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[Lulu_Jane]

Sadly it's all become glacial in my neck of the words for Christmas. Especially now that those damned earth-quakes have knocked out most of the internet in my region...

Oh well, I'll see you all after the pipes get re-connected, until then Merry Christmas, and a most glorious New Year guys! :brain:

[Japo]

I don't think this attack comes from a publishing company, at least it doesn't make sense to me. Think that, given Abandonia's stance towards the companies, if they want it to be withdrawn a download whose copyright they own, they only have to ask and Ab will comply, so there's no need to involve oneself in a crime liable to prosecution as 'Horseman said. And I understand that this denial or service is causing Ab's hosting provider some huge financial loss, so if they get their paws over the culprit some day they'll claim their (financial) due. No it makes no sense.

As for HOTU, I think it's also friendly to the companies. Anyway the gal in charge is from Thailand, so is Lulu (Merry Xmas 'n prosperous New Year BTW ) and she said that some earthquakes have knocked down the Internet there. I don't actually know whether HOTU's server is actually in Thailand, but anyway HOTU was always cloggy for me, and a little time ago it went totally down because of server problems.

Plus Kosta said it, the attack harming Ab was NOT directed towards Ab's server, but towards a server which happens to share its connection with Ab's. The same way we don't know anything about that server, the one attacking it won't know about Ab.

Anyway I'm glad there's a solution coming in that will work in a given time whatever the circumstances.

[Lulu_Jane]

I agree Japofran.

HOTU has always been slow as a dying turtle for me too. Ah well, it just means that we'll all appreciate Abandonia just that much more when all this muck gets sorted out.

Besides, those tubes get clogged really easily remember

[humorguy]

I agree that HOTU is a little flaky, but on the day I got 3k downloading on HOTU for the first time in about 6 months, I come to Abandonia to download from here instead and get 6k downloading! That just struck me as strange, that a week ago I could have got 70-100k download from HOTU or Abandonia, a week later they both go down......

[Lulu_Jane]

This may be true, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

[verek_22]

I have the same slow-down trouble on AB and ABR. I don't know why, but it puts me off visiting the forum too much, because I dread the slow loading and the constant refreshing. It used to run fine, but recently, its been snail-like. I hope, when this is over, it'll never happen again.

[humorguy]

It might just be that PC gaming especially and video gaming in general has just collapsed, with everybody getting the Wii, everybody deciding they are not going to get a PS3, the X-Box 360 only a maybe and so retro has totally taken off and other than this site, where we know why it's slow, it could explain why most of the other abandonware sites are also slow!

Maybe a quiet revolution is taking place as we leave messages on this thread!

Happy 2007 everyone!

[Abi79]

You guys are scaring me. :blink: It is just a normal Denial of Service attack made by a normal, but persistent hacker, and who's target is another site, but Abandonia is also affected indirectly. See? It's all n.o.r.m.a.l. :bleh:

(and my speed is also normal; I don't have the slightest idea of what you guys are talking about)

[Eagle of Fire]

Good thing for you, because it takes me 5 minutes only to be able to see what you said. So it's around 6-7 minutes for a reply in a single thread...

At this speed, I won't be visiting Abandonia often in the week. It's rather a big contrast when you're used to visit the forum at least half a dozain time a day...

[Titan]

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Good thing for you, because it takes me 5 minutes only to be able to see what you said. So it's around 6-7 minutes for a reply in a single thread...

At this speed, I won't be visiting Abandonia often in the week. It's rather a big contrast when you're used to visit the forum at least half a dozain time a day...
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No muck... took me 3 mins just to load this reply.. not going to edit with how long it took for the reply to actualy "post"....

Well... just hang in there.. soon it'll be over.