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Offline Mysterious Benefactor

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WE'RE BACK!
« on: December 06, 2002, 08:48:57 AM »
Yes, finally!

I still have tons of older posts to restore. But we're definitely back open for business.

All the older posts will start reappearing as I continue my uploading.

(Midnite <-- )

Take that on your DSL!

But I'm STILL not bitter...
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Re: WE'RE BACK!
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2002, 09:06:36 AM »
Hello, it's nice to be back, lol!!!  I thought the grinch was at work here, first taking away the show, and now the board as well!!  Glad to see the down time is over.

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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2002, 09:16:19 AM »
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(Midnite <-- )

Take that on your DSL!

But I'm STILL not bitter...

Hee hee, you're incorrigible!
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2002, 09:26:29 AM »
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Hee hee, you're incorrigible!

Hey, you started it over on the Testing board. I'm simply adding my part. ;)

And besides, no one ever said 40-something-year-olds have to always act responsible and mature. I mean, just look at most of us who post here for proof of that! [lghy]
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Re: WE'RE BACK!
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2002, 10:22:25 AM »
I was quite startled when I tried to come here last night and got:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/1.3.26 Server at www.dsboards.com Port 80

I can never figure out error messages - why don't they say what they really mean?  I'm sure that forbidden and permission bit has nothing to do with it!

Anyway, it was a shock to come tonight and find it gone - but at least there was the explanation and I figured I couldn't have missed too much!!!  :)  :)  :)

WELCOME BACK!!
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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2002, 10:48:03 AM »
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Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/1.3.26 Server at www.dsboards.com Port 80

I can never figure out error messages - why don't they say what they really mean?  I'm sure that forbidden and permission bit has nothing to do with it!

Actually, they had everything to do with it  - and nothing to do with it - both at the same time. (How's that for being confusing? But stay with me...)

The reason people we're receiving:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

was because after the problems started yesterday, I tried to upload a new version of the forum's index.html file containing a message to alert people about them (the message that was displayed until about two hours ago), but when I tried to do that, I was told that I couldn't upload because the server's hard disk had run out of space. So, instead of uploading the new file, the server erased the existing index.html file. The forum is hosted on a server running Linux (not [puke] Windows!!), and on a Linux system no one can view the contents of the root directory (that's what the "/" part of the error message stood for) using a browser (you have to use an FTP client, like WS_FTP, and have the username and password to log in). So, when it said you were forbidden to access the root directory, that's exactly what you were (unintentionally) trying to do. But the reason the forum had been acting wacky and the reason I wanted to put the new index.html file up in the first place had nothing to do with any of that.
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Re: WE'RE BACK!
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2002, 03:03:35 PM »
Yippee i had upgraded to 8.0 and could not get back on
thought i had done something but finally got board explaining problems!

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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2002, 10:21:11 PM »
Mysterioso darling,

Great news.  Now do tell us about your new Avatar.  I'm *very* curious and I'm convinced there's a story behind it!

That pushy queen in Boston,

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Re: WE'RE BACK!
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2002, 10:23:42 PM »
Hi, MB [wavey] glad you guys are back.
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2002, 11:56:08 PM »
Hip-Hip-Hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so glad you have everything straighten up
and the DS Forums back in business [thumb]
Thanks for all your hard work :)
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Re: WE'RE BACK!
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2002, 01:22:36 AM »
HOORAY!  I was worried that I'd done something silly and would be locked out of the magic land of DS Forums forever.  Glad to see that the site is back up!  Thanks to MB and anyone else who had a hand in the hard work getting it online again!

Gratefully,

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« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2002, 03:23:45 AM »
When I tried to log on and the 'FORBIDDEN' message, etc. came on, I quickly did a mental take on everything I had posted recently and surmised that I could not have possibly done anything so terrible as to be kicked off.  But, it was still nerve racking but I'm glad everything is is in fine running order now.

Great job!
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« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2002, 04:33:39 AM »
Well, like some of the others, I am the QUEEN of the guilty conscience! On an intellectual level I knew that I had not posted anything THAT terrible and that if I HAD, Midnite would have at least emailed me. But there is something about that FORBIDDEN floating in front of your eyes that is much like the discomfort I get driving with a police car in the next lane!
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« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2002, 10:29:36 AM »
It's great to be back again!!  Like the others here I couldn't figure out what was going on and I thought my computer was on the brink again!

Thanks to MB, Midnite & Dom for getting this all back up and running again!  You guys are great!  :-)

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Re: WE'RE BACK!
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2002, 03:36:37 PM »
LOL!  We all feel so guilty, don't we?  I, too, wondered if I'd committed some terrible, unforgivable faux pas on this forum, but also realized that if I had, Midnite would have, cyberly, knocked my knuckles with a ruler via e-mail.

I'm very happy to see we're back, and I thank MB, Midnite and Dom for making it so.

Hey, bad enough we don't have the eps to watch, but to lose this board, too. . .

Robin shivers.


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