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Outage earlier

Post by Stu » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:28 pm

No sure who noticed but we had an outage earlier. I think it was all Marks fault, as he is away in Germany and the servers are probably sulking.

Anyway, I just wanted to post a public thanks to Simon who got the issue sorted. I don't know why happened or why but I do know he sorted it from the side of the M40 I believe! Thanks for your efforts Simon, much appreciated.


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Re: Outage earlier

Post by MrClayton » Fri Jul 24, 2015 6:31 pm

Well I wish I could report that I knew what had happened in the first place but the logs and everything else show nothing at this point. I do have a complete backup of everything ready to go on a much nicer server which we will switch to soon.

To do that we will have to switch DNS at some point but we're having a few technical issues with that at the moment!

Suffice to say that it's in hand and even if the worst happens - all of this valuable information/:censored: we write is safe and protected :D

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Re: Outage earlier

Post by Stu » Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:19 am

If we only protected the valuable data you could back it up on a 5 1/4 floppy!


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Re: Outage earlier

Post by anglefire » Sat Jul 25, 2015 7:56 am

I can assure you that when I shut down my pic at home, it had nothing to do with the subsequent forum outage. :lol:

Flipping hot here too. Didn't believe the car when it said 33 outside at about 6pm last night. Then got out. :shock:

Well into the 20's already this morning. Though not forecasted to be quite so warm.

You're showing you're age Stu with 5 1/4 floppies. I remember the 8" ones (well I think they were 8" my memory is fading). I know they were big and didn't hold a lot.


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Re: Outage earlier

Post by Stu » Sat Jul 25, 2015 9:52 am

I think there were 10.5" and 5 1/4 I don't remember an 8"

The first floppy I ever owned was a 5 1/4 and it had a bbc basic speech synthesiser on it. I think I primarily used it to randomly spit out swear words in the school library. I'd set a delay so I could be away from the machine then at random times it would come out with insulting sentences. :oops:


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Re: Outage earlier

Post by MrClayton » Sat Jul 25, 2015 10:39 am

There were definitely 8" floppy disks but I'm not aware of anything bigger. I didn't use 8" drives - my first experience was with 5 1/4" double sided drives which I was running MS-DOS 1.11 on - still got that machine too :)


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