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Lobster

Did you miss the forum?
It's Back!

Howling at moon commences.
[Lobster get a grip] Rolling Eyes

Dog biscuits all round
Woof woof! Laughing

pacer106 · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 365

Being the Puppy Linux Addict that I shamelessly am HELL YEAH IM GLAD ITS BACK ONLINE Smile

Its so true "you do not know what you got till its gone" as the song goes Smile

Edit: we should all be very thankful to raffy for getting us through the rough patch without pulling all our hair out. (bald already so couldnt even do that lol)

nitehawk · Joined: 13 Apr 2008 Posts: 487 Location: Florida, USA

It's good to be "home".....(wasn't too thrilled with all that goings-on over at the linuxquestions.org forum.) sheesh!

JohnMurga · Posted: Sun 27 Nov 2011, 21:47 Post subject:

Hi,

I have to apologize for this mess.

I was off the grid for the first time in years (for about a week), FLASH and Barry knew about it, but given recent events I didn't want anyone to take advantage of my absence so I didn't let anyone else know.

As with any perfect storm, for the first time in years the hosting node at the hosting company failed, and when FLASH called them they didn't even bother to look into the matter as he didn't have all my details.

Furthermore they didn't detect the failure at all (which I find amazing, and will be taking up with them).

Either way, I am VERY SORRY ...
I did not set things up well for while I was away.

A failover setup will be in place by the end of the week and in control of someone else.

Cheers
JohnM

puppyluvr · Posted: Sun 27 Nov 2011, 21:59 Post subject:

Hello,
You owe no one an apology John, we are all just glad you are back...
Wait till you read what "He who shall not be named" has been up to in your absence.. Talk about true colors...
Glad to have backups, thx Raffy, but nothing beats the original...

ashes · Joined: 22 Aug 2011 Posts: 37

Just found the alternative forum about one hour ago, and now the message murga-linux was back.
So here I am, I missed this site Smile

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

John
It has been suggested that a copy of whole Murga forum site be set up, read-only and incrementally updated time to time/[daily?] with rsync and is needed for future reliability
I emailed you with an offer of a free server at my local IT centre, when we were trying to get PLUG implemented.
You said you would look into it when your move was sorted - how are things?
Is there anything we can do....?
The offer still stands, as far as I know

Aitch Smile

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

There is one member over at LQ (take a wild guess) who is still insisting that this forum is offline.Seems to be working but it might be some good Kool-Aid. Laughing

steve_s · Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 1543 Location: Austin, TX, USA

Dingo · Posted: Sun 27 Nov 2011, 22:09 Post subject:

the first synchronization will take an huge amount of bandwidth, subsequent updates, being incremental, will need very less bandwidth

however, if John knows some trusted users (or admins) he can give to these people the full dump of database and use rsync only for incremental updates, weekly in hours of low traffic

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2421

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2943 Location: Sydney Australia

JohnMurga:

I count you as 6 beers down.

But hey! welcome back anyway.

Lobster >> " is howling at moon commences. "

And Puppyite is howling cos he said you was gone.

Cheers...and a really great to see you moment....

Chris

mama21mama · Posted: Sun 27 Nov 2011, 22:11 Post subject:

JEDI!

Gracias Shocked

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 732 Location: Toronto

Glad that this forum is up and running again, reaalll glad ' Smile

During the short time, I was at puppylinux.info, I noticed that raffy had assigned at least 4 administrators and I'm not sure how many moderators. Maybe it would be a good idea to do so for this forum as well.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Hi John

Never mind about the forum off line for a few days, the important thing is that you are safe and well. (I believe some had uttered concerns Wink

)

Cheers