Site Access Problems

[g0b1in]

Hello, PJ...at least, hello to those who are able to access this site.

Currently, I am the only one logged on and dfbovey has informed me that he's been unable to do so for several hours.

Hope this place comes back online for all of you. Not sure why I am able to access it while others are not.

[ScottEwen]

Weird. I haven't had any problems getting on all day. Uh oh... does this mean I'm the only moderator able to access the site now? So much responsibility!

[g0b1in]

Bovey mentioned it in a dA journal and then I stopped by to see. He's visited other forums and others are having the same problems.

Just thought it was ironic that I was alone, seeing as how I'm rarely logged on and have been away for months.

[k0b13]

Well I am not able to login with firefox and in normal browsing mode. But if I use Opera with private browsing enabled I am able to login.

[g0b1in]

Wasn't able to access PJ for a while and now I'm able to again. Perhaps things are back to normal...?

[JPS017]

I had trouble last night and this morning.

[Beastie]

There have been a few times recently where Firefox has been unable to find the site for me. :(

[dmario]

I'm glad its not just me. Neither firefox or ie or avant can get to PJ. I am on my blackberry right now using opera mini.

[dfbovey]

I've sent an email to Terry about this. I am unable to access the site from either my home or office computers, but I can log on from time to time using my blackberry.

I think we had this same exact problem once before and it took a day or two for things to act normally.

Hopefully everything is back soon.

[cbikle]

I was only able to get on after I enabled Opera Turbo.

If you're using Opera, hit F12 and "enable Opera Turbo" is one of the options.

[dfbovey]

I was only able to get on after I enabled Opera Turbo.

If you're using Opera, hit F12 and "enable Opera Turbo" is one of the options.

That does seem to work, good solution. Unfortunately nobody can log on to read it :)

[cbikle]

That does seem to work, good solution. Unfortunately nobody can log on to read it :)

Right, but I was hoping that somebody involved with site-maintenance might be able to use that info to fix this situation.

[Bruce Lee]

I was able to hop on with the Opera turbo thing. Hopefully this problem will be resolved soon.

[JPS017]

Was unable to access again for 24 hours. IE, Firefox and Chrome all the same.

[dfbovey]

Site is running normally it seems? I was just able to log in with IE.

[penciljack]

Sorry for the issues, folks. We had a server issue and then a DNS issue, but it's supposed to be resolved now. You should be able to access the site normally now (depending on how frequently your DNS updates). We'll be migrating to a new server soon.

[Ugga Bugga]

don't be a stranger Terry. We miss you.....

[ChrisMcJunkin]

Pencil Jack is back! Awesome.:) First time I've been able to get to the forum in like two days.

[manyfacesart]

I was thinking - oh no - penciljack is still down. I've been getting that message for the last couple of days. Glad you're back up and running. I've missed visiting!

[Bruce Lee]

Woohoo! Thanks, Terry! We're back in business!

[dfbovey]

don't be a stranger Terry. We miss you.....

Ditto that :)

[Inkthinker]

I was also unable to access the site since about Monday, I guess? At any rate, it's back now, obviously. I guess this is partly behind some of the lower traffic I'd noticed over the past week or so.

[ballpoint]

I'm on my iPhone right now and right next to me is my laptop w/ firefox saying " page cannot be displayed"
It sounds like it's a firefox issue.

[dfbovey]

I'm on my iPhone right now and right next to me is my laptop w/ firefox saying " page cannot be displayed"
It sounds like it's a firefox issue.

It's a DNS issue. It'll resolve itself, different locations, different providers and a bunch of other possible factors can cause DNS to be updated at differently for different people and or devices.

[ekotek]

Was down for me since at least Tuesday -- finally back up -- I can get my "PJ fix" again!

[golgotha]

thanks for coming back.

[ScottEwen]

It was down for me all yesterday and today until an hour or two ago.

[Inkthinker]

So should we make a sticky that across the forums that mentions this? Maybe encourage people to tell their friends if they were being denied, it's back? Or should we just let traffic return naturally?

