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Offline USA4ME

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Democratic Underground failed you
« on: October 16, 2008, 07:53:33 AM »
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About the downtime tonight... Democratic Underground failed you, and we are sorry.

Democratic Underground failed you tonight.

more...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4245620&mesg_id=4245620

I don't see the point of this.  As DUmmies they should be used to failure.  Should BHO win, they better get used to swimming in it.

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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2008, 07:56:47 AM »

I'm don't understand how a surge in network traffic can require significantly increased power demands . . . . especially to the point of tripping a breaker.

when we lost power, our host provider usually just denied the whole thing. :-)
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2008, 07:58:24 AM »
"Democratic Underground failed you."

A masterpiece of understatement.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2008, 08:07:36 AM »
The DUmbfuks lap it up like good little puppies,yet even a computer idiot like me can pretty well guess that he shut it down to prevent all the hatred and bile spewed from being seen by the public.

Skins knows his spawn and has no respect for them,just their money.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2008, 08:26:48 AM »
$kimmers explanation just plain reeks. A shortage of power?! Worse than reeking it is just plain stupid. A heavier than normal load on a computer isnt like oh say a heavy load on an air conditioner. The power usage of servers, and I know this from years of running servers, is pretty constant.

Any 'server farm' that suffers down time due to lack of sufficent electricity is being run by either liars or idiots. At least given $kimmers explanation. What is he trying to do run DU on a christmas light extension cord? A much more likely explanation is he is cheaping out on server hardware and increased traffic just overloaded it. It could be something as simple as he hit a bandwidth wall from his provider.

One time my blog got a mention on a major news site and my traffic went 30 times normal rates for about 36 hours. My bandwidth provider shut me down for several days due to 'over utilization of resources'. I would suspect that $kimmer is just lying to cover his ass and the DUmmies are lapping it up like the good lil retards they are.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2008, 08:31:14 AM »
I think "The Democrats have failed you" would be more appropriate.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2008, 08:35:31 AM »
As a small-time webhost, I can tell you this answer is crap. Even little operations such as mine are housed in datacenters with more than enough power. Hell I have sites that have been DoSed, Slashdotted and Dugg - Its driven my operations to a crawl, yet I have never EVER lost power.

I smell a 'repair/upgrade our servers' donation drive- if by chance this is true, there is something very wrong with that hardware if its blowing fuses via overheating.
« Last Edit: October 16, 2008, 08:37:11 AM by miskie »
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2008, 08:46:16 AM »
Quote from: DarkHalo on October 16, 2008, 08:26:48 AM
What is he trying to do run DU on a christmas light extension cord?

 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

Good one, DH! :-)
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2008, 09:13:01 AM »
What a total load of BS.  Traffic might have overwhelmed the servers' or network's capabilities to process it, but if the damned things were turned on and the drives spun up, the actual power pulled by heavy traffic is a pretty insignificant additional increment on top of "Running at all."  I think miskie nailed it - "Fund drive -- right ahead!!!"
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2008, 09:13:51 AM »
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Democratic Underground failed you tonight.

"Tonight?"
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2008, 09:19:27 AM »
Democratic Underground has made failures of you.

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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2008, 09:24:31 AM »
What a load of Bull S**T  :bs: :bs: :bs: :bs:

A servers power consumption does not increase by ANY significant amount due to high traffic.
He may have been shut down due to not buying enough bandwidth or the servers crashed from a software bug or insufficient resources, but there no way in hell the AC breaker tripped due to increased load.

Even if a breaker tripped for another reason, what IDIOT would put all their servers on one circuit?

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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2008, 09:30:00 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on October 16, 2008, 09:13:01 AM
What a total load of BS.  Traffic might have overwhelmed the servers' or network's capabilities to process it, but if the damned things were turned on and the drives spun up, the actual power pulled by heavy traffic is a pretty insignificant additional increment on top of "Running at all."  I think miskie nailed it - "Fund drive -- right ahead!!!"

