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DevNet Forums down for maintenance Nov. 16 - 18

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There is a very strong likelihood that the forums will be unavailable this weekend as we migrate to a new server. We expect the outage to start at about 6:00 PM Eastern Time on Friday, November 16, 2007 (though we may do it earlier or later) and last until about 9:00 PM Eastern Time on Sunday, November 18, 2007 (thought it might come back to life earlier or later).

This server move is in response to a much needed upgrade of the hardware that our forums run on. Many of you have experienced, and have even vocalized frustration and anger over, the recent poor performance of our forums. Thanks to our founder, Jason Lotito, for securing us new hosting.

The admin and mod team will begin migration shortly after the forums are brought down to make sure that the information you see just before it goes down is the same information you see just after it comes back up. We thank you for your patience while we sorted this whole mess out and thank you all for your continued use of, support for and willingness to help, our community. It is much appreciated.
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Post by Zoxive »

Yay, it has been hang this last week or two. I barley visited the forums because every time i would get the pop up of "Do you want to download this file? index.php" and it was getting annoying.
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Post by jmut »

Hi, great news. While at it you might write a short article on how transfer was made. What steps to transfer, problems that occured etc.
I am sure community would like to hear about moving this lovely forum....and it will be very educational too.
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jmut wrote:Hi, great news. While at it you might write a short article on how transfer was made. What steps to transfer, problems that occured etc.
I am sure community would like to hear about moving this lovely forum....and it will be very educational too.
It will also be rather boring, if all goes as planned.
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Post by Charles256 »

You said it'd be down to the 18th. I demand down time! Just kidding :)
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

As you can well imagine, the downtime window that I had set aside was totally not necessary (I think someone had mentioned that somewhere).

Anyhow, we are back up in case you haven't figured that out yet. And man are these boards blazing now or what?
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Yay for being able to log in again, and what a loading time decrease for page requests =D
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man, this is like Christmas a month early.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

The speed is freaking me out...;)

Testing forum is stuck in 1970 (I was born in '79 so it must have been an okay decade ;)). Maybe a new post would update it - probably just a crashed/unfinished posting (which would mean I did it) on the database.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Yes, those lovely Dec 31, 1969 are unix timestamps set to 0. Somewhere along the post lines of that thread a date never made it to the part where it is inserted.

Anyway, a new post in that thread will clean it up I imagine. It did for several other dates like that.
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:The speed is freaking me out...;)
ZOMG! Too fast !!!!1

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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Sometimes being a geek is just plain fun. Kieran, you put the FUN in FUNKY!
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

as long as I can leave the KY out of it! 8O
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Hey FUNKY without the KY is the only way to have FUN.
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Post by califdon »

You probably heard the story about someone who visited their old grandmother who was in the hospital after some surgery. They asked her how she was doing and she said, "Pretty good, except I really hate the taste of the Kentucky toothpaste here!" Then the person looked over at the night stand and spotted the tube with the "KY" on it.

Hey, Kieran, great graphics!! :P

And Jason, boring is good, sometimes! Like for this migration, for example! You guys did an awesome job! Let us know who did the hard work..Jason? Everah? ??
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