New & raw web based Dominion II game server - Page 34

Esben Mose Hansen · #**331** July 4th, 2004, 04:35 PM

Power cord was out of the wall. My wife was so kind as to put it back; and I have just finished restarting all the games. Check your turns have been uploaded, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Norfleet · #**332** July 4th, 2004, 08:40 PM

The power cord fell out of the wall? I recommend the use of duct tape to help prevent such problems in the future. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

#**333** July 5th, 2004, 01:51 AM

Is anybody else having trouble accessing the server at the moment?

Zapmeister · #**334** July 5th, 2004, 03:33 AM

The game Semiblitz is quickhost only (no timeout) populated only by anonymous players (except one) was created on April 8 and is apparently at turn 1.

Is this game defunct?

Huzurdaddi · #**335** July 5th, 2004, 03:54 AM

Quote:

The power cord fell out of the wall? I recommend the use of duct tape to help prevent such problems in the future. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Where do you get this stuff? Brilliant!!!

Quote:

Is this game defunct?

Ohh an open slot? Dear god that would be great!

Norfleet · #**336** July 5th, 2004, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Huzurdaddi:
Where do you get this stuff? Brilliant!!!

Duct tape can fix anything. If your problem can't be fixed by duct tape, you're either not using enough, or you're using it wrong.

Zapmeister · #**337** July 5th, 2004, 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Norfleet:

quote:
Originally posted by Huzurdaddi:
Where do you get this stuff? Brilliant!!!

Duct tape can fix anything. If your problem can't be fixed by duct tape, you're either not using enough, or you're using it wrong.

But to answer the question, the quote should have been attributed to Carl Zwanzig (see http://www.koolpages.com/hokuspokus/ductape.html )

Norfleet · #**338** July 5th, 2004, 06:14 PM

THE SYSTEM IS DOWN!

It's very strange, because the webserver itself appears to be up, and it reports that all the games are "in progress", but the game ports do not respond, and a telnet probing reports a connection refused, as if the games were down, except that they're reported as up.

Norfleet · #**339** July 5th, 2004, 07:23 PM

It seems to have gone away now. What caused it?

Esben Mose Hansen · #**340** July 5th, 2004, 07:46 PM

The cause was me. I had just recompiled the newest and greatest kernel, which would enable me to finally do a decent multithreaded profiling to show once and for all that fork() is more effective than threads...

well, anyway, I had a session open for each of my three linuxboxes. I wanted to reboot the one ---- but mistakenly wrote

code:
reboot

in the other. :-(

Norfleet: Duct tape is great, but has one flaw: It costs too much. Otherwise, it's great for crying children. (For babies, use the cheap stuff. ) [joke]