OK, it’s probably time for a thread. In recent weeks this forum has often been (to put it bluntly) completely bunninged. Clicky clicky clicky on the posts and nothing happens. Hanging, sticking, doing nothing much and doing it very slowly. Is it an inherent fault of the software, or due to where it’s being hosted, or what? And do we, the posters, need to fork out a bit of money (which is only fair) to fix it?

Bubblecar said:

OK, it’s probably time for a thread. In recent weeks this forum has often been (to put it bluntly) completely bunninged. Clicky clicky clicky on the posts and nothing happens. Hanging, sticking, doing nothing much and doing it very slowly. Is it an inherent fault of the software, or due to where it’s being hosted, or what? And do we, the posters, need to fork out a bit of money (which is only fair) to fix it?

Something to talk to cb88 about. Yes it has been like the plague but I generally think that’s my dialup.

No, it’s not you, it’s just not working. I emailed cb88 but everyone else needs to, too.

Eeek, I was going to reply straight away to this post, but I do believe you have invoked the wrath of the forum gremlins by bringing it up, Bubbles. I hit the ‘reply’ button, and it took at least 30 seconds for the forum to respond.

As to fixing it, I’m with you. If cb88 wants, or needs, monetary assistance to keep the forum alive and well, I will have no problem in throwing in some hard earneds.

It’s pretty fnerked over here and I usually don’t have issues with it.

I blame Boris’ photo spree from recent weeks and the fur that is falling off that wooky thing.

It’s pretty fnerked over here and I usually don’t have issues with it.

I blame Boris’ photo spree from recent weeks and the fur that is falling off that wooky thing.

There you go…a double post. I never do those :P

I blame Boris’ photo spree…

smooting as i like to call it. some good stuff though.

kii said:

There you go…a double post. I never do those :P

Bullshit! I just saw one!

And we don’t want any of your stinking, feelthy yanky dollars either!

you did that on purpose.

sometimes its slow, sometimes its quick

theres no rhyme or reason with it

I can only think that maybe that the sever does other stuff and when is heavy for doing other stuff it slows down here???

sibeen said:

kii said:

There you go…a double post. I never do those :P

Bullshit! I just saw one!

And we don’t want any of your stinking, feelthy yanky dollars either!

Okay :)

Boris said:

you did that on purpose.

No, seriously…no.

wookiemeister said:

sometimes its slow, sometimes its quick

theres no rhyme or reason with it

I can only think that maybe that the sever does other stuff and when is heavy for doing other stuff it slows down here???

Bugger, after the first two lines I began to think that you were coming up with some witty prose, wookie.

Then you completely stuffed up.

ok.

:-)

Although, at the moment it may be a web issue, or at my end. The comments section at the Guardian doesn’t appear to be loading for me at the moment.

I think you’d need need to know how cb88 has set this forum up to give a guess about this sort of thing

would this forum be run directly from a piece of hardware sat in his living room or remotely in internet space on some big server??

wookiemeister said:

I think you’d need need to know how cb88 has set this forum up to give a guess about this sort of thing

would this forum be run directly from a piece of hardware sat in his living room or remotely in internet space on some big server??

it runs from the other side of the globe.

It just needs some

careful consideration..

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

I think you’d need need to know how cb88 has set this forum up to give a guess about this sort of thing

would this forum be run directly from a piece of hardware sat in his living room or remotely in internet space on some big server??

it runs from the other side of the globe.

whaaaa? you mean mossad?

wookiemeister said:

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

I think you’d need need to know how cb88 has set this forum up to give a guess about this sort of thing

would this forum be run directly from a piece of hardware sat in his living room or remotely in internet space on some big server??

it runs from the other side of the globe.

whaaaa? you mean mossad?

:) hey there .. get on your own cloud.. Ever wanted a dropbox on your own server?

I recently checked out http://owncloud.org/ it’s pretty cool!

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

I think you’d need need to know how cb88 has set this forum up to give a guess about this sort of thing

would this forum be run directly from a piece of hardware sat in his living room or remotely in internet space on some big server??

it runs from the other side of the globe.

Well, if that’s the case I retract my last statement. I say “let’s make kii pay”.

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

roughbarked said:

it runs from the other side of the globe.

whaaaa? you mean mossad?

:) hey there .. get on your own cloud.. Ever wanted a dropbox on your own server?

I recently checked out http://owncloud.org/ it’s pretty cool!

