Thorn Valley

Announcements :: Thorn Valley scheduled downtime

Author: Simon
Subject: Thorn Valley scheduled downtime
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:29 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 5

There will be some downtime starting Wednesday and probably going through Thursday where the website and muck will be down while I move to a new apartment.
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: SOPA Blackout Day

Author: Simon
Subject: SOPA Blackout Day
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:34 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 1

Today is SOPA Blackout Day. I'm not completely blacking out Thorn Valley, since I believe most of my visitors are already aware of SOPA and PIPA and its potential to damage the internet. However, in case you haven't, or you have but want to know what else you can do to help prevent this horrendous legislation from passing, here's a great link for you to check out:

http://www.apeconmyth.com/00227-super-pipa-sopa/

And if you want to make sure you representatives know that their votes could affect yours, visit http://voteforthenet.com/
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: Thorn Valley switching registrars

Author: Simon
Subject: Thorn Valley switching registrars
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:30 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 5

I'm in the process of switching my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap. GoDaddy came out in support of SOPA a while ago and while they caved under pressure from their users, I don't particularly care for other aspects of their business either. In short, it's been a long time coming, and this thing finally got my dander up enough to combat my laziness.

Anyway, you may see a bit of downtime as the transfer is in process. I'm hoping to avoid any downtime, but we'll see.

Edit: Okay, thornvalley.com has switched to the new provider. There was some downtime while DNS switched along with it (should've used a third party DNS, ah well), but everything should be back to normal.
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: New Art

Author: Simon
Subject: New Art
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 12:44 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 0

I've uploaded some more art from Henny, who keeps providing me with absolutely gorgeous pics of NIMH backgrounds. I've also uploaded some art from Michael B... almost 2 years after he'd emailed me the pics. x.x Oh well, better late than never.
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: Fan Art Gallery commenting for logged-in users only

Author: Simon
Subject: Fan Art Gallery commenting for logged-in users only
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 3:06 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 0

Due to some abuse of the fan art gallery comments by spammers, I've restricted posting comments to logged-in users only. The fan art gallery user system is separate from the forum's, so if you haven't, you'll need to register there to comment. I'm hoping to have a future system that will unify the various posting things under one user account, but don't hold your breath.
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: Scheduled downtime for Thorn Valley

Author: Simon
Subject: Scheduled downtime for Thorn Valley
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:27 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 0

I'm in the process of transferring ThornValley.com to another registrar. You may be briefly unable to access the website, though I hope to have things straightened out as quickly as possible. I'll post again when the domain has been transferred successfully.
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: Scheduled downtime for Thorn Valley!

Author: Simon
Subject: Scheduled downtime for Thorn Valley!
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:07 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 5

Thorn Valley will be going down sometime tomorrow (Saturday, Dec 13) in
order for me to prepare to move out of my apartment for graduation. Sorry to do this to you folks again, but there's no way I can avoid this one. Look for the website to be back up and hopefully improved around the new year!
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: New Backgrounds section in the Studio Art gallery

Author: Simon
Subject: New Backgrounds section in the Studio Art gallery
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:38 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 2

Hey everyone.

It's been a while since updates... No, I haven't given up on Thorn Valley; it just seems to handle itself just fine most of the time. I still have that revamp that I'm working on, though; I'll probably release that sometime in January.

Anyway, here's the big news: Henny v. d. K. (from the Netherlands) has graciously submitted a fine selection of gorgeous background images from the Secret of NIMH, which you can see here: http://www.thornvalley.com/gallery/fan/v/studio/backgrounds/

There may be more where that came from, too.

Also, I made a minor tweak to gallery that most people should welcome: clicking on a scaled-down image takes you to the full-sized version and vice versa now.

Anyway, until next update, [insert witty saying here]!
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: Thorn Valley is BACK!

Author: Simon
Subject: Thorn Valley is BACK!
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:45 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 4

As you may have noticed, Thorn Valley is now back to normal once more. I received the new hardware a couple days ago. I was able to install a new motherboard, CPU and Memory, and after a small amount of reconfiguration, the server was back up to speed.

