Tech: Problems with Mudcat?

Subject: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Cod Fiddler
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 09:26 AM

Is anyone else struggling to get in? I've been getting error messages for days now. It just seems to be the home page that's not working as I just got in through the back door using the following link, kindly posted on Folkinfo.org:

http://207.103.108.99/threads.cfm

Thanks to Jon Freeman for posting that link. I feel empty and naked without the mudcat.

Best wishes,

Richard.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,artbrooks
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 09:29 AM

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,artbrooks
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 09:29 AM

...oops... Everyone is having the problem, I think.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 09:32 AM

Yup. Even me. I backdoored in, too.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 10:06 AM

So, not many of us here, stumbling around in the dark.

*Ouch!*

What eejit left that there?

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: My guru always said
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 10:36 AM

Looks like it's back!! (again *grin*)

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 10:36 AM

I don't know how I got here. Tried one bookmark and it wouldn't work. Tried another and it did. I am SO confused.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 10:44 AM

Well I just walked in and there are all of you sitting in a well-lit room. Maybe you were all dreaming.

:)

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 10:45 AM

Maybe.

But maybe you were dreaming that you walked in to a well-lit room?


A

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Cod Fiddler
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 10:50 AM

Hurrah! It's back. Thank you to who ever put the plug back in.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Mrs_Annie
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 10:56 AM

Yeah, I've been trying since Friday. (I didn't know about the back door)

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Splott Man
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 11:14 AM

I still can't go back from a thread to the thread list without an error report. I have to click back twice then forward once.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 12:02 PM

Splott Man:

Those who know these things say you shouldn't use the back arrow to get out of a thread. Instead use Forum Home which appears at the top of the thread window.

Even knowing this, however, I find that I use the back arrow, out of old habit.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 12:08 PM

I wrote a post last night, then found myself locked out when I tried to submit it. I hate when that happens!

Couldn't get in earlier this morning at home, but now I *am* able to waste time here when I'm supposed to be working ;^)

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 12:21 PM

Sometimes if you uncheck the preview box it will get through. Just be sure to proofread carefully first!

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Cats
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 03:59 PM

When I try to log in as 'Cats at Work', at work, I can't get in as the server is timed out. This is happening with some regularity. Help.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: nutty
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 04:12 PM

Splott Man..... right click on the thread you want to open and then click on 'open in new window'in the box.
Just close the new window when you are done .... that way the thread list doesn't have to keep refreshing itself.

It's a much quicker way of reading the threads

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 04:13 PM

Up & Doon like a W****S drawers!

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: breezy
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 04:17 PM

well that explains things then

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 05:07 PM

Forum Home? I thought that was where old mudcats went to die.

Need to use more bailing wire

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 09:50 PM

BAD - BAD BAD!!!!COD FIDLER....

That was a secret entry .... they were keeping sheilded from the likes of me, and Mr J. Hull, and BrUcIe, and the recoving LaughKat ... closed without only the posseum-blowing 49 new the entrance....and now all must be scrambled and PGPed and hidden again.

In other-words - Cod - you blew more than an occarena.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

more than eager to exploit an opportunity.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 02:38 AM

It seems to be a regular pattern.....I can get in first thing in the morning (UK time), can't get in all day, then it seems to come back again early evening. It's been like that for a week now. Sometimes I can get in with the 'buddy' URL and sometimes not. I'll be glad when it's sorted...I miss my Mudchatting wuile I eat my lunch.

LOve Lynne

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 02:57 AM

Good theory, Uncle DaveO, but If you are catching up, on 3 or 7 days or whatever, then using 'forum home' takes it back to 1 day, and also takes it to the top of the 'music' section, which ain't always where you want to be...

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 06:53 AM

And again! I got in with the other URL this time, but the chat doesn't work with it and anyway there's no one to chat to.
Could someone please let us know when it's hoped to resume normal service? At least that way we'd have something to look forward to!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Cod Fiddler
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 07:36 AM

Good God Gargoyle! I was only trying to be helpful. It wasn't my fault. Honest. I've never blown a possum or an occarena in my life.
Please forgive me.

I assume your not serious?

What have I done?

The rest is silence...

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,sandra in sydney
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 07:41 AM

not only do I have trouble getting into Mudcat, I have trouble even getting a connection. I need my help desk, but he is having a life at a festival & also having a holiday (boo, hiss). I believe he is back this weekend (I hope).

