All articles broken ?
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I've tried to read various articles today, and not one will work, all give the standard error. Is it just me, or are things getting worse ? And, who else here would be willing to pay a small fee for access to priority servers ? I sure would pay to make this site run like it used to. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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I've tried to read various articles today, and not one will work, all give the standard error. Is it just me, or are things getting worse ? And, who else here would be willing to pay a small fee for access to priority servers ? I sure would pay to make this site run like it used to. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
They all seem to work for me, but I don't think that priority servers would help - 500 errors usually mean a coding error, rather than a purely loading issue. Whenever we get a 500 error during any of our developement, it's always been our fault, writing dodgy code. :-O
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I've tried to read various articles today, and not one will work, all give the standard error. Is it just me, or are things getting worse ? And, who else here would be willing to pay a small fee for access to priority servers ? I sure would pay to make this site run like it used to. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
My articles loaded, maybe it's just the popular ones that are down. :-D
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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I've tried to read various articles today, and not one will work, all give the standard error. Is it just me, or are things getting worse ? And, who else here would be willing to pay a small fee for access to priority servers ? I sure would pay to make this site run like it used to. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
ooh, nasty. I just bought another server online and it was playing up - sounds like you were getting sent to the dodgy one while others were seeing the well behaved ones. Should be good now. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I've tried to read various articles today, and not one will work, all give the standard error. Is it just me, or are things getting worse ? And, who else here would be willing to pay a small fee for access to priority servers ? I sure would pay to make this site run like it used to. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
I'd pay instantly. I'd be so happy to pay I'd fall all over myself just to get to the on-line form to do so.
Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
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I'd pay instantly. I'd be so happy to pay I'd fall all over myself just to get to the on-line form to do so.
Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
So we (ok, Chris) should set up some system like Wikipedia did some time ago to collect money. I paid 20 Euros, which I would be more than glad to pay for CodeProject, too! At least a PayPal-link should be very easy to set up for Chris, isn't it? -- Affordable Windows-based CMS for only 99 €: try www.zeta-producer.com for free!
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I've tried to read various articles today, and not one will work, all give the standard error. Is it just me, or are things getting worse ? And, who else here would be willing to pay a small fee for access to priority servers ? I sure would pay to make this site run like it used to. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Christian Graus wrote: and not one will work Which is why, when I refer people to articles that I've written, I refer them to my own website, not CP. Even without dodgy servers, etc., access to CP is always iffy. Now, don't get me wrong. I think CP is the best, the most incredible, the most awesome programmer's website on the Internet. But geez, you'd think Microsoft would lend Chris a helping hand (as in, several hands and lots of bucks) to get this site up to snuff, since it is all about Microsoft products. I hope you're listening, Microsoft. Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface -- modified at 15:03 Saturday 8th October, 2005
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So we (ok, Chris) should set up some system like Wikipedia did some time ago to collect money. I paid 20 Euros, which I would be more than glad to pay for CodeProject, too! At least a PayPal-link should be very easy to set up for Chris, isn't it? -- Affordable Windows-based CMS for only 99 €: try www.zeta-producer.com for free!
PayPal is a good idea but I think most people won't donate. I could be wrong though. I certainly would. I just doubt Chris would see much from it. Would I love to pilot the idea and see? You bet I would. I'm all for it. Would I pay a subscription to get on a nice high powered server running "members-only" service for paying subscribers? Yes sir! If I can justify the raping I take for an MSDN subscription I can easily let Chris have some well deserved financial relief in the wake of hurricane buggy-code a storme that appears to be category 3 at all times with bursts up to category 500 during the worst of it. - Rex
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Christian Graus wrote: and not one will work Which is why, when I refer people to articles that I've written, I refer them to my own website, not CP. Even without dodgy servers, etc., access to CP is always iffy. Now, don't get me wrong. I think CP is the best, the most incredible, the most awesome programmer's website on the Internet. But geez, you'd think Microsoft would lend Chris a helping hand (as in, several hands and lots of bucks) to get this site up to snuff, since it is all about Microsoft products. I hope you're listening, Microsoft. Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface -- modified at 15:03 Saturday 8th October, 2005
Good thinking considering the number of MVPs here! The tigress is here :-D
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Christian Graus wrote: and not one will work Which is why, when I refer people to articles that I've written, I refer them to my own website, not CP. Even without dodgy servers, etc., access to CP is always iffy. Now, don't get me wrong. I think CP is the best, the most incredible, the most awesome programmer's website on the Internet. But geez, you'd think Microsoft would lend Chris a helping hand (as in, several hands and lots of bucks) to get this site up to snuff, since it is all about Microsoft products. I hope you're listening, Microsoft. Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface -- modified at 15:03 Saturday 8th October, 2005
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Christian Graus wrote: and not one will work Which is why, when I refer people to articles that I've written, I refer them to my own website, not CP. Even without dodgy servers, etc., access to CP is always iffy. Now, don't get me wrong. I think CP is the best, the most incredible, the most awesome programmer's website on the Internet. But geez, you'd think Microsoft would lend Chris a helping hand (as in, several hands and lots of bucks) to get this site up to snuff, since it is all about Microsoft products. I hope you're listening, Microsoft. Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface -- modified at 15:03 Saturday 8th October, 2005
Marc Clifton wrote: you'd think Microsoft would lend Chris a helping hand (as in, several hands and lots of bucks) to get this site up to snuff, since it is all about Microsoft products. I hope you're listening, Microsoft. So if I talk about Microsoft products on my website I am entitled to money from them too? I understand where you are coming from, but it isn't realistic to think that Microsoft can or will just hand out free money. Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots
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Marc Clifton wrote: you'd think Microsoft would lend Chris a helping hand (as in, several hands and lots of bucks) to get this site up to snuff, since it is all about Microsoft products. I hope you're listening, Microsoft. So if I talk about Microsoft products on my website I am entitled to money from them too? I understand where you are coming from, but it isn't realistic to think that Microsoft can or will just hand out free money. Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots
Matt Newman wrote: So if I talk about Microsoft products on my website I am entitled to money from them too?