[The P.R. Man]

I wonder how many people spent the last two days freaking out and trying to get their PJ to work, and who just shrugged it off and spent the extra time drawing,

I know I was the first group, lol.

[Skothu23]

I think Manji crashed the server so he wouldnt have to update the Weekly Sketch Group :D

[Beastie]

Thanks for the fix, Terry.

[NickRocks]

thanks for not deleting my post count pj

[dmario]

Thank you Lord PencilJack!

[sketchtherapy]

still having intermittent problems this morning (with firefox at least). couldn't get on by bookmark or direct url, but was able to through google link.

[dfbovey]

Brokenhill is still unable to access the site.

[kae_ae]

just only managed to get back on after a few days.

[NickRocks]

Brokenhill is still unable to access the site.

i wonder how many trees hes destroyed in his rage :omg:

[The P.R. Man]

i wonder how many trees hes destroyed in his rage :omg:

thats one dude I would NOT want to piss off.

[Dri]

Just got spammed by crystallizedcharcoal@gmail.com . I'm pretty sure it's linked to PJ as I recognize email addresses that match PJ user names like Adam Masterton, Danny Cruz, Morganza, etc.

Hopefully this is sorted out.

[brokenhill]

well i seem to be able to log in now

[Bruce Lee]

Alfred183 was still unable to access the site a few days ago. I haven't seen him post recently, so he might also be having trouble. He was using a Google Chrome browser, I believe.

[KRAZYRICKY1]

we all know that NickGuy crashed PJ trying to post on several forums while having 56 windows open at the same time, just so he can pad his post count.

[malachimanson]

we all know that NickGuy crashed PJ trying to post on several forums while having 56 windows open at the same time, just so he can pad his post count.

Dude no lies the first thing I thought of when I couldn't access the site was. WTF did NICK DO =P.

[ScottEwen]

I haven't been able to get on in the last couple days. I guess there are still problems?

[Beastie]

Yeah, its very hit and miss for me. :(

[sadman2000]

Yeah I use Chrome too, but Firefox and Internet Explorer didn't work either.

EDIT: Server move, never mind. ;)

[g0b1in]

I've still been having extreme difficulty visiting PJ the past couple days. Even the Opera Turbo option doesn't seem to work at times.

[Juggertha]

hit and miss for me as well

[NickRocks]

t said the server couldnt be found so i just mashed f5 til it worked

[Guru_George]

I can log-on with my cell phone but hit or miss at home computer.

[girdoggy]

If i use a proxy server i can access the site whenever , otherwise it wont let me sometimes. (mot likely the isp of users are being blocked by someone or some odd server bullshit)

i use this proxy site http://search.mycbc.cn/go2world.php

there's a link to a firefox extension/pug-in (which is easier than going to the site and typing the url adress) in the same page.

[Hawkswift]

It's hit or miss for me but when it's miss I can remove the "www." from "www.penciljack.com" and it works.

Except I can't post when I do that. But I can read fine.

[brokenhill]

I'm having log on problems as well,mine seem tied to certain times of the day?very weird

[Hawkswift]

Now that you mention it, mine seem to be time-of-day related too.

[dfbovey]

How many times did you have to kick it to make it work?

Looks like we lost about 15 days worth of posts.

[KRAZYRICKY1]

Its back yeah, yippie, woo hooooooo.
thanks
terry for all your hard work

[spidey976]

Thanks TERRY!!!

[segludian]

Glad to see that the site is back :D

Judging from the error messages it looks like the problem was a corrupted database. Those are always unpleasant at best.

[ekotek]

Good to have it back! -- Are December Pummel's just going up whenever?

[Beastie]

Hurrah!!!!!!

[yomark]

I KNEW it was a good idea to save the code from my last posts!

Oh, yeah……Thanks Terry, mean it…okay-love ya-bye bye!



