PROBLEMS

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Sorry, ladies and gentlemen.  I took the day off yesterday (to fetch a new 72"-wide snow thrower attachment for our skid steer) and a spambot showed up, I hear.  I'll be going through all of the recent posts and looking/deleting.  Thanks for bearing with me -- and putting up with these a**holes.

[Rick Byrnes]

HEY you are doing just fine.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Dang it, the countdown clock has been reported to me as being a week off - again.  Must be gremlins out there.  I'll ask you folks to calculate and let us all know what it oughta read.  Let's set it to hit "zero" at 7AM Saturday, 14 August 2010.  That's when Lynda opens the way at Land's End for the first day of Racing -- not inspection, hear?

Here's a link (again) on figuring out the nmber of days 'tween one and another:
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html

Once we come up with a consensus I'll have Bob re-set it again.

[RansomT]

Dang it, the countdown clock has been reported to me as being a week off - again.  Must be gremlins out there.  I'll ask you folks to calculate and let us all know what it oughta read.  Let's set it to hit "zero" at 7AM Saturday, 14 August 2010.  That's when Lynda opens the way at Land's End for the first day of Racing -- not inspection, hear?

Here's a link (again) on figuring out the nmber of days 'tween one and another:
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html

Once we come up with a consensus I'll have Bob re-set it again.

That would be 14,338,620 seconds from right now.

[Freud]

Forum Latest Topics.

It' harder for me to read since it is underlined.

FREUD

[Seldom Seen Slim]

A new problem has become apparent, so I'll use this old topic to let you all know I'm aware and working to fix it.

It was brought to my attention the the accessory that uploads photos to posts on the Forum is claiming that it's "Full".  I haven't run into this in the past, and don't therefore know what's the problem.  So -- Bob and I are working on it right now and we hope to have everything back to normal soon.

In the meantime -- if you've got photos that you'd like posted, send them directly to me and I'll get them up on Photobucket and into your posts.

Later -- Jon a/k/a Seldom Seen Slim

[bobc]

Ha!  It wasn't lying, the upload area was full..... it's bigger now, have at it!

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Hello on Monday morning, ladies and gentlemen.  The website and the Forum have been hit hard over the past weekend, causing some outages, for which I can only apologize.  Dan, at the server firm that hosts the site (and a bunch of others) spent both Saturday and Sunday fixing and backing up and so on.  I hope that the site stays up and fine now.

And then - this morning I noticed a few of the Forum posts were from people that have been members for quite a while - but now show up in black font - meaning they're "guests".  Hunh?  And one of that group sent an email asking what had happened.  I don't know - but I can advise you that we'll get everyone back A S A P.  I know that Dan does a complete backup frequently and holds that completely separately - so the worst that might happen is that we'll get set back a few days (or maybe weeks?) and things will be back on track. 

In the meantime -- I'm sorry for the hassles.  I like it less than you do, I promise you that.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Here's the latest from Dan, the fella that runs the servers where landracing.com lives.  I messaged him when I discovered the entire site (and Nancy and my personal email) was down.  I'm even more bothered by the outages than are you, I betcha.  We'll get 'em fixed really soon, I hope.

Hi Jon,

You should be back up again as of 11:50AM. I noticed it was down and had to reboot the server. I made some changes last week to eliminate these problems, but now I am concerned that we may still have a hacker's script somewhere sending out spam. It is getting overloaded every morning lately. I'm working on locating the problem. Meanwhile, I will make sure everything you are running is up to date, the latest versions.

Thanks for your patience,

Dan

[Glen]

I thought something was wrong this morning as it was loading slow and sometimes not at all. Hang the hacker.

[Peter Jack]

I have some other ideas Glen...............

Pete

[Seldom Seen Slim]

More, but different, problems:  Try loading the home page.  Dan reports, and I can corroborate his report, that only the left tabs and the top thing are loading.  The calendar isn't, either.  Post if it doesn't work for you - but just one or two posts will be enough to show that it's a widespread outage.  Dan's still chasing the hacker.

[Glen]

Jon
It's loading for me but the refresh is very slow. The calendar etc. came up as well.Hope he finds the hacker and disables him.

[hotrod]

I loaded the home page and all the tabs appear to work for me, went all the way down the line, to speed clubs, contacts etc. and all worked.

Larry
17:04 mountain time

[Peter Jack]

Left side and center top loaded right away. Center text and right side took a long time and then loaded quickly once they started. Same result on MAC and PC.

Pete