68kmla down?

I'm suffering from withdrawl too.

Gary

wats going on the MLA?! i too am suffering from withdrawl symptoms. i thought it was just this dmv computer im using.

i just looked the MLA's dns, and punched in the ip, and it came up with a vDeck placeholder page. looks like someone might have erased something

This sucks I am glad its not just me i miss getting my mac on

has anybody tried getting a hold of the mods? does anybody know their email addresses?

The PPCMLA is still online, though. And it's got it's own brand new domain!

This might tide you over for a bit:
http://www.ppcmla.com/forums/

Peace,
Drew

Are you the admin of 68kmla or something?

Nope. I've been a member there for about three years, though.

I started the PPCMLA as a sort of off-shoot from the 68kMLA.

Peace,
Drew

I did send an email to tom levens asking what is wrong.

bolle.

it's just a site. the IRC room is up. #68kmla on freenode, if anyone want's to join.

plus, alot of folks from there are also regulars here. I know that's how it was for me. i've been a member here for quite a long time, then I got turned onto the mla almost a year ago.

and, since it's Saturday, we may be looking at a full weekend outage.

-digital

I really hope that it comes back up within a few days. The 68kMLA Forums is one of the best sources for 68k info!

Anyone know anything about 68kmla yet!? I wish that default error page had some real info!

Gary

basically, we're all on irc for right now. pm me if you dont kno the irc info!

Tom mentioned he wants to change "68KMLA" -- adding pics & sigs, etc.

I bet that's why it's down ....
It's bein' renovated !

Later!
8^ ]

any mods on the IRC to explain stuff?

yeah i miss 68kmla

there are enough of us - we could take over here!

thats what armys do is it not?

;-)

well hopefully it will back up soon

When will it be back up? I also would be willing to donate

I could donate a little bit, I am rather poor right now. But if it will help get 68kmla back up let me know!

According to tomlevens, the server 68kmla was hosted on died. it is housed at a datacenter. a bunch of other sites hosted off the same servers died as well. Fortunantly, there are backups. as soon as he gets in touch of the person responsible for server 209 (the one 68kmla is hosted on), they are either going to see if they can get it back up, or he is going to have them send the backup to him, and he will host it off a temporary server.

hope that fixes everyone's curiosity. essentailly, it was a hard drive crash.

-digital

See, times were much simpler when we just used floppies...

/me drives to wherever the datacenter is and personally repairs Server 209

get a Mac!

I would donate an organ to get the MLA back up

Basically, the hosting providers server (Machine 201) went dead. I have reason to believe the disk just went awry, because it was under a 404 for a while until we saw the vDeck Hosting Control Panel reappear, indicating the machine is working but the data is basically gone.

Never fear, if iPowerWeb are as good as they claim to be, they'll have a backup. And afaik, iPowerWeb are really good.

FreeNode has the community backed up with the now official IRC channel, #68kmla on irc.freenode.net. I've also allocated some of my server space to the MLA WebIRC at http://tinyurl.com/2b8xvx, and my other server had a temp 68kMLA on it (complete with theme), but Alk still has the PPCMLA and it serves to the purpose well.

I encourage the 68kMLA users to take a look over at the IRC channel. It's a great place to be and it really fills the void with the forums currently down.

Cheers
- iMac600

ah, 201, not 209. sorry. this old mind has lapses sometimes. Hopefully they can get it up soon. It's been nearly a week, so i'm thinking it's some major failure. have the backups arrived yet, ready to go on a temporary server, or is tom going to bypass that plan and just try to get the main server functional again?

-digital

Instead of the placeholder there is now, true to the 68K theme and ethos, a Sad Mac on a black field. The two-line error code (an '030?) tells us that the error is ... ERROR 404.

de

I get an error 403 forbiddon, as well as the sad mac reading

ERROR00
0000403

very cute, but not functional.

BTW, posting from my new pismo over Airport. very cool. More on that later, as soon as the 68kmla is back up.

