Life without FreeBSD Forums is hard!

eternal_noob said:
… a notice on the main page …
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gpw928 said:
… some sort of update on the FreeBSD home page.
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Happy 25th anniversary, FreeBSD!

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… or is it the 28th, or 29th? :)
 
As someone who's worked at a data center, sometimes things happen. Sometimes, clients are screaming I'm offline, let me talk to someone and the answer is, There's no one to talk to, everyone is working on it.
As for an RFO (Reason for Outage) usually, they like to investigate, perhaps put mitigation in place before responding.

As this is a user forum for which we pay nothing, and may be a sponsored client, who is not paying (I don't know that, but do know that some companies, such as NYI, sponsor FreeBSD.org hosts, hosting for nothing), whoever is fixing it is probably working on placating paying clients first. Despite cries that they MUST give us an explanation, they really don't have to. The fact that they probably will when the dust settles is merely another nice thing they do for us.

As for saying it couldn't have been weather, my answer is "Huh?" A friend who works for a data center went through a big mess this weekend when they lost what was supposed to be redundant power, due to lightning striking some Con Ed equipment. And this is in my area, which was not hit badly by weather, generally speaking.
 
scottro said:
Despite cries that they MUST give us an explanation, they really don't have to.
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The don't HAVE to but
eternal_noob said:
Hiding vulnerabilities doesn't help with credibility and trust.
It causes concern that there isn't a statement from the foundation yet.
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scottro said:
As for saying it couldn't have been weather, my answer is "Huh?"
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Huh!:
Jose said:
I have a virtual host there (bought it from Rootbsd, which was absorbed by Netactuate.) It did not go down.
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I agree. Weather is highly unlikely to be the issue. Just cause it's snowing outside doesn't mean a data center goes down. It better not. This isn't a mom and pop operation. I haven't heard anything in regards to tornadoes or hurricanes that would be much more destructive. Even then, you hear something within 24 hours. Here we are four or five days later and nothing.

This really is no big deal but saying nothing has made this into a big deal now six pages long. It's irritating we can't at least hear, "Oops. Johnny unplugged the server by mistake." The reputation of those involved is already soured so you can't make it much worse.
 
eternal_noob said:
I am patient. But in the meantime i want to speculate because life is boring.
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If life is boring, I can suggest going back to some unresolved FreeBSD issues from your past, and try resolving them:

eternal_noob said:
It all worked fine until i realized that compiling a single port would pull in 128 another dependencies. I currently only have a Raspberry Pi 400 available which has limited resources and an SD card.
I don't want to torment that card and wait until next year for the compilation to finish.

I guess i postpone being a ports maintainer.
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That's what I was doing during those 3 days, resolving my own unresolved FreeBSD issues. My latest battle has been with git and self-signed certs (see my profile page for more, if you're interested). ?
 
Well any conspiracy theory is on topic because topic is "Life without FreeBSD Forums is hard!"

So here's another one:

The foundation hired Lennart to work on a new init system for FreeBSD 15.
The janitor of the datacenter is a big fan of Ubuntu and said to Lennart: "Hey Lenny, why not install Ubuntu on all the FreeBSD servers, it already has systemd".
Lennart did what he had to to and the rest is history.
 
Strange, but true: Chaka Khan's forename is onomatopoeic. It's the sound of an optical disc drive repeatedly failing to read a sector from one of her CDs.

chaka ⋯ chaka ⋯ chaka​

grahamperrin said:
a failover routine should have triggered service from a Bondi blue iMac, but it failed to boot because the cleaning lady had left her Chaka Khan disc in the CD tray – things stalled at the firmware stage through unreadability of a bad sector.
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grahamperrin said:
Chaka Khan's forename is onomatopoeic. It's the sound of an optical disc drive repeatedly failing to read a sector from one of her CDs.

chaka ⋯ chaka ⋯ chaka​
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This only works in english. In german it would be "klack klack klack".

Btw: Did you know that "Perin" in a currency in a MMORPG? https://flyff-wiki.gpotato.com.br/wiki/Perin.html
I always imagine an old man sitting on a pile of gold.
 
grahamperrin said:
a failover routine should have triggered service from a Bondi blue iMac, but it failed to boot because the cleaning lady had left her Chaka Khan disc in the CD tray
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In this case, it wasn't Chaka Khan. It wasn't Ozzy, either (and the vaxorcist has retiread anyway). Long story short, the dark chamber had to call for support from the laundry and the 13.th directorate...
 
I have a hypothesis:

The janitor, who has (for security reasons) the only key to the datacenter has been fed up with the weather, and 've decided to take a 3-day vacation on Florida.

Or maybe some new inexperienced FreeBSD developer have decided to bump hal version to 9000?

As for Lennart and systemd, it's just a consequence of incompatibility between commercialism and the GPL. If some company decides to earn money through support, guess what'll happen:

a) It will make its code bulletproof, and as simple as possible, so that everyone could support it in a very rare event something's broke
xor
b) It will create as bad and as complicated code as possible, so that only they could earn money on supporting it.

Because in b) case there could be someone else producing better software, in order to sustain its existence they need to destroy/take control of all concurrency. And voila, we have a birth of systemd (spell. cease them D ;) ).
 
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