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Title: Critical Error!
Post by: ToneMonkey on September 04, 2007, 02:16:06 PM
Every now and again when I click on one of the thread topics, the BKP forum dies and says "Critical Error".  This has happened a couple of times when I've gone through my favorites too (only on this forum though).  Is this a problem at my end or is it on at the forum end?


On a lighter note, does anyone want to know how to circumcise a Man U fan?
Title: Re: Critical Error!
Post by: hunter on September 04, 2007, 04:01:42 PM
Quote from: ToneMonkey

On a lighter note, does anyone want to know how to circumcise a Man U fan?


We're all listening  :o
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: ToneMonkey on September 04, 2007, 04:02:55 PM
Kick his sister in her jaw!


Now about that critical error .... 8)
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Twinfan on September 04, 2007, 04:03:48 PM
I'm getting the error occasionally too.  One for Ol I think...
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: ToneMonkey on September 04, 2007, 04:06:45 PM
Our server at work has been playing up a little and I wasn't too sure where the problem was.  Should I send Ol a message or will he just know by the force?
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: indysmith on September 04, 2007, 04:30:56 PM
Quote from: ToneMonkey
Kick his sister in her jaw!

 :o That was the lighter note?!
 :P
I havent got that error message before
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Twinfan on September 04, 2007, 06:04:23 PM
I'd send Ol a message.  I got it at home and at work...
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Ol on September 04, 2007, 10:09:16 PM
He knows by The Force

Ol.
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Ol on September 04, 2007, 10:29:08 PM
...although he can't find any relevent errors in the error log!
Can anyone report if it is happening at the moment?
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Twinfan on September 05, 2007, 09:00:43 AM
Not now Ol.  I had it around lunchtime yesterday.
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: plastercaster on September 05, 2007, 07:09:34 PM
had it yesterday but it's been fine so far
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Kilby on September 05, 2007, 07:25:52 PM
Our pet Man U fan in work didn't like that joke.

We later found out it was because he dosn't have a sister
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: ToneMonkey on September 06, 2007, 08:54:22 AM
Now that did make me laugh.
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Kilby on September 06, 2007, 01:04:18 PM
Errr, this occured on me @ 12:47 (appx) and it was still occuring @ 12:55 (then I had to go awzay and actually work)

Clipped :
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phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database
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Title: Critical Error!
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on September 08, 2007, 10:33:50 PM
Quote from: Kilby
Errr, this occured on me @ 12:47 (appx) and it was still occuring @ 12:55 (then I had to go awzay and actually work)

Clipped :
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phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database
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[geek-mode]lol i love how descriptive some error messages are :D

have you got the rest of what was on screen at the time?? or was it just that?
[/geek-mode]
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Kilby on September 08, 2007, 10:59:32 PM
That was all that was in the BKP forum window.

I don't think that my employers would be too happy at me posting a screenshot which had a lots of our RAS server and firewall main configs visible.

Then again once you work some Cisco error messages and operating systems that simply reboot when things go wrong. Sparse is a lot better than nothing at all (but not a lot)
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on September 08, 2007, 11:03:29 PM
Quote from: Kilby
That was all that was in the BKP forum window.

I don't think that my employers would be too happy at me posting a screenshot which had a lots of our RAS server and firewall main configs visible.

Then again once you work some Cisco error messages and operating systems that simply reboot when things go wrong. Sparse is a lot better than nothing at all (but not a lot)

don't ya just miss the robust exception information in coldfusion :D, sometimes i wonder why all languages don't give that level of detail about errors which occur
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Kilby on September 09, 2007, 12:41:26 AM
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don't ya just miss the robust exception information in coldfusion :D, sometimes i wonder why all languages don't give that level of detail about errors which occur


I'm afriad all my web experience comes from vi, ultraedit, apache, mysql PERL & PHP. I guess old (low level) coding habits never die (hence I ran away from coding & scripting)

Though that it did produce a helpdesk system, discussion board and a flickr like image gallery for our users. Funny enough though we did include proper error messages for the users to quote us when things went wrong (too lazy to look up the server logs you see)

