Spooks In The System Anybody??

[chillin]

Networks are fairly complicated systems, it's not unusual for sites to seem to disappear for some users on occasion. <br><br>For example I could be in Miami trying to connect to the local newpaper's site... the computer traffic involved in that could be routed through 4 or 5 different networks that span international borders even though it seems like a 'local call'. Any type of computer problem on any one of those networks could make the local newspaper site seem to be unavailable until the problem was resolved or the network finds a different route to newspaper site.<br><br>Maybe it is something spooky, but its far more likely that its some benign computer glitch somewhere. In closing I'd like share the system admins' golden rule: If anything weird happens, rebooting will probably fix it. (save your work first pls) <p></p><i></i>

[chillin]

Sorry IR, I didn't read as far as your posts before chiming in about pc problems. Hope things are goin well for you these days. <p></p><i></i>

[kornholio]

One night earlier this week I got the same 404 error while trying to look at rigorousintuition.blogspot.com.<br><br>My first thoughts were "gasp - they shut down RI" or "gasp - Jeff shut it down," but I quickly saw that it was doing this for all Blogspot blogs -- Atrios, sports blogs, my friends' personal blogs, etc.<br><br>I've read elsewhere that in the last couple weeks there's been an explosion of spam blogs or "splogs" hosted on Blogspot. Perhaps the technical problems have to do with the strain on the system associated with thousands of spam blog posts. Perhaps it has to do with Blogspot engineers trying to delete splogs.<br><br>Anyway, I think the 404 errors are just technical SNAFUs, nothing sinister. <p></p><i></i>

[Et in Arcadia ego]

I had difficulty for several hours accessing the blog the evening of the Moon post.<br><br>I've had a good degree the last week of intermitent disconnects on my cable modem that I didn't attribute to much more thna tech difficulties, even though I never experienced them before.<br><br>What bugged me the most was one night I wanted to post a comment on the blog, and the thing where you enter the charaters to block out bots failed to function; I kept repeatedly entering the correct letters displayed(which were very easy to read), and kept getting failed. It bugged me enough that I was going to screenshot the page to Jeff, but when I cam home I was able to post again without problems.<br><br>The funnything about it though, was that I actually rebooted/logged back on in an attempt to get a new sequence of letters to display, and those same ones were there again.. <p></p><i></i>

[ir]

mercury was retro for the last 3 weeks...:-), its suppose to snap out tomorrow.<br><br>Chillin, i'm ok, these are ventilations and spill outs of years of mute acceptance of shit <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

Normally, I do not fret much about these things, but now that we're talkin'...<br><br>I just sent an email to a friend in Italy describing the Mel Sembler story, including the link to Jeff's post today. The email was sent, but when i went back to the inbox after I'd sent it, the whole thing was empty (and there were some 70 email stored there). I refreshed. Then I got the old: "Account Temporarily Unavailable". Haven't been able to get back into hotmail since. (15 minutes ago, this). <br><br>I just refreshed the page again, and got this: "The server closed the connection while reading the response. Contact your system administrator." huh? <br><br>I hope this is a coincidence. Probably is. Server just went down. Would have gone down if I had sent an e-greeting to my sister. <p></p><i></i>

[FourthBase]

I just sent an email about Chikao Fujisawa and George O'Toole to a friend, and had the same problem. Maybe hotmail is having server issues. I hope it's just that. <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

hotmail working again. all the mail in my inbox has been returned, re-sealed, with only minor rips and tears evident. <p></p><i></i>

[Dick Decent]