Uh, that was meant sincerely, NOT sarcastically; I really do appreciate this forum: I've learned a LOT, and all the encouragement has meant a great deal to me. :)

[penciljack]

Well, I wouldn't say it's all okay now, but we definitely have the forum back. Keep an eye on it and let me know if you see anything funky.

Thanks to all for your patience. I'm extremely sorry for the issues we've had recently.

[spidey976]

Well, I wouldn't say it's all okay now, but we definitely have the forum back. Keep an eye on it and let me know if you see anything funky.

Thanks to all for your patience. I'm extremely sorry for the issues we've had recently.

Hey ... you don't have to be sorry Terry. It is just one of those things. Did you have to restore it back from the old server. As far as I can tell it looks like we went back to that original weekend ... the one where you ported the whole thing over.

I think I can speak for the whole community when I say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all of your hard work in gettting PJ back up and running.

[penciljack]

Yeah, ended up having to restore from 11/15. I know a lot of folks lost a lot of posts, and I hated that it came to that, but I exhausted all other options.

Here's hoping it all gets better from here!

[Bruce Lee]

Thanks for all the hard work to get things back to normal, Terry!

[marco pedrana]

Congratulation for getting back the forum! :) i check here from time to time and it was sad to see it broken, the other day!

[yomark]

Yeah, ended up having to restore from 11/15. I know a lot of folks lost a lot of posts, and I hated that it came to that, but I exhausted all other options.

That's EXACTLY why I copied all the code from my last posts. Makes it a brezze to put the back again, even on dial-up like I'm. Frankly, I'd rather see you just write it off at a certain point and get the forum up sooner, than to waste all that time trying to restore the "iffy" files (but I realize you can't really do that). Anyway, for the time being, I reccommend to y'all to just copy your post-codes, and paste them into a simple text document and save them. Not a complicated extra step, and you'll be able to restore your posts easily. (Knock on wood that it won't be necessarry, however).

[spidey976]

Can't get on PJ from work again.

[penciljack]

If you can log on from elswhere, but not at work, I'd suspect a firewall issue. You can always try pinging www.penciljack.com from the command line to see what results you get, or even telnet. Either may give you a clue as to what's going on.

[ntholdenuk]

Hey Folks I still seem to be having trouble accessing the site through Firefox. Seems to be working fine with IE or Chrome though. However Firefox is my favourite browser and would much prefer to be able to view the site in that. Any ideas?
I've done all the usual stuff of removing all the content , cookies etc. And occasionally it'll work for about three page loads then keep giving me errors.

Any help whatsoever is greatly appreciated

[Beastie]

I use Firefox -- and I do still occasionally get the odd problem - but nothing as severe as you're experiencing, Neil.

[penciljack]

What sort of errors are you getting?

[dfbovey]

Every once in a while when using firefox it takes forever for the site to load and eventually I get a server not found error.

[yomark]

Every once in a while when using firefox it takes forever for the site to load and eventually I get a server not found error.

(Making a disgusted face) Pish-Tosh! I get that all the time! (But then again, I'm on dial-up) :)

[Beastie]

Every once in a while when using firefox it takes forever for the site to load and eventually I get a server not found error.

Yes. Exactly the same.

It doesn't happen every day -- and it usually recitifies itself within the space of half an hour -- but it happens nonetheless.

[penciljack]

Any specific times when this happens? Any similar reports on non-Firefox browsers?

[Beastie]

I hadn't really paid any attention to times -- but will from now on and post as soon as I have any info.

[penciljack]

Thanks, that may help.

The only performance issues I know of at the moment involve the server load when the backups occur. It may be that we need additional resources, but let's see if we can correlate that to the existing problems.

[Beastie]

Although I'm pretty sure this is different from what I 'normally' experience.....I got this from about 16:20 - 16:45 GMT today.

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@penciljack.com 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.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.penciljack.com Port 80

[penciljack]

Thanks, Beastie - I'll check into it. If anybody else has similar issues, please let me know the time/date as well.

