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The server is down. the whole city got hit with a momenty power glitch of some kind and we are having a little trouble getting it working right. The hardware is up and all, so I don't anticipate any long downtime. Some sort of file error, something got corrupted. We are working on it. It may be down all day though. If it's down more than a few hours I will turn off autoprocessing before bringing it back up so nobody misses there turns or anything.

Geoschmo
PBW Admin Team

[ September 20, 2002, 14:13: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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Ah, that's why I couldn't upload my newest turn.
Hope it's back Online soon.

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Ok folks. Sorry to say it but it's looking like this is a bit more serious than I first thought. We may be down for a couple days.

The good news is that your turns will not process without you, and all indications are the data is sound. I don't expect we will lose any games or anything. It's just going to take a little time to figure out exactly what is causing the problem. Once we get it everything shuld be back to normal.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I bet you the problem is squirrels. I have had some awful problems with squirrels.

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Or it could be mice!

I know, I know...terrible joke http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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no, squirrels are far more problematic examples of rodentia than mice..

You can hear the little buggers as they chew through your cables, "neep neep neep" the little furry swine go "neep neep neep" as they twitch their little noses at you and then flirt those ridiculous furry tails

bastardos, the lot of them

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The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

(tbontob runs around in circles)

What are we going to do the next few days?

We may actually have to spend some time communicating with each other! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ September 20, 2002, 17:37: Message edited by: tbontob ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Could it be a kid brother pulling your chain? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Like "Ma, he won't let me on the computer?" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Well... I guess I won't have to worry about missing turns while I move off to college then. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Let me guess...one of the sciences... Computer Science? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ September 20, 2002, 19:30: Message edited by: tbontob ]

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Beware of the them...

www.scarysquirrel.org

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Ninga's Cut off Squirrels Heads all the time

http://www.realultimatepower.net/

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You guys are beginning to scaaare me! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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In some countries, they showcase squirrels in zoos. In some countries, squirrels are national symbols of folklore. In some countries, seeing a squirrel is almost equivalent to seeing an angel.

In some countries, squirrels come into your house, desecrate your living room and eat crackers.

Death to the squirrel.

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You guys always get so strange when PBW is down.

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Like a small gray
coffee pot
sits the squirrel.

The Gray Squirrel [1924] stanza 1 by Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Help us George...we is goin crazy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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All I want is frickin' squirells with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. Is that too much to ask!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think the squirrel may think so. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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http://www.threebrain.com/weeeeee.shtml

(Be patient - the squirrels show up)

Binford

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">OH NO, the squirrels who say "neep"

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PBW down ????

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif hope you'll fix it...

[ September 21, 2002, 01:58: Message edited by: Murden ]

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The server going was worth it after looking at that ninja page and the weeeeee.

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Dang! I have a feeling this is my fault! I told Geoschmo that I was gonna donate some money to him for the PBW site, using my wife's PayPal account. But being the slackard I am, I put it off. He ain't got squirrels or rats. It's gremlins! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif They jumped from my computer into his.

http://www.vidavision.com/entertainm...gremlins-2.jpg

Don't believe me? Just ask Stripe. He got all pissed about being killed off in the PBW game "Junkyard Wars II". He is swearing vengeance, and I think he had a hand in it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

http://www.vidavision.com/entertainm...s/gremlin2.jpg

Seriously, I have 2 computers at home, and 8 in my office. This week, I lost 2 hard drives, 2 mother Boards, and a CDROM drive for no darn reason! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif That repair bill is getting expensive! Now what do you think the problem is? Ain't no darn squirrels, their too busy gathering nuts for the cold winter here in the states. My problems stopped mid-morning, about the time I could no longer access the PBW site. I had took the covers off all my computer cases today and didn't find a single one. They were now on the prowl. When I got home, I fully expected to find the dog hanging outside and the cat in the washing machine. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif But to my surprise, all was in order. Now I just read what happened on PBW. I know it's them, because he is in Ohio, and I'm in Indiana. That ain't to far for those critters to travel ina day.

I'm sorry, Geoschmo, hope you can forgive me. I'll throw in a little extra cash when you get the server back up. Honestly! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Guess I will use this time to reaquaint myself with my family. Maybe I will actually seriously make my own Gremlin shipset. Found some help at this site.

http://www.vidavision.com/entertainm...izmo/index.htm

Hmmm.....

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Hey, I was about to submit an Adamant 005 turn, i hope it didn't process, i guess its my fault for procrastinating damn!

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I hope it didn't process too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Y'know, there's a "Squirrel Riot" mod for Myth II...

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I've been saying it all along...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ahhhh...but assume the squirrel eats 20 grams of peanuts (about 3/4 of an ounce)

By my calculations:

E=(1/50kg)(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 1 megaton nuclear bomb.

