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[gsteemso]

Great news! Good luck mate!

[Ian Colquhoun]

Great news! Good luck mate!

Great news indeed BDD. All the best to you and good luck with the new treatment!

[airship]

Great news! I hope this goop does the job for you.

BTW, are you experiencing any pain from the neuropathy? If so, ask about Neurontin. It was developed for narcolepsy, but it does a great job suppressing my neuropathic pain.

Put some effort into getting better. We need you at 100%, big guy.

[LuxOFlux]

Great news! Good luck mate!

Great news indeed BDD. All the best to you and good luck with the new treatment!

Get back to playing that bass BDD.

[Golan Klinger]

This is good news. I hope you end up being the guy they put in the ads to show how well the drug worked. We're all pulling for you!

[BigDumbDinosaur]

Thanks for all the encouraging words.  I'm looking forward to this in a perverse sort of way, as it may save this old dinosaur from untimely extinction, as well as contribute scientific knowledge that may help others with ITP.

I am scheduled to start in the clinical trials in two weeks, provided I don't get any sicker than I am right now.  It should be an interesting experience, to say the least, as I've never been part of a study to find a cure for something.  My joining the trials adds an unknown to the process, as they have not had any middle-aged male patients on which to test—few men develop ITP once out of their twenties, and it's almost unheard-of in men my age (I'm 63).

If I can believe what I've been told, the worst that will probably happen is nothing...I won't respond to the drug and thus will be no better off than I am now.  However, what I have learned is that they've had a nearly 70 percent success rate with refractory ITP patients. with some patients achieving near-normal counts.  Most stayed substantially below normal but well away from the 10K/microliter danger zone.  I've been there numerous times, including several instances below 3K, which but for the luck of the Irish, could have been my demise.  If my count can be kept at or above 50K I'll throw a party!  If it can't and I kick the bucket, my wife will throw the party as soon as possible after the funeral is over and the life insurance check arrives in the mail.  <Grin>  Just kidding!

[airship]

Hang in there, BDD. You know we're all pulling for you.

Edit: Shucks. Golan already said that.

[Andrew Wiskow]

Was this forum down for the better part of the past 24 hours?  Or was there a problem on my end?

[Blacklord]

Was this forum down for the better part of the past 24 hours?  Or was there a problem on my end?

Nope - there's been posts & visits all day.

[calle1970se]

Anyone knows what happened to the ftp at "ftp://landover.no-ip.com/"? It was a great source!

[Blacklord]

Anyone knows what happened to the ftp at "ftp://landover.no-ip.com/"? It was a great source!

Off temporarily while I add in more stuff & replace the FTP server with a better one (one that uses the forum user permissions - I had an enormous amount of hot-linking happening with the anonymous access).

cheers,

Lance

[RobertB]

Was this forum down for the better part of the past 24 hours?  Or was there a problem on my end?

I, too, have been having problems getting here in the last few days.  I would just give up, wait several hours, and then try again.

                Truly,
                Robert Bernardo
                Fresno Commodore User Group
                http://videocam.net.au/fcug
                The Other Group of Amigoids
                http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
                Southern California Commodore/Amiga Network
                http://www.sccaners.org/

[Andrew Wiskow]

Nope - there's been posts & visits all day.

Interesting...  For some reason, for the past couple days, I haven't been able to get on here at all from my computer at work.  I get some sort of error like "unable to connect to the WWW server".  Every other site I've accessed on the Internet works fine.  But from home, where I'm at now, it seems to be connecting fine.  Any idea what could be causing this?

[Blacklord]

Nope - there's been posts & visits all day.

Interesting...  For some reason, for the past couple days, I haven't been able to get on here at all from my computer at work.  I get some sort of error like "unable to connect to the WWW server".  Every other site I've accessed on the Internet works fine.  But from home, where I'm at now, it seems to be connecting fine.  Any idea what could be causing this?

What's your IP address at work ? I've recently blocked a large chunk of IP addresses that Apache's logs showed were slamming the web server for no good reason ('fluff' requests one after the other several times a second).

Yours may have got caught up .

cheers,

Lance

[Andrew Wiskow]

What's your IP address at work ? I've recently blocked a large chunk of IP addresses that Apache's logs showed were slamming the web server for no good reason ('fluff' requests one after the other several times a second).

Ah... That might explain it.  I'll let you know what the IP address is there when I'm there tonight...  Or, when I get home from work in the morning, since I probably won't be able to log in from there. 

[Blacklord]

What's your IP address at work ? I've recently blocked a large chunk of IP addresses that Apache's logs showed were slamming the web server for no good reason ('fluff' requests one after the other several times a second).

Ah... That might explain it.  I'll let you know what the IP address is there when I'm there tonight...  Or, when I get home from work in the morning, since I probably won't be able to log in from there. 

Email it to me landover@tpg.com.au, I can unlock it.

[Andrew Wiskow]

Email it to me landover@tpg.com.au, I can unlock it.

Okay, I'll e-mail you in the next couple hours...  I'm on my way to work now.

[Andrew Wiskow]

I'm able to connect from my computer at work again.  Thanks for your help, Lance! 

[Blacklord]

I'm able to connect from my computer at work again.  Thanks for your help, Lance! 

No worries (Damn, my plan was foiled <evil laugh>)

[calle1970se]

Waiting impatiently for the ftp then... 

The files found in the download area at "Commodore128.org" such as the BASIC8 ROM-file (http://landover.no-ip.com/128/olate/uploads/upload-1149703303-Basic8.BIN) together with all other files I've tried to download can not be found (404 - Webpage not found). Have the files been moved somewhere else?

[airship]

The files found in the download area at "Commodore128.org" such as the BASIC8 ROM-file (http://landover.no-ip.com/128/olate/uploads/upload-1149703303-Basic8.BIN) together with all other files I've tried to download can not be found (404 - Webpage not found). Have the files been moved somewhere else?

Here, I believe:

http://landover.no-ip.com/128/downloads/

[RobertB]

Email it to me landover@tpg.com.au, I can unlock it.

That must be my problem, too.  I will e-mail you from the work address.

               Truly,
               Robert Bernardo
               Fresno Commodore User Group
               http://videocam.net.au/fcug
               The Other Group of Amigoids
               http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
               Southern California Commodore/Amiga Network
               http://www.sccaners.org/

[Blacklord]

Looks like I went over the top

No, really - I wanted the forums all to myself Mwuhahahahahahaha <best evil smirk>

[Blacklord]

The files found in the download area at "Commodore128.org" such as the BASIC8 ROM-file (http://landover.no-ip.com/128/olate/uploads/upload-1149703303-Basic8.BIN) together with all other files I've tried to download can not be found (404 - Webpage not found). Have the files been moved somewhere else?

Here, I believe:

http://landover.no-ip.com/128/downloads/

That's them.

The classic computer FTP site will be re-available {soonish}.

As soon as I finish building the stand-alone box for it that is.

[Blacklord]

I'll be in Denver for about an hour on Jan 3 if anyone's about