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Jason Dunn
06-19-2003, 03:16 AM
Welcome to the new digs! :mrgreen: The FIRST person who posts a response to this message (once the DNS changes have gone through) will win a Microsoft Amiga Pocket Pak, courtesy of Microsoft. The race is on...<br /><br /><b>UPDATE:</b> We of course <a href="http://pocketpcthoughts.thoughtsmedia.com/images/haiku.gif">did our customary haiku</a> for the move. :D
mhowie
06-19-2003, 03:21 AM
I hope I have won the race!!!!
Jason Dunn
06-19-2003, 03:27 AM
I hope I have won the race!!!!

Indeed, you're the winner! Jeese, even when I switch servers I can't have contests that last very long. :roll: :lol: Congrats!
jaybird
06-19-2003, 03:43 AM
Any consolation prizes for 2nd? 8)

P.S. Did I forget to mention I'm a fellow Canadian? :wink:
dean_shan
06-19-2003, 03:47 AM
What is the Amiga Pocket Pak?
Janak Parekh
06-19-2003, 04:01 AM
What is the Amiga Pocket Pak?
That's a good question, ain't it. I have no clue either. :-D

BTW, there may very well be minor quirks over the next 24 hours or so. Fabrizio, our brilliant web developer, worked hard to make sure it's seamless, but we've upgraded Apache, php, and a ton of other stuff, so please bear with us. :)

--janak
Newsboy
06-19-2003, 04:01 AM
Gimme somethin! I never win anything!

(Just kidding! Though, really, I never have won anything from PPCT.)

Congrats boyz! (And girl!)
Jason Dunn
06-19-2003, 04:41 AM
What is the Amiga Pocket Pak?

It's a little SD card with cool Amiga games on it. I think CompUSA is selling them. :-)
Chris Leckness
06-19-2003, 04:47 AM
Super Fast. I like !
sparkyewu
06-19-2003, 04:50 AM
Did he say a race? I hope i win.
nosmohtac
06-19-2003, 05:32 AM
even though I didn't win anything, I'm glad your back!

I was lost the last few hours and had to start surfing the forums on other sites........ It just wasn't the same. :)
cmchavez
06-19-2003, 05:51 AM
Everything looks good so far!
maximus
06-19-2003, 06:52 AM
and I thought that someone hacked the site. :)

well, anyway, is there a prize for someone living outside the U.S. and Canada who posted as soon as he wake up in the morning ? I use my right hand to type this post, and brushing my teeth with my left hand. That should qualify for a prize :mrgreen:
mangochutneyman
06-19-2003, 07:27 AM
Wow...I dunno if it just psychological, but the site definitely seems much zippier to me!! Congrats! :D
dean_shan
06-19-2003, 07:31 AM
UPDATE: We of course did our customary haiku (http://pocketpcthoughts.thoughtsmedia.com/images/haiku.gif) for the move. :D

What font did you use to make that? I love it.
ddwire
06-19-2003, 01:28 PM
I checked in last night and saw the message the server was being updated. Just got in my office now this morning at 7:25am us central time. 8)
Jason Dunn
06-19-2003, 03:52 PM
Wow...I dunno if it just psychological, but the site definitely seems much zippier to me!! Congrats! :D

Trust me, it's not psychological - our old server was always getting hammered, which would result in everything slowing down, and when things got to be too slow (a load of 10 or more), we had a script that would kill everything and restart the Web and database services. This new server is much more powerful, so service restarts shouldn't be needed.
Jason Dunn
06-19-2003, 03:52 PM
What font did you use to make that? I love it.

It's called AlphaMack AOE, which I think it's it's installed as part of Age of Empires... 8)
isilver
06-19-2003, 04:16 PM
I check this webpage everyday to find out about the news and realized that it was down last night and early this morning. Was this a planned thing because I didn't see any notice posted that this might occur.