[dfbovey]

I'll start keeping track of when it happens as well.

[dfbovey]

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@penciljack.com 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.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at penciljack.com Port 80

and also...


Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1572864) (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /home/penciljack/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 1518

[dfbovey]

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@penciljack.com 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.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at penciljack.com Port 80

and also...


Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1572864) (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /home/penciljack/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 1518

[dfbovey]

And it posted it twice when I was finally able to post. lol

[spidey976]

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@penciljack.com 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.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at penciljack.com Port 80

and also...


Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1572864) (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /home/penciljack/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 1518

I got all of these about an hour ago.

[dfbovey]

I'm continuing to get them repeatedly. Tonight seems to be the worst it's been for me. Haven't been able to access the site over the past two hours really. Even when I do get access... the site is very slow to respond. Takes 10 seconds at least for clicked links to open. And it's been timing out when I hit the submit post button.

[spidey976]

I'm continuing to get them repeatedly. Tonight seems to be the worst it's been for me. Haven't been able to access the site over the past two hours really. Even when I do get access... the site is very slow to respond. Takes 10 seconds at least for clicked links to open. And it's been timing out when I hit the submit post button.

She was dark for over a day for me, and judging by the lack of post everyone else.

[cbikle]

Yeah, the site was down for me too; I tried different browsers, but no luck.

[The P.R. Man]

well that was a dull 2 days. glad things look like they're back to normal.

[KRAZYRICKY1]

What's going on, we're not gonna lose PJ right? Sometimes it takes a long time for the page to load, for me.

[dfbovey]

Seems to be working again... question is... will it stay this way?

[amadarwin]

Hopefully. Except I'm getting slow load/post times. 10:55am EST.

[golgotha]

I hope this forum stays. Are there other forums similar to penciljack? I have never seen one.

[scmarooney]

Glad to see Penciljack is back up and running! I just tried to login about 5 minutes ago and it popped up with the screen "Thanks for logging in" and then sort of got stuck there. The "click" here button didn't seem to work and I went back go Google after a few minutes and then brought PJ back up from my favorites and I was logged in and everything seemed to be working okay? I'm using Firefox and this is the first time I've logged in since the site went down a day or so ago.

---> Just got this message on all 4 of the last posts I've made here in the last 15 minutes or so:
This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between posts. Please try again in 14 seconds.

I don't think I saw that even three times in the rest of all the posts I've made here? Hope that helps out!

[dfbovey]

I hope this forum stays. Are there other forums similar to penciljack? I have never seen one.

There are a lot of comicbook art forums out there, but IMO Penciljack has always been the best.

[golgotha]

is there one called 4th rail? when i went there my google chrome browser warned me that it may contain viruses. what sites are there to visit while pj is down?

[golgotha]

i also notice if i click on "break room" there are only like 7 pages to look through in history. Has it always been like that?

[penciljack]

i also notice if i click on "break room" there are only like 7 pages to look through in history. Has it always been like that?

Check the thread display options at the bottom, you can change how far back the available posts go.

[penciljack]

Sorry about all the problems, folks. The issue does appear to be related to server resources, so I've placed an order for hardware upgrade that should happen very, very soon. My heartfelt thanks to all of you for your patience. I know it's been a rocky few months, but we'll get it on track ASAP.

The initial plan is to upgrade the available hardware as much as possible. If that doesn't do the trick, we may investigate moving to another server. I'm also considering moving to a new forum software. The vBulletin 4.x is actually quite a bit more resource intensive than the 3.x versions.

Sorry again for all the trouble.

[Wo-Nellie]

is there one called 4th rail? when i went there my google chrome browser warned me that it may contain viruses. what sites are there to visit while pj is down?

