SO broken links

Starkey · 06-29-2003, 12:57

I´ve been trying to download the main package of Secret Ops from www.secretops.com but the download links are not working. Earlier this week LOAF got aware of that and said that either he would contact Origin to fix the links or he would post the file in the CIC.

Starkey · 07-02-2003, 06:45

Admins: any news on this topic?

Bandit LOAF · 07-02-2003, 06:48

Oh, sorry. It should be available on the FTP by tomorrow.

Starkey · 07-02-2003, 06:50

Ok, thanks!

Also, there are many many guests today visiting the CIC. Any special reason? They shattered the CZ previous attendance record.

EDIT: mmm, I checked those guests and they´re almost all "Inktomi Spiders"... what are they? Yahoo Web (Matrix) Agents?

TC · 07-02-2003, 16:50

They're web spiders... they index for searching. For some reason they decided to go kind of over the top yesterday... They appear to have gotten confused and had a huge number of processes wasting time on dynamically created pages that do nothing except complain that you have no passwords... I assume they got confused, at least, as I've never seen spiders do that here before.

Iceblade · 07-02-2003, 16:58

That is so wierd. Before, it never went over 30 and barely did last night, now all day it seems, there are bunches of these spiders keeping the number above 28.

KrisV · 07-02-2003, 17:05

Google's spider comes by from time to time. This time though, there were over a dozen inktomisearch spiders going over the board. It sucks, because it screws up our statistics. I've never even heard of them.

The full (English) Secret Ops starter package is up:
ftp://ftp.wcnews.com/files/so/secret...Ops%20Full.exe

It's 112 megs, so you will want to use a download manager like Getright.

Cpl Hades · 07-02-2003, 23:34

Damn it, this morning there are 30 Googlebots on here. I don't mind so much since Googlebot is much cooler than Inktomisearch, but why have the bots suddenly started going haywire?

I wonder if there's some vbulletin bug.

TC · 07-02-2003, 23:38

Maybe a difference in your robots.txt between the two servers?

Also, three pages of Who's Online is terrifying

ChrisReid · 07-02-2003, 23:55

Whenever I hear about Inktomi spider scanners on the board, I think of big evil spidery robots invading the Crius system.

Starkey · 07-03-2003, 05:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by KrisV

The full (English) Secret Ops starter package is up:
ftp://ftp.wcnews.com/files/so/secret...Ops%20Full.exe

It's 112 megs, so you will want to use a download manager like Getright.

Great, thanks! All we need now is a link on the "Files" section before this thread (and the SO link) gets old and requires a CZ search to find it in the future.

Cpl Hades · 07-03-2003, 05:25

The spider thing only started with beta 4, it was fine on beta 3.

WildCat · 07-04-2003, 09:47

The same thing happened today on my forum running 2.2.9 so it's nothing to do with the board upgrade, just Inktomi going mad...

ChrisReid · 07-04-2003, 10:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starkey

Great, thanks! All we need now is a link on the "Files" section before this thread (and the SO link) gets old and requires a CZ search to find it in the future.

Kay. .

Jason_Ryock · 07-05-2003, 01:53

You know...it's all well and good that you decided to host that game for us, thanks a bundle.

But did anyone test to see if it worked?

I did. And guess what? It didn't. I have no idea what the problem with it is, I think it's related (this is my own personal opinion) to the thread about the broken speech.tre file.

Whenever the installer gets to that file it seems to stop and start over with installing it several times. It claims to be done, and dumps a few files into the Secret Ops installation directory, and even opens the launcher, then a blank black screen before it just crashes.

Anyone got any ideas about this?

I was wonder (personal opinion again) if Origin had a programmed in timelock on it, that made a critical file "shut down" after an extended period of time, to prevent people from passing their program around.

Dosen't make much sense, was just a thought.

Some help on this would be nice...

TC · 07-05-2003, 01:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason_Ryock

I was wonder (personal opinion again) if Origin had a programmed in timelock on it, that made a critical file "shut down" after an extended period of time, to prevent people from passing their program around.

Dosen't make much sense, was just a thought.

It makes no sense at all... since the first episode is a freely distributable demo for Prophecy Gold...

