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MODifications Team Leader

February 23rd, 2005, 01:19 am

If you haven’t heard already, I’m now the phpBB.com MODifications Team Leader. You can read Nuttzy’s announcement about stepping down here.

I’m really excited! I can’t really think of anything else to say. I’m just really amazed that this has happened. I never dreamed that I would be the MODifications Team leader when I started using phpBB a little over two years ago.

I’ve said this a million times already but I’ll say it again, thanks everyone for your support! I don’t have any major changes planned. Most of the changes are really little and most people won’t even notice them.

At school today I finished a project for one of the courses I was taking. The teacher looked at my work, ask me how big the folder was so I showed her, it was over 300 mb. She tells me she wants a back up of it and hands me a 100 mb zip disk. I’m thinking its not going to fit on there. I didn’t say anything and proceeded to copy the file over onto the zip disk while the teacher watched me. When it started copying, the teacher talked to me about the next course and got everything I needed.

While she was getting what I needed for the next course and helping other students, I stopped the copying of my work to the zip disk. I went through and cleaned out a lot of the files that I didn’t need. For some reason the movie (it wasn’t anythin spectactular) I made was duplicated multiple times in many different folders. This got it down to about 125mb. Still to big.

I then compressed the folder and that made it less than 80mb. I was then ready to copy it over. I started to copy it, got all finished, tried opening it to make sure it worked correct but it said it was corrupted. When I was deleting the files that did make it onto the zip drive from the first copy, I think I corrupted the zip disk during that. Some of those files weren’t being deleted even though it said the file size for them was 0kb.

Well, I just took the disk up to the teacher and told her my folder was too big. She handed me a blank one. This was even more of a mess. I ended up having to format this disk. In the end I got it working.

What makes me laugh is that the teacher doesn’t know that the zip disks only hold 100mb. I sure hope see knows that 300mb is bigger than 100mb.

Thats a useless boring story. It was the most exciting thing that happened to me at school today. Hopefully tomorrow at school it will be just as exciting as today!

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