| [Schedule Downtime] Monday, November 24th, 2008! |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|05:10 pm] |
Hey all, we'll be pulling the database server offline this coming Monday for approximately an hour to run some software updates on the system. I shouldn't expect it to take the full hour, but better to allocate the extra time just incase!
The update will start at 9am and run until 10am EST.
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| Emergency Database Server Maintenance |
[Nov. 10th, 2008|10:03 am] |
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| | This Photograph Is Proof (I KN-Taking Back Sunday-Where You Want To Be | ] |
Please watch:
http://scribbldstatus.tumblr.com !! |
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[Nov. 5th, 2008|08:11 pm] |
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Pokemon Diamond *_* |
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| Paid Account Changes |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|09:46 am] |
We've made some changes to the paid account structure. In order for people to purchase Extras (extra user pics) you'll need to have a paid account. We recommend that people purchase a year long paid account if you're going to get the extra user pics since they run for a year. If you were to purchase a 3 month paid account and 100 extra user pics, they would only be good for 3 months as they're only valid while you have an active paid account.
This change also means that instead of gaining 25 userpics (from the normal 75 paid to 100 total), you'll gain 100 or 200 (for upto 175 or 275 userpics).
Thanks! |
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| Happy November! |
[Nov. 1st, 2008|01:17 pm] |
Hey kids!
October has come to an end, it feels like I was just posting news for August and here it is, November already!
First a bit of news about one of the system admins, ![[info]](http://www.scribbld.net/img/userinfo.gif) morgan. Last week she was in a car accident, she hit a deer. Fortunately she's okay, but her car is complete toast :( That said, our backend development is going to slow down as she's only got one useable hand to type with (she broke her wrist). I personally wish her the quickest recovery and hope all goes well. She'll be taking a break from Scribbld coding for the next month or so.
In other news, we had almost 100% uptime last month, there was about 15 minutes of downtime due to a small power outage. This month we're going to be running some software updates on our database server, but we'll post a date and time when we get closer to doing so.
We hope you're all enjoying using Scribbld and we want to thank anyone who refers their friends, family, co-workers to our little spot on the Internet! It's very much appreciated. We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween and we hope you have a wonderful November!
- Scribbld Administrators |
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| 2008.10.24 Shitajiki Pt 3 |
[Oct. 24th, 2008|03:12 am] |
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| 2008.10.23 SHITAJIKI PT 2 |
[Oct. 23rd, 2008|02:22 pm] |
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I'm back with D-J (I don't want to put too many because as you can see in this section a lot have still not been photoed, usually my American made PBs and that's because they don't go with the other ones, they weren't made as well and like to chip on the edges)
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| 2008.10.22 SHITAJIKI PT 1 |
[Oct. 23rd, 2008|02:59 am] |
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| Pure, epic win |
[Oct. 11th, 2008|02:42 pm] |
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggHpQgcUQGmKwXWAJlkxmevPsKVQ
Third US state legalizes gay marriage
1 day ago
NEW YORK (AFP) — Connecticut on Friday became the third US state to legalize gay marriage, following a contested ruling by the northeastern state's supreme court.
Judges on Connecticut's highest court voted four to three that the state's constitution does not permit barring gay and lesbian couples the same rights accorded to heterosexuals.
The ruling follows similar decisions by Massachusetts, also in the northeast, and the west coast state of California.
"In accordance with these state constitutional requirements, same sex couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry," said Judge Richard Palmer, speaking for the majority opinion.
"Even though the right to marry is not enumerated in our constitution, it long has been deemed a basic civil right," Palmer said.
The ruling came in response to a 2004 lawsuit challenging the ban on gay marriage.
And the states fall like dominoes. Wonder when it'll be legalized here? Stupid hillbilly state will probably be the 10th last to legalize. D: |
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| Happy October! |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|12:14 pm] |
Hey everyone!
