Talk:DSS Satellite Phone

Error: MySQL server has gone away

Can someone shed some light on this? Hunter S Thompson 21:56, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Hey Hunter. Sorry, I didn't see this, RL got to me these days... anyway, that error was caused by my ISP, they moved my server to a new data centre, there were some glitches along the way. Sorry about that. Other people contacted me and let me know about this, it was fixed, I trust it's working okay now. Cheers. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 01:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Assorted niceties

Works splendidly, with bells on, ta very much - free beers at the membery arms for any of your alts! RichTee 1/10/09

Cheers Rich... free beer you say? I might just take you up on that one of these days. Can I bring a friend? He'll pay for his :D --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 19:49, 3 October 2009 (BST)

Caught on to this via a post on Brainstock and spread the word to some friends of mine. Thanks for the marvelous work, thusfar it's been a hoot to play with. M arcusF ilby ^T 17:14, 1 September 2009 (BST)

Glad you like it :) --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 18:02, 1 September 2009 (BST)

Dude, major kudos to you creating this awesome meta-game tool, I can't wait to see what updates you dole out next! --Fgon50 23:38, 3 September 2009 (BST)

/me curtseys :D Next update should be in a week or two, but it'll be mostly security enhancements. I'll announce details here. Cheers. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 00:45, 4 September 2009 (BST)

so this is a modified version of the phone? im curious, could you modify guns and make them better? (like make a proper tommy gun!)--Zagert 22:12, 4 September 2009 (BST)

Heh. No, I can't do that. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 02:32, 5 September 2009 (BST)

No button

Nice work! Thanks for making us a new toy! I can't actually make it work yet though. I've installed twice and restarted, but no button. I have the software requirements as well, so not sure why this is happening. Will keep trying. *Update* It won't show in one profile and does in another. When I logged into another account, there it was! Both profiles are alive. --Pantomime 17:39, 14 September 2009 (BST)

Hey :) You think I could get an Iwitness or UDWitness taken by the character it doesn't work for? This is to check the HTML in the page, maybe there's some other script or extension buggering it up. I've had reports of the phone not showing up when you're using UDToolbar, but only if you're dead... and from what you tell me, this is something else. Feel free to contact me here, or in my talk page, or with the email this user thingy, or in Brainstock. Sorry for the inconvenience. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 00:25, 15 September 2009 (BST)

No problem! I just emailed you a IWitness through here. Love that email option. Will have to remember that code. --Pantomime 01:07, 15 September 2009 (BST)

Yup got it :) But I see nothing wrong with it... I'm very sleepy right now though, I'm probably missing something obvious. One possibility that comes to mind: are you accessing the game by the server's IP address with this alt, perchance? Say as http://94.76.232.96/map.cgi ? I have a friend who alternates www.urbandead.com, urbandead.com and 94.76.232.96, as a way of keeping sessions for three different alts without having to log out and back in. And well, if you're using the IP address, the phone won't work. In fact, probably no GM scripts will work. Just a thought. I'll get back to you tomorrow. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 10:18, 15 September 2009 (BST)

I just use the normal main log in page http://www.urbandead.com/ Or when I log out of one alt I'll use that page to just re-log in http://www.urbandead.com/map.cgi?logout. I've just tried urbandead.com to see if it made a difference and still no button. I've also re-arranged the loading order of scripts,( I read somewhere that may make a diff?) I then disabled some and refreshed to see if they were interfering but no change. This is a strange error. Sorry to be such a bother. I appreciate anything you can do. Here are all the scripts I have installed in FF for your viewing pleasure. lol List--Pantomime 17:10, 15 September 2009 (BST)

Figures. Cheers for the screenie :) Satphone works best when it's the last script executed, actually, rather than the first--though if you disable all scripts but the phone, it should work regardless of order. What mystifies me is that it works for only some of your characters. We never saw anything like this in beta testing. But we'll get this thing running, you'll see.

Here's some test you can help me with, if you're game for finding and killing this bug--and many, many thanks for your patience.

• Please install this version. Just click on the link, it will install in-place (this is almost the same as the public stable version, but with a slight change in some function that could be the culprit of this).
• Open the error console (from the Firefox menu bar: Tools / Error console), and click on "Clear" to make it readable.
• Log in as this troublesome chick (lol).

