Important: Site Restored from Backup

[arn]

Due to a slight mishap with the forum DB (being my own fault) -- I had to restore the site from last night's backup (approximately 7am Sunday Jan 26th in the morning).

So all posts made and all new user registrations or other changes made from approximately 7am to 11pm on Sunday, Jan 26th have been lost.

Sorry for this, but it was the lesser of two evils.

Please let me know if you notice any problems.

arn

[vniow]

Ouch.

Damn I hope nothing serious was lost, first we have that worm then this.

Having the forums back after a backup is better than not having them I suppose.


Oh, and is it just me or do things seem a bit slower?

[arn]

They are a bit slow right now... but I think it was due to a lot of scripts running... should settle out.

arn

[Beej]

Nice one Arn you big doofus! :p

[Rower_CPU]

Ouch! OK, disregard my post in the other thread, arn.

Some fine posts/threads got lost...:(

[arn]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Ouch! OK, disregard my post in the other thread, arn.

Some fine posts/threads got lost...:(

yeah... sorry about that. The other option was losing all the posts in the Help/Tips section from the beginning. Which didn't seem like a good option either. I figure one day of posts wouldn't be missed quite as much... though I assume we lost most of the superbowl talk.

arn

[eyelikeart]

well just like u said...it's better than the alternative...

a few lost posts makes up for the entire site...

so far things seem to be working fine though...

I'll let u know if I come across any bugs... ;)

[shadowfax]

dang, lol. lost an extensive political discussion i spent hours on. my feats of logic lost forever!

lol, it was off topic at any rate.

i guess it's no coincidence that my chimera keyword for macrumors.com is "rum"

heh.

[Hemingray]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
dang, lol. lost an extensive political discussion i spent hours on. my feats of logic lost forever!

It's okay, Shadowfax. I read that long post of yours and I liked it. :D

Sorry to hear of the troubles, arn...

[oldMac]

Originally posted by arn
... though I assume we lost most of the superbowl talk.

arn

The truth comes out. Arn is a Raiders fan and just couldn't bear the heckling. :)

[pgwalsh]

Originally posted by arn
Due to a slight mishap with the forum DB (being my own fault) -- I had to restore the site from last night's backup (approximately 7am Sunday Jan 26th in the morning).

So all posts made and all new user registrations or other changes made from approximately 7am to 11pm on Sunday, Jan 26th have been lost.

Sorry for this, but it was the lesser of two evils.

Please let me know if you notice any problems.

arn
So I guess that post about the "meaning of life" is lost. Now we'll never know.

[vniow]

What are you talking about?

I thought everyone already knew that forty-two was the answer.

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by vniow
I thought everyone already knew that forty-two was the answer.

But what is the Question To The Meaning Of Life?

I think I lost 2 posts, oh well. Any idea how many posts were lost in total? And would that also delete any new member accounts?

D

[Hepper]

It's What is Six times seven of course.

[pgwalsh]

I thougt it went, why is six afraid of seven?

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by pgwalsh
I thougt it went, why is six afraid of seven?

Because 7 8 9, of course...

[Mr. Anderson]

You're all forgetting the paradox associated with the Answer to the Meaning of Life - you can't actually know the answer and the question, only one or the other.

:D

[Sun Baked]

Originally posted by dukestreet
You're all forgetting the paradox associated with the Answer to the Meaning of Life - you can't actually know the answer and the question, only one or the other.

:D The answer everyone is dying to find out.

Or is it more of a Douglas Adams vs Monty Python type of question?

[pgwalsh]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU


Because 7 8 9, of course... Nice that you picked up on that. I never thought anyone would.

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by pgwalsh
Nice that you picked up on that. I never thought anyone would.

It's on oldie but a goodie. :D

[pimentoLoaf]

:eek:

Blogger lost a few of mine (http://somecontent.blogspot.com) while posting, so now I run the cursor thru what I'm posting, hit command-C, then see what happens. If nothing, then I paste to a TextEdit file.

[King Cobra]

Originally posted by pgwalsh
So I guess that post about the "meaning of life" is lost. Now we'll never know.

Hah! Yeah, we like to dream too. :)

BTW: 6 should be afraid of 7.
I'm not sure why, but I got sick of hearing that expression so much.

Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle:
dx X dp = h

You can't determine the position and the momentum of a particle traveling at around the speed of light.

So I guess we now have the
Lifensburg's Uncertainty Principle:
dQ X dA = t

You can't determine both the question and answer of the "meaning of life" at any one time. :p

[LimeiBook86]

I hope this doesn't leave hole in the spacetime continum! This could cause a major time parodox that could wipe out the entire universe! Hopefully the parodox whould only be limited to our own galazy...

;)

[WinterMute]

Thanks for the prompt reply Arn, lke I said, we were just beating our gums, and, although I watched some of the Super Bowl, being English, I really didn't understand much of it...;)

[pgwalsh]

Originally posted by WinterMute
Thanks for the prompt reply Arn, lke I said, we were just beating our gums, and, although I watched some of the Super Bowl, being English, I really didn't understand much of it...;) We purposely designed the game so you wouldn't. ;)

[LimeiBook86]

I think my DeLorean time machine is broken....anyone have any spare Platonium? :D

[WinterMute]

Originally posted by pgwalsh
We purposely designed the game so you wouldn't. ;)

Hmm, got that idea from cricket did you?:D

[pgwalsh]

Originally posted by WinterMute


Hmm, got that idea from cricket did you?:D ha ha ha :D I think the LA police got the idea from cricket.

[King Cobra]

Back on topic:

I know that Macrumors hasn't been as snappy as it was before the virus attack, but Safari is turtle slow loading this site, while Mozilla and Internet Explorer are much faster. Safari still browses a lot of pages faster than both Mozilla and Internet Explorer, but not Macrumors. And, sometimes, Safari cannot get to Macrumors at all.

Anyone else picking up on this?

(posting on IE)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by King Cobra
Back on topic:

I know that Macrumors hasn't been as snappy as it was before the virus attack, but Safari is turtle slow loading this site, while Mozilla and Internet Explorer are much faster. Safari still browses a lot of pages faster than both Mozilla and Internet Explorer, but not Macrumors. And, sometimes, Safari cannot get to Macrumors at all.

Anyone else picking up on this?

it took forever to load on my [overloaded] school T1 line on IE today, and it seems sluggish right now in Chimera from my DSL line at home.

i haven't noticed much trouble with the forums. but the main site seems really slow. i thought it might just be getting trafficked because of the big big day ;) .

[King Cobra]

Yeah, it could be traffic. Safari seems all right now.

I remember back to when the board had a number killing 4-digit user count, and the boards had to be shut down to prevent crashing the server. The site wasn't at its most rapid, either.

[rjrufo]

Originally posted by LimeiBook86
I hope this doesn't leave hole in the spacetime continum! This could cause a major time parodox that could wipe out the entire universe! Hopefully the parodox whould only be limited to our own galazy...

;)

And maybe arn has a backup...

[LimeiBook86]

lol, and he just might...:)

[job]

Originally posted by King Cobra
I remember back to when the board had a number killing 4-digit user count, and the boards had to be shut down to prevent crashing the server. The site wasn't at its most rapid, either.

Heh, I remember those days too.

Simply insane.