Dodger

Thanks a million - you are a gentleman and a scholar. It was strange I could download items that were not marked freebies and it welcomed me a subscriped member, but the freebies didn't. Guess I'll wait for the server to catch up with the world.

Once again - thanks a million - and were do I send the check :)

"...if word gets out that you've gone soft, people take advantage, and it's nothing but work work work.." - Princess Bride..;)

feh..have to join from work (I've almost done the impossible..I managed to delete IE from Win 2k..;) hope I make it in time..;)

Thank You, Dodger!

Thank you Dodger, very generous of you.

I succeeded now in reaching the site and managed to download the items that interest me (and resisting the temptation to download the rest "just in case"!).

Very many thanks for this kind offer, which I greatly appreciate.

:-( I still can't get the site at all - Have been trying since the offer was made. Can't imagine what's going on. All I get is "can not connect" both with Netscape and Internet Explorer. I've even tried turning off my virus protection software temporarily. Is there some other way to access it than http://www.xfx3d.net?

Well, I can get in but the site is very slow and I can't download anything. I keep getting "source file could not be read" error messages from Netscape a few minutes after each download starts. Bummer. :-(

A very nice gesture, thank you very much.

persistence is rewarded.  i downloaded the gutterpunk duo, which i hadn't known about before and actually needed for a picture i'm working on now.  thanks so very much.

I don't know if this will work or not, but why not try bypassing the front page to get in:

http://www.xfx3d.net/xfxstuff/

You will still need to login or register though.  I have found that if you do not check the remember me and newsletter boxes the registration goes through smoothly butit stalls out if you check them - thats in IE6.

Persistence, patience and a different browser -- Netscape 8 instead of 7.2.  Already bought the David Slayer & a few other items at Poser Pros, now I can get a few other goodies that are on my wishlist. Thanks, Dodger, this is indeed most generous of you. :-)

Thanks Dodger, I downloaded some items I was interested in tonight, had hardly any problem with speed (IE6)   I did find I was an old member though, for I did registerer, but that login did not work, but the older one did- just forgot I had it lol.  Thanks to Valerian for that URL for that is what I used to login again with my old login info. 

This offer is most generous of you Dodger, so I am going to use some of the things I downloaded now.  Good luck. Jan

don't feel bad..I have the 'perfect storm'..My handle (and email address) have been 'accepted' (or just recorded), but I can't logon at all..;) password doesn't work. Access denied..brain the size of a planet, and ..;)

Is it just me or are certain files harder to get than others? Had no problem with the Hiro/David Crystal Knights set for example, but the Gutter Punk outfits and M3 Paladin and the boot pack are no-gos. Or might as well be, downloads start at around 40-70 kbs then within a minute speed drops off  till it's maybe 3-4 kbs and  stalls out. Tried IE 6 but that couldn't get anything, had to go back to Netscape 8 for Puck and the Aliens. And some people still can't get in at all.

It's not the files themselves it's the multitudes of folks grabbing these things while they're hot. You just have to keep trying to grab them when the servers aren't jammed with downloaders.

I am so INCREDIBLY frustrated :crying: I have tried to access the site since this wonderful offer was made a few days ago, and just can't. I've tried: -disabling my intenet security and virus checker apps -using netscape 7.02, IE 6, and even just installed Netscape 8 -deleting all cache files -looking to see if there were cookies for the site but didn't see any - going in through pages within the site. - turning off my computer, unplugging my cable access. I get NOTHING. I could understand if it was slow, but I can't even get IN. I just get "site not found" messages in all 3 browsers :(. I don't get that at ANY other site - everything else on the net is accessible. I'm a member of the site, so it's not like I've never been there. Any other ideas??

Are you using the right link? Try this one: http://www.xfx3d.net/xfxstuff in Netscape 8, anything else probably won't work. Except maybe IE 6, I've heard some people had luck with that.

