anastasia: I have several browsers installed and they all have good & bad points, though overall i would recommend Firefox for Safety, Speed & Versatility

Safari is great for speed though on most sites (including here)

Can i just ask why you prefer IE ?

If it is just the way it looks, Firefox has an Add-on that makes it look like IE, though this is mainly for web page developers so they can see how pages look in IE when they are designing them in Firefox, but i guess you could leave it permanently as IE.

There is Seamonkey (by Mozilla as well) which is the all-in-one application formerly known as the "Mozilla Application Suite", containing a web browser, a mail and newsgroups client, an HTML editor, web development tools, and an IRC chat client.

So i would say stick to Firefox or Safari, they are both far superior for surfing. (if you need any help on FF and customizing it just shout)

Chrome (by Google) is shaping up to be a good browser, though it is in early days yet

For Mac users there is Camino (by Mozilla), though i have not tried that.

Funny thing happened to me yesterday actually, my boss deleted FF off the work PC, so now i have to use IE when i am there, and HECK do i hate it

Fencer: Doing the same on brainrook.com as well

That 'Update Scanner' for Firefox is great for picking up thing like that

Fencer: hmmmm just tried again, and it just sits there doing nothing, after a couple of retries i get:

serendipity error: unable to connect to database - exiting.

again ........ most odd

Just in case its important

serendipity error: unable to connect to database - exiting.

rod03801: Glad its not just me

MadMonkey: Guess no one knows, its just broke

Fencer(or anyone who knows)

This game has finished Backgammon (Resher vs. MadMonkey)

And so has the Tournament Madhouse February 2008

Though all information at the bottom of the game is missing and so is all the game info in the Tournament

We both got blank messages sent to us when it ended (nothing about bkr,or who won etc).

Anyone any idea ??

pauloaguia: I left home for work just before midnight, and could not get on then. Then when i got here, and for a while i had no joy, and neither did the couple of people i spoke to on Facebook
I guess it was not an hour then, just lucky i was going to work and not bed

How come brainking did not detect the site being down a while ago ?

Fencer: Well that is good then (in a bad way lol).

Update Scanner (Extension) keeps picking it up for me , I guess its nothing to worry about then, will go back to my fishing

Fencer, what does this brainking.info site message mean ?

I have been getting it for the last few weeks now

Is it me, the site or something else causing it ?

Fencer: Great, thanks

Would it be possible Fencer to allow U-Tube(and others where possible) embeds on the World of Sport board ?

There is some great stuff going on at the Olympics at present, and would be great to be able to show others interested

Mousetrap: As rod said the store is temporarily closed , BUT when i spoke to Fencer about it earlier in the year he mentioned he was going to re-open it again

MadMonkey: Hey thats funny, i am talking to myself

Anyway, i got that on the brainking.info site just before the main site went down as well today, but a little latter the .info site come back, if that helps anything

What does THIS ERROR mean that appeared on the BrainKing.info site yesterday a couple of times

This is a report on your sites' uptime.

Weekly report 2008-06-23

http://brainking.com

Total uptime:99.32% Downtime:2 hour(s) 57 min(s)
Weekly uptime:98.21% Downtime:2 hour(s) 57 min(s)
Day 2008-06-29 Uptime:100.00%
Day 2008-06-28 Uptime:100.00%
Day 2008-06-27 Uptime:90.72% Downtime:2 hour(s) 1 min(s)
Day 2008-06-26 Uptime:96.10% Downtime:56 min(s) 14 sec(s)
Day 2008-06-25 Uptime:100.00%
Day 2008-06-24 Uptime:100.00%
Day 2008-06-23 Uptime:100.00%

Bernice: I have used Safari before, and still have it on here

I have just been comparing them in fact, and Safari is faster at loading games pages, but very little to choose any any other pages i tried.

Apart from the speed reason, like coan.net and others, i love the huge amount of Add-ons available for Firefox. I have everything i need all on one page from resizing text areas to all my email

The only reason i can think off the top of my head that people find Firefox slow is they do not have enough memory for it. It has always been notorious for eating memory up, though the new version is not meant to be as bad as previous one.

