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ticalc.org Helps the Earth
Posted by Magnus on 7 January 2004, 08:54 GMT

In order to help with restoring the time it takes Earth to rotate, ticalc.org was taken offline last afternoon causing the earth to briefly stop spinning. Due to timezones, the downtime had to be extended for several hours so the Earth would not tear itself apart because only certain timezones slowed down.

The server was taken offline by a staff member performing a remote reboot of the server when nobody was onsite to ensure it came back up. This is something you'd of course normally never do, but we all have to make exceptions to help the greater good. "I promise to try to cut down on my remote reboots and playfullness" the staff member said, while asking to remain anonymous. The server was brought back online as soon as we got onsite.

Please note that this is not directly related to the web server statistics being back online. It is also not related to the fact that we expect our news comments to be down for a short while sometime later this week when we upgrade the database server.

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Re: ticalc.org Helps the Earth
W Hibdon  Account Info

I KNEW IT!! at first I just thought that it was my computer, then i thought I was going mad, but now I know I was right.

-W-

Reply to this comment    7 January 2004, 22:00 GMT

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KermMartian Account Info
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Wait...aren't we all going mad?

Reply to this comment    7 January 2004, 22:19 GMT


Re: Re: Re: ticalc.org Helps the Earth
W Hibdon  Account Info

Sounds like it to me, juding from the above comments.

-W-

Reply to this comment    7 January 2004, 22:25 GMT


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TheGreatOne  Account Info

Yes! I thought it was my computer too! I couldn't access ticalc.org or education.ti.com. You guys both updated your sites at the same time. Good thing I had TI programming to fall back on.

Reply to this comment    7 January 2004, 23:50 GMT

Re: ticalc.org Helps the Earth
Matt M Account Info

speaking of servers, where is the server for ticalc.org? I mean like geographically? After all, the internet IS worldwide...

Reply to this comment    9 January 2004, 20:00 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Look on the "about" page.

Reply to this comment    10 January 2004, 01:46 GMT


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Matt M Account Info

where on the "about" page? I couldn't find anything. can you put a link to it?

Reply to this comment    10 January 2004, 15:18 GMT


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Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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It's (logically? Ehh, dunno, but it's there) on the hardware page. See link.

Reply to this comment    11 January 2004, 17:07 GMT


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Matt M Account Info

WOW! If I read right, that's far from Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 21:10 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

Wait...it couldn't have been Magnus or Henrik since they were the only ones with access to the physical server, and it said that there was a remote reboot....maybe Morgan!!!! (the only other one who would probably be allowed in, as the file archiver) But Henrik or Magnus could have gone home, and done a remote reboot.....AHHHH!!!!!! WHEN ARE WE EVER GOING TO KNOW?????

Reply to this comment    10 January 2004, 01:48 GMT


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Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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Henrik does not have physical access to the server.

Reply to this comment    11 January 2004, 17:06 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Sorry :-[. OK, that complicates it even further....

Reply to this comment    12 January 2004, 01:15 GMT
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