and admin, see how the world will collapse! :eek2::bigyello:
I think it's something like what happens when you start on a new job and you meet some "peculiar" people that you don't want to have anything to do with them at first.
But as the time goes by you get used to and maybe find out that this is just their character and you get closer by the years.
Also that backs up my next argument that working on a multi person environment, like a big corporation may teach you some "job manners" . That is visible to almost every person here that has a job experience, involving groups of people.
This may apply on the forum but in not the exact way as we rarely have the chance to meet in person and see what the person behind the computer really is like.
I mean Funky have met me and after that he rarely gives back answers here, frequently avoids me and is clicking the ban - unban button on and off as I can see my rep bar goes green-red-green-red-green constantly :lol:
Anyhow this is just a forum not real life so I don't really get offender or something by anyone(except maybe the Skopje guy that thinks he is Macedonian but he doesn't speak Greek.Offended by the stupidity). In real person to person talks that may differ, for good or for worse, as I've stated above.
I've never banned you! It's an option though:pQuote:
and is clicking the ban
To be honest, I pretty much never give answers on the forum any more. I became a contractor 5 or 6 years ago and have specialised more and more in databases and no longer really touch anything else. My .Net knowledge is now so rusty that I really have very little to offer in the main forums. I still get to chime in in the database section though.Quote:
I mean Funky have met me and after that he rarely gives back answers here
I have met a few vbf members as well as cg members when going to MS for their mvp summits. Always good times and great getting to meet some long time members and mod staff.
I probably met some VBF members at a dev conference in Orlando, but then got distracted and didn't confirm that.
By dev Sexy Girls?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
There have been a few.
what was the worst thing said or done by somebody that was then banned ?Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
The Snake Game.
Somebody may dig up that thread. The AUP was less strict about language back then, and the censors were less effective, so I think some of the asterisks were actual words when the thread was created. Basically, a guy asked for help with his 'game'. If you ran his code, it was a bit of a Trojan horse, as it downloaded and installed on your system a tool that allowed the OP to make some modest cash. A few replies in, somebody saw what it was doing...and a whole lot of asterisks followed, especially from one of the mods at the time.
I went digging, and here's the thread. It's probably the most interesting thread ever posted on here:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ight=snakeyboy
WOW !!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I've only read the first Page from that Thread, I bet He/She is banned for Life
Yeah... that was an interesting time. It's one of the main reasons we don't allow compiled bits on here any more. It's also the reason some us long timers have trust isues when it comes to others when it feels like they are being less than forthcomeing with their intentions and information.
-tg
Yeah the snake game was probably the High (Low?) point where banning was concerned.
I remember just after I became a mod someone posted some pornographic gifs in the middle of a post. I was able to clear up the post text but hadn't worked out how to remove gifs and images yet so it had to stay up until my American colleagues woke up in the morning. About 8 hours.
Also, adverts for Viagra. Lots and lots of adverts for Viagra.
Oh gawd... I remember those threads.... man... those were some serious NSFW russian roulette moments where you didn't know what you were going to get and if you were on a monitored network.... you best hope you were on good terms with the guy doing the monitoring/filtering.
-tg
Those never stayed up for four hours, though, so it wasn't a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
I struggled to get them down. That's all I'm saying:eek:
You're supposed to take them with a glass of water.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Wait a minute, maybe I misunderstood. Try loosening your belt first.
There is also another diodes.
But this way you get them in, not down.
But, whatever seems more relaxing.
Wha, What! Thread starts derailing again (as usual). If so I would like to talk about my favorite foods.
go on then !!Quote:
If so I would like to talk about my favorite foods.
The Greeks put the chips inside the kebab!! The Godless heathens!!
Actually, I can vouch that this is culinary genius on their part:bigyello:
About Kebab. I think you mean Greek Souvlaki (aka Pita Giros) that we put the chips in?
Else I don't really like Kebab so I'm not sure what you mean. It's not originally Greek anyhow (or it maybe from ancient Greek foods but I won't look this up now).
So if I where to make a list here, I would probably go with:
1)Pastitsio. Said it before say it again, if you haven tried you don't know what you are missing (https://www.olivemagazine.gr/wp-cont...er-430x575.jpg) .
You can refer it like something close to musaka but I actually dislike musaka becaue it has aubergine and I hate aubergine like the plague.
2)That would be (roughly translates, as I don't know the English terms) Red meat(veal) with potatoes dipped in Meats sauce with Feta Cheese.
3)Yep, Greek Souvlaki (I prefer the Pita and chips, aside in another plate and combine this with either a Dark Beer like Guinness or A Fisher Dark (not the Green bottle BS) )
4)Pizza. I would go with (again roughly translated) thick crust and cheese, additional Feta cheese, bacon,ham,mushrooms,veal and sausage.
