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Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« on: October 01, 2006, 03:47:20 pm »
what the heck happened? I was a tad concerned there!
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2006, 04:05:42 pm »
I don't know, but I'm glad we're back.  Didn't want to suffer withdrawal pains.  ;D
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2006, 04:08:09 pm »
Panting and still shakin....
What the heck was that??? 
« Last Edit: October 01, 2006, 04:27:56 pm by Arad-3 »
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2006, 04:35:54 pm »
Where was I? In the cinema, watching Tom Tykwer's Perfume - The Story of a Murderer. So it was only a couple of minutes for me that I couldn't log on. No withdrawal symptoms...   ::)

The movie is very well worth seeing, by the way, and Ben Wishaw, who plays the protagonist, is fantastic. Watch out for this young British actor!  :)

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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2006, 04:36:34 pm »
Quote from: Arad-3 on October 01, 2006, 04:08:09 pm
Panting and still shakin....
What the heck was that??? 

LOL!! I tell you, I am seriously addicted...at least my house got a good cleaning!
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2006, 05:07:34 pm »
I took a nap, a long nap. Good way to sleep through the pain. LOL

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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2006, 05:13:42 pm »
Quote from: MaineWriter on October 01, 2006, 05:07:34 pm
I took a nap, a long nap. Good way to sleep through the pain. LOL

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lmao!!!  I tried to but the pain was too unbearable.
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2006, 05:30:49 pm »
and the anxiety!! lort!!

then David started talking about some forum he was at that went down and NEVER came back   :o :o :-X :-X :-X
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2006, 05:33:45 pm »
Quote from: nakymaton on October 01, 2006, 05:30:09 pm
I was supposedly getting work done, but in the meantime I posted a worried message on my LJ, and then started a refugee thread on Dave Cullen's board, and kept checking Meryl's thread on IMDb...

And then finally finished my work and sat down to watch "Finding Nemo" with my three-year-old. (This the second movie we've tried to watch. I tried to watch "The Wizard of Oz" with him about four months ago, but he decided the Wicked Witch was scary. We barely got to the title screen of "Finding Nemo" before he got really upset that "the fish lost his friend."  I didn't tell him that that was Nemo's mommy that got eaten by the big scary fish... he was traumatized enough by the idea of the fish losing his friend.)

I'm glad he's empathizing. And I'm glad that videos exist, so I can test them out on him at home.

We'll probably wait for another six months before we try another movie. Or maybe I'll see if there are even less scary things out there.

oh!! I am so jealous....my baby did an awful awful thing I am not sure I will EVER forgive him for....he GREW UP!!  >:( >:( :'( :'(

I MISS him as a toddler...why can't we keep the old version when the new one shows up?? I love him as a teenager but lort he was the cutest toddler...
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2006, 05:39:51 pm »
I have been out picking apples all day so I have no idea what even happened.  Would someone share any specific error message they got or some sort of time frame so I can explore what was going on?
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2006, 05:41:37 pm »
The message was:

"Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later."

Picking apples. ;D Going outside and doing stuff. ;D
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2006, 05:48:05 pm »
Quote from: nakymaton on October 01, 2006, 05:41:37 pm
The message was:

"Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later."

Picking apples. ;D Going outside and doing stuff. ;D

OK... that is on our end.  It can happen when the server gets overloaded.  We are exploring increasing our server capacity, mostly because when people are parked in the chat system, it causes a big CPU drain on the server.  Usually these issues resolve in a few minutes, but if this was going on for hours, I'm concerned about that.

Yes... Rochester is seeing one of the rainiest years EVER recorded so on those days when the weather is actually tolerable, I want to be outside.  It's remarkable that our temperatures have been fairly comparable to Riverton (although they are warmer than us today), but Wyoming is much drier.  I decided since the weather was rather blah yesterday and it rained all night last night that I would get out of the house today.  Western NY is very well known for its apples.  NY is the second largest apple producer in the country.  Washington state delivers more eating apples, but western NY is especially well known for its cooking and storing apples.

The other big crops here are cabbage, grapes (mostly for wine from the Finger Lakes region), and corn.
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2006, 05:53:13 pm »
Phillip

If it helps any there were four of us in chat, two in the campfire and two in the Admin room...then we all moved to the campfire and a couple of others joined us...
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2006, 05:54:59 pm »
Quote from: injest on October 01, 2006, 05:53:13 pm
Phillip

If it helps any there were four of us in chat, two in the campfire and two in the Admin room...then we all moved to the campfire and a couple of others joined us...


If Chat Day didn't blow a gasket for the site, today sure shouldn't.  I wonder if they chat room still functioned during the outage though?
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2006, 06:08:33 pm »
Phillip, no the chat room did NOT work during the blackout...the background came up but it never opened...

and it didn't come back online til several minutes AFTER the rest of the site came up
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2006, 06:17:01 pm »
I'm officially addicted. If I hadn't known it till today, I would definately know it now  ;D
Glad the forum is back!


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Quote from: injest on October 01, 2006, 05:33:45 pm
oh!! I am so jealous....my baby did an awful awful thing I am not sure I will EVER forgive him for....he GREW UP!!  >:( >:( :'( :'(

I MISS him as a toddler...why can't we keep the old version when the new one shows up?? I love him as a teenager but lort he was the cutest toddler...

He he, there's only one way to get relief: get more kids. it doesn't save you from noticing one day that all your kids have grown up, but it does postpone this moment  :)


Anke:
Kerstin and I saw Candy two days ago and plan to see The Perfume this week. I'm already looking forward to it  :)

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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2006, 12:25:11 am »
There was a blackout?  Where?
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2006, 05:42:59 am »
Quote from: delalluvia on October 02, 2006, 12:25:11 am
There was a blackout?  Where?

