Small software upgrade next wednesday

[Greg Bernhardt]

We'll be performing a much needed upgrade. Nothing major will change. It's mostly bug and security fixes. You might notice a few small changes here and there, but the style of the site will be all the same. We're confident most functions will operate as normal. Some of our custom work might need to be tweaked a little and we appreciate patience. The site will likely be down for appox. 1 hour. I'll bump this as a reminder on tuesday. thanks!

 

[S_Happens]

PM count previous to update... 3 ( )

The bar has been set.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

bump reminder :)

 

[ZapperZ]

We'll be performing a much needed upgrade. Nothing major will change. It's mostly bug and security fixes. You might notice a few small changes here and there, but the style of the site will be all the same. We're confident most functions will operate as normal. Some of our custom work might need to be tweaked a little and we appreciate patience. The site will likely be down for appox. 1 hour. I'll bump this as a reminder on tuesday. thanks!

This could easily be the famous last words out of Greg.

:)

Zz.

 

[phinds]

We'll be performing a much needed upgrade. Nothing major will change. It's mostly bug and security fixes. You might notice a few small changes here and there, but the style of the site will be all the same. We're confident most functions will operate as normal. Some of our custom work might need to be tweaked a little and we appreciate patience. The site will likely be down for appox. 1 hour. I'll bump this as a reminder on tuesday. thanks!

Oh, my God ... that's almost as scary as the phrase "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you"

 

[Dembadon]

Wednesday doesn't work for me.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Which hour? I'll have to make sure I'm either asleep or sedated to avoid the panic that will no doubt ensue from being denied my constant drip feed of a PF fix

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Oh, my God ... that's almost as scary as the phrase "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you"

ok how about this then... THE WORLD IS ENDING TOMORROW!

 

[I like Serena]

What? Does that mean PF is going down?

 

[diazona]

ok how about this then... THE WORLD IS ENDING TOMORROW!

Hey, isn't that fringe science? We only deal with mainstream end-of-the-world theories here

 

[DaveC426913]

Ok, seriously. Where are we going to meet while it's down? We blew it last couple of minor-software-updates-that-won't-have-any-negative-effects.

 

[Dembadon]

Here's a map I whipped up for tomorrow's fire drill. Hopefully it will help reduce chaos for future emergencies.

Be gentle; I was on my laptop without a mouse so I had to use the trackpad.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

End of the world will happen around 3pm CST.

 

[phinds]

End of the world will happen around 3pm CST.

"CST" ? What's that in REAL time

 

[Ryan_m_b]

"CST" ? What's that in REAL time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations"

 

[Evo]

here's a map i whipped up for tomorrow's fire drill. Hopefully it will help reduce chaos for future emergencies.

be gentle; i was on my laptop without a mouse so i had to use the trackpad.

lol.

 

[phinds]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations"

Ryan, you are losing your sense of humor

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Ryan, you are losing your sense of humor

*sigh, I really should pay attention more rather than trying to be helpful

 

[DirectCurrent]

Best of luck to PF team for the upgrade :-)

 

[Borek]

"CST" ? What's that in REAL time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations"

Perfect. Just perfect.

CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30

 

[dlgoff]

Perfect. Just perfect.

CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30

They need to add CPF time.

 

[phinds]

Perfect. Just perfect.

CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30

well,since the US is using China's money, I'm assuming we're going to use China's time.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

End of the world will happen around 3pm CST.

"CST" ? What's that in REAL time

Perfect. Just perfect.

CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30

So the world will end at either GMT: 9pm, 7am or 5.30am. Good to know.

 

[micromass]

For the addicts who can't live without PF: http://us3.chatzy.com/66236398987587

 

[jtbell]

Less than an hour to go!

 

[Borek]

Less than an hour to go!

That's finally something unambiguous.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Change to upgrade timeline. I'll look into upgrading it tomorrow at 12:30 AM CST.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Ran out of time tonight. Reschedule to next week.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Looking at tomorrow 4PM CST now.

 

[DaveC426913]

Wait. What? I thought it happened already and we were in the clear...

Oh noes!

 

[StevieTNZ]

Seriously... you guys can last an hour without PhysicsForum. Do something out of the ordinary... make love to your wife, walk to the park (maybe even in the middle of the night?), clean the floors with your toothbrush. Endlessssss possibilities. But only those allowable by Quantum Mechanics.

