Hi all,

Please bare with me while I correct an issue that has popped up while updating things in the admin area. HOPEFULLY I'll be able to smooth things out quickly tonight, if I'm unable to fix it tonight I'll have to work on it tomorrow. I have other commitments tonight, and the last thing I needed was to deal with an issue. ;-) There's no time tonight for something like this

I'll keep you posted on the fix.

Cheers,
Kevin

Hum, I believe I've fixed it.

Please let me know if you come across any error messages. Please post your error finds here. Please only post errors to this thread.

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin,
You are an electronic marvel. In six munutes you fixed a problem that was preventing people from logging on.

Kevin,
I agree with stumpy,
back on-line OK,
thanks, it was looking like
a boring night!

Kevin, your so good I never even knew there was a problem!!!

Kevin,

I don't exactly have an error message to report, but something rather odd . . .

down at the bottom of the main page, under Board Statistics, it shows the following (as of the time of this post, anyway) -

Our members have made a total of 11,270 posts
We have 661 registered members
The newest member is CClemens
Most users ever online was 21 on Aug 11 2004, 05:00 PM

That's really old stuff, and CClemens was last active in November 2004.

What gives???

Chester :newyear:

Originally posted by chester7777@Jun 21 2005, 01:42 AM



That's really old stuff, and CClemens was last active in November 2004.

What gives???

Chester :newyear:
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Don't know how you noticed this Chester.

I'm with Sxviper in my admiration for the time and commitment devoted to this board.

:agent:

I fixed the "newest member" section. I had to rebuild the stats for the board.

I think everything is back the way that it was.

Originally posted by Robbie@Jun 24 2005, 03:09 PM
Don't know how you noticed this Chester.
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Robbie,

I look at the board statistics almost every time I log on, and knew that we were around 14 or 15 thousand posts, so the post count was the first tip off that something was amiss. I also look to see if we have any new members, and might click on the user name to access their profile and see if they have made any posts (and maybe included a photo in their profile - how 'bout it, Robbie :rolleyes: ?). That's how I discovered that CClemens had joined late last year (and obviously we had newer members than that).

So . . . it's not a lot of time on any one day, but it helps me keep abreast of what's going on.

Chester :newyear:

Originally posted by chester7777@Jun 25 2005, 10:46 AM
Robbie,

I look at the board statistics almost every time I log on, and knew that we were around 14 or 15 thousand posts, so the post count was the first tip off that something was amiss.* I also look to see if we have any new members, and might click on the user name to access their profile and see if they have made any posts (and maybe included a photo in their profile - how 'bout it, Robbie :rolleyes: ?).* That's how I discovered that CClemens had joined late last year (and obviously we had newer members than that).

So . . . it's not a lot of time on any one day, but it helps me keep abreast of what's going on.

Chester :newyear:
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Get you now Chester I thought that you remembered that particular user from on year ago whom never made any posts.

Yes I have yet to grace the board with a picture, I think only myself and Roland have yet to do so out of the long term top posters, I think Mike posted one a year ago if my memory serves me correctly.

:agent:

Hi Kevin,
I notice the most online users stats,
are now distorted by all those spiders,
you had on July 2nd!!!

ethanedwards,

I realize we have many spiders visiting, and I may have missed something, but what would make you think the majority of the visitors that day were the eight legged variety? :fear:
Possibly Kevin can fill us in.

Chester :newyear:

Spiders? :fear: I hate them things!! My wife has to kill them!! :fear:

Seriously though, what are we talking about here?

That's got you all thinking!!!
Well I think the spiders are still in there,
but perhaps, Kevin, has eliminated them!!
Ha Ha

Originally posted by SXViper@Jul 10 2005, 05:19 AM
Seriously though, what are we talking about here?
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I'm not sure, but I think maybe there are a couple of answers to that.

Let's see if I can explain this correctly. I'm sure if I don't, Kevin can clarify.

Do you notice that the "Ads by Google" at the top of the page often correspond in some way to what's being discussed directly below? There are computer "feelers" or spiders that tell what's going on and give input as to what to advertise. These spiders show up as Guest in the Board Statistics. There's no way (that I know of) to tell which guest is a computer generated one and which is a real person just checking out the board. My guess is that when there are many guests, the percentage of spiders is close to the normal, since we don't routinely have a hundred folks online. Spiders probably account for a fairly small number of guests.

Nothing that a good can of Raid can't fix! :headbonk:

Chester :newyear:

Wow, I noticed that before but never really understood how it was done. Damn things turn up everywhere. :lol: :lol:

Thats very funny, I always wondered why the banner advertisements very very contemporary in relation to the conversations, in actual fact it displays how impressive these so called 'spiders' are.