There is a site called fourthrail.com. If your software is warning to steer clear you probably should listen. Some sites are created specifically to download malicious software onto your computer. Other sites may have once been legitimate sites, but were lost long ago to barbarians at the gate, whether they be anarchists, criminals or notorious foreign governments.
As for safe sites you can visit during your down-time from PJ, I'd suggest Uggabugga.net (not to be confused with Huggabugga.com, unless you want to make things from colorful yarn), since it's like a laid-back bar where many of the PJ regulars congregate to talk about nastier stuff than the mods would ever let them get away with here, but it does have its draw-back in that it doesn't offer the kinds of human resources you'll find here.
There is also Digital Webbing, which is closest in lay-out to Penciljack, but lacks the same feeling. You'll find several of the people who post here cross-post there, though they might not necessarily use the same handles, or wish to admit they cross-post out of some kind of loyalty concern.

[cbikle]

Re; fourthrail.com appears to have malicious code on it's page.

Here's (http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=http:%2F%2Fwww.thefourthrail.com%2Farchiv es%2F) what Norton.com has to say about it.

[penciljack]

The hardware upgrade appears to be underway. Let me know if you see any improvement or worsening in terms of response times, etc.

[Ugga Bugga]

Thanks for your efforts PJ, they are appreciated.

[penciljack]

We'll be performing some upgrades today, and so we'll have some downtime. See this thread (http://www.penciljack.com/forum/showthread.php?107791-Scheduled-Forum-Downtime-1-25-2011&p=1203604) for details.

[penciljack]

Okay folks - we just upgraded pretty much everything there is to upgrade, including the forum software itself. You may witness some sluggishness over the next few hours as the cache is built up again, but I'm actually seeing incredibly improved performance across the board. I hope you see the same, but let me know if not. I'll try to provide a rundown of the new features available as well.

Thanks again to all of you for your patience and persistence!

[dfbovey]

Awesome!!!

[Beastie]

Cheers, PJ.

Its much appreciated :)

[korintic]

Yup much appreciated. I'd like to ask one thing though it seems that the forum is now at a different url 'http://www.penciljack.com/forum/forum.php' instead of where it used to be at 'http://www.penciljack.com/forum/' is this on purpose or just a by-product of the upgrade?
Either way glad to see this place up and running.

[dfbovey]

I think the issue with not being able to have expiring polls will be resolved with the software upgrade. Can't verify though from my blackberry. But with today being pummel deadline it'll be a cool thing to have fixed!

[penciljack]

Yup much appreciated. I'd like to ask one thing though it seems that the forum is now at a different url 'http://www.penciljack.com/forum/forum.php' instead of where it used to be at 'http://www.penciljack.com/forum/' is this on purpose or just a by-product of the upgrade?
Either way glad to see this place up and running.
That's a by-product of the vB4 suite. I may try to move the forum to the root directory to avoid the extra hop eventually; I'll see what other options are available.


I think the issue with not being able to have expiring polls will be resolved with the software upgrade. Can't verify though from my blackberry. But with today being pummel deadline it'll be a cool thing to have fixed!

Yeah, if someone can check this out and let me know, that'd be great.

[dfbovey]

One issue with the upgrade is that the images aren't showing fully if they are of a certain size or larger. Example:

http://www.penciljack.com/forum/showthread.php?107761-Predator

[penciljack]

There should be scrollbars at the bottom of the post, but I've already started looking into it.

[dfbovey]

Cool!

I noticed those. The thing that is odd is that the image I posted in that thread is much larger than it appears. The forum reduced it and doesn't give the option of clicking to make it larger.

[penciljack]

There's no plugin in place now to resize any images, so that's odd. I'll have to add it to the list of things to track down.

[dfbovey]

Maybe it's a setting in the existing forum software now?

Just to show you the difference here's a direct link to the image that's been resized:

http://www.davidbovey.com/images/predator.jpg

[The P.R. Man]

yeah, definitly do not like the way you have to scroll to see images now, but if it's a trade-off for the board running smoother, then I'm delighted to deal with it.

[penciljack]

Image sizing issues should be resolved now. This method actually works much closer to what I had originally intended. Let me know if you have any issues with it.