I just got the boots and another outfit for Puck. Speed was pretty good on those two but it's down to a crawl again now. At least on the M3 Gutter Punk. :sigh:

yep - I've tried that. Using Netscape 8.1. Like I said, I could understand if it was slow, but It won't connect at all to the site. It says it's connnecting at the bottom, but then a message box comes up saying "the connection was refused when attempting to contact www.xfx3d.net."

Weird! Dunno what to tell you in that case. I'm still connected but my downloads are going absolutely nowhere at the moment. The server must be having a hissy fit again.

This is a very generous offer. Whoa. Thanks. There are things I didn't know about! 8) Sadly, when the XFX first opened, I tried to sign-up. It never went through. I tried everything I could think of to get registered, but no luck. No email verifaction. I gave up after awhile. I use Macs OS4 with Safari and FireFox, and IE 5 for Mac OS9. I did get a password email today. I did clink on the verification link in the email. It accepted and said it reset my password and would email me the new passowrd, but the email with the new password never came. It's been 10 hours. bB p.s. One of the links in the first post goes to a GOP propaganda site.

Do a trace route to see if it's trouble with your ISP:

Click on the Windows start button and then Run

In the run box type the word command and press OK
In the black screen which appears type tracert followed by your domain name, then hit return

A list of all the computers carrying data between your computer and our server will gradually appear.

If you want to copy it and paste it, do the following;

Right click on this and choose select all

go to where you want to paste it and Right click  and choose paste

Thanks for your generosity, Dodger.

I tried to sign up but I'm still waiting for the confirmation email to activate the account.

Quote - Thanks for your generosity, Dodger.

I tried to sign up but I'm still waiting for the confirmation email to activate the account.

I don't think you will get a confirmation email.  I've been waiting since day 1. I've tried 2 different email addresses too.  I was able to download anything from the stuff area that didn't have "freebie" next to it though. However, the "freebie" ones kept telling me to become a member "free", and would take me to the same window that I had already completed two times.

Thanks Dodger :)

Thanks to everyone for your advice. I just went to sleep and this morning, it works on all 3 browswers...maybe there was just too much traffic for a few days. Acadia - I'll put your advice aside for future reference - may come in handy someday. Dodger - thank you!! Off to download :woot:

I've finally managed to get everything I was interested in. Thank you Dodger, especially for all the stuff for my poor unclothed males ^.^

I also finally managed to get everything I wanted.  Thanks again Dodger!  Your generosity is very much appreciated! 

Quote - > Quote - I don't think you will get a confirmation email.  I've been waiting since day 1. .

Depending on what email service you're using, it may get blocked as spam.  I found my confirmation message in my Yahoo Bulk Mail folder.  A lot of people, that accidentally get signed up for newsletters, report them as spam and then everything from that address gets blocked once there is some unspecified number of spam reporting.  When I signed up at XFX3D, the newsletter was unchecked such that somebody would have to take action to receive it.  It's hard to say why this address would be blocked.

No worries. Though... It's over. I had to put things back to normal for bandwidth reasons (and yes, if everybody and their brother buys a subscription, the bandwidth problem may be there but at least it'll be getting paid for, so I can tolerate it, yanno?)

Everyone, enjoy what you grabbed, and more importantly, use it! Put it in galleries and things! I love to see that stuff!

Thanks for the goodies, Dodger. Had my eye on Daniel for ages & now he's all mine! Very pleased with him, too. So I'll very likely be subscribing, if not this month probably next. :-)

Thanks a bunch! 

I didn't have time to get everything I wanted because I didn't have enough time, but I certainly appreciate what I did get.  When I have more time, I'll have to look into getting a subscription.

This was such a generous offer, Dodger. Not wanting to sound ungrateful, cause I'm VERY appreciative of this. But I'm feeling really sad because I have been trying to get on the site since you started this Sunday, and could only get in a few hours ago (I posted about it a number of times). I was in the midst of FINALLY downloading some things when it all reverted back to paid :(. And some of the downloaded files were corrupted, so I was trying to re-do them. Just a few more hours, and I'd have gotten all I wanted to get hold of....I guess my luck just stinks....:crying: But thanks for all that I did get!

