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Paul Kowalski

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Apr 22, 2001, 11:32:58 AM4/22/01
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I've been trying to get on to PalmGear since last night. Does anyone
know if there site is down?

It's 11:30 am EST, and I can't even ping their site.

TIA.

Adam Marti

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Apr 22, 2001, 12:26:29 PM4/22/01
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Well let me refer to the sophisticated system I've devised for just
such an occasion... Its been my observation that Palmgear will always
go down at some point in the day if the day's name has a "D" in it.
(For Down perhaps? Hmmm, this bears further research) So does this
day of the week have a "D" in its name? Yep, Sunday has a "D" in it,
so today must be one of the days Palmgear will be down at some point.

I once again independently verified my hypothesis earlier this
morning. The phenomena appears to have ended though. Its back up and
running as of this writing.

sigh.


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Arthur Hagen

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Apr 22, 2001, 1:01:04 PM4/22/01
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"Adam Marti" <Add...@request.com> wrote in message
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>
> Well let me refer to the sophisticated system I've devised for just
> such an occasion... Its been my observation that Palmgear will always
> go down at some point in the day if the day's name has a "D" in it.
> (For Down perhaps? Hmmm, this bears further research) So does this
> day of the week have a "D" in its name? Yep, Sunday has a "D" in it,
> so today must be one of the days Palmgear will be down at some point.

I believe your observations are flawed, and that the correct letter is "A"
instead of "D". Remember Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.

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Ken Wright

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Apr 24, 2001, 12:34:38 PM4/24/01
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:32:58 GMT, Paul Kowalski
<paul.k...@verizon.net> wrote:

According to our web team, our site has not been down at all for the
past several days. We did move into a new data center with all new
servers over the last 10 days. It is possible that some ISP's have not
updated their DNS records properly and are still pointing to the old
IP. We would appreciate it if anyone experiencing problems with our
new site would please drop us a note with the details using the form
at the link below. Thanks a lot!

http://www.palmgear.com/shared/interfaceComments.cfm

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Ken Wright
kwr...@palmgear.com
http://www.palmgear.com
"The One Stop Source for your Palm Connected Organizer!"

Nick Vargish

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Apr 24, 2001, 8:19:33 PM4/24/01
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Ken,

I often get failures from your database server when I try to connect
to your site. Network-wise, on the other, there hasn't seemed to be
any problem.

You should consider something really high-performance, like Oracle or
even MySQL, over the shall-not-be-named database "server" you're
currently running. Not that I have an opinion, or anything... :^)

Nick

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Frans Blezer

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Apr 25, 2001, 7:31:22 AM4/25/01
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Ken,

I also can not access www.palmgear.com for several hours. I'd gladly
communicate this to you through the link you posted
(http://www.palmgear.com/shared/interfaceComments.cfm), but of course that
is unreachable too ;-).

Can you perhaps post the new IP address of PalmGear as a workaround untill
my ISP catches up?

Greetings,

Frans

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dgm

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Apr 25, 2001, 9:21:54 AM4/25/01
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I've also been unsuccessful in accessing Palmgear for the past several
days. It's difficult to go to the IP address listed below as a work
around when it's the same www.palmgear.com that's giving me a problem.
I've tried Earthlink, Mindspring and Bluelight with no success.

dgm

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:31:22 GMT, "Frans Blezer" <fbl...@baan.nl>
wrote:

