Thread: Hesitate to write this: can't get at postgres.org
Hesitate to write this: can't get at postgres.org
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bill-bell@bill-bell.hamilton.on.ca (Bill Bell)
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When I request http://www.postgresql.org all I get is a light grey line on a dark grey background and the HTML is correspondingly "uninformative". Tried looking a couple of days ago, thought it must just be some transient problem. Anybody know? Bill
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when bill-bell@bill-bell.hamilton.on.ca (Bill Bell) would write: > When I request > > http://www.postgresql.org > > all I get is a light grey line on a dark grey background and the HTML > is correspondingly "uninformative". > > Tried looking a couple of days ago, thought it must just be some > transient problem. > > Anybody know? That doesn't seem consistent with what I see. This report would be a lot more useful if you indicated additional detail such as: - At what time you tried accessing the site; - What browser you were using; - What your browser actually downloaded. If I hit the site with Lynx, I don't get any colour at all, for instance, but I do get reasonably "informative" HTML back. I suspect that something may be broken with your network link, and that THAT would cause the problem, but it is not totally clear. Have you tried pinging it? When I do that, I hit site "svr2.postgresql.org", at IP address 64.117.225.209. If you are getting something radically different, that might help explain the anomaly. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.enworbbc" "@" "enworbbc")) http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linux.html "Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." -- Unknown
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Christopher Browne wrote: > Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when bill-bell@bill-bell.hamilton.on.ca (Bill Bell) would write: > > When I request > > > > http://www.postgresql.org > > > > all I get is a light grey line on a dark grey background and the HTML > > is correspondingly "uninformative". > > > > Tried looking a couple of days ago, thought it must just be some > > transient problem. > > > > Anybody know? > > That doesn't seem consistent with what I see. > > This report would be a lot more useful if you indicated additional > detail such as: > - At what time you tried accessing the site; > - What browser you were using; > - What your browser actually downloaded. Snap. > If I hit the site with Lynx, I don't get any colour at all, for > instance, but I do get reasonably "informative" HTML back. Snap. I just hit the link above in pine, it fired up lynx and in the blink of an eye I've got what looks like the homepage formated in a text browser. -- Nigel J. Andrews
Re: Hesitate to write this: can't get at postgres.org
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bill-bell@bill-bell.hamilton.on.ca (Bill Bell)
Date:
Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote in message > This report would be a lot more useful if you indicated additional > detail such as: > - At what time you tried accessing the site; > - What browser you were using; > - What your browser actually downloaded. > > If I hit the site with Lynx, I don't get any colour at all, for > instance, but I do get reasonably "informative" HTML back. I dunno whether I dare mention that I'm using IE 6.0 in response to people that mention Lynx and Pine. :o) Would it help if I were to say that I've also tried with Mozilla 1.4? Anyway, my apologies are due to this group. I've just found that it is the ad- and pop-up- blocking stuff in ZoneAlarm that was causing this grief for me. I will inform them about this. Bill
We run MySQL as the backend ;) Bill Bell wrote: >When I request > >http://www.postgresql.org > >all I get is a light grey line on a dark grey background and the HTML >is correspondingly "uninformative". > >Tried looking a couple of days ago, thought it must just be some >transient problem. > >Anybody know? > >Bill > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > > -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming, shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-222-2783 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com The most reliable support for the most reliable Open Source database.
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > We run MySQL as the backend ;) Hey, that was supposed to be a secret!! *sigh* 'K guys, we now have to move to DB2, since we can't be known to be running MySQL :( > > Bill Bell wrote: > > >When I request > > > >http://www.postgresql.org > > > >all I get is a light grey line on a dark grey background and the HTML > >is correspondingly "uninformative". > > > >Tried looking a couple of days ago, thought it must just be some > >transient problem. > > > >Anybody know? > > > >Bill > > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > >TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > > > > > > -- > Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC > Postgresql support, programming, shared hosting and dedicated hosting. > +1-503-222-2783 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com > The most reliable support for the most reliable Open Source database. > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings >
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:44:21AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> > We run MySQL as the backend ;)
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> Hey, that was supposed to be a secret!! *sigh*
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> 'K guys, we now have to move to DB2, since we can't be known to be running
> MySQL :(
You just _know_ that someone is going to read all that in the
archives at some point, and conclude that it is not a joke. And post
it to the well-known Pages of Punctuation. And then there'll be a
million-points-of-flame war on Slashdot, and it'll cause someone to
come here and tell everyone that PostgreSQL should be licensed under
the GPL version 3, which is Better and Faster -- and Even Though It's
Not Ready Yet, It Doesn't Need Transactions, but It Has Them Anyway
[1] -- and someone else will chime in with the helpful suggestion
that it all be n-tuply licensed under the NPL, MPL, GPL, LGPL,
Artistic License, BSD, BSD with Advert Clause, Public Domained, and
also some commercial license named after a guy called Bob.
But in the hopes of preventing all that, I'm inserting this little
note: please observe the smileys.
A
[1] Oops, wrong flame war.
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