I thought I’d drop the mossad thing in for a laugh

sibeen said:

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

I think you’d need need to know how cb88 has set this forum up to give a guess about this sort of thing

would this forum be run directly from a piece of hardware sat in his living room or remotely in internet space on some big server??

it runs from the other side of the globe.

Well, if that’s the case I retract my last statement. I say “let’s make kii pay”.

you could ring up the labor party and get Gillard to make a new tax to fund this forum

wookiemeister said:

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

whaaaa? you mean mossad?

:) hey there .. get on your own cloud.. Ever wanted a dropbox on your own server?

I recently checked out http://owncloud.org/ it’s pretty cool!

I thought I’d drop the mossad thing in for a laugh

Oh I was laughing.

wookiemeister said:

sibeen said:

roughbarked said:

it runs from the other side of the globe.

Well, if that’s the case I retract my last statement. I say “let’s make kii pay”.

you could ring up the labor party and get Gillard to make a new tax to fund this forum

Why the heck do you think we are on this holiday in the first place?

wookiemeister said:

you could ring up the labor party and get Gillard to make a new tax to fund this forum

No, not a tax, let’s call it a levy. A levy on every other forum in the country, to fund this one.

party_pants said:

wookiemeister said:

you could ring up the labor party and get Gillard to make a new tax to fund this forum

No, not a tax, let’s call it a levy. A levy on every other forum in the country, to fund this one.

Took my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry..

yes I get problems here, during different times of the day when I click on a thread or a post it takes a minute or so to load.

CrazyNeutrino said:

yes I get problems here, during different times of the day when I click on a thread or a post it takes a minute or so to load.

a minute or so?

lucky bugger.

Social sciences question:

There’s two good alternative forums – What is stopping us from moving over to them?

I’m here, I’m not fucking moving.

Got a problem with that, laddie?

:)

There’s two good alternative forums –

0
What’s wrong with this one…

sibeen said:

Got a problem with that, laddie?

You are opening yourself to accusations of selfishness for not sharing your considerable talents with a broader community. Otherwise, no.

dv said:

What’s wrong with this one…

It’s not a loaded question. Car thinks “this forum has often been (to put it bluntly) completely bunninged”

(I think CB88 is on holidays and the forum is too much for the server, so things are starting to play up)

maybe someone is up to tricks with Dos attacks

I thought it was just the work computers as I’ve not had any trouble with it on the home ‘puter.

The forum spends a while stuck on “connecting” and takes forever to load.

If you switch it on and off at the wall a few times, would that help?

Forum’s working fine from my iPhone.

Except Wookie’s posts are upside down.

Skeptic Pete said:

Forum’s working fine from my iPhone.

Except Wookie’s posts are upside down.

ǝuıɯ ɟo ǝɯos puɐ

roughbarked said:

Skeptic Pete said:

Forum’s working fine from my iPhone.

Except Wookie’s posts are upside down.

ǝuıɯ ɟo ǝɯos puɐ

daorbyek ruoy htiw gnorw gnihtemos

pommiejohn said:

roughbarked said:

Skeptic Pete said:

Forum’s working fine from my iPhone.

Except Wookie’s posts are upside down.

ǝuıɯ ɟo ǝɯos puɐ

daorbyek ruoy htiw gnorw gnihtemos

possibly. It goes in sʇɹɐʇs and sʇıɟ

roughbarked said:

possibly. It goes in sʇɹɐʇs and sʇıɟ

LOL. Now you’re just showing off :)

pommiejohn said:

roughbarked said:

possibly. It goes in sʇɹɐʇs and sʇıɟ

LOL. Now you’re just showing off :)

anyone can do it.. wookie was just crowing about finding 1980 tech.

Rule 303 said:

Social sciences question:

There’s two good alternative forums – What is stopping us from moving over to them?

Go bunnings yourself you mother-bunnings bunnings head

>>Go bunnings yourself you mother-bunnings bunnings head

Yes, quite.

Dropbear said:

Rule 303 said:

Social sciences question:

There’s two good alternative forums – What is stopping us from moving over to them?

Go bunnings yourself you mother-bunnings bunnings head

And stay out!

Bubbles, did you ever get a response from cb88?

Things are getting fairly dire on occasion.

No, ‘fraid not sibeen. I did urge others to contact him as well but I don’t know if anyone did. It probably needs a lot of emails to demonstrate that it’s not just the vagaries of one poster’s connection.