I have 30 Add-ons(though only 27 running at the moment), i have no speed problem, so i will be sticking with it

After the Speed & Site access problems a while back, i joined host-tracker.com , which was the site Fencer mentioned in his blog HERE

The last few days i have been having problem now, so when i can not access BrainKing, but can everywhere else, i ho there and run the test

I done these about 30 minutes ago:

Site Working

Site NOT Working

The site just came back when the 'Site NOT Working' one was running as you can see
Glad we are not imagining it

Anyone know why the site keeps stopping ?
I have had numerous messages asking me, but have not been here much last couple of days so could not comment.
Been here 30 mins now and spent 20 of them watching the 'waiting for brainking.com' message on my task bar
I know there is a problem as when i get back my friends on line list is empty just about, for a few more mins while people try and get back (in fact Who is online list is almost empty as well)

I would like to find out if there are any players (Members or one trying to join) who can not because they do not use PayPal or MoneyBookers.(or any other method they cant use lol)

I have at least 2 players who want to, but can not, and apparently they know of others (but i can not comment on that).

Should this not be looked into ??

Surely the only ones losing out are Fencer & Liquid, and therefore BrainKing

I get numerous people telling me reason they do not join, and even some from IYT why they will not play here. I posted a Feature Request about that (a simple colour choice of pieces), and nothing happened so again BrainKing loses out.

Should we not try to build this great site up ?????

Maybe coan.net or Tanein can create a Poll of ways best to pay, just a thought

Fencer, just checking, are out Fellowships icons case sensitive ? .gif is ok but .GIF is not

Mousetrap: All Madhouse weekly ones are 2 day (well they should be lol)

Mousetrap: Its not Mouse, this time last night i was at work (as i am now) and for 6 hours at least i could not get on. Thats at least another 4 hours from now it was still down, but i went home then and did not bother to try when i got home so do not know when it came back, when Fencer got here i guess

I just wish this message would go away from my Main page telling me to vote in a Fellowship Poll, thats in Czech and i have no clue what its about

Fencer: , but why do i need to see Public ones i have already voted in , just seems odd

Not to worry, at least we have them

Fencer: The Polls list on the left

I had 1 public one earlier (Taneins one) and 2 Fellowship ones (a NULOVÁ ŠANCE and a BIG BAD WOLF's Private Den one).

I voted in BBWs one, and now its not on that list, but voted in Taneins and thats still there. Just wondered what the difference is

Fencer: No point at all

Just trying to work out why a Fellowship one is removed from the list when you have voted in it, but a Public one is not.

Fencer: So once we have voted in a Fellowship Poll, it is removed from the Poll list

rednaz23: Some useful ideas Phil

Number 6 is always useful in Polls. I have had a little play to see how the system works and seems fine

Only things i may add to the list are:
7. Could the Poll be left open, so new members of a Fellowship can vote. I can take the results of my Poll of BrainKing games for our next PRIZE Tournament at any time then, and then leave it open to see how new members effect it (guess i could set it for its maximum). Maybe a Close button to 'Close the Poll NOW'
8. An addition to umber (4) on your list. When choosing more than one option, can it be possible to set a maximum number of selections if we wish please (i.e. the favourite 5 games here)

Think that's all i have.
Thanks Fencer for introducing it, it will be a very useful tool

Fencer: So what does Subscribe to an entry do ?

If it sends an email to the address it has, it will not work as its out of date, and there is no way to edit or change your details there

Not a Feature Request (as Monkey has a hangover and can not think today lol), just a thought.
Is there any way to connect brainking.info to brainking.com, as in when you Subscribe to an entry, would it be possible to have a message sent to our Message box here ?

Bernice: IE ........................ seems odd as it has i have never seen it with Firefox. I should report it to them and Mozilla can fix it (where as Microsoft would ignore you lol) if it is a problem

Bernice: Are you using Firefox 3.0 ??

