World A-Team Cricket Forum - Announcements in Forum : ZIM Archived Threads 2004

admin · 12-08-2007 until 12-09-2017

Just letting you know that sometime this week our site will be down while we transfer to a different server which uses PHP5. Currently, our server uses PHP4 which will be discontinued at the end of this year. PHP will no longer provide support or updates after that. PHP5 was released three years ago. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP4. PHP5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.

This move was prompted by Adrian Schneider who wants to code our Fantasy Cricket game with PHP5 which will speed up his work. It's uncertain whether we will experience a smooth transition without our site being effected in some way so if you detect any anomolies in the way the forum works or displays, please let me know. Sorry for any inconvenience. We will wait until the current Test match is over before the move, but I can't say exactly when the site will go down. It may be down for a couple of days while DNS propagation occurs.

admin · 28-07-2007 until 28-08-2010

You'll find it at the bottom of the forum home page. Use it during matches to comment on interesting incidents. Click here to go to the Shoutbox.

admin · 02-07-2007 until 02-08-2017

With feverpitch's permission I've closed The Third Umpire forum. His site is now a blog that allows readers to post comments.

admin · 16-05-2007 until 16-06-2017

I've created a new forum for cricket players to discuss how they play the game and the skills, techniques and tactics they use. Click here to access the Cricket Skills, Techniques and Tactics forum.

admin · 19-03-2007 until 19-04-2010

If you have received a PM containing any sort of advertising please contact an administartor or moderator immediately. They can be contacted by PM or the Contact Us form. We want to protect members from receiving spam in their Private Messages.

admin · 03-07-2006 until 01-01-2010

To clear the Title field.

admin · 01-07-2006 until 01-08-2010

Since the England team aren't worth discussing right now I've temporarily closed the forum. When the England cricket team actually give their long-suffering fans something positive to talk about I'll re-open the forum. Sorry for the inconvenience, if any.

Collyisamackem · 19-06-2006 until 20-07-2010

Hi all.

If a member wishes to post an article, please can they make sure their work is original.

We only accept original work, and not articles plagiarised from a copyrighted article such as those from Cricinfo. We would run into legal difficulty if we re-published those articles in part or in full - some recent articles have contravened this. Please only submit articles that are your work.

Thanks

Colly

admin · 29-05-2006 until 30-06-2010

We have closed the Domestic First Class Cricket forum because we wish to have domestic topics posted to the Country forums again. Please post domestic cricket topics in the relevant Country forum from now on. Thanks.

Vrock · 19-05-2006 until 19-06-2010

The owner and management of this messageboard have placed restrictions on the use of the terms "cheat", "cheating" etc. Since we aren't protected from legal action against us for libellous comments made by our members, potentially libellous comments will be removed.

Therefore, we don't allow a player to be called a cheat unless he has either admitted it, or was found guilty and fined or suspended.

The fact that the media may make these kinds of comments is irrelevant. They have a legal team to protect them, if necessary and we don't.

admin · 28-04-2006 until 30-05-2010

Have you read this thread yet about our new forum?

admin · 26-03-2006 until 26-04-2010

Hi, I've created a podcast about the last year's Ashes Test at Edgbaston which I think you'll enjoy. The link is on the navbar next to the News link.

admin · 11-02-2006 until 14-03-2010

CricSim is a virtual cricket game run by w3lshrugby that involves the top 44 WAT posters playing alongside real life international players in virtual cricket competitions. It is a thrilling, exciting virtual season at the moment, and you could be missing out on your own great performances.

Check it out at: CricSim forum or access it from the Fantasy Cricket section.

You are encouraged as a player to post in the forums about you and your teams performances, and perhaps release a press release or two!

So go on, check it out!

admin · 07-01-2006 until 08-02-2010

Just to let everyone know that registered members and non-registered visitors may add comments to the articles in the Articles forum.

admin · 06-06-2005 until 07-07-2010

We have added a News page to our site with links to current articles from a variety of sources. The link is on the Navbar between Calendar and Fantasy Cricket. I hope you find it useful.

Ernest · 05-06-2005 until 06-07-2010

The site was down for for about 15 minutes starting at 14:05.
The KDA engineer reported "The server was updated due to a kernel update, it should all be ok now."
Please notify us if you notice the forum is acting in an unusual manner.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

admin · 05-05-2005 until 05-06-2010

I wasn't around at the time but I learned that our site was down sometime between 12 PM BST & 2 PM BST today. Luckily, Ernest was around and lodged a Trouble Ticket with our webhost who fixed the problem. Apologies for any inconvenience to you. Thankfully, the duration of the outage was not too long.

admin · 09-04-2005 until 10-05-2010

This site is experiencing technical problems at the moment. You may get a HTTP 404 - File not found page when you try to post a new thread or reply using the New Thread, Reply or Quote button. Replies are still possible with Quick Reply. I have notified our webhost so, hopefully, they can fix the problem today. Sorry for the inconvenience.

admin · 08-02-2005 until 11-03-2010

admin · 07-02-2005 until 10-03-2010

Looks like the site may have been down for about three and a half hours this morning between 06:00 and and 09:30 GMT.