I'm still wondering why I was the only one who commented on the errors though (oh yeah the main site seemed to be fine)
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on September 09, 2007, 01:16:54 AM
lol, nah i've not gone into low-level stuff yet, lowest i've gone is dabbling in c++ [although it was a pretty pathetic dabble at best]... should be doing some good stuff at uni though, can't wait :D ... just gotta get through my preparatory reading list now lol
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Ol on September 09, 2007, 11:21:29 PM
Unfortunately I only just checked back so didn't get a chance to check the logs before wipeout. Can you PM me next time and I'll be quicker off the mark. Clearly the Force is faultering! :-)

Ol

Quote from: Kilby
Errr, this occured on me @ 12:47 (appx) and it was still occuring @ 12:55 (then I had to go awzay and actually work)

Clipped :
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phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database
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Title: Critical Error!
Post by: ToneMonkey on September 10, 2007, 10:22:03 AM
Quote from: CaffeineJunkie
lol, nah i've not gone into low-level stuff yet, lowest i've gone is dabbling in c++ [although it was a pretty pathetic dabble at best]... should be doing some good stuff at uni though, can't wait :D ... just gotta get through my preparatory reading list now lol


I'm glad my days of C++ are gone.  In the past I've done MATLAB, C++, C with a C++ complier, FORTRAN, Visual Basic as well as some others that I've put out of my mind.  Hated every single one.  Programing definately wasn't for me.

Which uni you going to and what you doing dude?
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on September 10, 2007, 11:50:23 AM
Quote from: ToneMonkey
Quote from: CaffeineJunkie
lol, nah i've not gone into low-level stuff yet, lowest i've gone is dabbling in c++ [although it was a pretty pathetic dabble at best]... should be doing some good stuff at uni though, can't wait :D ... just gotta get through my preparatory reading list now lol


I'm glad my days of C++ are gone.  In the past I've done MATLAB, C++, C with a C++ complier, FORTRAN, Visual Basic as well as some others that I've put out of my mind.  Hated every single one.  Programing definately wasn't for me.

Which uni you going to and what you doing dude?


Uni of York, doing a MEng in Computer Systems and Software Engineering :D

i can't believe that you didn't like visual basic though, it's so simple, and although you don't get a huge amount of control over things like memory addresses and stuff, it's still a pretty fast language to build something in... particularly if you're just after a tool or add-in piece of software :D
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: Kilby on September 10, 2007, 11:02:12 PM
NP I will PM if I get that happening again.

Fraid I'm older than that and loved Watcom C, and gcc

The only use for VB (or Delphi) is for prototyping something for a real language.

I don't even live Visual C as you simply don't know whats going on under the covers (I guess I'm a control freak). Hence I have still been known to hack the odd windows app in Assembly (just to keep my hand in)
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: ToneMonkey on September 11, 2007, 02:47:36 PM
Typically, I ahven't had the error since starting this post.  The forum has timed out a couple of times this morning though when I tried to load it up  :cry:

CJ - I didn't like any form of programming.  There were people on my course that loved it, but it certainly wasn't for me.  If you can't hit it with a hammer, it isn't propper engineering  8)   I used to live with aguy taht did a very similar course to you.  It was essentially a BAE course called Signals and Systems at Loughborough.
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on September 11, 2007, 09:32:04 PM
Quote from: ToneMonkey
Typically, I ahven't had the error since starting this post.  The forum has timed out a couple of times this morning though when I tried to load it up  :cry:

CJ - I didn't like any form of programming.  There were people on my course that loved it, but it certainly wasn't for me.  If you can't hit it with a hammer, it isn't propper engineering  8)   I used to live with aguy taht did a very similar course to you.  It was essentially a BAE course called Signals and Systems at Loughborough.


nah the idea of this course is that it's a 'standard' computer science degree for the 18 months, then i can choose what i want to specialise in for the 4th and 5th years [most likely quantum computing or advanced research topics]

the joy of this method of running the course is that they attack computing from bottom-up and top-down, so we learn the electronics side of things, ie building CPUs and chipsets, and how different parts affect the end result, and stuff like machine code/assembly language etc. - but at the same time we learn algorithmics, databases and programming techniques for the higher-level stuff. Because of this, once we start to specialise, we've all had a taste in most of the different areas of computing, and can decide which we prefer

:D
Title: Critical Error!
Post by: ToneMonkey on September 12, 2007, 09:05:34 AM
Quote from: CaffeineJunkie
quantum computing



Now we're talking up my street.