Operation of the forum as it is presently operating WILL NOT bring in any new members. The forum is operating in the manner of PennCentral passenger service before Amtrak, in a manner to drive away any passenger foolish enough to use a PC passenger train one time from ever using their 'service' again.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
tree68 charlie hebdo In 2024, many long-time members have left or ceased activity. Alas, many have moved on to their final reward. Some we know of, some were of an age where that seems likely.
charlie hebdo In 2024, many long-time members have left or ceased activity.
Alas, many have moved on to their final reward. Some we know of, some were of an age where that seems likely.
On a happier note, a video from Facebook showing Larry's train, I believe.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/M8wL2dHEnEq6Wxc1/?mibextid=oFDknk
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
BaltACD tree68 blue streak 1 Sorry was wrong its back-------------------- It's been hit or miss for me. It has been hit or miss all week, still much better than last week when it was miss, miss , miss miss miss Good enough to say it is working, bad enough to frustrate most people.
tree68 blue streak 1 Sorry was wrong its back-------------------- It's been hit or miss for me.
blue streak 1 Sorry was wrong its back--------------------
It's been hit or miss for me.
It has been hit or miss all week, still much better than last week when it was miss, miss , miss miss miss
Good enough to say it is working, bad enough to frustrate most people.
It probably doesn't matter much whether or not the fora continue, since most of the posts are in an echo chamber of you and a few others. In 2024, many long-time members have left or ceased activity.
blue streak 1Sorry was wrong its back--------------------
blue streak 1 Dear trains I am now getting instant response to any inquiries. Maybe this forum fixed??
Dear trains I am now getting instant response to any inquiries. Maybe this forum fixed??
Sorry was wrong its back--------------------
I remember upgrading to a 30MB RLL drive, and more RAM right at the depths of the Reagan-era price increase on foreign-made chips, in order to run Oracle 5.1 (!) for the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study's immense reams of data. Which turned out to be supplied -- the raw data, mind you -- on one floppy disk.
I got the first Mac IIx sold in New York, with the amazing A/UX operating system preinstalled on its EIGHTY megabyte drive -- I could not believe I had All That Storage available to me!
After that, it was blasé acceptance of Moore's-Law improvements... I didn't even bother to read much about GMR as hard drives sneaked from 4GB up to 320GB to multiple terabytes in the $100 range.
Sadly, I can still remember my first exposure to very large storage -- it was at the Government Computer Show in I think 1991, and the Exabyte company had built a wall of their streaming tape drives about 8 feet high and a whole booth wide, all live. (I don't remember what they were hooked to, and I suppose the story is better if we imagine they actually were). We now have flash-based SSDs with astounding MTTF that are larger than that...
tree68Solid state is now where it's at. I have a 32 gigabyte "thumb drive" sitting next to me, and I put a terabyte drive into my ham shack microcomputer... Meanwhile, in the garage attic, in a box, sits a museum piece - a Tandy 1000SX into which I installed an aftermarked 40 megabyte hard drive. It was so nice, not having to boot up with a 5.25" floppy or two...
Meanwhile, in the garage attic, in a box, sits a museum piece - a Tandy 1000SX into which I installed an aftermarked 40 megabyte hard drive. It was so nice, not having to boot up with a 5.25" floppy or two...
A couple of years ago I had an issue with my W10 Dell laptop and had to have it diagnosed and repaired professionally. The fault ended up being a cooling fan that wasn't cooling to the degree necessary. The machine had a 1 TB hard drive and the tech said he could install a 1 TB Solid State Drive for about $100. So now the machine has the SDD installed and I got a cover and can use the prior HDD as an external drive.
Solid state is now where it's at. I have a 32 gigabyte "thumb drive" sitting next to me, and I put a terabyte drive into my ham shack microcomputer...
The evolution of disk storage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt5t84Z7u_I
BaltACDBut it looks like it made you double post the same post!
Which is interesting, as any time I impatiently hit enter a second time, I get told that it's a duplicate post.
OTOH, I used to work with a woman who frequently managed to double enter on one of our machines. She was the only one who ever did. Usually it meant that someone had to go in and tell the machine to ignore the second command (she didn't know how).
BaltACD diningcar The Trains site is working perfectly for me this morning. Quick responses and no chaff. But it looks like it made you double post the same post!
diningcar The Trains site is working perfectly for me this morning. Quick responses and no chaff.
But it looks like it made you double post the same post!
Ditto.
diningcarThe Trains site is working perfectly for me this morning. Quick responses and no chaff.
The Trains site is working perfectly for me this morning. Quick responses and no chaff.
The Trains site is working perfectively for me this morning. Quick responses and no chaff.
Have found that if you avoid the main trains forum and bookmark each of the 5 subjects (general discussion etc) that access is quicker.
RRNUT282: your forum picture ID is interesting. I know exactly what's going on, BUT I was scrolling through a series of "mishaps" (farm equipment stuck on a bridge etc.). Your picture was there and the comment below was, "Wonder what this guy was doing?" I had to laugh. endmrw0524242141
tree68It would appear that the forum is hosted by Amazon Web Services...
It would appear the forum is hosted by the Telligent platform (the back-end software that has supported it for about a decade) which uses the Amazon server architecture.
You may remember the repeated tech links at the beginning of the year about how this platform is obsolescent and they don't have the original source or object code to reinstall or maintain it.
Paul of Covington Huh?
Huh?
It would appear that the forum is hosted by Amazon Web Services...
Bow getting this
cs.trains.com took too long to respond
Try:
_____________
"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
The name cs.trains.com resolves to telligent2-alb-288412204.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com [52.203.182.84].
I only got 8 hops on a tracert before the requests started timing out.
Take that for what you will...
This morning I spoke too soon -
This evening -
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too.
Without putting a stopwatch on forum operations today (05/23/24)
The forum seems to respond faster - on par with other forums I participate in.
Last night I was only able to get 504 errors.
SO Irritating-- Todays the first time in a week that I have been able to see any Forum posts.
In railroad parlance - I suspect the Server is operating as a Single Track railroad.
If the single track is Clear of competing 'trains' one gets in and the Server responds to the request slowly but without incident.
If another user is having their requests handled, you get the 'We can't respond to your request' message right away and then we get our own request handled - eventually.
If two or more users are making requests of the Server, after dithering for very long seconds - we get the 504 Error.
Better today but needs to be quickly available to attract and retain members,
I got in the front door but after five tries.
Last night I gave up after ten tries with "no joy" as our communicators used to say in the Corps.
Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.