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thessalian) wrote2006-09-25 09:52 pm
thessalian) wrote2006-09-25 09:52 pm
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Crash and Burn
For those of you on Charleston by Night, Kyr has asked me to pass along some information. As this is my preferred medium and no one I talk to is online (apart from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadow_lynne, who hasn't submitted her character sheet yet and is thus exempt), and it's something I need to vent about anyway, here goes:
Background for those not in the know is that the server upon which CbN is hosted died a couple of days ago. I mean completely, unmitigatedly died. And rumour was that the guy who handles such things hadn't done backups in "too long". His words, not ours. So a lot of us were sitting around and praying that, even if the last backup was before the "Rainbow's End" SL (aka "Nina Offs a Technocrat"), we at least had backups since Revel, when we all got blowed up real good.
The news I have been asked to pass along is that we don't have backups of Revel. Last recorded backup was February. Mid-February, judging by the boards. Everyone has to sign back up for use of the chatrooms, and everyone who registered on the forums after about 12th Feb needs to do the same. And apparently chat's kind of borked at the minute because a whole bunch of fixes that got put in place since February are no longer there.
Did I mention I joined in May or thereabouts? So I have to re-register for forums access as well as chat and everything I've ever done on that board - the mood posts, the storylines I liked rereading, the media posts I wrote and was actually damn proud of - has gone up in a puff of smoke. The media and mood posts are my own fault; if I'd wanted them handy, I should have kept backups of my own. But gods, what a pain in the arse. It's going to come as a real shock to poor Drop to come back from his abbreviated honeymoon and find that.
The weird thing is that I'm not angry. Okay, mildly surprised that the guy who runs our backups didn't burn as set to disc as well as keeping them handy on a hard drive or something (and this is where I get confused; he says he hasn't backed up in too long; now he says he just can't find any but swears he did some. Either way, there just aren't backups so I'm not going to quibble over semantics), but not angry. In fact, I feel bad for him more than anything else. Him, Kyr, kai,courtcat ... all the staffers have put up with so much shit already lately that this on top of it has got to be a blow. I just want to hug them all lots and tell them how sorry I am that things went all to hell.
Still, just in general, and directed at no one in particular ... sonuvabitch!!! Well, it's an excuse to turn todarkdanc3r and/or ilyena_sylph and ask if they would be kind enough to send me the logs of the chat scenes I've been in with them prior to Revel. I have the mad shopping ("I'm Pretty Pretty Princess Barbie and I'll go all voodoo on your ass!") and the post-date rundown lunch ("Besides, I'm dying to know how graphic you can be before you bust something.") and everything from "Getting Mandy Peltier" on, but I kind of want to have a larger body of documentation of how Nina started out as a reference point for her bouncing back from the nervous martyr freak she seems to have become. It would have been mood posts and all, but as those seem to have bought the farm, I'll have to make do. Hmm. Wonder if anyone still has logs for Nina's first meet-up with the Barons of Suburbia...
Anyway. Other news is that I have blood tests tomorrow at Barnet, which means I can find their bloody radiology unit and flag up the fax the doc sent on Thursday so I can get an appointment for that too. Additionally, I have a dinner meet-up with my mother tomorrow, and I will be bringing home a Cuisinart-ish thing because apparently, the one Mum's had for years didn't match the new kitchen so she had to get a new one so I inherited the old one. Yay, me. I also remembered that my stepfather's birthday was on Friday, so I picked up a card, a small box of chocolates and a bottle of dessert wine for him as a present. In addition, I'm lending Mum Firefly and our Dark Crystal / Labyrinth / Mirrormask box set and giving her some of the music I've acquired lately. She needs stuff for her iPod and most of her good stuff is on vinyl, so I'm helping.
shadow_lynne, who hasn't submitted her character sheet yet and is thus exempt), and it's something I need to vent about anyway, here goes:Background for those not in the know is that the server upon which CbN is hosted died a couple of days ago. I mean completely, unmitigatedly died. And rumour was that the guy who handles such things hadn't done backups in "too long". His words, not ours. So a lot of us were sitting around and praying that, even if the last backup was before the "Rainbow's End" SL (aka "Nina Offs a Technocrat"), we at least had backups since Revel, when we all got blowed up real good.
The news I have been asked to pass along is that we don't have backups of Revel. Last recorded backup was February. Mid-February, judging by the boards. Everyone has to sign back up for use of the chatrooms, and everyone who registered on the forums after about 12th Feb needs to do the same. And apparently chat's kind of borked at the minute because a whole bunch of fixes that got put in place since February are no longer there.
Did I mention I joined in May or thereabouts? So I have to re-register for forums access as well as chat and everything I've ever done on that board - the mood posts, the storylines I liked rereading, the media posts I wrote and was actually damn proud of - has gone up in a puff of smoke. The media and mood posts are my own fault; if I'd wanted them handy, I should have kept backups of my own. But gods, what a pain in the arse. It's going to come as a real shock to poor Drop to come back from his abbreviated honeymoon and find that.
The weird thing is that I'm not angry. Okay, mildly surprised that the guy who runs our backups didn't burn as set to disc as well as keeping them handy on a hard drive or something (and this is where I get confused; he says he hasn't backed up in too long; now he says he just can't find any but swears he did some. Either way, there just aren't backups so I'm not going to quibble over semantics), but not angry. In fact, I feel bad for him more than anything else. Him, Kyr, kai,
courtcat ... all the staffers have put up with so much shit already lately that this on top of it has got to be a blow. I just want to hug them all lots and tell them how sorry I am that things went all to hell.Still, just in general, and directed at no one in particular ... sonuvabitch!!! Well, it's an excuse to turn to
darkdanc3r and/or ilyena_sylph and ask if they would be kind enough to send me the logs of the chat scenes I've been in with them prior to Revel. I have the mad shopping ("I'm Pretty Pretty Princess Barbie and I'll go all voodoo on your ass!") and the post-date rundown lunch ("Besides, I'm dying to know how graphic you can be before you bust something.") and everything from "Getting Mandy Peltier" on, but I kind of want to have a larger body of documentation of how Nina started out as a reference point for her bouncing back from the nervous martyr freak she seems to have become. It would have been mood posts and all, but as those seem to have bought the farm, I'll have to make do. Hmm. Wonder if anyone still has logs for Nina's first meet-up with the Barons of Suburbia...Anyway. Other news is that I have blood tests tomorrow at Barnet, which means I can find their bloody radiology unit and flag up the fax the doc sent on Thursday so I can get an appointment for that too. Additionally, I have a dinner meet-up with my mother tomorrow, and I will be bringing home a Cuisinart-ish thing because apparently, the one Mum's had for years didn't match the new kitchen so she had to get a new one so I inherited the old one. Yay, me. I also remembered that my stepfather's birthday was on Friday, so I picked up a card, a small box of chocolates and a bottle of dessert wine for him as a present. In addition, I'm lending Mum Firefly and our Dark Crystal / Labyrinth / Mirrormask box set and giving her some of the music I've acquired lately. She needs stuff for her iPod and most of her good stuff is on vinyl, so I'm helping.
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