Jason_Ryock · 07-05-2003, 02:00

Then can you explain what's happening so I can fix it and put Secret Ops on my new laptop? I would send the old folder over...but I've modded that version of SecOps so much it's not anything near the original, and there's no way in hell I can fix it all now.

Any thoughts?

[EDIT]

FYI: I just sent the entire folder over to my laptop and attempted to run it, and it failed miserably.

Is Secret Ops compatiable with XP?

ChrisReid · 07-05-2003, 02:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason_Ryock

Then can you explain what's happening so I can fix it and put Secret Ops on my new laptop? I would send the old folder over...but I've modded that version of SecOps so much it's not anything near the original, and there's no way in hell I can fix it all now.

It was my copy of the SO package that was uploaded to the FTP. Just installed it on this computer and it seems to work fine. You must switch the exe to run in Windows 98 compatibility mode, but then it runs fine in XP.
Have you tried adjusting the exe to run in compatibility mode?

Jason_Ryock · 07-05-2003, 02:41

S'plain How?

WildWeasel · 07-05-2003, 02:45

Sure.

Frosty · 07-05-2003, 09:08

Right-click -> Properties -> Compatibility:

Jason_Ryock · 07-06-2003, 09:37

Damn my XP Operating system!!!!

We should all revert to Win98!!!

Seriously, thanks for your help guys, everythings working smoothly now.

ChrisReid · 07-06-2003, 19:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason_Ryock

Damn my XP Operating system!!!!
We should all revert to Win98!!!
Seriously, thanks for your help guys, everythings working smoothly now.

Well, I wouldn't be able to have 200 gig partitions of my hard drive in Windows 98. Nor would I be as stable or get as high transfer speeds on my internet connections. As long as we have the Win 98 Compatibility mode tool, we have the best of both.

cff · 07-06-2003, 23:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisReid

Well, I wouldn't be able to have 200 gig partitions of my hard drive in Windows 98. Nor would I be as stable or get as high transfer speeds on my internet connections. As long as we have the Win 98 Compatibility mode tool, we have the best of both.

200 gig hd? You really have that much on one physical disk? Sides it is always better to partition even with NTFS...

Higher speed? WTF? What does XP have to do here?

ChrisReid · 07-07-2003, 00:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by cff

200 gig hd? You really have that much on one physical disk? Sides it is always better to partition even with NTFS...

Higher speed? WTF? What does XP have to do here?

This computer has 275 gigs.. One 200 and one 75 physical drive. I bought the 200 for the sole purpose of having a 200 gig partition.. I really enjoy my big drives. But my drive sizes are nothing compared to Hades or Byydo's.

As for speed, I've tried all manner of tweaks and things to squeeze out the best transfer rate that I could in Windows 98. I could sustain about 180 k/sec from the fastest servers. Instantly after I installed Windows XP I was getting a good 212 k/sec or so from lots of places. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I can't argue with an across-the-board 15% jump in bandwidth.

Cpl Hades · 07-07-2003, 09:40

You know what else is great about XP? Drive spanning.

Delance · 07-07-2003, 11:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisReid

This computer has 275 gigs..

That's a lot of space. What do you use all that for?

WildWeasel · 07-07-2003, 11:55

That's a very silly question.

Iceblade · 07-07-2003, 13:12

No it isn't.

The question is not why he has all that space, but is eating away at 268GBs?

Hades, have you installed a bunch of pacmans on your machine?

Ghost · 07-07-2003, 13:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iceblade

Hades, have you installed a bunch of pacmans on your machine?

No, just lot of Anime and p0rn.

Frosty · 07-07-2003, 15:20

I'm one of the hard-drive peons of WingNut, sporting a paltry 100GB, but even so, I still have 80GB free. It's because I don't have gigs and gigs of hentai. I need to get to work on that.

Cpl Hades · 07-07-2003, 23:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghost

No, just lot of Anime and p0rn.

No, that drive is just anime. I also have a 75GB and an 80GB drive in that machine for pr0n.

Col. Bob · 07-08-2003, 00:15

I've a question reguarding Special Ops. Must the files be installed in my Prophecy folder? Also does the Secret Ops file include full Audio (Sound Effects, Speech, and Music)?