Some fantastic and interesting responses to this thread <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :smokin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smokin.gif ALT=":smokin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Technically, obvoiusly there are a veritable plethora of different reasons that I could have been the experiencing problems that kicked this off, [Illuminaughty, Banned and Illorphant's experiences were probably closest to mine] ... but<br>I wasn't having ANY problems accessing ANY other Blogs on the Blogspot/google servers or anywhere else, or ANY other pages on the web! I wasn't on AOL, I wasn't even using explorer, -I'm on a decent Mac G5 and It's not a 'buggy' machine. I was having no problems with the modem or my CABLE connection which remains rock solid.<br>ONLY R.I.... Just R.I. -which page I was now being told Didn't Exist.<br><br>I suddenly felt like I'd lost everyone <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> like the bastards had just gone ahead and cut us off from each other!<br>It wasn't nice.<br><br>Now I definitely DON'T agree with 'firstimer', and I DO with 'banned' and some of the other more interesting [to this thread] posters, in suspecting at least careful monitoring, if not actual interference from 'Interested Parties' The coincidence with Jeff's most recent post at the time;<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/11/correspondence-and-sanctuary-part-two.html">rigorousintuition.blogspo...t-two.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>merely served [I suppose] to worry me enough to check with you guys [and gals] if it was just me or what?<br><br>Apparently not.<br>Every reply was interesting though, even the tech ones, and some others most unexpected.<br><br>I certainly would guess that a board and community such as this one would routinely be monitored by THEM.<br>THEY after all are intelligent, and so would want to be aware of current trends in how well their cover ups and propaganda were actually holding up, [if at all] to those with open[ish] eyes. <br><br>Talking of Eyes, if anyone doubts the power of current available analysis on this board, go to the [most excellent] Kubrick/EWS thread and check some of the posts by 'Pants Elk' on this page;<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessageRange?topicID=2182.topic&start=41&stop=60">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...41&stop=60</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>I wish Pants could be president...<br>Or Kubrick,<br>Yeh Kubrick would've made a great president.....<br><br>I sucked the moon<br>I spoke too soon<br>And how much did it cost?<br>I was dropped from<br>Moonbeams<br>And sailed on shooting stars<br><br>Maybe you'll<br>Be president<br>But know right from wrong<br>Or in the flood<br>You'll build an Ark<br><br>And sail us to the moon<br>Sail us to the moon<br>Sail us to the moon<br>Sail us to the moon<br><br>Radiohead<br><br>xx DD<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dickdecent>Dick Decent</A> at: 12/8/05 6:31 pm<br></i>

[Dick Decent]

Just Glad I was wrong....<br>Hmmmnnn.... <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

hey DD. wrong about what?? <p></p><i></i>

[Dick Decent]

Wrong about the R.I. board/blogger system problems and outtages being 'spooks', giving themselves, and their methods away in monitoring our little community here. <br><br>I did think at first that THEY had totally REMOVED Jeff and our whole existence from the web;<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessage?topicID=2244.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...2244.topic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>This being one of the few genuinely dynamic/organic 'free thinkers' forums with any perceivable rational intelligence around, It didn't surprise me @ all, just unexpectedly saddened/maddened me into kicking off this thread.<br><br>But anyway I was wrong ...apparently.<br><br>Check this link for synchronicity with Jeff's own posting :<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/11/correspondence-and-sanctuary-part-two.html">rigorousintuition.blogspo...t-two.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The SAME EVENING was when I was having the problems outlined in my original post, recapped on link 1 above.<br><br>Was it the equivalent of Jeff's weird phone noises/odd car activity? Was I about to get a knock on the door?<br>We may never know, but I know in my gut that THEY are watching/monitoring this blog. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Don't sound paranoid at all do I?<br><br>Love and Peace always<br><br>DD x <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dickdecent>Dick Decent</A> at: 12/9/05 4:10 pm<br></i>

[Dreams End]

Blogspot is now owned by Google. That can't be good.<br><br>Personally, I use Linux as my operating system and Firefox as my browser, so VERY few viruses out there that could even affect my system. I do sacrifice the ability to easily look at some multimedia content on the web. Quicktime and Windows Media files are proprietary (companies won't share the code.) There are ways around it, but they don't make ALL the media work. <br><br>Other than that, no virus scans, no spyware scans, no defragging....nice!<br><br>The next release of the version of Linux I use, Ubuntu, should be out in about four months and it is supposed to be so user friendly it can compete with the new Windows OS. You might want to check it out. <br><br>Oh yeah, and in Linux, all the software is free. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ubuntulinux.org/">www.ubuntulinux.org/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>It's also possible to dual boot, so that you can use Windows when you have to (I have to for my scanner).<br><br>There are free Linux programs that handle just about everything that you can do on Windows...office utilities, photoshop type program, etc.<br><br>But if you are a hardcore computer gamer...nevermind. SOME games will work, but many of them require the use of proprietary programs that only function in Windows or with great effort in Linux.<br><br>But this post, I'm happy to say, is 100% Windows free! <p></p><i></i>

[Dick Decent]

So is this one!<br>Mac freak that I am<br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :hat --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/pimp.gif ALT=":hat"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

Actually, if I had a lot of money for a new computer....I'd probably go mac myself. <p></p><i></i>