Curse

zelira · Mar 29, 2006, 08:02 PM // 20:02

I'll actually have to sleep tonight......

*Sets alarm clock to go off at 3:55am pst, so I can start up PC and make a cup coffee*

Lord Iowerth · Mar 29, 2006, 08:12 PM // 20:12

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Originally Posted by Rayea

*wonders if the WoW servers are run on Windows

*

The WoW servers may be run on Windows, but they are operated by hamsters ... here we see a Blizzard employee hard at work:

All kidding aside, 12 hours in a year is absolutely AMAZING work.

And:

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Originally Posted by dargon

8-12 gmt = 12am-4am pacific time = 2am - 6am central time = 4am - 8am eastern time. IOW, Go to bed and don't worry about it!

Eastern is only 3 hours ahead of Pacific, I call my family back in Seattle all the time ... so it's 3am-7am for everyone on the east cost: midnight-4 pacific, 1am-5am mountain, and 2am-6am central.

The thing that I can't determine is, when they say 00:00 on the 30th, I think they're talking about tonight, since at the stroke of midnight (PST) it will be the 30th ... I suppose i'll find out tonight

Ghull Ka · Mar 29, 2006, 08:25 PM // 20:25

"we can't get the silly thing to come back again"

OK, so Gaile must have been the person who wrote this. :P

Karmaniac · Mar 29, 2006, 09:03 PM // 21:03

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Originally Posted by Ishmaeel

I was hoping that one would be quoted out of context on the first page. Now I'm gonna get the living flame beaten out of my ass on the third page

I hate you, you suck. This thread sucks and should be locked ASAP. Mods should ban you and beat you with sticks. Also Anet should give me my money back.

Orbberius · Mar 29, 2006, 09:49 PM // 21:49

Really amazing how little downtime there has been. Props to the hardworking folks at ANet.

Rayea · Mar 29, 2006, 10:46 PM // 22:46

wow, iowerth, that keybord is quite...um..
it reminds me of my bossess microsoft one at work..its ten years old,still going strong, but in need of a bit of a clean ^^

well they sure arent something like linux ect....if they are getting that many hours downtime, its a wonder anyone can actually play lol...

oooh..maybe the GW peeps bought a server from a vorlon

'i was always here'

dargon · Mar 29, 2006, 11:07 PM // 23:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Iowerth

The WoW servers may be run on Windows, but they are operated by hamsters ... here we see a Blizzard employee hard at work:

All kidding aside, 12 hours in a year is absolutely AMAZING work.

And:

Eastern is only 3 hours ahead of Pacific, I call my family back in Seattle all the time ... so it's 3am-7am for everyone on the east cost: midnight-4 pacific, 1am-5am mountain, and 2am-6am central.

The thing that I can't determine is, when they say 00:00 on the 30th, I think they're talking about tonight, since at the stroke of midnight (PST) it will be the 30th ... I suppose i'll find out tonight

Whoops on the eastern, my bad.

Lord Iowerth · Mar 30, 2006, 12:55 AM // 00:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by dargon

Whoops on the eastern, my bad.

No worries, dargon: I just didn't want some random person cursing your name when the server cuts out in the middle of his UW/Fissure run or something ... i'm not the correctness police

And Rayea: not my keyboard or my hamster, i'm a total neat-freak

I simply did a google search for "Computer powered by hamsters" and that's what came up ... I was trying to get a picture of one running in a wheel *inside* a computer, but settled for the keyboard.

Pompeyfan · Mar 30, 2006, 01:52 AM // 01:52

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Originally Posted by Ishmaeel

PM? AM? Why do you cling to that horrendous habit of dividing the day by two and then by twelve anyway? I'm amazed that you even manage to go to work on the right day, not to mention at the right time!

Heh. Kidding again. The times I posted are GMT which means they are always expressed in 24h format. That would be [a few seconds pass while he calculates with his brows creased] 8-12AM for those in Greenwich but since you don't seem to live there, most probably you will need to calculate the time for yourself, considering your time zone.

Edit: Checked your profile. It is 10AM-2PM for you.

/Pedantic hat on - Actually for those on the Greenwich Meridian it's 8-12PM not AM, 12AM is midnight.

Diablo™ · Mar 30, 2006, 02:01 AM // 02:01

LOL@ Iowerth, No wonder Blizzard didn't allow me into their facility when I brought my cat.... many Blizzard employees was saved that day.

Gaile Gray · Mar 30, 2006, 03:20 AM // 03:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Iowerth

The thing that I can't determine is, when they say 00:00 on the 30th, I think they're talking about tonight, since at the stroke of midnight (PST) it will be the 30th ... I suppose i'll find out tonight

Yes, tonight. As in about 4.5 hours from the time I am posting this note.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ravenwolf77

u know they just have a bunch of magic fairies typin on old style typewritrs & no real computers right. the down time is just to feed the gerbils

Shhhhhhhh! We don't want that to get out!

