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SirFire
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Posted: 21st Jan 2006 06:54
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Just recently the forum displays nothing but blank pages, and my popup blocker indicates that popups are being blocked, this wasn't happening several hours ago, I was just wondering if any changes to the forum code have been made that would cause my popup blocker to kill the pages?

I had to bypass the blocker to get on.

From my blocker log:


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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 11:44 Edited at: 23rd Jan 2006 11:49
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Had hoped it would be the new forums, but apparently not

Originally thought it was a DNS problem, but as the site was being found (and had nothing to display), I surmissed that it wasn't, and mySQL caused a problem ...

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 11:47
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I wouldn't have taken them down over a whole weekend to put up a new version. It was just Apache burping, a quick service reset and it's fine. Would have done it sooner but actually spent the weekend *away* from the computer (shock, horror!)

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Crikey! Away from a computer... I would never survive it...

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spooky
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It was nice to do something different over the weekend, but it still felt weird not being able to view the forum.

Boo!
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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 12:12
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Agreed, Apollo was sorely missed


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Dave J
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 12:16
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It's incredible how many people are already back and posting within minutes of it coming back online! Admit it, you were all sitting there pressing the refresh button all weekend, weren't you?


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Lukas W
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 12:24
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i was playing mortal combat 3 all weekend. it felt so weird not being able to access apollo

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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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"Admit it, you were all sitting there pressing the refresh button all weekend, weren't you?"
lol yeah pretty much BEcause I was online and updating my own website, and the bookmark is right under my own, so everytime I triued my new site for updates I'd try appollo first

"i was playing mortal combat 3 all weekend"
Cool But why not MkII or (if you like the 3 characters) Mk trilogy? Anyway, ealy MK games=quality stuff


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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 13:37
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A server burp? Sounds terrifying.


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SirFire
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 13:41
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Quote: "Admit it, you were all sitting there pressing the refresh button all weekend, weren't you?"


Guilty as charged

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Wiggett
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 14:04
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i was sick all weekend and not on the pc, but when i came back last nite to find it was missing i was like NOOOOOO i want to post something! then it wasnt up all day today, and i was like, holy crud, tgc is dead?? but it's back now so I got my fix.

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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 15:24
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I got scared that I made somebody mad and got banned.


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Oddmind
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 15:35
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*ties off arm with belt*

*Puts crushed apollo pieces in a spoon and boils them*

*flicks vein on arm*

*injects apollo*

aaahh thats much better...

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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 15:46
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I cried all weekend.

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You guys are all losers with no life! I played RuneScape all weekend... I have an addictive personality. I'm gonna go do drugs later, who's with me!?

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You guys are all losers with no life! I played RuneScape all weekend...
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Best... Quote... Ever.

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dab
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 16:37
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Quote: "lol yeah pretty much BEcause I was online and updating my own website, and the bookmark is right under my own, so everytime I triued my new site for updates I'd try appollo first
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That's what I was doing all weekend too. And making some Web Templates. But mainly updating my website (and checking the forums to see if they worked)
Quote: "I got scared that I made somebody mad and got banned. "

That's exactly what I thought. So I had other people go there for me to see if they got the same results.

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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 16:47
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I thought someone would have commited suicide. I was actually productive this weekend by the way.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 17:02
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i actually went to go slalom too this weekend. and i didn't even bail.
later that day i played street fighter 2, then mortal combat 3. on a super nintendo, not an emulator. yea im good.

"But why not MkII or (if you like the 3 characters) Mk trilogy? Anyway, ealy MK games=quality stuff"
true, the 3rd game is the best. check out the awesome bugs in it .^^

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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 17:15
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lol on the snes the mkII is still the best - but trilogy on the saturn or psx is better Street Fighter 2 on the Snes is absoluteky mint though (especially sf2turbo)


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David T
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 17:22
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Rich, you shouldn't go away over the weekend. Whenever that happens the forum goes down

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Milkman
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 17:37 Edited at: 23rd Jan 2006 17:39
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i must've checked apollo at least ten times a day
but the good thing is, i finally finished my first project because of it
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=70113&b=5

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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 17:56 Edited at: 23rd Jan 2006 17:56
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Yeah, my project has also progressed due to the forums being offline.

