Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-12 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 12 May 2013 13:02:32 -0700 DoctorBill wrote: > I looked up the IP Address of Annoyances.org and MANY SITES return: > 66.185.22.68 > which is now a model Train web site."Do It Yourself in Z Scale". > > WTF is going on ? annoyances.org and zscale.org share an IP address. The server is

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR
DoctorBill wrote: > I looked up the IP Address of Annoyances.org and MANY SITES return: > 66.185.22.68 > which is now a model Train web site. > "Do It Yourself in Z Scale". > > WTF is going on ? 66.185.22.68 is b8-3.macminivault.com, which probably hosts many sites including Annoyances.Org

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-12 Thread DoctorBill
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Jim wrote: Iceman wrote: PS: Annoyances.org is still down. My time is 02:40 AM. I clicked on the site and got "Annoyances.org is temporarily down for maintainance and will return shortly." The site is not "down" in the true sense of the meaning of "down." It

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-12 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Jim wrote: > Iceman wrote: >> PS: Annoyances.org is still down. My time is 02:40 AM. >> > I clicked on the site and got "Annoyances.org is temporarily down for > maintainance and will return shortly." The site is not "down" in the true sense of the meaning of "down." It is working, and sending a

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-11 Thread Jim
Iceman wrote: On Thu, 09 May 2013 06:41:06 -0700, DoctorBill wrote in message : PS -- I am using XP until they force me to go to Windows 8 with whips and guns pointed at me ! Use XP at your own risk. Support ends on 4/28/2014. May I suggest

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-10 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
DoctorBill wrote: Last, I believe, question. What good does it do to clear the DNS Cache ? As noted in my original post, Rationale: DNS lookup means that when you ask your browser to access a website by name, it needs to look up the IP address (12.34.56.789) and request that. As a time-

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-10 Thread DoctorBill
DoctorBill wrote: According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up and running. However, I keep getting "Not Found The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." for http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp also http://www.annoyances.org/ returns "Annoya

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-10 Thread Ray_Net
DoctorBill wrote, On 10/05/2013 02:59: cmcadams wrote: DoctorBill wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: DoctorBill wrote: OK - I think I know now what a "DNS" is This shows how little I know - How do I "open a Command Prompt" ? Where - how ? You have to tell me what that means. In SeaMonkey's

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-10 Thread DoctorBill
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 09/05/2013 21:11, DoctorBill told the world: ipconfig/flushdns - get error message. Windows cannot find "ipconfig/flushdns" Tried - ipconfig. Window came up and immediately disappeared. Well, let's go step by step here... ipconfig is a command-line ut

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-10 Thread Ralph Fox
On Thu, 09 May 2013 05:54:51 -0700, DoctorBill wrote: > According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up > and running. There are no Google search results for the past month: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aannoyances.org#q=site:annoyances.org&tbs=qdr:m The search re

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-10 Thread Rob
DoctorBill wrote: > DoctorBill wrote: >> According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up >> and running. >> However, I keep getting >> "Not Found >> The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." >> for >> http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp >> also

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-10 Thread Rob
Iceman wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2013 06:41:06 -0700, DoctorBill wrote in message > : > >> PS -- I am using XP until they force me to go to Windows 8 with whips >> and guns pointed at me ! > > Use XP at your own risk. Support ends on 4/28/2014. I

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
DoctorBill wrote: If I go to "Run" in the Start Menutype in ipconfig - hit enter, a DOS window appears and immediately disappears. Please follow instructions, don't make up your own: Holding the Windows key, press "R." This will open a little window asking you what program to run. E

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 09/05/2013 21:11, DoctorBill told the world: ipconfig/flushdns - get error message. Windows cannot find "ipconfig/flushdns" Tried - ipconfig. Window came up and immediately disappeared. Well, let's go step by step here... ipconfig is a command-line u

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread David E. Ross
On 5/9/13 8:58 PM, DoctorBill wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 5/9/13 5:54 AM, DoctorBill wrote: >>> According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up >>> and running. >>> However, I keep getting >>> "Not Found >>> The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this ser

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread cmcadams
DoctorBill wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 5/9/13 5:54 AM, DoctorBill wrote: According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up and running. However, I keep getting "Not Found The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." for http://www.annoyances.org/exec

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread DoctorBill
David E. Ross wrote: On 5/9/13 5:54 AM, DoctorBill wrote: According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up and running. However, I keep getting "Not Found The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." for http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp also h

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread cmcadams
DoctorBill wrote: cmcadams wrote: DoctorBill wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: DoctorBill wrote: OK - I think I know now what a "DNS" is This shows how little I know - How do I "open a Command Prompt" ? Where - how ? You have to tell me what that means. In SeaMonkey's Location Bar ? Back

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread Iceman
On Thu, 09 May 2013 06:41:06 -0700, DoctorBill wrote in message : > PS -- I am using XP until they force me to go to Windows 8 with whips > and guns pointed at me ! Use XP at your own risk. Support ends on 4/28/2014. May I suggest Windows 7 in

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread David E. Ross
On 5/9/13 5:54 AM, DoctorBill wrote: > According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up > and running. > However, I keep getting > "Not Found > The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." > for > http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp > also > http:/

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread DoctorBill
cmcadams wrote: DoctorBill wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: DoctorBill wrote: OK - I think I know now what a "DNS" is This shows how little I know - How do I "open a Command Prompt" ? Where - how ? You have to tell me what that means. In SeaMonkey's Location Bar ? Back in the old DOS ?

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 09/05/2013 21:11, DoctorBill told the world: > ipconfig/flushdns - get error message. > > Windows cannot find "ipconfig/flushdns" > > Tried - ipconfig. > > Window came up and immediately disappeared. Well, let's go step by step here... ipconfig is a command-line utility.

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread cmcadams
DoctorBill wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: DoctorBill wrote: OK - I think I know now what a "DNS" is This shows how little I know - How do I "open a Command Prompt" ? Where - how ? You have to tell me what that means. In SeaMonkey's Location Bar ? Back in the old DOS ? Holding the Windo

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread DoctorBill
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: DoctorBill wrote: OK - I think I know now what a "DNS" is This shows how little I know - How do I "open a Command Prompt" ? Where - how ? You have to tell me what that means. In SeaMonkey's Location Bar ? Back in the old DOS ? Holding the Windows key, press "R."

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
DoctorBill wrote: OK - I think I know now what a "DNS" is This shows how little I know - How do I "open a Command Prompt" ? Where - how ? You have to tell me what that means. In SeaMonkey's Location Bar ? Back in the old DOS ? Holding the Windows key, press "R." This will open a little wi

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread DoctorBill
DoctorBill wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: DoctorBill wrote: According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up and running. However, I keep getting "Not Found The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." for http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp a

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread DoctorBill
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: DoctorBill wrote: According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up and running. However, I keep getting "Not Found The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." for http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp also http://www.anno

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
DoctorBill wrote: According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up and running. However, I keep getting "Not Found The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." for http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp also http://www.annoyances.org/ returns "Annoy

Re: Cannot access Annoyances.org (Blocked?)

2013-05-09 Thread DoctorBill
DoctorBill wrote: According to a Google search of "annoyances.org", that web site is up and running. However, I keep getting "Not Found The requested URL /exec/forum/winxp was not found on this server." for http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp also http://www.annoyances.org/ returns "Annoya