:agent:

Robby,

Yea, at first my wife and I were wondering if our computor was reading our minds, :lol:
when the ads seemed to be advertising exactly what we were talking about.

Chester :newyear:

I tried to do a search on the message board and one of the treads that comes up in the search is


John Wayne Hero Or Zero?
General Discussions Robbie 28 593 31st October 2004 - 11:09 PM
Last post by: General Sterling Price

When I click the link it returns an error saying: Sorry, some required files are missing, if you intended to view a topic, it's possible that it's been moved or deleted. Please go back and try again.


When I try browsing the General Discussions forum I can't find the thread.

Regards
Popol Vuh

Popol Vuh,

We moderators on this message board, from time to time have to remove topics due to the content of the subject or threads. This was one of them, and was removed because of it. You were denied access because it was either deleted or put in controlled access by the moderators and/or the administrator. I remember the topic and I couldn't find it, so I am assuming that it was deleted. I might have done it myself. I can't remember why; it was last fall.

I hope that answers your question. As for the content that had it removed. Well with that topic, I bet you can guess why it was removed.

Cheers B)

Fair enough Hondo. It just seemed strange that it pops up when you do a search. My searchword was actually "rookie".

Popol Vuh,

I found the topic, and it is on a moderation site. It has not been deleted, and it has been put there due to the content. I was afraid of that, but I had a chance to review, and that is why you could pull it up. If this was deleted, then you would not have known about it. So, you found a way to find a topic, when we send it to moderation site.

Thanks for the information. I didn't know you could do that. And don't worry about it, it's not worth reading or knowing anything about it.

Cheers B)

Popol

I was the member whom started that topic 'John Wayne hero or zero', I was trying to achive a balanced and HONEST perspective of the man. However some felt I was being dishonourable to John Wayne and laid into personal attacks on me and for this reason I demanded that the topic was removed.

:agent:

Hi Robbie and Hondo.

I have no problems with threads being deleted. I feel that the moderators can choose what guidelines they want on their sites. I also want to say that I was not looking for that thread in particular. I did a search for something I remember was posted on this forum a while back and when the results were returned this was one of the threads that turned up. When I clicked on the link I received an error message. From my side it looked like there was a problem on the server. If the thread was deleted I would have expected it not to show up at all. Hondo has explained why this happened and I have no problem with this. Had I known the thread was deleted I would never have bothered to mention it.

For me everything is cool on this forum and it always has been.

Regards
Popol Vuh

Hi Everyone,

Is it just me? or is anyone else finding this site,
terribly slow, and hard to access today??

Keith

Hi Keith -
I've been having the same problem since yesterday afternoon. Most of the time, I've been able to get on, but activation has been sluggish to say the least. A few hours ago, I couldn't log on, but mostly the problem has been a snail's pace for each attempt to go from one area to the next.
Cheers - Jay <_<

This a.m. (local time), the board is still slow, slow, slow in its reactions. I wonder if any other members are having trouble besides Keith and myself?
Cheers - Jay <_<

Hi Kevin and Jay,
Likewise, I am finding it painfully sluggish and slow,
in logging on, etc etc,
Everything is talking an eternity to do!!!
I can't understand why no one else as noticed,
although I do note that not many members have logged on recently!
Perhaps, they haven't waited around!!

Keith

I am having the same problems, its alittle better at work. But, at home I am having no luck. Very slow. See you guys when it straightens out.

Hi,
Just to let you know,
everything is back to normal!!

Keith

That's a relief. I had given up trying to post because the waiting period between clicks was so extensive!
Cheers - Jay -_-

Hi Kevin,

The board seems to have slowed down to a snails pace again,
and this message keeps popping up:-

IPB WARNING [2] mysql_connect(): #08004Too many connections (Line: 115 of /ips_kernel/class_db_mysql.php)


There appears to be an error with the database.
You can try to refresh the page by clicking here.

Keith

Originally posted by ethanedwards@Nov 16 2005, 05:51 AM
Hi Kevin,

The board seems to have slowed down to a snails pace again,
and this message keeps popping up:-

IPB WARNING [2] mysql_connect(): #08004Too many connections (Line: 115 of /ips_kernel/class_db_mysql.php)


* * There appears to be an error with the database.
* * You can try to refresh the page by clicking here.

Keith
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Seems to be alright for me at work. I will try to see what the connection will be like when I get home.

Hi Kevin,
It's OK again now, but the message, that
I copied to you, is the one that frequently occurs,
so now at least you have a note of the error number,

Cheers,
Keith