down again today :(

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:35 pm

only an hour and a half this time though...

Post by **chickenjohn** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:59 pm

I'm wondering, has the site been subject to a denial of service attack for some reason????

Post by **Orkney** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:21 pm

Longer than that Ray, most of the day in fact just popping on sporadically (or however you spell it)
CJ thought about a dos attack but its doubtful. The powers that be should be having some answers by now from the hosts - especially as they were 'keeping an eye on it'

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:22 pm

Not sure about this morning (I was busy sleeping) but it worked from 12:00 to 14:00 then came back at 15:30 and has been on ever since.

Post by **bpr81a** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:28 pm

Still being investigated by the service provider - andI'm checking the logs - when I'm not at work.

Post by **dalebrignall** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:32 pm

just managed to get on been off since saturday had fun with passwords and confermation codes

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:43 pm

Still being investigated by the service provider - andI'm checking the logs - when I'm not at work.

Many thanks for your work on this Jon!
Hope you get it resolved ASAP so we can all give you a break ;-)

Post by **bpr81a** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:18 pm

getting really sad now - logged into a unix shell and checking the running processes!

Post by **alex_holden** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:57 pm

What's sad about that? (guess what I do all day at work...)

Post by **bpr81a** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:03 pm

We usually refer to the unix lot as the 'short trouser brigade' - my normal work involves......COBOL

Post by **alex_holden** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:13 pm

bpr81a wrote:my normal work involves......COBOL

Do you still have to prepare your work on punched cards and send them off every night for the operator to feed into the mainframe?

Post by **bpr81a** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:16 pm

not quite. I did use a hand punch for my first ever program though!

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:17 pm

not quite. I did use a hand punch for my first ever program though!

wow! now even I'm impressed by that

I wrote my first program on a ZX80.

Post by **bpr81a** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:24 pm

Actually that was my first full time job program. My first was on a machine that stored its programs onlittle magnetic cards - maximum of 1000 steps (where goto label was 3 steps!) that was about 1977.

Post by **bpr81a** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:25 pm

nearly forgot - when my nerves recover, I'll tell you about the last outage!