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Good news!

patrice — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:19:59 GMT

It was pretty messed up this time, but Opal and MrEction (formerly UnDeadDude) have come through once again!

After MrE reinstalls a plugin or two, the 3FMB will be back with no lost posts! That will probably happen some time around the beginning of the week.

The announcement can be seen here.

A round of chocolate and cookies for both of them!

EDITED TO ADD: It's up! It's up, it's up, it's up, it's up, it's up!

Fathom outage update!

patrice — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:43:35 GMT

Over at The Lair, opalcat came along and let us know what the status of Fathom is. Following is her post. As you can see, it's a bit of a mixed bag...

In keeping with tradition, the very night I left for a relaxing vacation at my family's summer lake house in New Hampshire, evil hackers took out the server. In the past, we've found out about hacking because we see little oddities. This time they actually went and installed cPanel, which overwrote all of our Apache configurations and so on. Basically, they broke *everything*. I got on the phone with the techs and they made a backup of the server onto another computer for safekeeping, and turned off our server.

The very next morning my laptop refused to power on. I had to take it three towns over to the nearest repair shop. *sigh*

Anyway, the long story condensed down is this: my laptop works again, but the backup they made was jumbled garbage when they tried to unzip it, and when they tried to turn our server back on, it would not boot up. So I have no way of getting to any of our old data through them (but I'm 99% sure that nothing was actually lost.) They have physically mailed the hard drive to Rob and he is going to put it into one of his computers and try to get the data off. At that point, I can set it all up again on a new server.

Oh what fun.

I am not sure when he will get the drive or how long it will take to get the data off. I am going to be out of town again for a wedding from Thursday night until Sunday night but other than that I'm going to be around, so as soon as that stuff is available I'll be setting it up fresh. Cross your fingers that the disk is recoverable!

[Needless to say, my vacation was totally ruined. :( ]

So, she's got the experts working on it, and with luck it will be back with nothing lost. Keep your fingers crossed! And by all means, don't forget to thank opalcat for her tireless efforts. Thanks, Opal!

Fathom is down, but not yet out.

patrice — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:21:26 GMT

Hey guys, in case you haven't noticed, the Fabulous Forums are down. It appears there was some sort of server hack job, and opalcat's doing what she can to fix it. Please bear with her while she gets it back up again.

In the meantime, piratelady has her message board, PirateLady's Lair, where many of us go to keep in touch with each other, and get news about progress with Fathom. See you there!

????

psychofogqueen — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:54:45 GMT

What's up Fathom?

starcrossedlady — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:28:28 GMT

Is anyone else getting funky things from the board?

I couldn't reply to several posts last night, and this morning, I got this message:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/vhosts/fff/htdocs/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

From catzpjs

psychofogqueen — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:29:24 GMT

The Fathom server is down this morning. We have an emergency "storm shelter' at http://p200.ezboard.com/bfathom2

Server down for the weekend

opalcat — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:24:22 GMT

We hope to be up and running again by Tuesday.
Here is the link to the TEMPORARY BOARD

Is fathom out?

heiligennacht — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:44:55 GMT

I seem to be unable to connect right now?

UnwrittenNocturne

psychofogqueen — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 05:37:28 GMT

Anyone know what is happening with Fathom.org?

It's been down for about 20 minutes (+/-).

It's Friday night, what will I do with out Fathom?

patrice — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 05:05:11 GMT

Well, I guess it was just me then...

patrice — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 19:15:23 GMT

Hey! Is it me or is Fathom down?

I'd do more, but I'm at work and don't have access to all my contact info.

psychofogqueen — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:36:45 GMT

Anyone know what's up?
I can't access Fathom.
It's 9:35pm PST.

HELL-low

psychofogqueen — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:08:34 GMT

Well, here I are! I'm still settling in here at Live Journal, but I like it so far, and I have piratelady to thank for that.

More later,

karlgrenze — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 08:01:06 GMT

Is anyone having troubles accessing fathom this morning, or is it just me?

Open invitation..

flamsterette_x — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:47:39 GMT

Come visit

[Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a href-"http://pub50.ezboard.com/bcanadope">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]

Come visit <a href-"http://pub50.ezboard.com/bcanadope">Canadope</a>! We're apparently getting a lot of traffic from a bunch of different sites all over the web. I'm just getting used to this admin gig, and it definitely involves promo! (well, maybe not strictly.. but the way I see it, part of my job is to direct people to the site) So excuse / forgive my insane cross-posting. At least I'm not resorting to illegal means to drive traffic to the site. ;)

Non-Canadians are welcome, and some are already registered. So don't worry, it won't be all us Canadians against the rest of the world. :D

If you want to register, you'll need a free EZBoards account. Shouldn't be too hard to get.. but of course, you're free to lurk around as well. :) So come visit, and please give me feedback here if you do. I think we need all the feedback we can get! (it's only been up and running for two days proper.. give us time to iron out the kinks, aye?)

In which I introduce myself visually

shatteredsaint — Sun, 06 Jul 2003 18:30:19 GMT

Hmm, so here it is, the ShatteredSaint a.k.a. UnwrittenNocturne

Just touching base

shatteredsaint — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 14:05:03 GMT

Of course on the board you will see me as UnwrittenNocturne, but this is my more usual name.

Hi all

flamsterette_x — Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:24:12 GMT

Okay, I have just joined the Fathom community. You can read my LJ if you want.. but it's not like there's enduring wisdom to be found therein. :D

F_X

This is funny...

karlgrenze — Thu, 05 Dec 2002 05:21:03 GMT

"I'm gonna go do something crazy tonight"
"and twinkie will start to strip"
"like the lesbian experimentation in college"
"just listening The Cranberries"
"...my testicles laminated."

From today's accumulated chat stats.

karlgrenze — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 05:41:01 GMT

Just to let you know, the boards are back up... :-)

Thanks Opal and UDD!

Server down?

opalcat — Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:59:26 GMT

Seems like our server may be down. Rob has already left work so I'll tell him when he gets home.

sterlingnorth — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 23:35:08 GMT

I'm going to miss Piratelady. I can't respond to her journal anymore since she's on dialup.

paltalk: to techchick68

anyamartinez — Tue, 03 Sep 2002 06:07:30 GMT

Techchick68? Can you please tell me what you heard, during the last part of voice chat. I thought i was talking, but I did not hear anything unusual, from my end. I'd like to apologize for any misunderstanding , as well.

We've got spirit, yes we do!

opalcat — Sat, 31 Aug 2002 21:52:28 GMT

We've got spirit, how 'bout you?

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"This Week's Quest" is Mutating!!

patrice — Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:17:47 GMT

Starting today, "This Week's Quest" will be more of a "featured thread" feature. Every Sunday, I'll look at the threads that have been responded to since the previous Sunday, and using a ratio of responses-to-views award an existing thread with "This Week's Quest" status.

E-mail me with your opinions at mrknowitall@fathom.org.