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Technical Error

 
 
Sax
13:23 / 21.01.04
There is a technical error. Please do not panic. Try to avoid posting new threads in different fora asking what's up, because some poor schmuck is going to have to delete them all when normality returns. For now, why not go out, get a bit of fresh air, speak to some real people, perhaps even have sex. All will be well.
 
 
Sax
13:24 / 21.01.04
Ooh, look, I can post to this thread. Gather round, lost souls, and share my light.
 
 
Sax
13:26 / 21.01.04
I wonder if..?
 
 
Lilly Nowhere Late
13:36 / 21.01.04
I know it has been asked before...is the universe a technical error?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:38 / 21.01.04
Hail Sax, Steward of Barbelith!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:38 / 21.01.04
If I post a reply now than will I be able to see it when everything becomes visible? Will curiosity kill the part of me that thinks it's a cat? Am I such a junkie that I need to post nonsense? These are the questions I should contemplate rather than hitting Post Reply.
 
 
grant
18:24 / 21.01.04
I'm not sure I'm up for the sex part quite yet.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
18:52 / 21.01.04
First thread that moves, shoot 'em.
 
 
admiraladz
11:11 / 22.01.04
yay - a thread with something in it .. but it still doesn't explain why everytime I hit 'post' my damned machine decides to do it twice! ... *baiting computer*
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
12:56 / 22.01.04
Dude.

Sweet.

I don't know what to do on my break now. Let's all go and start conversations on people's blogs!
 
 
Sax
14:24 / 22.01.04
Hey, I can see this thread!

I see dead threads...
 
 
Baz Auckland
14:24 / 22.01.04
...or we can fill one thread with all that is Barbelith!

Let's start 10 conversations covering 5 forums all in this thread!
 
 
Tom Coates
13:48 / 23.01.04
Everything should now be working again.
 
 
Sax
14:20 / 23.01.04
Right, on my third whistle... STOP HAVING SEX!

Whew. Well done, Tom. I was starting to get a bit knackered, there.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
14:21 / 23.01.04
Thank you, Tom.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
14:26 / 23.01.04
Ooh, can we find out what happened? I've had to spend the last 3 days haunting Livejournal. Not that it's a chore.
 
 
sleazenation
14:33 / 23.01.04
hooray! my blog can go back to its usual infrequently updated self again...

or maybe now i'll keep myself in the habit of posting...
 
 
Ariadne
15:12 / 23.01.04
oooh! just as I have to leave - what a pain.
I'd like to say I've done more work in the past few days than I have in years, but actually ... there are always ways to skive.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:06 / 24.01.04
Jesus! Turn my back for a few days, and I miss... well, sounds like weird shit! Glad I didn't have to do the "fresh air" thing, though. Never agrees with me.
 
 
Tom Coates
21:54 / 24.01.04
It wasn't a particularly interesting crash, just a tricky one to resolve. Basically there are too many people using the same DB server, it then crashed and one of the tables corrupted, so I had to do a table repair on it. In the end it took about two minutes to fix, but I had to wait until the traffic had died down to do it as it wasn't letting the repair process finish its job because it was overloaded. This is all profoundly annoying of course, but there's little we can really do about it at the moment I'm afraid short of get an even MORE expensive server with a dedicated database server.
 
 
Bed Head
22:07 / 24.01.04
Well, you really are the bee’s knees Tom. Thanks for putting it all back together, and thanks for doing it in such a cool, unfussed way.
 
  
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