Bad News / Good News

[bambam]

Bad new first. We've had a very unusual problem with our database; all post and private message data since December 15 was corrupted, and unfortunately this corrupt data found its way into our nightly backups. As you'll be able to tell we didn't lose all the forum data; users registered during that time are fine, the gallery is OK, as are most other portions of the site. I'm doing what I can to recover the missing data, but at this point it isn't looking good. We're especially sorry that we lost some of the great material posted this past month by Jeff Hull and Vickie, two of our resident experts.

The good news is that we're taking advantage of this down time to make some upgrades to our site. This weekend we're going to keep the forum in read-only mode; you'll be able to browse forums, watch videos, etc..., but you won't be able to post. On Monday we plan to turn on a new, upgraded version of the forum software and gallery. This is going to allow us to do and offer more for our great membership in 2007. We've also got some great videos in our pipeline that I'm sure you'll enjoy. Thanks for your patience, and be sure to visit regularly over the coming weeks!

If you've sent a private message to Yoda regarding lessons and have not yet heard back, please send him another note to make sure you can connect and setup a visit to the swamp.

[Mike O]

Glad to see you're back up! That's the good news. Bad News- 12 Piece couldn't hang on long enough without a fix- passed away over the weekend!

[Bagger Lance]

Glad to see you're back up! That's the good news. Bad News- 12 Piece couldn't hang on long enough without a fix- passed away over the weekend!

Nahhh...that's just the withdrawal symptoms. Pass a chicken wing under his nose and he'll roust out of the stupor.

We're still hammering out the finer details in the gallery section. It will change to a flash version in the coming week.

We've worked out most of our database issues and think we found a bug in the widely deployed MySQL code that millions of commercial servers use. We know how to work around it, we've tested it and have multiple backup routines in place to avoid having it ever happening again. The bad news is that we lost some great golf posts over the Christmas/New Years period. So while those memories are still fresh, let's get it kicking again.

If anyone makes copies of posts, feel free to put them back up under the thread titles. Databases are strange beasts and all of the conversation threads are still intact.

Thanks Bambam for sacrificing the weekend to get things rolling again. He took advantage of the downtime and put some new clothing on the site along with an upgraded gallery section to handle the upcoming flash upgrade, and a little Brian Gay preview video.

(Not an easy thing to do during the Chrysler Classic and NFL playoffs)

LBG is open for business!

[Yoda]

Thanks Bambam for sacrificing the weekend to get things rolling again. He took advantage of the downtime and put some new clothing on the site along with an upgraded gallery section to handle the upcoming flash upgrade, and a little Brian Gay preview video (to be posted soon).

My thanks to both Bagger and Bambam for their tireless and selfless efforts to make LBG work for all.

This past week's conversion was necessary to continue the expansion of products and services we offer our members, and the loss of a few weeks' posts, while clearly unintentional and disheartening, is a small price to pay for the benefits that lie ahead.

We weren't quite ready to roll out our enhanced site, but we decided to use the downtime caused by our data loss problem to accelerate the process. This is in no way a finished product. Hang with us the next couple of weeks as we put new color schemes in place and, in general, tidy up the joint. We will reward your patience!

We welcome all comments and suggestions in the Forum and Web Site Suggestions forum (under The Club Office).

[bambam]

We were able to extract some of the data from the corrupted private messages table, but only up through around Jan. 11. We'll try to do the same thing with the posts, but that table appears to have sustained more damage than the PM table.

[12 piece bucket]

Glad to see you're back up! That's the good news. Bad News- 12 Piece couldn't hang on long enough without a fix- passed away over the weekend!

This is the ghost of Bucket's Past . . . I have been haunting Mike O for several days now . . . Mike did your toothpaste smell remotely like Preparation H???

Did y'all know that Mikey shaves his ENTIRE body?

Oh and by the way . . . what the heck is up with the small font? I'm on the quarterly plan . . . my buddies keep telling me I'm gonna go blind. Is this phase one? Can we get a LARGE PRINT VERSION???

Holla! Back to making funny noises in Mikey's closet . . . not sure what all the rubber pants are about . . . whatever.

[bambam]

I've had a couple reports of small font, but apparently that's not happening for everyone. Check your browser's font size setting to make sure it didn't slip down to small or smaller. I'll check out things on our end, also

[Delaware Golf]

I've had a couple reports of small font, but apparently that's not happening for everyone. Check your browser's font size setting to make sure it didn't slip down to small or smaller. I'll check out things on our end, also

If some are experiencing small font, i'm experiencing totally the opposite....1st grade HUGE FONT.

DG

[bambam]

What text on which page, DG?

[Mike O]

This is the ghost of Bucket's Past . . . I have been haunting Mike O for several days now . . . Mike did your toothpaste smell remotely like Preparation H???

Did y'all know that Mikey shaves his ENTIRE body?

Oh and by the way . . . what the heck is up with the small font? I'm on the quarterly plan . . . my buddies keep telling me I'm gonna go blind. Is this phase one? Can we get a LARGE PRINT VERSION???

Holla! Back to making funny noises in Mikey's closet . . . not sure what all the rubber pants are about . . . whatever.

12 piece,
In the new forum BamBam has created a entirely 21st century system- automatically correlates font size to body part size- sorry you can't read it- but there is Nothing that we can do!