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#241 Mistle

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Posted 21 January 2010 - 22:14

I think the original FSG should be left online until the new one achieves at least the same level of usefulness... I'd take FSG over this wiki thing any day. ;)

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Posted 23 January 2010 - 00:34

I think the original FSG should be left online until the new one achieves at least the same level of usefulness... I'd take FSG over this wiki thing any day. ;)


I'm afraid that cant happen now..

Fallen Sword Guide.com is officially dead! :( - http://whois.domaint...nswordguide.com

Thanks Wang! :evil:

All we can do is hope that HCS make the 'ultimate' guide at least half as good as the FSG was.. which at the moment it is not.

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Posted 23 January 2010 - 00:37

I think the original FSG should be left online until the new one achieves at least the same level of usefulness... I'd take FSG over this wiki thing any day. ;)


I'm afraid that cant happen now..

Fallen Sword Guide is officially dead! :(

All we can do is hope that HCS make the 'ultimate' guide at least half as good as the FSG was.. which at the moment it is not.


For something "officially dead", it's doing a pretty darn good job of still being alive and kicking ;)

#244 fs_muttyproff

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Posted 23 January 2010 - 00:44

Maybe your cache or offline web files are still working... this is all I see & I got it working last week..

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Lucky I got some info when I did really, just need to get them working with each other ;)

#245 BalianRW

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Posted 23 January 2010 - 01:13

Working just fine for me as well. The screen you are getting is the one that you get if you don't have the modification to your hosts file. It is true that someone (apparently not affiliated with FS in anyway), has purchased the domain, so it is true that the domain www.fallenswordguide.info (a domain I have purchased) to point to those files instead so that everyone will be able to access the guild again.

#246 evilbry

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Posted 23 January 2010 - 01:34

still working for me too.. I'd be looking at the lowest common factor here being the issue :)

#247 Thoran

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Posted 23 January 2010 - 02:57

Well as we all mentioned before...

If you can still see and use the 'Fallen Guide' it is because you have already edited your 'host' file,
if you can not it is the opposite (you have NOT). All of the Data files ets still remain on HCS's image servers until which time it is deamed unessarary.

Not by me mind you...

If you are patient enough, you will see that Hoofmaster (Andrew) is continually adding to his Guide and it will (I hope) have all of the same features and a LOT more.

*Remember also that shell site is the FSG was only a copy of the GathaGuide' which it is based on,
before we added the data of course.

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#248 fs_thanos

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Posted 23 January 2010 - 08:15

So, your saying that all the efforts of all the players involved in the FS Guide AND the player run FS Wiki does not matter, or not needed. To you its more important to have a site that is run by coding which has everything you ever wanted (and more) at the moment its added to the game....

...thats just terrible. :shock: Why not just make a script that levels everyone and we can do other things and never return to the game. :roll:

Im wondering if the game would be better if we had NO references and had to figure it out all on our own like when I started playing, then no one would complain since the whiners would stop playing after the first day, LMAO

Oh well, I'll do my thing and you all do yours.


Are you kidding me, things like how creature info is displayed on the FSG is vastly superior to the new UFSG by HCS... Sorry guys love the new one too, but the FSG has features already in place that make it better.

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Posted 26 January 2010 - 01:16

Okay, worked it out.. its still there - not dead & I appologise for the confusion! :D

Complicated for Mac users though!!

ok, so insert the entry into NetInfo Manager as per my post on page 17 of this thread - add another entry for "http://www.fallenswordguide.com" - in the same way (duplicate the one you just made & alter the name) - just in case, then...

You need to open the terminal - no other way round it.. the code to put in isn't difficult (I understood it! :mrgreen: ) - however, you need to log in as a root user to get the commands to authenticate.. as a root user, entry of incorrect code may render your machine inoperable (it may die!) - I take NO responsibility for the below code being entered incorrectly & you do so at your own risk.. you may want to go to the source websites below - find the text I have put below.. in the appropriate articles & enter it in manually exactly as it appears on them.. using the below as a guide. They were my sources, I am mearly passing on the info in the order it needs to be done :P

go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app (open)

the things you need to type are in bold, spaces are important.. so copy & paste the below as they are direct from my terminal session (check notes for double spaces which may not be kept in the forum) - or go to the sources at the end of this post :wink:

at the prompt >>>> e.g. My-iMac-G5:~ joebloggs$

type the following

sudo tcsh

this starts temporary root level access (which you need) - the prompt now looks like [My-iMac-G5:~] root#

AS THE ROOT USER YOU MUST ENTER THE REST IN VERY CAREFULLY

sudo mkdir /etc/lookupd

The /etc/loookupd directory did NOT previously exist on my machine! If it had, you'd definitely want to make a safe copy of it prior to doing any of this, and you wouldn't remove it to reinstate your original configuration. If you get a message saying "mkdir: /etc/lookupd: File exists" at this stage, you need to find out how to make a backup of this file before continuing! (I did not need to)


press up on your keyboard (navigation not page up) - this will put the last command at the prompt again sudo mkdir /etc/lookupd - press return - it should say "mkdir: /etc/lookupd: File exists" - thats good (at this point as it confirms the previous command registered)

sudo echo LookupOrder Cache NI DNS FF DS > /etc/lookupd/hosts

********NOTE: TWO spaces after "DS"... one after ">"

This tells the computer to look through Cache & NetInfo Manager entries before looking at DNS..

sudo kill -1 `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`

check it worked..

lookupd -configuration

example results from mine:

