So. the provider I'm using for my reseller account got itself taken out by a zero day exploit, which apparently wiped out their main drive and most of their backup drive.
My possibly incorrect interpretation of the email they sent out suggests that the attack was just on the one server. I'm wondering if they were silly enough to have the backup drive in the same machine or if they were just unlucky enough to have triggered the attack or had it running while doing a backup.
In Drupal 6 you could do it with hook_form_alter()s in template.php or a helpful little module called Node and Comments Form Settings. With 7...I have no idea, but apparently not quite the way I've done it before.
I survived the alpha iterations! Learned a bit but didn't end up helping much (or at all really) aside from something like a bug report and confirming a UX issue. So now we're sitting on beta1 and I feel slightly more confident putting stuff here as from memory the betas are upgradeable. Alphas are not.
[imported from livejournal and backdated]
[this post got a lot of interesting/amusing comments mostly about people apparently annoyed by my decision to use Lojban as the IAL (international auxiliary language) for AEfter Ragnarok - bit sad to lose them]