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[wizer]

Serious, I read it in the Sport, it must be true...

(if drinking did anything other than give me a migraine I'd like nothing more than to have a lager or five)

 

[studders]

I've heard the world's ending tomorrow....

I heard it was yesterday, did it happen?

 

[wizer]

Pretty much. This is must be heaven.

 

[Charley]

Hi,

Just a quick note to let you know what's going on before the rumour starts that I've sold up and retired to the Bahamas The new forum design is the first stage in work I'm hoping to get done over the next few weeks. Not for potential buyers but to give UKW a fresh look and hopefully add some long over due features that will benefit everyone.

Sorry for the problems with the fonts, they all should be sorted now. I uploaded an old version of the stylesheet from the development account by mistake. The issue with the URLs should be fixed as well. I'm still trying to work out what went wrong. The modification I installed to convert the URLS to be search engine friendly stopped working when the hard drive crashed but only spotted it recently. I couldn't find the original one so had to install a slightly different version.

Work's a bit hectic this week then I'm going away on holiday for a week but will be cracking along with the updates when I get back. In the meantime I'm going to setup a little questionnaire to ask for your feedback and suggestions on what you would like to see on UKW.

 

[wizer]

Vague as ever Charley :roll:

My only question is, do you have the time to keep the content up to date? You don't take part in the forum any more, which I assume is due to 'life' commitments. So does this mean you will be returning to regular posting as well as daily\hourly content updates? I don't mean to sound blunt, but if you're not committed to keeping the 'new features' current, then you might be better not to bother. Ultimately, UKW is successful due to it's laid back independent atmosphere.

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks Charlie for your post above.

(I remember the Record forum, (does anyone?), your posts were frequently deleted on trade issues.)

Personally I find the forum runs smoothly and if someone kicks off , I turn the other cheek.

 

[9fingers]

The issue with the URLs should be fixed as well. I'm still trying to work out what went wrong. The modification I installed to convert the URLS to be search engine friendly stopped working when the hard drive crashed but only spotted it recently. I couldn't find the original one so had to install a slightly different version.

I can only assume this change is the reason I am now getting so many DNS lookup failures. Any suggestions Charley?
My ISP is NTL

TIA

Bob

 

[head clansman]

hi all

problems with the new changes you all seem to be getting , what problems mines working fine no problem at all :duno: . hc

 

[CHJ]

Thanks for the time and effort Charley, life has a habit of sending us all curve balls at times that disrupt the best laid plans, let us know when you've settled in. Sifting through a thread on 'Suggested Tweaks' could be a whole job in itself though. :lol:

 

[devonwoody]

Vigin (blueyonder) is perfect

 

[CHJ]

I can only assume this change is the reason I am now getting so many DNS lookup failures. Any suggestions Charley?
My ISP is NTL

TIA

Bob

I don't think it's all been down to UKW server, several hosting servers (or the connections to them) we use have been disrupted for some reason over the last week, some in the london area going down for a couple of hours at a time.

 

[9fingers]

Vigin (blueyonder) is perfect

Do you know the address of the Blue yonder DNS lookup server you are using?

I expect I could get to it over the NTL network with a bit of luck and see if it is any better?

TIA

Bob

 

[devonwoody]

Vigin (blueyonder) is perfect

Do you know the address of the Blue yonder DNS lookup server you are using?

I expect I could get to it over the NTL network with a bit of luck and see if it is any better?

TIA

Bob

Sorry Bob, thats beyond me, PM me with details instructions and I would be pleased to help.

 

[xy mosian]

Have a relaxing holiday Charley.

xy

 

[matt]

If anyone is experiencing problems following the changes then there's a couple of lightweight things you could try before going to great lengths.

Firstly... hold down CTRL and refresh the page. CTRL forces the refresh to refresh from the server rather than including any local content.

For a more thorough approach to having your pages served up from the server (thus including all the new content and connections); clear your local internet files. The method varies according to browser but is invariably under Tools.

Might also be worth clearing cookies too.

Mine is working fine so I've not had to use either of the above but then my history clears every time I close my browser unless I've specifically protected certain cookies (Mozilla add-on Cookie Culler).

 

[jlawrence]

As with most ISP's the BY nameservers can only be queried from IP's on their networks.

It's good to have a new look every now and then. Advertisers don't like things that stay stale.

 

[9fingers]

Thanks for the suggestions and the offer of help DW although it looks like I would not be able to access BYs DNS servers anyway.

I'll give it a few days and see how the frustration levels are before doing anything rash!

Bob

 

[TobyT]

Try OpenDNS.

I personally haven't tried it but it's fairly well known.

http://www.opendns.com/solutions/household/

 

[9fingers]

Thanks Toby.

I'll give that a try if things don't improve in a few days

Cheers

Bob

 

[misterfish]

i had a problem some time ago with my ISP (F2S) - progressively worsening with more and more DNS failures. I found that if I used the IP address everything was fine. After some searching it turned out the ISP had updated and expanded their capacity and were changing to new DNS servers with a new IP address. A quick configuration change and all was fine.

It turned out that the change had been mentioned in a previous newsletter but with nothing to emphasise the importance of the fact.

My ISP has allocated me a fixed IP address so configuration has to be done manually.

Misterfish