Why were the forums broken?

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Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

Which one of you did it?

# ? Oct 9, 2015 03:12

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 21:38

Beast of Bourbon: Sep 25, 2013; Pillbug

I didn't pay $10 in 2003 for this kind of service

# ? Oct 9, 2015 03:13

moonshine is......: Feb 21, 2007

they weren't broken they were just showing a really nice tumblr pic so everyone would chill out for a bit

# ? Oct 9, 2015 03:27

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Stereotype posted:

Which one of you did it?

its me

# ? Oct 9, 2015 03:49

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

mods knew

# ? Oct 9, 2015 04:04

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

Stereotype posted:

Which one of you did it?

its u

# ? Oct 9, 2015 04:08

CamH: Apr 11, 2008

l0wtax refuses to pay someone to fix them

# ? Oct 9, 2015 08:01

SpaceAceJase: Nov 8, 2008; and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james

magic quotes were on in PHP

# ? Oct 9, 2015 08:38

karms: Jan 22, 2006; by Nyc_Tattoo; Yam Slacker

what happen? i was out

# ? Oct 9, 2015 14:10

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

renamed fyad to +++ath0 appreciation station

# ? Oct 9, 2015 14:39

Broken Machine: Oct 22, 2010

moonshine is...... posted:

they weren't broken they were just showing a really nice tumblr pic so everyone would chill out for a bit

wait what was the tumblr pic, all I saw was the dumb tech n9ne video

# ? Oct 9, 2015 18:00

heated game moment: Oct 30, 2003; Lipstick Apathy

in cases of genuinely bad positng the forums have a natural way of shutting it down

# ? Oct 9, 2015 18:16

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

but I wasn't even posting last night!

# ? Oct 9, 2015 18:22

Tatsujin: Apr 26, 2004; EVERYONE EXCEPT THE HOT WOMEN

I tried to load the forums on my phone on the bus ride home and it kept saying a 302 was returned, went to the forums in chrome and got redirected to a youtube video lol

# ? Oct 9, 2015 19:51

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

to get to the other side

wait

# ? Oct 9, 2015 22:14

Coolwhoami: Sep 13, 2007

Gateway hardware as servers, stop cheaping out lowtax you jerk

# ? Oct 9, 2015 23:53

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

carry on then posted:

to get to the other side

wait

no no you were almost there

to get to the other side... of the river Styx :getin:

# ? Oct 9, 2015 23:54

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

come sail away

# ? Oct 10, 2015 00:18

Linguica: Jul 13, 2000; You're already dead

Beast of Bourbon posted:

I didn't pay $0 in 2000 for this kind of service

# ? Oct 10, 2015 07:09

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

no no you were almost there

to get to the other side... of the river Styx

domo arigato

# ? Oct 10, 2015 13:28

Peanut and the Gang: Aug 24, 2009; by exmarx

zen death robot posted:

There was some kind of network problem that kept traffic from getting to a few critical VMs on an ESX host. It doesn't make any sense at all why rebooting the host cleared it up or why those systems mattered that much but I'll have to do some actual root-cause analysis this weekend to try not to let that happen again.

Hi Zen Death Robot! :wave:

Are you some sort of forums computer programmer now?

# ? Oct 10, 2015 14:27

Space-Pope: Aug 13, 2003; by zen death robot

would have loved to see that interview process

"hi, i run the worst subforum on SA"
"you're hired!"

# ? Oct 10, 2015 14:40

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Peanut and the Gang posted:

Hi Zen Death Robot!
Are you some sort of forums computer programmer now?

time to shamelessly kiss his rear end imo

# ? Oct 10, 2015 19:31

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

he thought I had a car from the 80s :cry:

# ? Oct 10, 2015 19:40

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Space-Pope posted:

"hi, i run the worst subforum on SA"

which one is this?

# ? Oct 10, 2015 19:46

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

pram posted:

time to shamelessly kiss his rear end imo

i met radium once

he's a nerd

# ? Oct 10, 2015 22:24

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

zen death robot posted:

There was some kind of network problem that kept traffic from getting to a few critical VMs on an ESX host. It doesn't make any sense at all why rebooting the host cleared it up or why those systems mattered that much but I'll have to do some actual root-cause analysis this weekend to try not to let that happen again.

all of esx's auto recovery features are garbage that never works. always reboot the host

# ? Oct 10, 2015 22:25

Hed: Mar 31, 2004; Fun Shoe

Shaggar posted:

all of esx's auto recovery features are garbage that never works. always reboot the host

everything's poo poo Xtreme

# ? Oct 10, 2015 22:40

Peanut and the Gang: Aug 24, 2009; by exmarx

pram posted:

time to shamelessly kiss his rear end imo

I've been saving up some quality smooches for his tasty buns.

# ? Oct 11, 2015 01:00

Space-Pope: Aug 13, 2003; by zen death robot

zen death robot posted:

I don't mod GBS

lol like there's any difference

# ? Oct 11, 2015 01:13

EIDE Van Hagar: Dec 8, 2000; Beep Boop

https://soundcloud.com/all-my-farts/farts-all

# ? Oct 11, 2015 01:41

Video Nasty: Jun 17, 2003

zen death robot posted:

There was some kind of network problem that kept traffic from getting to a few critical VMs on an ESX host. It doesn't make any sense at all why rebooting the host cleared it up or why those systems mattered that much but I'll have to do some actual root-cause analysis this weekend to try not to let that happen again.

might be an ARP and or DNS cache clearing.

# ? Oct 11, 2015 02:56

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

zen death robot posted:

I'm a terrible programmer so I'd never call myself that. I just help do some backend poo poo if the need arises because I'm bored at work often enough to volunteer my time and I'd rather not see this place die because no one knew how to mark a drive as a hot spare when the provider swaps out a dead disk.

respect

# ? Oct 11, 2015 04:18

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

I'm surprised the forums are even virtualised and not running on racked pentium ii towers

# ? Oct 11, 2015 06:00

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

zen death robot posted:

They're not fully virtualized but that's a goal.

wow. aim high eh?

# ? Oct 11, 2015 06:28

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

zen death robot posted:

I'm gonna aim high, for your face

make sure you adjust for that 15 year old infrastructure crumbling under you

# ? Oct 11, 2015 06:38

pram: Jun 10, 2001

the worlds most advanced forums software

# ? Oct 11, 2015 07:58

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

i kid, but thank you for taking on the otherwise thankless and apparently unpaid ops role to keep this garbage fire smouldering into the 21st century

# ? Oct 11, 2015 11:37