*Ken,
*
*I also can not access www.palmgear.com for several hours. I'd gladly
*communicate this to you through the link you posted
*(http://www.palmgear.com/shared/interfaceComments.cfm), but of course
that
*is unreachable too ;-).
*
*Can you perhaps post the new IP address of PalmGear as a workaround
untill
*my ISP catches up?
*
*Greetings,
*
*Frans
*
*"Ken Wright" <wrig...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
*news:snabetkhjp1nu4msn...@4ax.com...
*> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:32:58 GMT, Paul Kowalski
*> <paul.k...@verizon.net> wrote:
*>
*> >I've been trying to get on to PalmGear since last night. Does
anyone
*> >know if there site is down?
*> >
*> >It's 11:30 am EST, and I can't even ping their site.
*> >
*> >TIA.
*>
*> According to our web team, our site has not been down at all for
the
*> past several days. We did move into a new data center with all new
*> servers over the last 10 days. It is possible that some ISP's have
not
*> updated their DNS records properly and are still pointing to the
old
*> IP. We would appreciate it if anyone experiencing problems with our
*> new site would please drop us a note with the details using the
form
*> at the link below. Thanks a lot!
*>
*> http://www.palmgear.com/shared/interfaceComments.cfm
*>
*> --
*>
*> Regards,
*>
*> Ken Wright
*> kwr...@palmgear.com
*> http://www.palmgear.com
*> "The One Stop Source for your Palm Connected Organizer!"
*

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Tumbleweed

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Apr 25, 2001, 5:40:44 PM4/25/01
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"Ken Wright" <wrig...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
<snip>

> We would appreciate it if anyone experiencing problems with our
> new site would please drop us a note with the details using the form
> at the link below. Thanks a lot!
>
> http://www.palmgear.com/shared/interfaceComments.cfm
>
Ken,
maybe I missed something, but are you asking people who are having problems
accessing www.palmgear.com to fill in a form at ...... www.palmgear.com ?


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Ben Steeves

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Apr 25, 2001, 6:11:56 PM4/25/01
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:55:19 GMT, Marcio Watanabe <mar...@nospam.com> wrote:
>"Tumbleweed" <spamtum...@tumbleweed.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Ken,
>>maybe I missed something, but are you asking people who are having >problems accessing www.palmgear.com to fill in a form at ...... >www.palmgear.com ?
>
>Yeah, I thought that was a pretty interesting request too...

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Ken Wright

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Apr 25, 2001, 7:25:32 PM4/25/01
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:40:44 +0100, "Tumbleweed"
<spamtum...@tumbleweed.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>"Ken Wright" <wrig...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
><snip>
>> We would appreciate it if anyone experiencing problems with our
>> new site would please drop us a note with the details using the form
>> at the link below. Thanks a lot!
>>
>> http://www.palmgear.com/shared/interfaceComments.cfm
>>
>Ken,
>maybe I missed something, but are you asking people who are having problems
>accessing www.palmgear.com to fill in a form at ...... www.palmgear.com ?

Yep, guess that will not work if you can't access the site :-) Sorry
about that. Must have been working on too many emails at the time I
posted that! I talked with our web team and they said by now, ISP's
should have updated to the site change. They suggested that if you
still cannot access www.palmgear.com, to contact your ISP that they
need to update accordingly.

Simo Tuominen

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Apr 26, 2001, 6:01:39 AM4/26/01
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"dgm" <dmai...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I've also been unsuccessful in accessing Palmgear for the past
several
> days. It's difficult to go to the IP address listed below as a work

"I see no IP address here." :) Anyway, if you 're still having
problems, www.palmgear.com seems to be at 64.56.73.65. Re pings: I got
"Request timed out". Then again, my ISP is far from 100% reliable. A
few disruptions (DNS lost, DHCP server not responding) per day is
common. (Speak of the devil: "DHCP Server Unavailable".)

GuiGuru

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Apr 26, 2001, 8:29:46 AM4/26/01
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Reminds me of the standard note on the safety card in the seatback pocket on
the airlines, which says in effect, "If you can't read this important safety
information, please contact a flight attendant."
Right.
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"Marcio Watanabe" <mar...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Tumbleweed" <spamtum...@tumbleweed.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Ken,
> >maybe I missed something, but are you asking people who are having
>problems accessing www.palmgear.com to fill in a form at ......
>www.palmgear.com ?
>

Sylvain Lamarre

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Apr 29, 2001, 7:34:20 PM4/29/01
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.. or this story of a TV station where the chief engineer asked
the arts dept. to create a slide "We are presently off the
air"... they made it!!!


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