I need to restart the server around 2pm EST to do a kernel upgrade. This should only take a few minutes, but as with any upgrade, there's a slight chance the server will not come back up again. If so, it needs to be restarted manually and I can't say beforehand how long that will take or if that succeeds at all.

So if all goes well, the server should only be down a few minutes. If I encounter a small problem, it could take about an hour, and in the worst case, it could actually take a day before it's back up again... Let's hope for the best.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Well, as you probably noticed, things went wrong - they went terribly wrong...

I had to pick up the server yesterday and tear it apart to find out what was wrong. Finally at 5:30am my time I found the culprit and corrected it.

My apologies for any inconvenience and if you don't mind, I'm going to get some sleep now.

Thank you for keeping us abreast of things, Cliff. Both you and the forum are greatly appreciated.

I've been having withdrawl symptoms. No PFF for several hours makes me very grumpy at work!!

Oh one more thing: I will do some testing the next 24 hours so you might notice some slowdowns and speedups - but it will not go down again.

Thaks for the update. I'm glad you know how to repair the computers.

yes, glad to have it back. needless to say, without haveing read the anouncements, i was a bit nervous about the "disapearance" of the forum.

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hoop
Red
'86 GT
5 speed
Borla Exhaust
Eibach's/Poly/Kyb's

dude this forum being down was the talk of the fiero factory list and even mentioned on the MR2 forum! sorry thing went sour on you!

I see that Murphy's Law is universal.
Thanks for all you do. We appreciate it.

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Raydar

From the Department of Redundancy Department.

Know how these things go myself. Not fun. Not fun at all. I'm glad things worked out after your allnighter. I've had to do the same here when our system at work have crashed or I've updated software.

Yesterday afternoon, when I couldn't reach the forum, I was like wondering what I missed and who the heck may have "P'd" you off to shut things down.

I was attempting to get on this forum all day yesterday...and then most of the night until the wife "made" me come to bed...just in case it was just an unexpected downtime I didn't hear about...and talk about your standard PFF withdrawls. Tossed and turned all night wanting to come down to see if the forum was back online or not. I didn't realize what an addiction this site can be. Which is a good thing!

Get some sleep and pleasant dreams!

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"The PRE10DR"

No need to apologize Cliff. I'm amazed you can keep this thing running as well as it does 99.9% of the time. Thanks again for your efforts!

Did you give it a good solid hit to the side of the box? That fixes lots of stuff.

Just want to say thanks for such a great site.

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FieroDon
86 SE
87 GT (factory blue)
88 GT

WWW.Fiero.us

Its ok Cliff
What ever it takes to keep it up and running

but i was having with draw last night

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ANY INFO IS GOOD INFO :)
Fiero*101
Gold 86 SE 2M6
DR.D
93 Buick Regal GS 3.8L
Any Info Is Good Info

quote Originally posted by Cliff Pennock: Sorry for any inconvenience.

Cliff, this forum is a privilege for us you have nothing to be sorry for.

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CFOG-I | GTA Fiero Club

whew...
i don't get to check here as often, plus i don't go to off topic anymore. i kept thinking somebodies finally pissed cliff off enough for him to shut it down.

Cliff, don't apologize for trying to improve something you let us mess up...for free! I can't thank you enough for letting me on PFF. Infact, the day you start accepting donations, I will be first in line.

Thanks again Cliff.

ahahahahahahahaha....I finally got my PFF fix. ahhhhhh, now I am much better.

The DT's suck!

Thanks for all you do for the Fiero community Cliff. You da' man!

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AIM - SWags2933

84 Fiero SE (88 Pontiac Ad car motor and tranny being installed, T-tops, Fastback, Formula bumpers and Held Suspension being added)
84 Fiero IMSA Widebody (Centerlines, 3800SC & T-tops being added)
88 Formula (basically stock)

ok the shakes are starting to slow down. whew, i can breathe normal again

Thanks for getting 'er back up in a hurry, what went wrong? (hardware or software, should we start a 'buy PFF a bigger HDD array' fund?

Best!
Ben.

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Ben Cannon
88 Formula, T-top, Metalic Red. (2:13.138 at Sears Point) "Every Man Dies, not every man really Lives"
88 Formula, Northstar, Silver, In-Progreess. -Mel Gibson, "Braveheart"

ya, thanks cliff, thought for a while there, i was gonna have to go out for some sex

Oh Roger! You really must have had some serious withdrawls if you were thinking you might have to go out and do that to get by without the forum.

So that's where that last boulder landed... I knew I dropped it someplace.

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11-Sept-01, The day the world as we knew it ended.

Worried myself last night, even got on Ebay for 10 minutes.

OMG EBAY!!!!!???? nooo that must have been pretty bad.. (but I bet all you looked at was fiero stuff)

Thank you cliff. You are the fiero king.

Cory

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88 GT Fully stock and looking good.
86 2M6 In the proccess of buying
84 SE 4 Speed, Custom project car, custom pisa wrap around dash, Black carpet, Headliner, Pisa's Digital Guages, Mr Mikes door covers, with red accents and red floormats.
84 SE Parts car, anyone need any parts? Or the whole car can go.

It was HORRIBLE! I thought I was going to have to start surfing the AutoZone web site or something!

j/k

I used to work in the computer industry; these things do indeed happen.

Thanks for keeping us up to date, Cliff! And thanks for keeping this great forum going!

Ed

I did surf the autozone website! I must say they have cool fizzy dice! good job getting the beast back cliffy!!!