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Errrr, Is There a Problem, Houston?

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:08 pm
by Nick Harvey
Is it just my total ineptitude, or has it been impossible to log into Avatar since yesterday evening?

Nick Harvey
Carbuncle Corner - The Monstrous Lump on the World Wide Web

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:21 pm
by Gloom
It's not just me then thats having problems logging in.

Thought Justin might have barred me or something :D

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:26 am
by Dabhand
Right, sorry for the delay. Just noticed the messages here.

It would appear that BT have royally messed things up.

The current IP address to use to connect is 217.41.21.163

I now need to investigate and see if this is a 'new' static IP or if its a dynamic one. I will, in the next hour or so, have set [url]telnet://play.avatardev.co.uk[/url] to point to this address.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:37 pm
by Dabhand
I've been on the phone to BT.

This seemingly is the new IP address. It was changed because of the regrade I had done. What I will do now is change the DNS entries to point to the new address and change them all to use telnet://play.avatardev.co.uk as the main link. This means that if it happens again, I only need to change the DNS entries rather than lots of the web pages.

Thanks for your patience!

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:30 pm
by Nick Harvey
Thanks for that, Justin.

If the address DOES change again, could you post it somewhere, for us Luddites who have to manually put it into AvPlay?


Nick Harvey
Carbuncle Corner - The Monstrous Lump on the World Wide Web

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:38 pm
by Dabhand
Doesn't AvPlay let you use the play.avatardev.... address?

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:05 pm
by Nick Harvey
Yes, it lets you ask for it, but it gives yards and yards of Winsock error, all about DNS not working.

If you put the numbers in, everything works fine.


Nick Harvey
Carbuncle Corner - The Monstrous Lump on the World Wide Web

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:35 pm
by Dabhand
I suppose I should be glad that I use plain old boring windows telnet...

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:27 pm
by Nick Harvey
Errrrrrrrrrr, Sunday evening and it's not working again.

I've even tried the "Play Avatar" link from the Avatardev front page and I DON'T THINK that works either.

However, you need a million zoom magnifying glass to see the text in that TINY little box, so I'm not certain.


Nick Harvey
Carbuncle Corner - The Monstrous Lump on the World Wide Web

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:38 am
by Dabhand
Odd that. Looks to have been the Netgear Router that had stopped accepting connection requests. I've switched it off and on and everything seems to be back to normal again.

I'll put a watch on this forum so that it will e-mail me if anyone places anything on it.

Let me know if it does it again and I'll try to fix the issue.

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:56 am
by Dabhand
Nick Harvey wrote:However, you need a million zoom magnifying glass to see the text in that TINY little box, so I'm not certain.
So you're saying that old people like yourself would like a bigger clickable link? :P

Why don't you use a browser like Opera where if you do a CTRL+ mousescroll the screen becomes bigger...!

In any case, I've modified the stylesheet on the http://www.avatardev.co.uk pages to make the "Play Avatar" link bigger. I love CSS! Let me know if the text for the clicking to Avatar is big enough now for you.

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:14 pm
by Nick Harvey
All working now via AvPlay. Thank you.

It's NOT the link on the AvatarDev page that was too small, it's the Telnet box that opens up after you click the link.

There's no option for "options", so you can make the font bigger; and even if you maximise the window, all you get is a tall thin box with the same tiny font.

Us poor, ancient, varifocal wearers can't tip our poor little heads back far enough to magnify it to readability.

That's why I use AvPlay, where I can set it to 70point Verdana!


Nick Harvey
Carbuncle Corner - The Monstrous Lump on the World Wide Web

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 2:19 pm
by Dabhand
Can't you right-click on the title bar and select properties?

Which OS are you using? 95/95/ME/2K/XP?

In any case, I'll leave the link a bit bigger anyhow - it draws attention to itself.

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:48 pm
by Nick Harvey
Dabhand wrote:Can't you right-click on the title bar and select properties?
Yes. Thanks for that. Have now quadrupled the size of the font and made it readable. Didn't realise you could right-click in those circumstances.
Dabhand wrote:Which OS are you using? 95/95/ME/2K/XP?
XP, Service Pack 2, all mods to 6th October 2004.


Nick Harvey
Carbuncle Corner - The Monstrous Lump on the World Wide Web

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:55 pm
by Dabhand
Glad to help you out there Nick!

Seems you're on the same version of XP as I am, on this machine.