General Discussion Board, down?

WavyWendy · January 2003

Hello,

When I click on the board, I get:

Content-type: text/html
Software error:
Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at /home/httpd/html/ubb/Forum1/forum_1.threads line 7146.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([email protected]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. Content-type: text/html

Software error:
[Mon Jan 27 13:00:22 2003] ultimatebb.cgi: Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at /home/httpd/html/ubb/Forum1/forum_1.threads line 7146.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([email protected]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

Theresa Hommel · January 2003

Me too!!

HELP!!!! Gretchen where are you??????

Spider · January 2003

Me too, and I can't get to the hair board either

rouquinne · January 2003

ha!

and y'all thought i was nuts last week when i said i was getting continuous error messages. mostly like the one wendy had, but even a new one that i'd never seen before!

what's even stranger is that the hair board says there's one message with two posts!!!

let's face it - we're overloading the server.

we've got to STOP POSTING PICTURES - links only please!

and LIMIT THE SIZE OF YOUR SIGNATURE FILE TO 300 CHARACTERS!!!!

there are sig files that are 5 times as long as some posts!

every character that you type takes up room on the server. each time you post, your 27-line long sig file takes up all that space again.

it is a standard internet convention - and has been for the 10 years that i've been online - that a signature file be restricted to 4 lines.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - restrict your signature file!

every bit of space we take up costs G&M money!

THANK YOU!!!!!!

Spider · January 2003

some good points Rou.

afropuff80 · January 2003

Bah! Not again!

mazey · January 2003

Good points rou. I knew about the pics, but the sig-line limiting makes sense. Especially when they are longer than the whole thread!

rouquinne · January 2003

on Usenet and many other web communities, if you posted with a signature file longer than 4 lines of 72 characters each, you would be banned from membership or find your posts dropped from many servers.

the "rule" started back when server storage space was limited, but it makes sense more than ever when you've got thousands of people posting and more coming on. you might think that it's easy to add gigabytes of storage space, but it costs $$$$$$$$$, and that still isn't as easy to come by...

Mar · January 2003

Hey Ro-I saw your post earlier,but didn't have time to respond-I am sorry to hear about your job situation.

Hang in there,sweetie!

naturalt · January 2003

I understand about the transfer of text, but I don't get it about the images. We aren't uploading images to the nc server, we're linking to other servers. Wouldn't using the href tag and the img src tag use the same bandwidth/data transfer of nc.com if both are accessing data that is on a different server? Can someone technically explain to me how that works?

LovinCurl · January 2003

The internet all around is messed up. A "worm" was released & is affecting the internet all over the world. Every site I go to is either very slow or it says it's experiencing technical difficulties. Just so you know it may be nothing particular to this site.

[ January 27, 2003: Message edited by: LovinCurl ]

mrs.deedle · January 2003

I took Rou's advice and shortened my signature line.. I was a culprit!! OOPS!!!I changed it

emmaline · January 2003

Wah! I need my curly fix!

MassCurls · January 2003

The worm's not affecting the site - this has happened before when the servers get overloaded. The worm only affects sql server, and I'm sure that G&M installed the patch issued in 2001 that fixes the security hole being exploited by this worm (and the board would have died long before now if it was the worm - the internet's been affected by the worm since Saturday am).

I agree with Rou's recommendations.

rouquinne · January 2003

mrs. D - thank you!

if we all do our part to cut down the bandwith, it WILL help!

the worm problem, while mostly fixed, doesn't cause our crashes here. more often than not, i notice that Gretchen posts that she has to delete old messages from the server and then the problem vanishes - until we get too full again.

it's only a month since our last major crash - they used to be farther apart.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - keep your signature file to 4 lines!

hmmm... maybe that's what i should change MY sig file to read.....

mrs.deedle · January 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by rouquinne:
mrs. D - thank you! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

No Problem Glad I could help!!

DeCurlo · January 2003

I get his on the non-hair discussion board:

Software error:
Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at /home/httpd/html/ubb/Forum8/forum_8.threads line 7347.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([email protected]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. Content-type: text/html

Software error:
[Mon Jan 27 15:51:26 2003] ultimatebb.cgi: Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at /home/httpd/html/ubb/Forum8/forum_8.threads line 7347.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([email protected]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

System · January 2003

You're such a party pooper

Edited for my new & improved sig line!

[ January 27, 2003: Message edited by: Sonrizas in CA ]

Diane Montalto · January 2003

the board will not come up for me either...oh no

rouquinne · January 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Sonrizas in CA:
You're such a party pooper<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

gretchen herself asked a couple of weeks ago that we NOT post pictures - only links to them!

and i'm not joking about the signature file thing. on some web communities, they limit the size of the file or don't allow them altogether.

some of them here are completely out of control - entire songs quoted, hair care routines listing ever product ever used, etc., etc., etc. if you're tired of typing out your routine or your list of products every time someone on the hair board asks you for it, do what i do - save it in your notepad and cut and paste it when necessary. it doesn't take more than a few keystrokes to do it and it saves expensive bandwith.

some people can probably even figure out how to program a function key to play it back as a macro!

we have to take some responsibility for care and maintenance of our community. if we don't, these crashes are going to become more and more frequent.

and then sig files WILL be disabled and you'll be stuck typing out that stuff on the hair board every time anyway!

System · January 2003

Perhaps when the non-hair board is back up, you can post your suggestions. I have seen the moderators request that we post links to pics and refrain from words like this: *%#[email protected] (which I'm guilty of doing

) Not sure if everyone saw the message though. Perhaps repeating the bandwidth situation would help. I got your back though.

rouquinne · January 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Sonrizas in CA:
Perhaps when the non-hair board is back up, you can post your suggestions. [...] Perhaps repeating the bandwidth situation would help. I got your back though. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

i will! and thank you, sweetie!

SherryL · January 2003

Yikes!

I knew about the pictures, but was unaware about the loooong sig lines. Mine was a bit over 4 lines, so I am going to try and fix 'er up.

Once the other boards are back up and running, I definitely think that this topic should be posted on both the GD board and the NH board.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

System · January 2003

Whoah! Anyone notice the hair board now has 14 topics? Whereas the non-hair board has 7348? Maybe I'm just reading too much into things...

Curlyq333 · January 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Sonrizas in CA:
Whoah! Anyone notice the hair board now has 14 topics? Whereas the non-hair board has 7348? Maybe I'm just reading too much into things...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, I noticed that too.

Gretchen · January 2003

Try now, everyone.

System · January 2003

Yeah! I've been gone for 2 weeks & was bummed to see it down on my first day back!

Thanks Gretchen!

System · January 2003

Yes, thank you Gretchen!

Gretchen · January 2003

Hey all,

Sorry I was so late in responding to the problems. I was busy with kidlets all day and didn't notice.
I did indeed clean out some old posts and that seems to have helped. I probably need to whack some more, too.

Thanks, Rou, for the suggestions. Bandwidth is indeed so expensive.

MassCurls · January 2003

I'm still getting errors when I respond to posts on the curly hair discussion board - same error as the original one.

[ January 27, 2003: Message edited by: MassCurls ]

rouquinne · January 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gretchen:
Thanks, Rou, for the suggestions. Bandwidth is indeed so expensive.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

my pleasure - anything to help!

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