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    Hey guys,

    So I'm just wondering...is there a way to have just as much control over these forums as Brad? The best solution (my last resort, because it's unethical) I can come up with is to hack into the MySQL database, delete his profile then change my role to "Owner."

    LOL, i'm just kidding. If I am trolling, please tell me.

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    Dem are trolling words, son.

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    I think Joe would delete you pretty quickly anyways. What would be the point?
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    Count on it

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    i would love to see someone succeed in sql injecting this site, i believe every query is secured on this site anyways

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    Just go to second hand shop, buy a crappy, slow server for $11, install forum software and make yourself Admin.

    Then wait a few years and Jutiper Media will buy you and plaster adverts and hotlinks in every available pixel of screenspace.

    Yay web 2.0!

    And btw, Brad's password is "swordfish"
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    He isn't Groucho Marx.

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    my last resort, because it's unethical
    I'd love to put that into the context of another post of you, however that is most probably against the AUP.
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    Why not increase your post count? You could then get a custom title for yourself!

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    Apache doesn't even cost $11, and you can do the whole MySQL thing and rule your own localhost world.

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    Quote Originally Posted by minitech View Post
    Apache doesn't even cost $11, and you can do the whole MySQL thing and rule your own localhost world.
    I never said it did. I was referring to the hardware.
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    No, I meant to install it on the computer you already have

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    You need to defeat the old administrator using stealth and a light sabre.

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    You need to sacrifice a badger to Brad Jones TM.
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    Luckily enough we have our own badger here
    Delete it. They just clutter threads anyway.

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    Have you tried the combo:
    {Up}{Down}{Up}{Down}{Left}{Right}{Left}{Right}A B A B {Start}

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    @techgnome: Are you telling us that you don't want to use Alt combinations and you've forgotten the Konami code? *gasp*
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    ▲ ▲ ▼ ▼ ◄ ► ◄ ► B A (START)
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    Badgers?!?!? We don't need no stiiinkin' badgers!
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    Hey! I neither stink (well, most of the time I don't) nor do I like being sacrificed.

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    You can always kidnap either me or Brad, and torture us until we divulge our login info. But be forewarned, both of us have been conditioned to withstand considerable torture.

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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    Quote Originally Posted by JPnyc View Post
    You can always kidnap either me or Brad, and torture us until we divulge our login info. But be forewarned, both of us have been conditioned to withstand considerable torture.
    I thought we were all such a handful that you'd be glad to give the job to someone else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JPnyc View Post
    You can always kidnap either me or Brad, and torture us until we divulge our login info. But be forewarned, both of us have been conditioned to withstand considerable torture.
    Have you seen the first half hour of "Law Abiding Citizen"?
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    Have you seen the first half hour of "Law Abiding Citizen"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by visualAd View Post
    I thought we were all such a handful that you'd be glad to give the job to someone else.
    The job may be, but not the paycheck

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    If you get more than travel expenses then you're onto a winner, buddy.
    I don't live here any more.

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    Wow, he must be on at least $3 per day.

    Think of all the grains you could buy with that?
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    Re: How do I become THE administrator?

    Oops, I forgot about Martin Liss. I'll have to deal with him too.

    BTW Joe: it won't be an either-or, I'll deal with all three of you at once.

    Maybe I'll hire Chuck Norriz to do the job.

    I can't wait until I'm the boss!

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    We can.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
    We can.
    I'm thinking of a three-syllable action that I'm going to do to you when I'm boss

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    We can.
    I put it to you, Sir, that you're clearly wrong! Our ability to wait until Moonman becomes the boss is predicated by his ability to become the boss. Since the probability of the latter condition being satisfied is tending toward zero as this thread progresses, the former can never become true.
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