Maybe Rich should do this more often?

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Peter H
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 18:02
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heh, yeah... we should have an annual "progress week"

were rich takes down the forums on purpose for a week

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Nah, just 2 or 3 days a month. It'd actually be good for TGC with all the finished projects popping up.

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Thanks for getting the site back up, Richard!

Nobody can live when Apollo dies!

Weekends are not allowed. Somebody shackle Mr. D. to his computer, please...


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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 20:27
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Quote: "Agreed, Apollo was sorely missed "
Quote: "Quote: "I got scared that I made somebody mad and got banned. "
That's exactly what I thought. So I had other people go there for me to see if they got the same results. "
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Quote: "Admit it, you were all sitting there pressing the refresh button all weekend, weren't you?""


All true for me

@rich
Want me to host it on my site when u go away? so then it never goes offline

where i went on holiday to
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2006 20:34 Edited at: 23rd Jan 2006 20:35
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I was laughing to myself at all the pathetic losers that would be crumbling to pieces because the forum was down .... while frantically pressing refresh myself.

At least I actually became active again on breakbeat terrorism as a result.

Edit: Ooops. That's a website, and not a musical oriented plane hijacking technique.

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Quote: "at all the pathetic losers that would be crumbling to pieces because the forum was down"

where's my left foot

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Quote: "That's a website, and not a musical oriented plane hijacking technique."


*Gets wierd ideas*

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Quote: "Want me to host it on my site when u go away? so then it never goes offline"




I managed to finish my first decent casino game in Second Life last night because the forums were down. Refreshing change Just waiting for the millions in sales


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I hit refresh couple of times then shrugged... Just played Half-Life 2 instead...

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i must say i was sad when apollo went down, it meant i had to do my maths coursework but anywho i can say as a result i did as little work as usual

by the way weren't you going to employ a personal server kicker to prevent this kind of stuff


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Quote: "I hit refresh couple of times then shrugged... Just played Half-Life 2 instead"

Wish i could have done i spent all weekned installing rct3 again

where i went on holiday to
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I nearly cried

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Quote: " Just- played Half-Life 2 instead..."

You must have been bored

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Quote: "That's exactly what I thought. So I had other people go there for me to see if they got the same results. "

lol

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Strangely, I played (and beat) HL2 this weekend aswell when forums were down.

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Want me to host it on my site when u go away? so then it never goes offline
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Uhh, how dumb are you?

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Want me to host it on my site when u go away? so then it never goes offline "


I can assure you, your server would overload within seconds.


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hye guyz

i gut a freewebs server i started a few weeks ago if u guys wunna me tohost teh tgc website on it then sure

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lol. Me too.

edit: Just for the note, (in case any of you can't tell, I'm joking about that.)

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LoL.
Yeah, didn't rich say he got a new plan to have his bandwith in the terabytes? And that he had like a terabyte of HD space?

Hey Rich, how big is apollo?

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I was refreshing like every 30 minutes for about 4 hours or so and just gave up.

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I actually thought that some one hacked the forums after I proved I wasn't the only one not getting on the forums. lol

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Quote: "Rich, you shouldn't go away over the weekend. Whenever that happens the forum goes down "


Yes this seems to backup our theory that he is running it on his laptop.

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Yeah, i was one of those constantly reclicking TGC forum bookmark

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Quote: " I actually thought that some one hacked the forums after I proved I wasn't the only one not getting on the forums. lol"


Pff yeah right. Rich would NEVER let that happen

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Quote: "It's incredible how many people are already back and posting within minutes of it coming back online! Admit it, you were all sitting there pressing the refresh button all weekend, weren't you?"


i was in the bad , i was seek , yeap i tryed once , it didn`t work ... i emailed about it as well. i was back to bad.. Now i`m feeling a bit better , but still not good as i would like to continiue with my routines. (yes , that means no new projects for a couple of days !-be happy )

p.s. i`m soon going to buy an "unlimited" space on apach with "unlimited" bandwith , now what that "unlimited" really means , i`m not sure..but it should be enough.. i`l be hosting smf or maby phpbb , but i`m looking for a LESS used alternative as my forums on my site.

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