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Title: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: TheMagicM on January 10, 2004, 01:22:06 AM
Sometime between Friday, January 9th and Monday, January 12th, Amiga.org will be taken offline for an unspecified time to accomplish maintenance and upgrades.  During  this time, and for a while afterwards, e-mail forwarding will not work.   We've been planning these actions for quite a while, but they are  quite in-depth, and prone to error.  

Contrary to circulating rumor, Amiga.org is not being retired at this time.  We will be back ASAP.  More information about the changes and new features will be made available after our return to service.

[color=CC0000]UPDATE 1/10/04[/color]: If you are having difficulty logging in, delete your cookies and clear your browser's cache.  Otherwise, PM Wayne and he will help out if he can.

Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: odin on January 08, 2004, 06:01:21 PM
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

I'll have to change my emailadres I guess :-(.

Will this be days or a matter of weeks?
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: amigamad on January 08, 2004, 06:06:46 PM
Hope the site is not gone for to long. :-)
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: The_Editor on January 08, 2004, 06:07:02 PM
Good job it didn't coincide with the downage of AW !!

Conspiracy theories abound !!
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Starting Friday.
Post by: gnarly on January 08, 2004, 06:28:29 PM
Aye, whats going on with amigaworld.net today?
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: alx on January 08, 2004, 06:49:40 PM
@A.org staff

Hope the update goes well and you're back up again soon :-D

@The_Editor

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Good job it didn't coincide with the downage of AW !!

Conspiracy theories abound !!


But AW is still down - what am I meant to do without an Amiga site :-x  :-o  ;-)  :-D
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: bloodline on January 08, 2004, 07:02:32 PM
4 days without Amiga.org... :crazy:
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: amigamad on January 08, 2004, 07:44:35 PM
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But AW is still down - what am I meant to do without an Amiga site  


www.amigart.com (http://www.amigart.com) :-)
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: Blomberg on January 08, 2004, 09:04:11 PM
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what am I meant to do without an Amiga site

Well, there's always #Amiga.org  :-D

Feel free to drop by and have a chat (or idle : )

#amiga.org @ irc.webchat.org
webinterface (cgi) (http://warpzonebbs.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi)
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: TheMagicM on January 08, 2004, 09:04:18 PM
what other Amiga site?  j/k  :-P
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: HopperJF on January 08, 2004, 09:24:18 PM
www.amigaforums.com is ok (i think that URL is right)

looking forward to the new and improved Amiga Org! :pint:
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: amigamad on January 08, 2004, 09:59:10 PM
I hope you do somthing that lets you use any browser to post pictures into image gallery, other than that i like the site how it is so i hope there are not any changes to the site layout. :-)
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: Kees on January 08, 2004, 11:29:12 PM
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Will this be days or a matter of weeks?


If all goes well .. days.
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: Vincent on January 08, 2004, 11:37:19 PM
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If all goes well .. days.


:nervous:

What!?!? :-o

DAYS without A.o?!?

What are we to do?!

/me looks around nervously to try and find something else to do before panic sets in :nervous: :-P
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: GadgetMaster on January 08, 2004, 11:39:59 PM
@Alx

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But AW is still down - what am I meant to do without an Amiga site


What do you mean without an Amiga site :-?

I thought you had your own: AmigaCentre (http://yourdreamnet.co.uk/amigacentre/)  

If AW and AO both are temporarily down  I am sure you wouldn't mind the bandwidth hike whilst people "Crashed" at your site for a while eh??  :-P

@ Everyone

It would be a good idea to bookmark it now to avoid searching later.
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: tokai on January 08, 2004, 11:41:42 PM
hey... even if AO goes offline for a few hours/days you always have good alternatives like:

http://www.amiga-news.de/ (100% neutral news)
http://www.wrongpla.net/ (100% funny news, but sometimes down because hackers)

:-D
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: System on January 08, 2004, 11:51:53 PM
Like vultures you guys are...  

:-)
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: GadgetMaster on January 08, 2004, 11:55:47 PM
Hey Wayne nice to see you around!

Don't worry  when everything is sorted everyone will be back.

