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Oh, heh. Thanks for catching that one Georgig. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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If it's not down yet, it could be soon. Kick it. It's doing wierd stuff like showing "turn due" when they're uploaded and vice-versa.

Turin

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It could be interesting for game owners:

It's possible to submit nonexistent file instead of plr file. The new turn will be generated, but game will fail to open it, and then you quit, it'll show you "Access violation at address..." error message.
Example: in the Upload Your Turn page I pasted a string with a wrong path to the plr file into the textfield. Server accepted it (bad!) as a 0 byte file, and made incorrect turn file.

Just in case you'll have such problems in the future, you know there to find now.

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Never mind, it back up.

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Can't connect to PBW.

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I am at work and will not be able to look at it for another 7 hours...

Hopefully another admin will notice before then.

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server up and running right now... thanks to whoever fixed the problem http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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ISP was down for a bit this morning. Server was fine, just couldn't connect to the internet. By the time I realized there was a problem, it was fixed.

Re: PBW status
 

Well, thanks for nothing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Hey, wait a second...

Lisif Deoral
#314149 - 11/29/04 11:17 AM

geoschmo
#314234 - 11/29/04 09:17 PM

narf poit chez BOOM
#314255 - 11/29/04 11:21 PM

Geoschmo's psychic! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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Hmmm, I don't get it Narf. Perhaps I'm missing something??

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Narf, actually it was me who stole and then ate Posts #314150-314233 and #314235-314254 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

they were not tasty http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

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Is the server down?

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Seems down for me, too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Ya, it loaded some menus/frames at 7, but not the full page. Now its dead.

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Dammit, I was going to upload my turn, unless it comes back up in 10 min the turn will autocycle!

I couldn't do it earlier cause my internet is down until monday. Dammit.

<edit> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA it came back up at 7:33 and my turn was due at 7:34!!!!!!!!!!! Cool, looks like the site has a new layout!</edit>

Brian

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Whoopee!

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Also, since you're changing the forum -- the "game forum" option cuts off the right side of the frame by an inch. Plus, I kind of liked the color-coded scheme that told me which games had their files uploaded already... now I have to squint at text and read.

My suggestion would be a big red/green light at the top of the window, customizable, that would turn on or off depending on whether or not you needed to upload files. Also, I would like to be able to download all turn files from all games at once in uncompressed format, so I don't have to bother going through a dozen winzip windows everytime I want to play and don't have to click on every one of my games.

<edit> Strange I go back and the pbw doesn't have that new look that it had in the internet cafe. I must have clicked text based PBW </edit>

Brian

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Is it down?

EDIT: Its back.

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ISP has been having some hiccups the Last few weeks. Nothing serious, just goes offline for a few minutes to an hour every few days. The only reason I'm concerned at all is because prior to this we've had no problems at all since we switched to the cable form the DSL. Hopefully it's just temporary and not a sign of things to come. Anyway, that's the reason for the Last few incidents. Server has been running fine.

Brian, yah, we haven't made any changes recently and have no immediete plans to make forum changes. Probably you are right and you just clicked on the text UI.

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Down again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Yeah. Just within the Last 10 minutes. Right as I'm ready to upload of course...

Turin

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Me too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Another burp! Back up!

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Ok. it should be back up now.

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Thanks Geo, as always.

Turin

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Error I've never seen before. I get to the upload screen then I get an error message on the upload of the file.

Strange!

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Down again...

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Seems ok to me.

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I wasn't hallucinating, but its back now.

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It goes down from time to time for a few minutes to an hour occationally. Now if it is down for more than an hour, then I begin to worry. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Is it just the connection that's being lost? Or is the server actually down during these times?

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I've only had to kick the server one time in the Last few weeks. Every other one of these brief outages was a short ISP glitch.

Geoschmo

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Having some ISP issues again this morning. Servers fine, we just can't reach it. Should be back up shortly.

Geoschmo

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I'm having some difficulty with PBW. I just uploaded a turn, and then tried to enter another page on the PBW site....and nothing happened. There was no error message or anything, but it would not give me access to anything. It just sat there, doing nothing. I've tried both the text and graphic sites, but they both give me the same thing. It's like they just don't like me right now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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Hmmm...just tried with IE, and it lets me in, while Firefox doesn't http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Ok, no problem anymore. Must have been on my end the whole time.

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Hmm... now I can't access PBW with either Firefox OR IE... what was that IP address again? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Yes, PBW seems down.

Heh heh.

Brian

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I just hope autoprocessing is off. Osshod's deadline is soon...

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down :| Luckily i upped my turns just before it went down http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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69.81.92.216

It's back up now.

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Um... it appears to be spamming out an endless series of turns for the Limited Resources 3 (pairs) game now...

Or at least, my email inbox is filling up with them...

yikes!

PvK

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Looks like maybe just 30 copies of the same turn, all sent at 11:30...

PvK

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Hmm, no, they're still coming. They just all say they're from 11:30...

PvK

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Pvk, I restarted the server. Let me know if you are still getting spammed.

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Thanks Geo. However, they still seem to be coming. About one every five minutes, maybe.

PvK

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Pvk. Are you still getting them? If so, can you check with the other players in that game and see if they are getting spammed too?

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I haven't recieved any e-mails from Limited Resources 3, perhaps because I don't have the turn attached to e-mails setting on?

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I am still getting them - looks like over 150 overnight, at 250KB each. I can write to the other players and ask.

PvK

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They're all still dated 11:30 on Tuesday, too...

... I wonder if PBW sent a million of them at once to some poor mail server that is dutifully sending them all out one at a time, even though PBW might have stopped sending them. Or does PBW set the time-stamp on turn files artificially to the time the turn was generated?

PvK