Welcome back! Outage information here.

[Morrus]

It was a hardware problem again, although we're not clear on the details yet. Cyberstreet took care of it (going above and beyond the call - again!) and Thomas Heretic rebuilt the databases once the server was running again.

 

[Truth Seeker]

This...is...so...much...torture.

*breathing into paper bag*

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

No need to get snooty Adlon . I did say "they've been good to us" and I meant it. See, I didn't know you guys co-lo'd the server. In that case, whoever said it was spot-on about "beyond the call of duty". At the ISP I used to work for it was "Your server blew? Come down and fix it, monkey". Probably why they went under.

So can we all go back to blaming Morrus for everything now? Huzzah for the status quo!

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, since you came back up I have been getting some odd errors on page loads - the background does not always come up on the index pages for the forums. (I am using Firefox on a dial-up if that matters.)

The Auld Grump

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I've gotten that too. On Netscape with DSL, FWIW. And the wysiwyg quick reply buttons are all weird when you click them.

 

[johnsemlak]

Remember EN World is co-located at Cyberstreet not hosted by Cyberstreet. In my opinion Cyberstreet went far above and beyond the call of duty for a co-lo.

For us non-techies, what is a 'co-lo'?

 

[Wycen]

For us non-techies, what is a 'co-lo'?

Colocation. The Enworld server is in a cabinet or shelf inside the Cyberstreet data center. Generally somebody who owns the server, ie Morrus, must come inside the data center to do anything with it.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, the URL button does not seem to be working with Firefox right now either.

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* But works fine with IE.

 

[Algolei]

That's funny, now the motherboard only runs DOS.

(I have some friends who still use it, and call it the only true operating system...
Not that I should complain, I had an Amiga for years after Commodore folded... and still miss it.)

The Auld Grump

Ha ha h--HEY?! I still use DOS! It's great! I can run all my old, wonderful programs on it, like WordPerfect 5.1 (the only true word processing program).

I have to run Windows 98 because the newer version don't provide DOS, though. Heck, even Windows 98's DOS won't let me run some of my really old programs, so I keep my 386 handy too.

 

[irdeggman]

Punch cards - oh yeah where I learned the importance of numbering all of my pages (just in case I drop something).

Fortran oh the memories, the lines and the subsequent drinking.

I still rmember some of the best MTS commands
run:
*grindcardsinto powder
*pizza
*trek
*logoffrandomuser