[chris]

Strange - I was in bed then (it being our night time) - but the server is usually extremely quick. Perhaps it was your provider (ISP) experiencing a busy period, or a batch of viruses ? Did you compare other sites to see if they were equivalently slow ?

Even from my present location in Australia the service is lightning fast !

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
 - Groucho Marx

[neilep]

Alright Alright !!..you're in OZ !!........That was the first thing I did was check other sites and they were fine...I'm sure you're probably right about the server, though it is PIPEX and I'm using 1mb ADSL......when I have noticed it before It's been in the middle of the night...I assume on those occassions it might be planned maintenace eh ?...I'll keep you 'posted' if  i notice again. Enjoy the Southern Hemisphere Chris *extreme jealousy*...though I was in Oz last year..so there !!!

Neil

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[tweener]

I've seen occasional delays and even outages in the middle of the UK night (afternoon for me).  Not often.

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John - The Eternal Pessimist.

[neilep]

at 10:42 am today...there was definitely an outage....lasted 3 mins and all i got was the 'action cancelled' screen.....all other websites were fine.

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[neilep]

Same thing happenned yesterday (tues 27th April)about midday for 10minutes...the site was inaccessible with the usual 404 type error page....all other links in my favourites were working !!!..now I'm getting a complex that the site itself doesn't like me !!!!

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[chris]

This sounds bad - the host promote themselves as offering 99.9% uptime. This sounds like it might need a phone call. Thanks for letting me know guys.

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
 - Groucho Marx

[tweener]

Just to report that I haven't been able to get in for the last 10 minutes or so.  Now it seems fine.  The pages just never finished loading.  No errors.

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John - The Eternal Pessimist.

[neilep]

My head aches when I spend too long on the site !! Please make the site Head Ache friendly !!


OK Ok...I'll keep it to serious error logs !!

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[Donnah]

Sometimes when I post a reply it punts me out to the "All Forums" level.

[neilep]

quote:Originally posted by Donnah

Sometimes when I post a reply it punts me out to the "All Forums" level.

YES....(me being serious now)...that happens to me a lot too....already a few times in the last 24 hours.......

It also happens when I post a New Topic

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[neilep]

A bit of lag happenned for the last 10 minutes.....each page loaded but was very very slow....seems ok now.

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'  

[tweener]

Me to.  For the last half-hour or so I've been getting slow response.  A couple of times, the page errored out with the "this page cannot be displayed...." error.  Most of the time they load, sometimes fast sometimes really slow.

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John - The Eternal Pessimist.

[valley]

Can't hear the radio shows or interviews. It isn't just me either; a friend says they can't either. Doesn't work on Windows Media Player or Real Player (just re-installed real player and still no luck). On Windows Media Player it just never starts, and on Real Player it looks like it's playing but there's no sound. My volume is up and is not muted.



Ps: You also seem to have some non-working and dodgy (to ad sites) links on your news bit (general & bio science sections IIRC)

[thedoc (OP)]

Thanks for letting us know about these points. Have you been listening via "latest show" because that takes its feed from the BBC. As the show is currently between series there is no audio to hear !

However, if you visit the archives - http://www.thenakedscientists.com/html/shows/archive.htm see if those shows work. I know there is a problem with the 1st Feb. show (the audio file has been lost) but the others should work. Please bear in mind that some firewalls will not accept streamed content - the NHS, British Antarctic Survey, and Babraham institute are three such institutions.

Let me know if it is still not working and I'll make more enquiries. Has anyone else had this problem ?

[valley]

Woo it works! Maybe I just tried the broken ones before?! Thanks anyway []

[neilep]

I don't this is a problem, but when I do a search I often get a time-out-thingy-technical message with no result, then, when clicking on the browsers back button and reinitialising the search it responds immediately with the results !!...

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[NakedScientist]

Yes, this is a frequent problem with large databases on Snitz. I've checked the snitz homepage and many people report this.

An alternative to using the forum search is to use the whole site search and add "discussion forum" to the search terms. Here's a link to the search page http://www.thenakedscientists.com/html/search.htm

TNS

[rosy]

I've noticed a few times in the last couple of weeks that sometimes people make posts which show up in the "latest posts" section and make the folder show pink to indicate posts I haven't viewed, but the post itself is invisible in the forum.
Today's example is a post from neilep at 19:59 today on the Just Chat / To pull or not to pull thread. The other one I noticed was comments by PhirePhly (sp??) on atmospheric gases.
I don't know what's causing it, but I'm assuming the post's there somewhere...

[neilep]

Rosy, i think I might have the answer.....if you make an ' edit'  to an existing post it still shows up as if a new post has been added. I did in fact edit my post on the To Pull or not to Pull thread just only a few minutes ago, just before you posted this error log.......

I'm sure that's the answer.

Neil


Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[rosy]

Ah ha! That would probably be it.
Thanks Neil