diningcarThe 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!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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.
Ditto.
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).
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...
The evolution of disk storage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt5t84Z7u_I
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Dear trains I am now getting instant response to any inquiries. Maybe this forum fixed??
blue streak 1 Dear trains I am now getting instant response to any inquiries. Maybe this forum fixed??
Sorry was wrong its back--------------------
blue streak 1Sorry was wrong its back--------------------
It's been hit or miss for me.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On a happier note, a video from Facebook showing Larry's train, I believe.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/M8wL2dHEnEq6Wxc1/?mibextid=oFDknk
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.
My guess is they P2V'd the Kalmbach servers to a hosted environment during that outage - now the forums connect, if very slowly on occasion. Which tracks with the forum software being ancient, buggy and a RAM hog.
The likely replacement are unused facebook or disqus comments on articles.
charlie hebdoOn a happier note, a video from Facebook showing Larry's train, I believe.
Indeed. I wasn't on it that day, though. MP U3.
The 'Main' Index screen for the Forum does not appear to be updating in 'real time'. On some threads it will show poster X as being the most recent poster, when the thread gets called up you find poster Y was the last poster to the thread and that post was made an hour or more from the current time.
Additionally I have 'made' posts, an a minute or more after initiating the 'Submit Your Reply' button I get 'Sorry there was a problem with your last request' with additional verbiage about the site being off line or having a unhandled error.
If I use the back button and resubmit the post, most of the time I will get the 'Duplicate Post' response.
BaltACD The 'Main' Index screen for the Forum does not appear to be updating in 'real time'. On some threads it will show poster X as being the most recent poster, when the thread gets called up you find poster Y was the last poster to the thread and that post was made an hour or more from the current time. Additionally I have 'made' posts, an a minute or more after initiating the 'Submit Your Reply' button I get 'Sorry there was a problem with your last request' with additional verbiage about the site being off line or having a unhandled error. If I use the back button and resubmit the post, most of the time I will get the 'Duplicate Post' response.
Yes, that glitch or the instant Time Out message, "Site taking too long to respond"
BaltACD The 'Main' Index screen for the Forum does not appear to be updating in 'real time'.
The 'Main' Index screen for the Forum does not appear to be updating in 'real time'.
Had same problem. finally was able to book mark each section ( ie general discussion, passenger. etc ) and it connects quickly.
Now we're at the point where it seems 90% of the posts are talking about whether users can post or not. At this rate, does it really matter if the site is up anymore?
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.
zugmannNow we're at the point where it seems 90% of the posts are talking about whether users can post or not. At this rate, does it really matter if the site is up anymore?
It looks like the Forum is being given the pre-Amtrak Penn Central passenger service 'solution'. Make the service SO BAD nobody will want to use it.
BaltACD zugmann Now we're at the point where it seems 90% of the posts are talking about whether users can post or not. At this rate, does it really matter if the site is up anymore? It looks like the Forum is being given the pre-Amtrak Penn Central passenger service 'solution'. Make the service SO BAD nobody will want to use it.
zugmann Now we're at the point where it seems 90% of the posts are talking about whether users can post or not. At this rate, does it really matter if the site is up anymore?
It's become a hit or (mostly) miss operation. The SP also made some trains so bad it was eady to abandon gor lack of ridership.
I recall some PC "confuctors* were Institutionally rude.
BaltACD Additionally I have 'made' posts, an a minute or more after initiating the 'Submit Your Reply' button I get 'Sorry there was a problem with your last request' with additional verbiage about the site being off line or having a unhandled error. If I use the back button and resubmit the post, most of the time I will get the 'Duplicate Post' response.
Biaggini and, I think, Menk were notorious for making riding conditions and amenities as miserable as possible to spur train-off petitions. Expense of vending machines/'automat car' is one thing; intentionally providing miserable food in them quite another...
For sheer conductor nastiness it would be hard to beat some of the Erie-Lackawanna commuter routes in northern New Jersey. When someone threatens to put Karl R. Zimmermann off the train, you know it's tyranny.
Today - D day 2024
I have had serveral 504 time outs and several occasions when the forum responds like it is supposed to. ?????
I have just witnessed a miracle! The site was very sluggish, taking much of the minute to respond and occasionally going past and giving me the 504. Then shortly after midnight CDT, the logjam broke loose and I started getting instant responses. Ain't that sump'm?
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I've been getting 504 tieout errors for the last few days, but the site came up promptly this morning.
OvermodOvermod wrote the following post 2 days ago: Biaggini and, I think, Menk were notorious for making riding conditions and amenities as miserable as possible to spur train-off petitions.
Biaggini definitely. Louis Menk was rumored to have said the point of setting up Amtrak was to have it fail within a few years. However, NP and BN passenger trains seemed to remain at a pretty high level of passenger amenities as late as 1968 when I last rode the combined NCL/EB diner Chicago to East Dubuque.
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