5)Lamb on the spit, usually make this at eastern. It need to be made by experts else the meat is like gum but if made properly, it may well go to No2.
6)From here it ain't a standard turn but other favorites are:
Burgers, except not that abomination done in US. Just the meat and we cook them in different ways (p.e. with bread, without bread, I mean inside the meat), and also use some greens inside like basil and of course the sauce and the potatoes.
Stake with chips, red trahanas (i didn't know the term, google translated like frumenty? ), Meat Roll with eggs inside and some fish-ish (i don't like fish) like squid(ward) and octopus.
Omelet with cheese inside and sausage and ham and ketchup (all this while making it)
Some of this make even better combined with some Greek Cheese (Feta,Mizithra,Kefalotiri) .
For sweet, I would go with galaktoboureko. Custard Pie. It really kicks a$$.
https://www.mygreekdish.com/wp-conte...p1-800x512.jpg
Annnd now I am hungry and I have to get aaaallll the way out of the building allll the way out to the restaurant and aaaalll they way to the line (there are roughly 2-3000 people from this company and others around) and hope there is something good today because I forgot to bring food with me :cry:
Either Souvlaki or Gyros. Over here we'd refer to either of those as a kebab. Of course, we'd smother it in chilli sauce and leave out the chips, thus rendering it completely inedible unless preceded by 6 pints of Stella and a Jaeger bomb:sick:Quote:
I think you mean Greek Souvlaki (aka Pita Giros) that we put the chips in?
I will say, when I was over last year I really liked the custom of bring a small plate of food whenever we ordered drinks.
Yep. I don't know what's wrong with eating in UK. I could not digest properly all the time when I was studying there.
Yeah we are accustomed to bring something to bite on when drinking. Of course it ain't like UK that drinking starts at 9 in the morning, so we bring a little cheese or something and not pancakes :)
Actually we are accustomed on drinking wine or Ouzo with the food (Ouzo especially in the summer) but since I don't like either I prefer to go with a really cold beer.
And of course the food is great. Since we are on 30 degrees for the weekend, I will honor a couple of Souvlakia with beer after a nice swimming the next couple of days. One of the benefits of living here (if they(politicians traitors) could take away the sun then they would tho).
My join date is Nov 1, 2002; however, I was actually reviewing the forum a bit before that..... :)
I was part of Internet.com (Jupitermedia.com) at the time, and they bought VBForums. I was the lucky (?) sole that became responsible for this forum.
It was a nightmare.
Once I joined, I spent several months being brutally attacked (verbally) as I tried to bring order to the chaos. The forum was fraught with huge political and religious debates (fights/attacks) with a complete disregard for courtesy towards one another. I was the one that had to bring everyone in line in order to make this a respectable forum. I had to get the forum to a position where advertisers wouldn't go running and screaming away because of what was posted.
I will say that it took time, but you you guys (and this forum) cleaned up pretty well!
Brad!
EDIT: I should correct that to, most of you guys cleaned up pretty well.... :D
I won't name a name...... but the craziest response I got to a banning was actually a phone call from a person overseas that was banned. He called me late at night drunk trying to justify why he posted the stuff he posted - which he said he did when he was drunk, so we should let it slide.....Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisE
Clearly posting and drinking don't mix......
And yeah - don't try to dig yourself out of a banning by calling an admin when you are drunk...... :eek:
Brad!
I remember the drunk posting that got him banned. :lol: but I never knew he called you
Awesome, you got drunk dialed by a member. That's pretty unique....hopefully.
Only happened once to me that I recall in my 25 years of managing online forums. I've gotten more death threats than drunk calls. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
OMG, how did he get your Tel.No. ?Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
ps. your Avatar is driving me Crazy, can you slow it down a bit?
p.p.s don't ban me now
Just drug back in with a db question after being away from here for awhile. Joined Feb 15th, 2001 . . . 18 years and change. Seems unreal. A surprisingly large number of mod user names I recognize . . . can't remember if all were mods back then but definitely remember them.
You may not recognize them because after mitosis back in the day , they where split and then merged again.
Some examples of old mods where Funky Hiker, Shaggy Dexter and Steve R Dog 888. Of course we had the big split of 03 of Brad "the R" Steve Jones. That went bad as Brad started a 15 years mumble of "VBForums "shigh" VBForums "shighs" VBForums ....
Can't parse...unbalanced quotes...
Bring back mendhack. and timeshifter.
TS has shifted into an alternate reality now. Mendhack got hacked and all his existence was erased except for pictures of him as a child growing up in BoliviaQuote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
And Gep13. Really nice guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by dclamp