And we're back online

Sorry for the brief outage.

We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

David

In reply to David S. Wallens: Thank God, I was starting to have withdrawals....

We're sending a squad up.

Ok the shakes are subsiding. That was a close one. .

I looked at the trap Ray...

In reply to dean1484:

I was FORCED to access some other part of the Internet, like some sort of regular person, to see if it was my connection or GRM. I was not happy when my worst fears were validated.

All better now though...

Glad to see we're back up now. I actually had to resort to going out in the garage and working on stuff this afternoon. I have freshly sanded Pacesetter headers, ready for paint. Gonna start tearing stuff off the truck tomorrow in preparation for installation and a new 32/36 weber carb.

I blame it on the "post your mug" thread.

I would have been better off if I had stayed out of the garage. I have just done the worst fab job I have ever done. I was better at this when I was just 15yo, I'm really embarrassed by my work, but too lazy to redo it

Y2KXVI strikes!

Yeah, sorry for the interruptions! Let's hope our host's provider is able to finally fend off this week's DDoS attacks. Been a bad one for a lot of the Internet.

Margie

I actually worked on my BMW today. Thanks for being down GRM so I can have time to do it.

I spent a good 30 min trying to fix my computer wondering why I couldn't get my GRM fix

JohnRW1621 wrote: I blame it on the "post your mug" thread.

I warned her, thats why the last one went away.

thats ok i'll just make everyone wait till tomorrow for a bathroom remodel update. i'm going to bed. i think i need a tooth extracted too. i now have more hatred for new car shopping than ever before. other than that, i'm great, thanks for asking!

In reply to DSW: Boring conversation anyway....

I actually had to do stuff with the site down. Replaced the fuel sending unit on the malibooty, and helped my neighbor fix his caravan. It was awful.

Stealthtercel wrote: In reply to DSW: Boring conversation anyway....

Pretty much.

Pew, pew.

David S. Wallens wrote: Sorry for the brief outage. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? David

well we are now ... at 3am we were also ... then it locked up again ... thanks for everyone's hard work ... the addiction is hard to deal with during long withdrawal periods

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Yeah, sorry for the interruptions! Let's hope our host's provider is able to finally fend off this week's DDoS attacks. Been a bad one for a lot of the Internet. Margie

what are these DDoS attacks ? a quick glance in the googles, didn't lend much light to what it actually is .... just that they are getting worse

I'm finding the site is responding very slowly. Just me, or is anyone else experiencing it.too?

DoS attacks are Denial of Service, where many machines send packet requests, usually with some minor problem in them, to a server, which happily tries to reply to the request. If it's 10 requests, no problem. If it's 10 billion requests, problem. They get the malicious software put on unsuspecting people's computers via virus attacks, turning people's computers into 'bots', and then with a 'bot army' they can control thousands of computers to send the bad packets all at once to the victim server.

I was worried. But I did get a lot of wrenching done, like everyone else.

Maybe you should shut down the site over the weekends leading up to the challenge...

I spent the outage getting lost on Reddit... Glad to be back

up and down ... over and over ... and it's affecting one other forum I go to ... hopefully it can be "fixed" by the time I'm able to get back on line ... I'll be totally off line for most if not all of next week .. no wifi at the hospital, and my phone is more dumb than smart, and usually doesn't work at this facility anyway ...