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Post by Cyrus on Nov 21, 2004 20:45:14 GMT
*wonders why it won't let Az in* Tell you what, just let me know what you want your LJ name to be, and I'll set it up for you. Once it's set up, you should be fine.
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Post by azazel on Nov 21, 2004 20:49:10 GMT
It wont let me in because it knows what I want to rant about lol. I had it set up as Hobbit_Sidhe because it wouldnt let me just have Hobbit Thanks
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Post by Cyrus on Nov 21, 2004 20:52:54 GMT
Az, I tried a few times and it didn't like mine either. That's weird never had a problem with those thingies. So I did the sound test and got it on the first try. Your journal is located at: www.livejournal.com/users/hobbit_sidhe/ and you should be getting an email soon from LJ confirming your account. Let me know when you get it so I know everything's cool.
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Post by azazel on Nov 21, 2004 20:55:07 GMT
Thankyou very very much I tried the sound test, but nothing worked it just said wrong answer or whatever came up EditTook a few minutes but managed to change the password. The stupd thing wouldnt let me do so at the beginning, but I fooled it and now we are sorted. Thankyou again
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Post by Cyrus on Nov 21, 2004 21:07:51 GMT
Yay! Az has now been pulled into the LJ world. ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 21, 2004 21:10:14 GMT
*rushes off to friend her* Don't forget to friend back Will we be allowed to rant when commenting on your rants?! Lol.
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Post by azazel on Nov 21, 2004 21:12:42 GMT
Bloody hell PK hold on Im only at the navigating bit and you know what my sense of direction is like
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Post by Pixie on Nov 22, 2004 12:26:21 GMT
*g* I've friended you too, Az.
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Post by Cyrus on Dec 20, 2004 17:54:01 GMT
Thanks to PK , I've had the chance to do more stuff at my LJ, so I've been redecorating. Check it out: cyrus7.livejournal.com
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Post by SpikesToy on Dec 21, 2004 11:56:21 GMT
Very nice Cy. I especially like your mood icons It makes my journal look kinda boring
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Post by Cyrus on Dec 21, 2004 21:18:53 GMT
On Ladyhawke's 15" monitor I can't read a thing though, I have to have everything on the 'plain.' I use a 15" CRT too...
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Post by Cyrus on Dec 22, 2004 16:10:34 GMT
*coughs*
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Post by Cyrus on Jan 15, 2005 2:04:52 GMT
Just in case anyone clicks on LJ email reply links or uses a client to update your journal, you won't get anything and your post to journal won't post. I checked it out (this message wasn't up earlier but is now): Our data center (Internap) lost all its power, including redundant backup power, for some unknown reason. (unknown to me, at least) We're currently dealing with bringing our 100+ servers back online. Not fun. We're not happy about this. Sorry... More details later. Update #1, 7:35 pm PST: we have power again, and we're working to assess the state of the databases. The worst thing we could do right now is rush the site up in an unreliable state. We're checking all the hardware and data, making sure everything's consistent. Where it's not, we'll be restoring from recent backups and replaying all the changes since that time, to get to the current point in time, but in good shape. We'll be providing more technical details later, for those curious, on the power failure (when we learn more), the database details, and the recovery process. For now, please be patient. We'll be working all weekend on this if we have to.
Update #2, 10:11 pm: So far so good. Things are checking out, but we're being paranoid. A few annoying issues, but nothing that's not fixable. We're going to be buying a bunch of rack-mount UPS units on Monday so this doesn't happen again. In the past we've always trusted Internap's insanely redundant power and UPS systems, but now that this has happened to us twice, we realize the first time wasn't a total freak coincidence. C'est la vie.
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Post by azazel on Jan 15, 2005 9:17:09 GMT
Wonder if its anything to do with the takeover of that new comapny hope we don't lose anything I had just finished copying 5 pages of stuff the other night and don't fancy doing it again
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Post by Cyrus on Jan 15, 2005 9:19:44 GMT
Hi Az... you posted just as I was updating my last post (previous page).
I don't think them changing companies has anything to do with it. The data stayed on the same servers; just the people in charge of everything changed.
I hope I don't lose anything either. Hopefully all will be okay and they have backups.
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Post by azazel on Jan 15, 2005 9:24:10 GMT
Thats the messages I had on my LJ when I opened this morning. I know it was only the people changing, but you know what new management are like for trying new tricks and screwing things up. I'd get that in work all the time thats why I liked working for little companies. Think I'll take the speculation chat into the prattle before PK me
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Post by PokerKitten on Jan 15, 2005 11:26:23 GMT
Aw bless 'em. They'll be now: Update #3: 2:42 am: We're starting to get tired, but all the hard stuff is done at least. Unfortunately a couple machines had lying hardware that didn't commit to disk when asked, so InnoDB's durability wasn't so durable (though no fault of InnoDB). We restored those machines from a recent backup and are replaying the binlogs (database changes) from the point of backup to present. That will take a couple hours to run. We'll also be replacing that hardware very shortly, or at least seeing if we can find/fix the reason it misbehaved. The four of us have been at this almost 12 hours, so we're going to take a bit of a break while the binlogs replay... Again, our apologies for the downtime. This has definitely been an experience.
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Post by Cyrus on Jan 15, 2005 20:47:20 GMT
And they're back at it: Update #4: 9:12 am: We're back at it. We'll have the site up soon in some sort of crippled state while the clusters with the oldest backups continue to catch up.
and another update: Update #5: 1:58 pm: approaching 24 hours of downtime... *sigh* We're still at it. We'll be doing a full write-up when we're done, including what we'll be changing to make sure verify/restore operations don't take so long if this is ever necessary again. The good news is the databases already migrated to InnoDB did fine. The bad news (obviously) is that our verify/restore plan isn't fast enough. And also that some of our machine's storage subsystems lie. Anyway, we're still at it... it's long because we're making sure to back up even the partially out of sync databases that we're restoring, just in case we encounter any problems down the road with the restored copy, we'll be able to merge them. And unfortunately backups and networks are too slow.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jan 15, 2005 22:47:41 GMT
It's making me very twitchy.... I need my fix and I can't wait much longer without doing something reckless! Haven't thought what that might be, as yet. Lol!
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Post by slaybelle74 on Jan 15, 2005 23:16:06 GMT
Right there with you,PK...i've been extra twitchy today too......cause i go home tmrw and won't have access till next wekend!!!!!
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