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by jdclyde

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"An unexpected failure has occured. It has been logged and will be addressed by support."

I have gotten this message several times today. Who broke what?

The funny part is, do you have any EXPECTED failures in TR?

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by dr dij

We now know who you are that crashed TR; do not try to logoff.

Several men-in-black will be visiting you shortly :)

by jdclyde

I didn't do it.
You didn't see me do it.
There is no proof.
It would never stand up in court.

by puppybreath

We'll get CSI on the case and then you're doomed. They can solve any crime. We all know you did it and are just trying to cover it up. "Me thinks Thou doth protest too much"

by m_a_r_k

Where's TR's servers located? If they're in Asia maybe they got hit by the Asian Bird Flu Virus.

by jdclyde

Registrant:
CNET Networks, Inc (DOM-311541)
235 Second Street
San Francisco CA 94105
US

Their in CA! You KNOW what they are like out there. Probably everyone went out for the group tree hug and left the WINDOZE servers unattended for a few minutes (and we all know that is all it takes!) ;\

Hug time is over, time to reboot the servers to "fix" them! :^O

by m_a_r_k

and no UPS (as in backup power supply, not the guys in the ugly brown trucks). What ever happened with those blackouts in California anyway? A few summers ago they were occurring all the time. Didn't they blame Enron for them? Personally I think Saddam's WMD's were causing them. We got rid of those weapons and haven't had any blackouts since.

by m_a_r_k

I've known some pretty crappy software developers over the years. I always did expect their software to fail and it usually did.

by stress junkie

I've never heard a TR staff member say what platform(s) run the Jive software or whatever other application that are required for this site. I looked at the Jive software site just a minute ago. It is very difficult to find any mention of system requirements to deploy their software. It's really weird. I found one page that has a picture of a Windows command line window used to install the software.

http://www.jivesoftware.com/builds/docs/latest/install-guide.html

Otherwise a quick look around their site yielded no information about platform requirements. I'm almost ready to conclude (but not assume) that TR is probably running their Jive web site on a Wintastic platform. Maybe we can get a TR staff member to tell us. Then at about half of the TR members will say "So that's what the problem is".

by gilliganmn

Hey stress junkie,

All Jive products (forum, KB, and chat) run under a servlet container backed by an SQL DB. As such, they can run on pretty much any platform. I've run them personally on Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms as well as Linux partitions on huge mainframes. Let me know if you have more questions.

Thanks,
Jay

by jdclyde

la la la la
la la la la
elmos song
la la la la
la la la la
elmos song
he wrote the music
he wrote the words
thats elmos song!

by m_a_r_k

I think jd would be more likely to confess if we got Charley's Angels to start snooping around on his recent activities.

by surflover

Has collected all your posts, and will be visiting you shortly to ascertain your involvement in the "outage" which was directly attributed to a terrorist plot resulting from the acceptance of non-government frendly attitudes displayed by those who post in TR, who are obviously terrorist supporters, based on the negative attitude display to the government as a whole...

:^O

by m_a_r_k

[i]"terrorist plot resulting from the acceptance of non-government frendly attitudes"[/i]

Look out! I am sure some stiff-necked, uptight liberal here will slam you for claiming that everyone with a gripe against the government is a terrorist. I know you didn't claim such nonsense but SOMEBODY will twist your words around to suit their "everyone has a right to blow up buildings" head-in-the-sand attitude.

by maecuff

You watch way too much sesame street! I KNOW your kids are too old to watch it. From now on, I'm going to picture you as that guy on the commercial singing 'wheels on the bus' song..

by surflover

that is cruel... I'm gonna have to stop reading your posts if you keep this up ! :^O

by swgoldwire2546

Blah, blah, blah. Who broke WHAT?!?

Before placing blame there, first investigate what is causing the problem with TR. Keep digging for potential problems that is causing this failure/error.

by stress junkie

You're making friends fast.

Investigate before placing blame? First he didn't place blame. Second the question is the "investigation".

For your information the TR site regularly has hiccups. How is the staff going to know unless a member mentions it?

by itgirli

"Keep digging for potential problems that is causing this failure/error." "problems" is plural which would make "is" an "are". Not only is he rude and ignorant of TRs behavior, but he has grammatical issues.

by jdclyde

to get rack mount powerstrips!

But would they listen to me? Noooooooooo!

Well, see where it has got us now?

"This is another fine mess you have gotten us into Stanly!"

by jdclyde

I know it is hard to tell, but I have always gotten into my kids and we do a lot together. This gives a full arsonal of "jam pencils in my ears" songs at my disposal! :D

I would then take things to the next stage when I was a shop rat by walking through the shop singing "It's a small world" or something equally "earwig"ish.

But as for sesame street, we stopped watching that when they decided to cater to the lowest denominator and start rapping and other attrocities. If you weren't a urban black, you would sit there asking yourself just what the he-double-L is going on?

I am lucky though. I can and do listen to music all day long in my office and can drive any random songs away in no time.

by jdclyde

so good.

I don't think I would come out from under your desk yet though. "they" are everywhere and are just waiting for you to lower your guard so they can move in for the kill.

la la la la......

by maecuff

It was a sheer act of will to keep the Barney song away.

I listen to music all day at work also, sometimes though, I forget to start it up and it takes a while for my subconcious mind to relay to my concious mind that I will a whole lot happier if I just put a CD in.

My staff pretty much listens to modern country music, so another plus to listening to punk, psychobilly, rock, etc.. is it keeps people away unless that REALLY need to invade my space.

by jdclyde

Yeah, being a metal head myself, few will dare venture into my domain. This means much of the communications are done via e-mail which is much easier to ignore.... ;\

MUCH easier to get your work done when you don't have people stopping by to "chit-chat" on a regular basis.

Feeling under the weather today, so today has been more of a jazz day. Love instrumentalists, and found a cool jazz guitar player named Joe Beck. Good stuff.

by jdclyde

they are using POWER STRIPS, not even surge protectors! :^O

And having a UPS to keep a Windoze server from going down is like saying you are wearing a speedo in the rain so you don't get your cloths wet on the way to work? Like a Windows server need an excuse like lack of power to take it down? ;\

by mickster269

What do we need a guy in a brown outfit for anyway?

Luckily, Wal-Mart had a few dozen powerstrips on sale last month. TR was able to make thier hardware budget with no problems.

Now, if the could get this shag carpet to quit producing so much static-electricity... Sure, it makes the server room quieter and cozy, but it's heck when we run around in out stocking feet.

by ldyosng

Unfortunately, I EXPECT the budget to be cut, the staff to be laid off, and the project time-frame to be shortened. Anything less is simply the shortsighted hopefulness of the under-experienced.

by jdclyde

Good try Ldyosng, but as I ALWAYS have tunes going, I don't get this afliction.

As long as I have my tunes, my day goes pretty quickly. (and as I said, I ALWAYS have my tunes)

And if I am not in my office, I just click on my ipod I WON about a month ago. Much smaller than my rio, even if it isn't as good.

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