What's up?
 

Ron, what's wrong with the site? I can't open it :(

Y2K!!!! It's here!!!

Actually, server crashed... fixed soon (I hope).

Yes, I see, it says:

Indeed it does. But it lies! The server is not working correctly and it has nothing to do with traffic. It's Y2K - II!

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Re: What's up?

I'm glad to hear that I wasn't going crazy...didn't want to say anything b/c I thought it was just me. <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

Dang. Social pressure gets me every time.

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Re: What's up?

So that's why i couldn't connect, and i thought it was my faulty modem. Boy I can't wait until I have a T1 again, stupid 56k.

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You call 56k stupid :D? Maximum I can expect is 33.6 (usually goes for 31.2). No problem with the modem - the phone line is as old as my granny.

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Re: What's up?

I miss the Downs. *sniff* <img src=frown.gif ALT=":(">

-red

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"With that they parted, and it was then the time of sunset; and when after a while they turned and looked back, they saw the King of the West sitting upon his horse with his knights about him; and the falling Sun shone upon them and made all their harness to gleam like red gold, and the white mantle of Aragorn was turned to a flame. Then Aragorn took the green stone and held it up, and there came a green fire from his hand."</p>

-Many Partings, The Return of the King</p></blockquote></p>

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Re: What's up?

*hands réd a tissue*
Yeah, all those poor souls who need enlightenment on troll issues and can't access my article...

</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000005>Mister Underhill</A> at: 1/2/01 4:32:51 pm

sigh ;)

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Re: What's up?

Hey Ron! When's the site coming up again? BTW, why don't you respond to Underhill's Olog Hai article? <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)">

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>

The site is back up (for now!)... and Mr. Underhill's article was (partly) in reply to my original article. I don't want to reduce two good article to just preludes to an argument. We already argued about it in here :)

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Re: What's up?

Really? I must've missed that. <img src=tongue.gif ALT=":b">

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>

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Re: What's up?

Fortunately, the Wight has his own personal copy of my article whether the site is up or down. Keep studying, Wight -- I haven't lost hope that you might have a breakthrough! <img src=smokin.gif ALT=":smokin">

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: What's up?

I was reading over these replies and then i caught something..... I am new and well i might just be incompitent. but how was everyone able to post replies about the MUSH being down.....Dont they have to go through the MUSH to get to this forum board? or did they used EZ board to get here i am so lost......

Valkemen</p>

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: What's up?

Got here through the EZ, man.

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: What's up?

I have the EZboard bookmarked so I can come in that way, too, when the site is down... but when people refer to &quot;the site&quot; or &quot;the Downs&quot; here, Valkemen, they mean www.barrowdowns.com, the home of this forum.

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Alas, but:

:eek:

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Not netscapes fault

I assume this is effecting the encyclopedia also?
I always come in through ezboard [which means i don't vote enough , but I am trying ].


Lindil is often found on posting on the New Silmarillion Canon Forum at the Barrowdowns discussion board. 'The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night, and awaken early before dawn- exchanging lore and wisdom such as they possessed , so that they should not fall back into the mean and low estate of those , who never knew or more sadly still, had indeed rebelled against the Light.' </p>

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Not netscapes fault

I don't think I have ever voted for this site, maybe once or twice, but that would be all. I have the ezboard bookmarked and always come through there.

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Not netscapes fault

SHAME!

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Not netscapes fault

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> I don't think I have ever voted for this site, maybe once or twice, but that would be all. I have the ezboard bookmarked and always come through there.<hr></blockquote>
Nor have I ever voted for it. In fact, I can't recall a place to do so. I've visited the 25 Hobbits site, but have never seen a place for voting.

My entry is also by bookmark.

And if Durelen is to be shamed, then I shall join her in receiving the general admonishment (misery loves company). <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)">

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How to Vote

In order to place your daily <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)"> vote for the Downs, which is your favorite website, go to the Downs home page http://www.barrowdowns.comwww.barrowdowns.com</a>, then look for the Vote button on the left side of the screen, near the top. Once you click that button, a new window will pop up for the 25 Hobbits website. For your vote to count, you must then click ENTER. Voila! You have voted for the Downs! <img src=cool.gif ALT="8)">

25 Hobbits will accept a vote for any site once per day. So make it a daily habit!

-réd

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"He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."</p>

-A Short Rest, The Hobbit</p></blockquote></p>

How to vote re:
 

There is not even trouble of looking to the left upper corner left any more - appeal to vote pops up in the first place as soon as site opens completely

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Re: How to Vote

I assure you it does not appear as soon as the site loads.

When bookmarked, no such thing happens.

However I will check out Red's instructions to see the results.

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I am plagued with an unreliable server and bad technical support. If only I could find a good NT host with admins who know what they are doing!

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Re: How to Vote

I see the vote worked now.

Since I prefer to not go through several pages first just to get here; I'll retain the bookmark approach (I should note that the bookmark is to the discussion forums and not the main page, of which I SELDOM [read as: I think thrice maybe] visit; my bad I suppose).

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Well, the question posed in the first post of the thread. I was not able to get to the main site (HTTP 500, server error), not only today, but yesterday too. Is it just me? I mean, if it's just me, I have to contact my proxy server admin, feat I would avoid if I could ;)

After a long absence I found the same problem, so it isn't just you HI. It's been so long since my last visit I wondered if the site had sailed into the West....then I just tried going directly to the forum.

Hi, Inziladun, nice to see you. Where have you beed for so long? :eek:

It's definitely not just you, H-I. I could, however, access the main page and follow most links from that, but the Forum was down. *sniffle*
It's such a cruel world...

I couldn't get in here either! I thought it was just my computer messing up. I guess not.

Heh! I knew it wasn't my puter or my connection messing up, since Yahoo was working perfectly. And if Yahoo is working..... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ November 09, 2002: Message edited by: Maikadilwen ]

Yesterday I couldn't get onto the forum until trying again late afternoon. Then I tried to get on last night and I couldn't even get onto the main page!
I'm glad it's not just me who was having problems.

Well, I managed to get over the trauma of not being able to use the Internet yesterday. Maybe it was an overflow on the web - didn't that happen a couple of weeks ago?

And then, once it started working again, this site was down! What are you trying to do? Scare me into therapy?

I was also unable to enter the Downs, I thought it was because I had changed my home page and it was making my computer nuts. But I found other things to do, I just worked on my new web page called Bree under Bree-hill instead. Glade to see the site is working again. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

yeah i mean i was getting desperate- I mean, i tried yahoo! And it worked! While barrowdowns wasnt! Oh for shame, for shame, I feel like such a traitor...

ok, ill shut up now.

Wierd how u occasionally find these really old threads.

Boast warning, don't read if you don't want to read me bragging about myself ;)
 

So, I'm going to boast, Aman. It's not weird, I just happen to have very good memory, so I remember many of those oldies by name

enjoy it :)
 

Nothing is wrong with my access to the Downs,sure. To be honest, I'm bringing this up as a practical joke. Or, maybe as part of the "know your history" course. For I really enjoyed to reread the conversation where three out of five of our nowadays decorous government talk with what is somewhat less seriousness than is witnessed anywhere on the modern BD ;)

*giggles* I like this "Know Your History" course!
*rereads* Was that really Mr. B-W's posts?!?! And he complains about us...*shakes head* ;)

(Just kidding! ;) )