ConfigSource: file://etc/lookupd
LookupOrder: Cache NI DS
MaxIdleServers: 4
MaxIdleThreads: 2
MaxThreads: 64
TimeToLive: 43200
Timeout: 30
ValidateCache: YES
ValidationLatency: 15
_config_name: Global Configuration

LookupOrder: Cache NI DNS FF DS
_config_name: Host Configuration


LookupOrder: Cache FF NI DS
_config_name: Service Configuration

LookupOrder: Cache FF NI DS
_config_name: Protocol Configuration

LookupOrder: Cache FF NI DS
_config_name: Rpc Configuration

TimeToLive: 60
ValidateCache: NO
_config_name: Group Configuration

TimeToLive: 300
ValidateCache: NO
_config_name: Initgroup Configuration

LookupOrder: Cache FF DNS NI DS
_config_name: Network Configuration



it worked :wink:

lookupd -d

hostWithName: http://www.fallenswordguide.com

example results from mine:

Dictionary: "NI: host http://www.fallenswordguide.com"
_lookup_agent: NIAgent
_lookup_validation: 0 25256
ip_address: 87.106.222.84
name: http://www.fallenswordguide.com
serves: ./local
+ Category: host
+ Time to live: 43200
+ Age: 0 (expires in 43200 seconds)
+ Negative: No
+ Cache hits: 0
+ Retain count: 3


quit

lookupd -flushcache

exit

it should say "exit" below that & then go back to "My-iMac-G5:~ joebloggs$" >>> you should see "$" at the prompt instead of "root#"

as long as you see a "$" - you may now quit the terminal app..

go to your browser, navigate to http://www.fallenswordguide.com & you should be able to see it... again! :D

The above solution works in OS 10.4.11 & is not yet tested with other versions of the OS..

To return to your previous configuration.. open terminal & type

rm -r /etc/lookupd

sudo kill -1 `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`


if it does not authenticate.. log in as root again.. but make sure you log out before closing the terminal


sources:-

enter root mode (in method 1)
http://www.spy-hill.... ... .html#root

edit lookup order (3/4 down page "To reorder my lookups, I did this:")
http://aplawrence.co...osxlookupd.html

flush cache command (last post)
http://www.macosxhin... ... 8234510985

I have searched & not found this full guide anywhere else.. so could admin please keep this post for the benefit of your Mac orientated members 8)

#250 RobM

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Posted 26 January 2010 - 02:20

Okay, I figured it out.. and want to share my experience to anyone who might be running into the same issues I had.. here goes!

XP USER HERE..

1) START to MY COMPUTER
2) MY COMPUTER to LOCAL DISC (C:)
3) LOCAL DISC (C:) to C:\WINDOWS
4) C:\WINDOWS to C:\WINDOWS\system32
5) C:\WINDOWS\system32 to this finds a file for you
6) C:\WINDOWS\system32
7) WHEN YOU DO THE SEARCH, MAKE SURE IT WILL SAY "LOOKING IN system32, WHICH SHOULD BE PRESET AND READY... PUT THE NAME "HOST" IN THE BOX FOR SEARCH FOR ALL OR PART OF A FILE NAME:
8) Once the search is complete, pending the computer, a handful of names will pop up.. look for
the only file that says host... the type will say "FILE" not application and not back up or anything like that.. just "FILE"
9) OPEN HOST FILE, It will ask what word processor to use.. most will use notepad.. you can use anything like microsoft word or wordpad too.
10) Once open.. paste the 87.106.222.84 http://www.fallenswordguide.com into the part of the word document that looks like this---->

# Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
87.106.222.84 http://www.fallenswordguide.com <------INSERT HERE
# Start of entries inserted by Spybot - Search & Destroy
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX LONG LIST OF SITES BELOW....

11) This is the most important part of the whole thing, and got me hung up for hours..
Go back to the C:\WINDOWS\system32 searched results for host..

Right click on that file you opened to the wordpad.. it will say Properties at the bottom... Once you open up the properties, UNCHECK THE

12) GO BACK TO THE NOTEPAD WHERE YOU INSERTED THE 87.106.222.84 http://www.fallenswordguide.com

13) SAVE FILE AS.... When the window pops up to save.. click from text only to ALL FILES

14) You should see the host file there, click on it, save and overwrite it (will not overwrite if the read-only box is checked)

15) Go to your web browser and type in the fallenswordguide website and PRESTO!!!

16) CLOSE OUT ALL THE WORK AND PLAY


I use Windows 7, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer: I have just done the host file addition of 87.106.222.84 www.fallenswordguide.com (without the http://) and then steps 11 to 16, and hey presto! It does work and FSG is still faithfully there!

Thanks all you folks who contributed to the solution.

#251 rowbeth

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Posted 12 February 2010 - 20:45

Thanks to all who contribute to FSG too! I'll add my voice to those saying it still complements the offical guide. Things like the appearance of entity stats on the index screen, the inclusion of set information, information about where items are found that are not dropped by entities are really useful.

Please keep it going!

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Posted 01 August 2010 - 16:49

FSH has just stopped working on my laptop although it was working fine for months now with the hosts windows XP modification... all it has changed is a switched to a portable USB internet connection ... any ideas?

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Posted 01 August 2010 - 17:05

FSH has just stopped working on my laptop although it was working fine for months now with the hosts windows XP modification... all it has changed is a switched to a portable USB internet connection ... any ideas?


Check that something hasn't over-written your hosts file - 'cos the FSG is still up and running ...


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