But why cry about spilt milk.
Crystal Eitle
06-19-2003, 04:23 PM
I was lost the last few hours and had to start surfing the forums on other sites........ It just wasn't the same. :)
Yeah, it's weird going to other forums. It's the same but,... different. It's like going to a different rock club than the one you usually go to, but in the same city. You see a couple people you recognize, but mostly it's a different crowd.
gorkon280
06-19-2003, 06:17 PM
:jawdrop: :rock on dude!: SPEED IS AMAZING! I can't believe how fast it is. Congrats on getting some real hardware! ;)
JvanEkris
06-19-2003, 06:44 PM
Love the speed, my compliments to the tech-guys.

Jaap

PS: Jason, take good care of these guys, they are hard to come by !
ajgray
06-19-2003, 07:26 PM
Site is nice and snappy now - good job, and thanks!

It looks like the RSS feed may have been a victim of the move, however:

http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.pocketpcthoughts.com%2fxml%2f

-- Andy
ARW
06-19-2003, 07:28 PM
The new hardware is serving you well. Great job on the upgrade!

I'm just curious what will happen to the old server. Is that where SP Thoughts is going to reside until it becomes too popular?

Keep up the great work,

Al
Jonathon Watkins
06-19-2003, 07:56 PM
Looking good, feeling good! :beer:
slothdog
06-19-2003, 08:16 PM
It's called AlphaMack AOE, which I think it's it's installed as part of Age of Empires... 8)

Actually, it probably came from the Astigmatic One Eye (http://www.astigmatic.com/) font foundry....

Just checked, it's in the "free fonts" section there.
Stik
06-19-2003, 08:57 PM
AOL and your PHP thingee would not let me post messages. ( Unless I would access the site thru IE )

Let's see what happens w/ your new setup. Fingers crossed!

*EDIT*

Wow! Success! Cool! :mrgreen:
Robert Levy
06-19-2003, 10:45 PM
It looks like the RSS feed may have been a victim of the move, however:

http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.pocketpcthoughts.com%2fxml%2f

-- Andy

It was valid before? I know I've complained to Jason a couple of times about how any text in bold or italics gets stripped out.
darrylb
06-19-2003, 10:50 PM
What I want to know is - what did Pony99CA and Kati do while the site was down..... :lol:
Kati Compton
06-19-2003, 10:52 PM
What I want to know is - what did Pony99CA and Kati do while the site was down..... :lol:
Search google for our names, finding other places where we're wanted....
Jonathon Watkins
06-19-2003, 11:02 PM
It's called AlphaMack AOE, which I think it's it's installed as part of Age of Empires... 8)

Actually, it probably came from the Astigmatic One Eye (http://www.astigmatic.com/) font foundry....

Just checked, it's in the "free fonts" section there.

Thanks! There's some NICE free fonts there. Much appreciated! :D
Jason Dunn
06-20-2003, 02:40 PM
It's called AlphaMack AOE, which I think it's it's installed as part of Age of Empires... 8)

Actually, it probably came from the Astigmatic One Eye (http://www.astigmatic.com/) font foundry....

Just checked, it's in the "free fonts" section there.

Haha - whoops, bad guess as to what "AOE" stood for on my part then. ;-)
beq
06-22-2003, 06:26 AM
What's the deal with my cable ISP, they must be running transparent web cache proxies or something (had earlier tried different DNS lookups to no avail). Have only now able to access new PPCT server directly (it's been displaying the haiku for the longest time).

I've been forced to access the site via a (anonymizing) proxy, until just now...

P.S. I've noticed the same troubles accessing from this ISP when playing around in general w/ changing domain IPs, dynamic DNS, etc.
Jason Dunn
06-22-2003, 06:49 AM
What's the deal with my cable ISP, they must be running transparent web cache proxies or something (had earlier tried different DNS lookups to no avail). Have only now able to access new PPCT server directly (it's been displaying the haiku for the longest time).

Does it help if you press down CONTROL+F5? That forces a cache bypass, and can sometimes help with proxy caches as well.