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13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Natalie Started conversation Dec 13, 2004
Due to various 'under the bonnet' changes, it's been decided that a new DNA release will go live at 0800hrs GMT on Tuesday 14 December (tomorrow at time of writing). This release will involve downtime of up to two hours, during which time members will be redirected to a holding page. We apologise for any inconvenience.
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Mu Beta Posted Dec 13, 2004
"'Under the bonnet' changes"
Going to the hairdresser, are you?
B
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
taliesin Posted Dec 13, 2004
Oooh. 
will we be seeing a whole new selection of error messages, then? 
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Paully Posted Dec 13, 2004
[crosses fingers]
Oooh, we can but hope...!
Paully
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Dec 13, 2004
'error 169'
'insaine ramblings filter TM en encounted a sanity error in module 42'
'error 42'
'microsoft internet exploder encounted an error in module nighthoover'
'internet exploder could not cancel the opperation'
'we appologie for any convience we haven't caused'
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 13, 2004
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Dec 13, 2004
'Microsoft error 15.
'Module date caused an critical error'
'mesage read s thursday not found'
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Kat - From H2G2 Posted Dec 13, 2004
"An error has occured: An unknown error has taken place"
I love that one
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Mu Beta Posted Dec 13, 2004
It's extremely philosophical.
B
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Dec 13, 2004
Traveller in Time 
online
"An unexpected error has occured, no unexpected downtime since last (unannounced) downtime. 
"
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Scandrea Posted Dec 13, 2004
So, any word on what new goodies we're going to get between the error messages?
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 13, 2004
I think the point of the phrase "under the bonnet" is that we won't see anything different, but the h2g2 engine will purr like a well-oiled machine.
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Scandrea Posted Dec 13, 2004
Kind of missed that... 
Please excuse me as my brain has turned to mush from multivariable calculus.
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Spacecadet Jack (Supreme Commander in Cheif) [Major] Posted Dec 13, 2004
Very fasciniminating and intermeresting
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Dec 13, 2004
...redirected to a holding page
hope this time BBC knows it is not Brittish Summer Time (BST), because last unscheduled down time had BST instead of BT and was already BT!
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Dec 13, 2004
don't worry, pheloxi, the downtime has already been - I couldn't get access to any BBC-related page during the last hour 
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Dec 13, 2004
downtime is tomorrow not today!
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Dec 13, 2004
There, There, It will be even worse tomorrow.....
Blue screen, hanging cursors, time-outs, freezes. Sounds like an American Football Game.....
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking Posted Dec 13, 2004
"will go live at 0800 gmt"
Wil it go life by going down, or will it go down a few hours before to get it back up by 0800?
13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
Dr Anthea - ah who needs to learn things... just google it! Posted Dec 13, 2004
It could be eather...
my bets are on that its ment to come back up then
but knowing me I'm wrong
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13 December, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 14 December, 2004 - 0800hrs GMT
- 1: Natalie (Dec 13, 2004)
- 2: Mu Beta (Dec 13, 2004)
- 3: taliesin (Dec 13, 2004)
- 4: Paully (Dec 13, 2004)
- 5: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Dec 13, 2004)
- 6: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Dec 13, 2004)
- 7: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Dec 13, 2004)
- 8: Kat - From H2G2 (Dec 13, 2004)
- 9: Mu Beta (Dec 13, 2004)
- 10: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Dec 13, 2004)
- 11: Scandrea (Dec 13, 2004)
- 12: Gnomon - time to move on (Dec 13, 2004)
- 13: Scandrea (Dec 13, 2004)
- 14: Spacecadet Jack (Supreme Commander in Cheif) [Major] (Dec 13, 2004)
- 15: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Dec 13, 2004)
- 16: aka Bel - A87832164 (Dec 13, 2004)
- 17: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Dec 13, 2004)
- 18: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Dec 13, 2004)
- 19: Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking (Dec 13, 2004)
- 20: Dr Anthea - ah who needs to learn things... just google it! (Dec 13, 2004)
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