Outage
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Apologies for that unscheduled break in our program. We're suffering extreme heat in Toronto today (OK, extreme for Toronto, not for anywhere with half-decent weather) and apart from the roads melting, birds falling out of the sky, and Leaf's fans actually taking off their toques, we also had power outages across this first-world city of ours which caused mayhem in our Hosting centre. The backup generators kicked in then the HVAC started groaning at the seams as it sought to cope with the load and so when we saw the alerts go off we decided discretion was the better part of valour and shut down most of our servers until we were convinced things were under control and rivers of molten server would not be pouring across the server room floor. Dave braved the blistering, tyre-popping 33C and headed up to the hosting centre with large bags of ice and a small personal fan. Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him, and Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal, but the sun had also dipped noticeably in the sky and glow under the server room door was down to a dull red. With everything back to normal, the aircon puffing away quite nicely, thank you very much, we then set to turning on the servers again and a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages. The servers are back to normal, humming away, no doubt tired and excited by their big adventure.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Apologies for that unscheduled break in our program. We're suffering extreme heat in Toronto today (OK, extreme for Toronto, not for anywhere with half-decent weather) and apart from the roads melting, birds falling out of the sky, and Leaf's fans actually taking off their toques, we also had power outages across this first-world city of ours which caused mayhem in our Hosting centre. The backup generators kicked in then the HVAC started groaning at the seams as it sought to cope with the load and so when we saw the alerts go off we decided discretion was the better part of valour and shut down most of our servers until we were convinced things were under control and rivers of molten server would not be pouring across the server room floor. Dave braved the blistering, tyre-popping 33C and headed up to the hosting centre with large bags of ice and a small personal fan. Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him, and Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal, but the sun had also dipped noticeably in the sky and glow under the server room door was down to a dull red. With everything back to normal, the aircon puffing away quite nicely, thank you very much, we then set to turning on the servers again and a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages. The servers are back to normal, humming away, no doubt tired and excited by their big adventure.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal
He should have taken his Honda Nighthawk - would have got there sooner. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Apologies for that unscheduled break in our program. We're suffering extreme heat in Toronto today (OK, extreme for Toronto, not for anywhere with half-decent weather) and apart from the roads melting, birds falling out of the sky, and Leaf's fans actually taking off their toques, we also had power outages across this first-world city of ours which caused mayhem in our Hosting centre. The backup generators kicked in then the HVAC started groaning at the seams as it sought to cope with the load and so when we saw the alerts go off we decided discretion was the better part of valour and shut down most of our servers until we were convinced things were under control and rivers of molten server would not be pouring across the server room floor. Dave braved the blistering, tyre-popping 33C and headed up to the hosting centre with large bags of ice and a small personal fan. Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him, and Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal, but the sun had also dipped noticeably in the sky and glow under the server room door was down to a dull red. With everything back to normal, the aircon puffing away quite nicely, thank you very much, we then set to turning on the servers again and a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages. The servers are back to normal, humming away, no doubt tired and excited by their big adventure.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him
The hamsters or the human occupants? I would think the Hamsters would be cheering for ice and a fan. :-D
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Apologies for that unscheduled break in our program. We're suffering extreme heat in Toronto today (OK, extreme for Toronto, not for anywhere with half-decent weather) and apart from the roads melting, birds falling out of the sky, and Leaf's fans actually taking off their toques, we also had power outages across this first-world city of ours which caused mayhem in our Hosting centre. The backup generators kicked in then the HVAC started groaning at the seams as it sought to cope with the load and so when we saw the alerts go off we decided discretion was the better part of valour and shut down most of our servers until we were convinced things were under control and rivers of molten server would not be pouring across the server room floor. Dave braved the blistering, tyre-popping 33C and headed up to the hosting centre with large bags of ice and a small personal fan. Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him, and Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal, but the sun had also dipped noticeably in the sky and glow under the server room door was down to a dull red. With everything back to normal, the aircon puffing away quite nicely, thank you very much, we then set to turning on the servers again and a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages. The servers are back to normal, humming away, no doubt tired and excited by their big adventure.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Apologies for that unscheduled break in our program. We're suffering extreme heat in Toronto today (OK, extreme for Toronto, not for anywhere with half-decent weather) and apart from the roads melting, birds falling out of the sky, and Leaf's fans actually taking off their toques, we also had power outages across this first-world city of ours which caused mayhem in our Hosting centre. The backup generators kicked in then the HVAC started groaning at the seams as it sought to cope with the load and so when we saw the alerts go off we decided discretion was the better part of valour and shut down most of our servers until we were convinced things were under control and rivers of molten server would not be pouring across the server room floor. Dave braved the blistering, tyre-popping 33C and headed up to the hosting centre with large bags of ice and a small personal fan. Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him, and Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal, but the sun had also dipped noticeably in the sky and glow under the server room door was down to a dull red. With everything back to normal, the aircon puffing away quite nicely, thank you very much, we then set to turning on the servers again and a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages. The servers are back to normal, humming away, no doubt tired and excited by their big adventure.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages.
