Xantiaman's Blog

XantiaMan · Unread post by **XantiaMan** » 07 Feb 2010, 20:32

LOL. The original Xantiaman made a post about 6 years ago, just the one, and never came back. I'd get shot of him

May just change it to GarethK, that will confuse people!

Unread post by **myglaren** » 07 Feb 2010, 20:36

If he hasn't been back in six years his membership may justifiably be revoked.

Problem is I don't know how the database would react to that, you could lose your post count and end up as him with just the one post.

We can try it and see but no guarantees are offered or implied. Customer services staff have all resigned.

XantiaMan · Unread post by **XantiaMan** » 07 Feb 2010, 20:41

myglaren wrote:If he hasn't been back in six years his membership may justifiably be revoked.

Problem is I don't know how the database would react to that, you could lose your post count and end up as him with just the one post.

We can try it and see but no guarantees are offered or implied. Customer services staff have all resigned.

I'm no expert, but if the original was deleted and then mine edited, shouldnt affect my post count or anything else. Been a while since i was admin on a forum!

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 07 Feb 2010, 20:44

Delete xantiaman completely and then rename Gareth's account to Xantiaman. Alternatively, rename xantiaman to something else and then rename Gareth's usermane to Xantiaman...

The act of deletion completely removes all trace of the user and any posts made by that user will appear to be from the user "guest"

Your post count and etc will be unaffected by a username change Gareth. Note that you will use your new name to log in after the change is made. so liaise with either Steve, Xac or I when you want the deed done...

Names are just for human convenience as far as the database is concerned. It does not actually use them. In the database we're all just numbers. We have no names

The number the database knows you as does not change even if you change your name.

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 07 Feb 2010, 20:50

I'm doing the deed for Gareth now...

XantiaMan · Unread post by **XantiaMan** » 07 Feb 2010, 20:55

Sorted

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 07 Feb 2010, 20:58

XantiaMan wrote:Sorted

And proved to be sorted!

Xaccers · Unread post by **Xaccers** » 07 Feb 2010, 21:06

XantiaMan wrote:Sorted

You just need to update the block title in the first post

Unread post by **myglaren** » 07 Feb 2010, 21:12

Didn't fancy landing you with another Father Ted fiasco Jim, hence that tentative approach

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 07 Feb 2010, 21:14

myglaren wrote:hence that tentative approach

No worries, pencils have erasers, databases have backups

Learned a lot from the Father Ted episode just how the database hung together so it was valuable.

XantiaMan · Unread post by **XantiaMan** » 07 Feb 2010, 21:22

Updated.

Tell you what, this thread really does tell a story. Quite sad seeing the pictures from the beginning, and all the improvements made.

andmcit · Unread post by **andmcit** » 10 Feb 2010, 23:36

Dejavu:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/citroen-xantia-19 ... 0550926816

Sl4yer · Unread post by **Sl4yer** » 10 Feb 2010, 23:49

Unbelievable!

James

Deanxm · Unread post by **Deanxm** » 11 Feb 2010, 00:07

im confused Andrew, is that Xantiaman's Active picture on that ebay listing for a 1.9TD? its late but im sure it was.

D

citrov6 · Unread post by **citrov6** » 11 Feb 2010, 01:34

how is your st220 comparing to a v6 xant, beside newer?