 

[Dembadon]

Seriously... you guys can last an hour without PhysicsForum. Do something out of the ordinary... make love to your wife, walk to the park (maybe even in the middle of the night?), clean the floors with your toothbrush. Endlessssss possibilities. But only those allowable by Quantum Mechanics.

You, sir, have obviously never experienced PF withdrawals. I'm open for suggestions on how to accomplish anyone of your activities¹ while convulsing.

¹ With the exception of using my toothbrush to clean the floors.

 

[AlephZero]

We always used to do software updates on Fridays.

Then we got an "accident prone" programmer on the team, and we changed to doing them on Thursday, so if something went wrong we had Friday to fix it before it screwed up the weekend's computing.

But one day wasn't always enough to fix the problems, so we changed to doing updates on Wednesdays ...

... and eventually, we got back to doing them on Fridays, and working two 16-hour days on Saturday and Sunday to clean up the mess.

Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.

 

[StevieTNZ]

Haha, nope! I'm not worried about the short outage. I will survive - I have many other things to do than sit at the computer.

 

[StevieTNZ]

You, sir, have obviously never experienced PF withdrawals. I'm open for suggestions on how to accomplish anyone of your activities¹ while convulsing.

¹ With the exception of using my toothbrush to clean the floors.

You could always make love to a blow up doll... - they can't get pregnant, too. (realised that earlier)

 

[Evo]

We always used to do software updates on Fridays.

Then we got an "accident prone" programmer on the team, and we changed to doing them on Thursday, so if something went wrong we had Friday to fix it before it screwed up the weekend's computing.

But one day wasn't always enough to fix the problems, so we changed to doing updates on Wednesdays ...

... and eventually, we got back to doing them on Fridays, and working two 16-hour days on Saturday and Sunday to clean up the mess.

Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.

We solved many problems by promoting people. Sad, isn't it?

 

[AlephZero]

We solved many problems by promoting people. Sad, isn't it?

It's only sad if they figure out that's why they got promoted.

 

[PAllen]

Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.

 

[Dembadon]

Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something there that deserves a good name.

The Fundamental Theorem of Business?

 

[gneill]

Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.

That's the Peter Out Principle.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Upgrade is done. Some template will need to be worked on. My apologies for any temporary goofyness. Thanks!

 

[Dembadon]

Upgrade is done. Some template will need to be worked on. My apologies for any temporary goofyness. Thanks!

Nice work! I barely even felt it; 'twas merely a slight pinch!

 

[lisab]

Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.

Entropy of Competence?

 

[D H]

Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.

An inept manager who is in charge of a project and managing people can do much more damage than the most inept worker. Here's hoping that he was fast-tracked to a project of one with no budget.

The problem isn't solved permanently because he's still a drain on and a potential liability to the company. The solution is to keep promoting him! Eventually your competition will notice and lure hire him away from you.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

A few things I've noticed with the upgrade:

- When I log on I get an invalid message yet when I click on a banner link I'm shown as logged in

- People's blog count isn't appearing in a neat box but plaining written under their post count

All for now...

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

A few things I've noticed with the upgrade:

- When I log on I get an invalid message yet when I click on a banner link I'm shown as logged in

- People's blog count isn't appearing in a neat box but plaining written under their post count

All for now...

Both of those issues should be fixed now

 

[AlephZero]

The solution is to keep promoting him! Eventually your competition will notice and lure hire him away from you.

Actually, he got shunted into a corner of the business that was taken over by an outsourcing company. He's probably screwing things up at "international enterprise empowerment evangelist" level by now.

That sort of outcome almost makes you want to believe in karma

 

[Redbelly98]

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[Fredrik]

We seem to have lost the ability to highlight a piece of text and type "Alt Gr+i" to surround it by "i" tags or "Alt Gr+b" to surround it by "b" tags. (Not a big problem, but if it's easy to fix...)

Spoiler

Just checking if the spoiler tags are still ugly. Not an actual problem, but I was curious if that would change since they look so much better on at least one other vBulletin forum I know. Apparently ours can't even hide a smiley.

 

[lisab]

Spoiler

Just checking if the spoiler tags are still ugly. Not an actual problem, but I was curious if that would change since they look so much better on at least one other vBulletin forum I know. Apparently ours can't even hide a smiley.

floating ghost smileys