Cpl Hades · 07-08-2003, 00:41

Secret Ops is a completely separate game to Prophecy. Prophecy doesn't even need to be installed. If the package you downloaded was the 100+ meg one, it has full speech and music.

Viper61 · 07-08-2003, 06:49

Wow, over 200Gig HD, I fell puny. Up until a year and ahalf ago, I had a 4 gig HD. Now I have a 20 gig and about 10 gigs free (considering about 4 gigs are TV shows). Though I do have a tendency to burn everything I download to CD/DVD.

C-ya

Starkey · 07-13-2003, 09:53

I´ve been trying to download the SO main package from the CIC FTP and I still can´t do it. A "cannot find server" message appears when I click on the link posted at the files section. Any ideas?

Cpl Hades · 07-13-2003, 10:24

What are you using for your browser and FTP client? Perhaps your browser/client doesn't like spaces in filenames. The link on the files page works because I just tested it.

Starkey · 07-13-2003, 10:44

I just use IE 6.0. It works fine with other FTP and www sites in general...

Here´s the error screenshot:

KrisV · 07-13-2003, 10:48

What happens when you right-click and choose save target as?

Starkey · 07-13-2003, 14:01

I get an error message which says:

"Internet Explorer cannot download ...opsfull - Secret Ops Full.exe from ftp.wcnews.com.

The server returned extended information."

Never mind, I got it working by entering first into ftp://ftp.wcnews.com/files, then clicking on "SO", than clicking on the file. But still, it didn´t work by clicking the link on the files section.

KrisV · 07-13-2003, 14:13

Works fine here with Internet Explorer and Mozilla. Maybe the spaces are throwing off your IE for some reason.

Or did you have a number of other downloads going from the FTP?

Starkey · 07-13-2003, 17:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by KrisV

Or did you have a number of other downloads going from the FTP?

No, just SO...

Anyway, maybe it has something to do with the spaces. After all, in the error page I attached earlier IE turned all the spaces into ´%20s´...

KrisV · 07-13-2003, 18:35

That's normal, %20 is the HTML entity for a space. If you put space or some other non-alphanumerical character in a URL, your browser will automatically convert the symbols.

Hmm. Can you try the files.shtml link again?

Starkey · 07-28-2003, 09:54

It works fine now, thanks a lot KrisV. Though this time I tried in my home computer... when I have the chance I´ll try it again on my friend´s computer (where I was having trouble) just to check if it works fine there too.

06-29-2003, 12:57	#1
Starkey Avenging Rooster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Posts: 2,138	SO broken links I´ve been trying to download the main package of Secret Ops from www.secretops.com but the download links are not working. Earlier this week LOAF got aware of that and said that either he would contact Origin to fix the links or he would post the file in the CIC. __________________ Standoff bug hunter

07-02-2003, 06:45	#2
Starkey Avenging Rooster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Posts: 2,138	Admins: any news on this topic? __________________ Standoff bug hunter Last edited by Starkey; 07-02-2003 at 06:49.

07-02-2003, 06:48	#3
Bandit LOAF It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly. Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ashton, MD, USA Posts: 25,571	Oh, sorry. It should be available on the FTP by tomorrow. __________________ Long live the Confederation, Ben "Bandit" Lesnick, LMG. "You go, Loaf! Get some!" -JPG

07-02-2003, 06:50	#4
Starkey Avenging Rooster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Posts: 2,138	Ok, thanks! Also, there are many many guests today visiting the CIC. Any special reason? They shattered the CZ previous attendance record. EDIT: mmm, I checked those guests and they´re almost all "Inktomi Spiders"... what are they? Yahoo Web (Matrix) Agents? __________________ Standoff bug hunter Last edited by Starkey; 07-02-2003 at 06:56.

07-02-2003, 16:50	#5
TC SubCrid Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada Posts: 6,115	They're web spiders... they index for searching. For some reason they decided to go kind of over the top yesterday... They appear to have gotten confused and had a huge number of processes wasting time on dynamically created pages that do nothing except complain that you have no passwords... I assume they got confused, at least, as I've never seen spiders do that here before. Last edited by TC; 07-02-2003 at 16:50.

