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25 March 2007

MEFI DOWN FER A BIT YET - street riots "worrying but contained" reports Chief of Police.
post by: cortex at: 11:58 | 44 comments
Ha, that URL makes it look like mathowie's got something against the small. THE TINY, IT AGGRAVATES!
posted by comments on the world as will 25 March | 12:05
Oh, my. I've been trying to raise the metafilter for the last six hours.

More or less. Probably more.
posted by taz 25 March | 12:06
I should have learned by now,

yes. yes you should. but you haven't.

but for some odd reason

odd, and inexplicable.

I still let my windows servers auto-update every night, and in the past this bit me in the ass.

and in the future, it will bite you in the ass.

*yawn*
posted by quonsar 25 March | 12:09
I've been realy busy (and distracted) the past few weeks and was looking forward to splitting up some quality free time between MeFi and MeCha catching up. But now I guess more love goes here, which isn't actually a bad thing.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 25 March | 12:24
The new setup is untested and using some new software so it'll probably hit a few snags and when the site comes back we may still have some bugs about,

ahahahahaha
posted by matteo 25 March | 12:28
"The new setup is untested and using some new software so it'll probably hit a few snags and when the site comes back we may still have some bugs about, ..."

At least mathowie takes full responsibility for the new software in the Week 4 MeFi podcast, so we know who to hang in effigy when problems occur.
posted by paulsc 25 March | 12:44
I need a fix.
posted by Brandon Blatcher 25 March | 12:59
Anita Mann
posted by WolfDaddy 25 March | 13:07
Tahagan Kess?
posted by cortex 25 March | 13:16
how am i gonna make fun of meridian without my mefi?
oh.
that's how.
posted by dizzy 25 March | 13:19
≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by wendell 25 March | 13:34
we know who to hang in effigy when problems occur.

In effigy? It's weak-kneed liberalism like that that keeps our country website from TOTAL GLOBAL DOMINATION!
posted by languagehat 25 March | 13:34
we know who to hang in effigy when problems occur.

Surely this will be the thing that brings the mathowie administration down!
posted by wendell 25 March | 13:51
Remember when he reinstalled the OS, but not the updates, and the server was broken into?

Good times, good times.

To be sure, delfuego took half responsibility and he definitely knew better, too!
posted by stilicho 25 March | 13:52
Is there any particular reason Metafilter is run on Windows? It seems to cause problems.
posted by Brandon Blatcher 25 March | 13:56
Can you even run ColdFusion on Linux? The obvious next question is why the hell did Matt choose CF, but that's water under the bridge.
posted by matthewr 25 March | 14:00
The obvious nexteverybodyhasbeenaskingsince2002 question is why the hell did Matt choose CF...
posted by wendell 25 March | 14:06
Has anyone tried stroking MetaFilter to get it up?

*runs to get some lube*
posted by iconomy 25 March | 14:11
Can you even run ColdFusion on Linux?


Yes, but you really shouldn't.
posted by cmonkey 25 March | 14:23
Yeah, ColdFusion on linux is a terrible idea... if you must run it on a unix-like OS, run it on AIX.
posted by synaesthetichaze 25 March | 14:28
if you must run it on a unix-like OS, run it on AIX.

Which is really stretching the phrase "unix like."
posted by eriko 25 March | 14:34
Can you even run coldfusion?
posted by Brandon Blatcher 25 March | 14:42
Can you even run?
posted by languagehat 25 March | 14:44
I'll bet it wouldn't take more than a couple days to wholly reimplement all of MeFi's functionality using RoR or Django or suchlike.

Smack on some SpamBayes software, and one could start automagically identifying troublesome posts/posters, and more or less meta-moderate via the statistics. Really reduce the workload.
posted by Five Fresh Fish 25 March | 14:53
Iconomy, I can't believe you went there.

Meanwhile, Mefi being down? Is like a cilantro sandwich.
posted by bunnyfire 25 March | 15:10
Can you even run?

[insert jrun joke here]
posted by dabitch 25 March | 15:22
Run you can!
posted by Brandon Blatcher 25 March | 16:56
Ha, that URL makes it look like mathowie's got something against the small.

That, or he stepped barefooted onto some Micro Machines. Those sumbiches hurt.
posted by Eideteker 25 March | 17:19
Update via status blog:

Due to some foibles at my host, it seems like it'll be a couple more hours before we can get into the new servers and get them setup, but once we get the clear go ahead, it should be just another couple hours.



posted by Brandon Blatcher 25 March | 17:28
*shakes*
posted by sveskemus 25 March | 17:55
*pats sveskemus's brow with cool washcloth*
posted by redvixen 25 March | 18:05
JUST A COUPLE MORE HOURS HUH?
posted by klangklangston 25 March | 18:18
Facing a day without Mefi, I was forced go actually go outside in the direct sunlight and walk around the city all afternoon. I can only pray that this never happens again.
posted by octothorpe 25 March | 18:24
I AM CRAWLING OUT OF MY SKIN
posted by interrobang 25 March | 18:25
SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT.

Seriously, the filter is my first stop on the intarweb. Before the NYT, before ALD, before the frickin' WEATHER.
posted by vers 25 March | 19:09
HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
posted by languagehat 25 March | 19:14
I'm gonna get SO much work done tomorrow!
posted by Brandon Blatcher 25 March | 20:13
The obvious next question is why the hell did Matt choose CF

I think it goes like this: He's really a hardcore programmer, and they had this academic-license copy sitting around at UCLA when he worked there.

And yes, the functionality has been replicated many times over in LAMP. shrug
posted by stilicho 25 March | 22:48
Small things etc:
March 25, 2007 at 03:22 PM
I should have learned by now, but for some odd reason I still let my windows servers auto-update every night, and in the past this bit me in the ass. Today, the same thing happened again ...

Later that day
... there will be a string of small bugs around (stuff that updated daily/hourly will need to be re-setup) ...
posted by dg 26 March | 00:03
* dizzy & nauseous * :-@@@@@@@@
posted by UbuRoivas 26 March | 00:27
We have an alcoholic friend of the family who describes the phobic hallucinations of his addiction (and they are especially bad when he detoxes every now and then) as "squids."
The squids are out tonight, without my Metafilter.
posted by klangklangston 26 March | 00:38
www.metafilter.com actually resolves on 74.53.68.130 now, for those that are interested. Unfortunately, the TTL on the nameservers is still over 12 hours long, and the aliases for AskMe and other subdomains haven't been pointed at 74.53.68.130 on NS1.EOD.COM or his other authoritative name servers, so lotsa luck seeing the site as anything like normally functional, for awhile. Why in the world he's handling DNS like this, is something known only to the mathowie.

Type http://74.53.68.130 in your browser URL bar, if you need a comfort fix from the familiar Blue page...
posted by paulsc 26 March | 02:48
BUT I WANT METATALK!§!!!!
posted by sveskemus 26 March | 07:46
I typed http://74.53.68.130 and it instantly changed to metafilter.com and told me I was still hitting the old server. Bah.
posted by languagehat 26 March | 07:52
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