Tell me if it works. And if doesn't, check in the error console if you see a message like this:

tag:dssrzs.org,2009-08-14:SatPhone/DSS Satellite Phone: UDID found: ######

or maybe, instead:

tag:dssrzs.org,2009-08-14:SatPhone/DSS Satellite Phone: UDID not found

or maybe some error. Thanks again, girl :) --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 17:56, 15 September 2009 (BST)

Thought I'd better update this comment area as it looks like I left you hanging. Of course no one knows about our behind the scenes hilarious emails! LOL Everything works perfectly now and I am about to grab another number. Anyone reading this, here is good advise: Don't throw away your PIN, you will need that everytime you add the number to a profile or make changes. If you lose that or forget it. Game ova sucka! :P I learned that the hard way. _♥AU10♥Pantomime _{Mistress of Pain}┌∩┐(◕‿◕)┌∩┐16:34, 3 October 2009 (BST)

XD!! And yeah, this woman speaks wisdom, I really need to put that in red or something... I'll try. As for the original problem, the solution ended up in troubleshooting. So mind that as well, gentle reader. Cheers, Pants, it's been a laugh :D --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 20:01, 3 October 2009 (BST)

Small Screen Woes

Hey Sophie. :) Still in love with your phone, but since I started using it on my netbook (with a teeny weeny 1024x600 screen resolution) I have encountered one issue. My satphone address book has reached a length where when I go to send a new message I can't see any of the early names on the list as they're bumped off the top of the screen, even if I scroll my Firefox window down so the name picker is at the absolute bottom. Would it be possible to add a scroll bar to this? If it's a big deal, don't worry about it - I found I can work around it using the arrow keys to scroll through the listbox when it's not in the 'open' state. But if it's a just an option you can tick off to add a scrollbar, it would be helpful! - M arcusF ilby ^T 03:48, 16 October 2009 (BST)

Hey Marcus :) Try my V2 beta: install V2RC3. It's been in testing for more than two weeks now, and nobody has reported any problems. In fact it should have been released officially by now, but RL has got in the way :/ Anyway, in V2 the way you select the recipient has changed, because now you can send messages to multiple recipients. Try typing a few letters in the To: field, it should shorten the list to something manageable. Let me know if this makes your life any easier, or if it gives you any problems. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 04:06, 16 October 2009 (BST)

That's got me sorted, thanks Sophie! - M arcusF ilby ^T 05:34, 16 October 2009 (BST)

V2

So far it works nicely, no problems here so far --Fgon50 03:48, 21 October 2009 (BST)

Thank you much, fgon. That version, "V2RC3" will just be relabeled as "V2" and released without further changes. So feel free to install and use. The only thing that's holding back an "official release" now is that I need to update the docs, and I'm very short of time these days :S --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 06:17, 21 October 2009 (BST)

What happens?

Sorry if I missed this in the main article, but what happens if a character has said DSS phone and idles out? If you send them messages, will they be there when the idled character logs in again? What if the character is struck through (gone for 30 days)? (In game, mobiles don't keep anything sent to an inactive character.)

I'm guessing that the messages sent to both struck through and idle characters with the DSS phones will be waiting for them when the number is reactivated, but it would be nice to know for sure. --Queen Mum 05:52, 21 October 2009 (BST)

Hey. You guessed correctly: the messages will be waiting there, and will be delivered the next time you log in, regardless of how long that takes.

If we hit a disk space or performance constraint some day, I might purge the messages for numbers that haven't been accessed in a long time. At the current growth rate, I expect that to occur in about 500 years from now, give or take a decade :) --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 06:13, 21 October 2009 (BST)

Sweeeeet. How's V2 coming along? Ready for general distribution? --Queen Mum 06:22, 21 October 2009 (BST)

Yup. As I just told fgon50 above, you can install it right now. Here's an install link if you want to give it a go.

Technically, that's still a "release candidate" (e.g. "beta"). But it's well tested already and I don't intend to change anything else, I'm just finding the time to update the docs and make an official release. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 06:29, 21 October 2009 (BST)

Tidy UDTool..