What happened? Were the bands on the hamster wheels wound to the point that when released instead of providing a jumpstart to the power system they instead sent small furry animals flying across the data center? :laugh:
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Apologies for that unscheduled break in our program. We're suffering extreme heat in Toronto today (OK, extreme for Toronto, not for anywhere with half-decent weather) and apart from the roads melting, birds falling out of the sky, and Leaf's fans actually taking off their toques, we also had power outages across this first-world city of ours which caused mayhem in our Hosting centre. The backup generators kicked in then the HVAC started groaning at the seams as it sought to cope with the load and so when we saw the alerts go off we decided discretion was the better part of valour and shut down most of our servers until we were convinced things were under control and rivers of molten server would not be pouring across the server room floor. Dave braved the blistering, tyre-popping 33C and headed up to the hosting centre with large bags of ice and a small personal fan. Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him, and Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal, but the sun had also dipped noticeably in the sky and glow under the server room door was down to a dull red. With everything back to normal, the aircon puffing away quite nicely, thank you very much, we then set to turning on the servers again and a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages. The servers are back to normal, humming away, no doubt tired and excited by their big adventure.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Yeah, yeah. Blame the heat. The real reason's that you forgot to put the money in the meter didn't you?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Yeah, yeah. Blame the heat. The real reason's that you forgot to put the money in the meter didn't you?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
It's hot, the ice cream truck comes around, you fish around in your pocket and think "woohoo! I've got enough for a single soft-serve, choc-dip AND nuts". Short term gain for long term pain. Gets me everytime.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Apologies for that unscheduled break in our program. We're suffering extreme heat in Toronto today (OK, extreme for Toronto, not for anywhere with half-decent weather) and apart from the roads melting, birds falling out of the sky, and Leaf's fans actually taking off their toques, we also had power outages across this first-world city of ours which caused mayhem in our Hosting centre. The backup generators kicked in then the HVAC started groaning at the seams as it sought to cope with the load and so when we saw the alerts go off we decided discretion was the better part of valour and shut down most of our servers until we were convinced things were under control and rivers of molten server would not be pouring across the server room floor. Dave braved the blistering, tyre-popping 33C and headed up to the hosting centre with large bags of ice and a small personal fan. Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him, and Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal, but the sun had also dipped noticeably in the sky and glow under the server room door was down to a dull red. With everything back to normal, the aircon puffing away quite nicely, thank you very much, we then set to turning on the servers again and a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages. The servers are back to normal, humming away, no doubt tired and excited by their big adventure.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
tyre-popping 33C
Heck that's hot-cocoa-sipping whether in San Antonio... :laugh: (Where Rackspace data-center is located) Glad you're back online!
Before .NET 4.0, object Universe = NULL;
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Apologies for that unscheduled break in our program. We're suffering extreme heat in Toronto today (OK, extreme for Toronto, not for anywhere with half-decent weather) and apart from the roads melting, birds falling out of the sky, and Leaf's fans actually taking off their toques, we also had power outages across this first-world city of ours which caused mayhem in our Hosting centre. The backup generators kicked in then the HVAC started groaning at the seams as it sought to cope with the load and so when we saw the alerts go off we decided discretion was the better part of valour and shut down most of our servers until we were convinced things were under control and rivers of molten server would not be pouring across the server room floor. Dave braved the blistering, tyre-popping 33C and headed up to the hosting centre with large bags of ice and a small personal fan. Needless to say the guys up there looked oddly at him, and Toronto traffic being Toronto traffic, by the time Dave got up not only was everything back to normal, but the sun had also dipped noticeably in the sky and glow under the server room door was down to a dull red. With everything back to normal, the aircon puffing away quite nicely, thank you very much, we then set to turning on the servers again and a 5 minute outage turned into a much longer outage as nets, sharp sticks and cattle prods were needed to corral the various elements back into their cages. The servers are back to normal, humming away, no doubt tired and excited by their big adventure.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Having been busy with a little thing called my life, I hadn't even noticed that the site had been down. So when I refreshed and saw 'Outage' from Chris Maunder, I quite naturally thought that at last the hamster, third wheel from the left, had finally come out of the closet. So in the hope of finding an amusing/cute picture of a hamster in puce spandex, or similar, I foolishly googled on 'gay hamster' (WARNING: do not try this at home!!). I'm going for a lay down in a dark room now......