Is anyone else finding it fairly slow to load this evening?

sibeen said:

Is anyone else finding it fairly slow to load this evening?

It has been a bit ‘sticky’.

it comes and goes.

working fine here

The forum difficulties thread is slow to load..I guess that fits

sibeen said:

Is anyone else finding it fairly slow to load this evening?

yes

sibeen said:

Is anyone else finding it fairly slow to load this evening?

Only a little bit.

;)

Angus Prune said:

sibeen said:

Is anyone else finding it fairly slow to load this evening?

Only a little bit.

;)

It is always slow for me.

This forum runs ok for me. But other forums can be exceptionally slow and often load in some sort of text format. I imagine it is something to do with my computer settings. Can anyone suggest a fix?

morrie said:

This forum runs ok for me. But other forums can be exceptionally slow and often load in some sort of text format. I imagine it is something to do with my computer settings. Can anyone suggest a fix?

just switch it on and off…

morrie said:

This forum runs ok for me. But other forums can be exceptionally slow and often load in some sort of text format. I imagine it is something to do with my computer settings. Can anyone suggest a fix?

Move to a city.

sibeen said:

morrie said:

This forum runs ok for me. But other forums can be exceptionally slow and often load in some sort of text format. I imagine it is something to do with my computer settings. Can anyone suggest a fix?

Move to a city.

I’m tempted, but there are too many smart arses in the city, IME. :P

morrie said:

sibeen said:

morrie said:

This forum runs ok for me. But other forums can be exceptionally slow and often load in some sort of text format. I imagine it is something to do with my computer settings. Can anyone suggest a fix?

Move to a city.

I’m tempted, but there are too many smart arses in the city, IME. :P

I was under the impression that Morrie had already taken up WA’s entire allocation of NBN bandwidth (2 streams). Why would he need to move to the city?

if I lived in the country I would try to run my own landline to the nearest proper connection or maybe some wifi connection to somewhere in the nearest town

you could always buy somewhere on a hill that faced some comms tower and have proper antennae facing it

wookiemeister said:

if I lived in the country I would try to run my own landline to the nearest proper connection or maybe some wifi connection to somewhere in the nearest town

you could always buy somewhere on a hill that faced some comms tower and have proper antennae facing it

Damn, why didn’t I think of that?

wookiemeister said:

you could always buy somewhere on a hill that faced some comms tower and have proper antennae facing it

That’s what my Dad has – he’s in line of sight to a nearby Optus tower. He gets great signal strength, but that doesn’t mean he gets a lot of bandwidth. When there’s a lot of schoolkids online (eg around 4PM), the bandwidth can be abysmal.

wookiemeister said:

if I lived in the country I would try to run my own landline to the nearest proper connection or maybe some wifi connection to somewhere in the nearest town

you could always buy somewhere on a hill that faced some comms tower and have proper antennae facing it

So long as you don’t overload your input amplifier. Being too close to a tower can get you no signal at all.

he’s in line of sight to a nearby Optus tower. He gets great signal strength, but that doesn’t mean he gets a lot of bandwidth. When there’s a lot of schoolkids online (eg around 4PM), the bandwidth can be abysmal.

i’m with virgin who use optus and it is the same for me.

morrie said:

This forum runs ok for me. But other forums can be exceptionally slow and often load in some sort of text format. I imagine it is something to do with my computer settings. Can anyone suggest a fix?

This is caused by your connection timing out and so you are not downloading all of the resources required to render the page correctly. You can either try reloading the page or upgrade your connection.

fsm said:

morrie said:

This forum runs ok for me. But other forums can be exceptionally slow and often load in some sort of text format. I imagine it is something to do with my computer settings. Can anyone suggest a fix?

This is caused by your connection timing out and so you are not downloading all of the resources required to render the page correctly. You can either try reloading the page or upgrade your connection.

Thanks for the explanation, fsm. I can’t upgrade the connection. It is already NBN satellite, which is as good as it gets here. The functionality seems to have declined recently though.

>>He gets great signal strength, but that doesn’t mean he gets a lot of bandwidth. When there’s a lot of schoolkids online (eg around 4PM), the bandwidth can be abysmal.<<

I thought that was just an excuse I made up for myself! I used to get it on the dialup … now the dialup is faster than the wireless dongle at that time of day.

:)