[Bruce Lee]

Thanks for taking care of things, Terry! Appreciate it, man.

[The P.R. Man]

agreed, nicely done!

[Dash Martin]

Probably already know this, but I'll mention it anyway. The main page graphic no longer links to the forums. It goes to http://www.penciljack.com/forum/ (with the "you do not have permission to access this page." message) instead of http://www.penciljack.com/forum/forum.php

[blamito]

I don't get emails for subscribed threads or PMs anymore. Is that site wide, or something I did?

[spidey976]

Site was down for about the last two hours or so.

[dfbovey]

Yeah, it's either been inaccessible or very slow to load today.

[dfbovey]

And even though that previous post was made after popninja's post, it appears before it. Strange things happening.

[Popninja]

So frustrating. It takes FOREVER to process PMs and to go from page to page. So very frustrating...

[Juggertha]

Seems back to normal now.

[penciljack]

Very sorry, folks. I just spoke to the host provider, and it looks like our node was suffering a DOS attack. I hope it wasn't directed at us, but even so it was pretty nasty. At least this one wasn't my fault.

Apologies, again. I know PJ has been having a rough patch lately. Seems like it's hard to keep the lights on. I assure you I'm working hard to set things to right.

[spidey976]

Very sorry, folks. I just spoke to the host provider, and it looks like our node was suffering a DOS attack. I hope it wasn't directed at us, but even so it was pretty nasty. At least this one wasn't my fault.

Apologies, again. I know PJ has been having a rough patch lately. Seems like it's hard to keep the lights on. I assure you I'm working hard to set things to right.

Well if your provider finds out anything we have had a few guys banned from here as of late ... jeebus wouldn't that be something.

[penciljack]

As far as I can tell we weren't the target, just collateral damage.

[yomark]

I have a possibly related issue: A friend of mine cannot get full access to the site, in that he can SEE the threads, but cannot post replies, and he gets the warning message that he needs to register. He says that he's attempted to register several times, but has never received his confirmation e-mail, and, of course, when he tries to open a new account, he gets something about that name being already taken. His onscreen name is "qrowdad", and he's given me permission to forward his e-mail addresses to you:

kevinparks@sbcglobal.net
kdp@kevinparks.com

Please help him if you can, I'd really like him to be able to comment on my posts, as well as to post himself.

And P.S.:
Thanks for all your hard work in keeping this site going. I've really been helped a lot by all the comments and critiques of my posts; It's really helped me to progress a lot faster than I would've otherwise, and I really feel comfortable at this forum as oppossed to others I've tried. :)

[penciljack]

Glad to help, sorry I haven't solved it yet. I'm still working on it; spent a couple of hours on it today, in fact, but I can't find anything in the server logs that isolates the problem. Seems like mail is a black hole.

Sorry your friend is having trouble - please have him check his account now.

[yomark]

Glad to help, sorry I haven't solved it yet. I'm still working on it; spent a couple of hours on it today, in fact, but I can't find anything in the server logs that isolates the problem. Seems like mail is a black hole.

Sorry your friend is having trouble - please have him check his account now.

I forwarded your post to him, and he e-mailed me today that he still cannot get access.

[yomark]

Hmmmm. I'm now wondering if there's something like what used to happen with AOL going on here, you remember, how AOL would seemingly arbitrarily "lose" or drop content that wasn't from another AOL source?

[cbikle]

I have trouble getting on this site from work; I can only get on about 30 % of the time and usually only around 2:30-3:00 (which is right now for me as I post this.

[penciljack]

That's odd, Yomark - I activated his account, be should be good to go. What url is he trying, and what error is he receiving?

[penciljack]

I have trouble getting on this site from work; I can only get on about 30 % of the time and usually only around 2:30-3:00 (which is right now for me as I post this.
That's really odd. What error are you receiving? I'd be inclined to suspect it might have to with your office firewall or perhaps your bandwidth is being saturated - I'm pretty much able to get the site to come up quick-like at all hours now even on a low rate connection.