I am wondering what is causing it as i have never seen it before until i started with FF 3.0

I just got THIS ERROR while playing a Backgammon Game

Just wondered as i never seen it before

Fencer: Just to add, Firefox 3.0 has an awesome new Bookmarking system, though take a bit to get used to, i will have a play. I even have the Brain (BrainKing logo one) on my Toolbar now, it just appeared lol, and it activates a drop box with all possible places to Bookmarks thing

Fencer: yep, seems fine and great that we can even download it from the Firefox Add-ons pages

(i bookmarked it for future reference lol)

Rose: Oh yes, agreed, though i have yet to get round everything i use lol

Lets just hope no MAJOR bugs are found

paully: I find it far faster than Firefox 2.0, and it is meant to be. Every Beta version i have tried is great. PLEASE remember, this may not be the final version released, it is a complete version of everything that has been developed and there may be bugs about. If worried, wait till the final release date which hopefully will be later this month

hmmm found it

BrainKing Bookmarks 1.1.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0

Can someone give me the link for BrainKing bookmarks Extension please so i can load it onto Firefox 3.0

I hope developers hurry with compatible Extensions for Firefox 3.0, out of 29 i have installed only 4 will work with it

Mousetrap: Did you not read Fencers Blog lol .......................go look now

coan.net:

Roberto Silva: Yes, that is why Byes are often seeded in Tournaments, the higher rated seed normally go through

As in football, the Top Teams normally do not have to qualify, Golf, the Masters, Top seeds do not have to qualify, it is common place in the world of Sport Competitions.

On BrainKing i do not think seeding (even done by BKR) is fair though, and it probably would have to be just Random, but at least EVERYONE gets to play.

Anyway, if i dont make it a Private Tournament, i will give up on the idea & will award the Prizes elsewhere. People here are all to happy to look backwards, not forwards

Its such a shame, i have just been asked by someone that if they get a life membership, could we use the 10,000 BKR points as Prizes and Memberships.

Well, we know the answer to that now....do not bother

rabbitoid: Yes, a good idea OR set it for 128, and if we do not get enough start a 64 one, a 32 one, a 16 one, a 8 one one etc..etc.. until all the players were used up. Then all them winners could play each other in a Final Elimination (which would be the same as having Byes, but a lot more work).

Either way the code would still have to be written, and if doing that why not do a proper job and write a couple of lines of code so that everyone could play, everyone would be happy (well, the BrainKing players would)

Its a system that is used world wide in nearly all sporting Tournaments.

Question: Does someone hold something together with a piece of tape, or use a nut & bolt and do it right (well , i know what i mean)

Czuch: 100% agree

I know i put forward a lot of Feature Requests, but thinking about it, most the things would of been found out given a proper testing period before releasing to the site & therefore would not have to be mentioned and looked at is if it was just nit picking

Fencer: Something from you I would be supplying the Prize

If you mean, using Byes, i am surprised it was not introduced when you brought in Elimination Tournaments as they are part of it.

There is certainly no point in trying to create a large one on BrainKing, as once you get to one milestone, say 65 players, you then need to find another 63 or you get to 127 and can not find one more to get your 128, the Tournament can not start and will be deleted.

Having Byes would at least let those who enter play.

I do not call that wanting, i call it common sense, letting those who want to play.......PLAY

Czuch: Someone else just asked me why i bother as well

I am starting to wonder myself now. I was just trying to bring some happiness to others, though that does not seem to be allowed here anymore

Fencer: So it will have to be 32 or 64 ?

Thats sad, sorry everyone who misses out, i tried

Fencer, have you had chance working on using in Byes in Elimination Tournaments that do not get the required amount of players yet ?

Once the current Madhouse PRIZE Tournaments starts, i want to release another PRIZE one.

This time though i would like to do an Elimination one using between 10 and 20(who knows) BrainKing games, and those who take part MUST play in every game.
I will give points to how far a Player gets in each one, then total them up, and the Winner will be the one with the most points overall. In the event of a draw, i will set another Private Tournament up for those involved.

If we had Byes, then no one would have to miss out. Of course i could just say first come first served, but would like for everyone to have a chance