Conquests, Software/*NIX and Peripherals forums update...

[~tl]

As part of on-going efforts to generally improve the forums, we have decided to make some changes to what is allowed to be discussed in the Conquests, Software/*NIX and Peripherals forums. These forums are going to be tightened down to only cover topics relevant to vintage (specifically 68k and PPC) Macintoshes – which, after all, is the focus of this board.

In the Software forum the cut-off point will be "Classic" (pre OS X) Mac OS versions and software that runs on them. In the *NIX forum it will be anything that runs on 68k/PPC Macs (A/UX, AIX, Debian, etc).

Similarly, the Conquests forum is going to be for vintage Mac finds only, however we will be slightly more tolerant for other, interesting, vintage technology (SPARC, Sun, NeXT, other old UNIX boxen, etc) in this forum.

From now on, all other topics (i.e. those relating to OS X/Windows/lawnmowers/etc) should be placed in the Lounge. We hope that this will better represent the theme of the forum as a whole and hence, hopefully, the interests of the majority of our users.

The forum descriptions have been updated to reflect this change and over the next few days/weeks/months (depending on how long it takes) we will be moving any topics from these forums that now belong in the Lounge. You'll have to bear with us, as it's a manual process and we're all busy people. Please check there if you can't find a topic that was previously in one of these (or any other, since we may have a scan through them too) forums. Please, as always, take a few moments before posting a thread to consider which forum best suits it and please feel free to contact one of us if you feel a thread would be better suited to a different forum.

Many thanks,

The 68kMLA moderation team.

 

[QuadSix50]

Thanks for the update.

 

[Christopher]

So *nix on Intel Mac's are not covered in the *nix forum?

 

[QuadSix50]

In the Software forum the cut-off point will be "Classic" (pre OS X) Mac OS versions and software that runs on them. In the *NIX forum it will be anything that runs on 68k/PPC Macs (A/UX, AIX, Debian, etc).

 

[~tl]

So *nix on Intel Mac's are not covered in the *nix forum?

Nope...

 

[Gil]

Sounds good to me. :b&w:

 

[joshc]

So *nix on Intel Mac's are not covered in the *nix forum?

All Intel discussion should be in the Lounge.

 

[porter]

Reminds me of the following explanation:

Lord: Guards! Make sure the Prince doesn't leave this room until I come and get him.Guard: Not to leave the room. Even if you come and get him.

Lord: No, no. Until I come and get him.

Guard: Until you come and get him, we're not to enter the room.

Lord: No, no. You stay in the room and make sure he doesn't leave.

Guard: And you'll come and get him.

Lord: Right.

Guard: We don't need to do anything, apart from just stop him from entering the room.

Lord: No, no. Leaving the room.

Guard: Leaving the room. Yes.

Lord: Alright?

Guard: Fine. Oh.. if if if if if ahhh if we... if if if ...

Lord: Look, it's quite simple. You just stay here, and make sure he doesn't leave the room. Alright?

Guard: Oh, I remember. Ahh can he leave the room with us?

Lord: No... you just keep him in here, and make sure...

Guard: Oh, yes. We'll keep him in here, obviously. But if he had to leave and we were with him...

Lord: No, just keep him in here...

Guard: ...Until you or anyone else...

Lord: No, not anyone else. Just me.

Guard: Just you..

Lord: ...get back.

Guard: Get back.

Lord: Right?

Guard: Right. We'll stay here until you get back.

Lord: And make sure he doesn't leave.

Guard: What?

Lord: Make sure he doesn't leave.

Guard: The Prince?

Lord: Yes. Make sure he doen't leave!

Guard: Ohh, yes. Of course! I thought you meant him. You know it seemed a bit daff to guard him when he's a guard.

Lord: Is that clear?

Guard: Oh, quite clear. No problems.

Lord: Right. (He starts to leave, the guards follow) Where are you going?

Guard: We're coming with you.

Lord: No, I want you to stay here, and make sure he doesn't leave.

Guard: Oh I see. Right.

 

[luddite]

Sounds like a great idea.

(Cue the usual voices of righteous indignation)

;-)

 

[tmtomh]

Thanks for the info on the new policies. I agree with them.

M

 

[Dog Cow]

About time! I was getting tired of all the weird stuff people were posting about.

 

[~tl]

Yeah, it was getting a little silly...

 

[MrMacPlus]

So *nix on Intel Mac's are not covered in the *nix forum?

All Intel discussion should be in the Lounge.

All Intel discussion should be in its own forum. phpBB gives you the option of having multiple forums and I do suggest that that feature be used to keep the lounge from being some hellish cluster of topics, as if it already isn't. : I mean, why must you force a conquest into the lounge just because it isn't 68k, it's still a conquest. Likewise, if the admins are going to be this picky, at least have a non-68k conquest forum and a non-68k software forum.

 

[macgeek417]

Yeah! make subforums of the lounge:

Conquests

Software

*NIX

You get the picture...

 

[MrMacPlus]

Yeah! make subforums of the lounge:
Conquests

Software

*NIX

You get the picture...

Not even that, that's unorganized and doesn't make sense. Just make subforums of existing forums that are for the non-68k counterparts.

 

[II2II]

Yeah, forcing non-vintage-Mac conquests and other such discussions into the Lounge will make it more cluttered. But remember, this forum was established for people to discuss 68k Macs and (later) vintage PPC Macs. The Lounge is really there to keep people involved because they are permitted to socialize in a manner that extends beyond the focus of these forums. So perhaps it is best if we don't encourage the Lounge to proliferate since some of the focus will be lost. (I don't really care either way, as long as there is some way for people to socialize outside of the bounds of the specialization.)

Gotta love the limitations of the web as a medium.

 

[Mike Richardson]

What defines vintage for the purposes of the Conquest forum?

 

[~tl]

We're not going to set a hard and fast rule. Basically, if it's interesting, it's fine... so a topic about a 386 PC should probably go in the Lounge, but if you happen to liberate a Cray then that's probably worthy of a thread in the Conquests forum.

 

[Mike Richardson]

I think there should be two sub-forums:

Conquests should be for items that are "rescued" or otherwise acquired from inhospitable environments, or items of interest for "vintage" purposes. For example, if you rescue a G5 from the dump, or get a Quadra for $5, that should be a Conquest. I think that's the entire point of Conquests anyway, and why it was named such.

Another sub-forum called "Acquisitions" could serve all other purposes, such as buying a Windows Laptop at retail price, or getting a new car, etc.