[penciljack]

Hmmmm. I'm now wondering if there's something like what used to happen with AOL going on here, you remember, how AOL would seemingly arbitrarily "lose" or drop content that wasn't from another AOL source?

Time was, AOL declared everything sent from PJ as spam and blocked us. We ended up getting that resolved, as best I can remember (been quite a while). Right now the email issues seem to be localized to the PJ server being unable to send.

[Bryan E.Warner]

I'm Rooting for You Terry....:)

[yomark]

That's odd, Yomark - I activated his account, be should be good to go. What url is he trying, and what error is he receiving?


Time was, AOL declared everything sent from PJ as spam and blocked us. We ended up getting that resolved, as best I can remember (been quite a while). Right now the email issues seem to be localized to the PJ server being unable to send.

You've been so helpful, I didn't want to ignore your efforts…but as of my last communication with my friend, he was still not getting results. He's kinda busy, spends most of his forum time on DeviantArt, and gave me the impression that he wasn't interested in persuing this right now. Thus, I haven't asked him about specific errors or urls. I know he can view forums, as he critiqued one of my posts while we were at Starbuck's, while we looked at it on his iPhone. He just can't post or reply. Last thing was that I notified him that you'd activated his account (this was via a comment on one of his deviations). So for now, I'm leaving it up to him to pursue or not.

But always: thanks for all the effort! :)

[jersmy]

wow gold is the standard form of currency in World of Warcraft. It can be accumulated in-game by dedicated players, or purchased outside the game system through merchants. Wow player characters can acquire various items in the game, either by game events or by purchasing wow gold. Items can vary from resources such as herbs or raw ores to items to be retrieved for quests. Player characters can also equip different weapons and armor, either to customize their character or improve abilities such as better attacks or defense skills.
There is only one way to get wow gold (http://www.storeingame.com) in game, which is to keep killing monsters again and again. Obviously it is not easy and very boring, so searching a good website and buy cheap wow gold (http://www.zyy.com)and items on sale is a good choice.

[yomark]

wow gold is the standard form of currency in World of Warcraft. It can be accumulated in-game by dedicated players, or purchased outside the game system through merchants. Wow player characters can acquire various items in the game, either by game events or by purchasing wow gold. Items can vary from resources such as herbs or raw ores to items to be retrieved for quests. Player characters can also equip different weapons and armor, either to customize their character or improve abilities such as better attacks or defense skills.
There is only one way to get wow gold (http://www.storeingame.com) in game, which is to keep killing monsters again and again. Obviously it is not easy and very boring, so searching a good website and buy cheap wow gold (http://www.zyy.com)and items on sale is a good choice.

BOO! Now PJ is getting hacked by those viral-advertising a--holes!? How long before we start getting porn-site messages!?

[Bryan E.Warner]

BOO! Now PJ is getting hacked by those viral-advertising a--holes!? How long before we start getting porn-site messages!?

We've already gotten them in the past...haven't seen any for a while..I've already fagged Penciljack ( Terry ) about the issue with Jersmy

[dfbovey]

BOO! Now PJ is getting hacked by those viral-advertising a--holes!? How long before we start getting porn-site messages!?

When you see them. definitely hit the report a post button. It sends a message to the moderator of that section and will speed up the process of taking care of it.

[Bryan E.Warner]

When you see them. definitely hit the report a post button. It sends a message to the moderator of that section and will speed up the process of taking care of it.

Guess I've been taking the long way around....Thank You Dave.

[yomark]

When you see them. definitely hit the report a post button. It sends a message to the moderator of that section and will speed up the process of taking care of it.

Yeah, good to know. I never really knew what that button was for before now.

[yomark]

PJ was down: 2:20 pm, 8/25/11
"Database error The database has encountered a problem."

Functioning normally at 3:10 pm
Now I keep getting a double-post after getting the message about having to wait 30 seconds between posts.

