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Dec 3, 2000, 11:13am

What's this supposed to be???? AW is closed all the time! I've got enough of
it! Today at 17:00 VRT AW better be up again, because then I'm having an
arangement in my town! And I'm also in a party comitee in world pata and
soon we are going to have a big Christmas party, so we can't have AW go down
all the time! Friday you sayd it was System tests today you don't say why.
bet those system tests made the whole thing crash! If you want to run tests,
why don't you get yourself a test universe? YOU don't have to pay touhsands
of Dollars for it, YOU own the whole thing!!!!!! The autumn AW has had SOOOO
many downtimes that I think you should buy new servers or something like
that!

KAH
PS. You gotta change the system requirements for AW 3.0:
I tryed it and I have a 4mb Direct 3D card but It wouldn't load textures.
the system requirements arn't just what you need tomake it function, you
know! it's also what you need tomake it function CORRECTLY!

Dec 3, 2000, 1:17pm

Yesterday I kept getting knocked off so today is not a surprise!!! it is
still down.

Fatts

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Dec 3, 2000, 1:38pm

There had better be some significant reasons for this. Maybe updating the
universe server every few hours with a new build of 3.1 to allow Roland to test
some new features. But you'd think that he'd be testing it on a specialized
galaxy out of the way, but knowing AWCI, I doubt they'd do that.Anyway, don't
get in a huff over it, just let the 486 "server" with 16megs of RAM get over
it's growing pains or whatever.

[View Quote] > What's this supposed to be???? AW is closed all the time! I've got enough of
> it! Today at 17:00 VRT AW better be up again, because then I'm having an
> arangement in my town! And I'm also in a party comitee in world pata and
> soon we are going to have a big Christmas party, so we can't have AW go down
> all the time! Friday you sayd it was System tests today you don't say why.
> bet those system tests made the whole thing crash! If you want to run tests,
> why don't you get yourself a test universe? YOU don't have to pay touhsands
> of Dollars for it, YOU own the whole thing!!!!!! The autumn AW has had SOOOO
> many downtimes that I think you should buy new servers or something like
> that!
>
> KAH
> PS. You gotta change the system requirements for AW 3.0:
> I tryed it and I have a 4mb Direct 3D card but It wouldn't load textures.
> the system requirements arn't just what you need tomake it function, you
> know! it's also what you need tomake it function CORRECTLY!

Dec 3, 2000, 2:32pm

"Sunday, December 03, 2000

The Active Worlds Universe may experience intermittent disruptions in
service this evening. Our Technical Support Team is working diligently to
resolve the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience.




Sincerely,
Activeworlds.com, Inc. "

What THAT is supposed to mean, it's for you to decide. :) Not to sound petty
or anything, but AWTeen experienced an registry deletion on Friday or
Saturday, and on the gz, was a sign advertising some town by a cit named
Criminal...since AWTeen is hosted by AWCOM, could it be we have a hacker
break-in? I dunno, it just struck me weird, and I really don't know the
reason why or how the registry got deleted either.

Nornny

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Dec 3, 2000, 3:00pm

This is posted over in AWgate...
(paraphrased of course)
AW is offline because we're idiots and messed up somthing and need to go back to
a backup. We apoligize for any inconvienience this may cause.

Essentially, this means they fucked over the world server during an upgrade or
somthing and need to go back to a backup, which is hopefully more recent than
the one that we went back to a couple years ago and lost all our buildings (when
was that? 1997?)

[View Quote] > What's this supposed to be???? AW is closed all the time! I've got enough of
> it! Today at 17:00 VRT AW better be up again, because then I'm having an
> arangement in my town! And I'm also in a party comitee in world pata and
> soon we are going to have a big Christmas party, so we can't have AW go down
> all the time! Friday you sayd it was System tests today you don't say why.
> bet those system tests made the whole thing crash! If you want to run tests,
> why don't you get yourself a test universe? YOU don't have to pay touhsands
> of Dollars for it, YOU own the whole thing!!!!!! The autumn AW has had SOOOO
> many downtimes that I think you should buy new servers or something like
> that!
>
> KAH
> PS. You gotta change the system requirements for AW 3.0:
> I tryed it and I have a 4mb Direct 3D card but It wouldn't load textures.
> the system requirements arn't just what you need tomake it function, you
> know! it's also what you need tomake it function CORRECTLY!

