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No new articles or comments on TechRepublic on Tuesday, July 10

For our loyal community members who are here every day, we especially apologize for the inconvenience that there will be no posting in the forums for 24 hours on July 10 (Pacific Time). We're hoping that this data center move will improve site performance in the long term, so that's the bright side. Anyway, I hope you'll hang in there with us for a day while we get this move completed.

No Spam Hunting.

OH and I really hope you enjoy the move they are so much fun to be involved in. HONESTLY.

BUMP

Col

Hope everything goes as smoothly as possible

Looks like a very complex task ahead.Hope it goes well.

Tech Republic is not going to "upgrade" the backend to AWS are they?
The sister site at ZDNet did that last week, still a lot of kinks to work through,
As Col mentioned, guess we get a day free of spam! Unless you enjoy the
canned variety!

..Now go and enjoy the beach (or lake or pool)... read a book.... massage my feet... bring me some chocolate ice cream.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

-Tammy

Forget that just give me more

CHOCOLATE.

OH I forgot You can Not Fatten a Thoroughbred.

Col

if you were in my neck of the woods, I could fix ya up on the ice cream
and the chocolates! My little drugstore fountain works wonders, hehe...
and I have Sweet Shoppe handmade chocolates! Shakes, malts, floats,
and fountain drinks have been pretty hot items lately...hot weather!

edit to add: Forgot to mention, coffee is still only 25 cents a cup! Free refills too.

if we ever make it down here, i'm never leaving your shop

I thought this place was on lock-down.

The Different Time Zone that I'm in that is allowing the Posts to still continue.

Of course Jason could always have been telling us all Pork Pies and the Techs overrode what the Accountants said would happen.

Col

Everything will still look the same. It's purely a backend move in this case.

of a day without spam, myself...

still go on (and still be 'interactive'), right? I believe we're meant to log in prior to its start.

You can now post again!

Thanks for filling customers in

It's done now

The site has officially moved into its home in the new data center. You may now resume normal activities.

and so are the spammers and zombies!

the Q&A is only showing posts from July 5 and previous... tried refreshing
the page, still only showing latest Q&A as 7-5-12...will check back in a bit,
maybe an hour or so, and see if it is still heading towards a time warp!
Gotta love those event horizons!

If we delete Jason's Post above will we still be able to post or will TR go Off Line again?

Col

For science!

and the Q&A is still not showing any Q&As from 7/6 til 7/10/12...

I looked into this morning. The default sort is by "Asked On" not "Last Reply". Click on "Last Reply" to get the sort you to show newest replies from 7/6 to 7/10, etc.

There are no questions that are being displayed that were
originally posted on 7/6/12 through 7/10/12, Not talking about
"Last Reply", even that is not showing any questions that were
originated in that date range. I know there were questions on
those days, I tried to answer a few. Here's a couple of links,,,
www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/101-393139/computer-went-dead-after-a-bsod#msg-3683594
www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/101-393117/3com-courier-modems-string-commands#msg-3683076
www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/101-393138/email-client-signature-with-confidentiality-disclaimer#msg-3683453

Anyway...not sure why those dates floated off into the ether,
just seems unusual!

nt

I'm wasnt seeing any Questions posted over that Date Range either on the Listing Page or in the View More. If you have links to the actual question you can find it but they are not appearing in any other places.

Happens with IE8, FF 13 whatever, Safari Newest and Chrome on XP. IE9, FF13 whatever, Safari and Chrome on 7in 7 64 Bit Pro and the Consumer Preview of 8 running IE10, FF, Opera and Safari. I haven't tried opening TR on any Nix Box here as I seem to think it's related to the Site not a Local Machine.

Also when I log in with the HAL 9000 Account I'm constantly clearing the Cookies as that is just something you have to do.

But by the same token I haven't received any RSS Feeds since the Server Change so maybe it's just me.

As a result not many Interesting Questions asked this week either only got 1 so far.

Edited to add Well I am now seeing Questions over that Data Range appearing but if you are looking for one not on the First Page the View/Show More takes you to the Header and a Blank Page right now. Same happens when at the Discussions Page you click on the Show More you gat the Header and then nothing.

Col

nt

Nope. Too easy.

not normal people doing odd things?

this is as normal as it gets for this lot

"Baseline" actvities. Normal is relative. I may be a raging nutcase to everyone else, but to me I'm normal.

there are always ten thousand hungry looking squirrels trying to break into the TR buildings.

We have quite a goose problem here though!

number of geese of the silly variety who can sue a keyboard and go to TR.

But after the Move I've not got any Alerts for Discussions or Questions that I'm subscribed to.

Col

Hadn't heard any problems related to that, but we'll check. Thank you sir.

You mean the whole place wasn't shut down to give everyone the day off to celebrate my birthday yesterday? How disappointing. Like when my son born on July 4 learned the fireworks weren't necessarily for him...