Me too. I got a few things, so I can't complain.  :)
I would like to get my registration fixed. I turned off all my email filters. feels scared

I own Ralph would like to the freebie David clothing conversions for little guy.
Is the ipod a member's only thing? M3 is pestering me for it, now that he's seen it.  ;)

bB  <-- who feels the sudden urge to make an Aqua Team Hunger Force-like picture of a Spider Demon pushing a HotDog Cart.  ;)

Thanks, Dodger, now I'm going back and check out a paid subscription. 

You've got some incredible stuff there!

Anybody who never got a registration mail, IM me here with your handle or email address and I'll get you fixed up.

Anybody who tried to register but wasn't able to, also let me know and that'll take longer but I will get it fixed up for ya.

I'll also be going through the support requests on the site soon, I promise!

For the record, I think I figured out what's happening with the registration being weird (and why sometimes other people's form responses end up showing up in it -- and it's not my fault, actually!)

Some ISPs, (AOL for instance, as just one but a big one) in order to appear to be faster than they really are, cache web responses. Now, they're set up to not cache CGI scripts (things ending in .'cgi', '.php', '.asp', '.cfm' and so on -- known negotiated content types) and there's probably a meta tag that I don't know about which also overrides it.

XFX3d is written entirely in old-fashioned Perl CGIs (except for the fora, which were put in as PostNuke PHP a while ago just because of a specific forum I was formerly hosting -- and I keep meaning to rewrite that to have threading forums because I have a way to make properly threaded forums that respond quickly).

One of the common things done on Perl based websites is to use an apache webserver module called 'mod_perl' to speed the scripts responding time up (for the record, the webserver itself barely got bogged down at all during all that, it was just the connection and I think the caching thing I'm talking about now that were having issues, so if I can eventually afford colocation that'll solve a lot).

Usually people set up mod_perl to just do all CGI scripts as mod_perl. However, since I like to be able to specify things as 'staging' and 'live' -- and in some cases non-mod_perl scripts actually do work better for some unknown reason, too -- I like to have both method available to me. Regular old non mod-perl CGIs are slower but have the advantage of re-reading included modules every time. Mod_perl stores the preloaded modlues in memory (as well as the Perl interpreter itself) in order to speed things up. However, if you have a module doing part of the work, and you change that module, you have to restart Apache to make it reload (there are other ways but usually even more of a pain in the butt).

As a result, all my mod_perl CGIs are named '.mp' (for mod_perl, of course). However, this also means that those caching servers don't see the '.mp' as dynamically generated code (they have no clue what it is) and thus might go ahead and cache it.

A lot of Renderosity (and formerly all of Rendo, not to mention RDNA) uses the proprietary Bondware system with a '.ez' extension, which is also nonstandard. It may be that more ISPs know about this extension, but it's probably that there is some code I can insert that I don't know about to force them not to cache (the Pragma: No-cache header doesn't work consistently as that is old code, and it also calls for sending non-parsed headers usually, which is a pain in the butt -- though there may be a way I can make Apache send this header automatically on anything mod-perl that runs).

I'll look into that and, if all else fails, I'll do something goofy like make my .mp scripts be .asp or .cfm or something else. I mean, I can use any extension I want really (though it might end up complicated with some browsers that make assumptions if I was really weird, like making CGI webpages end in .jpg for instance).

Actually the CFM one would be kind of funny, as it'd result in me getting a call from the company that makes ColdFusion asking me why I'm running ColdFusion without paying for a licence, at which point I'd inform them that I'm not and they have no control over file extensions.

So in a weird way, this massive server hit was good on a whole other level -- it made it so I can see things that need fixing better, and how common or not-common they are. Thus thanks! B^)

sounds like a possible plan..did get an 'email will be sent' message (roughly meaning that), but never saw one either. Probably the best thing is to nuke out all my info and start over..if that's possible..;)

Thanks for all you've done, and may the batteries in all your light sabers never run out..;)