People may need a temporary fix to avoid going "cold turkey" :-P

Best of luck ;-)  :-)

[edit]
I remember 'crashing' at skippy's when this site  last went down and skippy was still running his boards. Pity he had to shut down his forums do to abuse.
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: Bodie on January 09, 2004, 12:14:29 AM
holy ####, with aw already down and a.org also to go out for a few days, that will mean i will be forced to do something which i deeply fear...

to have the sun light hit my skin :-D  :-P
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: Vincent on January 09, 2004, 12:55:42 AM
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to have the sun light hit my skin


I'd never let it get that far :-P
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: Bodie on January 09, 2004, 12:57:53 AM
@Vincent
 :roflmao:
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: GadgetMaster on January 09, 2004, 01:31:43 AM
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I'd never let it get that far


Its best to check with a small area of skin before gettiing full solar exposure.

You never know the reaction that your skin will have to sunlight. :-P

Much higher levels of radiation than a computer monitor could have catastrophic effects (http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/sunrash.htm).

You have been warned :-D
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: System on January 09, 2004, 03:51:57 AM
@Bodie

I wouldn't. I hear people die from that.

:)
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: B00tDisk on January 09, 2004, 06:11:54 AM
Oh nos!  Doommaster is going to haXX0r teh mainfram wiht a 1337 virus and yuo are juts covreing for him!1!!1111!1

(rats, just when I got a spiffy new Aria avatar, too.  He-lOOOOOOO nurse!)
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: shIva on January 09, 2004, 08:59:59 AM
good luck kees/wayne ;-)

would you pls change the forwarding to the email address i changed my account to ? (atm all mails are forwarded to the old one which no longer exists)  :roll:
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on January 09, 2004, 01:22:19 PM
Guys, I was without, sorry, we, were not on the net for over a month... the sun is NOT yellow! And these things called flowers have a colour called green... :-o
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on January 09, 2004, 01:23:23 PM
...oh, and your eyes will get used to the sunlight, after about 30 minutes of squinting. 8-)
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: Lo on January 09, 2004, 04:07:38 PM
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Contrary to circulating rumor, Amiga.org is not being retired at this time.


What rumor?? :-?  *shrug*
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: Methuselas on January 10, 2004, 12:06:51 AM
LOL I guess I need to change my homepage then, huh? :-o
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: B00tDisk on January 10, 2004, 01:10:16 AM
Okay, dangit, where'd my Avatar go?
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: System on January 10, 2004, 01:54:15 AM
Maintenance, eh!?

A likely story!

We all know DoomMaster plans to hack you :)

*runs away giggling insanely*
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on January 10, 2004, 03:21:34 AM
@ Neko

That's a great avatar you have there!
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: System on January 10, 2004, 04:48:44 AM
His name is "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly #1". He's my new kitty :)

Cute isn't he?
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on January 10, 2004, 05:30:14 AM
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His name is "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly #1". He's my new kitty :)

Cute isn't he?


Yes extremely! But how did you come up with the name?! :-D
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: HopperJF on January 10, 2004, 07:08:28 PM
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I hope you do somthing that lets you use any browser to post pictures into image gallery, other than that i like the site how it is so i hope there are not any changes to the site layout.




yeah i agree
i simply cannot upload pictures, not even on the Mac version of IE. i find this a bit silly.
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: Argo on January 10, 2004, 08:04:53 PM
HopperJF:
Have you tried Safari?
Title: Re: Amiga.org Undergoing Maintenance Soon.
Post by: System on January 10, 2004, 09:31:32 PM
@ bodie

It's what they call the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

It's in the crater Tycho. It's a magnetic anomaly. They dig it out and find a big black screechy slab ;)
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: HopperJF on January 10, 2004, 09:56:02 PM
@Argo:

My main browser is Camino (Mozilla) tried that, tried Safari, tried IE and SilvrDsgn still says it isnt working
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: Kees on January 10, 2004, 11:21:16 PM
Did you try turning your firewall off for a moment ?

Have nice weekend :-)
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: System on January 11, 2004, 12:10:25 AM
Guys?  Please stop spazzing.  :-)

The Image gallery uploads appear to be broken for everyone at the moment.  Will have to check to find out why.  It's on a long list of phase 1 to-do's.

Wayne
Title: Re: Amiga.org undergoing maintenance starting Friday.
Post by: a1200 on June 22, 2008, 12:10:32 AM
:)