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Title: MEM forum down?
Post by: Chuck in E. TN on November 17, 2016, 11:51:21 AM
I'm getting 'Error Too many processes' for several days now...

Chuck
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 17, 2016, 12:07:21 PM
Yep, same here - annoying isn't it. It comes up for a few hours then gone again  :bang:

I have sent out a cry for help from the computer literate MEM Admins just before 13:00 GMT today but nothing so far. I feel so bad about it not being on line   :palm:

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 17, 2016, 12:17:59 PM
Update:

Just had confirmation that our hosting site is having problems which are STILL not yet resolved (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Unhappy/cool-unhappy-071.gif).

Sometimes I wonder why we willingly have anything to do with computers (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Computer/computer-17.gif)

Jo

Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: AdeV on November 17, 2016, 12:24:18 PM
Jo, sorry about being slow to respond... busy day (VAT return time = 1/2 day chasing down stupid invoices for £1.74 because the accountants won't JFDI claiming back the VAT  :palm:

Anyway, I feel extra-guilty, 'cos I'm the one who recommended the host (Daily) in the first place. And ever since we put MEM on there, Daily has been nothing but trouble!

Apologies all MEM users - our "dedicated" host is working flat out to, hopefully, fix our site & the dozens of others they broke. Meanwhile, we are looking for a better way...
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Stilldrillin on November 17, 2016, 02:48:28 PM
I feel, I have a limb missing! :scratch:

When, "Is it me?" strikes. This is useful...... http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

David.
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: PekkaNF on November 18, 2016, 02:08:27 AM
There has been a lot of activity world wide...much of the boards are targeted most attacs this month has been from usual suspects. Like one Finnish board that has only few hundred memers suddenly got 500 bots visiting from ZH.
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Pete49 on November 23, 2016, 10:33:02 PM
well 4 days now with only 'too many processes' happening. Any idea if the board is going to be up anytime soon. I'm in meltdown here people
Pete
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 24, 2016, 03:56:33 AM
I know the feeling Pete. Our provider's site still claims that they are trying to fix it  :bang:.

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: John Rudd on November 24, 2016, 06:15:27 AM
I just tried and its back up.... Assuming its the correct site... :scratch:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Pete49 on November 24, 2016, 07:04:24 AM
so did I but its not
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on November 24, 2016, 08:54:52 AM
Seems OK to me. Had no trouble at all yesterday or today.

Logged in several times.

 :scratch:

Dave
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 24, 2016, 09:04:30 AM
 :scratch: I get the idea I am the only one who can't get access to it.

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on November 24, 2016, 09:56:06 AM
Jo

Have you tried doing a search for Modelenginemaker and then use that URL rather than one on a   'Favourites Bar' ??

Some months ago I kept getting 404 to a site and the FBar link seemed to have got stuffed. After I got in OK once, the one on the FBar worked OK again ...

T'Internet Moves in Mysterious Ways ...  :zap:

Failing that, the Gods obviously have it in for you and you'll have to sacrifice a Jaffa Cake or a casting or summat ...  :(

Dave

Try this:

http://www.modelenginemaker.com/index.php

Works fine for me ...


Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: mcostello on November 24, 2016, 10:34:29 AM
Just tried the link and still too many processes running :bugeye:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: awemawson on November 24, 2016, 10:36:57 AM
Works OK from here :scratch:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on November 24, 2016, 10:37:03 AM
Still works fine for me ...  :thumbup:

I must be favoured ....  :med:  .... off to buy Lottery Tickets ...  :D

Dave
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 24, 2016, 11:09:41 AM
Still not working for me. I've tried Windoze machines, Linus, static/dynamic internet addresses.  :bang:

And its Thursday so I am banned from the workshop  :( so that means it is time for the Thursday night fondle  :ddb:

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: awemawson on November 24, 2016, 11:10:54 AM
.... more details required .... :clap:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: AdeV on November 24, 2016, 11:21:00 AM
It's working fine for me too...

Jo's told me what tests she's run, and they're all the proper IT ones (the REAL ones, not "have you tried turning it off and on?")... so I have no idea why she (and others) are still seeing the error message. It does seem like a cache thing, but that shouldn't affect different OSes...

Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 24, 2016, 11:28:49 AM
.... more details required .... :clap:

It involves a good bottle of wine and use of the dining table  :coffee:

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on November 24, 2016, 11:38:13 AM
.... more details required .... :clap:

It involves a good bottle of wine and use of the dining table  :coffee:

Jo

Jigsaw puzzle on mine ...  :thumbup:

Not Dommie though ... this;

http://www.paulatchinson.co.uk/shop/products.php?p=393077

D.
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 24, 2016, 11:53:55 AM
Jigsaw puzzle on mine ...  :thumbup:

Open bottle of wine on mine  :med:

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on November 24, 2016, 12:07:16 PM
Jigsaw puzzle on mine ...  :thumbup:

Open bottle of wine on mine  :med:

Jo

I'll bet my jiggy lasts longer  ...   :lol:  :lol:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: millwright on November 24, 2016, 02:53:08 PM
Ive not been able to get on MEM for over a week now thats on laptop,tablet or phone . just get the Error to many processes.