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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It's hot, the ice cream truck comes around, you fish around in your pocket and think "woohoo! I've got enough for a single soft-serve, choc-dip AND nuts". Short term gain for long term pain. Gets me everytime.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Choc dip AND nuts. Fair dos, we forgive you then.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Having been busy with a little thing called my life, I hadn't even noticed that the site had been down. So when I refreshed and saw 'Outage' from Chris Maunder, I quite naturally thought that at last the hamster, third wheel from the left, had finally come out of the closet. So in the hope of finding an amusing/cute picture of a hamster in puce spandex, or similar, I foolishly googled on 'gay hamster' (WARNING: do not try this at home!!). I'm going for a lay down in a dark room now......
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
In the words of Drew Carey: "You can't gouge out your mind's eye, can ya?"
Before .NET 4.0, object Universe = NULL;
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Having been busy with a little thing called my life, I hadn't even noticed that the site had been down. So when I refreshed and saw 'Outage' from Chris Maunder, I quite naturally thought that at last the hamster, third wheel from the left, had finally come out of the closet. So in the hope of finding an amusing/cute picture of a hamster in puce spandex, or similar, I foolishly googled on 'gay hamster' (WARNING: do not try this at home!!). I'm going for a lay down in a dark room now......
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
Henry Minute wrote:
WARNING: do not try this at home!!
Thanks goodness I'm at work! I'd never sleep again after that experience...:~
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Choc dip AND nuts. Fair dos, we forgive you then.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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So we're blaming the outage on Chris licking his nuts? Fair enough!
___________________________________________ .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
He's gotta have a hobby and if he's still flexible enough, then more power to him. I'm given to understand that it's a staple trick of his at the CP Christmas party. Why do you think there's a disproportionate amount of attractive ladies at CP?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Having been busy with a little thing called my life, I hadn't even noticed that the site had been down. So when I refreshed and saw 'Outage' from Chris Maunder, I quite naturally thought that at last the hamster, third wheel from the left, had finally come out of the closet. So in the hope of finding an amusing/cute picture of a hamster in puce spandex, or similar, I foolishly googled on 'gay hamster' (WARNING: do not try this at home!!). I'm going for a lay down in a dark room now......
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
Henry Minute wrote:
I foolishly googled on 'gay hamster'
foolish... very foolish... sorry... but even as naive as I am, I would never do that. I might attempt a very careful google search about hamsters, dressed hamsters, hamsters dressed in leather... slowly, carefully, building up the search....
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Henry Minute wrote:
I foolishly googled on 'gay hamster'
foolish... very foolish... sorry... but even as naive as I am, I would never do that. I might attempt a very careful google search about hamsters, dressed hamsters, hamsters dressed in leather... slowly, carefully, building up the search....
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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He's gotta have a hobby and if he's still flexible enough, then more power to him. I'm given to understand that it's a staple trick of his at the CP Christmas party. Why do you think there's a disproportionate amount of attractive ladies at CP?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
What I want to know is why most of them started AFTER I left ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Having been busy with a little thing called my life, I hadn't even noticed that the site had been down. So when I refreshed and saw 'Outage' from Chris Maunder, I quite naturally thought that at last the hamster, third wheel from the left, had finally come out of the closet. So in the hope of finding an amusing/cute picture of a hamster in puce spandex, or similar, I foolishly googled on 'gay hamster' (WARNING: do not try this at home!!). I'm going for a lay down in a dark room now......
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
OK, so I tried it, but not an image search. I wonder why there's a gay site named 'gayhampster' ? I guess if I understood, I'd be gay ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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You clearly have experience in such matters.
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Trollslayer wrote:
You clearly have experience in such matters.
I screwed up a search once, when my wife was nearby. Luckily she was not watching. I am EXTREMELY cautious about forming searches from broad to narrow carefully, one word at a time. :)
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Having been busy with a little thing called my life, I hadn't even noticed that the site had been down. So when I refreshed and saw 'Outage' from Chris Maunder, I quite naturally thought that at last the hamster, third wheel from the left, had finally come out of the closet. So in the hope of finding an amusing/cute picture of a hamster in puce spandex, or similar, I foolishly googled on 'gay hamster' (WARNING: do not try this at home!!). I'm going for a lay down in a dark room now......
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
Nooooooooooooooooo... Make it go away... :((
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP