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lol

one day I may actually have them though

damn right mofo!

Oh I love how on the mac comercials they act like having to upgrade for vista is a bad thing or something. Like "oh-no if you want the best graphics you mave have to get a faster video card... and you may have to upgrade your processor... oh no!" --- you have to upgrade because Vista is the shit!! It's a bleeding edge OS, Macs would have to upgrade too. Just 'cause mac OS sucks so bad that it's able to run on even the worst macs is nothing for them to brag about. VIVA LA PC! I'LL NEVER SWITCH!

and fuck you guys that said "are TMN bucks worth saving = NO" -- TMN bucks never lose their value

haha, fuck no. NEVER. You seriously can't understand unless you live here. There would be major riots over shit like that. lol, seriously. Flaming torches and all! And i'll be leading my local riot chapter, lol

I friggen love vista. If you're system can handle it I highly reccomend. I'm running it on a core 2 duo system with 2 gig of DDR2 (PC2 6400) and a radeon x1950 pro... BUT amazingly it runs well on my laptop too, which is only has a pentium M 2.66 with 1GB of DDR2 400 (I think that's PC2 3200) and a ATI Mobility Radeon X600.... the laptop not only runs it well but it also runs it with full graphics somehow Vista is a smooth operator

Doews anyone listen to infected mushroom. Just wondering. I've been a fan for like 7 years or so now and I just now put on their album "Supervisor" and it's friggen awesome (at least the first track is... all I've listened to so far). Their one of the most awesome electronic band out IMO. Just wondering if anyone else listens to them.... and if you don't and like electronic music then you should check 'em out. -- it's like Crystal Method on shrooms, bah haha. They definitly have a style that I've never heard before. -D

server back from a reboot... both servers needed an emergency reboot.. sorry for the downtime. -D

DAAAAAMN, that shit is insane! Have you ever seen the square or pyramid watermelons? They're crazy. I found out how they do it, when I first heard about them I was told that they were genetically engineered... but I knew that had to be wrong because to be able to do it like that they would have to have had either dormant genes from watermelons or a spliced gene from a plant that grows that way. I just couldn't think of anything in nature that grows into a square shape... it's just not natural --- but I found out (and I figured that the gene deal couldn't be true... whoever told me that was retarded) that they put the young melons into glass cases shaped like the shape they want the melon to grow into and the melon fills the glass case and take that shape. Cool huh. A smart farmer figured out a way to sell the same old melon for 10 times the price. BTW, Made in China (or somewhere in Asia) -- I'm going to add some attachments.

Bill Gates once said something like 'There will never be a need for more than 512 bytes of storage.' -- not Kilobytes... bytes... hahaha. Hell, my avatar is 21 times bigger than that. Just the visible text on this page (what you can see and read, minus the code) is 14,500 bytes... and he thought that there would never be a need for anything larger than 512bytes. I bet he's wishing that people would forget that he said that. Actually he doesn't care because he has 50 billion dollars, lol. If someone talks shit about him he can stuff their mouth full of $100 bills till they can't be heard anymore . Here.. I'll show you what 512 bytes of information looks like... >> (oops that smiley was actually 650 bytes, lol)

gratz, how did you get it up to speed?

