h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We're really sorry about the current unreliability of h2g2. We're having some major problems with our servers - they're crashing about once a day - but we haven't yet identified what the exact cause is. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a consistent pattern to the problem, so it's very difficult to see what is causing the crashes.

As soon as we can pinpoint a cause we can prevent it from happening again, but until then there's nothing we can do except keep hunting for the cause.

We apologise profusely for this performance problem, and hope you can bear with us while we work into the night on finding a fix.

wanders in with a supply of and for all the staff...

Don't worry, we'll survive, just don't work too late, it's alright if the researcher's are all addicts, but we don't want the staff to get sick of the place


whisky

Any chance of going back to the slow but dependable pre-christmas servers?

Here Here!

Leaves a supply of

Don't do yourselves an injury guys

Thanks for letting us know! (I always think it's me ) ...and good luck!

And please don't consider my suggestion as critisism. I know you do a great job, but it might take some of the urgency from your shoulders, while we can go on.

Unless of course the problems are load-related...


Keep a clear head, and take your time for and .
The well deserved comes later.

Is there a connection between the current flakiness and the fact that Jim's not allowed to maintain the servers personally any more?

Good luck you guys, we'll be here, doint the stuff that inconsistently crashes the servers

Love,

Dancer

Good Luck!

... and if everything else fails: Remember Ripley. Nuke the Site from orbit

I always find bribing my computter with some sort of upgrade helps when it's not behaving itself. Either that or I teach it a lesson by formatting its hard drive

Failing that, a sharp kick usually does the trick, or leaning over the box and muttering LINUX, LINUX, LINUX usually helps when dealing with M****soft

(Mind you, you should take into consideration that this advice comes from someone with a rubber mallet hanging up in his office, with a sign underneath saying 'IT Support')

Is this why I keep having scary moments where I go to my space and it says
'Welcome to the space of Researcher 180xxx. Unfortunately they haven't written anything here..etc'

and then won't let me log in for a while (doesn't recognise me apparently)?

I thought I had done something evil and been booted out!

Have a nice healthy to go with all that , got to keep up the vitamin levels in these tryig times...

k

We need to name the database problems. How about Spontaneous Existance Failure?

Hardware rattles when kicked.

No, it's not S.E.P., it's MY problem and YOUR problem and OUR problem.

As it's a large pain in the a*s, what about Macrosore?

Spontaneous Existance Failure isn't that S.E.F not SEP?

An Sep field wouldn't help much maybe if we all sit with our towels over our heads, if we can't see it.......

Yes it does scare when your existance fails, but it only seems to be in short bursts.

And after it denies your existence, it stops reacting at all. Maybe that's when someone gives it the tree-finger symbol V I
(or Ctrl-Alt Del)

Maybe the Critical Updates have updated it to the Critical list.

* has woe for computer problems at h2g2, but has problems of his own as well to deal with *

Tree-finger symbol?
I've always called it the three-finger salute.

Good luck, guys! It's scary when your stuff vanishes..