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Jack21222 said:
I don't see ads either. :grumpy:
Jack21222 said:
Borek said:502 Bad Gateway again :grumpy:
Same hereChar. Limit said:I got one too. Seems like I've been getting them for a while, actually.
I had it also.Borek said:502 Bad Gateway again :grumpy:
rhody said:Drive-by intermittent hacker attacks perhaps, if so, how fiendishly clever on their part, let's hope that this scenario is NOT the case. Any comments ? Greg ? Admins ?
Rhody...
lisab said:There was a long delay to sign in, a message at the bottom of the page said "waiting for xxxx.mathjax.org". If I get it again, I'll note what the "xxxx" is.
Things have been working very well on this end. But thanks for this info as we are all a little...a lot addicted to PF.Greg Bernhardt said:nginx simply crashed. no attack
cdn. not related
lisab said:There was a long delay to sign in, a message at the bottom of the page said "waiting for xxxx.mathjax.org". If I get it again, I'll note what the "xxxx" is.
Borek said:This is our new LaTeX engine, sometimes it has its own quirks.
I see this message several times a day on average. In my case it is most likely Opera related :grumpy:
I'm using the Windows 7 operating system and added the http://www.stixfonts.org/" [Broken] installation instructions.lisab said:I'm using Chrome.
lisab said:I'm using Chrome.
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