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08.07.2011, 14:18
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| | | EF hardware upgrade - Saturday 16.Jul.2011 (Update: Now complete)
We are planning to move EF to new and improved hardware this weekend.
The forum will be switched off for about an hour very late on Sunday evening July 10, 2011.
There might be a few teething troubles on Monday, but with a bit of luck everything will go smoothly.
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08.07.2011, 14:25
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade, moving to a new server, July 2011
If any of the animals, especially cats, in all the images recently uploaded happen to die during the move please don't feel guilty about it.
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08.07.2011, 14:32
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade, moving to a new server, July 2011
Thanks for scheduling this for when I am on holiday so I don't have withdrawal symptoms.
Very thoughtful of you  |
08.07.2011, 18:41
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade, moving to a new server, July 2011
Thanks for that. I was planning a quiet night in. Now i will have to go out  |
10.07.2011, 22:40
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Sunday 10.Jul.2011
A reminder that this is happening tonight.
The forum will shortly be going offline for a while.
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11.07.2011, 00:35
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Sunday 10.Jul.2011
OK, that was a #fail.
We ran into an unforeseen problem.
Upgrade scrubbed until another night.
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11.07.2011, 08:26
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Sunday 10.Jul.2011
If it was an instant success, you will be bored right now with nothing else to do...  | | This user would like to thank Nil for this useful post: | |
16.07.2011, 06:18
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Saturday 16.Jul.2011 (Update: Now complete)
At 6am this morning we switched to the new hardware. The switch was successful this time.
For anyone interested in the technicalities, we're now operating on a dual quad-core Dell PowerEdge R410 located in Manchester. It has about twice the power of the previous server, and a fresh operating system.
There could be a few teething problems. If you notice any unusual errors please report them here.
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16.07.2011, 08:27
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Saturday 16.Jul.2011 (Update: Now complete)
| Quote: | |  | | | At 6am this morning we switched to the new hardware. The switch was successful this time.
For anyone interested in the technicalities, we're now operating on a dual quad-core Dell PowerEdge R410 located in Manchester. It has about twice the power of the previous server, and a fresh operating system.
There could be a few teething problems. If you notice any unusual errors please report them here. | | | | | lolz - i thnk its qck cos ur usng da shaz and trace srvr - i typ full wrds but evrythng is cnvrtd 2 txt spk cos dats all dey no int mnchstr.
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16.07.2011, 09:15
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| | | BUGREP: Rep page in error.
http://www.englishforum.ch/xtra/rep_standings.html
Produces - \n"; ?>
EF Rep Standings
Home | Forum | Xtra
$counter - " . number_format($row->reputation) . " - $row->username
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16.07.2011, 09:36
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Saturday 16.Jul.2011 (Update: Now complete)
Thx. Now fixed.
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16.07.2011, 10:58
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Saturday 16.Jul.2011 (Update: Now complete)
| Quote: | | | | | At 6am this morning we switched to the new hardware. The switch was successful this time.
For anyone interested in the technicalities, we're now operating on a dual quad-core Dell PowerEdge R410 located in Manchester. It has about twice the power of the previous server, and a fresh operating system.
There could be a few teething problems. If you notice any unusual errors please report them here. | | | | |  |
16.07.2011, 13:25
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| | | http://englishforum.ch
If you type the URL without the www it used to redirect the user to the www.englishforum.ch web site. Now there is a small window pop-up requesting username & passwd; a clean redirect is requested here.
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16.07.2011, 13:38
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| | | Re: http://englishforum.ch
username: admin
password: br0wn5ugar
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16.07.2011, 13:42
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Saturday 16.Jul.2011 (Update: Now complete)
EdBob, any chance this could be related?
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16.07.2011, 13:49
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| | | Re: http://englishforum.ch
| Quote: | | | | | username: admin
password: br0wn5ugar | | | | | When I tried that Username and password early this morning , it prompted me to change it.
Strange that no mods are on duty today to investigate this...
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16.07.2011, 14:01
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| | | Re: http://englishforum.ch
| Quote: | | | | | When I tried that Username and password early this morning , it prompted me to change it.
Strange that no mods are on duty today to investigate this... | | | | | what did you change it to? i can't read other people's PMs or rep messages anymore  |
16.07.2011, 14:31
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| | | Re: http://englishforum.ch
| Quote: | | | | | what did you change it to? i can't read other people's PMs or rep messages anymore | | | | | You told me you were bypassing authentication hacks and switching to SQL injection !!
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16.07.2011, 14:47
| | | | Re: http://englishforum.ch
| Quote: | | | | | When I tried that Username and password early this morning , it prompted me to change it.
Strange that no mods are on duty today to investigate this... | | | | | How dare they have a life outside of this forum!
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16.07.2011, 16:30
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| | | Re: EF hardware upgrade - Saturday 16.Jul.2011 (Update: Now complete)
Thanks, that "www" domain prefix issue is now fixed.
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