Are you curious as to what the error message that comes up when you try to log in to the server? Here it is, in all its evil Microsoft glory…
Such a typical Microsoft error. I remember the first time I saw the legendary “memory could not be ‘read’” message, and just loved it. Is that the best description of an error that Microsoft could come up with?
I did a quick Google search for this error. Although nothing was conclusive, some posts do not sound very reassuring.
Still no word back from my ISP. I’m going to tell them to just go ahead and do it and bill me for the hour. Let’s see what happens. At this point I need to know whether or not I should be scheduling time to take delivery of the server in order to repair it and figure out what the next step is going to be.
January 24, 2007 at 11:40 am
My brother always told me that Windows can be a fluent and perfectly running program..
…as long as you leave it alone…
January 24, 2007 at 11:43 am
I really hate the “memory could not be referenced” error. It doesn’t tell you anything about what application caused the error, or what that application was trying to do when the error occurred. Just that some memory block could not be referenced by some instruction in the CPU… Great, that could be just about anything.
January 24, 2007 at 11:52 am
I want to know what the programmers at Microsoft were thinking when they wrote that error message? Where they laughing and saying “I can’t wait to see the look on a user’s face when they encounter this!”???
Brian, in the past, to eliminate this error message (or something very similar), I have had to reload PC’s. It wasn’t worth the time trying every single suggestion on Google. The good news is as far as I remember, this error message did not return after the reload, which means it isn’t hardware related.
January 24, 2007 at 11:53 am
My work computer gives me that message every few days. Uh oh!
January 24, 2007 at 12:33 pm
You would think that highly skilled engineers would be able to provide a more friendly description of the errors in their software.
Even a error code you look up in a database like the BSOD codes.
January 24, 2007 at 12:36 pm
does that mean the database could be corrupted, i.e. stats/ players, etc?
also…are the sims still potentially running in this situation, or are they down?
Just some fun questions to keep everybody on their toes.
January 24, 2007 at 12:39 pm
If the database were corrupt, there is always backups. Assuming that the hard drive itself isn’t have issues, we shouldn’t have any issues recovering data if it came to that.
As for the sims running, it is possible, although the odds of that happening are pretty slim. The sims probably would have crashed if not by this error, the any other issues Windows was having.
January 24, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Crocko,
From being a bit bored, I did a little google searching with the locations you can see there and it appears that the picture at the top of the blog is a shot down Mulberry Street in Manhattan (looking south) in Chinatown. Don’t know how good the cafes around there are, but citysearch gives them pretty good ratings.
January 24, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Does anybody know anything more about where they might have buried Thunder Alley? Or when his services were?
I’ve looked in all the appropriate on-line obits, but I’ve turned up nothing.
January 24, 2007 at 12:48 pm
The sims didn’t run during the major crash 2 1/2 years ago. This seems just as bad, so I doubt sims would run now either.
January 24, 2007 at 1:04 pm
cool, thanks for the info guys.
Although it would be kinda cool to come back to it after a week or two and find half a season simmed. I’d be so happy getting that 1.4mil 24 year old at #1 in the SOI draft its insane. :-\
January 24, 2007 at 1:14 pm
oh man… think of the mass anarchy if the sims were running… lol… that would be bad…
… so dont stress out about it… and if anyone gets pissed at you and does something like demanding their donation back, then u know what, you shouldnt want them playing this game anyway… cause thats not how we roll in this community lol…
And Brian, I’d also just like to add on w/ the comments in the other “thread”… i love this game and have no complaints… well except about that Blackholedave guy who is always at my heals bothering me
plus, maybe this issue will spark another surge of donations
January 24, 2007 at 1:57 pm
That’s Little Italy in lower Manhatten (or atleast what’s left of it – Chinatown has pretty much absorbed it). The cafes and resturants are world class.
San Gennaro’s feastival takes place there too.
January 24, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I have played this game for 2 yrs now…..won 3 WS titles with my club….and never left a message on the board the whole time……But now i’m lost without my ballteam…i just created what would be my 3rd owned team….and I’m biting at the bit to see them play…looks like i have to clean my aquarium now!…DAMNIT!
January 24, 2007 at 2:06 pm
LOL — I can see you wiping the green slime off of the glass right now.
January 24, 2007 at 2:19 pm
hey GB… you should join the fun that is the message boards and a private league… the game goes to a whole new level when u do that
January 24, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Hey Star, I know Thunder’s real name, if you know where he lived, I might be able to come up with something.
January 24, 2007 at 2:26 pm
I love it how Microsoft gets blamed for this, lol. Damn error message, classic, and great deflection
January 24, 2007 at 2:38 pm
anyone complaining is just a putz! brian, i have no idea who you are but this is a really cool game that has given me much enjoyment for almost 4 years now. it is free and fun beyond belief. if this was around when i was growing up, i might have never left the darn house.
the only true aggravation i had with the game was when i went through 4 months when i was too busy starting up my own business to have any time to access my franchise and all of my teams were removed from my franchise in the interim. i came back several months later and wanted to throw up. i was really angry about that at the time (angry at myself for being so selfish and being more worried about making money and surviving than about the glory of my CSFBL teams. how stupid. it turns out that CSFBL gives me much more pleasure than all the money i am making now. but that is a story for a different day). but the worst thing was discovering after several months that someone had taken my favorite and original team and renamed it the shortbus pimps. oh geez. i will never forgive brian and whomever the bastard was that changed my team’s name to the freaking shortbus pimps. but i understood why it was done, especially now, to save space and make things efficient. did not stop my anger though! and i will never understand why my team was renamed the shortbus pimps. oh, the inhumanity! funny rename though
hang in there brian. this game is awesome! you guys put up with alot of headaches and nightmares making this thing work. this game is meant for the hardcore anyway. the rest can go screw themselves!
i have never donated and feel awful about it. let us know what we got to do. don’t kill yourself over this. when it comes back, it comes back. if not, then life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get
January 24, 2007 at 2:39 pm
*sigh*
I guess I have to work now…..crap.
Company I work for got a virus in our computer system…took like 20 something days for them to fix everything….and they are fortune 500 company too! : ) *flexes*
Also took them 2 weeks to move my e-mail from one computer to another…..you computer tech people are lazy. ; )
January 24, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Makila, what industry is your company?
January 24, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Since you’ll know them obviously….I work for The Oklahoman (OPUBCO is the parent company).
I’m in circulation, technically my title is Zone Manager. I’m responsible for all deliveries, and staff from I40 north to Wilshire Rd (roughly).
January 24, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Thanks Packer, I know both. I discovered it when he and I were trade talking and I found out he’d recovered a fumble in a high school game against my team. I looked up the stat sheet for that game and confirmed it with him while we were talking. The trade talks went no where, but we enjoyed talking 8-man football. Havana, Kansas was where he lived.
January 24, 2007 at 3:03 pm
i can’t believe how productive i’ve been at work the last two days. i’d better slack off so i don’t throw off the curve.
January 24, 2007 at 3:42 pm
It’s amazing how “productive” we all get when the site goes down.
January 24, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Oh noes! The intarweb baseball game is dead!!!11111111
January 24, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Hey Star, can you email me all the info you have on him? packerken2000@comcast.net
I would really appreciate it.