John
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: RobWilson on November 24, 2016, 03:42:13 PM
Works fine for me , W10  ,Google and Microsoft Edge , EE  Home BB      :thumbup:

Rob
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: AdeV on November 24, 2016, 04:50:20 PM
OK, I'm at home now & can't access it (Error: too many processes)

Can anyone get access now?
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: RobWilson on November 24, 2016, 04:54:00 PM
Still works for me Ade ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,cos I is a confuzer wiz  :lol:




Rob
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: awemawson on November 24, 2016, 04:59:52 PM
Still working for me  :scratch:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: AdeV on November 24, 2016, 05:03:06 PM
This is too weird..... I still can't access it from here (home), but I bet if I logged into the office I'd be able to get onto it.
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on November 24, 2016, 05:24:36 PM
Still OK for me  :thumbup: on both PCs. except the T.O D. clock is still adrift by 2 hrs. it seems.

W7 IE11 on the desktop & Linux / Firefox on the laptop.

However my electronic egg-timer has gone flaky :( any connection I wonder ???

Dave

 
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Pete49 on November 24, 2016, 09:03:04 PM
5 days and no connection.....I'm trembling and shaking and the fever won't break
Pete
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 25, 2016, 02:50:41 AM
I can get on the forum this morning  :bugeye:.

Is any one else having any better luck?

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: AdeV on November 25, 2016, 03:47:10 AM
It's working for me at home now as well....

I did send them a couple of traceroutes yesterday (one working, one not), whether that's related to it getting fixed or not, I have no idea...

Anyone still not able to access it?
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: RobWilson on November 25, 2016, 03:52:24 AM
Works for me still Android some where in Teesside



Rob
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on November 25, 2016, 11:26:08 AM
Its gone again  :bugeye:.

Another night of  :bang:

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on November 25, 2016, 12:11:17 PM
Still OK here ... did have a 404 on MEM about an hour ago but it kicked in again some 5 mins. later.

D.

PS    New AA battery resurrected egg timer  .  :thumbup:  ( Weird really, with a 65mA drain the battery showed 1.52V steady but the timer was NBG ... Same drain on new battery says 1.46V and the wretched timer works ..  :scratch: )

Not sure whether to blame Climate Change, Brexit or Mr. Putin ... I'll have a 'Speckled Hen' while I think about it.   :beer:

Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on January 19, 2017, 09:12:44 AM
 (http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/traurig/a020.gif) Sorry guys our misbehaving hosting server seems to have gone bits up. We have raised a ticket with the provider but no response so far :bang:


The absolute worst case is that we have a copy of the forum from the 10th January already running on our new server....but not any of the posts since the 10th  :( Like my acquisition of the drawings for the OHV conversion for my Challenger or completing the AHC  (http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/traurig/g015.gif)

Jo

Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: John Rudd on January 19, 2017, 09:52:06 AM


PS    New AA battery resurrected egg timer  .  :thumbup:  ( Weird really, with a 65mA drain the battery showed 1.52V steady but the timer was NBG ... Same drain on new battery says 1.46V and the wretched timer works ..  :scratch: )

Not sure whether to blame Climate Change, Brexit or Mr. Putin ... I'll have a 'Speckled Hen' while I think about it.   :beer:

Dont forget to pluck the feathers off it...., :lol:

Last I heard re MEM, due back some time today......
Best have another speckled egg while we wait..... :beer:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on January 19, 2017, 11:57:46 AM
Alas, S-Hen all gone.   :( Now on this:

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Wadworth-6X/268799011?prevPageIndex=7&from=shop&tags=%7C105651%7C103120%7C150066%7C161710&parentContainer=%7C103120%7C150066%7C161710_SHELFVIEW

Last of the Crimbo donations. Will now have to buy my own. Bugger. Oh, Fickle Fate. I deserve better. Still have 2 bottles of wine left but I can't stand the wretched stuff. Will have to nip down to Jo's and off-load 'em like some of the last lot ... Don't suppose Morrison's would take 'em in part chop for something more suitable for yer average toe-rag ????  Nah .. not that lucky .

Dave
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on January 19, 2017, 12:32:48 PM
 :thumbup:

As I know some of you are missing your fix..... this is one I prepared earlier:

Quote
In the beginning Majesco did more than the diesels it is famous for, it did a lovely little side-port petrol engine of 4.5cc. Known as the Majesco “45”, it was one of the first British engine to appear after WW2. The prototype seems to have been developed before the war as the initial claims was that by mid 1946 it had already provided 7 years of service.

This little engine is over-square with a bore of 19mm and a stroke of 15.8mm. You could buy it ready to run for a vast £6 10s or for £1 16s as a kit that you could make yourself. This is one of those original kits 8)

The aluminium alloy castings are diecast rather than sand so they have a nice silky smooth finish. The design has a few little quirks such as the cylinder being bolted on from below despite that it is renown to be a good little runner and is much favoured by today’s vintage fliers (aircraft not modellers ).

