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Re: What? Down again?

Post Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:59 pm

Christine wrote:You might discover who you're married to.


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Post Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:44 pm

I'm reading Captain Bligh's A Voyage to the South Sea, his autobiographical account of the tale. I found it very interesting to note that they used the term blowing one's brains out in the late 1700s. I didn't know that it stretched back that far.
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Post Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:29 am

The move is complete. A new tattered sheet is now being used for our sail.

Surprisingly the move went much more smoothly than I expected, and went more quickly than I had planned for. I'm also delighted to announce that the first posts in the fora came almost immediately after Gir was powered up - six spam posts for cigarettes in Russia.

Anyway - The DNS changes are slowly winding their way through the Internetwebs. This can happen in only a few minutes, or many many days. Some of our fellows of the raft may be missing for a few days while their DNS caches exhaust.

Yay!
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Post Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:21 am

yay indeed. Good work DzM, I'll raise a glass to you this lunchtime :wink:
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Post Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:15 pm

All seems ok from my Mac on the East Coast.

Well done, DzM. I know what a pain moving a server is....
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Post Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:10 pm

Yay Gir!!!!! Thanks DzM.
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Post Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:04 pm

DzM wrote:The move is complete. A new tattered sheet is now being used for our sail.

Surprisingly the move went much more smoothly than I expected, and went more quickly than I had planned for. I'm also delighted to announce that the first posts in the fora came almost immediately after Gir was powered up - six spam posts for cigarettes in Russia.

Anyway - The DNS changes are slowly winding their way through the Internetwebs. This can happen in only a few minutes, or many many days. Some of our fellows of the raft may be missing for a few days while their DNS caches exhaust.Yay!


Yayy I'm back, at last. :D
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Post Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:37 am

Thank you Mr. DZM, Sir. We´ll honour you with the second not-quite-so-annual "Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence". :D :!:
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Post Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:20 am

Still no connection through my ISP in South Dakota. I happen to be in South Carolina tonight and tried to pull up this site via remote to my desktop in South Dakota with out success.
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Post Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:24 am

Clash Cadillac wrote:Still no connection through my ISP in South Dakota. I happen to be in South Carolina tonight and tried to pull up this site via remote to my desktop in South Dakota with out success.

DNS change propagation is a dark and vile art. It is unpredictable in its ways.
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Post Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:19 am

I didn't notice anything, but then I'm in England and was asleep during the move. :wink:
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Post Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:11 pm

Heather wrote:
DzM wrote:The move is complete. A new tattered sheet is now being used for our sail.

Surprisingly the move went much more smoothly than I expected, and went more quickly than I had planned for. I'm also delighted to announce that the first posts in the fora came almost immediately after Gir was powered up - six spam posts for cigarettes in Russia.

Anyway - The DNS changes are slowly winding their way through the Internetwebs. This can happen in only a few minutes, or many many days. Some of our fellows of the raft may be missing for a few days while their DNS caches exhaust.Yay!


Yayy I'm back, at last. :D


Then again, when I tried to get back on later at around 10pm last night, I kept getting the 'Cannot Find Server' message.

Maybe a few teething troubles?
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Post Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:46 pm

Heather wrote:Then again, when I tried to get back on later at around 10pm last night, I kept getting the 'Cannot Find Server' message.

Maybe a few teething troubles?

DNS propagation takes time.
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Post Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:01 am

No problems here so far -- thanks for all the good work, DzM.

Logged on this morning to find 730 users online. Maybe it's just that the world has finally woken up to the wonder that is Medusa. :wink:
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Post Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:39 am

firehazard wrote:No problems here so far -- thanks for all the good work, DzM.

Logged on this morning to find 730 users online. Maybe it's just that the world has finally woken up to the wonder that is Medusa. :wink:

:)

Sadly (or maybe not?) I took Gir offline this evening for about four hours. I needed to do some upgrades and system maintenance, some of which has been put off for many, many years.

When Gir cam back online there were a few hiccups that caused a "stacking up" of users. The 730 number is more than a little misleading.
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