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Boards Chief Administrator Beat Reporter
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The boards have been restored up to Sunday morning. Anything posted since then had been lost. There are still some lingering issues with Nfanfic.net but it is being worked on by the web host. Thanks for hanging in there.
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Hack from Nowheresville
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Annette, Thank you for all you do.
Sue
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Pulitzer
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I'm just glad that you were able to get everything back up through the 25th.
See, this is why Clark's retentive computer habits are so important...
James
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Kerth
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Thanks for your good work!
The only known quantity that moves faster than light is the office grapevine. (from Nan's fabulous Home series)
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Top Banana
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Great job taking care of us Annette!
Angry Clark: CLARK SMASH! Lois: Ork!
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Freelance Reporter
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Thank you, Annette
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Top Banana
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Thank you Annette! Simona
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Pulitzer
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Thank you so much Annette! I'm glad you were able to recover what you did!
-- DJ
Smile and the world smiles with you ... frown and you're just giving yourself wrinkles.
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Top Banana
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I'm just glad it's back Thanks
If she had to move heaven and Earth, perhaps come back to haunt Perry and explain the story after they'd killed her, she would do it.
Waking a Miracle by Aria
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Pulitzer
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Patient? Well, I was hitting "refresh" repeatedly... but I understand that stuff happens, and I'm just so glad we have somebody to slay the tech-dragons for us! {{{Annettte}}} PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed. He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement." "You can say that again," she told him. "I have a...." "Oh, shut up."
--Stardust, Caroline K
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Merriwether
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Patience here is nothing. I'm currently hitting my own web host, so I totally understand the frustrations!
"You need me. You wouldn't be much of a hero without a villain. And you do love being the hero, don't you. The cheering children, the swooning women, you love it so much, it's made you my most reliable accomplice." -- Lex Luthor to Superman, Question Authority, Justice League Unlimited
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Come on Lois you havent said a word since 1866!
Thanks for the avatar, Hana.
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Merriwether
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Yay! It's back! Thanks!
Jackie
Superman: I hear you've been looking for me. Lois: All my life.
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Whew! Thought I was going to have to interface with the real world on an extended basis. Thanks for all the work involved in restoring the site!
Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.
- Stephen King, from On Writing
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*Kate faints from withdrawal* I know how you feel! I figured it was the server since it happened a little bit ago, but I started to get worried that it was never coming back! Thank you, Annette! I'm amazed at what you were able to restore. People like you will probably fascinate me for the rest of my life. ~Kristen
Joey: If he doesn't like you, then this is all just a moo point. Rachel: A moo point? Joey: Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion, you know, it just doesn't matter. It's "moo." Rachel: Have I been living with him for too long, or did that all just make sense?
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Blogger
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YEA!!!! THANK YOU!!!
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the work you do for us FoLCs, Annette! Ann
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Merriwether
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Thank you, Annette. I was seriously suffering withdrawal, too. It was so weird to open my browser (this is my homepage) and nothing was there. All I could think was, my friends are gone! So glad we're back up and running.
lisa in the sky with diamonds
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I did have to face the realworld! [Eek!] LOL! How long was it down? Just curious since my internet has been up and down all week. This was just one more site I couldn't load, so it was the norm for me. <g> JD
"Meg...who let you back in the house?" -Family Guy
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Pulitzer
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Thanks, Annette! Jen, I think the boards were down for approximately a day and a half. Tricia
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At first I thought it was my internet connection, and once I realized that it was the site that was down, I suddenly didn't have nearly enough to do online anymore! Thanks for getting these boards up and running again.
Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.
~Saw it on a T-Shirt.
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Merriwether
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Unfortunately, I still can't access the boards from my PC. I still get the four score logo screen. I'm currently using my old iMac (with aol 5.0) to get here.
I've tried rebooting a couple of times but that didn't work. Some have mentioned something about 'clearing cookies' but to me that just means that I've eaten the last of the Oreos in the cupboard.
You must remember that I'm an old man, and my computer expertise stops pretty much after turning the thing on.
Oh well, it's nice to have this back up.
Tank (who is still not convinced that this isn't a conspiracy to keep him off the boards)
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Tank, you use Internet Explorer on your main computer, don't you? Here's what to try: First option:Go to the boards home page on your main computer. If you still get the error page, hold the Shift key down and click Refresh at the top of the screen. This will force your computer to look for the most recent version of the page. If that doesn't work - Second option:Open a browser window. Click on Tools. Click on Internet Options. Click on Clear History (the final option in that window). This deletes pages your computer has stored in its memory - what it might be doing is 'caching' the boards page from when the server was down. And if that doesn't work - Third option:Same dialogue box in IE - Tools, Internet Options - but this time click on Delete Cookies. This is a bit more drastic - all stored passwords, records of pages visited and so on will be deleted, but it should work if the other methods didn't. Good luck! Wendy
Just a fly-by! *waves*
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Merriwether
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When you click Clear History, also click Delete Files. The history is just the list of visited website. The Files (aka Cache) are the little bits of each website you visit, such as images and other details, so that you don't have to download them each time.
"You need me. You wouldn't be much of a hero without a villain. And you do love being the hero, don't you. The cheering children, the swooning women, you love it so much, it's made you my most reliable accomplice." -- Lex Luthor to Superman, Question Authority, Justice League Unlimited
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Merriwether
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Thanks for the info. I'll see if I can make any sense out of it on my other computer.
Does that fact that I use aol as my internet provider (and dial-up) mean that I won't be able to recognize the steps you've provided?
We must also take into consideration that I'm a complete incompetant when it comes to what most people think is obvious computer stuff.
I'm not really an idiot, but I have no real background in computers. When I was in school computers used fortran, and IBM punch cards.
Worst case is that I will have to resort to using this old machine to access the boards and will have to resign myself to never sending any more stories to the boards (since I do my writing on the pc).
Tank (who will give things a futile try after he signs off here)
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Kerth
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Worst case is that I will have to resort to using this old machine to access the boards and will have to resign myself to never sending any more stories to the boards (since I do my writing on the pc). No! Tank, you can access your email account with your 'normal' pc, can't you? Copy and paste your stories into a new email and use the "Save as draft" option - or send it to your wife. That way, you can access your story from your olc iMac. That way, you can copy and paste it again onto the board. (I've been using this technique for a while for university stuff - the computers there only have disk drives, and my laptop doesn't have one of those old-fashioned thingies any more.)
The only known quantity that moves faster than light is the office grapevine. (from Nan's fabulous Home series)
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Merriwether
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Okay, between the hints that Wendy and others have given me, and the AOL help menus, I've finally reconnected with the boards. At least for now.
Thanks to everyone who gave me guidance.
Tank (who supposes that this means he'll have to go back to working on "The Prankster's Revenge")
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Pulitzer
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Yay! A new Tank story! How soon can we expect it?
Smile and the world smiles with you ... frown and you're just giving yourself wrinkles.
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