So many rude words were said tonight as I tried to connect. I finally got in after 3 attempts, includiong turning off the power. Then when I was in I opened Firefox, where Mudcat is my default, no connection, so I tried buddy & it tried for so long that I was disconnected - lovely little window appeared saying "Connection terminated because the othere side was not responding!!~ so I said more rude words.

Once again I got in & opened Help, looked at The Annex & finally buddy worked.

sandra

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 07:43 AM

I've found this alternative link to mudcat thats works when the normal link wont work

http://buddy.mudcat.org/threads.cfm

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 08:06 AM

I just learned about "http://207.103.108.99/threads.cfm" by finding it at the Help & Trouble Forum. "http://buddy.mudcat.org/threads.cfm" is new to me, too, and I've been around Mudcat for years. Are there any other ways to get into Mudcat?

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 08:31 AM

Yo three sheds,
             thanks for the call telling me how to access this pig! Trouble is, how are the rest of Hull/Beverley going to get in?

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 08:44 AM

Dont let them know its our secret access.
A friend

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 09:23 AM

Hi Jim. I remembered "http://207.103.108.99/threads.cfm" being given as a backdoor some time ago, and had bookmarked it. Yesterday it was the only thing that worked for me, so I posted it again on Help. I've got all the backdoors bookmarked. Today I got in on Buddy. I think Buddy is pretty new. Seems to be fast, too.

Jenny

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 09:47 AM

Sometimes "http://207.103.108.105/threads.cfm" works too (although it isn't working now), but as with 99, you only get in as a guest.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,backdoorophobe
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 09:55 AM

hmmmmm.. normally I'm not into 'backdoor fun'

but I suppose needs must.......

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 09:58 AM

You can shut the stable door but you can't lead the horse to water!

Or is it, you can lead a horse to water but you can't grow moss on its back?

Or?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, in like Barry Finn

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:00 AM

Jenny O,
Its good to get in anyway you can as long as we have Mudcat as i get withdraw symptons if i cant get in during the day.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:12 AM

Maybe it's something to do with bolting the backdoor after the horse has thrown stones at a glasshouse?

One thing you have to watch out for with backdoor fun is that there is a lot of empty space around, and the place isn't too well lit. You have to be careful what you might stumble over - oops...

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:18 AM

GUEST, I know how you feel! That's why I bookmarked the alternative sites. I get very twitchy without my Mudcat.

Jenny (who actually DOES have a life, although it might not look like it)

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:24 AM

Thanks Jenny,I fall over all the time in the dark especially this site at present.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:26 AM

So what's the problem, does anyone know? Not complaining, just askin'.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:31 AM

though if you want to buy something specifically for the job..

a perennial favourite for slide blues players are Danelectro 6 strings with the magic blues power of lipstick pickups..
[full range of sounds from clear chiming to gnarly snarly..]
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/dano.html

an origional 50's or 60's U2
or double cut-away [the Jimmy Page favourite..]
if you can find one in good shape you can afford

or a much more affordable and better made recent Korean reissue..
now out of production, so prices fell dramatically
but are now starting to rise again as collectors move in on
the mint condition ones for sale on ebay..

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:32 AM

Huh? Do you have anymore?

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:33 AM

What the bloody 'ell are you talkin 'bout punkfolkrocker? it's not a karaoke.

eric

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:35 AM

Tech problems...!!!!!????

WHAT !!!!!!

that was meant to be posted in

"Help me to find a slide-blues guitar." thread

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:37 AM

And I posted it to there only to see you already had. However, my question to you stands: "Got anymore?" LOL

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 10:37 AM

Toldja it was hard to find your way around in here...:-)

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 01:27 PM

Whats 'A Life' ??

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 04:29 PM

YOu can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be led...

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 05:03 PM

so Lynne you miss MudCAT well to get in is in front of your face but of course you miss the gossip which is so important to your life.Forget the gossip and turn your capabilities to the music threads instead where you are well educated to help when need be.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 12 Jan 05 - 03:03 AM

Why do you insist on posting as GUEST? it's perfectly obvious to those of us who know you, who you are...your semi-literacy gives you away. Had you posted it under your own name I would have taken it as a jokingly friendly comment, but the fact that you feel it necessary to hide behind the anonimity of "Guest" proves that you are no friend and that the comment was not meant in a pleasant way.

Subject: RE: Tech: Problems with Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jan 05 - 03:58 AM

Mother just crashed at about 1:45 AM Alberta time.