Something to keep in mind.....

killahead · Post by **killahead** » 29 Jan 2005, 10:01

....yea'ello

The current NAR-website is located at a webspace that might dissapear any day now with no real notice in advance. The deal is that its a student friend of mine have some kind of an account on the school where he can store things, but he finished school in december so this account of his might dissapear any day.......

the point is.....if you havent already made the forum link a bookmark, do it now. That way we will always have acces to the forum until the new site is finished and online.

But hey....I dont know.....the old site might be here for another month or so.....no one knows.....

I hope all is well with you guys.

so long
/Martin

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 29 Jan 2005, 17:53

Guys, you should also bookmark http://noaidsracing.webhop.org/ as the future website address (in case the current website dies unexpectedly). I'll add a link to the current forums later this weekend until I open the future forums as well. (It has only the mod download link at the moment).

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 29 Jan 2005, 18:59

Ok, i was working on a complete flash site, but since im realy busy with work il switch to an html site. So it will be faster for me to complete it and make it available to be online verry soon that way. Il contact Bilbo, so everything will be online, i hope, before the actual one die...

Echoshill · Post by **Echoshill** » 30 Jan 2005, 14:40

Flow and Bilbo,

I am looking forward to the new site as I have not been able to see the old NAR home page for about 6 months. I always get an HTTP 404 error. With your new web hop link, I seem to have no problem.

Echo

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 30 Jan 2005, 18:25

Echo, it's cool that the new (still very plain) site works well but it's also strange that you would get a 404 on the old site. Do you (or maybe you ISP's web proxy) have any kind of popup/ad blocker? The old site (@ .tk) has a popup ad for an online casino. XPSP2 IE6 manages this with no problems but maybe a third party program could cause the problem? Or maybe your ISP is blacklisted on the host webserver (i.e. university server that Killa mentioned yesterday) for some reason (usually a DDoS coming from people using the same ISP as you do)...

Echoshill · Post by **Echoshill** » 30 Jan 2005, 18:57

Bilbo,

It is specifically with my machine. I thought maybe it was security settings but I was unable to make any changesd that would allow me to see the site.

I have yet to update XP service packs because I had read horror stories from other gamers.

Echo

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 30 Jan 2005, 21:27

Hehe, I resisted the SP2 for a while too, until I visited a "lawyer-disapproved" site and it crashed my IE6 (that had been rock solid for the past year of running SP1). That was the symptom of a buffer overrun and it was effectively exploited, even if my security settings were pretty restrictive. Fortunately, I was quick enough to stop the intruder program before it fully installed itself and cleaning up was relatively easy (thank God I'm pretty paranoid about running processes and that I know many of the virus-writers' tricks!). It was then that I decided it was time to switch to SP2 and its improved security (although not perfect). I installed SP2 (no problems at all except for the time required to disable all the extra stuff that I didn't want because I'm paranoid) and revisited the same malicious site and TADAM, nothing happened. So there REALLY is some improved security in SP2 and I did not have any problems since then.

Echoshill · Post by **Echoshill** » 30 Jan 2005, 21:53

I tried SP2, but it hosed a couple of my games (the sound files got really messed up). F1C started to sound like a cheap atari game.

Kind of funny, but really annoying.

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 30 Jan 2005, 23:22

Did you try to reinstall drivers for your soundcard? SP2 has not affected any of my games in any way that I could notice...

Echoshill · Post by **Echoshill** » 30 Jan 2005, 23:26

Yup,

Even updated the chipset. I eventually had to revert to a backup point.

Yuchk.