Just completed upgrading the forum software to YaBB v2.2.1 (released March 5th). This point-release fixes all the problems associated with the (not-yet-ready-for-prime-time) YaBB v2.2 (Nov 2007) .. plus adds a few nice features, such as the ability to control the size of the text in the Post/Reply box. See here:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1205184319

Everything seemed to go smoothly this time. I transferred all the files via command-line access to the VPS (which is pretty cool). It went so freaking fast I thought something was wrong .. and indeed, we may have problems, but so far, all looks okay.

I mean, have we lost any posts? or members? The little stuff I can dial in later.

I am pretty happy with how well things went this time .. especially compared to disaster I had last time, which took all day to recover from.

Rad wrote on Mar 10^th, 2008 at 4:39pm:

It means it automatically goes into subdirectories and copies those too.

The concept of a directory is self-referential, in that the definition of a directory is a thing that contains files and directories. This kind of structural nesting turns up everywhere in logic and mathematics under the general heading of "recursion".

This kind of self-referential way of defining things not only produces the most compact definitions (and mathematicians love economy of expression), there is also a matching tool called proof by induction that fits it hand in glove, and computer science picks up on the same terminology - indeed, some important computer languages are deliberately structured so that the programs are effectively written as proofs by induction.

John,

Have you checked to see if the pre-Y2.1 "quote bug" has been squashed?

Saw that in your other thread. Thanks. Will troubleshoot.