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Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2007-06-24 03:33pm

Over 13 hours of withdrawl.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-06-24 04:06pm

Ace Pace wrote:Over 13 hours of withdrawl.

Were you in Alabama?

Good to know everything is back.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2007-06-24 06:55pm

I still can't access the normal forums; the low-bandwidth thing is all that seems to work.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2007-06-24 07:30pm

Oh good. All is well with the world again.

Thanks Mike. We all appreciate the hard work you invest in making the board run well.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-06-24 08:22pm

Dooey Jo wrote:
Mange wrote:I haven't been able to access the forums the whole day.
Ditto. Seems like no-one else has either, judging by the post dates in recent threads...

that would seem quite likely.

given I couldn't access them yesterday after 8pm either.

Kenny_10_Bellys · Post by **Kenny_10_Bellys** » 2007-06-26 05:24am

OK folks, I have built myself a new PC and I've found that I cannot get signed in at all. The new machine is a 64-bit machine running Windows Vista Home Premium, which I assume is the problem here. When I try to login the screen just refreshes and I try to login again. It refreshes, then I login again. it refreshes......

I can log in just fine on any non-Vista PC, it's just the Vista one which refuses to budge from the login screen and keep my username and password.

Post by **Dalton** » 2007-06-26 05:02pm

Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:OK folks, I have built myself a new PC and I've found that I cannot get signed in at all. The new machine is a 64-bit machine running Windows Vista Home Premium, which I assume is the problem here. When I try to login the screen just refreshes and I try to login again. It refreshes, then I login again. it refreshes......

I can log in just fine on any non-Vista PC, it's just the Vista one which refuses to budge from the login screen and keep my username and password.

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Kenny_10_Bellys · Post by **Kenny_10_Bellys** » 2007-06-26 07:09pm

Well done that Ape, deleted the cookie and its working now. Of course it took me 15 minutes to discover where Vista keeps its cookies and how to see them, but thats another matter.

Post by **Dalton** » 2007-06-26 10:15pm

Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:Well done that Ape, deleted the cookie and its working now. Of course it took me 15 minutes to discover where Vista keeps its cookies and how to see them, but thats another matter.

Glad to help

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-07-01 02:19am

For the past 2 days I\'ve been completely unable to access the forums at all. Including the secured and the low bandwidth versions. I can access the rest of the sites fine, though. I already tried the basics, clearing out the temporary internet files, cookies, and history all to no avail. I even tried a different browser and I still get the same \"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage\". Finally I tried using a proxy and it worked, but I still cannot gain access without using it. What else can I try?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2007-07-01 09:29pm

So is the board responding zombiely slow for anybody ELSE around now?

muse · Post by **muse** » 2007-07-01 09:34pm

It was for a few minutes, but seems to be fine right now...

Dominus Atheos · Post by **Dominus Atheos** » 2007-07-02 02:06am

Flagg wrote:For the past 2 days I\'ve been completely unable to access the forums at all. Including the secured and the low bandwidth versions. I can access the rest of the sites fine, though. I already tried the basics, clearing out the temporary internet files, cookies, and history all to no avail. I even tried a different browser and I still get the same "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Finally I tried using a proxy and it worked, but I still cannot gain access without using it. What else can I try?

Same here, But the strange thing is that I could get on at my grandmothers house in Portland, but not here in Washington, or at a friends house also in Portland. My grandmother has dial-up, and both me and my friend have Comcast.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-07-02 03:24pm

Dominus Atheos wrote:
Flagg wrote:For the past 2 days I\'ve been completely unable to access the forums at all. Including the secured and the low bandwidth versions. I can access the rest of the sites fine, though. I already tried the basics, clearing out the temporary internet files, cookies, and history all to no avail. I even tried a different browser and I still get the same "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Finally I tried using a proxy and it worked, but I still cannot gain access without using it. What else can I try?
Same here, But the strange thing is that I could get on at my grandmothers house in Portland, but not here in Washington, or at a friends house also in Portland. My grandmother has dial-up, and both me and my friend have Comcast.

That's the reason then, because I have Comcast too.

JLTucker · Post by **JLTucker** » 2007-07-02 03:31pm

I could not get on at all last night. I pinged the address and there were no replies. Maybe it was down?

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-07-02 05:10pm

This is day number 4 and I still can't get on without using a proxy. So maybe it was down for a bit last night, but that doesn't appear to have anything to do with the situation Comcast customers have been having.

JLTucker · Post by **JLTucker** » 2007-07-02 05:33pm

This may be useless, but have you tried editing your host file? When MSNBC was down for me a month or so ago, I edited my host file and I was able to access the site.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-07-02 06:16pm

JLTucker wrote:This may be useless, but have you tried editing your host file? When MSNBC was down for me a month or so ago, I edited my host file and I was able to access the site.

How do you go about doing that?

JLTucker · Post by **JLTucker** » 2007-07-02 06:24pm

Open notepad. Then go to the following directory:

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

You will see a file named "host". Drag it into notepad.

Type in the following:

206.210.96.180 *tab key* bbs.stardestroyer.net

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-07-02 06:59pm

JLTucker wrote:Open notepad. Then go to the following directory:

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

You will see a file named "host". Drag it into notepad.

Type in the following:

206.210.96.180 *tab key* bbs.stardestroyer.net

Nope, didn't work. Appreciate it, though.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-07-03 03:26am

I think the hosts file in Windows is actually called "lmhosts" and it's stored in the main Windows directory.

PS. Comcast clearly sucks.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-07-03 03:34am

Darth Wong wrote:I think the hosts file in Windows is actually called "lmhosts" and it's stored in the main Windows directory.

PS. Comcast clearly sucks.

It sure does. Hard. But they're the only game in town and the only way I can afford high speed internet.

EDIT:
I just can't figure out why it's only happening on this board while allowing me access to the rest of the sites. I was hoping that a spammer or something got IP banned and maybe it was accidentally blocking Comcast users. Now I don't know what the fuck to think. I'm out of my element with this networking shit anyway. But I have a workaround, and even though it's annoying as hell, I can live with it for now.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-07-03 12:42pm

Well, it's working for me now.

Quadlok · Post by **Quadlok** » 2007-07-03 02:01pm

Just chiming in as another Comcast customer who was unable to access the site for the past few days.

Dominus Atheos · Post by **Dominus Atheos** » 2007-07-03 10:11pm

Works for me now, too.