I found this post on my webhost forum:

Today, 14:29
Re: Any idea where my website has gone?

Hi,

We've experienced a number of issues this morning with both HSphere web servers, we believe this was an attempt to DoS the two web servers, which to some extent, as you can tell, was succesful. As a precaution we are now going through the servers, checking for anything out of place and checking all system software versions, or any patches that may have been missed - So if you find something isn't working for a short period, then that most likely means we are upgrading it.

Thank you,
KDA Web Services

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What is DoS?

Short for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic. Many DoS attacks, such as the Ping of Death and Teardrop attacks, exploit limitations in the TCP/IP protocols. For all known DoS attacks, there are software fixes that system administrators can install to limit the damage caused by the attacks. But, like viruses, new DoS attacks are constantly being dreamed up by hackers.

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KDA Web Services Data Centre is firewalled to limit downtime but the firewall itself may experience problems which could cause downtime. Sorry to those who were inconvenienced by this outage. This sort of thing is to be expected, though, no matter how good the security.

The next time it happens, you can try running a trace route to our website which is hosted on wolverine.linux.uk.assimilatedservers.net.

Start -> Run
Type: command
Click OK (DOS window opens)
type: tracert www.world-a-team.com
Enter

admin · 31-01-2005 until 03-03-2010

Due to lack of interest the Photo Gallery has been deleted. The subscription with www.pixagogo.com won't be renewed.

admin · 08-01-2005 until 08-02-2010

If you have noticed a sudden jump in your post count this is due to me allowing posts made to the Members and Guests Lounge count toward members post count.

admin · 02-11-2004 until 03-12-2010

If you experienced difficulties logging on today, sorry for the inconvenience. This message from my web host may reveal the cause of the problem.

Message from my web host:

[2nd November 2004, 12:57] Connectivity Issues

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Hi,

As some of you will no doubt have noticed, we have just experienced a period of about 15-20 minutes of variable connectivity. This was caused by our main level switch, it appears it was getting stuck in a processing loop of some form and disrupting the connectivity. The equipment has now been reset and we are monitoring it for any further problems. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Thank you,

admin · 02-10-2004 until 02-11-2010

Multi-Quote allows you to imbed quotes from a number of other posts in your reply. For more information click here.

admin · 01-10-2004 until 01-11-2010

The names of the two hacks are:

1. Who Posted?

2. Posted in reply to..

For more details follow this link.

admin · 24-09-2004 until 25-10-2010

Today at approx 18:00 our website server went down unexpectedly for a short period. Sorry to anyone who was inconvenienced. I found this post just now on my webhost's forum which they posted yesterday:

[24th September 2004] Routine Maintenance

"I must apologise for the short notice of this, which is entirely my fault for forgetting to make the post.

During the afternoon/evening of 24th September we will be carrying out routine maintenance of equipment, such as checking to make sure all fans are working in servers etc. What this means is that there will be small periods, 2-5 minutes, of downtime for all servers - Which is well worth it, as if fans etc. aren't kept in good working order, it can mean extended periods of downtime."

admin · 28-07-2004 until 28-08-2010

As requested by Xaxerian, I have created a new style template which contains the old legacy_postbit style. You can see the legacy_postbit by loading any thread. To change styles locate the Quick Style Chooser at the bottom-left of any page. The default setting is Wide with green background. From the drop-down menu select the option called Grey/blue background - Legacy postbit. It will load automatically.

admin · 15-07-2004 until 16-08-2010

Occasionally new members join to post their own website URL on this board. Some will post their website link on multiple forums which is spamming.

If you see this happening please report it.

To combat this I have created a sub-forum of the Help and Feedback forum called Advertised Links. Non-members who wish to advertise their website will be directed to post there instead of joining and spamming the board with multiple posts.

Once a URL appears in Advertised Links it will be added to the censored words list so that further attempts to post the same URL will be replaced with asterisks - eg www.**********

I hope these measures will reduce the incidence of spamming in future.

admin · 11-07-2004 until 11-08-2010

Today I upgraded from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 and 3.0.3. Most of the modifications were security patches or minor bug fixes. You won't notice much difference to the functionality of the board.

admin · 01-06-2004 until 02-07-2010

Hi, I have installed a new hack in response to those who like the "See Latest Messages" feature on the BBC board.

1. Open the Advanced Search form.
2. Select the forum/s to search in - the default is Search All Open Forums.
3. Select Show Results as Posts - the default is Show Results as Threads.
4. Choose an option in Find Posts From to get recent posts within the last week.
5. Leave Search by Key Word and Search by User Name fields blank.
6. Click Search Now - a list of posts will appear which contain part of the message. Part of the message will act as a link to open the thread and position the post on your screen.

admin · 15-05-2004 until 15-06-2010

The site server went down yesterday (Friday) around 11:00 AM BST. It came back around 11:30 PM - some 12 hours later. A couple of reasons for the delay included a new hard drive was required but the spares were not quite the right size. The correct size had to be sourced and driven through London traffic to the server site - says it all! Then some file corruption had to be manually fixed. We can all breathe a huge sigh of relief now. Thanks everyone for your patience. I'm glad it's sorted as I fly out today (Saturday). Didn't want to leave it in a mess.