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Other suggestions for Juri to try when PBW comes back up:

1) Clear your browser's Cache, or 2) reboot your computer.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sounds to me like it is the .plr file that is the problem, NOT the browser. Is it reasonable to play the turn again? If you can, try to upload the new .plr file.

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I can't access it either.
when I trace the IP, I get timed out.
I trace via amsterdam, london, NY, chicago and get timed out on the connection that comes after srp1-0.kttroh1-ubr2.woh.rr.com.
How does this work for you jurij? (type tracert seiv.pbw.cc in MSDOS)

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Well, it's back up now. I did something really really stupid and I'll thank everyone not to ask me about it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Juri, I have turned off auto processing so your turn should not run just yet. If you still can't get the .plr file to upload, email it to me and I'll give it a try. You don't have to withdraw from teh game, but tell me what game it is. I couldn't find it in the eariler Posts.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What did you do? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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You've spoken too much : Confess and Repent !

[ April 24, 2004, 21:53: Message edited by: trooper ]

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Send your turn by e-mail.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I brought this up already and he said he is using IE. Leave it to MS to muck up PBW for a guy.

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Maybe he should try to NOT use IE... if it doesn not work with any Version of IE it *might* be a bit rash to conclude that it will only work with IE...
Except for a few javascript commands that work only with IE (and are not recommended to use anyway) there should be no problem when using any other brother than IE.

The real problem might be, though, a corrupt database or invalid entry - undo turn only half done with some flags still set that make PBW refuse to accept a new turn, for instance. But this could only be solved by Geo himself, and may not be simple.

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Geo it is the game

3rd Cross-galaxy Transwarp access Hub

player number 1

and it is on automatic turns..

Yuri... I suggest you place the game on no auto until resolved.

Another suggestion is to email your turn to some one and your login and password to pbw ( set up a temp one )

And see if they can upload it with no problems

I will do that if you like seiv at symaptico dot ca.

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I see geo already suggested that... So it must be a good suggestion... email either of us or both of us http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I was able to log in as Juri and upload a turn, so there is no problem with the server. Of course the problem could have been server related and be rebooting it today might have fixed it. I suppose if Juri is able to upload ok now then that's what it was.

It's possible it's someting to do with the specific .plr file you are trying to upload, but I think that is unlikely. PBW doesn't do anysort of file verification, other then to make sure it has the right name. You could upload an empty file and PBW would take it if it had the right name. I can't imagine why that would cause 500 error.

Geoschmo

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In case it hasn't been said lately, thank you Geoschmo for all the work you do with PBW. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif It is perhaps the most appreciated SEIV related thing any one can do, and you do it very well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I also tried to upload "a" turn from another game that I renamed "transwarp_0001.plr"; and it worked. I guess the .plr file must be currupt in some way. I´ll redo my turn and try and upload it again.

thanks for the help.

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Ok, I did my turn again and the new .plr file generated uploads withouth any difficulty. That means that the PBW server is in some way sensitive to "corrupt" files...maybe it does some other checkig besides the name of the file..

anyways thanks for the help again. cya

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, it might be that. But did you actually try uploading your original .plr file again after the server got rebooted? If not then we can't say definitevly what the problem was. It may have been a server problem like you suspected, but only limited to your game or something. Either way though, I guess the important thing is it's working now.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Amen http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

And thanks, Geo. Are auto-turns back on?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Amen http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

And thanks, Geo. Are auto-turns back on? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not yet. I'll do that later this evening. I want to make sure everybody is caught up.

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I think PBW is down at the moment (11AM, EST, Sunday May 2nd). At least I can't get to it, maybe it's just me.

thanks,

Alarik

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I can't access the site either.

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I just got in.

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Really. Hmm. Strange. I still can't get in, and I didnt do anything to my system from late Last night to this AM, so I can't figure it would be me...but, no big deal. It's a nice day, better probably for me to go sit on the porch and have a beer in the sun, and do some relaxing out of doors anyways...I'm sure PBW will be accessible later...

thanks,

Alarik

EDIT: spelling

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[ May 02, 2004, 15:51: Message edited by: alarikf ]

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It works for me also, looks like the problem is on your side.

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It seems that PbW has taken a more active stance on its hate for Hotmail, and it currently trying to kill my account. I have recieved the five hundred kilobyte new turn for NGC5 five, count them five times so far today.

First two times in ten minutes at around five this morning, then three times in fifteen minutes just now.

Not sure what might be done about this, but it is somewhat vexing.

