Runboard problems https://billusia.runboard.com/t11891 Runboard| Runboard problems en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:49:47 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:49:47 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: New registrationshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p236209,from=rss#post236209https://billusia.runboard.com/p236209,from=rss#post236209I see what you mean. Even though it shows the "User name bad format" error message, it would have worked when she submitted it, but your advice was good under the circumstances. I'll let Thor know about this error message. Thanks, Skokey. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:15:43 +0000 Re: New registrationshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p236208,from=rss#post236208https://billusia.runboard.com/p236208,from=rss#post236208Someone is trying to register as a new user at Runboard and as she is typing Huggins, there is a warning that the name is no good when she gets as far as Hug. I tried it and the same thing happened. Then I tried it without the capital H and it worked. I told her to register that way and changed the capital letters after. I hope that works. Do you know what's going on there?nondisclosed_email@example.com (SKOKEY)Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:05:44 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233310,from=rss#post233310https://billusia.runboard.com/p233310,from=rss#post233310Yay on both counts! nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:31:49 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233305,from=rss#post233305https://billusia.runboard.com/p233305,from=rss#post233305Yes I do. And I have very reliable family staying in the house, so they will be safe. 8 days to departure.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:36:35 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233299,from=rss#post233299https://billusia.runboard.com/p233299,from=rss#post233299I hope you have a good place to lock them away. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:52 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233295,from=rss#post233295https://billusia.runboard.com/p233295,from=rss#post233295  I'm bringing them home with me from the UK. and yes, you are right. I'm going to organise the UPS plugs when I come back from overseas. Don't have time to do that before I go. Most of the toys will be turned off an locked away while I'm abroad.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:17:44 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233290,from=rss#post233290https://billusia.runboard.com/p233290,from=rss#post233290I think you need to protect the toys you have before buying more. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:49:38 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233286,from=rss#post233286https://billusia.runboard.com/p233286,from=rss#post233286Yes I do, but I have so much technology and I move it around all the time, so sometimes I miss the outlets that have surge protection. I'd like to put ups adapters on all the technology so that I can shut it down properly when the lights go out, but sometimes it's a toss up between a new toy or a UPS. I think I must just get them.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:05:40 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233276,from=rss#post233276https://billusia.runboard.com/p233276,from=rss#post233276I hate monopolies. Of course they'll tell you nobody else has complained. They would rather put the blame on you or the websites than to admit any fault on their end or do anything about it. As for unannounced power outages, don't you use a surge protector?nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:25:09 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233272,from=rss#post233272https://billusia.runboard.com/p233272,from=rss#post233272We;re both with MWeb which is owned by Telkom who own everything to do with telephony in SA. Even though we have another telephone company, Neotel, they are merely another name for another company in bed with Telkom who own all the cables that everybody else uses. SA has a very strange economy. If you start a company and it gets big enough to be a threat to the big boys (who are all in bed with each other and the government), you get bought out. If you won't go to bed with them, they put you out of business. It's very sad but true. The government has always had a finger in every pie in this country. A true monopolistic economy. Telkom is huge. Mweb say that I should speak to the site owners. They haven't had complaints from other users and Telkom of course denies that anything that ever goes wrong with the web is their problem. It's ok, I'll live with it. I actually think the problem was caused by one of our power failures that messed up something in my router because the problem started when I switched on after a long outage. Unfortunately there's not much I can do about the power supply company, which is also owned by the government, being inefficient and not telling us when they're going to turn off the electricity. