The website is being moved to a bigger server with twice the processors and 1.5 times the memory. We’re still 2-3 times as fast as the old site prior to the relaunch, but they want to move us to a bigger one. What that means for all of you is that the server will be down for a spell (30 mins to an hour) this evening after ten pm.
So don’t freak the hell out.
Just One More Canuck
So don’t freak the hell out.
You’re not the boss of me
Baud
You’re not the boss of me.
ETA: Fuck you, Canuck.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Too late
OH MY GOD WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!
David Anderson
But I wanted to freak out
Baud
Does this mean no more cloudfare issues?
JPL
Earlier today I landed on error pages, so have already used up my allowance for being freaked out.
zhena gogolia
I’ll try to time my Perry Mason episode for that time slot.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQdxP2m79n8
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
Yutsano
So…e-mail you in all caps and bug you on Twitter and Facebook about how your website is broken again?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Yutsano: Dear WaterGirl: Can we have a button that generates those all caps emails to Cole automatically?
Yutsano
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Remember M^4 posted about how AI is advancing? We could probably put together something like that.
schrodingers_cat
I was freaking out yesterday but the protests all over India have been heartening.
Protest at India Gate in New Delhi. India Gate was a memorial for soldiers who died in WWI IIRC.
Remember that it is cold in Delhi around 5 degrees centigrade so around 40 F
joel hanes
Yes we are.
My thanks and congratulations to all involved.
Special thanks to the implementors for the late tweaks, especially the slightly-darker background and the slightly more-visible font. These make a big difference to me.
schrodingers_cat
@joel hanes: Yes me too.
dmsilev
?????
WaterGirl
@Baud: It would be foolish to make a blanket statement like that. :-) I can, however, say that this change is not unrelated to the 502 and 524 errors.
WaterGirl
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: John would put a hit out on me if I did something like that.
Furiously makes a notation for April 1…
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Baud!2020! isn’t going to get many votes from Canada with an attitude like that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl:
Well, there goes 90% of the comments on this here site.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud:
Shouldn’t that be Cloud Strike?
Just One More Canuck
@Baud:
I was channeling my inner Baud
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: 90? You are feeling quite generous today, it seems. :-)
Baud
@Gin & Tonic: Voters are so sensitive.
@Just One More Canuck: Oh. In that case, excellent work!
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It’s all a series of tubes to me.
Gin & Tonic
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Cloudflare is what’s called a CDN, basically a provider of caching services so web sites can appear to be more responsive. Crowdstrike is the security company that Giuliani/Trump have somehow delusionally placed in the middle of the Ukraine issues.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yes.
@WaterGirl: It’s the holidays.
J R in WV
Wife tells me to climb up on the roof in the Noah-like flood rain and caper and dance while B-J is down. This is because I wailed “But What WILL I DO??” She can be funny like that sometimes…
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Gin & Tonic: I was joking, but I still learned something from your response, so thank you!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: They sound the same, so they are the same!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@J R in WV: You know the rules…pics or it didn’t happen.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: I thought Dorothy’s comment was snark, so thanks for answering it.
dexwood
Will Hillary’s emails be on the new server?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl:
It was snark. I should have put /// or something.
Yutsano
Wait! I get it! We’re moving the server to Ukraine!
debbie
@WaterGirl:
How many error numbers are there? I got a 503 this morning.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Men gotta manspain.
Gin & Tonic
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I bet that’s Rudy’s next piercing analysis.
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: I wasn’t 100% sure myself, but figured a little extra information wouldn’t hurt.
Although Baud’s charge of “mansplaining” cut me to the bone.
Juju
Eeeeeek!!!
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: Here you go.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
so I think under the new system this tweet will be linked, with all the names? DougJ has already set up an ActBlue for this group, hasn’t he?
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
Thanks. Not as many as I thought, but “Bad, Gateway!” has a certain ring to it.
WaterGirl
@debbie: More than you can imagine.
Aleta
@Baud: The men in spain stay mainly on the plain.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: He didn’t mean it, I’m sure.
Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
Baud2020 wasn’t going to get ANY votes from Canada over his platform of Pineapple on Pizza, so,…….
