I just downloaded some photos from Photobucket with no problem. Could it be your server? I use AOL and just go directly there with no problem.
Then again, one of the guys on the “Diner” web remarked something about “Turkish Invaders” or something like that. I’ll try Photobucket again and see what happens.
I’m entering this at 4:45 PDT. Let me see what happens, okay?
Nope. Got on just fine and my images are all there. Wonder what’s happening?
Sorry for the alarm guys, but something did happen that’s apparently affected my end. I’m still getting the “Turkish” trash message. My son thinks that it may be our ISP, (Bright House).
OHMYGAW!! As an old European History teacher, hide the kids, they’re at the Gates of Vienna again, LOL! Looking for young boys to kidnap and turn them into Janassaries. If your boy disappears for a week or two and comes back wearing a Turban, baggier pants than normal and a Scimitar and asking where you keep your gold, just whack him aside the head and mutter “Get REAL, kiddo, the Crusades ended CENTURIES ago.” He’ll snap right back, LOL!
Sorry 'bout that. But Turkish HACKERS? [%-)] Cracks me up, it does.
A lot of college kids who are into computers practice a bit of hacking just to see what it is about. When I worked in the middle east a few years ago, a number of our new engineers said they had tried it out while they were in school. I understand in the far east, there are instructional books available in bookstores on how to hack - kinda like Hacking for Dummies [%-)]
I’m having problems with it on my end. I can get in with Firefox OK, the screen is messed up but I can access my photos. I can’t get in with IE at all.
I’m using FF 2 on the Mac and there are no problems here now… First thing this morning it wouldn’t come up. Kept getting a timed out waiting for server message. All my photos are intact and come up quickly.
I don’t get anything about Turkish hackers. All I see is text all over the screen and the photos all in a vertical line. Ninety-nine percent of the time these hack jobs are done by kids with way too much time on their hands.
Yes, more script kiddies appropriating a title they don’t deserve. It implies a creativity not exhibited by digital-spraypainting their pretentious tags on a website.
There are probably more qualified to be called “hackers” here than any of those kids, whether they program or not. Remember the Tech Nickel Plate!
In a more traditional sense, I can think of a few modelers who must be pretty darn wizardly:
-Wayne Roderick (Teton Short Line - real water, homebrew signals and computer-controlled power routing system)
-Bruce Chubb, need I say more? (He’s still with us, right? I keep running into distressingly past-tense references online)
On Tuesday afternoon, some users that typed in the Photobucket.com URL were temporarily redirected to an incorrect page due to an error in our DNS hosting services. The error was fixed within an hour of its discovery, but due to the nature of the problem, some users will not have access to Photobucket for a few hours as the fix rolls out. It is important to note that only a portion of Photobucket users encountered the problem and that no Photobucket content, password information or other personal information was affected by the redirect.
A couple of weeks ago I got a message from photobucket that there was some sort of security breach and that I should change my password. I didn’t bother, since I only place photos there if I intend to post them here. I’ve experienced no problems. A friend, however, got the same notice and did change his password. Now, he’s having some trouble viewing and posting his pictures.
The same thing happened with another (unrelated) website I tried to access yesterday. Seems like a broad hijacking attack of some sort occured early this week.