i was wondering what that was about. nice to know

Well, in light of the problems Microsoft has been having recently, there's always the possibility that ticalc.org is hosted by Microsoft... :-P

Come to think of it, ticalc.org does have a suspicious near monopoly on large TI calculator file archives. Maybe they've been unfairly undercutting competition? =-) I think we should bring this to the Justice Department...

Stop apologizing and make sure it doesn't happen again. We don't pay for a subscription to this site so it can go down every five minutes. (end of sarcasm)

Yeah! I could take my $100 a month elsewhere. I could buy a new calculator a month ... Hey, that is not a bad idea.

You're only paying a $100 a month!?!?! What the %#(*@)&#.

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Make sure it doesn't happen again?!?! No offense, but it sounds like you are wholly unfamiliar with DNS systems. Changes to DNS systems can cause downtime, and it is in no way the fault of ticalc.org. Some downtime is inevitable, even big sites like Yahoo! and Microsoft experience it from time to time. Plus, the DNS system does not update in real time (you have to wait several hours sometimes), and the normal domain name registry updates even less often (changes can take a few days to update), and so if the DNS system is down there's nothing that can be done about it.

I might be wrong, but I think he was only kidding about that.

The funny thing about this is that if you go to tinews.net when ticalc.org is down, its file archive update parser depends on ticalc being up, and so tinews.net doesn't work well. =-) It takes longer periods of time for pages to download, and you have to click "stop" because it doesn't get past a certain point (where it says how many new files the archive has). I personally think that they should have it take the update list from a file on their computer, and attempt to update it every few minutes, so if ticalc.org is down tinews.net works too. I don't know about you, but if one calc site is down I'd like to get what news there is elsewhere.

Actually the Microsoft thing is completely unrelated. MS ran their own crappy Microsoft DNS server shit. I'm sure the reason why ticalc.org had to restart their BIND is because of the security hole recently found and fixed (refer to slashdot for more info on this). I'm also sure that Microsoft's DNS servers have a lot more holes >=)