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Till I can get home and figure out what's going on.

Geoschmo

[ March 23, 2004, 16:46: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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thanks for the notice.

now hurry and finish your work quickly, so you'll be home before the game that I am in is auto-processed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

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Actually, the "under construction" message I am getting when I try to get to the website tells me that processing is probably stopped.

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I have no problem at all with the server. Working fine for me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Works for me too.

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I also have no problems.

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You all are having no problems because we got it back up before you tried it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

It was down for a bit, but we rebooted and everything looks ok now.

Geoschmo

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'Timing is everything', or so they say. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Uh oh Narf, now Geo has been assimilated by the collective! Ahh!!!

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Something Must Be Done!

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Well I stole some cells from species 8472 and upgraded my biocruiser with them, so I am safe from the Borg. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Yes time for the email paypal address to be put up so we can donate cash for the sites running or send in youre donations of RAM so it can be upgraded.

Off to do some promotion

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Heart stopping news. Then not!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">and i'm a cartoon character, so no change will stay more than two episodes unless it's part of an art upgrade.

i just love having near-invulnerability. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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They could add borg drone features in an art upgrade!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Grrrrr, I wish paypal would stop changing what ever it is they are changing that's breaking that. Anyway, I have updated the link in my signature now. It should work for donations again.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">yeah, but my creative side is in charge of that and it'd fry their poor circuits. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ February 03, 2004, 00:29: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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Thanks for updating that link - that said paypal is just upgrading its security and other features - its good but you need to keep a close eye on it.

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back down again

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Yup, 'fraid so, down. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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I can't get PBW at the moment. I'm just posting this message so i can see what time everyone else has posted to see if their Posts are current (time zone difference)
ok. my post is 6 minute after the Last one.

[ February 03, 2004, 03:59: Message edited by: Randallw ]

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Yep its down - that memory is needed pronto so send that and youre paypal contributions so we can make the PBW SEIV site more user friendly.

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Umm... I highly doubt that the memory has anything to do with it, and it certainly will do nothing in regards to the user friendliness of PBW.

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I wonder how much cash Geo would need to get a totally "state of the art" server? Considering, that he would propably buy normal computer with W2K server OS, I would say the hardware would cost no more than 2000€ (or 2000$) + the cost of the OS.

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Getting nag mails, have returnedd home and timelimits are running out.
But it doesn't accept my mailed turns it seems, I still get nag mails. And no server on-line.....

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This is what I get when I try to access the PBW site:

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Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@pbw.cc and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

============

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Another PBW breakdown ???
So I've got nothing to do during my lunch ?

Bouhouhou... why so much hate ?

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Yup it appears to be "Under Construction" at the moment.

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Sorry guys, we are down. Not sure what the problem is yet. Gonna be down for today at least until I can get with Lazarus and figure out what's causing it.

Geoschmo

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Do you think it is a Hardware issue, or a software one?

Could someone have hacked PBW and screwed it up? Or did it catch a virus? Any water drip on the Server? A power surge or sudden impact?

First try restarting it.
If that fails, follow the HP advice line and kick the computer repeatedly until toe hurts.
If that fails, load shot gun and shot PC once.

Then go buy new HP PC.

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Auto turns already off? Deadline for NGC3 is in 15 hours, and I haven't uploaded... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Or is PBW down completely, so game turns won't be executed anyway?

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it will be down.... So do not worry. Geo is very considerate of the PBW community, even in times of crisis. A very good system administrator

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Well that explains why I get an INTERNAL SERVER ERROR ( ~ 9:45 EST, Feb 3 ). At least I knew where to come for the straight information. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

So, is it getting to be time to pull a few dollars out and send them?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">YES! One of the best. Thanks for everything, Geo.

Just has to be said from time to time.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You can change the timezone (->my profile->View/Update Profile) so the message times are correct for you.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sweet! As a moderator I probably should have already known about that, but oh well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Thanks Asmala. That eliminates a source of frustration for me anyway.

[ February 03, 2004, 14:57: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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It is a brand new feature added in the Last forum upgrade. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<--- is ub4r l337 hax0rz and did white hat hax0rzing job with geo's site http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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All hail Cirvol, a gentleman and a scholar, and a veritable database wizard. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

PBW is back up and running. There may still be some minor complications. We are still running down a couple loose ends, but the server is up, accepting prompts and running turns.

Automatic turn processing will remain off for the the immediete future so people can get caught up on their games.

Geoschmo

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What was the problem?

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One of the database files got corrupted.

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Hmm, we've had a rash of that at work. Seems the latest antivirus patch went after some db files as if they were virus files.

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up again

[ February 04, 2004, 00:50: Message edited by: tesco samoa ]

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Auto turns are off. Right now the server is shut down, so it woulnd't matter anyway. But once we get it back up the auto turns will stay off so people get a chance to catch up. There is a possibility some turns ran Last night. If that happened to you, have your game owner contact us once things are working again. We can set the turn back.

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down we have a pbw server down

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Confirmed, it is down.

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Ok, should be back up now. http://seiv.pbw.cc/ will take you to a temporary redirect page. There's a message and a link there to the IP for the server. http://69.3.206.249/ ,or you can just go straight there if you prefer. A couple of days and we'll get all the ISP stuff straightned out hopefully and you'll be able to reach it straight fomr it's old address.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yup, tis up and running now. Thanks for the quick fix, Geo.

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i seem to have lost my password, could you send it to my email address, Geo? thanks.

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Narf, put your username in the box and hit the "Get Password" button. PBW will send it to your email automatically.

Geoschmo