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Originally Posted by pigdestroyer

Four Hours what are they thinking!?!?!??!?!??????????? gimme ma money back

Tell ya what: I don't usually make this generous offer, but just for you: I will personally pay you back your monthly fee for March. Sound good?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pompeyfan

/Pedantic hat on - Actually for those on the Greenwich Meridian it's 8-12PM not AM, 12AM is midnight.

I'll match you're pedantic and raise you two: There is, literally speaking, no 12:00 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. They are the top of the hour, the switch from day to night, and during that single minute only, on both swings, there is therefore only the practical and accurate term of 12:00 Midnight or 12:00 Noon. You can check me on this, but common usage does not accurate usage make.

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Originally Posted by Ogg

12 hours of downtime in a year. And 10 of those because of that rollback. I'm very, very impressed. 12 hours, in a year. Anyone working in any IT-related business would give out their firstborn to be able to achieve same kind of uptime for the whole network.

Quote:

Originally Posted by neoteo

we have 400 computers where i work , network goes down almost every week. its a miricle 12 hours in one year

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Iowerth

All kidding aside, 12 hours in a year is absolutely AMAZING work.

I happen to agree with you! Truly amazing work.

lord_shar · Mar 30, 2006, 03:33 AM // 03:33

So, who's your favorite storage hardware vendor? EMC? IBM Fast-T's? Network Appliance? What about storage array management? Veritas? Sun? Database: Oracle, UDB, SQL, Informix? Any E15k's onsite? Inquiring minds want to know! j/k, the less we know, the better

Rok · Mar 30, 2006, 03:36 AM // 03:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pompeyfan

/Pedantic hat on - Actually for those on the Greenwich Meridian it's 8-12PM not AM, 12AM is midnight.

To be more precise it is 8am gmt to 12pm gmt.

And I, like a previous poster, get home from work at 12am pst. I usually relax with some good ole GW before catching some ZZZZzzzzs. Oh well, I can watch that movie with that big monkey in it that I bought on Tues.

Anet also gets props from me for all their server uppityness.

^.^

Lord Iowerth · Mar 30, 2006, 04:57 AM // 04:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

Tell ya what: I don't usually make this generous offer, but just for you: I will personally pay you back your monthly fee for March. Sound good?

You know, the very first time I read this, I thought to myself "Wow that's really nice, but does she know what she's saying? Now everyone is going to be wanting that, it will be anarchy ..."

... then about 15 seconds later my brain started to work, and I got the joke. It's official: I was just owned by Gaile Gray. I feel like an idiot ... honored, but an idiot nonetheless

GG Gaile

*wanders off toward the coffee pot muttering*

Cottage Pie · Mar 30, 2006, 05:14 AM // 05:14

I say GG after every Game...am I really saying Gaile Gray

?

12 hours downtime in one year is brilliant, well done to Anet!

I liked the 'in order to prevent a catastrophic failure' line...meaning 'if this PC goes Pffft everything is dead?

Ishmaeel · Mar 30, 2006, 05:19 AM // 05:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pompeyfan

/Pedantic hat on - Actually for those on the Greenwich Meridian it's 8-12PM not AM, 12AM is midnight.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rok

To be more precise it is 8am gmt to 12pm gmt.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

I'll match you're pedantic and raise you two: There is, literally speaking, no 12:00 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. They are the top of the hour, the switch from day to night, and during that single minute only, on both swings, there is therefore only the practical and accurate term of 12:00 Midnight or 12:00 Noon.

Gaaa. No amount of Pedantisicistry will make me get that AM/PM thing. I better keep sticking to the military time and stop trying to convert time for other people. My brain just is not cut out for it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Iowerth

You know, the very first time I read this, I thought to myself "Wow that's really nice, but does she know what she's saying? Now everyone is going to be wanting that, it will be anarchy ..."

... then about 15 seconds later my brain started to work, and I got the joke. It's official: I was just owned by Gaile Gray. I feel like an idiot ... honored, but an idiot nonetheless

What joke are you talking about? I just sent an inflammatory mail to her and demanded all my monthly payments back. She said she would be wiring the bucks to me shortly and I checked my balance and voila! There it was - not only for March but for all the months I have been playing. And you know what? She said she'd give me one extra character slot just for good measure and I logged on and one of my characters with FoW armor was gone and voila! An extra character slot that I can use to my heart's content!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Iowerth

GG Gaile

Quoted in agreement.

Silent Kitty · Mar 30, 2006, 08:05 AM // 08:05

Game is actually down, right now

Time to get back to my social life again

jackie · Mar 30, 2006, 08:15 AM // 08:15

I had to look from dictionary what social life meant ^^

Tarkin · Mar 30, 2006, 08:16 AM // 08:16

The wierdest thing in my life... finish my first run in furnace in 1 month, and when i come back to warcamp dist 1... has only me, "only me"... i hope not lost the greens i take...

Lord Iowerth · Mar 30, 2006, 08:17 AM // 08:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silent Kitty

Time to get back to my social life again

Oh, don't fool yourself ... none of us have those ...

(PM me if you know were I can get one though, and what the c/o and b/o are)