Upgrades and Downtime; DCS 7.1 Beta Soon

KermMartian · 29 Oct 2010

In case you aren't a fan of Cemetech on Facebook, don't follow @Cemetech on Twitter, and haven't attended any of the weekly Have Calc, Will Program seminars over the last four weeks, you probably don't know what's new and exciting with Cemetech. As far as site upgrades, I have recently added a new This Week's Posts link to the existing New Posts page as a tip of the hat to the many users (including myself) who have been frustrated with their new posts list getting lost and not knowing what topics have been recently active. I also optimized and consolidated section of the Private Messaging (PM) system, so that all PMs sent via SAX and issued as notifications of Cemetech archives submissions' acceptances or rejections will arrive safely and reliably at their destinations. On the statistics front, Cemetech has raced past 1,500 users, 125,000 posts, and 8.3 million topic views, and is rapidly closing on 5,000 topics and 5 million words posted. We look forward to a maintenance of this increased activity as Cemetech members continue to make small strides on their projects and undertakings despite school and work.

An unfortunate confluence of unavoidable downtimes means that many Cemetech services will be unavailable early Sunday morning, Eastern Daylight Time. Due to hosting network upgrades, the main Cemetech website and subdomains will be down from midnight until 2am on Sunday; the IRC channel, #cemetech on irc.efnet.net, will continue to function. Also, due to another building bringing its Cogen plant online, the Cemetech UT server, the Saxjax IRC service, and Simms AI will be offline from 6am to 11am on Sunday. All services should be properly up and restored by noon on Sunday. I've also been repeatedly delayed in releasing Doors CS 7.1 beta 1 due to lack of free time to code, document, and test the changes, so I encourage you to post up any bugs you have encountered in Doors CS 7.0.1 to give me some incentive towards trying to make more progress on Doors CS.
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qazz42 · Vampire Killer Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 4177

haha, good stuff Kerm. I noticed the PM changes when I was able to open all of my SAX pms successfully (I am very serious, some would not open)

on the darker side, oh noes, I dont think I will make it through the downtime. I am assuming the downtime will eventually end with a faster cemetech?
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KermMartian · Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:18:34 pm Post subject:

Raylin · Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:19:54 pm Post subject:

HCWP FTWWWWWWWW
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KermMartian · Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:27:46 pm Post subject:

qazz42 · Vampire Killer Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 4177

hehe, I know you know that I was serious, the phrasing of my sentence looked non-serious to me and I could not think of a way to rephrase it. Anyways, good stuff now that I can receive and open emails 1006% of the time.

and awww, crap, UT server will be down? Better find the ol china server XD
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KermMartian · Posted: 30 Oct 2010 06:49:27 pm Post subject:

Keep in mind that the downtime will be 6am to 11am Sunday; I doubt a lot of you are even conscious for most of that time slot, let alone up for playing UT. Very Happy

xXEpicFail, thanks, cheers.
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qazz42 · Vampire Killer Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 4177

hehe, I probably will, oh well, I guess I won't die from 5 hours without cemetech XD

I now give Kerm {2} bananas for a good job on a soon to be bugless DCS
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KermMartian · Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:33:09 pm Post subject:

Cheers Qazz.

So, because there's a flood on the same floor where the Simms* machines are, SaxJax, Melisma, and the UT server (among other things that I care about and you guys don't) are now offline until at least noon tomorrow.
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qazz42 · Vampire Killer Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 4177

merthsoft · File Archiver Joined: 09 May 2010 Posts: 2735

I care about all of it!
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KermMartian · Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:46:31 pm Post subject:

qazz42 · Vampire Killer Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 4177

ah, Ok, I see, I was thinking that you have the machines in yout office and there was flood of people on the same floor of your office >.">

/me attempt to hide his shame
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KermMartian · Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:11:31 pm Post subject:

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KermMartian · Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:42:56 pm Post subject:

qazz42 · Vampire Killer Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 4177

hehe, it is 10 over here and everything seems to be going great for now Smile

now to wait and see what happens at noon (heh, perhaps there wont even be downtime Razz

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KermMartian · Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:59:03 am Post subject:

DJ_O · Posted: 01 Nov 2010 01:33:31 am Post subject:

search_id=weekposts == WIN

I wanted this for so long. Should be greatly useful to quickly find topics I missed that had new posts recently. This might also increase activity a bit, since fewer topics will be missed. Smile

Also I'm glad activity around here is still remaining up. Hopefully this last for a while. I also can't wait for Doors CS 7.1 beta. Smile

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