Actually it is normal. They block incoming pings. But if your outgoing pings won't work then.. well.. THAT would be weird. Basically when someone tries to ping you they'll get nothing but you should be able to ping out to say google or testmy.net. .. For instance, when I try to use my tool at http://s2.testmy.net/tools/toolbox.php (or https://testmy.net/ping-enterIPorHOSThere for instance https://testmy.net/ping-google.com you can also query the following https://testmy.net/trace-google.com, https://testmy.net/whois-google.com, https://testmy.net/arin-google.com and https://testmy.net/all-google.com / https://testmy.net/runall-google.com) using my own IP I get the following... Ping Results: PING 68.98.19.3 (68.98.19.3) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 68.98.19.3 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4014ms [/code] But when I go to my command prompt ([start]+[run]+"cmd") any type --- ping testmy.net --- I get the following... [code] >ping testmy.net Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=51 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=51 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=51 Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 37ms, Average = 34ms Even though this is the same ping I get different results, the reason is because the first ping is coming from testmy.net and going to my home computer.... BLOCKED. But the second one that is going from my computer and going to testmy.net PERFECT. And for most people on a home ISP these days it's normal. It's a security measure. They usually block traceroute too, you'll be able to run the trace but it will only show you the trace up to the first few hops, once it starts to get closer to your personal computer the trace stops reporting... instead of the tracert looking like this... root@s1 [/]# traceroute google.com traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.167.99 traceroute to google.com (64.233.167.99), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 3.24.1343.static.theplanet.com (67.19.36.3) 0.666 ms 0.335 ms 0.407 ms 2 vl8.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com (67.18.116.82) 0.644 ms 0.240 ms 0.395 ms 3 vl42.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.85.127.89) 0.528 ms 0.498 ms 0.530 ms 4 et3-2.ibr03.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.17) 0.527 ms 0.513 ms 0.529 ms 5 dcr2-ge-4-0-0.dallas.savvis.net (208.172.139.129) 0.796 ms 0.775 ms 0.931 ms 6 dcr1-so-6-0-0.dallas.savvis.net (204.70.192.49) 0.936 ms acr2-so-2-0-0.Miami.savvis.net (204.70.193.193) 28.658 ms 28.626 ms 7 acr1-so-2-0-0.Miami.savvis.net (204.70.193.185) 28.620 ms bpr2-so-7-0-0.miamimit.savvis.net (208.172.97.170) 29.031 ms acr1-so-2-0-0.Miami.savvis.net (204.70.193.185) 28.643 ms 8 208.172.108.6 (208.172.108.6) 28.645 ms bpr2-so-4-0-0.miamimit.savvis.net (208.172.99.94) 28.791 ms 208.172.108.6 (208.172.108.6) 28.766 ms 9 208.172.108.6 (208.172.108.6) 29.195 ms 28.660 ms 72.14.238.57 (72.14.238.57) 31.404 ms MPLS Label=335124 CoS=7 TTL=1 S=0 10 72.14.238.57 (72.14.238.57) 31.297 ms 64.233.175.98 (64.233.175.98) 43.543 ms 43.452 ms 11 64.233.175.98 (64.233.175.98) 43.466 ms 66.249.94.133 (66.249.94.133) 44.546 ms 64.233.175.98 (64.233.175.98) 43.582 ms 12 72.14.232.53 (72.14.232.53) 44.391 ms 72.14.232.70 (72.14.232.70) 44.643 ms 72.14.232.53 (72.14.232.53) 44.445 ms 13 py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99) 44.591 ms 44.504 ms 72.14.232.74 (72.14.232.74) 56.418 ms [/code] it ends up looking like this [code] root@s1 [/]# traceroute 68.xx.xx.xx traceroute to 68.xx.xx.xx (68.xx.xx.xx), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 3.24.1343.static.theplanet.com (67.19.36.3) 0.338 ms 0.215 ms 0.296 ms 2 vl8.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com (67.18.116.82) 0.296 ms 0.409 ms 0.459 ms 3 vl42.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.85.127.89) 0.457 ms 0.597 ms 0.457 m s 4 25.7f.5546.static.theplanet.com (70.85.127.37) 0.457 ms 0.439 ms 0.460 ms 5 e2.7e.5546.static.theplanet.com (70.85.126.226) 0.770 ms 0.751 ms 0.771 m s 6 chnddsrj02-ge710.rd.ph.cox.net (68.1.0.169) 23.567 ms 23.522 ms 22.159 ms 7 68.2.14.6 (68.2.14.6) 23.720 ms 68.2.14.14 (68.2.14.14) 23.633 ms 68.2.14. 6 (68.2.14.6) 22.453 ms 8 68.2.12.2 (68.2.12.2) 22.923 ms 68.2.13.2 (68.2.13.2) 23.302 ms 68.2.12.2 (68.2.12.2) 24.437 ms 9 68.2.13.6 (68.2.13.6) 23.949 ms 25.200 ms 68.2.12.6 (68.2.12.6) 24.588 ms 10 68.2.13.10 (68.2.13.10) 31.109 ms 68.2.12.10 (68.2.12.10) 25.128 ms 26.62 4 ms 11 68.2.13.89 (68.2.13.89) 25.661 ms 68.2.12.89 (68.2.12.89) 27.083 ms 68.2.1 3.89 (68.2.13.89) 26.955 ms 12 bellcmtk00-gex0100.ph.ph.cox.net (68.2.6.210) 25.613 ms 26.682 ms 25.729 ms 13 * * * 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * * ... etc, etc, etc ... again, another security measure and many cable and DSL providers are doing it. -D

I changed the email address that the forum emails come from. They used to come from noreply@ tmn now they come from forum@ tmn. You may have had the previous address added to a safe list or whitelist of some sort but now that I made that change you'll have to add the new address to that whitelist. That would be my best guess as to why this happened Let me know if I'm right -D

fred.. you rule, you've really hung with us through the years

Happy New Year!!! To all! From: Phoenix, Arizona!

take a screenshot next time this happens so I can see what it looks like. I'll look into it and make sure that it's not a system wide problem, though I haven't heard about anyone having any problems with the menu and I've personally seen it on at least 20 different computers and haven't had a single problem. With the default theme the menu is supposed to be black with medium/dark gray lettering, the lettering changes to white and a blue underline happens on mouse over. When you have the problem are you able to mouse over the menu items and do they change? Or does the text appear to be completely nonexistent? Since nobody else has had a problem I'm pretty sure it's a problem with your browser or something (and with the high volume of traffic this site gets we would have for sure had many other reports if it was otherwise)... but whatever the case we'll get to the bottom of it ... exactly 24 hours till the new year! WOOT!

Merry Christmas... eve

naw, no hackers. That's all fixed. It was an automated update process that got stuck and took the server down with it. Usually the server senses problems like this and fixes itself but for some reason it never regained, all that matters is that it's back online. Sucks that I lost a shit load of revenue though -- boo hoo. Just money I guess :-/

sorry about the downtime, an automated process killed the server today and I was unaware of this most of the day because of holiday things I'm taking care of. Back online now, that's what matters. -D

do a test on the main test and post your results http://www.testmy.net/speedtest/d_load.php

there shouldn't have been a problem with it today... that was yesterday. Is everything fine right now?

Merry Christmas everyone! And a Happy New Year too!

is everything testing normal now? -D