Forum Upgrade next week. It's going to be nasty.

[daedal]

Lock n' load, then Fire for Effect...

With ample warning for those members that might suffer extreme withdrawal symptoms if offline for more than a few minutes...

I'm afraid there is no cure... I might have to start a conference call... who's in?

PL-Downtime party! Woo!

--DDL

[Laserman532]

I will be spending the majority of this down time in the fetal position shivering in the corner, possibly with a small dribble of spittal oozing from my mouth

[platinum]

We could all go over to LPF and hang for a while like a bunch of sailors at port for the parade...

-Jonathan

[clandestiny]

Yes let's do that. While where at it get rid of laser Ben as well. I noticed he still has a few shill accounts he uses to lurk around or alter poll results.

[allthatwhichis]

Gladly. As soon as I get the release notification I will try and schedule the install during some of the rare down time(2300EST-ish) and dump a notification somewhere on the board.

[buffo]

Ahem...
"Man battle stations missile for strategic weapons launch. Spin up all missiles. Set condition 1SQ for strategic weapons launch. This is the captain, this is not an exercise."

Seriously Robert - just do it. We can live with the board being off-line for 2 hours if it saves you a day of labor.

Adam

[Doc]

Ahem...
"Man battle stations missile for strategic weapons launch. Spin up all missiles. Set condition 1SQ for strategic weapons launch. This is the captain, this is not an exercise."

Seriously Robert - just do it. We can live with the board being off-line for 2 hours if it saves you a day of labor.

Adam

two hours and five minutes however.................

[swisseuro]

for sure upgrade, but do the following, backup backup backup

* put the board offline.
* backup the MySQL Database.
* backup the files.
* install update

[Admin]

I'm back, where is the "donate" button now ??

Ray

Subscription system was implemented and I removed the donate button out of fear that I would be called a dirty money grubbing sack of shit.

That being said; I'll probably re-enable it soon. Theres a long story behind how financially screwed I am but I'll skip it aside from stating that I will not be buying any christmas presents for anyone. Even "base" bills are very very iffy.

I will be spending the majority of this down time in the fetal position shivering in the corner, possibly with a small dribble of spittal oozing from my mouth

No need for that... I can setup a fake board somewhere to play on or just make sure to get the irc wrapper done beforehand. It shouldn't be too bad knock on wood.

We could all go over to LPF and hang for a while like a bunch of sailors at port for the parade...

Now *thats* an interesting idea. I could see that as a public service campaign or some other form of court ordered atonement.

[Admin]

"Seriously Robert - just do it. We can live with the board being off-line for 2 hours if it saves you a day of labor.

I don't know man... I get IM notifications from people that PL is down faster than the script engine can process error reports.

two hours and five minutes however.................

Maybe I should have adopted the Pre IPO corp speak of stating that "This is a forward thinking statement and the stated time table might vary from initial estimates"

for sure upgrade, but do the following, backup backup backup

* put the board offline.
* backup the MySQL Database.
* backup the files.
* install update

The first and last are the quick ones, including telling Mr.MySQL to take a long nap.

The center two... Those are the time vampires.