Princess Alison: Working now.

Fencer: I went to click on the link for your wife's art site, but it takes u to the log in page of Brainking

You are right madPhilip I didn't thought of that......

Pythagoras: In case of a hardware upgrade there is no server to put such page to.

Since i didn't noticed the warning about the hardware upgrade, i was trying to connect but i couldn't. Since this happens from time to time (BKR recalculations,upgrades etc) and when i try to connect no page appears, and since i usually don't read the announcements, when this happens i don't know the reason and start to think possible causes like if my internet connection is the reason if it's only me etc.

I think that if something like that occurs that would make the site being down for a while, you should have a page that would say site is temporarily unavailable for 2 hours etc.......


Also what is this small dot in the top of the cursor, while i'm writing here....?

thanks , glad i checked on that ;)

Jason: No.

is game time suspended for ponds too ?

harley: That indeed does it. I didn't know that was possible. I must've hit both at the same time and didn't realize it. Thanks

Walter Montego: No, they haven't changed. If you have a scroll mouse, try holding down 'Ctrl' and scroll up or down, that will change the size of the text.

Have they changed, or'd something happen to my computer?

thank you both, that helped:)

Fencer: LOL....I'll keep that in mind!

Fencer:

Kipling: "You guys are on the ball" sounds funny when I translate it to Czech exactly, word by word.

Fencer: WTG!
That was quick. You guys are on the ball, and I thank you.

Fencer: LOL...I should have read this!

wellywales: There seems to be a wrong constraint in the database structure. It will be fixed soon.

Fencer!, Thanks for the server news, but when I click on "Remove", it does not

ellieoop: on the setings page, sort games by time left ascending, that should get you what you want

Howdy ellieoop, The column titles "Game Event Opponent Your color Move Time left" are links. Whichever you click is how the list will be sorted.

The green light indicates a time control with fixed (ie. Sat/Sun) weekends and no other vacation days allowed. More info here.

my game sheet was in order of games with shortest time left on the top, and now they're all mixed up, and i can't remember how to fix them in settings. also one game has 26 days and a green light, what does that mean?
thx. in advance, ellie:)

Fencer: OK, thank you for leting me/us know

Stevie:

Princess Alison: Liquid was upgrading the application server and forgot one config file. Nothing serious.

Stevie: probably when all of us over here log on, huh? : (

happens alot for me :o(

Princess Alison: it hasn't been much of a problem this side of the pond...a minute or two today that I know of, but aside from that, up and running just fine

alanback: Its the first time it has happened to me tonight, even though the web site keeps crashing left right and centre of late

Princess Alison: 404 is what you get when your browser can't find the web page. Happens all the time to me on this site.

Fencer: what is Error 404, we all go booted off here a minute ago, and that was what kept coming up.

rabbitoid: Actually its mostly Fencer who chooses, with input from others like sometimes people say 'hey it would be good if Mr/Mrs X was interviewed' and I'll give that name to Fencer, then he has the final decision.

rabbitoid: I believe it's nominations, though harley may make the final selection. On the other hand a quick search found this.

harley: one question I wanted to ask, but you: how do you pick your victims?

hotmommy22: Have a click on the Interviews link at the top of this board. That'll show the what. The 'why' varies. First, of course, the royalty, then some early members and global moderators. Now the search has moved out into the general poulation...

hotmommy22: Interviews to learn more about different users.

Past interviews: http://brainking.com/en/Interviews

harley: Interview about what and why. Just curious.

Keep the questions coming for Pedro Martinez!!!! I'll be sending him all his interview questions soon, if you have a question for him, just send them to me and they'll be added to the inteview. Thank you!

tonyh: When I make a decision, I'll announce it.

Fencer: Any decisiopn on Rooks who build up thousands of games and then become pawns?

Thanks for that I understand now :)

ok someone, give me a clue, what are 'stairs'

thanks.. i saw the option on the bottom of the page, but didnt know how to incorporate the stairs..

Pedro Martínez: wow, I guess they are. How dare Fencer do something and not let us know! :-)

Antje: Of course it is available - you can create stairs for every game you have created a team for within your fellowship.

Antje: Not available yet - but I believe Fencer said it was planned.

how can i add stairs to my fellowship? is it available yet?

plaintiger: Because ponds are not like standard two-player games and your next turn time is triggered by the server, not by any opponent. It's more like "bid and wait" sort of thing.

forgive me if this has been asked before, but why are ponds separate from all the other games, in terms of their listing on the main page and their little red numbers telling how many are waiting for you to move and stuff? that seems to me an unnecessary complication and a tiny bit of an inconvenience. from the player's point of view, ponds are games just like any other and (it seems to me) should be listed in the same list as all the other games.

i use tabbed browsing (IE users wouldn't know what this is, but it's a huge convenience that i think every other web browser offers) and i often have BK open in a background pane while i'm doing something on some other website in another pane, and when non-pond games are ready for me to move on them, the number of such games shows up in the tab of my BK pane, so i can see at a glance when games are waiting for me even when i'm at a completely different website - but ponds don't show up in BK's tab like that because they're somehow treated differently for some reason i don't understand.

and while i admit it's a very teeny-tiny point, it would also be nice for the "move and go to next game" button to be able to take me straight from the pond i just moved on to my next waiting game of backgammon or froglet or whatever rather than depositing me on the main page first, and i don't understand why it doesn't. does something in the structure of the site demand that ponds be kept separate, or does it offer the player some advantage that i'm overlooking, or could they maybe be rolled in with all the other games some day?

thanks...

Is it true!???????

Thank you so much Fencer!!!