I'm pissed, I have a big stick, and I blame Bill Gates

[KillerMuffin]

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

My MSN is fucked up!!! I can't get into my mailbox and I want to HURT someone. Or eat some pizza. With extra cheeeeeese. And a chai tea latte.

Okay. If you sent me mail in the last 12 hours after I "crashed" my own computer (I'm not telling the story!) I am not ignoring you, I'm not mad at you so don't jump to conclusions, I just can't open my email.

*sigh*

 

[TN_Vixen]

it's been down

off and on all f'n day. Driving me crazy. Hit him a coupla times for me KM.



ok, out with it, how'd you crash your puter?

 

[TonyG]

I am having the same trouble and have for a few weeks now. So, I just signed up for Earthlink to give it a try.

 

[Angel]

Switch to a free email account. I hate microsoft. Someday I will figure out Unix and rid myself of windows. I've already rid myself of outlook express in favor of a mail program written by a 15 year old, which outperforms Outlook Express in every area LOL.

Get Literotica.org I used it from the moment I came upon this site, until I bought my own domain, and the program I chose with my hosting company allowed me 20 freakin POP3 accounts. BigMailBox is fairly reliable, and I think it was only down once that I can remember.

Mail.com is ok too, but it was down alot when I was with them.

As for a new ISP... Ugh. I have learned to hate dial up ever since I spoiled myself with a cable modem. However Excite has a free provider which is very reliable and not slow like NetZero and Freewwweb.

[Edited by Angel on 01-25-2001 at 12:41 PM]

 

[KillerMuffin]

I use a local ISP and drop most of my stuff into Hotmail. I have outlook, the only mail in it is from my ISP. I don't give out that account because it's all stored on my puter. Hotmail is stored on their server and put into temp files to open it. Doesn't stick around like a cheap uncle on lottery winning day.

I'm pretty pissed. Hotmail doesn't go down often, never when I've needed to use it before, until now. Everything has to screw up, but it pisses me off.

 

[Guest]

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

We know you have a big dick.......

Oh, sorry - big stick.

I've heard it on good authority - that some dude did something to their server Tuesday and fucked them all up big time.

They say it could be days.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Hold on -

It just came back up. Whoops! Maybe not - they must be trying but it ain't workin'.

 

[CreamyLady]

Their DNS servers are all screwed up, according to the Wired article I read this morning.

I did manage to get an Alchemy fix last night, so I'm okay for now. No Messenger though, nor Hotmail.

 

[Juliangel]

Here is one of the articles I got CL is it the same one you read?
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,21633,00.html?partner=xdrive
January 24, 2001, 8:05 AM PST

Microsoft Sites Suffer Large-Scale Blackout

Key Microsoft sites are unreachable for several hours Wednesday morning, because of a domain-name system glitch. The company says it has yet to identify the cause of the error.
By Joris Evers – IDG News

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)
Microsoft red-faced over Web shutdown
Microsoft Meltdown Will Cost a Pretty Penny

Microsoft Web Sites Cut Off From Many Users

Microsoft (MSFT) confirmed Wednesday that most of its online properties became unreachable Wednesday morning because of a problem in the system that maps Web addresses to Internet protocol addresses.


Sites that were affected include the Web-based e-mail service Hotmail.com, the Web portal MSN.com, the news Web site MSNBC.com and the company's corporate site Microsoft.com.


"The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) does not return the correct response when it is queried for a Microsoft Web site," said Ruud de Jonge, support manager at Microsoft Benelux.


The first reports of the problem started coming in "very early" Wednesday morning, said De Jonge. "It will take some time; this can't be restored by hitting one switch," he said.


Microsoft has yet to pin down the cause of the DNS error. "It can be a system or human error, but somebody could also have done this intentionally," De Jonge said. "We don't manage the DNS ourselves; it is a system controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers with worldwide replicas."


A team at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., is working on the problem, which has been given top priority, said De Jonge.


Because of the blackout, some 60 million Hotmail users worldwide could not access their e-mail, Microsoft customers could not download software updates or get online support, and MSNBC.com had no audience. Other services that couldn't be reached include Windowsupdate.com, which contains updates for the Windows operating system, Passport.com, Microsoft's online identification service, and bCentral.com, a portal for small and medium-sized businesses.


Hackers could be responsible for the outage that continued for hours, said Simon Hania, spokesman for Dutch Internet service provider XS4ALL Internet. "The name server that is authoritative for Microsoft's Web sites might have crippled under a denial-of-service attack," he said.


Hania said, however, that it is more likely that a network error or system failure caused the problem.


The DNS consists of many machines around the world that are set up in a hierarchy. "It looks like the machine hit is in the top of the DNS tree," Hania said. "Once it is fixed it can take a couple of hours for all DNS systems around the world to pick up the correct DNS information."


Joris Evers writes for the IDG News Service.

 

[CreamyLady]

No, this is the article (hoping the link is okay):

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41423,00.html

Same thing, though.

 

[TonyG]

I just cancelled my Earthlink account. Lasted all of 45 minutes. I did not like it at all even with MSN's problems.

 

[CreamyLady]

I have Earthlink, and have no real quibble with it. It beats the heck out of my last ISP, which somehow arranged to have my main mail account go down on Friday nights just before the Tech Support left for the weekend.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Okay, I got mail back. Nothing was wiped out, even though I managed to pick up over a meg in mail. It's all voice mail bounced off my call waiting service.

I still blame Bill Gates. Cause I can.

 

[jcgirl]

Damn, I forgot to email Killermuffin.

 

[CreamyLady]

Drat. I still can't access Hotmail.

 

[Madame Pandora]

It is right about now that AOL doesn't seem like it costs all that much ;-)

MP

 

[April]

Ha. Speak for yourself. I'm fleeing AOL myself. Found a nice little ISP that so far seems very reliable. I've had no problems with Hotmail today, but I think that's just luck. Although I will say that I have rarely had any problem with AOL. I just can't see paying that much for what amounts to simply checking my email. Does anybody else understand what I just said?

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Guest]

Why are you people blaming me?!
I'm not the one who voted for a Republican! What do you expect? Information will now only be available for rich, white people.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Why are you people blaming me?!
I'm not the one who voted for a Republican! What do you expect? Information will now only be available for rich, white people.

Chases Bill Gates around the thread with the big stick. Borrowed from Sparky.

 

[Purple Haze]

http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/gates_c.jpg

Don't ya wanna just have sex with him?

 

[Guest]

*Runs from Killer* Blame Bush! It's not me it him!

*stops and frowns* Laurel says I look sort of cute in my thong.