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READ the Forum Rules!

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by RealBlackStuff » Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:19 pm » in RULES of the ROAD

Before posting, please read the Forum Rules of the Road . .

And please pay particular attention to Section 5. PICTURES .

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Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:19 pm
PM notifications have changed

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by rkawakami » Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:55 am » in Forum Announcements

Due to the recent upgrade of the forum software (phpBB), the option to display a pop-up window when a member has a Private Message (PM) waiting to be...

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Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:03 am
Please report Forum-bugs/errors here (PHPBB)

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by rkawakami » Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:38 pm » in Forum Announcements
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The forum software has been upgraded to phpBB version 3.1.3. Currently it should be at a stable point for layout changes; you may notice that the...
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Forum donations for upgrades

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by JaneL » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:01 am » in Forum Announcements
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If you've noticed the new maintenance outage announcements, you know that Bill is actively working on upgrading the forum software and fixing the...
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Site status 12/16/13: Still some connection errors

Last post by BillMorrow « Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:14 am
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by rkawakami » Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:44 pm
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As of now, Sunday Jan 6, 2013 at 4:30PM Pacific time, the forum seems to have mostly recovered from a major outage. I would caution that any NEW...
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Last post by BillMorrow
Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:14 am
Site slowdown 3-Jan-2021 @ 1110-1125PST (1910-1925GMT)

Last post by RealBlackStuff « Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:37 am
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by rkawakami » Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:37 pm

Just experienced an extreme slowdown of the site. Actions were taking several minutes to complete. My other internet connections were fine....

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Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:37 am
***OUTAGE of Jan 27, 2018***

Last post by BillMorrow « Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:39 pm

by BillMorrow » Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:39 pm

The recent outage, apparently caused by the folks at HOSTMONSTER, is, hopefully, over..
Below is an email i received from hostmonster on Jan 24 at...

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Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:39 pm
Site slowdown - 3/16/2017; UPDATE 3/19

Last post by rkawakami « Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:30 pm
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by rkawakami » Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:11 pm

Hoping this gets through...

Had problems logging in last night. Several is it down sites reported forum.thinkpads.com offline. Finally able to log...

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Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:30 pm
**FORUM OUTAGE** Dec. 9 thru dec 10 forum outage, cause was......

Last post by BillMorrow « Sat Dec 10, 2016 2:00 pm

by BillMorrow » Sat Dec 10, 2016 2:00 pm

sometime in the evening hours, eastern US time, the dedicated server hosting company, HOSTMONStER, to whom i pay over $200 monthly, failed, for the...

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Sat Dec 10, 2016 2:00 pm
Outage Oct 22, 2016 1400-1430 PDT

Last post by rkawakami « Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:44 pm

by rkawakami » Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:44 pm

Noted a forum outage from about 2PM (PDT) to somewhere around 2:30. A couple of error messages were shown; one indicating that the board was disabled...

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Last post by rkawakami
Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:44 pm
**WELCOME TO THE NEW SERVER for the FORUM **

Last post by BillMorrow « Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:50 pm

by BillMorrow » Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:50 pm

thanks to joe hayes the thinkpads forum is now running on a new hostmonster.com dedicated server with a higher server plan that is, on balance,...

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Last post by BillMorrow
Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:50 pm
Server Migration Complete - Report Issues or Feedback Here

Last post by mdvaldosta « Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:41 pm

by mdvaldosta » Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:41 pm

We've completed the server migration and, if you're reading this, you're on the new server. Welcome! This migration was necessitated by the immense...

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Last post by mdvaldosta
Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:41 pm
an ANNOUNCEMENT & Forum was down monday, sept 19, 2016 for hours

Last post by BillMorrow « Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:03 am

by BillMorrow » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:03 am

the DB locked up or something..
too many connections for MySQL and i did not have the expertise to do anything about it..

now, on the recommendation...

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Last post by BillMorrow
Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:03 am
**WE ARE BACK, This is what happened**

Last post by BillMorrow « Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:56 am

by BillMorrow » Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:56 am

The forum dedicated server was configuered thus: 500 gig storage, 4 gig memory, about 4 cpu's..
on or about monday the 26th of Oct. the Apache OS...

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Last post by BillMorrow
Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:56 am
**FORUM UPDATE to 3.1 from 3.0 coming**

Last post by BillMorrow « Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:53 am

by BillMorrow » Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:53 am

this is a major update and will take about 20 minutes once the update process is started..
forum will be down for this time..
other changes will be...

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Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:53 am
Dec. 4 through Dec. 8 2014 massive spam attack

Last post by BillMorrow « Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:06 pm

by BillMorrow » Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:06 pm

From about Dec. 4, 2014 and ongoing to about Dec. 8 2014 there was and will continue to be, from time to time, mass spam attempts on the...

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Last post by BillMorrow
Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:06 pm
**SITE DOWN FOR 15+ HOURS, Thanks to www.hostmonster.com**

Last post by BillMorrow « Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:18 am

by BillMorrow » Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:18 am

well, wednesday afternoon at 13:30 EDT thinkpads.com went down along with most every www.hostmonster.com hosted website ESPECIALLY the important...

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Last post by BillMorrow
Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:18 am
System backups

Last post by BillMorrow « Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:29 pm
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by BillMorrow » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:12 am

I will be taking the forum offline, from time to time, at about 3:00 am eastern USA time to backup the system..
this should take no longer than 15...

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Last post by BillMorrow
Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:29 pm
**FORUM UNAVAILABLE ERROR**

Last post by BillMorrow « Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:24 am

by BillMorrow » Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:24 am

During some server changes a bad IP was left and while this has been corrected, now, at 3:23 AM EST it will take some time to propagate throughout...

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Last post by BillMorrow
Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:24 am
VIRUS induced DoS attack July 27, 2010

Last post by Craigyas « Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:25 pm
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by BillMorrow » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:35 am

About 3 or 4 pm eastern time a virus or worm on hundreds of chinese computers commenced an attack on a block of IP address's which took down the...

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Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:25 pm

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