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:52:02 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233260,from=rss#post233260https://billusia.runboard.com/p233260,from=rss#post233260I've always thought "internal server" errors always had to do with the website being accessed (Runboard, in your case, Petal), although I could be wrong. In MO's case, it definitely sounds like an ISP problem, despite their claim to the contrary. I once had a problem trying to access a website that had moved to a new server with a new IP. While other ISPs were sending people to the new IP where they were able to access the website, AOL's servers still had the old IP in their logs and it prevented all of their users from accessing the website. I was on Netscape at the time, which is a child company of AOL and uses AOL's servers. I asked two other Netscape/AOL users, who verified that they couldn't reach the site either, but I was able to access the site through a different ISP, as well as through a proxy site, and was able to identify the cause of the problem. But when I spoke with AOL, they vehemently denied there was a problem on their end, so of course they didn't fix it, and nobody could access that website until AOL's logs were updated through a regularly scheduled process. The details of this are pretty technical, but the point is they denied the problem was on their end, when I knew full well that it was. Running both of your IPs just now, it looks like MO's ISP may be the parent company of Petal's ISP. For this and other reasons, I question whether an internal server error necessarily applies to Runboard, or if it's ISP-related. I do know that I haven't run into any of MO's problems at all, nor have I run into any internal server errors here recently, which adds to my suspicion of it being ISP-related.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:32:25 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233249,from=rss#post233249https://billusia.runboard.com/p233249,from=rss#post233249It says 'an internal server error occurred; please try again later' but after refreshing the page the post is there anyway. I'm not sure whether it's a runboard problem, a Safari/Apple problem, or a service provider problem - but it's irritating and it shouldn't be happening.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Petal Alderin)Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:50:56 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233246,from=rss#post233246https://billusia.runboard.com/p233246,from=rss#post233246As Mo says it happens at any time - but with me, it's only after I post a reply ... some days are worse than others, so it's all a bit weird but I'm learning to live with it!nondisclosed_email@example.com (Petal Alderin)Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:19:21 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233244,from=rss#post233244https://billusia.runboard.com/p233244,from=rss#post233244When it happens, it is all the time. Now it's fixed but I'm still having to refresh these pages and photobucket for some strange reason. It's not a cache problem because I've set it to clear every time I quite the program, either Firefox or Safari. Very odd. my ISP also say it's not them. It's not a problem anymore, I've gotten used to refreshing each page as I read them, I just find it odd that only those two sites do it, and I have no doubt that there's something in the router that's causing it. So i wouldn't worry too much about it. I'm able to use Safari again so the problem seems to have been fixed with AG.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:14:08 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233242,from=rss#post233242https://billusia.runboard.com/p233242,from=rss#post233242Is it happening around the time you made your posts, or at all times of the day? I ask this question of both of you, although the 2 problems seem unrelated and I would guess MO will say all times of the day. I haven't been running into connection problems, but unless I take a really late lunch, I'm usually at work during the time on Petal's post.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:40:23 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233237,from=rss#post233237https://billusia.runboard.com/p233237,from=rss#post233237I'm getting so many messages, especially when posting, that the server has interrupted the connection and I must try again later. If I bail out and immediately reconnect, everything's fine. And my post is usually there. But it's very irritating!nondisclosed_email@example.com (Petal Alderin)Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:29:10 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p233235,from=rss#post233235https://billusia.runboard.com/p233235,from=rss#post233235Remember I had that problem with this board, when it kept telling me there was a problem and you fixed it? Now it's doing it to Anything Goes. So I have to use Firefox which for some reason keeps crashing. I dunno, the more they fix bugs on these things, the more bugs they seem to get.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:29:06 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232176,from=rss#post232176https://billusia.runboard.com/p232176,from=rss#post232176If you're not sure, you really should call your ISP to make sure they're aware of the problem, because it sounds to me like that's where the problem is.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:08:45 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232171,from=rss#post232171https://billusia.runboard.com/p232171,from=rss#post232171It would be interesting to know if other people are having the same problem. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:13:20 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232163,from=rss#post232163https://billusia.runboard.com/p232163,from=rss#post232163I'm just glad you were able to get in, and hope your ISP or whoever it is will sort the problem out soon, before you pull out all your hair. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:22:44 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232160,from=rss#post232160https://billusia.runboard.com/p232160,from=rss#post232160It seems like I'm destined to have endless trouble with this cache thing. Now it's on Photobucket as well. Also I can't get into this board with Safari, so I've had to log in with Firefox and do the double-refresh thing. Oy! it seems like trouble just goes looking for me!   nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:26:04 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232149,from=rss#post232149https://billusia.runboard.com/p232149,from=rss#post232149Sounds like a good plan. