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Site status 12/16/13: Still some connection errors
As of now, Sunday Jan 6, 2013 at 4:30PM Pacific time, the forum seems to have mostly recovered from a major outage. I would caution that any NEW posts may become lost as I still do not have administration access to the system. Please have some patience while we ascertain the functionality of the forum software. Thank you.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
give it time to rebuild..
i can't get into admin either..
i can't get into admin either..
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She was not what you would call unrefined,
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~~~Mark Twain~~~

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She was not what you would call unrefined,
She was the type of person who kept a parrot.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Thanks for the good work guys and glad to see the site back up and running 

Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
A big thanks from me as well. We appreciate all the hard work you guys do for the forum. It must have been a big job to get things back up this time.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
I was sweating, shaking...heavy nausea from withdrawal symptoms.
You guys can't be do this to me again...yes, I do publicly admit my addiction to TPF...
You guys can't be do this to me again...yes, I do publicly admit my addiction to TPF...

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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Thanks for all the effort. I had just gotten a topic update notification, and *poof* dead end.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
So was I but that was mainly due to a cold / flu I'm just getting overajkula66 wrote:I was sweating, shaking...heavy nausea from withdrawal symptoms.


I am now able to get access to the admin panel so things appear to be back to normal. I'd hope that with the system rebuild that the indexing of the search function might be improved, but alas, no go. There's still a problem finding older posts (pre-2011) using the Search function. I'd still recommend using Google and the "site:forum.thinkpads.com" option.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Thanks to everyone involved in the recovery efforts... This is a great forum and resource for all. Thanks again!!!
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Thanks for bringing it back guys! I'd love to know the cause, though. By any chance, did a truck hit a utility pole?

Ditto.ajkula66 wrote:I was sweating, shaking...heavy nausea from withdrawal symptoms.
You guys can't be do this to me again...yes, I do publicly admit my addiction to TPF...
Ditto as well...unfortunately, and it's definitely the flu. The cough is so bad, that I'm on some Tylenol 3.rkawakami wrote:So was I but that was mainly due to a cold / flu I'm just getting over.

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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
During the time the site was being rebuilt, there was a notice that mentioned an accident that knocked power out, so you may have guessed exactly what happened!Radioguy wrote:...did a truck hit a utility pole?
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
That was painful! However, it's a sure-fire way to elimiate spammer postings!
Glad to be back up!
Glad to be back up!
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Thanks Bill, Mods and Admins!!! 

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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
It looks like forums.thinkpads.com is still not working. At my last employer, all websites that started with the non-plural forum.whatever.com were blocked. I discovered that adding an s and making it forums.thinkpads.com worked as well and didn't get filtered. So all my bookmarks, history, and cache from the site are still not working. No big deal, but thought I would mention.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
I'm in the process of giving up smoking.
Suffering from additional severe withdrawal symptoms from not having access to my favorite website was NOT conducive to those good intentions!
But boy, am I glad you got things going again!
Great bigThank You!
Suffering from additional severe withdrawal symptoms from not having access to my favorite website was NOT conducive to those good intentions!
But boy, am I glad you got things going again!
Great bigThank You!
Lovely day for a Guinness! (The Real Black Stuff)
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Yes a big THANK YOU from me also 
I imagine how terrible it was for the regulars here....I admit I was a bit disconcerted with things after the 2nd day of outage
Welcome back to everyone! Group hug??!!!
(((HUGS)))


I imagine how terrible it was for the regulars here....I admit I was a bit disconcerted with things after the 2nd day of outage

Welcome back to everyone! Group hug??!!!
(((HUGS)))

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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Great work guys!
I communicated with Bill soon after the site first went down and he told me about the car accident and resulting power outage which caused a corruption in the forum database when the server did not shut down cleanly. For the first couple of days I wasn't too worried, but when it still wasn't up on Sunday, I was getting concerned...
Whew!!!

I communicated with Bill soon after the site first went down and he told me about the car accident and resulting power outage which caused a corruption in the forum database when the server did not shut down cleanly. For the first couple of days I wasn't too worried, but when it still wasn't up on Sunday, I was getting concerned...
Whew!!!
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Whew!
Glad this forum is back up. It has become my favourite and I'm a definite addict. Thanks to all that make this happened.
Glad this forum is back up. It has become my favourite and I'm a definite addict. Thanks to all that make this happened.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Great job! Thanks for bringing the site back. As other members, I also was starting to suffer severe forumitis extremis! 