07-02-2003, 16:58	#6
Iceblade Lieutenant General Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Mobile, AL, USA Posts: 1,641	That is so wierd. Before, it never went over 30 and barely did last night, now all day it seems, there are bunches of these spiders keeping the number above 28. __________________ Ultima 9: Forgotten World Bringing you a better Ultima 9 experience http://www.forgottenworld.de/

07-02-2003, 17:05	#7
KrisV Space Marshal Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: The Reid System Posts: 3,210	Google's spider comes by from time to time. This time though, there were over a dozen inktomisearch spiders going over the board. It sucks, because it screws up our statistics. I've never even heard of them. The full (English) Secret Ops starter package is up: ftp://ftp.wcnews.com/files/so/secret...Ops%20Full.exe It's 112 megs, so you will want to use a download manager like Getright. __________________ The Wing Commander CIC Forum Rules

07-02-2003, 23:34	#8
Cpl Hades Mr. Kat Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Southampton, UK Posts: 1,376	Damn it, this morning there are 30 Googlebots on here. I don't mind so much since Googlebot is much cooler than Inktomisearch, but why have the bots suddenly started going haywire? I wonder if there's some vbulletin bug.

07-02-2003, 23:38	#9
TC SubCrid Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada Posts: 6,115	Maybe a difference in your robots.txt between the two servers? Also, three pages of Who's Online is terrifying Last edited by TC; 07-02-2003 at 23:39.

07-02-2003, 23:55	#10
ChrisReid Super Soaker Collector Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Posts: 10,988	Whenever I hear about Inktomi spider scanners on the board, I think of big evil spidery robots invading the Crius system.

07-03-2003, 05:25	#12
Cpl Hades Mr. Kat Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Southampton, UK Posts: 1,376	The spider thing only started with beta 4, it was fine on beta 3.

07-04-2003, 09:47	#13
WildCat Cadet Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Dubai, UAE Posts: 113	The same thing happened today on my forum running 2.2.9 so it's nothing to do with the board upgrade, just Inktomi going mad...

07-05-2003, 01:53	#15
Jason_Ryock Brigadier General Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,294	You know...it's all well and good that you decided to host that game for us, thanks a bundle. But did anyone test to see if it worked? I did. And guess what? It didn't. I have no idea what the problem with it is, I think it's related (this is my own personal opinion) to the thread about the broken speech.tre file. Whenever the installer gets to that file it seems to stop and start over with installing it several times. It claims to be done, and dumps a few files into the Secret Ops installation directory, and even opens the launcher, then a blank black screen before it just crashes. Anyone got any ideas about this? I was wonder (personal opinion again) if Origin had a programmed in timelock on it, that made a critical file "shut down" after an extended period of time, to prevent people from passing their program around. Dosen't make much sense, was just a thought. Some help on this would be nice...

07-05-2003, 02:00	#17
Jason_Ryock Brigadier General Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,294	Edited Then can you explain what's happening so I can fix it and put Secret Ops on my new laptop? I would send the old folder over...but I've modded that version of SecOps so much it's not anything near the original, and there's no way in hell I can fix it all now. Any thoughts? [EDIT] FYI: I just sent the entire folder over to my laptop and attempted to run it, and it failed miserably. Is Secret Ops compatiable with XP? Last edited by Jason_Ryock; 07-05-2003 at 02:12.

07-05-2003, 02:41	#19
Jason_Ryock Brigadier General Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,294	S'plain How?

07-05-2003, 02:45	#20
WildWeasel I can have an avatar now Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,440	Sure.

07-05-2003, 09:08	#21
Frosty a full fledged GF Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Cooter, MO Posts: 2,042	Right-click -> Properties -> Compatibility: Attached Thumbnails

07-06-2003, 09:37	#22
Jason_Ryock Brigadier General Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,294	Thanks Dudes Damn my XP Operating system!!!! We should all revert to Win98!!! Seriously, thanks for your help guys, everythings working smoothly now.

07-07-2003, 09:40	#26
Cpl Hades Mr. Kat Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Southampton, UK Posts: 1,376	You know what else is great about XP? Drive spanning. Attached Thumbnails

07-07-2003, 11:55	#28
WildWeasel I can have an avatar now Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,440	That's a very silly question.