..does not cooperate with Satellite Phone; the button is visible, but clicking it just reloads the page. TidyUDTool executes before the phone. --Janus ^talk 20:37, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Right, I'll try to reproduce this and find out what the problem is. Sorry for the delay, been a bit tied up IRL :/ --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 23:47, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

No worries. :) Btw, I got an internal server error today, can't load the messages. Cheers --Janus ^talk 15:27, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Temporary glitch caused by a server move. Sorry I didn't answer here, but it's been long fixed, right? Cheers. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 02:00, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

DSS Sat Phone and the updates

Hey Soph, you probably know already, but it's looking like the updates have broken the DSS Satellite Phone (much like they've broken udwidget and a host of other add-ons). This message is just to let you know! Thanks! --BOSCH 19:17, 16 August 2010 (BST)

I actually hadn't noticed, thanks, I'm looking into it. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 19:29, 16 August 2010 (BST)

Fixed now, please update to V3 from the links in the manual: Satphone#Software_Installation. Thanks again. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 20:22, 16 August 2010 (BST)

That was quick, thank you! New problem (for me at least), and not sure if this is a problem with my computer, browser, etc or with the new script, but I've uninstalled the old script, and when I click the link for the new one I get this error message: "Error loading user script: 403: Forbidden" --BOSCH 20:31, 16 August 2010 (BST)

This new problem had to do with some dumb chick forgetting to set proper permissions on a file in the server :") It's fixed now, and the culprit has been duly reprimanded. Btw, uninstalling the previous version isn't necessary, this thing upgrades in-place. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 21:20, 16 August 2010 (BST)

For the technically inclined, and in case it saves 2 minutes of debugging to other extension authors: this problem was caused by Kevan changing the <p class="gt"> element into a div. So scripts which look for the UDID of the player's character will fail. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 20:26, 16 August 2010 (BST)

Actually, the v3 link leads to a 403 error, despite the file clearly existing and showing a size of 57k on http://dssrzs.org/gm/. Downloaded it, and those are the contents of the script:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /gm/dss_satellite_phone_v3.user.js
on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>

Maybe you've screwed up permissions when uploading the file? -- Spiderzed▋ 20:33, 16 August 2010 (BST)

Yup, I did. scp'd the thing from my laptop in a hurry and forgot to chmod +r. It's fixed now, soz everyone. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 21:15, 16 August 2010 (BST)

Template

I noticed that many a user has written down their satphone number in plain text. I thought a flashy little template would work to draw attention towards the fact they have a satellite phone, so here it is:

	DSS Satellite Phone Info
	This user or group has a DSS Satellite Phone and may be reached at xxx-xxxx

--Jon Aiken _{RSZ !} 18:45, 16 October 2010 (BST)

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The more people who lists their numbers on this wiki (or elsewhere accessable), I am going to prank call. And possibly decline it was me prank calling. In fact, why am I telling you all this? --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 23:51, 1 December 2010 (UTC) Won't really matter. Would waste more of your time than theirs anyway.--ZIPO/Talk/◆◆◆/CAPD 05:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Server error: 500: Internal Server Error

what is this? --  ▧  ^{: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :} 12:49, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Got it as well. And the DSS webpage is down. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 12:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

and it's working again... --  ▧  ^{: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :} 15:37, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey. Sorry about that. It was a "scheduled 15 minute outage" to "reload core and border routers" at the place where the DSS server lives. It went like this:

Some poor sod at datacentre in downtown LA on a Friday night said:

Update 11:55PM (PST): We’ve gone longer than we’ve been expecting and our Network staff is currently continuing to update our infrastructure... Update: 12:40AM (PST) We have partial connectivity and that we are working... Update: 02:07 (PST) We’ve restored connectivity and we’re currently in the process of cleaning... Update: 5:50am (PST) While overall network connectivity has been restored, there’s a... Update: 7:50am (PST) Sorry for the delay in updating...

So... yeah. 15 minutes. Bugger it. Everything's back up and running now, muchas apologies for the inconvenience. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 19:09, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Requires Activation Every Time

From what I read, I gather this isn't supposed to happen but every time I go to use the DSS phone I have to activate it for both of my characters. It then continues to work for either character so long as my browser stays open. Would this be a cookie issue? --Klexur 18:09, 3 September 2012 (BST)

Hey. Nope, that isn't supposed to happen. But the satphone doesn't use cookies to store anything, it uses a browser facility called "DOM Storage". It seems that your browser is unable to store persistent data in DOM Storage, for some reason. It's never happened to me, but I've heard of people who's had this problem.

Sadly, I can't really say what's wrong with your browser - Firefox, I assume? It could be that Firefox doesn't have permission to modify its local databases, or that the databases are corrupt. You may want to check permissions in the "profile folder" (see here about how to find it), or just delete it so it's re-created. This will wipe all your bookmarks and stored information, so careful with that. It could also be that DOM storage is disabled, in which case you should only need to re-enable it (I found this page on that topic). Oh and, goes without saying, verify that you're using recent versions of Firefox and Greasemonkey.

Good luck then, sorry that I can't be of more help :/ --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 03:19, 4 September 2012 (BST)