... and so?

Well, of course it ate the second part, so I had to repost it. It's a plot to make me crazy. EL

Hopefully the migrtion to a new server won't result in days of downtime with so many of us not getting our daily fix of D@L

Here's a question: will all the old posts and comments be brought over? And another: same blogware?

Same blogware. I'm pretty sure all the content will be there. EL

I knew a migration was involved! I just thought it was to a Commodore 64.

Its good to see the blog back up and running.

Lissa, you beat me to it.

I despise migrations. There is always an unpleasant surprise--or twelve.

Ack. I've never been through this before. You're supposed to be telling me how much happier I will be and how much better it will be for all of us when this happens.

Oh, it will be much better for all of us once it's finished happening. It's the happening itself that's painful. Perhaps a good analogy might be childbirth.

Dahlink, I'm with you. There is nothing more painful than a server migration, and I've done several. You think they are bad from the user's side, you should be the sleep and food deprived geek trying to get it working at 4 am.

Ack. I've never been through this before. You're supposed to be telling me how much happier I will be and how much better it will be for all of us when this happens. EL

I am happy that the IT powers that be have decided to give the Sun its own server. With that much less traffic, perhaps there will be an improvement.

Just think, perhaps it was our vibrant and lively community, so active with postings, that helped bring this about.

BTW, I used to work in IT, so I know all about upgrades and enhancements. As an IT support person, you get used to being hammered all day about people's problems. You generally want to help them all-at least the nice ones.
Then at Friday Happy Hour, we'd do our own hammering. :-)

I miss Baltimore for that. It was a LOT of fun.

EL, sometimes, you get lucky and the migration goes according to plan. Bringing the server in-house means a lot more control, and that is a good thing, especially if you've got good geeks.

Said geeks are probably in Chicago or something, but, as PCB Rob implied, nice users get helped first, often. Doesn't take much, just send them a box of Berger cookies once a year. I recommend about a month after Christmas, when the Christmas loot has run out, and they aren't used to going a few hours without cookies.

That'll get their attention, and, in a good way!

EL lamented: Ack. I've never been through this before. You're supposed to be telling me how much happier I will be and how much better it will be for all of us when this happens. EL

As long as they aren't migrating the payroll system, don't worry about it.

Look at the bright side...if they lose everything, you've got, what?...18 months?...of topics you can do over and we can all resubmit comments all over again.

Life would be easier if they lost everything.

Oh...wait...copy off little OMG's Sandbox picture before the migration. We don't want to lose that.

In geekdom, as in restaurants, if you want good service, tip your server admin.

jl, most users aren't dealing directly with server admins these days. They deal with the desktop support folks. So, those are the ones you need to bribe. Not the server admins.

(I should also say, to anyone who knows where I work, please do not give stuff to me or my boss. It isn't necessary, and you'll just embarrass us.)

Hmm...it is just me, or is the sidebar not showing on the main Dining@Large page for other folks? I do get the sidebar on threads.

I'm trying to find the code in one of my entries that did it right now. Do-it-yourself fixing. Any advice? It was there last night, wasn't it? EL

it is just me, or is the sidebar not showing on the main Dining@Large page for other folks?

It isn't gone, it's just in the wrong place. It's down below the post rather than next to it.

It's down below the post rather than next to it.

Vertically challenged?

Server migration? Oh I am so sorry EL, but that's a short term cluster#$%^. At best. Hopefully they will keep the same crappy blogware for now, because changing more than one variable at a time is usually a disaster. Don't poke the IT people from now until after the migration is successful because they are going to be really overworked and miserable and you don't want to be on their special list.

It's not just a server migration either. They have to transfer the responsiblity for lame software to people that have not been working with it before. Oh god, we're all going to die.

The most hopeful description I can give is "necessary disaster". Hold onto your wigs and keys!

Oh, come on, Owlie! It might not be *that* bad. After all, they aren't letting me do it, so there is a better than zero chance of sucess!

Okay,
I have another complaint about the blog. I'm sorry EL, but its irritating.

I read a post, make a comment and move on. I make a post on another comment and get a rejoinder that I'm posting too much and to wait awhile. I l click the back button, click post and get the same message. On my third go-round, it posts.

I could see if I'm commenting rapid-fire on one post, but I'm not.

Hopefully it all gets fixed soon. Because this is The Only Blog You Need!

I'm sorry to hear that one is cropping up again. I think one of the Web editors told me if you wait as little as 20 seconds it will forget about it, but I'll check tomorrow. EL

It actually happened again, on my last post complaining about it. I guess this one will bounce twice too before it takes it.

You're right Lissa. Projects like that that I ran went flawlessly most of the time. That's what is expected. So maybe it will be flawless. It could happen.

PCB Rob, that is happening to me, too. I hit the back button, then hit post as soon as it finishes loading (a few seconds), and it takes it.

I'm verbose, but not *that* verbose...

El, how firm is the 11/15 migration date?

Are you kidding? 11/15 is the contract's expiration date. That's the only firm thing. EL

Fl Rob - not laughing at your expense but laughing remembering last time someone brought up the "message", someone (Owl?) said something like "I got the same thing...and it said I was fat!".

Joyce,
That is funny. It reminds me of the message we get on our screens at work should we go to a website on the banned list:

THIS SITE DOES NOT HELP YOU DO YOUR JOB.

I'm glad this site isn't on the list!

PCB - I get that too much posting screen sometimes. I've been assuming that it's because I use the back button and respond from the same page and with the same letter in the little square. And, EL? It takes me more that 20 seconds to read on to another sandboxer who "needs" the benefit of my wisdom, much less create a stunning response.

The message we get in this office, for attempting to open a verboten website is very judgemental and lawyerish before it announces the ratting out to corporate.

That's great, Fl Rob! Had me laughing! Although we're told that our internet use is monitored and that certain sites are off limits I haven't found one yet that is. I don't think our geek squad is large enough to enforce so they make threats instead.

BTW, when you come in for work in the morning and there's porn on the computer at a work station thanks to the security guards, there's not much chance that anything is really outlawed!

Joyce,
The IT staff can figure out what sites all the users are visiting, but probably they have more pressing issues to deal with. So, like you said, they give threats and hope that scares everyone.

Yes, it was funny to me when I got that banner. I had clicked on a link to a myspace page from this very blog.

grrrrr...too many comments thing again!