Hey All!
First, let me appologize about the downtime. We basically had a series of hardware failures, and it was all I could to do to scramble to keep the mainsite up. At one point I debated setting up the forums to run off of my personal server until the new hardware Robert ordered us arrived. Our Colo guys were really, really nice and basically gave us a loaner box to use until the new hardware arrives. Very nice of them. If you have hosting needs I really would reccomend checking out
their site.
So anyway, this is the loaner box, it took us a while to get it, but here it is. I make no promises on everything working fully, but this is the best I could do. I got access to the box at midnight, and it is now 6am. I'm going to crash, when I wake up I'll write more, and if people are interested I'll even tell you about what the future holds for us. But now? Sleep.
-Alpha
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We are like, the only active posters.
That said, the hate mail I got was all of the standard variety. There was one piece of correspondence that was a gem that truly sparkled. I thought I would share with you all. Behold!
EDIT: I change my mind, what a dumbass.
You're awesome Alpha ^_^!!!
That's fake. I utterly refuse to believe such an idiot and a bastard could ever be born into this world.
Also, alpha, you have my thanks for all the work you did. Most people would have just killed them off for good, but you did some amazing work, and for that you really have my respect.
That said
ZOMG G&T IS TEH GONEEEE!!!!!!!111
Sorry, just had to get that out :P
[edit] Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I fully understand that unrecoverable means unrecoverable, and that it's all MySQL's fault. It's just a bit of a shock
Letters to Alpha thread!
Click me for Sin City Breakfast Tacos! | Come discuss CG with us!
Cause I forgot to give it airholes.
Thanks Alpha!
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
ha!
We luv you alpha.
I am curious as to what the future holds.... RoR forums? and now for something completely different?
God, next thing you guys tell me, Restricted Section's going down! Erm, no, wait, I mean, Manly Men Doing Women.com. . . err. . . *dash*
P.S.
Just wanted to add to the pile of thanks for bringing the forums back from the dead.
*sniff*
Thank you Alpha.
And love all your April Fool's jokes, but this one got really out of hand. :P
Also do you know the user account of that Ass-hat? I think a Perma-ban is in order.
Alpha, thanks for the work! You inspired me to learn PostgreSQl. Strangely, my boss talked to me three days later mentioning a project involving database work. WIN!
p.s. Your downtime pages that promised forum nirvana on a future Rails/PostgreSQL system were intriguing. If you ever attempt this feat, please update us on it, I think quite a few forumers would be interested in hearing about it.
pps: enjoy that sleep. you deserve it.
Is it Obs?
*Phef* I was almost woried that I'd go three weeks playing games instead of talking about them.
Seriously, Alpha, thanks for all the hard work. We
If you weren't actually in Mexico with a bunch of hookers with network admin fetishes like bone daddy claimed, I advise looking into that sometime in the very-near future. You've earned it. :^:
In any case, thanks Alpha for everything. :^: It's good to be back.
It actually forced me to subscribe to Netflix and delve into my game backlog for lack of anything better to do.
Hooray for alpha!
All together now (all together now)
I really missed this place. This is the best forum anywhere.
alphamonkey, thanks again for all your hard work on the forums.