New Mars Forums

Got some new images down today and we've been playing with colorizing the images: http://i25.tinypic.com/33bi9m0.jpg

The first from the left is CargoCult (IRC channel), the second is volcanopele (IRC / UnmannedSpaceFlight), the third is mine. Thought I'd throw up everyones attempt.

dmuller, excellent simulation you put together, just wanted to thank you for sharing it here (I spammed it in IRC channels I'm in btw).

I like it. I was hoping to do a Wordpress integration of the forums once we moved over to the Mars Society website, but that's taking a lot longer than expected.

Really cool.

Yaknow, 7k spam in the last two weeks. edit: signup attempts. Thank god I'm not doing this by hand anymore... I've said that enough though.

Craziness, pure insanity.

We also got a Nigerian spammer who got through and was using the email function to harrass users. In the future I will fix it so that one is unable to use the email feature unless they make some number of posts.

Many apologies to those affected by this scammer.

Do not under any circumstances reply to their email or believe that they in fact are going to give you any money whatsoever!

It hasn't happened quite yet, they decided to change the contact first before doing the move, it may be a few days yet, still. I personally am reading the "registrar lock" differently than they are, but they know more about this than me.

The IP is 206.246.118.100.

If you go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad and put this in there:

206.246.118.100 www.newmars.com

You can see the new site.

I'm not moving the *forums* yet because it's still active here and once the DNS move goes ahead I'll lock them down and then do the move. It has to be at one big moment, and I'm still unsure as to when the DNS change will go ahead.

We got the DNS stuff and we're moving to the Mars Society server today or tomorrow. (Tonight actually.)

In the meantime things will be in flux as the DNS propagates. Sorry for the short warning.

It started as more of a blog about colonization and getting to Mars, and *becoming* Martians. In other words, it was visionary in its idea of creating a "New Mars" with people who lived on Mars. If you go to the main page and read the archives, you can find some lovely commentary about this (I especially like Stu's writing on the subject).

My admin duties are mostly deleting the spammers that get through, and clicking "clear spam log" ocassionally, not sure how phpBB 3.0.0's spam features work (and hopefully it's as good as our anti-spam system we have now, because it's quite good), but yeah, there's nothing to it.

I like it.

BTW, I may be bestowing admin powers sometime soon.

I need to get permission before doing something like that, however, since it's such a powerful position. I know who I trust here, though.

Oh I posted how to view the "new" site on the wiki thread, added MoveableType to the page now, so all is looking quite good.

The wiki has been uploaded to the new host (on the Mars Society website). You can get to it by opening C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad, and adding the line:

206.246.118.100 www.newmars.com

Then just go to www.newmars.com/wiki and it'll be viewable (this *will* prevent you from being able to come back to the Pair.com host, so you will have to put a # symbol in front to return things the way they were.)

Firstwords is also uploaded there, and we're working on getting the rest of the stuff working, but there are some problems with DNS ownership and until we get it sorted the site will be on Pair.com.

The reason I am alerting you guys to this is so you don't use the wiki here on Pair.com anymore, at least for a few weeks until the host changes.

I truly didn't know it was going to happen that way or I would've given a warning out. There's nothing I could do once Pair took the hosting back down.

It wasn't me! It was Adrian, Jean, and Alex from the Mars Society. There were payment issues and we are migrating over to the Mars Society website because paying for an extra server isn't necessary when we can be virtually hosted there. Oh, and special thanks to Adrian for going out of pocket and paying the back fees and all, and to Zubrin and The Mars Society for reimbursing him later on for this. Great stuff going on behind the scenes here.

I did put up the links and logo though.

So expect some downtime soon as we migrate over.

(BTW, just so ya know, NewMars.com will still be the website, it'll just be hosted on the same server that hosts MarsSociety.org, we put up the logos because they were paying for NewMars.com all these years and it should've been that way to begin with!)