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: Oh, I’m quite sure he did. He’s a Presidential candidate, so he doesn’t say things he doesn’t mean.
gvg
yeah I got an error balloon juice was down mid morning. I did not freak, but I was bored.
trollhattan
@Baud:
I’ll give Ted Stevens this, the damn fossil went out in a blaze of aeronautical glory–his second plane crash at that–instead of choking on strained carrots at the Dumfuck Senile Senators Retirement Village. Great final act, Ted.
trollhattan
@debbie:
Somewhere out there is a cat named Gateway who hears that phrase several times/week.
CarolDuhart2
Question: will the move lead to a little more charges for the site, and can you give us an approximate time for this move?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Some of us got it.
chris
LOL Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Robert DeNiro!!!
matt
Movin’ on up! Nice!
Steeplejack (phone)
@Gin & Tonic:
Narrator: He was mansplaining.
Dan B
@schrodingers_cat: My dear honorary Umma Massi lives in Malabar Hill one block from the Pryadashini Dash temple and 5 blocks from the Taheri Masjid.
Beena, Anil, and their daughter Neelanjana liv in Defence Colony three miles from Islamic University that was attacked by police. There is a mosque and a temple in Defence Colony, and a Gurdwara as well. The market has Muslim food stalls. (Superb fish!)
I wonder how the thousands of doctors and tech workers in Seattle who are Indian Anericans are feeling. I’m shakey and I just have people who are very dear to me caught in this mess.
Gin & Tonic
IANAL, but boy, it seems Mike Flynn’s attorneys’ day hasn’t gone very well.
FlyingToaster
Cue Pablo…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: Well, ol’ Ted was a Bruin.
Dan B
@schrodingers_cat: India Gate is such a beautiful site with the avenue to the Parliament. I recall that it’s a short distance to the Muslim market side of the old part of Delhi, and the Jama Masjid which divides the huge Muslim and Hindu bazaars.
5 degrees C is bone chilling as the temperatures last week were between 75 and 80 degrees F, and in in the 90’s a few weeks ago. (Yes, I check the temps in Delhi almost daily.)
trollhattan
@chris:
Well played, sir, well played.
Nobody can dig under Trump’s skin better than a New Yorker. Decades of practice.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@trollhattan: and a celebrirty
I can’t remember which foreign trip trump was on when he got in a twitter spat with Bette Midler in what was for him the middle of the night
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@schrodingers_cat: I’m glad to hear about the pushback and protests. Thank you for helping keep this topic on our radar…
MomSense
If you are looking for something to do while the site is down, I recommend this podcast from the professional left. Driftglass and Bluegal have a conversation with Jay Rosen about the structural failings with the press. I found it interesting.
https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/?m=1
prostratedragon
So there’s this guy named Ludwig, and he’s out for his walk and stops to buy a newspaper …
Happy 249th, wherever you are!
mrmoshpotato
Excuse me while I preemptively freak the hell out. :)
That’s 10PM Eastern time, right?
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense: Agreed. Driftglass’s and Bluegal’s chat with Jay Rosen is great. I’ve listened to it a couple times already.
WaterGirl
@CarolDuhart2: This is tentatively scheduled for between 10pm and midnight tonight, blog time. (aka Eastern)
TomatoQueen
@WaterGirl: AHA. I knew it. It was MY FAULT.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Yep, Eastern.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Dear WaterGirl, is it too early to start freaking out?
Jay
What’s that smell leaking out from beneath the locked door of Dotus’s “War Room”?
Desperation?
WaterGirl
@TomatoQueen: I’m pretty sure that “It’s your fault” is listed for me, under Other Duties As Assigned.
Ryan
Do they say Crowdstrike? Are we moving to Ukraine?
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It’s never too early to start freaking out.There’s no need to freak out.
Jay
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Dear Watergirl,
this has never happened to me before, and you are never going to believe me, but when the pizza came,…….
chopper
you’re not the boss of GODDAMMIT
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: I canceled an edit, now when I refresh it keeps on coming up with a dialog asking me if I want to resubmit my form(Chrome dialog). Lets see if a sucessful comment clears the error.
WaterGirl
@Ryan:
Just the server, does that count? //
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jay: …with pineapple, I was overjoyed!
Jay
FlyingToaster
@WaterGirl: Somehow, I don’t see “Reassessing capacity required after upgrade in place for 15 days” equating to “it’s your fault”. But then again, what would I know?*
*Prior to WarriorGirl, I coded multimedia simulation software, primarily for corporate training or back-o-textbook disks. These days, I fix friends’ website errors after 10pm.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Can’t edit the comment, but submitting a comment cleared the Chrome dialog.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Did you cancel the edit by hitting the toggle on the Edit Comment box?