Hell, I have an old rackmount Compaq Proliant DL580 in my closet I use for backup and testing purposes - the dual power supplies and dozen or so internal fans makes it sound like a jet on a runway before takeoff. It is an energy pig. Even so ,I have never blown a circuit with that under full-load.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2008, 09:40:32 AM »
$kinner types his apology:


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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2008, 09:42:23 AM »
Quote from: DarkHalo on October 16, 2008, 08:26:48 AM
$kimmers explanation just plain reeks. A shortage of power?! Worse than reeking it is just plain stupid. A heavier than normal load on a computer isnt like oh say a heavy load on an air conditioner. The power usage of servers, and I know this from years of running servers, is pretty constant.

Any 'server farm' that suffers down time due to lack of sufficent electricity is being run by either liars or idiots. At least given $kimmers explanation. What is he trying to do run DU on a christmas light extension cord? A much more likely explanation is he is cheaping out on server hardware and increased traffic just overloaded it. It could be something as simple as he hit a bandwidth wall from his provider.

One time my blog got a mention on a major news site and my traffic went 30 times normal rates for about 36 hours. My bandwidth provider shut me down for several days due to 'over utilization of resources'. I would suspect that $kimmer is just lying to cover his ass and the DUmmies are lapping it up like the good lil retards they are.

I thought the exact same thing.

giving him (too much, I am sure) the maximum amount of credit, we have a number of storage arrays that consume varying amounts of power depending on demand, but they are extremely high end devices, and the amount of power they consume just doesn't vary that much.  certainly not enough to trip breakers, &etc.

I'm callin' bullsh*t. :-)

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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2008, 10:37:05 AM »
Quote from: bijou on October 16, 2008, 09:40:32 AM
$kinner types his apology:





BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!


Made me laugh my ass off, Bijou. Hi5 for that one.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2008, 10:38:40 AM »
Quote from: DarkHalo on October 16, 2008, 08:26:48 AM
$kimmers explanation just plain reeks. A shortage of power?!

Of course, he COULD be right...muahahahaha...I'll just head back to the substation now.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2008, 10:46:14 AM »
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What is he trying to do run DU on a christmas light extension cord?


Not a chance.

Maybe festivus or kwanzaa.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2008, 04:43:11 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on October 16, 2008, 10:38:40 AM
Of course, he COULD be right...muahahahaha...I'll just head back to the substation now.

Pausing to drop a badly scarred screwdriver in the trash on the way out.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2008, 04:50:06 PM »
Quote from: bijou on October 16, 2008, 09:40:32 AM
$kinner types his apology:




And EarlG helps out by editing.

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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2008, 06:15:44 PM »
Quote from: miskie on October 16, 2008, 08:35:31 AM
I smell a 'repair/upgrade our servers' donation drive- if by chance this is true, there is something very wrong with that hardware if its blowing fuses via overheating.

But wait...didnt they just have a drive for new hardware? Heres a pic of $kimmers new state of the art server he got with the DUmmies donation money...well, what he had left after the ski vacation in Italy.

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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #21 on: October 16, 2008, 06:25:26 PM »
Quote from: DarkHalo on October 16, 2008, 06:15:44 PM
But wait...didnt they just have a drive for new hardware? Heres a pic of $kimmers new state of the art server he got with the DUmmies donation money...well, what he had left after the ski vacation in Italy.



Funny, that looks like the engineering space on a fast attack sub.  Leave out the tv and keyboard in the foreground, though.
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #22 on: October 16, 2008, 09:14:10 PM »
I wonder if having Laura Inghram mention the DUmp on her show yesterday had anything to do with it?
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #23 on: October 16, 2008, 11:31:06 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 16, 2008, 06:25:26 PM
Funny, that looks like the engineering space on a fast attack sub.  Leave out the tv and keyboard in the foreground, though.

Nawww, a Rand Corporation model of a home computer in 2004 from back in 1954.

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And what is that steering wheel about anyway???
 
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Re: Democratic Underground failed you
« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2008, 11:36:01 PM »
Quote from: DarkHalo on October 16, 2008, 11:31:06 PM
Nawww, a Rand Corporation model of a home computer in 2004 from back in 1954.

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And what is that steering wheel about anyway???
 


Nope -- massive Urban Legend.  http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
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