crash... Down goes the Mudcat

Subject: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Max
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 12:33 PM

Hello all. Yes, we were down for about 4 days. We had a great crash that is going to take us another couple of days, maybe even weeks to clean up. Sorry. Things should be running at least OK now, but it may be shaky for the next couple of weeks. It just happened to coincide with one of our employees on a honeymoon, and another out for 2 weeks. So we're short on staff and doing all we can. Hang in there, and I will try to as well.

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: BSeed
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 01:04 PM

Max, you can't know how happy I am to have you back. Actually, you can, probably, because you got my frenzied emails off the link on the error message. Anyway, life without the threads is dreary, indeed. --seed

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 02:52 PM

Gee, Max, it sure is nice to be back with you. All this time, I thought you were off drinking root beer on the beach and neglecting us. I shoulda known better. Hope everything works out OK.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 03:23 PM

Off on a honeymoon? I think some priorities need adjusting.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Max
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 04:12 PM

Yeh, I should take the honeymoon. Anyone wanna get married?

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Bill in Alabama
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 04:26 PM

Max--

I can reach mudcat through the mudcat.org site, but not through the "messages since your last visit site"; is that the cookie site that folks talk about. Please pardon my ignorance in asking. For the next few days, I reckon I'll just come in through the Mudcat Site to play it safe. I'm mighty proud that your accessible again.

Bill

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Barbara
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 04:40 PM

Hey, great to have you back, and gosh, Max, that's a lovely offer, but aren't you married or at least in a long term primary relationship with your computer?
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 06:16 PM

G'day Max,

Hey ... we didn't notice here in Australia. It was a long weekend (for Labour Day, Mon 5 October)) in much of Eastern Australia - and this is the Land of the Long Weekend!

Of course, to stuff that up, the Federal Government bunged on an election and, unfortunately, didn't quite lose office for their hubris.

Anyway, I was easing myself into Sydney's Spring weather by renewing acquaintances up in the Blue Mountains for 4 days and have just returned to the Big Smoke(it is Tuesday already here) hoping to catch up on 4 days of Mudcattery ...

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: harpgirl
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 08:14 PM

Sorry Max, I'm a Joe Offer holdout...harpgirl

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Jenny
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 08:21 PM

Max ... next time, can you send us a frantic email to let us know you're going down for the third time. I was getting a wee bit nervous there. Oh, and harpgirl, I, too, am waiting for Joe. I'll have my second call your second and we can duel at sundown. Jenny

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Helen
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 08:23 PM

Hi Max,

Great to have you & Mudcat back. Unlike Bob (speak for yourself, Bob :-) ) I've been frantically trying to get back in for the last 4 days and the error messages were getting more and more dire. The last one was that there wasn't a server named Mudcat - can you think of anything worse than that?

And Max, I suppose being in Oz disqualifies me from you offer, but.......

Helen

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 08:25 PM

Hmmmm. I think I'll just bask in my popularity for a while.....
But actually, I was waiting for Alison's little ones to turn into teenagers so she'd run away from home and run off with me.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Roger Himler
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 08:34 PM

Max,

Glad to have you all back!!! In a short 7 months, I have grown quite attached. I will not make you a marriage offer. Sorry. I will gladly drink a toast at your wedding.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Craig
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 09:27 PM

Hi Max. What do you think. With all of this crashing going on maybe we should all get together and by Max a parachute.

Craig

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 10:24 PM

First off, Max, I will not marry you, nor even flirt with you, I am a man of honor, and have been hugged by Alison.

Secondly; Geez Joe, You got Harpgirl AND Jenny ready to dook it out, and you have to go after the only woman who has ever cyber-hugged me. All this because I made a few eensy weensy jokes about Como, Williams, et al.

Finally, and seriously, I am so happy that you have got it back online. I have been near frantic for the last few days. Maybe it is time for the rest of us who live and breathe Mudcat to consider making a wee donation for its sustenance. If those of us who are core constituents would consider a contribution of whatever could be afforded, it would perhaps help out. I know that Max, Dick, Susan will not make the plea. So I am making it for them. Post a snail mail address, and my check for $50.00 is in the mail.

Oh, and one more thing. Alison, check out the thread titled "YOU JUST GOTTA GET ONE OF THESE". Offer admits that he hasn't washed his tee shirt in 6 months. No kind of a fella for a class woman like yourself. :-))

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Jenny
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 10:59 PM

I'm so glad we're back on the same page again! My 95 y/o grandmother passed away Saturday and I'm in much need of the kind of warm humor that makes me smile to myself. This is truly what the Mudcat symbolizes to me. Thank you ... Jenny

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 11:05 PM

Jenny,

I am sorry to hear of your loss. But 95 years sounds like a life well lived. Here's to your Grandmother, God be good to her.

By the way, isn't this coming weekend the getaway outside of Washington, DC? I hope you have fun.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Jenny
Date: 05 Oct 98 - 11:53 PM

Mick ... thanks for the kind words. I prefer to think of the upcoming services as a Celebration of her life, not her death. Jenny

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: alison
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 12:04 AM

Hi,

Glad to see you all bad again.

Jenny, Sorry to hear about your grandmother, our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Joe, they're nice kids .... do we really have to wait that long?? (Don't tell Mick.....)

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 01:11 AM

Well, Alison, it's not really the kids that are the problem....
It's those Teletubbies you keep talking about. I'm a Cookie Monster kinda guy myself. I don't know if I could handle all that cuteness...
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 07:49 PM

Hey, you blokes fighting over Alison! She's MY partner (in musical crime)! I saw her first. In the flesh.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From:
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 08:59 PM

(((((((Big Mick)))))))

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 09:20 PM

((((((((Yes, May I help you?)))))))) he said as he sat brooding at his computer terminal.