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We haven't changed anything in the code. I am not sure what's up with this Hotmail problem. I got several hundred email bounces again this weekend. As far as I know PBW does not attempt to resend an email if it fails the first time. Although I cannot say for sure that the service we use to send emails doesn't do that. Just like a person, once you send an email and it gets to your isp, you don't have any control over what happens then.

I don't really understand what's going on. It definetly seems limited to people with Hotmail accounts though, as far as I have heard.

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Seven times now, although since I can really only fit tow of them in the account, there's no telling how many additional times it's tried to cram one of them in there.

Still, I understand if there isn't much that can be done about it.

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Does it have anything to do with Sasser?

My hotmail has been apparently unaffected, FWIW.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">"Sasser"?

Not sure what that is.

But it's only NGC5 that's doing it right now, so it might have something to do with the game as well.

Unless we coudl follow every one all the way through, or unless I posted all the header information and someone interpreted it, we're going to have a bit of a time pinning any of that down.

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I don't know if this matters or not, but I have received two virus emails today claiming to be from admin@pbw which I know is not true.

In other words I know that pbw did not send them. I really hope that one day that the person or persons responible for these viruses and other nasty pest come into some harm. Like loosing the ability to use their fingers or something.

[ May 04, 2004, 22:18: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">"Sasser"?

Not sure what that is.

</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sasser is the Lastest Virus to be doing the rounds. Much like the MSBLast Virus, it sends packets to random IP addresses to effect other MS computers. It is not an Email Virus.

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Affects only WIN2k and WIN XP computers. Uses a bug (or deliberatly build-in feature of M$ to spy on you?) in the system, you don't need to open an email or use a browser.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I got one supposedly from Eric Flint. And I KNOW he doesn't have my email address. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

EF is a baen auther. Very good one.

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I can't open the PBW site. Page not found error.

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I'm getting the "did you get that memo?" act from PbW again.

Fortunately, two of the Proportions savegames won't fit in the inbox, so I'll just leave one in there for a day or two to take up space.

Anyone else have this issue?

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Here's another:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=011620

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm in NGC5 also, but I'm not getting any duplicate mails.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm in NGC5 also, but I'm not getting any duplicate mails. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, it isn't NGC5 or PbW itself I'm sure. NGC5 calmed down for me, but Proportions is up to eight copies now. Unfortunately a friend has been trying to get a large e-mail to me today, so I can't just let the PbW e-mails fill my box so they stop showing up.

[edit: make that nine.]

[ May 05, 2004, 20:29: Message edited by: Loser ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm in NGC5 also, but I'm not getting any duplicate mails. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, it isn't NGC5 or PbW itself I'm sure. NGC5 calmed down for me, but Proportions is up to eight copies now. Unfortunately a friend has been trying to get a large e-mail to me today, so I can't just let the PbW e-mails fill my box so they stop showing up.

[edit: make that nine.] </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You know that you can tell pbw to not send the turn with the emails right?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">yeah, but then it won't do it for any of them, and I do like getting the e-mail notifications.

(ten now)

[edit: make that thirteen]

[ May 05, 2004, 21:01: Message edited by: Loser ]

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Does anybody know if there is a way to completely disable the sending of "new turn available" emails?

Especially since starting the SJmod beta games, I'm getting pages and pages of the Messages between each check of my email.

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I've turned off the 'send me the whole turn' option and it's still popping up in my Inbox. The whole, four hundred seventy-one kilobytes of it.

I'm up to twenty now. I have been sent twenty half-meg e-mails today. I wonder if Hotmail is going to get ticked at me about this. (Not worried, of course, just curious.)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">From the PBW home page choose "My Options". There's a check box in there that should work.

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I only see the box for not including the turn file with the notification... (which I already have had unchecked for years now)

Not an option to eliminate the notifications entirely.

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I turned off the 'send turn with notificaiton' part and I'm still getting them. I'm up to twenty-five now. I don't think turning the whole thing off, which I can't find a way to do either, will stop whatever is causing my problem.

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It really looks like the god of computer chaos has decided to visit you...don't take this the wrong way, but from a bystander perspective it's almost amusing to watch this whole evolution. Maybe you offended hotmail somehow? Perhaps sacrificing a goat to the hotmail god would help? My sympathies...


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Hmm... it might have stopped. It's been a couple hours since the Last one and I'm only up to twenty-six or -seven.

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I was doing some work on it this morning. Should be ok now.

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It's just lulling you into a false sense of security.

Just wait.

You'll see.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmm...cancel the hotmail account and get a new one?