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Offline Wizzo

Site down today
« on: September 28, 2010, 10:08:58 PM »
Apologies to everyone who was locked out of the site today. I foolishly installed a piece of software in the background several months ago and all was well until it stopped working last week. Since then it has been intermittently causing the server to overload and shut the site down.

The auto uninstall procedure failed to work so I was forced to locate and remove the code from each individual page that was affected. So far since doing this things have remained stable and I hope it is the last we have seen of blank screens.

Thank you all for you patience and apologies once again. Rest assured if you ever see the site down you can be sure there is a wizard rushing around with his wand in his hand.

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Offline Ian

Re: Site down today
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2010, 10:15:58 PM »
It all depends on which wand,  :DD  :tease:
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Offline lkjohnson1950

Re: Site down today
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2010, 10:16:42 PM »
Most curiously, IE told me the site refused to display the webpage! It suggested I needed to log in. But, how do you log in if you can't see the log in page? Ah computers, gotta love 'em.

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Re: Site down today
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2010, 09:39:07 AM »

Good to see we are all back online, thanks Wizzo, :good: 

It was only a day but I was starting to get sweats and shakes and had to resort to breaking out the scotch and trying to finish the biography on Bernie that I have never quite got round to.  :D



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Offline cosworth151

Re: Site down today
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2010, 12:43:28 PM »
Hey now, Lonny! If it wasn't for computers, I would have had to worked at a real job all these years!  :nono:
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Re: Site down today
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2010, 04:35:31 AM »
They have so much potential and power, but they can be very frustrating.

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Re: Site down today
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2010, 09:28:14 AM »
Quote from: lkjohnson1950 on September 30, 2010, 04:35:31 AM
They have so much potential and power, but they can be very frustrating.

Lonny

Amen to that, Lonny.

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Offline Ian

Re: Site down today
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2010, 11:27:23 AM »
Lonny, be thankful that we've advanced from this.

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/eniac.htm
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Offline lkjohnson1950

Re: Site down today
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2010, 02:22:27 AM »
Ha! I've done programming with punch cards and Fortran!!

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Offline cosworth151

Re: Site down today
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2010, 04:49:30 PM »
Me too, Lonnie. I started in Fortran IV and Watfive on an IBM 360 and a Digital 1170! No keyboards or monitors. We got our output on green bar tractor paper, or from a Cal Comp plotter.
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Offline lkjohnson1950

Re: Site down today
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2010, 05:30:45 PM »
You stuck with it and I didn't. :'(

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Offline Scott

Re: Site down today
« Reply #11 on: October 03, 2010, 09:34:51 PM »
Ha, you guys aren't so old...I started with Fortran IV on pencilled in cards as well in grade 10.  We had to wait 4 days to get our results back from the university.  I think it took about 2 months to do a simple program after de-bugging it a bunch of times.  Grade 11 our school got a commodore 64.  I got my first 286 after I finished college.
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Offline Wizzo

Re: Site down today
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2010, 09:14:15 AM »
More code found yesterday which was trying to contact the manufacturers of the blasted software and it again overloaded the server when it didn't receive a reply.  >:D

All removed now so I am pretty confident we have a reliable site again, only time will tell.

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