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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Apparently there are large globs of "gossip, speculation and paranoia" about at the moment, presumably resulting in fervant exchanges of PMs stretching the PM facility to the limit. This might be having a knock on effect on the rest of the Ship. Either that it's mere speculation fuelled by the paranoia that they're gossiping about me.
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Beautiful Dreamer
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I am having the same problem, particularly on the feminism thread but on all threads in Purgatory. I do not have any problems on any other board. Is there something going on with Purg?
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I tried to e-mail cafe admin, but could not do so. Is the caf really up and running? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
No. When the cafe is back there will be an announcement in The Styx.
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Triple Tiara
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That seems plausible as a first stab Alan, but it seems to be only purg which is affected - and has been for some time. Was it my last post which did for it ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ?
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Beautiful Dreamer
Shipmate
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TT, I am only having the problem with Purg as well. It does not matter which thread or how short my message is, it will not go through even after several minutes or several attempts. But the other boards and my private board are fine.
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Rossweisse
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Okay, I have this brilliant, definitive answer to Trip in Purg, but I haven't been able to post it in more than ten tries.
At least it isn't just me...
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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Oh, by the way, I had the same problem with the Styx a couple of weeks ago -- nothing would post.
I thought perhaps it was a way of putting a lid on the unrest....
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Yes, Trip, you killed Purgatory! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Yes, Trip, you killed Purgatory!
Couldn't be. Must have been one of the Anglicans...
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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I've also been attempting to post on Purgatory, and when I post my comment, everything whirls around and instead of arriving at the bottom of the thread, the whole page blanks out. I've cleared all my cookies, logged out and in again - no answer...
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Triple Tiara
Ship's Papabile
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Yes, Trip, you killed Purgatory!
Ross
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The Bede's American Successor
Curmudgeon-in-Training
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quote:
Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Yes, Trip, you killed Purgatory!
Ross
No one expects the Romish inquisition.
(I'm trying to answer TT in Purg, too!)
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Beautiful Dreamer
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Yes, Trip, you killed Purgatory!
Couldn't be. Must have been one of the Anglicans...
You got me. I did it. Commence flogging now.
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Triple Tiara
Ship's Papabile
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Oooh! All these good folks lining up to answer me!
Please can you keep purg broke for a little bit longer? ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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Crap. This sucks! I'm going into withdrawel because I can't post braindroppings with abandon. Oh the misery!
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Maybe we could take a leaf out of Doublethink's book and have a sort of emergency-raft-type Purgatory? "The Antechamber", or "Sheol", or some such?
Or temporarily move debate to the Circus - I'm sure Sine would approve.
[relieved to discover that the fact that Purg hadn't moved since yesterday evening was not symptomatic of a marked decline in the intellectual climate...]
[ 13. October 2007, 07:43: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
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Golden Key
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Ah, not just me, then! I tried to post on the feminism thread about 10 times.
![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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happening for me too. FYI.
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Erin
Meaner than Godzilla
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I've e-mailed the tech admin to work his mojo, like he did in the Styx a while back. For future reference, if you try to post and it doesn't show, take a look and see if there have been any new posts in the past few hours or so, instead of submitting the same post 10 times. They WILL show up when the bottleneck is cleared.
[ 13. October 2007, 09:05: Message edited by: Erin ]
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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oh good, I'm looking forward to that! ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Golden Key
Shipmate
# 1468
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Thanks, Erin!
FWIW, my computer and ISP can both be iffy...so it took me a while to wonder if the Ship was broken. Then I thought maybe a host had (accidentally) locked the thread. Then I saw that *this* thread had bubbled to the top of Styx.
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--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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quote:
Originally posted by Erin:
I've e-mailed the tech admin to work his mojo, like he did in the Styx a while back. For future reference, if you try to post and it doesn't show, take a look and see if there have been any new posts in the past few hours or so, instead of submitting the same post 10 times. They WILL show up when the bottleneck is cleared.
Oh Erin,
That will be embarrassing, as similar to Golden Key, I thought it was me and my computer that were messing about, and then I tried a few times to post a purg reply...
Will Triple Tiara go down in history? Did you, TT, irritate a techie alien, who grinned and waved his wand and fixed you on the top of the purgatory mountain?
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Ian Climacus
Liturgical Slattern
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Has Purgatory's clock gone a bit odd or is it just me? All the other boards are showing recent times, but the last one I see in Purgatory shows TT's post at 5:01 [which I think is 12/10/2007[*] 19:00 GMT].
[*]dd/mm/yyyy format for our American friends. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ 13. October 2007, 11:22: Message edited by: Ian Climacus ]
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Posted
I have twice tried to post on there since Triple Tiara's post. Neither time was successful. I thought that perhaps short term maintenance was being carried out, but its gone on too long for that now.
