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Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 01, 2011, 11:00:54 am
Apologies for the outage this morning - we are still suffering a few mystery bugs following the server upgrade a week ago which are impeding progress on upgrading the forum software. Plus some basic ineptitude  :-[

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#1 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 01, 2011, 06:46:38 pm
This tread proved a little disappointing upon actual reading
With a touch of dyslexia I though it was Forum OUTRAGE
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#2 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 01, 2011, 07:06:29 pm
This tread proved a little disappointing upon actual reading
With a touch of dyslexia I though it was Forum OUTRAGE
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WHAT! theres been an OUTRAGE... what was it...

Frankly Im disgusted and I'm going to write to my MP. In blood.

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#3 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 01, 2011, 10:42:13 pm
This tread proved a little disappointing upon actual reading
With a touch of dyslexia I though it was Forum OUTRAGE
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If it makes you feel any better I just did the exact same thing without even being able to say I'm dyslexic :slap:

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#4 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 07:52:41 am
Plus some basic ineptitude  :-[

Well, I'm OUTRAGED that you couldn't even be bothered to make it really expert, complex; ineptitude!

Sloth, I say!

Put a bit of back bone in it next time!

Oh and spell check is not working. I cannot be held responsible for my own lack of education...

Try and bring down all the .gov sites at the same time.....

Or divert all users looking for the Apple site, to Microsoft (and vica versa).... (World war 3?).

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#5 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 11:27:13 am

Thanks for the heads-up Oldmanmatt, I've re-instated the spell checker...

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#6 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 11:34:52 am
Its been down for about an hour this AM Bubba, I'm guessing you knew and that was to do with the spell checker etc..?
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#7 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 11:37:54 am

Yeah, I was installing software and the server went tits-up...so I tried to reboot it and it didn't come back up. Sorry again!

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#8 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 11:40:43 am
I thought Forum Outage meant we were going to be 'outing' prominent members of the forum.

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#9 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 11:41:29 am
prominent members of the forum.

Fnaar fnaar....

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#10 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 11:58:34 am
I thought Forum Outage meant we were going to be 'outing' prominent members of the forum.

What, like Jaspers a secret ManU fan? ;)

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#11 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 01:12:45 pm
More outage'ing on its way. Trying the upgrade again   :-\  :doubt:   :wavecry:

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#12 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 02:21:40 pm
 :-[ :-\

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#13 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 04:47:20 pm
.. and resolved, hopefully. If anyone spots anything weird, please shout.

 :alky:

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#14 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 05:00:37 pm
Working OK now,..

I wonder what this button does (the man with the stick..)

[suspicious]Is this really suspicious??[/suspicious]

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#15 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 10:24:49 pm
[suspicious]This is quite suspicious.[/suspicious]

Glad to know it was the forum changing resulting in the lines under the links as opposed to my computer going tits-up (also likely).

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#16 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 02, 2011, 11:40:24 pm
Glad to know it was the forum changing resulting in the lines under the links as opposed to my computer going tits-up (also likely).
Ah yes, looks like the CSS has in the upgrade has changed slightly. Anyone severely bothered by underlined links?

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#17 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 07:14:41 am
Glad to know it was the forum changing resulting in the lines under the links as opposed to my computer going tits-up (also likely).
Ah yes, looks like the CSS has in the upgrade has changed slightly. Anyone severely bothered by underlined links?

Nope - fine by me. Though there is a funny splodge on the bottom of the reply gif.. *shrugs*

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#18 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 12:01:38 pm
I don't get what the suspicious thing is?

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#19 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 12:11:23 pm
[suspicious][/suspicious]
Ah! I see...

The man with the stick.

Guess that rules out 90% of UKB members from reading this...

Pretty suspicious, the way we willingly disregard life and limb; for a lump of rock...

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#20 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 12:36:23 pm
Also the reply box goes off the edge of my screen so if I type a really really really really really really long sentence I can't see the last few words of it until it goes on to the next line, which is quite a while, and I don't appear to be able to scroll across, in fact I can't see anything I just typed after the words "the last few rods".

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#21 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 12:37:02 pm
Which is why I managed to type "rods" in stead of "words".

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#22 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 12:41:10 pm
Probably useful if you mention what resolution your desktop is configured with.

I'd imagine the CSS has parameters for presenting the pages formatted for a default resolution, but may be smart and try to adjust these if users have something different, and it may be falling down with the resolution you're using.

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#23 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 01:01:21 pm
I'm using the New Year's Resolution

(1280x800)

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#25 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 02:32:58 pm
I think it's specific to internet explorer.

 :slap: another important piece of information in such trouble-shooting.

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#26 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 03:16:25 pm
I think it's specific to internet explorer.

Nope, I'm using Feuerfuchs and it's doing it.

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#27 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 03, 2011, 03:24:37 pm
I'm on 6.0.2.0.0.0.0.666.471.99withaflake on a laptop running Windows Vista.

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#28 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 04, 2011, 09:41:47 am
Still doing it for me....

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#29 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 04, 2011, 10:04:34 am
Trying a different browser would be even easier? (And if you're on a work computer with restricted administration rights then PortableApps)

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#30 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 04, 2011, 10:42:58 am
How would it be easier? I'd have to download and install a new browser, which would have none of my saved information in it.

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#31 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 04, 2011, 10:44:37 am
(p.s. clearing the cache worked, thanks!)

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#32 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 04, 2011, 10:53:24 am
How would it be easier? I'd have to download and install a new browser, which would have none of my saved information in it.

Certainly easier in the long term as IE frequently fails to adhere to the w3c web-standards that sites should be designed to comply to.

There are very simple ways of exporting saved information (which I presume to be bookmarks, quick search suggests that its relatively straight-forward to copy cookies over too) from IE and importing them to other apps (in fact keeping them stored locally isn't the best of ideas unless you regularly back up, you can use online bookmarking such as Delicious, and there are a whole gamut of plugins to backup/synchronise your Firefox plugins online).

Personally I see little point in having standards (which are a good thing) such as the w3c if they are not adhered to hence my choice to use a standards compliant browser. But its neither my place to tell or try and convince you to use a particular browser. 

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#33 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 04, 2011, 12:20:25 pm
How would it be easier? I'd have to download and install a new browser, which would have none of my saved information in it.
IE ..... IE

I'm using Firefox

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#34 Re: Forum outage, Saturday 1st October
October 04, 2011, 01:27:32 pm
Thats not wholly accurate because what you actually wrote was...

Nope, I'm using Feuerfuchs and it's doing it.

...which clearly isn't IE, but then I've no idea what "Feuerfuchs" is as I'm an ignorant retard and only speak English (and was too lazy to go and translate it as it really wasn't that important at the time for me to understand what browser you were using).

I then got your reply confused with thesiger in responding as you had both encountered the same problem and I hadn't bothered to review the finer details.

Regardless its sorted, so apologies for being a slacker when attempting to assist, I shan't bother you with such futile attempts in the future.

 :-*

 

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