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I upgraded the forums to vBulletin 3.8 today please let me know if you find any problems.

Over the past two years or so I've received a number offers from the members here wanting to help out with any associated costs of this site and I've always turned them down as they haven't been needed. I think the site has hit a point where it's growing at a fairly steady rate and I'm starting to plan ahead for future growth and additional features. So to that end I am going to begin accepting donations to help cover the cost of a new server. I'll be adding a donation system to the site in the next day or so, you'll know it's up when you see a donation link show up on the top menu. You'll be able to donate money via all current methods supported by paypal and you…

Ok guys, we have a small decision to make here, for some reason during the day today something went wrong in the database that broke the user-readable url functionality. I've been able to switch to a backup from roughly 7am this morning. Which means we've lost all posts from later in the day.

Sorry about the brief outage today guys, had to make some emergency repairs to the database, one of the main tables was corrupting itself. It should be all fixed now.

Hey guys, I installed a mod today that changes the forum urls to a more user (and hopefully google friendly) readable format. If you notice any problems please let me know.

Hey guys, I built a custom search index tonight it should make vast improvements in the quality of search results. Searching should be a little faster too.

Ok guys I've installed a new mod today that will automatically embed media files in your post just by posting a link to it. Right now this mod supports the following video sites: - YouTube (Standard & Playlists) - Google Video - MetaCafe - MySpaceTv - Stage6 *(Requires Installation of Dixv Plugin) - Veoh - Gametrailers - LiveLeak - CellFish - MyVideo.de - ClipFish.de - Liberio.it - 123video.nl - VSocial - IFilm - Sevenload - Revver - BrightCove - Aniboom - Vimeo - Guba - Glumbert - Tudou - dv.ouou - Biku - GameVideos All you need to do is put the link in a post and it'll be embedded automatically. You can also choose to not embed it by…

Rather than ban users, I think a nice topic to keep track of who's being an asshat is appropriate.

Sorry for the downtime today guys. I'll explain the reasoning and what was done later today.

Sorry about the downtime today, according to the data center they were having some power problems with the rack where my server is located. Everything appears to be running fine at the moment. Let me know if you see anything out of the ordinary going on.

Since there seems to be a bit of confusion around who qualifies as a Member of the Trade and what they are allowed to post about I've put together a quick little run down. Who are Members of the Trade?? A) anyone who makes or sells any audio related gear any persons who have direct relationships with persons or companies who fall under (A) C) anyone receiving gifts or money in return posts/threads What are they allowed to do @ Head-case?? All members of the trade have the exact same posting rights as regular members. They just a custom title stating their company affiliation and are put into the Members of the Trade group. We don't want to restrict what MoT…

The site will be down for an extended period of time (at least a few hours) sometime during the following time frame: Friday, February 9, 2007 9:00pm - 5:00am MST. Our hosting provider is moving into a new data center facility and will be physically moving the server at some point during the previously listed time frame.

I did some maintenance to the server today, that included some DNS changes. If you see the following in your browsers address bar: http://72.18.146.20/ then either your ISP or your computer is caching the old DNS entries. If your running Windows try opening up a command window and running ipconfig/flushdns and that should clear out any cached dns entries. If that doesn't work you may have to reboot your computer.

I updated the forum software today from 1.1 RC2 to 1.1 RC3 you will notice that you have been switched back to the default theme. I will re-add the old themes once they are updated for the latest version.

There will be a bit of downtime tonight as I install a few new features and change a few things around. Yeah yeah I know it's such a pain in the ass for you guys but you'll live . Plus it'll be better in the long run for Headcase.

New policy time . To try to increase membership and traffic here I'm asking our current membership to invite people they think would add to the community. In an attempt to keep track of who invites who, if you invite someone please make a post in this thread stating who you invited otherwise the person will likely not have their registration approved. Thanks

So here is the name of the game: Design a sweet Headcase logo no larger then 241x31 and post it below or PM me for you chance to win these pretty purple RCA cables that are 21" or so long. ...and go!