Board "news"

[Ellie]

Thanks Karine, that's a good idea I'll try and think about stuff to share, as well trying to design some pretty calendar

[Karine]

I can't wait to see that

[Karine]

Fun calendar, Ellen!

I hope you didnt spend too much time on fixing the website and the boards!

[Ellie]

Fun calendar, Ellen!

I hope you didnt spend too much time on fixing the website and the boards!

Thanks, I hope I have enough fun stuff to share I was planning on making a few graphics, if you have time and want to submit something, feel free!

Luckily the whole board/site down-thing was not my fault - this time I wasn't even hacked. Some weird robot (like Google Bot, which visits our boards from time to time) decided to crawl through this forum for search engine-related things. It is still crawling the forum as far as I can tell, but it was crawling so much that it caused an overload on my hosting company's servers - that's why the put everything offline. I think I've done my best to block the damn thing, though it still shows up in the access-log files, even though it's getting a 404 does not exist error on each page it's crawling. Weirdly enough the site statistics register it as visits/hits, so my hits this month on the site are way too much

I'm again sorry for the trouble, they didn't warn me or anything but just placed the files offline. I can understand that, but that did mean that even though I check the site/statistics daily, it took a little while to get this straight. I hope the bot will be blocked completely eventually, but that might take while.

[Karine]

Don't worry, I'm glad everything is working now.

I don't know if I'll have time to make something: 40 dissertations are waiting for me (I have a week and a half to mark them), I have an article to write in the next days, and a former student is asking for a reference letter (+ a department meeting next week).

Or it would be something simple, because I can't spend 2-3 hours on playing with fonts and brushes. I'll let you know if I can come up with something

[Ellie]

No worries Karine, I know you're very busy and don't feel pressured! I think I have enough cool audio-video files to share, and including some graphics that I still have to make it should be enough. I just realized a few days ago how much I still miss on files since my Sarah external harddrive crashed. But it'll be fine

Good luck with everything!

[Karine]

Thank you!
I taught the final class on the fall session last Friday, so I can at least focus on marking dissertations and writing the article. I just have to be really efficient

[Karine]

Hi Ellen,
Thanks for adding the wallpapers to your advent calendar. I was really sick in the last days, so I just caught up the on the days I missed, and I just saw them.
The file for today, Gloomy Sunday, it's not working for me. I get an error page from MediaFire. Is it just because I downloaded to many files in a short period of time? I'll try again tomorrow.

[Ellie]

Hi Karine,

The download works for me so it might be that mediafire is temporary blocking downloads because you downloaded a lot of files in such a short time, yes. I hope it works for you now It's probably a version you already have anyway

Hope you feel better!

[Karine]

I tried again and it still doesn't work. I'm not sure if I have this version of Gloomy Sunday, maybe on my external hard drive, but I'm too lazy to check
Today's file, I Will Remember You, worked fine.