Hi,

Am I the only one with this problem? For more than weeks (months) now I can't access M's homepage (www.marklin.de) anymore. Firefox says thats the site redirects in a wrong way (too many redirects). Safari doesn't work either.

Too my suprise, I couldn't even get it working in IE7. At work, I can't access it either.

Are they sleeping in Goppingen? What is going on?

The new site used to work on my Mac.

René - worried-

That does work! I should have used maerklin iso marklin...

Thanks, René

I used to use Marklin.de and it auto re-directed to Marklin.de.de
Just tried it Does not work as reported. tried http://www.maerklin.de and it redirected to http://www.maerklin.de/de/
Nev

About time too![}:)]

MArklin.com still works (USA) and there is a Product Database on it. All in English.

Some parts head off to Germany still though.
N

Hi!

On March 19th I wrote to Märklin and told them that marklin.de was not working.
They answered on March 27th and told me that marklin.de was not working (surprise, surprise [}:)]) and that I should use maerklin.de instead.

I replied the same day and told them it should be a simple task to git marklin.de working again - haven't heard from them yet.

"ping www.maerklin.de" gives the same IP address as "ping www.marklin.de" - so it seems there is only a misconfiguration in the web server ...

Rene,

These links work very well. You should have no problems now, just add them to your favorites page on your internet browser.

http://www.maerklin.de/de/index.html


http://www.marklin.com/

Happy surfing!!!

They clearly have a few problems with umlauts!

Marklin.com has never been a huge amount of use in my experience, I find the German site far easier to navigate.

We should never be writing Marklin in English since it is Maerklin in English. In the trademark name the umlauts are loud, clear and red, just like the loks produced with sound. All it takes is one extra letter to make it right. You realize Germans like precision especially in the name of the brand!

Hi Larry If Germans liked precision we would still be getting great locos

I'm not Hans, but a working redirection is better than the old redirection with an endless loop.
Regards
Tom

Thank you! You nailed it! It is all a simple matter of planning and documentation. If you do not document or do proper tests, things will go wrong with more expensive development and delays to follow.

People tend to think that documentation and especially proper testing is an expensive "extra thing" they can skip for more cheap development. WRONG! We've incorporated testing into the development cycle of our software so it cannot be avoided. If the customers do not want to pay for that they can find someone else.

Fortunately a lot of customers have seen the green light and, what do you know, they keep coming back!

Best regards
Søren

Søren

I can only conclude that I have a different definition of a sysadmin. The link smacks too much of a God complex - someone who does and controls everything.

I have no doubt they have an indispensable role - but they are not alone.

In my experience a system/network works best then there is teamwork between a much larger number of roles - some I know, like environmental management (Access, Security, Power<UPS> and Cooling ), would be insulted to be lumped in with the linked description.

The last time I saw (what I call) a sysadmin, unpack and rack a server, patch it , or perform a tape mount for backup would have been at a SMB where there was ONLY one IT person, in which case there may be some merit in the term. Even then they would be trying to offload the work to secretaries/vendors/suppliers.

As to the comment about nobody caring, that is rubbish. It is more likely that the "sysadmin" is failing to do their paperwork, for their own tracking and delivery improvements, if not the businesses/customers they serve. Yes serve! If there were no users/customers they would not have a job.

One of the cartoons makes reference to annoying Users,Mangers,Purchasing Officers. A greater number of references can be made about the demands placed on others by the sysadmin.

Appreciation is fine and to be encouraged - but please don't play high and mighty.

Nope, a fairly accurate description I thought! Nothing inflated or overstated that I saw there. I've more or less done all of those things at one time or another.





Yes, it was down Tuesday morning NZ time.