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Anything out there I could import a whole idealBB forum's db to?
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By notta · Posted
Yea I don't think so. -
By David Uzondu · Posted
Euro-Office must default to ODF to be considered "genuinely European", LibreOffice argues by David Uzondu Euro-Office is a web-based collaborative office suite that positions itself as a "European sovereign alternative" to American tech companies, backed by a coalition of developers including Nextcloud, IONOS, Abilian, BTactic, OpenProject, and, more recently, Tuta. The project officially went live a couple of days ago, but not before drawing heavy fire from LibreOffice developers, who called the marketing claim that Euro-Office represents the "first open-source office suite developed in Europe" a deceptive historical inaccuracy because projects like OpenOffice and LibreOffice existed decades earlier. Now that the project has launched, LibreOffice is back with another complaint, arguing that Euro-Office cannot consider itself "genuinely European" while it pushes proprietary Microsoft defaults on users. Euro-Office had promised to improve the OpenDocument Format (ODF) back in April, but the current release still plagues users with several technical failures. For instance, the suite lacks an admin setting to enforce ODF, and mobile editors completely block ODF saves, forcing files into Microsoft's OOXML formats. Some configurations force files into read-only mode, while editing frequently corrupts document formatting or erases data. LibreOffice thinks that merely supporting a format as an afterthought does not make you a sovereign alternative, as file formats are the battleground where" digital sovereignty is won or lost." The road to the first stable release of Euro-Office has been quite bumpy due to an aggressive public fallout with OnlyOffice, from which the coalition originally forked the project. OnlyOffice struck back by accusing the coalition of violating copyright terms under its AGPLv3 branding requirements by stripping the original branding anyway and forking the code. Getting Euro-Office up and running is a bit wonky (at least for non-technical users), as there is no direct installer to grab off the web. The easiest way we learnt is by using Docker. First, pull the official Euro-Office image from the GitHub Container Registry: docker pull ghcr.io/euro-office/documentserver:latest Then, run the container with active ports and a secure JWT token, enabling the test environment: docker run -i -t -d -p 8080:80 --restart=always -e EXAMPLE_ENABLED=true -e JWT_SECRET=my_secure_jwt_secret ghcr.io/euro-office/documentserver:latest And finally, open a web browser and go to the following address: http://localhost:8080 If you are running this on a remote server, replace localhost with your server's IP address. You will see the Euro-Office test page, where you can create new text documents, spreadsheets, or presentations directly in the browser. Image via Euro-Office Nextcloud promises that proper standalone desktop versions and mobile apps will arrive in a future release. -
By MacDaddyAz · Posted
It’s any of their products not just windows. -
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Google Gemini has been failing for users across the United States, Europe, and Asia since early Wednesday morning, June 10, 2026, and more than six hours into the incident Google has yet to declare a fix............. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318152/20260610/google-gemini-outage-tops-six-hours-errors-1076-1099-worldwideflash-lite-still-answers.htm -
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Rascally
Okay, so here's my problem.
My main client's business is a pretty fairly-sized website that's been around a few years. Until this year, it was all on ASP. Just before I came onboard, they moved most of the site over to a Ruby on Rails platform on CentOS. However, a few parts of the site are still on the windows server. One of which is an idealBB installation (not even idealBB.NET). Lately, there's been nothing but problems with it. We've worked at length with the developer, but of course it basically comes down to it's a) old code, pre-.NET and not maintained anymore, and b) just kinda clunky design.
So, we were pondering moving away from idealBB to something else...anything else at this point, frankly. :| However, we don't want to lose the years of forum threads that are still around. So my question is:
- Is there anything out there right now for forum software that will import an SQL database created by idealBB...like, something that'll import the whole thing off the shelf? (I know, wishful thinking)
- Barring that, has anyone out there attempted this feat? If so, what'd you convert to? Was it even more impossible than say, forcing the entire slashdot membership to use windows 98 for the next decade or something? ;)
Any guidance/suggestions/ideas would be REALLY helpful here, guys. I figured if anyone'd have an idea, it's those of us who haunt Neowin. :)
Thanks in advance!!
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