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gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:54 pm
by rob
I was so bored sitting here manning the race comms at the Adelaide V8s that I thought I'd browse gearslutz to kill some time. To my surprise it seems to have been hacked into a porn site. A strange irony...
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:03 pm
by jkhuri44
aaaaaaahahaha, awesome.
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:14 pm
by SteveL
Hahaha! Re the new 'hacked" GS site, what the hell type of sex device is a "3-Wheeled Adult Bike"? I hate to think...... (EDIT - ahh, the hacked site just refreshes with a bunch of different search terms, for a moment there I was never going to look at my Malvern Star the same way again....)
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:19 pm
by jkhuri44
swweet, might be an interesting site now?

Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:46 pm
by Chinagraf
Laugh you may, but this isn't funny.
There will be 'producas' all over the US panicking, unable to finish their mixes without someone to ask how, mic pre sales will dive because nobody can compare them all by listening to shitty online samples, no one can get opinions on gear from people who haven't actually ever used it and we won't know how much better than hardware the plugins modelled on the hardware are. etc.. I foresee dark times ahead.
So... which pre WILL give me the Neev sound for under $200?
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:00 pm
by rob
good times for cornering the roto tom market though ...
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:35 pm
by stosostu
Gearsl#ts was always a porn site, its just that it was hacked by guitar players for a while, now normal service has resumed.
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:20 pm
by obutcher
Damnit! I agree with Chinagraf, how am I now going to find a mic similar to a U87 for under $100??

Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:37 pm
by waitup
obutcher wrote:Damnit! I agree with Chinagraf, how am I now going to find a mic similar to a U87 for under $100?
You'll built it. Right, Owen?

Re: gearsl... is broken

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Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:53 pm
by obutcher
Haha, I don't expect wonders from that guy, it'll just be fun.
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:24 am
by Hybrid88
hmm... I dunno I've always found it very helpful in regards to finding about the pro stuff that can be very hard to try yourself. Sure you have to take it with a grain of salt and some members are nuts but most forums are the same or worse.
Got to say though, the whole "Slutz" aspect of it is a little sickening though - Absurd over-commercialism FTW!

Kinda funny they made it a porn site though haha
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:22 am
by Drumstruck
This looks like an inside job - the same thing happened to the Roland Vdrum forum a few months ago.......
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:49 am
by Milo
Always only went to the remote recording section, and almost always found it immensely helpful regarding info on non-standard mic setups, for example.
Most of the time, you didn't need to worry about too much blah on gear, because the core guys had the most expensive stuff (Schoeps, DPA, etc), and presumed that everyone else was aiming for the same level, so they just talked shop.
Hugely informative, and only got really ratty when someone bought up subjects like A-B blind tests - then the egos came out.
Great shame.
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:56 am
by Chris H
..................I thought it has always been broken.
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:48 pm
by The Tasmanian
me too!
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:50 pm
by HA_DA_JA
DNS cache flush will fix the problem.
Cheers
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:27 pm
by audioio
HA_DA_JA wrote:DNS cache flush will fix the problem.
How does one do that?
Anyway, It's back up but their URL rewriting isn't working.
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/australi ... utz-forum/ yields a 404 response.
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=69 works
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:15 pm
by headman
I don't think it's been hacked, it looks like they haven't paid their hosting account so their site and domain name is up for grabs.
headman
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:01 pm
by Manning
Nah, they got hacked. Apparently when they configured all of their nameservers there was a typo in one of the entries. Some spammer then registered that typo domain, then enforced a redirect.
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:02 am
by stosostu
Some folks, spammers, hackers and virus distributors seriously need to get a life in the real world.
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:29 pm
by zenelectro
stosostu wrote:Some folks, spammers, hackers and virus distributors seriously need to get a life in the real world.
Unfortunately this is the real world and it's on the increase.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/mikko_ ... e_net.htmlPretty eye opening.
cheers
Re: gearsl... is broken

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Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:10 pm
by walding
Chris H wrote:..................I thought it has always been broken.