You can start an edit, hit the toggle to close the edit box, then open it again at any time during your 5-minute window.
Perhaps I am not understanding what happened?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: What toggle, or do you mean button?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@schrodingers_cat:
That’s really good news. Are they widespread and diverse enough that the BJP won’t be able to demagogue them?
Jay
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
You don’t want to know
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I was referring to the little arrow that’s in the Edit Comment box, but yeah, you can click anywhere in that box that says Edit Comment.
WaterGirl
@FlyingToaster: I was speaking in general terms, for everything, everywhere. I didn’t mean to indicate anything specific here. Just being silly.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
Wait, as in both the Senate and the House? This is good news, but all it takes is Trump throwing a tantrum and vetoing to throw a wrench in the process
NotMax
If B movie thrillers which revel in their B-ness appeal to you, if the once removed relative coziness provided by the”‘So you think you’re having a bad day, huh?” school of film making tickles your fancy, one could do worse than frittering away the imposed time-out with SOS Pacific, available on Prime. Hesitate to provide any links as they give away entirely too much plot. Cast includes Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Eva Bartok.
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic: And Cloud Gate is a metal sculpture in Millennium Park in Chicago. But it’s really called THE BEAN.
debbie
@Jay:
An NYT story from 2016, no less.
karen marie
I AM FREAKING OUT – WHAT TIME IS TEN PM?
Time zones are so fucking confusing.
karen marie
@WaterGirl: Party pooper!
Jay
@debbie:
when you are setting up a bot, sock or troll, you want to make google image search work a little for it.
I am kinda surprised that the trolls, socks and bots construction crews havn’t figured out the you can just walk around taking thousands of “rando” photos of people, places or things, even in Macedonia or Romania, that will never “out you”.
Yutsano
@WaterGirl: Basically: Don’t Panic, and know where your towel is.
Jackie
I hope you mean 10pm Pacific time!!! :/
Gin & Tonic
This is the second time in as many days that the site has not remembered my nym/e-mail. Just like the bad old days.
Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
sometimes the site only gives me the text form, with no visual tab, and often with no nym. A refresh after a few seconds seems to bring both the forms back up with a nym.
sometimes, a new window or tab opening of a new front page post, when you have another open, loses the nym.
FlyingToaster
@karen marie: GMT-5, 22:00 in West By God Virginia (and the People’s Republic of Massachusetts).
3am London, UK
11pm Halifax, Nova Scotia
9pm Chicago and New Orleans
8pm New Mexico
7pm California and the rest of Pacifica
5pm Honolulu
4pm the Aleutians
Hth ?
FlyingToaster
@WaterGirl: Oh, I knew. But I figured the Blogfather might read it and laugh, too.
Sab
@J R in WV: Please don’t do that. We value you here. Maybe go read a book.
I have actual books I want to read, but I don’t, because it pisses the cats off when I turn on the light in the middle of the night.
Of course it is okay fo them to shriek and battle at night while I am trying to sleep. Because cats are sensitive.
Tonight, back to Ta-nehisi Coates novel. It is beautifully written, but intense.
Origuy
@Jay: Hawaiian pizza was invented in Ontario.
schrodingers_cat
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Truth has never stopped them before. They will and are demagoging.
Steeplejack (phone)
“Throw hardware at it” is an ominous sign. Chances are that Cloudflare is misconfigured.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
But now we’ll see the error messages even faster!
:)
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack (phone): Oh ye of little faith.
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
You’re such a glass-half-full kind of guy!
Jay
@Origuy:
yeah, we still say “to Sam” when we lift the first slice.
NotMax
Preparing to assume the fetal position in a half hour or so. Still undecided on whether to rock back and forth or to and fro.
;)
WaterGirl
@NotMax: The possible timeframe is between 10 and midnight, Eastern time. So you might not want to assume the position until the maintenance mode message comes up instead of the website. :-)
Which could be right at 10, or maybe not.
Gin & Tonic
11:17 pm EST and blog is still up. It is now reliably forgetting my nym, though.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: They plan to start in about 10 minutes.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: I suspect you’re not, but I will ask anyway. Are you either not allowing your computer to store cookies OR are you using private browsing?
Those are the only two instances so far where nyms have not been saved.