Dec 3, 2000, 3:04pm

This is why, I would assume.

-Agent1



----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Vilett" <roland at activeworlds.com>
To: "Andrew Bugera" <>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Universe


> Nope...they are checking for a hardware problem that has caused our
> main server machine to spontaneously reboot itself 3 times in the last
> 2 weeks (twice yesterday).
>
> -Roland

Dec 3, 2000, 5:38pm

Ummm, I'd say you are all being pretty whiney.
Sure its unfortunate that you have an event upcoming and AW's is down.
Sometimes things happen out of the control of people, sometimes with their
control.
Unless you are a world owner, you pay what 20.00 bucks a year for a service.
If its AW related you yell, if its not you yell.
Maybe they are on the verge of goin to 3.1 and you would have mp3 support for
your parties.
I dunno, I just htink people take alot for granted on the web. be thankful for
what you have.

Just chill out.
There is life outside AW.

Z!

[View Quote] > What's this supposed to be???? AW is closed all the time! I've got enough of
> it! Today at 17:00 VRT AW better be up again, because then I'm having an
> arangement in my town! And I'm also in a party comitee in world pata and
> soon we are going to have a big Christmas party, so we can't have AW go down
> all the time! Friday you sayd it was System tests today you don't say why.
> bet those system tests made the whole thing crash! If you want to run tests,
> why don't you get yourself a test universe? YOU don't have to pay touhsands
> of Dollars for it, YOU own the whole thing!!!!!! The autumn AW has had SOOOO
> many downtimes that I think you should buy new servers or something like
> that!
>
> KAH
> PS. You gotta change the system requirements for AW 3.0:
> I tryed it and I have a 4mb Direct 3D card but It wouldn't load textures.
> the system requirements arn't just what you need tomake it function, you
> know! it's also what you need tomake it function CORRECTLY!

--
Chris Waddell
dmonix at home.com
www.dmonix.net

Dec 3, 2000, 6:07pm

I must admit myself, we can be a whiney group, but we're all talk and no
action anyways, so it's harmless. BUT, we all did pay 20$ for unlimited
usage of AW, and even indirectly, support. Apparently, everyone is mad that
not only can they not access AW on their own times, but we're really getting
no answers on what is going on. Personally, I'd like to see if I could help
in any way, but just the peace of mind that I know what is going on would be
nice.

We haven't confirmed in any way that everyone over at the AWCOM staff is
testing 3.1, all they've been saying was that it was system check after
check after maintenence. For all we know, someone spilled coffee on the
computer server or something. :) So, if you think about it, they might not
be doing ANYTHING except blocking us from getting in while they sleep in
their offices.

Yes, we take the internet for granted sometimes, but hey, humans adjust and
adapt to daily routine, no matter how good or bad, and for a lot of us, we
do use AW daily. it's like waking up without any coffee, but you've been
drinking it every morning since you were 4. You'll get agitated too. :)

Anyways, just sit back and enjoy the ride. What doesn't kill us will make us
stronger, which AWCOM has always proven in the long run. :P

Nornny

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Dec 3, 2000, 7:31pm

Boooooo, AW costs about 5 cents a day. I demand 10 cents worth of
registration onto my account! =P

Btw, whenever AWLC says "we apologize for any incontinence" it makes me
sick, they're not sorry for nothing, they can care less.

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Dec 3, 2000, 8:52pm

oops, I mean AWLD

Dec 4, 2000, 12:49pm

LOL! What kind of machine are they using that does that??? Even a P75 '94
digital VENTURIS 575 machine used as server by me and a friend wouldn't do
that! But well, we nearly wrecked it yesterday trying to put in a second HD.
And wen we gave up and just put in a 1GB it wouldn't accept they keyboard...
But well, we'll find out of it quicker than the guys over at AWCI that are
supposed to be educated on that kind of stuff (we arn't)! They should make
it registration free!

KAH
PS. AWCI: buy a NEW server that WORKS!!!!!!!! And make better excuses!
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Dec 4, 2000, 6:21pm

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> Just chill out.
> There is life outside AW.

Not so sure about that because some like me use AW's to get out in the first
place...I also use MS's Flightsim to get outside of the world I am stuck in
but I just use my back ups to keep going when things happen.

BUT I do understand your comment and for many it could be true'r then some
think.

Have fun


>
> Z!
>
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