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Server Relocation
We are moving most of our servers to a colocation facility with better cooling, power, and network, which should improve uptime in general. This procedure will start on Monday, April 1st at 08:00 (PDT) and should take 3 days to complete, during which our entire project will be unavailable.
20 Mar 2013, 21:56:25 UTC · Comment

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Ready or not here it comes!! Hope someone will keep the AP splitters going that Friday so that I can have a full belly when things start.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

The announcement on the front page is quite clear - everything is being turned off, unplugged, lots are being packed up and moved, then reconnected, and hopefully will come back to life as though nothing has happened. Here's to hoping....

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

The announcement on the front page is quite clear - everything is being turned off, unplugged, lots are being packed up and moved, then reconnected, and hopefully will come back to life as though nothing has happened. Here's to hoping....

Please excuse an old man's ramblings -- the Friday that I was speaking of is March 29th, the Friday before the outage.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

And i cross my fingers and offer up an offering to the ghost in the machine that when they hook everything back up there are no problems!!!!

The most likely scenario is that they will let the queue completely drain over the weekend. This would minimize the pendings in the database and would make a smother transition.

@aurora your avatar pic takes me back..... i learnd cobal on one :)

@aurora your avatar pic takes me back..... i learnd cobal on one :)

I don't recall ever hearing of Cobal being available on the PET. I learned Fortran and Cobal in college in the early 70's on this

@aurora your avatar pic takes me back..... i learnd cobal on one :)

I don't recall ever hearing of Cobal being available on the PET. I learned Fortran and Cobal in college in the early 70's on this

Looks like several versions were.

http://www.npsnet.com/danf/cbm/languages.html#COBOL

[but some of those are for the other early Commodore machines, rather than the PET]

@aurora your avatar pic takes me back..... i learnd cobal on one :)

I don't recall ever hearing of Cobal being available on the PET. I learned Fortran and Cobal in college in the early 70's on this

Looks like several versions were.

http://www.npsnet.com/danf/cbm/languages.html#COBOL

[but some of those are for the other early Commodore machines, rather than the PET]

Interesting list - I did play around with Pascal and Comal on the C64.

I was mainly a mainframe. I remember starting with COBOL back in 1969 when there were 3 different versions depending on the operating system (TOS - Tape Operating System, DOS - Disk Operating System & OS - Basic Operating system) you used at the time. I've seen it grow from that to the current version as of 4 years ago -- 44 years and it will not die regardless of what the PC world believes.

Back between 1988 & 1990, I did code and testing using COBOL , Assembler & FORTRAN on a HP portable that emulated a mainframe MVS/CICS system that weight about 20 pounds and had a red screen. Awfully hard to read anything on that bad boy, so we hacked it and changed to screen to black with yellow characters.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

pardon my fat fingers i actually did mean COBOL. syntax error

@aurora your avatar pic takes me back..... i learnd cobal on one :)

I don't recall ever hearing of Cobal being available on the PET. I learned Fortran and Cobal in college in the early 70's on this

Looks like several versions were.

http://www.npsnet.com/danf/cbm/languages.html#COBOL

[but some of those are for the other early Commodore machines, rather than the PET]

Interesting list - I did play around with Pascal and Comal on the C64.

Amiga 500, was my pascal machine :) and rpg on a system 36 thank god i dont program anymore

...and here comes the ol' chestnut ...

how about raising the limits, or preferably removing them to allow us to build up a small cache so that we can continue to crunch over the relocation period ...

once the relocation is complete, re-impose the limits.

cheers

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...and here comes the ol' chestnut ...

how about raising the limits, or preferably removing them to allow us to build up a small cache so that we can continue to crunch over the relocation period ...

once the relocation is complete, re-impose the limits.

cheers

But if the cache limits remain the same, think of the power you'll save during the outage. :)

T.A.

...and here comes the ol' chestnut ...

how about raising the limits, or preferably removing them to allow us to build up a small cache so that we can continue to crunch over the relocation period ...

once the relocation is complete, re-impose the limits.

cheers

But if the cache limits remain the same, think of the power you'll save during the outage. :)

T.A.

all the other dc projects out there are dancing the jig going seti's down for a few days now we will reap the benifits of the mass migration while it is down

I suspect the kitties will take a bit of a nappy.
Could do some other projects, but I think I'll just let the ole electric meter get a rest. A few of the slow rigs just might be doing some AP work for the duration...dunno.
Only a couple of hours before the GPUs start to cool down. 100 WUs...LOL. Phhhhhhhhhht.

Meowsigh.
I do miss the days when I was able to cache enough work to run through an outage like this.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I was mainly a mainframe. I remember starting with COBOL back in 1969 when there were 3 different versions depending on the operating system (TOS - Tape Operating System, DOS - Disk Operating System & OS - Basic Operating system) you used at the time. I've seen it grow from that to the current version as of 4 years ago -- 44 years and it will not die regardless of what the PC world believes.

Back between 1988 & 1990, I did code and testing using COBOL , Assembler & FORTRAN on a HP portable that emulated a mainframe MVS/CICS system that weight about 20 pounds and had a red screen. Awfully hard to read anything on that bad boy, so we hacked it and changed to screen to black with yellow characters.

Anybody here work on a Basic4 system?
I programmed one 30 some years ago.
Idiot software engineer just refused to give some folks the printer output they desired. Once the word got out that I could reverse engineer his crap.......
Let's just say the traffic to my desk did not let up much.

Had to monitor the refrigeration to keep it running. Had an alarm at my desk if things got too toasty. Hard drives as big as a Yugo. I think they had about a half a dozen platters in them. They were about the size of a small top loading washing machine, actually.

I had to change them out once in a while.......'bout like changing the litter box.

And about as big. They were about 24 inches wide and 18 inches tall, weighed about 20 pounds or more. Had this big handle on the top that you twisted to engage the thing into the drive. And talk about spin-up? You could hear those things winding up for miles around...LOL.

And whilst we are on the subject, anybody ever change the ribbon on a Centronix band printer? That thing wound up like a banshee too......and could spit out a full box of paper in a few minutes.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

...and here comes the ol' chestnut ...

how about raising the limits, or preferably removing them to allow us to build up a small cache so that we can continue to crunch over the relocation period ...

once the relocation is complete, re-impose the limits.

cheers

But if the cache limits remain the same, think of the power you'll save during the outage. :)

T.A.

what are you worried about ... that I'll get closer to you ... yeah, in about a year ... btw, have you noticed what's coming up underneath you ... :))

cheers

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what are you worried about ... that I'll get closer to you ... yeah, in about a year ... btw, have you noticed what's coming up underneath you ... :))

cheers

Who, what???
Morten and juan have blown by me and the kitties.
Nobody in sight after that.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."