Erik

Well .... My first dog when I was kid was the most amazing animal alive. Of course the reason I got him was my mom hit him with the car and brought him home to nurse him back to health. After no-one claimed him and he mended from the hit and run I named him "Bumper". The rest I'll leave to your sense of humor.

Sounds more like static electricity discharge or a power spike than a PS going bad. I suppose anything is possible but I'm betting something happened that caused the PS to go out which also took out your other peripherals. I like to run line conditioners in front of any hardware. That way it takes the brunt of electrical surges and discharges before the actual equipment. Any weird weather in your neck of the woods that could have caused this? Run any UPS or conditioning equipment that has hardware warranties in front of the computer?

Bigger drive = more heat. More heat = quicker dead drive. Add cooling, remove air flow restrictions, physically separate the drives for air flow and so on.

Sounds odd to me. Almost like one of your rails in the PS is no good. I'd consider taking it back and trying a second power supply before saying everything else is bad. To check maybe you can move some of those things that don't work to another computer and try them? Personally I buy OCZ power supplies. I like their 12V 4 rail design and modular wiring setup. Check newegg.com. ;) E

Thanks ... fixed

Yeah this guy caused some problems. I'm sorry about the SPAM through the personal message (PM) system. I updated our software last night so this kind of thing can't happen again. So you know someone signed up manually going through the process of entering an email address and IP address. Then used an automated system to SPAM our members on-site using the PM system. The absurdity of some people is beyond me. Please ignore and don't open any link contained in the PM you received from "mignulikz". I would advise simply deleting the PM from your inbox. I've spent two hours this morning removing us from SPAM clearing houses. Thanks again for the report. Erik

The guys who wrote our forum software, IPS, have released a patch today to fix the PM system which will prevent the abuse we saw this morning with the SPAM. I will get the new patch in place tonight and all should be back to normal. Sorry for the SPAM. Erik

During my rounds tonight I discovered this. Maybe it's been passed around maybe not, but I laughed until it hurt. E

We promised Dave a USAF skin first.

Call me thick. I just realized you were probably using the new OFF skin which isn't quite complete as of yet. There are still a few bugs left in that one though for the most part it works well. I also can't use the forum options in that skin, so it's not just you. At the very bottom of this board there is a skin chooser (from main forum page, lower left next to RSS feed). If you would select a new skin, try the options button, and report back. If it works in other skins, then we'll both assume it's the OFF skin that just needs a little work. Thanks; Erik

I am certain that would not do any good. There is nothing in any of the account settings that control how web pages on your machine are displayed. The fact that both FireFox and IE are doing the same exact thing leads me to believe that the machine's software environment is preventing pop-ups or java style applets from running, or local browser settings that are causing the problem. Erik

gotta be security related or connected to the browser settings. That's all I can think of. E

Do you have a popup blocker or internet security suite installed like McAfee?

The warn notification is standard with all members. You can see your warn level but you can't see other people's warn level just like they can't see yours. Basically it's a moderator's tool and will always be there. Ignore it unless you've done something that warrants a moderator warning you about, which I doubt will ever happen. IE8 ... That explains it. Because IE8 is still Beta software I hate to even begin diagnosing problems. It's possible that Java isn't supported under IE8 at this time as they might not have released a Java platform for IE8. I really don't know how to advise you on that. I would however do the following. Download and install FireFox. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ You can then use that browser to determine if it's a browser issue, which I'm betting. As a side note: IE8 is designed for higher strength security while web browsing. One of the options in the Tools > Options > Advanced? (I think) allows you to put a check mark (select a radio button) but allowing java applets to run. I'm guessing but I'm betting the security on your stock installation of IE8 is probably set to not allow java or popups from our site. Erik

Do you have Java installed on your machine? I believe those buttons are Java applets. http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp Erik

Silverbolt ... you should be able to edit your own files. I've checked the settings and they appear correct, so I'm a bit confused. 1. Did you upload the file? 2. Does it appear in your Manage Files location? 3. You're sure you're looking in the right place? Just to check go to the page like you're going to download the file (where the download buttons are). Before you click the download button on the lower right of the page do you have the option that says "edit file" or any options at all? Erik

My Controls > Manage Your Files > Takes you to your list of files you've uploaded. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;req=ucp_files From there click on the file you want to update. In the lower right of the screen that comes up which is the actual file uploaded you should have an option to "edit your file" click that link. You should now be taken to what looks like the upload screen. Here you can re-upload a new file or re-upload a new screenshot. Hope that's what you're looking for. Let me know if you have problems. Erik