Isn't it a cutie and the kits not bad either   :ddb:

Jo

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Chuck in E. TN on January 19, 2017, 01:45:11 PM
404 not found error here (E.TN, USA) just now. Can't ping either...

Chuck
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Chuck in E. TN on January 19, 2017, 02:12:53 PM
If anyone can reach MEM, can you tell me the IP address? I'll try to reach it that way.

Chuck

Disregard above, doesn't work from here either. If I try ip address, I get a message to contact webpage host. If I try http://www.modelenginemaker.com, I get a index of folders...

Chuck
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on January 19, 2017, 02:42:28 PM
:thumbup:

As I know some of you are missing your fix..... this is one I prepared earlier:

Quote
In the beginning Majesco did more than the diesels it is famous for, it did a lovely little side-port petrol engine of 4.5cc. Known as the Majesco “45”, it was one of the first British engine to appear after WW2. The prototype seems to have been developed before the war as the initial claims was that by mid 1946 it had already provided 7 years of service.

This little engine is over-square with a bore of 19mm and a stroke of 15.8mm. You could buy it ready to run for a vast £6 10s or for £1 16s as a kit that you could make yourself. This is one of those original kits 8)

The aluminium alloy castings are diecast rather than sand so they have a nice silky smooth finish. The design has a few little quirks such as the cylinder being bolted on from below despite that it is renown to be a good little runner and is much favoured by today’s vintage fliers (aircraft not modellers ).

Isn't it a cutie and the kits not bad either   :ddb:

Jo

Jo

Looks a big engine ?? What size is the plug. 10mm ?

Largest engine I ever had, (1 + alotofbits ), was a marinised Taplin Twin. Only got it going once  :scratch: and just about suffocated in a mates shed.  Green anodised water jackets IIRC.
T'other was an ED racer ( 2.5CC ??? ) Can't really remember.

Back in my model boat days, electrics more my style. Much more dignified.

Dave

Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Roger B on January 19, 2017, 02:58:08 PM
Is the big casting to the left an aluminium fuel tank rather that the plastic one of the fully built version?
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on January 19, 2017, 03:25:42 PM
Looks a big engine ?? What size is the plug. 10mm ?

...

Dave

That is a 3/8" plug. I have to decide if I want to fit the competition 3/8" plug or a more in scale 1/4" plug.

Is the big casting to the left an aluminium fuel tank rather that the plastic one of the fully built version?

Yes, that is the easy way to spot a factory built engine from a casting built one that rather sexy red light plastic tank with the engine name around it.


I have been looking at the crank, it is interesting, not at all how I would want to make it: It comes as a disc a piece of 5/16" Silver steel (with oxide) and a small diameter very short bit for the pin that all need silver soldering up. But as always I am always up for trying new things, if it goes wrong I can always go back to my preferred solid crank  :coffee:.

Jo
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Jo on January 19, 2017, 03:27:23 PM
Duplicate post  :scratch:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: kayzed1 on January 19, 2017, 07:55:23 PM
****T'other was an ED racer ( 2.5CC ??? ) Can't really remember.****

I have a couple of ED 2.46cc racers some place, One is a pre-production model
Fibre disc induction the production model i thibk has an Ali disc, powerful motors
but i can not for the life of me remember the fuel contents as my Old Dad used
to make his own..Would they be 1949/50-ish??
Lyn.
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: AdeV on January 20, 2017, 02:56:44 AM
MEM should be back for everyone now, if not then the DNS records should update in the next couple of hours. Writing this on my phone, so brevity is the name of the game :)
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: Bluechip on January 20, 2017, 05:35:33 AM
****T'other was an ED racer ( 2.5CC ??? ) Can't really remember.****

I have a couple of ED 2.46cc racers some place, One is a pre-production model
Fibre disc induction the production model i thibk has an Ali disc, powerful motors
but i can not for the life of me remember the fuel contents as my Old Dad used
to make his own..Would they be 1949/50-ish??
Lyn.

To the best of my knowledge my engine dated from circa 1960-2 ish. It had it's box and had allegedly been run.  :scratch:
I never ran it. It went with the Taplin Twin + bits about 1977 to a geezer near Burton-on Trent.

Don't know if you're aware of it but some info. here:

http://www.modelenginenews.org/cardfile/ed_story.html

Dave


Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: John Rudd on January 20, 2017, 05:44:44 AM
Yay,  :beer:
Back up and running....
Shame about the data loss......

Thanks to those involved in the recovery.. :bow:
Title: Re: MEM forum down?
Post by: John Swift on January 20, 2017, 12:24:31 PM
Hi AdeV

its working for me  :D

as for the lost data is it possible that MEM members or web sites like :-
 https://web-beta.archive.org/web/*/http://www.modelenginemaker.com/*
could have saved some of the lost data ???

    John