PF is back - after a two hour outage.

[Mentz114]

I presume you ran out of $\nabla$'s after the recent heavy usage.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I presume you ran out of $\nabla$'s after the recent heavy usage.

yeah from processing your sig :D

BIOS got corrupt. Needed an update. Took a while to figure that out.

 

[reenmachine]

FINALLY ! needed my dose of PF! :D

good job guys!

 

[Evo]

I presume you ran out of $\nabla$'s after the recent heavy usage.

Closer to 6 hours.

 

[collinsmark]

I felt cut off from reality for awhile.

Oh, wait. I might need to double check my version/definition of reality.

 

[WannabeNewton]

When I saw it down I went into nihilist overload.

 

[LCKurtz]

When I saw it down I went into nihilist overload.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: people who hate the computation of π1(S1) and dead people.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

[reenmachine]

There are two kinds of people in the world: females and males.

 

[OmCheeto]

And why did it have to happen on the day I wrote my magnum opus...

...
Someone left the BIOS out, in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
It took so long to google it
and I'll never have that thought pattern, again... oh No!



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MacArthur Park. Worst song ever.

 

[dlgoff]

I'm just glad I wasn't home so I didn't have to experience the outage.

 

[lisab]

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don't.

...and people who don't understand this is a base three joke.

 

[Evo]

All Hail Greg!

:thumbs: Thank you Greg for working like crazy for over 6 hours straight to get PF back up and running!

 

[Dembadon]

I felt cut off from reality for awhile.

Oh, wait. I might need to double check my version/definition of reality.

Your definition is fine; it's exactly how I felt!

 

[jackmell]

yeah from processing your sig :D

BIOS got corrupt. Needed an update. Took a while to figure that out.

How did it get corrupt? I mean seriously, how does a BIOS get corrupt? Isn't it protected by the operating system?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

How did it get corrupt? I mean seriously, how does a BIOS get corrupt? Isn't it protected by the operating system?

Really don't know. We were updating the kernel, rebooted and things went all wonky.

 

[krash661]

for a while, i had thought i was I.P. banned. :)

 

[turbo]

for a while, i had thought i was I.P. banned. :)

I had similar thoughts. I'm an old guy and hadn't done anything worthy of banning, but still...

 

[jackmell]

Really don't know. We were updating the kernel, rebooted and things went all wonky.

So what are you runnin' Greg? Mind? Ok if so. I was just curious like hardware, database, operating system, speed don't forget speed. Also I have to admit some ignorance about the BIOS. Not sure where it is. I should know, maybe inside kernel memory somewhere in the first 100 Mb of RAM and loaded at bootup and I would assume selfishly and meticulously guarded and protected by the operating system so then to get corrupted, what? I suppose some app must have gained kernel privilege to write to a protected area of the disc drive containing the BIOS and permanently corrupting it.

If that was a test question in a class on Operating Systems, I think that's the best I could do and just hope for the best.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

So what are you runnin' Greg? Mind? Ok if so. I was just curious like hardware, database, operating system, speed don't forget speed.

CentOS, MySQL, Apache/Nginx, Intel E5-2620

 

[jackmell]

CentOS, MySQL, Apache/Nginx, Intel E5-2620

Very concise. Not hard for me to see just where you're at, with some digging that is. :)

 

[collinsmark]

The BIOS resides on the motherboard (mainboard).

 

[jackmell]

The BIOS resides on the motherboard (mainboard).

Ok thanks Collins. Suppose I should have looked it up before talking. I just personally appreciate someone competent running the system I'm using and I think Greg is. No brown-nosing. Just stating my opinion about the matter.