I don't want to detract from the thread and I'm sure my humor is probably only funny to me but those aren't "problems" they're "features". <chuckles>

There's always different oddities changing between forums and you've happened upon one this forum software doesn't offer. Sorry about the bad news. There is however another way to stay informed of all the news in any given forum. Go to the top level of the forum you want to keep up to date with. For OFF those would include the forums like OFF - General Discussion, etc. Once you're there you'll see all the posts in that given forum and if you look to the right on the top right corner you'll see an "Options" button. Left click that to open the drop down menu and there you can select "Subscribe to this forum." Then you can set the options for what you want to be notified of, example: all new posts. Next go to your My Controls panel > Forum Subscriptions > (or click here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?act=UserCP&CODE=50) You should see the forums listed that you are subscribed to and you can now set your notification preference. The forum will email you depending on what you choose a daily, immediate, etc notification of the updates you request. Subsequently you can subscribe to individual topics as well using the same method described above by using the "Options" button located at the top of all forums and topics, then choosing subscribe. Managing individual topic notification and subscriptions can be handled by going to My Controls panel > Topic Subscriptions > (or click here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?act=UserCP&CODE=26). There you can remove topics, and change notification settings. It's not a per forum new posts button, but it's a handy way to get the job done and stay in touch. Other than that I'm afraid, as already mentioned, the My Assistant and New Posts button are the only alternatives I'm aware for a complete list. Now individually there's a notification icon that most don't know what it's there for and I may get shot for telling you but here goes. Let's say you open a main forum like OFF - General Discussion. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showforum=204 In the list that appears you'll see an orange box looking thing with a little white corner. That box indicates that there are posts in that topic that you haven't read. Clicking that orange box takes you to the first post in that topic that you haven't read. You can quickly scan through the forums and be alerted by this orange box that there's something there you haven't seen before. Since all new posts in topics automatically float to the top all your orange boxes will be shown first so you don't have to scan the entire forum index, just until the orange boxes aren't there. So I guess in a few ways this board will accommodate what you're looking for it's just done a little differently. Another thing that alerts you to new posts is the aircraft in the crosshairs on the forum index or sub category index (read: like OFF). If the aircraft is grayed out then there are no new posts in that thread (read: like OFF - General Discussion). If however the aircraft is dark with a flashing red dot then there are new posts. Each skin is a bit different but for the most part the notification of new posts is very apparent. Once you get used to this board and it's features I'm sure you'll be impressed it's very well rounded and robust. Hope that helps. Erik

I totally misunderstood. You're taking that smaller scale board and turning it into a larger scale board all by hand? That's talent and patience.

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The download section is having some work done on its software. It will be available off and on throughout the duration of the repairs for testing. There is no guarantee that any download you start will finish during the repair window. Download at your own risk of stress. At this time there is no estimated time for completion. We are hoping to keep the downtime to a minimum. I'll post back here when the work is complete. Thanks for understanding.

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showt...mp;#entry254659

Quite often it takes a papal blessing. Tonight you're in luck, it's all you can eat fish and chips night at the Vatican.

The problem is NOT related to the OFF guys in any way. To my disheartening dismay it's coincidental with their arrival and happens at a time when I'd like to show them we're not a fly by night operation. At this point after I was able to recover the machine I have three possible suspects. 1. A DOS (Denial Of Service) attack. 2. Someone using a download accelerator like FlashGet or one of the other programs to download files from our site. This mimics a DOS in that these programs open multiple connections to the server to download a single file. Much like Limewire where you get parts of a file from different people and in the end you get a complete file. Problem here is the site is the only person sharing the file and the multiple connections are opened to a single point. The really sad part of this is that end users don't quite understand the nature of the internet. If you're on a 1MB connection and you open one connection it will try to fill that connection up to 1MB (your cap). If you open 10 connections you divide your 1MB connection 10 times so you'll likely end up with 10 transfers of 100K each. Download accelerators will NOT increase your throughput or your ability to receive files faster. If I find this is the actual case we'll be removing the culprits without warning. Sorry. 3. The search engines like Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc also download files for archive purposes. Now in the case of the download manager they'd be denied the files but they'd still try to open the connection. I've been having problems with the aggressive nature of one such crawler bot that I haven't quite resolved so I'm not ruling this one out either. Either way any of these have the same affect. Me humbly saying "SORRY!"