Club Arnage

Tonight we had several severe outages of the Internet between the World and the CA server. :-(
More precisely it was inside the telenor.net cloud, and also their peer'ing with the datacentre (Uni-C.dk) where the server is located.

This unfortunately meant several HOURS of non connectivity, but it is now back, after they have replaced some equipment. The expectation (and my hope!) is that it will now stay reasonably stable.

The server has not had any problems at all - except for possibly feeling a bit lonely, being without Internet connection. I guess we all can relate to that sort of crisis  :)

We are going to change IP address of the server soon, and when that is done, we will be using a different peering, to a much better Internet peer with modern equipment (the route to the old one is under telenor.net decommissioning, hence the lack of proper hardware, I think)

Not sure when this IP switch will happen, - but people are now back from Le Mans, and the usual hump in server access has peaked, so anytime soon might be a good option - but it is probably a good idea to wait for DNS servers to update the TTL to something low. I am however looking into the possibility of running a proxy-server or http-redirect server on the old address, which might make it possible before.

/Djet

Its no good, I have tried running that through Babelfish and I still cant get it into English!

 ;D

May be I can translate for you Fran.

Lennart is going to change some ones for zeroes and some zeroes for ones.    Obviously replacing a zero with a one or vice versa is a massive change.  So he needs to set things up carefully before making the change.  Hopefully you will not notice he changed anything. 

The change is a bit like moving house,  however,  if you go to the old house for some reason, as you go thought the front door you will be automagically transported to the new house through a specially constructed hole in the time space continuum. 

t.

Ahh yes, its blindingly obvious now you put it that way Tom.   :)

F

or look at it as he's changing from British Gas to EDF. Same thing but different address, better call centre.

Nope Stu - you are losing me again, I have never understood buying the same gas through the same pipes but from different suppliers!

F

I have to agree with you on that Fran.  Plus Gas is dangerous and CA is not!!!

t.

Hmm Tom, not TOO sure that's QUITE RIGHT

Look at  a certain pair of badly damaged, CA influenced legs recently did you?

And a costume worn a year or so ago hanging to decay in the fesh air


no I'm not too sure about the safety of CA

But Lennart thanks for telling me why I couldnt get my fix of CA last night

I am glad we are back on the road again

bill

Fran, there's only two kinds of people; those who understand binary and those who don't.

shoudnt that be 10.00?

 8)

That's true, Fran.

Andy translated the joke for the computer illiterate ;D

Strictly speaking no it should be 10  10.00 is a float. 

t.

Your right and frankly now I couldn't give a ff about the whole thing.  Or would that be 255 about the whole thing  ;D ;D

No....that would be 1111 1111

Del

and also FF ;) (Hexadecimal)

or 377 octal

Of course if we were only working with 8bits and it is signed it would be -1.

t.

Wheres my Commodore 64 when you need it?

At least gas is gas. I want to know how the electricity suppliers get the gas down the wires......

I also see potential problems trying to run electricty down a gas pipe, those guys earn their money and no mistake.

I'm not really familiar with the technology.  But they are a very forward thinking bunch of guys.  Obviously they had great foresight.  They designed the 13amp sockets with shutters to prevent gas leaks long before any talk of electric companies supplying gas. 

t.

Sorry Nordic but I don't think they earn their money at all they just take what they want when they want and you have no choice. 

Bit like taxes really.

t.

Of course! And there was me thinking the shutters were there to stop the electrons falling out...

Very true

I always wondered what the doors on the plugs were for, whenever I tried to poke a scewdriver inside to see, the lights went off in the house.

I wish they'd work a bit harder - I've had three power cuts in the last 6 minutes.

There is a tremendous electrical storm raging though........

Del

Not sure if all guests of BN would agree, while it was positively enchanting on MB (Gods NEW country)

>Martini...LB

You see yet again CA comes up with useful information.  :)

Poking a screwdriver in to the the socket to turn off the lights can be turn out expensive if you use a good quality screwdriver.  Even if you are being  extremely careful you get some arcing and that will eventually destroy the blade.  

When I was much younger I tried to turn the light out  by squeezing the cable with a pair pliers.  I'd recently discovered that if you squeeze a hose pipe the water stopped flowing.  I figured if you squeezed the cable the electric would stop flowing.
It did the flash was quite impressive.  Mind you it did put the wind up my mom who was downstairs in the Kitchen.   My Dad went berserk.  He was in the loft and the cable was feeding the light he had up there.   When he came down he checked I hadn't damaged his Pliers repaired the fuse he accused me of breaking.  I wasn't anywhere near it.  It was in the Pantry and I was upstairs all the time.  Life can be so unfair when your a kid.  :angel: :angel:


t.

When I was much younger I tried to turn the light out  by squeezing the cable with a pair pliers.  I'd recently discovered that if you squeeze a hose pipe the water stopped flowing.  I figured if you squeezed the cable the electric would stop flowing.
It did the flash was quite impressive.  Mind you it did put the wind up my mom who was downstairs in the Kitchen.   My Dad went berserk.  He was in the loft and the cable was feeding the light he had up there.   When he came down he checked I hadn't damaged his Pliers repaired the fuse he accused me of breaking.  I wasn't anywhere near it.  It was in the Pantry and I was upstairs all the time.  Life can be so unfair when your a kid.  :angel: :angel:


t.
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 What a wonderful story Tom. I nearly spilled my beer I was laughing so hard.
Thanks
Phil

I thought the Michael Jackson thread was hilarious until I read all of these.......

When I was a kid I was desparate to have an electric guitar when all I had was a battered old accoustic with three steel strings. Surely, thought I, it can't be that difficult to convert it.

So, length of three core flex, bared end wrapped around the strings, 13A plug on the other end. Plug it in. Simple.
Anyway, when I plugged it in the E string disintegrated into hundreds of tiny, hot ball bearings which burnt little holes all over the sitting room carpet.
Just as well I didn't pick the axe up and attempt a powerchord! (pun intended)

I think I know where you went wrong Steve.  It's easy to make the mistake.  The E string should have been connected to the Earth and not the Electric (live.).  Still you live and learn.

t.