and now for today's Weather....

Is there a betting pool for how long? I got $1 on two weeks.

How's the weather Olee?

T'weaks sounds about right.

LOL, I got banned.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <General> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

LOL, you asked to be banned.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...7#post12739157

And after 5 years and over 7000 posts you're going back to windows...? Seems like a tantrum...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...3#post12739243
That seems a bit rash - and though I shouldn't really care either way, you've been around a long time and it seems silly for a user due to abandon GNU/Linux over one bad experience with one distro.

My advice to you: Nuke it and install Debian in place of it. No experienced GNU/Linux user should be tied to a distro like 'buntu or to any one distro.

The punchline is that I can *still* login with my compromised email and password (despite *multiple* requests--some polite, some not-so-polite--for them to delete this stolen personal data) whereupon I see the "you're banned" message. In other words, they have no intention of honoring my request to opt-out of storing my personal data on their insecure site, and no mechanism in place to satisfy the privacy concerns of the 2 million users affected by the recent hack. Oh well, I tried. Fortunately it is an older email address I rarely use, and the password is an obscenity I don't use on any other sites. I defended Canonical during the "selling our search strings to Amazon" scandal, but now I must unfortunately hop on the "Ubuntu is spyware" bandwagon.

And of course I am not going back to Windows, just trolling them. All in good fun, cynwulf!

They don't care about you, your data, your request, your contribution or the time you spent there. The staff and especially the two staff involved, simply want rid of you because you're making waves.
No need to hop on any "bandwagon". Not using buntu does not mean that you have to subscribe to any of the mythological "hater" groups...
Ah... but it's not obvious to the reader - plus what's the point...? I would have said: "I'm going to buy a real apple".

At this point the staff will probably close this thread if the discussion continues along these lines - and I've no desire to start a full on 'buntu forums bashing fest - they already do a very good job of making themselves look bad. Good luck with whichever distro you choose to move onto.

Oh I haven't used 'buntu since 2009! (For reasons I won't get into... I won't say anything else controversial here. )

I *am* legitimately glad the forums are back up, though. They are a great resource, and often the first Google hit when researching a problem. I'm happy that my posts there have been restored so that they may be continue to be of benefit to others (the meaning of "Ubuntu").

I just spent a couple of hours trying to get my email address associated with my "nick/username" there with the help of a friendly Forums SysAdmin.

No go.

Damn, I have a hangnail!

I suppose LQ got lots of traffic during that period, and some of those folks are likely to hang around, so it's all good.

Edit: And now it works. dafuq? Gremlins!

nature of the vBulletin exploit is discussed at http://blog.canonical.com/2013/07/30...a-post-mortem/

Next time try and stay positive and be constructive, like: "Thank you for peeing in my ear but I think it would be better down my back. I'm sure it's really raining though, like you said."