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dumbluck · #1 August 4th, 2001, 07:17 AM

and without any graphics! no big bullet, no message icons, no read or unread x and checkmarks, nothing!

wazzupwitdat?

And no, it's not my connection. Cable modem, on at midnight, and all other web sites (ie PBW) load fine.

Atrocities · #2 August 4th, 2001, 02:57 PM

It was down this morning for a while.

#3 August 4th, 2001, 04:47 PM

I think it was my post in OT=How does Shrapnel Stay In Business -composed yesterday :
Hmm. I may be insensitive, but THAT finally got through to me - a flame!
I cannot resist one more Amiga comment - see :
IEEE Spectrum - about Amiga
1) I had copied the post and typed up a response offline, but when I went Online to post I kept getting "Web Site Not Responding" "504 Connection Timed Out". All other sites I checked worked fine.
2) When I finally got through, half the thread was missing, including the flame and my remarks that preceded it.
3) It seemed likely to me that the two were connected, so I got off again and thought about things a while.
4) I will not post any more of my crackpot opinions.
5) I sincerely apologize to Shrapnel and all its customers for any inconvenience my uninhibited remarks posted at this site may have caused.
6) I will post only when I have something of value to the other SE IV gamers to contribute.
7) I tried to get through for over 4 hours. Then I got "Web Site Not Responding" "502 Connection Failed".
8) I went to bed and just got up to check it - got through.
I am really truly SORRY....
PS - The number Posts on that thread goes up, but the Last post is always the same...

disabled · #4 August 4th, 2001, 07:20 PM

I believe a section of the internet is currently offline while they try purging the sircam virus

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HADRIAN AVENTINE
pacea@solar-outpost.com
http://www.hyperionbase.com

Atrocities · #5 August 4th, 2001, 07:36 PM

Hadrian, why did you shut down your web site?

If you don't want to talk about it, thats fine, I'll respect that.

Its just good to know that your still around.

Richard · #6 August 4th, 2001, 10:34 PM

You did not cause any problems, our problems are that we have a sh*tty OS in NT and an even sh*ttier web service in IIS 4

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Working on it though...

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Sarge is coming...

Richard Arnesen
Director of Covert Ops
Shrapnel Games
http://www.shrapnelgames.com

#7 August 4th, 2001, 10:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Richard:
You did not cause any problems,

What a relief, I thought maybe that some hacker decided to take my criticisms personally and set a virus on you. My brother tells me the new virus "Red Worm" attacks only servers. So it could be that although the virus is going around, somebody like Arcadenut gifted it to you personally in a post....

Baron Munchausen · #8 August 5th, 2001, 01:52 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Richard:
You did not cause any problems, our problems are that we have a sh*tty OS in NT and an even sh*ttier web service in IIS 4 .

Working on it though...

Wha!?!?!?!?! Shrapnel is using the crapware instead of the best? Why? Apache is BIGGER than IIS and rightly so. It's more stable, has more features, and there is more support for it! I recommend that you switch your site to Gnu/Linux or a FreeBSD flavor and get Apache setup as soon as possible. As the traffic on your site grows, the flaws in MickeySoft products are going to become more and more apparent. With the jump to Win XP coming soon, you'll find yourself more and more locked into the orbit of MS 'preferred' services, too. They've got plans to squeeze out practically every independent software product, even firewalls!

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 05 August 2001).]

Richard · #9 August 5th, 2001, 02:12 AM

Actually in my full time I am one of the Senior Unix Admins for all of att.com's web servers, so your preaching to the choir.

Unfourtnately this decision was made before I joined Shrapnel and at this point we don't have the time, energy, or IT department to port all of our legacy stuff from NT on IIS to maybe Solaris with Apache or iPlanet (one of those two would be my choice).

Maybe once we can start funding an IT department but not now...

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Sarge is coming...

Richard Arnesen
Director of Covert Ops
Shrapnel Games
http://www.shrapnelgames.com

dumbluck · #10 August 5th, 2001, 03:31 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Richard:

Maybe once we can start funding an IT department but not now...

LOL! When has that ever happened in any of the multi-billion dollar budget companies? If they can't find room for it, what makes you think you can???

(Please no flames, i mean this purely as satorical humor. Hell, I can't even spell right tonight!)