Trouble and mystery at our sister website, SF dot net
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exchemist
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foghorn
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Thought of you the other day when this book popped up at the Gutenberg site:
The evolution of the oil industry by Victor Ross
Just lost its copyright.
exchemist
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I see though it was written in 1920. So presumably Ross must have died 70 years ago, in 1955. Could be interesting to see how it was viewed back then, when the motor car was just becoming widely available for the first time. Think Laurel and Hardy’s Model T.
Pinball1970
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Still consider. Dip your toe in.
TheVat
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Y'know, people own domains for decades. Like houses. Anyone ever think there ought to be a way to buy a longer term lease than one freaking year? Or this organization that handles registrations could require a one week grace period on payments? As is the case with....almost every other billing in the world. Does someone come and shut off your electricity at midnight of the day the bill was due? The logic of this draconian system escapes me.
Goose story! made me LMAO.
Goose story! made me LMAO.
TheVat
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....and it's down again!
Can't be a DN issue, that bill got paid in October. I ran one analysis that said there might be a problem with InVision Community server, but then I went to InVision and everything was copacetic there, showing normal activity.
I really hope this isn't related to some wrench-tossing by the Silly Party. You never know what Old Biscuitbarrel and his cronies are up to, when it comes to messing with our nation's infrastructure. I'm hoping it's just some temp outage from the winter storms rolling across the U.S.
Can't be a DN issue, that bill got paid in October. I ran one analysis that said there might be a problem with InVision Community server, but then I went to InVision and everything was copacetic there, showing normal activity.
I really hope this isn't related to some wrench-tossing by the Silly Party. You never know what Old Biscuitbarrel and his cronies are up to, when it comes to messing with our nation's infrastructure. I'm hoping it's just some temp outage from the winter storms rolling across the U.S.
exchemist
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Cloudflare blew up again today, taking out Muskie’s X and a lot of other sites. My guess is that’s what it is, and they have to wait for Cap’n Wotsisface to get out of bed and do a restart or something, now that Cloudflare is, allegedly, working once more.
TheVat
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The SF net outage began yesterday, late afternoon US Mountain Time (UTC -7). And InVision reported no problems during the Cloudflare outage (which was about half an hour). But...maybe. Could be some earlier cascade of effects which eventually took out CF the following morning.
exchemist
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Ah, you have more information than I then. I just saw it was down when I tried it at about 0700 GMT.
As for Old Biscuitbarrel, I see Rationalwiki is OK. I’d have thought that would be a lot more likely to be a target, considering their extensive article on The Orange One: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
There’a lot of combustible stuff in there I didn’t know, about his dealings with the mafia, his father being a klansman etc. Quite interesting, actually.
Pinball1970
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Yeah noticed that.
TheVat
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We're still in a solar maximum period, so maybe these IT companies can blame solar flares. We did maybe get a glancing blow from a coronal mass ejection, yesterday.
I expect Olga had some problems. Remember her saying how solar activity affected her nervous system and skin?
I expect Olga had some problems. Remember her saying how solar activity affected her nervous system and skin?
TheVat
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Wow. That is a thing of wonder and fierce beauty. I hope it's been archived somewhere, in case the plug gets pulled from RW.
SFN still down. Everything I'm seeing says the Cloudflare related downings were pretty brief, so not sure what's going on.
BTW, Capt. Refsmmat (SFN's admin) is an old NASA reference...
REFSMMAT - Wikipedia
exchemist
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Yeah I’m almost tempted to copy paste the whole of it into a document to file, just in case. I fear it may only be a matter of time before one of Trump’s gauleiters gets round to purging or DOS-disabling such inconvenient websites. But no doubt they will work on the most widely consulted outlets first and RW is fairly obscure, I suppose.Wow. That is a thing of wonder and fierce beauty. I hope it's been archived somewhere, in case the plug gets pulled from RW.
SFN still down. Everything I'm seeing says the Cloudflare related downings were pretty brief, so not sure what's going on.
BTW, Capt. Refsmmat (SFN's admin) is an old NASA reference...
REFSMMAT - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I thought it had been very quiet there over the past day or so-and wondered if some servers might have gone down that served diferent global regions.
(Maybe it does go quiet on a Sunday)
exchemist
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There is now a message saying the web hosting service has been discontinued due to a flood of bots and that the site is looking for an alternative host. Pretty alarming - and strange for such an obscure website.