Sorry everyone. I headed back to baltimore for my Ph.D. graduation ceremony and subsequently drove from Baltimore to Davis, CA, which is a 2600 mile cross-country drive. Unfortunately, during that time, there was a server issue (for brainmeta.com and primate-brain.org) that required my attention to fix, and so the server ended up being down for six days (until I returned to Davis, CA). Sorry about that. I will take steps to ensure it doesn't happen again.

everything seems to be working fine now. I'll try to make sure it stays like that.

It's good to see you and the site back Shawn!

Do you have any ideas yet about the log-in / log-out problem?

I still can't log in!

Just managed to log in using the login page rather the option on the forum page.

rhymer here - NO I HAVEN't!
I did see my user name up there on the login page though!

hi Bill, it's good to see you back too. I will do what it takes to keep the site up and will have the log-in problem fixed asap. With the log-in problem, it seems I can log-in ok on a particular computer, but not from others, which suggests that maybe the log-in is dependent on the ip address that you normally have logged on with. If so, this problem should be relatively easy to fix.

sweet

Yes, congratulations from me too. You can remove the "L" plates now.

sorry everyone. There was another problem with the DNS server last night and this morning but I think I have it fixed now. I'll know later today whether it's fixed for good.

dont

ever

forget

to

lock

your

doors

when that far away.

someone can come right in and touch ........things

thanks for the advice

I believe the DNS server issue has been permanently fixed, which means that http://brainmeta.com and http://primate-brain.org should always be accessible now. The solution involved redundancy of DNS servers to implement fault-tolerance; i.e., set up multiple DNS servers to guard against one or more being down.

it seems to go down in the evening lately Shawn....

....when I do my best thinking!

it seems to go down in the evening lately Shawn....

....when I do my best thinking!

I'm almost certain it won't go down again.

One more thing that I noticed Shawn is that you cannot click on members profiles anymore?

rhymer long properly here again!

I've just tried the 'forgotten password' dialog sequence and not had an email with my password after 5 minutes.

If I get one I'll post again.

This might be another clue!

I can now confirm that all server (web and dns) problems are fixed. BrainMeta will not be going offline anytime in the foreseeable future.

I can't log in!

Trip like I do AKA - Don