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I am unable to log in, does any one have the IP address for PBW?

[ August 21, 2003, 00:36: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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I think it is down again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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http://66.134.102.75/graphic/index.jsp

but it is still down

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I wonder if donation are down again?

And this has to happend right when I was about to launch my attack against the Borg! This is not fair! It just isn't fair.

Here to hoping it is back up soon.

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down.

definitely down.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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4:45 EST

Still down

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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It's up. Isp's just having a bad night apparently.

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Atrocities, please edit your intial post (thread title). "PBW Done?" just about made me faint.

As I understood 'done' like in finished, over, history...

Rollo

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This parrot is no more.

[ July 23, 2003, 15:15: Message edited by: oleg ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Uh, oleg? I think you need to adjust your universal translator. That Last message came out garbled. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Geoschmo

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Sometimes when I get "connection time out" I imagine dead parrot sketch. Just replace parrot with web site name and shop owner with network service provider http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[John Cleese]
Heeeeelllooooooo, Polllllyyyyy!

Awaykey Waykey!

This is your 9 o'clock alarm call!

Now this is an ex-parrot!

[pause]

[shopkeeper]
He's stunned!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hehe Me too!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Is PBW having problems mailing out turns? I went to up load a turn for a game and notice that 2 of my other games were waiting for turns from me that I never got e-mailed.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">When did those turns process? We were having some email problems yesterday. If that's when the turns ran that's probably why you didn't get them.

Geoschmo

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PBW down right now?

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Or not, sorry.

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Figures. ISP down Last night, PBW down today. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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It's down at the moment. ISP problems. Server is fine. Should be back momentarily.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Well we reset the hardware and chacked the cables at our end, which fixes it 9 times out of ten. But I guess this is the tenth. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Got a call in to the help desk for the ISP. They are working on it. No eta right now, but these things rarely take very long. Still could be back up any minute.

Geoschmo

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Hmm........Must be something going around. Mine was down all morning. ISP was was tripping the fire wall for hours with ICMP traffic. Now I'm back up and still haven't had any responce to my call to the tech line.

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Dunno, but my firewall is moanign and *****ing about near-constant pings (most of 'em form one IP#) this morning.

And I can't open PBW, either. 8P

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At this rate, it looks like I might actually have to get another life tonight!

(or else just bombard the forum with nonsense http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif )

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You could take this opportunity to download the mod selector program and practice using mods. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You could take this opportunity to download the mod selector program and practice using mods. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I suppose I could read up on how to install and use the mod picker. However, the mod in question is on PBW...so... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">True, but you could use another mod as practice. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ August 01, 2003, 18:37: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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I hope the autoprocessing is off. Otherwise I could miss a turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ August 01, 2003, 19:34: Message edited by: Asmala ]

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i heard it was down because you finally decided to clean the garage. Well thats what his neighbours say.

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p.s. what are you going to do with all those scott baio dolls , alf dolls and smurfs...

Yard sales only go so far.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's not now, but I will turn it off when I get home. If your turn was due to run in the Last few hours you missed it. But you can get your game owner to reset it. I am sure we am going to be bombarded with such requests this weekend.

Geoschmo

EDIT: And Tesco, I told you for the Last time. I don't care how much you whine, you CANNOT have my Joanie loves Chachi lunch box!!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ August 01, 2003, 20:12: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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Hey Geoschmo! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

What does happen when PBW is "down" and then is "up"? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Are all the games automatically put on ALPU?

And if so, what happens after that?

Specific questions which I have are:

1) Is the time reset?

2) Does it stay on ALPU till the Last player submits his turn or until a certain time has elapsed whichever comes first?

3) When is the game taken off ALPU?

4) Does the game host have an input on when the game is taken off ALPU? If so, what can he do?

Hoping you can shed some light on this. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif As I am completely in the dark. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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If the server itself goes down the turns will not run. However, right now the server is up and running fine blissfully unaware that no one can reach it to upload their turns because of the ISP problems. So it's has been processing any games set to fully automatic turns that expired today during the tiem when you could not reach the website. Any games set to ALPU are fine as they will run as normal and not process until everyone is able to get their turn in.

Once I get home I can get on the server and turn off the automatic processing. What this will do is cause all games that are set to Fully Automatic to function exactly like a game that is set to ALPU. Once the website is accessible again if everybody in the game uploads or emails in their turn the turn will process. But from the point when I am able to turn off auto proc no turns will process simply because of the turn timeout.

If your game processed today during the timeout you can talk to your game owner about setting the turn back. If he is saving the turn files he can do this himself. If he is not he will have to contact us to send him the files or set the turn back for him.

In a couple days barring no more problems I will turn the auto proc back on and things will be back to normal. This will give every one a chance to get caught up on their games before the start running in fully automatic mode.

The time on the server will not be changed. That is not necessary at all.

Geoschmo

[ August 01, 2003, 20:49: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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Thanx Geoschmo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

You have my vote for administrator extraordinaire. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ August 01, 2003, 21:59: Message edited by: tbontob ]

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I, too, would like to re-iterate my thanks to Geoschmo for his tireless efforts.

And, I would like to suggest that people make a small contribution (or a large one!) via Paypal to offset his costs.

Geoshmo, I have tried to make an additional contribution but when I hit submit it doens't process. Has anyone else had this problem? Maybe it's my PC??

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That wouldn't be a reserved address that maps to a router named Blackhole and located in Southern California would it?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's not now, but I will turn it off when I get home. If your turn was due to run in the Last few hours you missed it. But you can get your game owner to reset it. I am sure we am going to be bombarded with such requests this weekend.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The turn which I was worried ran three hours ago so I missed it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Geo, can you guess who's the game owner of that game? Right, you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I'm speaking about 2024 which is luckily my only fully automatic -game.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ditto

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Please Mr. Geoschmo, can PBW come out to play? 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">Sad to say, but I would think a fair number of games are going to have to be turned back. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

I have three turns in a holding pattern for 6,45 and 170 minites and are about to run out of fuel.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">knock knock

"Yes, boys, what is it?"

"Mrs. Taylor, can Jimmy come out and play baseball with us?"

"Why boys, you know Jimmy doesn't have any arms and legs..."

"Oh, we know that, Mrs. Taylor. We just need him for 2nd base. We'll bring him back when we're done with him."

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Sorry, just remembered a joke from when I was about 8 years old. Back when there was no such thing as politically correct. (I just knew I was going to get into trouble tonight since PBW was down... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif )

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Geo, I'm a week behind in several different games, and this isn't helping matters any!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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OK. so PBW is down, its not my fault, its not GeoSchmo's fault... Who do I blame http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif and more importantly how do I contact a certain someone about the turn files I need for the game I'm administrating? THX 4 the Hlp

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at least it is not me this time.... As I used to have a habit of bringing bad luck to the server... Look at the old Posts...

P.S. I still secertly like when it goes down for a while...

Geo you should do some os upgrades http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Don't change any hard drives

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Any ETA on the server or updates/infos about the situation? Need a new hard disk - or a shotgun for your ISP?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Heheh, at least I get to live a little longer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Ah! An evil plot to stop me killing you!
Now, that I have just produced my first deathstars full of... ahem, wrong game. Well, anyway, I just produced something. Frigates I think. Or were they called escorts? Anyway, full of deadly - what was it... trying to remember... class 1 handlasers? Has been such a long time...

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Actually, kinda surprised Geo hasn't posted an update. He's usually good about that sort of thing. So....it must be sooooo bad, he's scared to tell us...gulp... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif .

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or worse, with the long weekend, technicians may not be available to repair it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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Geo?

Can you at least tell us if you turned the Automatic off?