The Work Continues...

Pic unrelated. ;)

I've just had an email from Schoolmat, who is in the process of squashing these little turds once and for all. We have been using an outdated version of vBulletin - so far from being super-clever elite hackers, our "friends" have simply taken advantage of a decade-old vulnerability, childishly vandalised a few posts, and succeeded in absolutely nothing else but getting Schoolmat off his lazy butt to upgrade the forum software at last. ;) ;) ;) ;)

(Joke! The guy has worked hard for this forum for TEN YEARS and now is as good a time as any to propose Three Cheers For Schoolmat!)

Anyway, back to the point - frankly, my mother could have done what these tossers did - only she wouldn't do that because she's got a life and a healthy sense of morality!

So, shame on us for not fixing it sooner - but hey, the net result of the "major ass fucking" our Internet Tough Guy hackers have promised will actually be a nice new forum, a much overdue upgrade, and new security features to protect us in the future. vBulletin has moved on a long way in the last ten years and will be a major step forward to DOSF.

As a bi-curious male, the "threat" of an arse-fucking was actually quite an intriguing one; although ultimately it doesn't surprise me one little bit to discover that the big scary hacker cowards have, in fact, no balls, tiny penises, and even smaller brains. Still, I'm easy going - guys, if you ever grow some swingers, I'll take pity on you and take your one inch cocks whenever you're ready.

So, what now? Well, the priority right now is to get the new forum software installed. As I understand it, we will get the forum back up but old posts will be missing for the time being. Schoolmat has ten years of database files in varying states of decay and corruption to import into the new software and this may take a little longer. It's par for the course when you have a forum that's been around as long as ours, but it's worth doing regardless of what our little "friends" are up to - it's a good insurance policy for the future, and it'll make DOSF more stable and more fun.

So, to summarise, we'll be back sooner or later - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, as Daft Punk once said... So hang on in there and get ready for the rebirth of DOSF - coming soon. :)