Of course not. But, if you provided a service that made life easier for MS in some way, they might want to make extra-certain nothing happened to it. There's a downside to having the attitude that everyone is your competitor...
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Is CP really in need of money? Is there a way to donate? (I'd be willing to pay some monthly fee to remove the ads.. Rawrg.)
I dunno if they need money per se, but I get the impression that the problem is that the site is being loved to death, and I'm suggesting that a number of servers be set up for paying users only, and that others remain free. CP is free, but paying users get a more reliable site. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Matt Newman wrote: So if I talk about Microsoft products on my website I am entitled to money from them too?
Of course not. But, if you provided a service that made life easier for MS in some way, they might want to make extra-certain nothing happened to it. There's a downside to having the attitude that everyone is your competitor...
Shog9 wrote: Of course not. But, if you provided a service that made life easier for MS in some way, they might want to make extra-certain nothing happened to it. Ok, but where do you draw the line? Shog9 wrote: There's a downside to having the attitude that everyone is your competitor... I hardly think Microsoft thinks CodeProject is a competitor Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots
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I dunno if they need money per se, but I get the impression that the problem is that the site is being loved to death, and I'm suggesting that a number of servers be set up for paying users only, and that others remain free. CP is free, but paying users get a more reliable site. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Shog9 wrote: Of course not. But, if you provided a service that made life easier for MS in some way, they might want to make extra-certain nothing happened to it. Ok, but where do you draw the line? Shog9 wrote: There's a downside to having the attitude that everyone is your competitor... I hardly think Microsoft thinks CodeProject is a competitor Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots
Matt Newman wrote: Ok, but where do you draw the line? I think the OP was saying that it would be in MS's best interest to give some money to CP to help it along. The line would be drawn wherever MS thought the boundary was as far as the benefits they would recieve from the investment.
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Matt Newman wrote: Ok, but where do you draw the line? I think the OP was saying that it would be in MS's best interest to give some money to CP to help it along. The line would be drawn wherever MS thought the boundary was as far as the benefits they would recieve from the investment.
I am pretty sure that Microsoft does give CP a little money. But given some of the conversations I've browsed lately I'd say having some of their best and brightest give things a quick look-over and for them to provide some ideas, pointers and optimizations would be a nice and honestly generous response. Microsoft clearly does not need to do anything and honestly neither does CP. For Microsoft, they know they have good products and a lot of momentum and a site like CP just validates that for them. For CP, we just keep on coming back and none of us is banging on Chris real hard. We fully understand his situation and we are quite glad it's not our situation. Were I in Chris's (I don't get the impression it's a horse power or bandwidth problem) I'd sure love to get an industry experts opinion on things after I let him spend a day just looking things over. At one point in time I worked with Matt Curland on a problem and he pretty much helped me to bridge some code with assembler that took a system from 40+ hours down to 38 minutes. For Matt it was part of a day to have a look and make a tweak for me it saved a lot of trouble. If you are curious Matt Curland is one of the Visual Studio Developers and I believe his claim to fame is intellisense and auto-complete but don't quote me on that. - Rex {EDIT} Having said that. If we could donate enough money on a regular enough basis to get rid of the ad-rotators AAANNNDDD the ad-rotators are causing the problem to begin with I'd say that's a pretty direct path to a solution right there. However, no ads means no industry partners and there's many a time where having friends out there can come in real handy to. {/EDIT}
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Christian Graus wrote: and not one will work Which is why, when I refer people to articles that I've written, I refer them to my own website, not CP. Even without dodgy servers, etc., access to CP is always iffy. Now, don't get me wrong. I think CP is the best, the most incredible, the most awesome programmer's website on the Internet. But geez, you'd think Microsoft would lend Chris a helping hand (as in, several hands and lots of bucks) to get this site up to snuff, since it is all about Microsoft products. I hope you're listening, Microsoft. Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface -- modified at 15:03 Saturday 8th October, 2005
To talk in terms of business, I dont think Microsoft will fund CP so that CP can survive itself, They might think of aquireing CP sooner or latter. Sounds cruel but thats business.
-prakash
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I agree.. Except that dealing with seperate servers and seperate bandwidth for paying users would be much more work than simply removing ads for paying users. Maybe some other "plums" too - like ... I dunno. But stuff.:)
I don't give a toss about the ads, I just want the site to work :-) Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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I've tried to read various articles today, and not one will work, all give the standard error. Is it just me, or are things getting worse ? And, who else here would be willing to pay a small fee for access to priority servers ? I sure would pay to make this site run like it used to. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Surely, you can pay me, and I'll mail you all the latest articles.:-D http://www.priyank.in/