Am I gonna have to turn off the computer and go outside?

Yeah, it hasn't been this bad in a long time. I've been trying to sift for the last hour and 90% of the time it takes a minute or more for a page to load and every couple of minutes there's what appears to be a site-wide timeout where nothing loads at all.

So to balance things out, let me pimp my recent http://www.videosift.com/video/Congo-Space-Program-Epic-Fail-or-Epic-WIN

thats not funny Dag...

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Sorry all, we're having some yet unidentified problem with our servers today - we're looking into it.

Give SiftBot a booster shot or something. He must be feeling down.

>> ^blankfist:
Am I gonna have to turn off the computer and go outside?


Who turns off their computer when going out? That's absurd!! [grin]

>> ^paul4dirt:


thats not funny Dag...


No throwing me!!

Trying to open a tab to watch a video and all I get is this :

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Here's an update. We're a twin engine plane running on a single engine. One of our two web servers is down at the moment, so we are half speed. Lucky may have located the problem though and we hope to have both engines running before peak time tomorrow - (or else this plane will crash spectacularly)

In case of emergency, blankfist's moobs can be used as a floatation device.

>> ^dag:
Here's an update. We're a twin engine plane running on a single engine. One of our two web servers is down at the moment, so we are half speed. Lucky may have located the problem though and we hope to have both engines running before peak time tomorrow - (or else this plane will crash spectacularly)


Is this plane Oceanic 815? Are we going to crash onto an uncharted island? Is SiftBot the black smoke?

For me the slowdown seems to be resolved since ~2min ago.

*edit* For me the slowdown seemed to be resolved for a couple of minutes.

*edit2* 15min later and VS is lag-free again.

>> ^burdturgler:
In case of emergency, blankfist's moobs can be used as a floatation device.


Ew. I will take Kate's boobs.

>> ^ant:
Is this plane Oceanic 815? Are we going to crash onto an uncharted island? Is SiftBot the black smoke?


And will I lose my username and come back as a string of numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42?

>> ^blankfist:
>> ^ant:
Is this plane Oceanic 815? Are we going to crash onto an uncharted island? Is SiftBot the black smoke?

And will I lose my username and come back as a string of numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42?


Will we have to reset the timers too?

>> ^blankfist:
>> ^ant:
Is this plane Oceanic 815? Are we going to crash onto an uncharted island? Is SiftBot the black smoke?

And will I lose my username and come back as a string of numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42?


Will we have to reset the timers too?

^I see what you did there, time-traveling Desmond.

>> ^ant:
Will we have to reset the timers too?

>> ^ant:
Will we have to reset the timers too?

>> ^dag:
Here's an update. We're a twin engine plane running on a single engine. One of our two web servers is down at the moment, so we are half speed. Lucky may have located the problem though and we hope to have both engines running before peak time tomorrow - (or else this plane will crash spectacularly)

*wings

Adding post to channels (Wings) - requested by kulpims.

>> ^EDD:
^I see what you did there, time-traveling Desmond.
>> ^ant:
Will we have to reset the timers too?

>> ^ant:
Will we have to reset the timers too?



LOL! VS wasn't responding and didn't noticed I did a dupe. Woo!

*scifi too!

Adding post to channels (Scifi) - requested by ant.

>> ^dag:
Here's an update. We're a twin engine plane running on a single engine. One of our two web servers is down at the moment, so we are half speed. Lucky may have located the problem though and we hope to have both engines running before peak time tomorrow - (or else this plane will crash spectacularly)

phew...I thought I was going to have to finally upgrade from my AOL with 14.4k modem.

>> ^rottenseed:
>> ^dag:
Here's an update. We're a twin engine plane running on a single engine. One of our two web servers is down at the moment, so we are half speed. Lucky may have located the problem though and we hope to have both engines running before peak time tomorrow - (or else this plane will crash spectacularly)

phew...I thought I was going to have to finally upgrade from my AOL with 14.4k modem.


Frak that, 300 speed modem and Apple 2!

^I'm only 27

>> ^rottenseed:
^I'm only 27


Baby!

Um.....has anyone checked the backup?
-tagline for Siftpocalypse 2, coming soon to a server near you

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Backup - what's that? I'm happy to report that both engines are running, you can use the toilets now (though no congregating)

>> ^dag:
Backup - what's that? I'm happy to report that both engines are running, you can use the toilets now (though no congregating)


Finally!! Can't hold it anymore even though I am a honey pot ant.

I am actually very glad every one is having problems - I was beginning to think my kids screwed up my computer playing more of those Free-Internet-Flash-Games!

(I'm currently running without anti-virus or firewall. Just can't afford to replace my old outdated one so I just removed it all..... Suggestions? Free-suggestions??)

Get avast or avg and spybot search and destroy installed. Get malwarebytes and scan with that too. They're all free. I don't know of a good free firewall.

>> ^Sagemind:
I am actually very glad every one is having problems - I was beginning to think my kids screwed up my computer playing more of those Free-Internet-Flash-Games!
(I'm currently running without anti-virus or firewall. Just can't afford to replace my old outdated one so I just removed it all..... Suggestions? Free-suggestions??)


See http://www.dslreports.com/faq/security ...

Cheers & Thanks - I'll play with those (I do have Spybot around here somewhere).