PowerBasic - will it recover or is the Air out?

[Charles Pegge]

PS: Soon is the 21. some people expect a power failure around that date ...

For your seasonal entertainment, I am posting the choicest 2012 youtubes on the thinBasic open forum over the next few days. But nothing scary or depressing from the Survivalist genre.

http://www.thinbasic.com/community/showthread.php?11959-New-Galactic-Year-21-Dec-2012&p=87693#post87693

[Steve Hutchesson]

Theo,

I am flattered but it would not work, it would end up looking like MASM. Have no fear, there is some genuine talent in the dev team so as long as they get over this server problem, we will see more things over time.

[Stan Duraham]

Chris Boss; Definitely an over reaction here.

I'm with CB on this.
They made some changes and took the rest of the year off.
Definitely the right thing for Vivian to do.

Moving the server didn't work out so well.

They'll be facing some tough decisions in the new year; Win64, Win8, ...

It doesn't hurt to consider plan B ... unless plan B is to write a new compiler.

[Theo Gottwald]

Steve ... how do you get to this secret knowledge?
Besides that, even if there is somebody, your knowledge in Optimizations in just that area is unique as i see it.

From what i have seen in last times from PB i did not have the impression that there are hidden ASM Gurus available.
Stan ... you know that a PB x64 is just what we all want. But who cares at PB.inc?

As Plan B I am discussing with Charles Options, as he has already an "Compiler-sort of thing" (looks however actually a bit like C to me)
running and is very interested in modern technologies.

Means as Plan B it would be needed some modifications to eat PB Source code.
Some features he has will possibly even beat current PB Implementations.

PS: I have removed some posts that were off-topic. We should stay here about PB.

[Theo Gottwald]

Does the PB Forum have a mirror?

http://mailpower.com/support/pbforums/

[Carlo Pagani]

Same IP so no, not a mirror. Both domains owned by PB

[Eric Pearson]

WHOIS says the IP is 1.1.1.1.  Just an alias for powerbasic.com, right?

[Carlo Pagani]

No, simple nslookup did the trick for me. Both return IP 96.254.223.74

[Theo Gottwald]

Yes, looks like both are DOWN 08:42 MEZ 20-12-12.
         21-12-10:56 PB is DOWN.

Could it be that that are attacked (in the same way like our forum some time ago)?

Today we got a statement from Jim Bailey:

If i get it right, i would say that PB should now be a bit more stable from now.

He did not say much at all.

[Eric Pearson]

> He did not say much at all.

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?p=421900#post421900

[Theo Gottwald]

Actually PB seems to be down again?
Und up again ... 12:48

[Carlo Pagani]

Down again?

PowerBASIC - First in starting a new trend of a web site with operating hours - If only they would post the hours on the home page?

[Cory Marshall]

Actually PB seems to be down again?
Und up again ... 12:48

and down again (06:51 EST)

[Theo Gottwald]

14:04 MEZ ... we are DOWN again.
Is the site under attack, like our forums before?
Or do they have a Quota, if exceeded (per day) the y go down?

[Chris Holbrook]

Maybe they have become Protectionist. After all, why should they run their servers while most of their customers are sleeping?