The squirrel should fear the peanut! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">George help us! We are all going squirrelly! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ September 21, 2002, 17:00: Message edited by: tbontob ]

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PBW Down...

There is an unbearable emptiness in my soul. I shall sit here staring blankly into the empty vacuum of my laptop.

By the way my $20 is out the door today, out of nothing but guilt for not having acted sooner. Perhaps if we have all acted in time, we could have had the exterminators on scene to prevent this travesty.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This failure is not for lack of money. It's just one of those things that happens sometimes. We are working to get it resolved.

Geoschmo

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Geo-

I know... hey I was just fooling around a bit.

Regardless; I really have sent the donation and (quit procrastinating about it). The PBW team is the tops and deserves it.

Speedy recovery,
Stoney

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George, I would like to sent you 20 grams of peanuts. Errr..no, acorns? Oh, you know what I mean!

In a previous thread (PBW needs you!), I vaguely remember you giving the payee for the cheque as "Mr. George Perley" and your address. Let's see if I can remember...

Mr. George Perley
20 Acorn Grove
Acornville, ND
United States of Acorn

No, that doesn't seem right...

Mr. George Perley
30 Squirrel Runway
Squirrelville, ND
United Squirrels of America.

No, that also doesn't seem right....

George, why don't you give us your address, so that us slackards will have no excuse for not sending you a cheque if we do not like paypal.

Hey guys, George is not asking for much! $5.00, if we can spare it (see "PBW needs you!"). For those who have not read it, I'll bump the thread to the top of the list.

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Fyron how are you holding out... With the PBW down... I figure you have an extra 2 to 3 hours of time every day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Geo _ I am gonna have a spare HP Colorado 20 GB Tape Drive fairly soon - do you happen to need one for PBW?

Also, any update on the problem? Just curious... Never seen you guys have an outage this long so I'm guessing it's a doozy...

Binford

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HeLP Me!! i'M JoNeS'N BaD! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Seriously, I'm going nuts. Getting a lot done on my mod though...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

I moved to college today, so I haven't really noticed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You know actually I have been pricing those the Last couple of days. What were you looking to get for it? A good backup regimen would have made this a little less painful. It's on the priority list to get taken care of once we are back up and running.

We hope to have it back up by Monday. Can't be certain. Something in the code got fouled up and we are scrambling trying to fix it.

Geoschmo

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Geo, I have a spare iomegazip 100Mo here.
If you want it for PBW, I can send it by postmail. If you are interested, send me an email with your post adress at arthur.middleton@tetragone.fr
Got a few cartriges with it as well.

All that is not used anymore since I make backups on RW cdroms.

ooops forgot to tell : it's an USB device.

LAST NEW : I also have a cd-writer. The problem we had with it is that cd-rom written with it could only be read from this device. So for our business it became useless. But we never had these problems with RW-cdrom, which could be read from any device. Should you need it it is yours as well.

[ September 22, 2002, 03:13: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

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I will donate it to the cause. Been meaning to send some $ in via paypal once I get caught up on things (7 months unemployed! - started back to work 9/3) but I can do that much sooner in lieu of cash if you'd like it.

I only have one tape for it, but there's nothing wrong with it. It just doesn't work with Arkeia unfortunately.

E-mail me direct an address and I'll ship it out when I get a chance to bring that svr down - might be a couple of weeks though.

Binford

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That's fine, both of you. We have to do something, but we haven't decided what format to use for backups yet. We will let you know. Thank you both for your generous offers.

Geoschmo

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Bah you people still use TAPE s ?? WOW !!
I havent used tape in like 4years LOL ..

I like my 80gig USB portable Diskdrive) MUCH faster.

and they arent much $ i leave mine sit here near my pc and when i want to back up i turn it on and back up .. although im sure you can get it to auto somehow.

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oh doh reason for being here and posting is figures i would be getting ready to try out the PBW and there isnt no PBW ( ..

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Hey did any body notice that PBW is down?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Are you trying to be funny? 'Cause I think some people suffering PBW withdrawl might want to hit you with a wet noodle.

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All:

I'm happy to announce that PBW is no longer down. I'm going to open a new thread to make the announcement more obvious. Please try to go easy on the server the next couple days, just to be certain http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Eric/UI Guy

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Arrrgh! That's like throwing a sh** load of chocolate down in front of a bunch of starving men and saying, "Don't touch!" You are cruel and evil! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Okay, I will stay off and just await my emails. I suggest PBW be left on "after Last player upload" for the next couple days, as well.

Kim

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Kim,

No, go ahead and use the server; we want to tax it *some* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Just don't suddenly add twenty new games is what I meant http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Eric