[Bryan E.Warner]

I've had that too...but not lately

[yomark]

Now, as I begin to report a glitch, NATURALLY it DOESN'T occur here, when I'm reporting it. Never the less: in my first post/reply of the day, I didn't get either font/formatting options, OR the option to pull-down/legnthen the reply window.

However, NOW, as I'm typing this, I DO get those features, so I don;t know what to think (is it because I'm on dial-up?). So: just reporting it incase anybody else encounters it. :)

[Bryan E.Warner]

Now, as I begin to report a glitch, NATURALLY it DOESN'T occur here, when I'm reporting it. Never the less: in my first post/reply of the day, I didn't get either font/formatting options, OR the option to pull-down/legnthen the reply window.

However, NOW, as I'm typing this, I DO get those features, so I don;t know what to think (is it because I'm on dial-up?). So: just reporting it incase anybody else encounters it. :)

It's like taking your set to the TV repairman...it works OK then....hang in there for feed back..

[golgotha]

i got a virus warning the other day. my computer told me something was trying to be downloaded and i had to stop it.
that was, i think, monday night.

[Bryan E.Warner]

I've gotten them too...then things go back to normal in a day or so...

[dfbovey]

Yeah, I've been getting them as well.

[penciljack]

I've been unable to track anything down, but I'm still looking. Any information you can capture would be very helpful.

[penciljack]

Also, if you happen to come across this problem again, please view the source of the page, and then copy and paste it into an e-mail or private message to me, if you would be so kind.

[Bryan E.Warner]

We'll do...so far it has not reoccurred....

[yomark]

Is there some reason that I am not permitted to post images all of a sudden? Or: am I missing something? I opened up a "post new thread" in "Sketches", and could find no tools to post image links. Down below on every page in the forum, it says that I do NOT have permission to post attachments. (When I reveiwed the instructions for posting, I see that that applies to everyone, and means that the image has to be hosted off-site). But still, I cannot find the usual tools for including image-links. Not to sound panicky, but did I violate a rule that I wasn't aware of? Or is the forum having problems? Please let me know soonest, I'd appreciate it.

[yomark]

Okay, update: As I post THIS, I can see the tools fine. When I pre-viewed my "Bat-Cleavge" (http://www.penciljack.com/forum/showthread.php?113377-Bat-Cleavage-%28sfw%29&p=1268910#post1268910) post (having gone to the IMG code list to manually insert images), the tools are there then. So, I'm not sure what's happening, but as long as I can post images, I'm happy. It's possible my browser's now too far out of date, and I can't upgrade, as my even more out-of-date operating system won't support the upgrade. I can't even load the newest version of Flash player for the same reason. Could any of that be part of my problem with this forum?

[Bryan E.Warner]

Things have still smoothed out for me...
I'm on a Mac....You?

[yomark]

I've been getting the message/screen below every so often. Today it was about 11:00 a.m. Pacific:

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr27/markusiz/PageUnavailable.png

[penciljack]

I'm reevaluating the use of Cloudflare. I'm not sold yet that the caching is assisting us, and in some cases it feels as though this error message is popping up when it shouldn't be. There was a period of sluggishness earlier today, but things have leveled out now.

[yomark]

I'm getting these messages again occasionally. They clear up pretty fast though.

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr27/markusiz/PageUnavailable.png

[Bryan E.Warner]

I was getting that a while back...it finally stopped....but now that I said that...

[penciljack]

I'm actively working now on the transition to a dedicated server, so please bear with us just a bit longer. I want to make sure I have all the I's dotted and T's crossed, and will make some announcements when things get firmer.

[Bryan E.Warner]

I'm actively working now on the transition to a dedicated server, so please bear with us just a bit longer. I want to make sure I have all the I's dotted and T's crossed, and will make some announcements when things get firmer.
No Worry's....we are Die Hard PJ'rs :)

[penciljack]

Update: hardware has been ordered, just waiting on setup and configuration now. Should be migrating to new digs in a day or two. I will keep you posted.