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From:
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 10:48 PM

(((((((Big Mick)))))))

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Pete M
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 11:30 PM

From alle wymmen my love is lent,
And lyht on Alysoun

Alan, you Sir, are a darstedly Australian knave! Seeing her in the flesh is not cricket damn it!

Pete M

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: alison
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 04:19 AM

hey Alan,

You're getting me a bad reputation. still if the rest of you click on the link Alan put in above you'll see what both of us look like in the flesh......

Sorry Joe, I myself like Cookie Monster but I'd rather have Grover.... but my kids just won't watch Sesame Street at all.

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Frank in the swamps
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 08:04 AM

Normally I don't bother with the dirty stuff on the internet, but if any of you wanna see a picture of a hot babe making "beyootiful music" with a horrible monkey, check out the link Alan & Alison provided.

But seriously, if it is of any technical interest Max, my personal page is still affected, active messages I hadn't responded to are missing, and one is still there which I THOUGHT I had deleted. It's not important to me, I know who I still need to send a message to, but as I said, if it's of technical help.

Frank in the lonely, lonely swamps.

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 09:43 AM

Ahhh, Anyone know the Song of the Siren. Alison, I knew you had to be rua, and with a gorgeous face like a map of Ireland. I should never have hit Alan's link. "If I were a blackbird, I'd whistle and sing. And I'd follow the ship that my true love sailed in. And in the top rigging, I'd there build my nest. And I'd pillow my head on her lilly white breast."

Back to the subject at hand. I also am still not able to archive personal messages. After the crash, I have two active messages that were previously archived, that is prior to the great crash of '98.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 10:10 AM

G'day,
Ditto with the personal messages.

Now I'm not sure, but I think I've been insulted once or twice above, but as a fair dinkum thick skinned Aussie my only response is

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 10:16 AM

Not by me, mate. I salute ye for hookin yerself up with such a fine lookin woman as that. And you a fine looking gent yourself. Fair play to you.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Barbara
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 01:11 PM

Must have been one %#$%&* of a crash. My archive also ends abruptly on Aug. 14th.
However, if that's the worst of it, I'll survive just fine, thanks.
Max, I worry that what caused the crash was that Dylan thread that was hacked (turned red). Is it possible we spread a virus from there, and as we jump back and forth between threads we spread it here?
Did everyone's archive crash, or just some of the regulars?
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: BAZ
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 04:57 PM

Max
Just glad to have you back I thought next years eclipse had come early.
Baz

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Art Thieme
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 05:33 PM

A private message will not get archived for me either. If I try ro archive it I get ERROR! Shows as an active message.

Art

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: harpgirl
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 08:04 PM

I've got no archive and I can't get the submit button to work and I had a private message for Art which I couldnt' send him. boo hoo!!! harpgirl

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Oct 98 - 10:08 PM

Ah, I can see that flighty Harpgirl has given up on me and is now after Art....

Say, Babrara - I checked what turned the Dylan thread red and fixed it - it was just a misplaced font color command, and wasn't anything that should have caused a serious problem.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Oct 98 - 05:25 PM

no Commie pinko conspiricy?..awwww...

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: alison
Date: 10 Oct 98 - 08:50 AM

Hey girls,

I think Max hasn't quite been telling us the truth. Check out the Mudcat record collection thread.

He's been leading us down the garden path.

shame on you Max. (*Grin*)

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: harpgirl
Date: 10 Oct 98 - 04:30 PM

Alison,
I had a similar thought myself. MWK, he is! So's the Prince of Peru. "Beware young ladies they're foolin you, beware oh take care!" hapless

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Helen
Date: 10 Oct 98 - 06:49 PM

Yes Max, Maybe you should take the wife you already have on a second honeymoon. She probably needs reassurance that you are married to her and not your computer (but at least we Mudcatters appreciate you for that)

Helen

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Oct 98 - 02:30 AM

Well, that takes Max out of the running. Now, if I can only figure out how to get Big Mick out of the way.....
-Joe Offer, an unmarried man-

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 11 Oct 98 - 11:39 AM

Ah boyo, I'm not in your way. It's your lack of celtic charm & wit that keeps trippin ye up. Have at it lad, but do yerself a favor. Wash the shirt. :-)>

All the best,

Mick, a celtic man

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Oct 98 - 12:14 PM

Hi Harp,

To get the message to me try [e-mail]

Art

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Mo
Date: 13 Oct 98 - 10:23 PM

Joe - I can't believe nobody has said to you "make me an Offer" - it's too good a line to miss!! So there you go, i've said it now! Mo

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Oct 98 - 01:16 AM

Mo, I don't believe that nobody has said it....
But every time I hear it is a great opportunity for a comeback.
-Joe Offer, and proud of it-

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Max
Date: 14 Oct 98 - 01:53 PM

Your wish is my command. Check this out. as refered to in this thread.

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Max
Date: 14 Oct 98 - 04:58 PM

I think I fixed the archive. As for missing archives and messages to and fro, I am sorry, for now they are lost. It's going to be part of the BIG OVERHAUL (converting the whole ball of wax to SQL Server) before this can be completely imposible to happen again. Working on perfection...

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Oct 98 - 05:23 PM

The archive seems to work find now, Max. I had a dozen messages, and I archived a couple, one at a time. That worked find, so then I clicked "archive" on the rest of them, without waiting for each message to clear. That would seem to be the ultimate test, and it worked.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: crash... Down goes the Mudcat
From: Barbara
Date: 14 Oct 98 - 09:46 PM

Int'restin' Max, they all archive but only some delete. Wonder why. Thanks for all the work you do behind the scenes.
Blessings, Barbara