Jengie
[ 13. October 2007, 11:58: Message edited by: Jengie Jon ]
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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Says 19:01 on my screen The post rate seemed to slow down for the few hours leading up to that - I was unable to post for about half an hour before the last posts on some of the threads.
I have a horrid fear that my last post to purgatory, which was a very long one, is going to suddenly appear in 37 different copies on three threads.
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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I have been trying to post a reply on the 'How do you doubt?' thread in Purgatory', but five attempts have failed. That dark line thing on the bar at the bottom of the screen starts moving along, then stutters and stops. What shall I do, please?
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Scarlet
Mellon Collie
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quote:
Originally posted by SusanDoris:
I have been trying to post a reply on the 'How do you doubt?' thread in Purgatory', but five attempts have failed. That dark line thing on the bar at the bottom of the screen starts moving along, then stutters and stops. What shall I do, please?
Visit Hell, they are open for business...
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jlg
What is this place?
Why am I here?
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Posted
[cross-post with Scarlett]
The first thing you can do is actually read the most recent five or ten posts on this thread, in which case you might have noticed that Erin has recently posted this information:
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I've e-mailed the tech admin to work his mojo, like he did in the Styx a while back. For future reference, if you try to post and it doesn't show, take a look and see if there have been any new posts in the past few hours or so, instead of submitting the same post 10 times. They WILL show up when the bottleneck is cleared.
[ 13. October 2007, 13:37: Message edited by: jlg ]
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I donno, I think the purg hosts are all partying today.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Thanks to whoever did the hard work.
Jengie
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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Hurrah! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) Thanks for restoring life! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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You know I never thought I would miss a board so much!! My hands were shaking!
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Thanks to the techies from a technopeasant.
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
...This has to have been a romish plot
I had the same thought. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Of course, I couldn't get on the Ship at all earlier today.
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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Scarlett, jig and PeteCanada
Thank you for your replies. I will remember in future to look at other posts - I just assumed it was me wot did it! (Also, having to use magnification and voice, I cannot just glance at previous posts.) I did remember to copy what I'd written and store it on a draft e-mail, which I find is the easiest way for me.
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Horseman Bree
Shipmate
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Out of mild curiosity, I opened the "scroll lock" thread in Styx. The box in which replies are posted extended off to the right, to about double the width of my screen.
When I opened the next thread down the list, I got the "usual" width - that is, the print fitted within my screen.
Is there some minor demon at work in scroll lock? You know, the kind of semicompetent one that gets into serious trouble with Screwtape?
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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On the scroll lock thread, the giant cheeseburger posted something that illustrates what the problem is - which is that long uninterrupted text (eg: URLs) or code can result in posts that are wider than the available display width.
[just getting the right shipmate]
[ 25. October 2007, 21:51: Message edited by: Alan Cresswell ]
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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I got this when I tried to send a PM just now:
quote:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, admin and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
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Doc Tor
Deepest Red
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Dear Lords of the Ship,
Are we BSTing all winter, or will we be reset to the glorious joys of GMT?
No particular beef here, except I'm suffering cognative dissonance between ShipTime™ and the clock in the corner of my screen... ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Dave Marshall
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Gwai:
I think the ship was momentarily offline. I couldn't get response from any ship webpage for a moment.
Maybe they're testing the new cafe on the live server, and it's not quite working yet.
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
Are we BSTing all winter, or will we be reset to the glorious joys of GMT?
We have to adjust the offset ourselves in our profile. I did, anyway.
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Ship's Roundhead
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quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
I'm suffering cognative dissonance between ShipTime™ and the clock in the corner of my screen...
Odd. Mine agree again after being different all summer!
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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I've just adjusted my profile time, as I had been OK all summer and now had gone off time.
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Doc Tor
Deepest Red
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Cheers, Dave. In all my time here, I hadn't noticed the time-shift doohickey. Tis now fixed, and I'm not early anymore!
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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You'll all have to make the adjustment again next weekend when the clock on the server goes back an hour. The server follows the US in changing clocks a week after the UK.
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Carys
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
You'll all have to make the adjustment again next weekend when the clock on the server goes back an hour. The server follows the US in changing clocks a week after the UK.
Drat, I saw this after I'd made the change. Not that it's particularly difficult and I changed it because I was in my profile anyway.
Why is shiptime UK time -1 and on US clock changing rules?
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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quote:
Originally posted by Carys:
Why is shiptime UK time -1 and on US clock changing rules?
I've never actually come across an answer to that question. Though it's one that gets raised regularly (like, every 6 months when the clocks change!)
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Scarlet
Mellon Collie
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
quote:
Originally posted by Carys:
Why is shiptime UK time -1 and on US clock changing rules?
I've never actually come across an answer to that question. Though it's one that gets raised regularly (like, every 6 months when the clocks change!)
I understood it was because Erin is the Supreme Protectress of the Ship's Server, and since both are located in the states, our time change takes precedence... in some mysterious, unknown way, of course.
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