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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

I haven't made any executables yet but I may be making something like that in the first or second quarter of '07 to go with some other upgrade on the way. As for the CSV feature, I took care of that for you.. only took me about 45 minutes of scripting to add that feature. You will see the button on the bottom of the results of your searches. It says " Download all results as CSV" and I've tested it with a few queries and it's working perfect. Let me know how that works out for you. Thanks for the suggestion, -D

why would this belong in this section... why would it even belong on this site. Please don't spam.

oh crap... lol, I'm only just now noticing the post because you posted... on the 16th ... I wonder why I never noticed your original post. Well, since then I've added what you were looking for.

I already have a tool like you're talking about. It's at http://www.testmy.net/tools/test/scheduled_test.php -- It gives you the option to have the test run on a schedule. You select the schedule, click go and minimize the window and it does the rest Is that what you were asking about? - D

yeah I added... And then I also changed the default smiley set to the Christmas set to go with the Christmas theme that has been also turned on this morning.

Jesus Sparticus... that will take me like 10 years to add all those... how about you narrow that down to some choice favorites

Yeah, I just added those. I also started a topic at http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-17507 where people can now add smileys ... I already have a christmas set and will be turning them on 7 days before Christmas along with the Christmas theme... you can see the christmas smiley set by going into your profile (http://www.testmy.net/go-profile) then go to "Look and Layout Preferences" then change "Current Smiley Set:" to "Christmas" -- there are other sets you can chose from. But this only changes the main (top row) smileys, not all of them. 'n JOY! -D

I want your smileys! I'm currently looking for smileys for our forum. We already have many but if you know of any cool ones that you think would be nice to have here please submit! Every single smiley that's submitted will be added to our stockpile (as long as they're not obscene or crude). The really good ones will be visible in our 'more smileys' pop-up and the really, really, really good (and the right size, style) ones may even make it in the main smiley selection area. But at the very least your smiley will be added as a hidden smiley which will be accessed using code. So....... [list=1] [*]reply... [*]attach... [*]and tell me the trigger you want (example: [smiley81]) [/list] If you need more explanation keep reading or [url="http://www.testmy.net/pm-2"]shoot me a PM[/url] The preferred submission (cont.) [list] [*][b]Step 1 - [/b]You can simply reply to this topic (note: to attach a file you can't use quick reply, you must use the reply button at the top or bottom of the page... or click the preview button on the quick reply to be taken to the full version of 'reply' which has the attachment option) then click the [i]"[u][b]+ Additional Options...[/b][/u]"[/i] (it's right below the text box where you enter the text for your post), once you click [i]"[u][b]+ Additional Options...[/b][/u]"[/i] you will see something that says "attach", this is where you'll browse your computer for the file you want to attach. Then you just submit your post like normal. If you want to attach more than one image for your post you can click [i]"[u][b](more attachments)[/b][/u]"[/i], you can add up to 20 attachments per post. If you happen to have more than 20 smileys that you want to share with us then just submit them in more than one post, or better yet just zip them up if you know how to. [*][b]Step 2 [/b](optional) [b] - [/b]Now that you've got your smiley picked out and ready to submit you can add one more optional thing to your post. If you'd like you can suggest what the shortcut trigger will be for your smiley. This is what is typed by people to trigger the smiley, if you want to see what I'm talking about reply to a post and click one of the smileys and you'll see... the text that it writes is the trigger for that smiley. Triggers would look something like [smiley81] or -smiley81- or {smiley81} --- something like that. It can be whatever you want and as long as it's reasonable I will use your suggestion. [/list] And to everyone who participates... thank you. -D [/html]

yeah, we did talk about that. But I didn't want to block new people completely from sending PMs because many new people want to contact people either reguarding one of their posts or guides or they want to contact a mod for some reason... and also the 'contact' link (at the bottom of all the pages) works through our PM system, I do this instead of an email address so that I don't have to worry about spam bots, I've had contact scripts also (a form on a page that anyone can fill out to contact me)... but the pm system has been working great for people to contact me and the other mods. If someone needs to contact us bad enough they shouldn't mind the signup process IMO ... as for DanX's PM's not working, that would be a first. I've never heard of anyone having problems with this. I'm still waiting on a response from him. I think I'll send him a PM and ask him to respond to it instead of waiting for him to get to this thread. -D

no, actually I allow any member to send PMs. To control spam I only allow them to send out 4 messages at a time. What does it do when you try to send the message? Does it give you an error? Try to send me a message https://testmy.net/pm-2 We'll figure this out for ya -D