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to those of you that donated money to help offset the cost of the new hardware. With the funds raised ($180 total), I was able to get not just replacement hardware, but *good* replacement hardware that should fill the needs of this site for some time to come. Again, thank you!

For those of you who are curious, here are the specs of the new hardware:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (dual core)
MSI K9NBPM2-FID AM2 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Memory

In short, if you thought Thorn Valley was faster after the move, it's screaming now. If you notice Thorn Valley being slow, it's almost certainly a network issue.
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: Thorn Valley has Moved!

Author: Simon
Subject: Thorn Valley has Moved!
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:58 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 1

If you can read this message, then Thorn Valley's move has been completed. Please let me know if there's anything out of sorts.

Known Bugs
None.

Fixed Bugs
These bugs have been fixed. Please let me know if you notice anything not working as they should.

Email currently doesn't work for all things, so registrations may not work immediately. Please contact me if you need any help. (Fixed: Installed an MTA that should do what I need)
The Studio Art gallery is temporarily offline, due to an incompatibility with PHP5. I'll try to upgrade it soon. (Fixed: moved the studio art stuff into a sub-album of the Fan Art Gallery. The Fan Art gallery will become the main gallery for everything from now on.)

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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: THORN VALLEY IS MOVING SOON!

Author: Simon
Subject: THORN VALLEY IS MOVING SOON!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:28 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 13

Many of you know that I've been planning to move to a new server with better capacity and so forth. This is still going to happen.

What most of you don't know is that I've lost my favorable hosting situation. My server is currently hosted at my dad's place of work; however, he is going to be laid off in the first part of August. This leaves me in something of a pickle, since I'm not sure where I'll be able to put the server now.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to find someone with a good connection in the area that wouldn't mind sharing it with me for a meager amount of money, but I'm not sure how well that'll work out. As a last resort, I can host it on my cable internet connection, however, this is likely to be much less reliable and possibly even slower, despite the upgraded server. BTW, if anyone lives in the Utah Valley area of Utah, and has some leads on cheap hosting for my server, or if you have a place I can host about 6-7 websites with moderate-low traffic and a /lot/ of disk space, plus a MUCK server, PLEASE contact me!

I have already made backups of the websites hosted on Thorn Valley, and I can't guarantee that posts, art, or whatever made after July 20 will be included in the server move after this point. If you decide to post anything, be sure to have backup copies if it's important to you.

Thanks for your patience in this minor crisis.
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: Final chapters of Secret of the Stone uploaded

Author: Simon
Subject: Final chapters of Secret of the Stone uploaded
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:54 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 6

I have uploaded the long-awaited conclusion to the excellent fanfic, The Secret of the Stone. Check it out!

http://www.thornvalley.com/library/stories/sots/
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: New forums and new Fan Art Gallery rules

Author: Simon
Subject: New forums and new Fan Art Gallery rules
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:08 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 0

As you may have noticed, I've added two new forums, the Roleplaying forum and the Fan Art Discussion forum. Both of these have been requested before, and I think we're to the point where they'd be useful and fun to have.

I've also made a public page containing the rules for the Fan Art Gallery. If you are an artist that posts art here, please be sure to read them:
http://www.thornvalley.com/gallery/rules.php
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: Unofficial Secret of NIMH FAQ

Author: Simon
Subject: Unofficial Secret of NIMH FAQ
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:46 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 0

I've started an unofficial Secret of NIMH FAQ based on some of the questions I've received most often:
http://www.thornvalley.com/help/nimhfaq.php

Also, I've added a link to the image touchup tutorial to the site itself; can't believe I forgot to do that.
http://www.thornvalley.com/gallery/tutorials/cleanup/

Since I'm on winter break, I'm hoping to have time to do a few cool things for Thorn Valley as well, so stay tuned!
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/

Announcements :: New Image Touchup tutorial - especially for artists

Author: Simon
Subject: New Image Touchup tutorial - especially for artists
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:43 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 6

In an effort to help those who scan and post their art (especially on the Fan Art gallery) without the use of computerized inking or coloring, I have created the following tutorial on how to fix common problems with scanned art:

http://www.thornvalley.com/gallery/tutorials/cleanup/

Look forward to new tutorials coming soon!
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Simon -- Website Admin
http://www.thornvalley.com/