Depends how 'cheap' the hotel is
 

paints a sad picture: lying on the floor in a cheap hotel downloading photographs off the internet. Poor connectivity may not be the worst that could happen.........

When I first got to the computer 24 hours ago, none of the usual PPRuNe pages were available at all. :eek:

I was on the point of ringing the Prime Minister, when a second visit about 15 minutes later was rewarded with all of the usual favourites - and a profound sense of relief :ok:. The 'blank page after posting' problem was noted shortly after that.

There may have been a more serious problem earlier on, and what we see now are the 'aftershocks'.

FWIW

FoR

problem seems to be not only with the 'view first unread'
 

If I click 'view first unread', on Firefox (v3.6.9) I get a blank page with a URL like "http://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?p=5927726#post5927726" with "Done" in the bottom left-hand corner. In IE I get an "HTTP 500 Internal Server Error" message.

But if I navigate manually to the page, it displays OK, so I just have to guess then page back and forward through the thread until I find out where I was up to. :{

Also got the same symptoms with posting this message. Bah, humbug :*

Same situation here. I thought that it was because I'm moseying around the Web with and old browser (IE6), but this is happening with old and new browsers.

FWIW.

--Bill

Internal Server Error
 

Hello

I keep getting this when I try to see threads.

I get this everytime I post a reply:

The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.
•The website has a programming error.

It's broken (a technical term).

Issue is finding a techie who can fettle it. Good ones are very, very rare.
There are lots who will tell you they are good, but they are the ones who break it and then walk away :(

I'm good. But

(1) you might not like my prices, and
(2) I'm rather busy for the next couple of weeks.

Try not to clap yourself Gertrude, someone will likely throw you a fish.:rolleyes:

Guys, believe me we feel your pain. We mods are suffering even more pain.

It appears that IB have walked away for the weekend.

Nothing likely to be done until they deign to put in an appearance on Monday morning - that's morning in California, btw.

Why is it that their tinkering always happens on a Friday? :hmm:

SD

FWIW I have no trouble opening Pprune pages using Firefox, but email notifications containing a link to the new reply to a subscribed thread fail to display anything beyond a blank page.

[Edit] and posting a reply (just noticed it with this post) returns the same blank page after submission.

IT SOP.

Most likely the person that did it will also be on holiday for 2 weeks and no-one else knows what they did ...

hee hee bet its a half arsed cron job gone wrong. Mind you I have done a couple of them myself. A fellow pilot once manged to rm -rf as root at a trading bank. Screwed the banks trading database and the cron job triggered before the daily backup.

It was after this event he was forced to pull forward his aviation career by a few months.

Yup. Last emergency web site fix I did was one of those. Did a "no cure no pay" fixed price deal, and had it working in a few hours. And they bought me a curry.

I am sure that Gertrude was not phishing for compliments. ;)

Having had the irritation and misfortune to have to direct a team of 'web development specialists' in the past I have learned that most of them wouldn't understand configuration management, unit or regression testing if it crawled out and bit them on the arse. Cue web developer and, most likely, some nincompoop with a smattering of Java, C#, Python (blah, blah, blah) will attempt to wreck your site for you.

I don't think direct is the correct term for dealing with web developers in the main.

Herding? might be more correct

Clearly I don't count as a "web developer" then.

Seems to me that to build a web site you need "artists", whom you don't let anywhere near the software, "designers", whom you don't let anywhere near the software, and "software engineers", whom you do. I'm one of them (mostly working outside the area of web sites). So I can do an excellent job on making the software work properly, but wouldn't dream of doing any of the arty work, because I'd be crap at it.

A url such as:

.pprune.org/jet-blast/427173-mysogyny-what.html#post5929784

will take you to the desired page.

The website search facility seems to be generating, e.g.

.pprune.org/jet-blast/427053-you-chunker-traditionalist-post5929854.html#post5929854
if you remove:

-post5929854

you will be left with:
.pprune.org/jet-blast/427053-you-chunker-traditionalist.html#post5929854

which sort of works but does not take you to exactly the desired posting.

You also need a systems peep to make sure they don't have enough rope to hang themselves and the wire is plugged in the wall.

Your developing what?
And you want admin rights?
Local or server?
Actually the answer is the same either way. :mad: off.

Besides having identical problems as described above I get a message saying I must wait anything from 10 seconds to 120 seconds before re-posting and I haven't even tried to re-post but just clicked on to a user-name to check public profile and then get the message.