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I'm in the process of bringing up shatters.net on new, faster hardware with a fresh install of Linux. The old server was hit by a worm which exploited a vulnerability in phpBB:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5499725.html

The version of phpBB that's running now has been patched.

I've just gotten started putting the site back together, so there's a lot that's not running yet. In fact, pretty much all that is up now is this forum and my photo gallery. Not much data was lost; the main challenge is moving everything over to the new machine. One thing that I neglected to backup was the HTML for the main Celestia pages. If anyone has these mirrored or cached, please PM me. And if not, well, the pages were in serious need of a refresh anyhow. Fridger, I should have your Texture Foundry back up shortly.

--Chris

Chris,

good to hear! At least the "feel" of the new setup from over here is great. Amazingly low latency: the pages are building up practically instantaneously. Posting & editing is also very fast.

Bye Fridger

chris wrote:I'm in the process of bringing up shatters.net on new, faster hardware with a fresh install of Linux. The old server was hit by a worm which exploited a vulnerability in phpBB:

I've just gotten started putting the site back together, so there's a lot that's not running yet. In fact, pretty much all that is up now is this forum and my photo gallery. Not much data was lost; the main challenge is moving everything over to the new machine. One thing that I neglected to backup was the HTML for the main Celestia pages. If anyone has these mirrored or cached, please PM me. And if not, well, the pages were in serious need of a refresh anyhow. Fridger, I should have your Texture Foundry back up shortly.

--Chris

Chris, I had to register just to congratulate you for getting things back up so quickly. I've been a long time lurker, but I'm getting further into Celestia now. Unfortunately the only site I have pages for is Celestia Motherlode. I run a website and I know how hard it can be to keep things in one piece all the time!

Christopher Tarana

I like the new theme (Solaris). Very appropriate for a Celestia forum.

Glad to see you guys are back up - it was getting very boring here at work and I was beginning to think that I might have to actually... you know... do some of that stuff my boss is always on about... yech.

Clive Pottinger

chris wrote:I'm in the process of bringing up shatters.net on new, faster hardware with a fresh install of Linux.

Just a little comment: thank you Chris to make again the site(s) accessible: what a pity to have to waste time with the security instead of spare this time to develop Celestia itself, of course.
Cheers Chris, and many thanks for your works, Jeam. (And as usual, sorry for my English)

chris wrote:One thing that I neglected to backup was the HTML for the main Celestia pages. If anyone has these mirrored or cached, please PM me. And if not, well, the pages were in serious need of a refresh anyhow.

Google cache:
http://www.google.de/search?q=cache:-4KE0UFAiOwJ:www.shatters.net/celestia/+celestia&hl=en

I'm shure the others are there as well.

maxim.

i have to say, it is faster, good work

[quote="chris"]I'm in the process of bringing up shatters.net on new, faster hardware with a fresh install of Linux. The old server was hit by a worm which exploited a vulnerability in phpBB:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5499725.html

The version of phpBB that's running now has been patched.

I've just gotten started putting the site back together, so there's a lot that's not running yet. In fact, pretty much all that is up now is this forum and my photo gallery. Not much data was lost; the main challenge is moving everything over to the new machine. One thing that I neglected to backup was the HTML for the main Celestia pages. If anyone has these mirrored or cached, please PM me. And if not, well, the pages were in serious need of a refresh anyhow. Fridger, I should have your Texture Foundry back up shortly.

--Chris[/quote]

Chris,

the German TV just finished an extensive documentary by Klaus Bednarz and company about their trip trough Patagonia and Fireland in two parts. Of course, they also passed through Torres del Paine, and finally (after two attempts) even made it to Kap Horn!

It was fascinating to say the least...

Bye Fridger
http://www.wdr.de/themen/homepages/am_ende_der_welt.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=am_ende_der_welt

t00fri wrote:Chris,

the German TV just finished an extensive documentary by Klaus Bednartz and company about their trip trough Patagonia and Fireland in two parts. Of course, they also passed through Torres del Paine, and finally (after two attempts) even made it to Kap Horn!

It was fascinating to say the least...

Bye Fridger
http://www.wdr.de/themen/homepages/am_ende_der_welt.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=am_ende_der_welt

Thanks for the link, Fridger! I noticed that the title image is a picture of the Cuernos. Interesting that in English, we just use the Spanish Tierra del Fuego instead of the translation 'Land of Fire', but in German it you say 'Feuerland'--it took me a couple seconds to realize what you meant by 'Fireland'

--Chris

Anonymous wrote:

t00fri wrote:Chris,

the German TV just finished an extensive documentary by Klaus Bednarz and company about their trip trough Patagonia and Fireland in two parts. Of course, they also passed through Torres del Paine, and finally (after two attempts) even made it to Kap Horn!

It was fascinating to say the least...

Bye Fridger
http://www.wdr.de/themen/homepages/am_ende_der_welt.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=am_ende_der_welt

Thanks for the link, Fridger! I noticed that the title image is a picture of the Cuernos. Interesting that in English, we just use the Spanish Tierra del Fuego instead of the translation 'Land of Fire', but in German it you say 'Feuerland'--it took me a couple seconds to realize what you meant by 'Fireland'

--Chris

Chris,

I felt that 'Fireland' was not right, but also could not imagine that the Spanish name (that I was aware of) was used in the US.

Did you actually click on 'Route' and then on 'Teil I' and 'Teil II' on top of the header image? There you can see the maps displaying where they went. Quite a trip (by car mostly). In 'Teil II' they rented a 'motor-sailing' boat. The latter failed to reach Cap Horn due to the rough sea! Later, they succeeded with a bigger ship.

Cap Horn is amazing: inhabited by just one young chilenian family: young {man, boy and mother}. He looks after the environment and she entertains a little 'post office' for the occasional visitors. A postcard takes about 3 months to arrive in Europe . Many tourists apparently try to reach Cap Horn, but only less than 100 make it per year to come ashore due to the nasty weather conditions!

This documentary was particularly interesting since Klaus Bednarz interviewed many different kinds of people they met along their way: indians, fishermen, sea biologists, artists, ...

Bye Fridger

PS: Bednarz also displayed a new Luxus Hotel (400$/night!) in Torres del Paine. I suppose that's where you stayed ...

Sorry to hear of your troubles with the site.
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