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  5. Camp Triangle 2011

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    Just got home after horrendous delays at Heathrow, and by the increased weight of my bag it looks like I've brought lots of the site with me.

    Had a fantastic time, can't think of a better bunch to spend a week with.

    Thanks to Lucy and DaveMac in particular for organising the wed/thur meets.

    Joining the other world tomorrow is going to be difficult..

    Much love people.

    Mike

  7. See Tickets load balancing

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    When you are at home you all sit behind one IP, the home router doesn't do IP address translation it does something called port address translation. IP addresses are getting in short supply and so more and more expensive. Your ISP does not give you one for each device for exactly that reason.

    If I go to www.seetickets.com it connects on port 80 (http) at their end but can come from any port at my end (within a set range) so let's say 32004 for example. If another PC on my network goes to www.seetickets.com my router will send that out via a different port, let's say 32005 for example. Seetickets see's that as 2 different people even though we have the same IP. Our router sorts out who get's what traffic. That's why people could get through on one PC but not the other.

  8. See Tickets load balancing

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    What was the deal with using Opera in turbo mode? Not a sniff here with IE9 or Firefox but straight through to queue and quickly through to check-out with Opera.

    (Didn't do me any good mind, no amount of redoing the order pages would give me a confirmation)

  9. See Tickets load balancing

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    I noticed that too. Though only in the same browser. So if I got one chome tab to go through, all my other chrome tabs would go through too. My firefox tabs were still locked out though. I thought it was probably chrome just caching the page.

    I don't believe that "once you're in you're in" though. I could get through to the !You are in a queue" page, but within a minute I would be back to the "the site is not responding" window and would have to start all over again. Also, I managed to get a booking form up, but once I had entered my details, I could not get the next page up.

  10. See Tickets load balancing

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    Thankfully we got tickets this year, but only because a mate helped us out.

    I live in Sweden, and had two laptops going on the same local network. I had a VPN to a work computer (so different IP address) and a second VPN to a UK computer.

    I got the queuing page at 8.50 - but didn't see any other connection until midday.

    This is really rubbish, and much worse than previous years. We have two years to plan for next time...

    I work in networking, but this is not my area.

    See Tickets must be using a load balancer :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_%28computing%29

    Then I found this :

    http://www.zeus.com/resources/press_articles/see-tickets-puts-zeus-centre-stage.html

    I guess it is this traffic manager :

    http://www.zeus.com/products/traffic-manager/index.html

    When you first get a connection, the load balancer just drops the connection. This gives you the "interrupted" message.

    The load balancer must maintain a session ID, so once you are in they keep the link open - otherwise you couldn't complete the booking process. When there is a space,you get through to the booking servers, and it keeps that connection open - thats how we got tickets as once your are in you stay in. We are lucky the booking servers don't close the session to the load balancer, if they did you would have to start all over again. They could implement this in future.

    New is a "in the queue". I think here, the load balancer is talking to you (to give the queue page) and will connect you when it can.

    What I don't get is that when some people changed connection (say 3g) they just got through - meaning there is no real queue.

    What we need to know is how the load balancer maintains session ID - is it putting a cookie on your machine, or is it done by IP address state.

    Two laptops on the same local network are definitely treated different, when one eventually got through all browser windows went through at the same time (either in firefox tabs, or different browser windows). The other laptop never got through.

    If this is true, there is no point having more than one window on a machine, but more machines helps.

    Anybody know anything more?

    /Mike

  11. Looking for tips from the over 60's

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    Posted · Edited by rubberducky

    I've been taking my Dad for the last four years or so, he is now in his early 60's.

    He joined the efestivals camp and has a great time, even though his first festival was in '07 when it was a bit wet, he keeps coming back.

    We have quite different festivals as we have different taste in music, and I tend to be going home when he is getting up in the morning, but he really enjoys himself.

    We normally have some food together and see one or two acts a day which we are both interested in. I don't need to look after him, he can get into quite enough trouble on his own, especially after discovering the cider bus....

    He's probably reading this, so maybe he has some tips for your Mum.

    /Mike

  12. Camping Fridge

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    You could try running it with a car battery.

    Or get one of those powered coolboxes.

    Next year i'm thinking of taking a Coleman Maxcold passive coolbox which apparantly keep ice for 5 days in upto 30C temperatures.

  13. how to get the wristband off?

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    Use a pair of mole grips to clamp the metal bit on each side. Use a small flat screwdriver and hammer it in, then get a bigger screwdriver and twist it a bit. The mole grips hold the band really firmly so you can get some force on it.

    Fold the wristband so you are doing it away from your wrist though, if you slip it could be nasty...

    I've got some plastic bits on the end of the mole grip so it doesn't damage the metal ring too much.

    I've only got one dimple in mine so it was pretty easy.

    /Mike

  18. From Glasto to AMSTERDAM!

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    I'm in as well, Thur-Sunday!

    Haven't cleared it with work, but I've booked the flight.

    Couldn't find anywhere cheap to stay, so I've book a slot in the campsite round the back of the station.

    I've stayed there before a few times and it's ok.

    Looking forward to it, going to be messy :P

    Cheers,

    Mike

  20. Travelling from Stockholm!

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    Hello. I am moving to Stockholm from Berlin at the beginning of may to start a clean slate and had booked flights already to get into Bristol on the day the tickets went on sale back in October (I got them cheap thankfully but didn't know what way the future would go).

    Anyways I'm on Skyscanner.com now looking at flights from Stockholm into Bristol. They're just under £100 return which I can't really complain about, with a stop at Prague or Brussels before arriving (takes about 8 hours altogether which is a bit of a pain).

    I was just curious if anyone else is going similarly or if there's a cheaper option, i.e. somewhere close to Bristol or outside Stockholm?

    Like I said 100 quid isn't the worst but it'd be nice if anyone had another other options.

    Thanks

  21. are there any swedes going to glasto?

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    We have a large St Albans flag every year, which results in a lot of people coming up to us and asking if we're Swedish (St Albans is a gold on blue diagonal cross as opposed to the gold on blue horizontal + vertical cross of the Swedish flag).

    I do wear a Swedish hat that I bought in Stockholm most of the time though which probably doesn't help matters.

  24. Out of Glasto meet?!

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    Will try and get everyone along to this next year...and some time in the far far future...once I am a Biodynamic Cider producer...you are all welcome to stay at mine before and after the festy...this of course all depends on me owning a BD Cider farm somewhere in the vicinity of G Town and in the far far future...when I set up the Pilton Old Ravers Home for the Wasted...then its really going to kick off isnt it??? :lol:
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