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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
ok, here is the story as i currebntly know it..
the server is located in utah and one or about newn years day a car hit the power pole supplying power for a large part of the city..
power was out for abbout 16 hours more or less..
new cables had to be strung as well as a new pole..
the UPS's did what they could but the batteries only lasted so long and there are many servers in this farm..
they all could not be gracefully powered down before the UPS's died, this server was one..
when it crashed it took out some freebsd/cpanel scripts which needed to be rebuilt.. sadly, cpanel forgot to warn the server manager that they would no longer support cpanel opn freebsd..
the calls went something like this:
(poetic license invoked)
server manager: Help, cpanel is not working or letting me restore..
cpanel help: sorry, we dopn't support freebsd since last august, too bad you did not get the message..
server manager: can you help me, PLEASE with your product..
cpanel help: YOYO (you're on you own)..
server manager: but i have been paying monthly, why not help me..
cpanel help: tough
SO, now we have a whole new OS running a new version of cpanel, though i have encouraged the server manager to fire cpanel..
and the HUGE data file has been rebuilt and relinked and so forth and everything seems to be working well at this point..
some tweaking will continue for a few weeks..
the server is located in utah and one or about newn years day a car hit the power pole supplying power for a large part of the city..
power was out for abbout 16 hours more or less..
new cables had to be strung as well as a new pole..
the UPS's did what they could but the batteries only lasted so long and there are many servers in this farm..
they all could not be gracefully powered down before the UPS's died, this server was one..
when it crashed it took out some freebsd/cpanel scripts which needed to be rebuilt.. sadly, cpanel forgot to warn the server manager that they would no longer support cpanel opn freebsd..
the calls went something like this:
(poetic license invoked)
server manager: Help, cpanel is not working or letting me restore..
cpanel help: sorry, we dopn't support freebsd since last august, too bad you did not get the message..
server manager: can you help me, PLEASE with your product..
cpanel help: YOYO (you're on you own)..
server manager: but i have been paying monthly, why not help me..
cpanel help: tough
SO, now we have a whole new OS running a new version of cpanel, though i have encouraged the server manager to fire cpanel..
and the HUGE data file has been rebuilt and relinked and so forth and everything seems to be working well at this point..
some tweaking will continue for a few weeks..
Bill Morrow, kept by parrots
& cockatoos
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She was not what you would call refined,
She was not what you would call unrefined,
She was the type of person who kept a parrot.
~~~Mark Twain~~~

Sysop - forum.thinkpads.com
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She was not what you would call refined,
She was not what you would call unrefined,
She was the type of person who kept a parrot.
~~~Mark Twain~~~
Re: Site outage - Jan 2013

I can stop taking my medication now....feeling much better.....
Back to Thinkpadding !!!!

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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Hello everybody over there,
it must have been some herd of trucks to bring the powersupply of a servercenter / backup-farm down ...
I, too, am happy, thinkpads.com is back on track, the one and only reliable source of help and assistence!
A happy and lucky new year to You all, especially to You Bill !!
Sincerely
it must have been some herd of trucks to bring the powersupply of a servercenter / backup-farm down ...
I, too, am happy, thinkpads.com is back on track, the one and only reliable source of help and assistence!
A happy and lucky new year to You all, especially to You Bill !!
Sincerely
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
It seems as default website page index.php is not specified for http://forum.thinkpads.com/ yet (it redirects to generic hosting page).
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Thanks everyone who got it up and running again.


I believe this is grounds for a lawsuit.BillMorrow wrote:sadly, cpanel forgot to warn the server manager that they would no longer support cpanel opn freebsd..

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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Glad to see the forum is back up and running
- Other forums (even one's that are not associated with ThinkPads) indicated this forum was down!

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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
I'm a new member but I did notice on IE I couldn't get through and got a tip that maybe I had to clear the DNS cache, so for now I'm using Chrome.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
The last outage had nothing to do with your browser.Ravin' Ray wrote:I'm a new member but I did notice on IE I couldn't get through and got a tip that maybe I had to clear the DNS cache, so for now I'm using Chrome.
Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
So they were taking your payments, but when the time came, they wouldn't support you and failed to notify you when they were dropping support?BillMorrow wrote:ok, here is the story as i currebntly know it..
the server is located in utah and one or about newn years day a car hit the power pole supplying power for a large part of the city..
power was out for abbout 16 hours more or less..
new cables had to be strung as well as a new pole..
the UPS's did what they could but the batteries only lasted so long and there are many servers in this farm..
they all could not be gracefully powered down before the UPS's died, this server was one..
when it crashed it took out some freebsd/cpanel scripts which needed to be rebuilt.. sadly, cpanel forgot to warn the server manager that they would no longer support cpanel opn freebsd..
the calls went something like this:
(poetic license invoked)
server manager: Help, cpanel is not working or letting me restore..
cpanel help: sorry, we dopn't support freebsd since last august, too bad you did not get the message..
server manager: can you help me, PLEASE with your product..
cpanel help: YOYO (you're on you own)..
server manager: but i have been paying monthly, why not help me..
cpanel help: tough
SO, now we have a whole new OS running a new version of cpanel, though i have encouraged the server manager to fire cpanel..
and the HUGE data file has been rebuilt and relinked and so forth and everything seems to be working well at this point..
some tweaking will continue for a few weeks..
Can't you get the five months of payments back? That is pretty much theft
Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Thanks, Bill et al.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Bill, thanks so much for getting this site up and running again. Thinkpads.com has been an important part of my life since 2005 and is one of the dozen or so sites that I check every day. Even though I no longer own Thinkpads (except for a topless X32), the forum members are great and many discussion topics are fun.
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Re: Site outage - Jan 2013
Big thanks to Bill and everyone else in getting the site back up and running so quickly after such a major outage. This was the first place I checked with the announcement of the Helix, so you can imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth when the forum wouldn't come up! 

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