-digital

The 68kMLA is on Tomlevens server, afaik, instead of the now former iPowerWeb one. (I assume it's former anyway)

I myself contacted iPowerWeb with the issue. I've seen IRC buzz with guesses and just decided to find out for myself. So, they told me to speak to Cinemafia as it's the website admin's fault, not theirs! Well, I don't think Cinemafia would have deleted it, so perhaps they're shifting the blame over...

Anyway, from what I now know, they do have backups, and it's just taking a while to get it started again.

In Local News...

I have a QuickTake 150. Liberated it a few days ago. It's very nice, running really well, came with the entire kit. Pics over at http://picasaweb.google.com/imac600x/QuickTake.

Using Pages, I created a cool looking NewsFlash on the current situation.

http://www.fragileavatar.com/68kmla/68kmla.pdf

A little humour mixed with typical reporter mentality.

Just days before I was going to post a metric butt-load of old Mac stuff for sale, too. Without 68kMLA, I have no market base! Oh well, this gives me a little extra time to clean up the inventory list.

ChristTrekker wrote:

Just days before I was going to post a metric butt-load of old Mac stuff for sale, too. Without 68kMLA, I have no market base! Oh well, this gives me a little extra time to clean up the inventory list.

You could always post it in the PPCMLA for now. Alot of us seem to be coming there.

ChristTrekker wrote:

Just days before I was going to post a metric butt-load of old Mac stuff for sale, too. Without 68kMLA, I have no market base! Oh well, this gives me a little extra time to clean up the inventory list.

68K or PPC Items?

ppc

I would point out that you're posting on a forum which has a marketplace area.
Along with the regular AF members who also are active on the mla, there are mla members who do not, or rarely, post here but browse the forums.

or meeeeeee!

I sometimes forget, since the forums here are so much quieter than MLA.

Hopefully I'll be posting "the goods" within the week. Several 68k machines, tons of software, some miscellany too. Cash is nice, but I'd really like to score a Q800 or Q650, so if you have an extra one, this is your heads-up.

anybody having connection problems with the ppcmla?

Any new news on the 68kMLA? Time is marching on, and this seems a long time to be offline...

It's a good thing the 68kMLA isn't a business. It would be hemorrhaging money!

Peace,
Drew

I too am concerned that 68kMLA may be down for good. It was mentioned in this thread that the site coming down was the result of a server HD crash but that all the data had been backed up. If that were true, it shouldn't take much more than a week to get it back online, even if moving it to another server on another host. I therefore think it must be a problem with the admins of the site and/or their lack of funds to support it. But if that is true, then they ought to have the decency to put up a web page and report that to all of us, because many in this thread have expressed the willingness to financially bring back the site, if the admins would only listen.

So I like others here have fundamental doubts as to whether it will come back at all.

it would be weird if after all these years the admins just threw in the towel.

i suppose it is a hobby to them all and they could simply be busy, but i agree an offical statement would be good.
without that, they may be able to bring it back online, but will the site need to start from scratch?

I wish it would just get started up again. If we lose the continuity with history then too bad. They've taken that approach once before.

But at least then the old forums were available as a reference. I'm in the middle of a half dozen conversations over there!

Ok, I'll start: here's a pledge of $10 US to get the site back up and running.

we can all remember how long the 'Fritter was down after we got hacked. Grant it there was a splash page up and mention of server upgrades (on 68kmla) by those in the know.

I'm not thinking they are at a loss for funding, but if they are, I can pledge $10. If they need it, I can probably help out with whatever they need. But I don't think this is the problem. If cashflow were the problem, we wouldn't be seeing the 403 page as the site would be off the air completely.

Peace,
Drew

I think we need to consider whom to contact before pledging anything. Clearly, the owners of 68kmla are not viewing this forum or they would have replied. And since they haven't even taken 120 seconds to post a simple HTML web page explaining the problem or what they are doing, I think we are forced to assume "utter apathy" on the part of the site owners. I'm mean, what else is one to think in light of their total silence on this subject?