07-07-2003, 13:12	#29
Iceblade Lieutenant General Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Mobile, AL, USA Posts: 1,641	No it isn't. The question is not why he has all that space, but is eating away at 268GBs? Hades, have you installed a bunch of pacmans on your machine? __________________ Ultima 9: Forgotten World Bringing you a better Ultima 9 experience http://www.forgottenworld.de/

07-07-2003, 15:20	#31
Frosty a full fledged GF Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Cooter, MO Posts: 2,042	I'm one of the hard-drive peons of WingNut, sporting a paltry 100GB, but even so, I still have 80GB free. It's because I don't have gigs and gigs of hentai. I need to get to work on that.

07-08-2003, 00:15	#33
Col. Bob 2nd Lieutenant Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: New Jamestown, Side 3 Colony Group Posts: 145	I've a question reguarding Special Ops. Must the files be installed in my Prophecy folder? Also does the Secret Ops file include full Audio (Sound Effects, Speech, and Music)? __________________ "Always remember this, Lady Luck is also Miss Fortune". - Col. Bob Daystrom

07-08-2003, 00:41	#34
Cpl Hades Mr. Kat Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Southampton, UK Posts: 1,376	Secret Ops is a completely separate game to Prophecy. Prophecy doesn't even need to be installed. If the package you downloaded was the 100+ meg one, it has full speech and music.

07-08-2003, 06:49	#35
Viper61 Major General Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Baltimore, MD Posts: 1,909	Wow, over 200Gig HD, I fell puny. Up until a year and ahalf ago, I had a 4 gig HD. Now I have a 20 gig and about 10 gigs free (considering about 4 gigs are TV shows). Though I do have a tendency to burn everything I download to CD/DVD. C-ya __________________ "You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough." - Frank Sinatra

07-13-2003, 09:53	#36
Starkey Avenging Rooster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Posts: 2,138	I´ve been trying to download the SO main package from the CIC FTP and I still can´t do it. A "cannot find server" message appears when I click on the link posted at the files section. Any ideas? __________________ Standoff bug hunter

07-13-2003, 10:24	#37
Cpl Hades Mr. Kat Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Southampton, UK Posts: 1,376	What are you using for your browser and FTP client? Perhaps your browser/client doesn't like spaces in filenames. The link on the files page works because I just tested it.

07-13-2003, 10:44	#38
Starkey Avenging Rooster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Posts: 2,138	I just use IE 6.0. It works fine with other FTP and www sites in general... Here´s the error screenshot: Attached Thumbnails __________________ Standoff bug hunter Last edited by Starkey; 07-13-2003 at 10:45.

07-13-2003, 10:48	#39
KrisV Space Marshal Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: The Reid System Posts: 3,210	What happens when you right-click and choose save target as? __________________ The Wing Commander CIC Forum Rules

07-13-2003, 14:01	#40
Starkey Avenging Rooster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Posts: 2,138	I get an error message which says: "Internet Explorer cannot download ...opsfull - Secret Ops Full.exe from ftp.wcnews.com. The server returned extended information." Never mind, I got it working by entering first into ftp://ftp.wcnews.com/files, then clicking on "SO", than clicking on the file. But still, it didn´t work by clicking the link on the files section. __________________ Standoff bug hunter Last edited by Starkey; 07-13-2003 at 14:05. Reason: I got it now!

07-13-2003, 14:13	#41
KrisV Space Marshal Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: The Reid System Posts: 3,210	Works fine here with Internet Explorer and Mozilla. Maybe the spaces are throwing off your IE for some reason. Or did you have a number of other downloads going from the FTP? __________________ The Wing Commander CIC Forum Rules

07-13-2003, 18:35	#43
KrisV Space Marshal Administrator Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: The Reid System Posts: 3,210	That's normal, %20 is the HTML entity for a space. If you put space or some other non-alphanumerical character in a URL, your browser will automatically convert the symbols. Hmm. Can you try the files.shtml link again? __________________ The Wing Commander CIC Forum Rules

07-28-2003, 09:54	#44
Starkey Avenging Rooster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Posts: 2,138	It works fine now, thanks a lot KrisV. Though this time I tried in my home computer... when I have the chance I´ll try it again on my friend´s computer (where I was having trouble) just to check if it works fine there too. __________________ Standoff bug hunter Last edited by Starkey; 07-28-2003 at 10:10.

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