Here Del. The forum crashed for about six hours. Some of us were driving nuts!
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2006, 05:46:15 am »
Quote from: injest on October 01, 2006, 05:53:13 pm
Phillip

If it helps any there were four of us in chat, two in the campfire and two in the Admin room...then we all moved to the campfire and a couple of others joined us...


Is there a way to log into the chat other than clicking on the red lips? I was at the chat when the system went down and was booted out from it as soon as it crashed. I could not come back because there was no way I could access Bettermost main page.
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2006, 06:10:25 am »
It was indeed frustrating.    I was home all day.  It was raining here in Connecticut, so I was pretty much house bound.   So I started a fire in the fireplace and bounced back and forth from watching TV and seeing if BetterMost was back online.    Would have prefered having my own Cowboy to cuddle up next to in front of the fire however.    ;)
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2006, 06:50:13 am »
I actually kept myself good & busy:

I've got a computer game (Civ IV) that I played till I got tired & took a midday nap, had a late lunch while watching a DVD copy of West Wing episode(s) and, returned to my game.

True, I would sometimes check to see if BetterMost was back up, but the thought of checking out IMDb did not even cross my mind. I had full confidence that THE problem would eventually come to an end (and if ya can't fix it, ya gotta stand it)
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2006, 07:43:55 am »
Quote from: opinionista on October 02, 2006, 05:46:15 am
Is there a way to log into the chat other than clicking on the red lips? I was at the chat when the system went down and was booted out from it as soon as it crashed. I could not come back because there was no way I could access Bettermost main page.

I clicked on history and was able to get the url from there....but chat was down too  :-\
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2006, 07:47:21 am »
Quote from: Roland on October 02, 2006, 06:50:13 am
I actually kept myself good & busy:

I've got a computer game (Civ IV) that I played till I got tired & took a midday nap, had a late lunch while watching a DVD copy of West Wing episode(s) and, returned to my game.

True, I would sometimes check to see if BetterMost was back up, but the thought of checking out IMDb did not even cross my mind. I had full confidence that THE problem would eventually come to an end (and if ya can't fix it, ya gotta stand it)

Roland is a STANDER!  :o :-X :-X :-X
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2006, 04:11:42 pm »
Quote from: injest on October 02, 2006, 07:47:21 am
Roland is a STANDER!  :o :-X :-X :-X

But Jess you already knew that! I've always identified with Ennis' world view.

Aint for nothin' that I've always said "I love everything Ennis" - been my sig line until a while age when I changed it to "I still love everything Ennis"

Why - are you a fixer?! Hunh? or maybe you're of the "part fixer" /"part stander" kinda person?
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #24 on: October 02, 2006, 08:32:15 pm »
Quote from: Roland on October 02, 2006, 04:11:42 pm
But Jess you already knew that! I've always identified with Ennis' world view.

Aint for nothin' that I've always said "I love everything Ennis" - been my sig line until a while age when I changed it to "I still love everything Ennis"

Why - are you a fixer?! Hunh? or maybe you're of the "part fixer" /"part stander" kinda person?

heck yeah I am a fixer!! someone's gotta go behind ya'll standers!!
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #25 on: October 02, 2006, 08:33:43 pm »
Roland...

 :P :P :P

 :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2006, 11:18:01 am »
Quote from: nakymaton on October 01, 2006, 05:30:09 pm
I was supposedly getting work done, but in the meantime I posted a worried message on my LJ, and then started a refugee thread on Dave Cullen's board, and kept checking Meryl's thread on IMDb...

And then finally finished my work and sat down to watch "Finding Nemo" with my three-year-old. (This the second movie we've tried to watch. I tried to watch "The Wizard of Oz" with him about four months ago, but he decided the Wicked Witch was scary. We barely got to the title screen of "Finding Nemo" before he got really upset that "the fish lost his friend."  I didn't tell him that that was Nemo's mommy that got eaten by the big scary fish... he was traumatized enough by the idea of the fish losing his friend.)

I'm glad he's empathizing. And I'm glad that videos exist, so I can test them out on him at home.

We'll probably wait for another six months before we try another movie. Or maybe I'll see if there are even less scary things out there.

Hey Mel, literally the only movie we've found for our daughter so far ( now 3 1/2) is The Jungle Book.  Fantastic music for Mommy.
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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2006, 12:53:59 pm »
Quote from: Ellemeno on October 04, 2006, 11:18:01 am
Hey Mel, literally the only movie we've found for our daughter so far ( now 3 1/2) is The Jungle Book.  Fantastic music for Mommy.

When my younger son was that age, he wanted to watch "Snow White" over and over and over and ...

Since then, I've had many occasions to miss those days.  :-\

My personal favorites were The Lion King, Pocahontas and Mulan (in that order). Oh, and the Iron Giant -- I loved that one (it's a little scarier, though).

Oops. Here we are hijacking yet another thread to talk about our kids (and I just finished doing the same on the Ramona thread).  ::)

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Re: Where were you in the Great Blackout of 2006?
« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2006, 02:04:30 pm »
Quote from: latjoreme on October 04, 2006, 12:53:59 pm
My personal favorites were The Lion King, Pocahontas and Mulan (in that order). Oh, and the Iron Giant -- I loved that one (it's a little scarier, though).
I just have to comment that Pocahontas is my favorite of the newer batch (beginning with The Little Mermaid) of Disney animated features. There is a level of maturity of theme and treatment here that the others don't quite attain, and I think the musical score is truly beautiful.

Okay, regular thread can resume now...
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