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:43:02 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232143,from=rss#post232143https://billusia.runboard.com/p232143,from=rss#post232143It's very odd. But I've found a way around it now and I'm leaving it like that until someone comes up with a solution.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:06:12 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232139,from=rss#post232139https://billusia.runboard.com/p232139,from=rss#post232139It's definitely a cache issue, but the problem is figuring out where it is. It can't be your browser's cache, since the problem started suddenly with every machine you use, including your mobile. If it's your ISP's cache, I wouldn't expect refreshing or even hard refreshing to work at all, because this won't clear your ISP's cache. The same goes for any connection between your router and Runboard, since none of this has anything to do with your browser, which is all that should be affected with a refresh or hard refresh. This is what boggles me.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:39:17 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232135,from=rss#post232135https://billusia.runboard.com/p232135,from=rss#post232135The problem is worse in Firefox. I did log in there this morning using my detective ID. I have to 'refresh' twice in Firefox but only once in Safari. So I'll leave my own ID in Safari and use Firefox only when I want to play detective games with the other ID. I spoke to John about it yesterday. He says that it is a cache problem and the problem is somewhere along the line from my router to Runboard's server. And because we use various servers along the way (we don't link direct from our ISP to the server), it could be any of the links between me and Runboard. Possibly the problem will resolve once the whole fibre-optic installation is done and the fast connection is running properly. In the meantime I just refresh, again and again.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:23:32 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232130,from=rss#post232130https://billusia.runboard.com/p232130,from=rss#post232130I don't blame you for being nervous about switching browsers when you've got one of them working. I assume it doesn't matter which screen name you're logged into, though? You can log in to a different account through Firefox while you're still logged into yours through Safari. But, as long as you are having to refresh pages in Safari, I doubt it will work at all in the other browsers until the problem works itself out.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:12:39 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232127,from=rss#post232127https://billusia.runboard.com/p232127,from=rss#post232127I possibly could go back to Firefox but now having successfully logged in I'm a little nervous to log out on this browser again to log in on Firefox. This one also makes the pages look different so it's not my first choice. For instance to see your last post, I had to refresh the page twice. When I first go to the site I have on my toolbar, it shows it as it was when I left, I refresh and then the 'new' all show up. When I click on the 'new' links, sometimes I see the new posts, other times I have to refresh again before I can see which thread has the new post and then again to read the new post. But at least now I can see my posts after I've done them and I can access my control panel, which I couldn't do yesterday. I'm sure it will work itself out, I'm convinced it's something to do with the new telephone links to Europe. I really don't know and I'm fishing for reasons here. But it's ok now, at least the frustration level is a lot lower than it was when it first happened.   nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:35:42 +0000 Re: Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232118,from=rss#post232118https://billusia.runboard.com/p232118,from=rss#post232118No need to apologize, MO. I completely understand your frustration, and only wish I had a solution to the problem. It baffled me when Petal had that problem, and it still baffles me. I don't understand how one machine can suddenly start having problems with only one site but not others, while another machine using the same ISP... or even a different browser on the same computer... can have little or no problems with the aforementioned site. I'm glad Safari is working for you though, and I hope you're able to use Firefox on Runboard again soon, as well.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lesigner Girl)Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:50:29 +0000 Runboard problemshttps://billusia.runboard.com/p232117,from=rss#post232117https://billusia.runboard.com/p232117,from=rss#post232117Lesa, the problem I'm having with posting. I'm using Safari now, and just refreshing after I've made posts. That seems to work. At least I'm able to post on the boards. I'd be a little upset if it didn't work at all. Safari isn't as nice to use as Firefox but I'm not going to log out of it and try Firefox again. Rather not risk it all going wrong again. Just so you know, if I go missing again, that this is the problem I'm trying to deal with. It's definitely not anything to do with my computers because this morning at the movies, while I was waiting for the film to start, I went to look at Anything Goes on my cellphone, and it also had the problem. So I think there's something between our main ISP and Europe. It could be because of the new fibre optic cables that they're installing around the country. I don't know enough about the technicalities but for now at least, this seems to be working. Sorry about bothering you with it. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morwen Oronor)Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:34:31 +0000