Sorry it's taken me so long to write up a new entry for this month, I just didn't feel like doing it over the weekend! I hope everyone is well, up here in Vermont it's starting to get rather cold. We no longer keep the windows open at night.
It feels like just yesterday was the start of Spring, but here we are already in mid-fall! Halloween is this month, one of my most favorite holidays! Is anyone going to dress up this Halloween, if so what as?!
Scribbld stability has seemed to have returned to normal, I don't think we were down for more then 5 minutes if that during the month of September. We're still looking to get a couple new database and web servers, but that's pretty far off from happening.
As usual, thanks to everyone who has purchased a paid account or some extra icons for their account. We really appreciate any monetary donation (or if you've got servers we love donations of those too)!
I hope everyone has a safe and fun October! |
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| 彡oh i wish you could see what's going on inside of me |
[Sep. 24th, 2008|04:38 pm] |
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inivations only!
Please don't beg. Although requests are welcomed. |
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| September 2008 News |
[Sep. 10th, 2008|11:13 am] |
Hi everyone,
It's been a crazy busy couple of weeks for us. I am sure those of you that go to school have been pretty busy too! Last month we were able to update the site to the most current codebase and in doing so we gained a couple new features. The biggest one that comes to mind is the ability to show the songs you've submitted to Last.fm in the Music box when you're updating your journals! Other fixes are mostly bug fixes and the likes.
We've also fixed the issue of having our internet connection (between our servers and our ISP) drop constantly. We went from being drop 8-10x per day to 0, which is fabulous!
I also wanted to thank everyone who is supporting the site through buying extras userpics for their account or upgrading their account to paid status! It's really very much appreciated and it definitely makes on want to build the best site for you!
I wish everyone a happy September, stay safe and have fun! |
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| Beep! Leave a message please. |
[Sep. 8th, 2008|11:16 am] |
Seme's mail box
Hey, appearantly I'm not around so I would ask you to leave me a message here whenever you can't reach me via AIM/Email/Phone. I promise you to come back to you as soon as I can. Thanks! ♥ |
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| Bored |
[Sep. 7th, 2008|11:57 am] |
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I'm bored. No wonder I decided to continue school this year-even hanging around reading and playing on the internets gets old eventually. |
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| [DOWNTIME] |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|06:29 pm] |
This morning and into this evening we experienced some unscheduled downtime. At this time we belive some network cables went bad, and have since replaced and reboot the systems to make sure everything was running properly. We'll continue to closely monitor the network over the next few hours to make sure it's nothing else that caused the issue.
Thanks for your patience and understanding. |
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| when the sun goes down |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|12:07 pm] |
Or up. I have to go to school in like 10 minutes -_- and I barely have time to reply in my pokemon Rp. http://s1.zetaboards.com/PokeGalaxy/index
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I wonder who McCain will pick for VP today? *has no clue* god I hate going to school, but it's a necessary evil.
More when I get home from school. |
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| System Upgrade 98% Complete |
[Aug. 17th, 2008|05:16 pm] |
Hey kids!
We've just completed most of the upgrade, I know I promised Last.fm integration, but unfortunately, I've left one line of code on our dev machine (which I don't currently have access to at the moment) that will make it work 100%. I know exactly where the line of code is so on Monday I will insert that one line of ode, restart the server and then the Last.fm functions should work and the server will be at 100%. At this time, pretty much everything on the site should work, please use the support queue to report any issues you may be having and we'll look into it.
I am hoping that all cluster 2 users are okay, I don't see why they wouldn't be, but you never know!
So yeah, enjoy and definitely let us know of issues!
Update: We're now at 100% - all clusters are updated, online and running, we've updated the last bit of code that allows Last.fm integration! Test it out, test it all out, let us know how it all works for you! Submit any issues you have to the support section of the website!
Thanks everyone! |
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| Systems UPgrade Part I Complete! |
[Aug. 15th, 2008|02:19 pm] |
Hey everyone,
Sorry for the unannounced outtage. We just had the techs from our ISP come and check out the disconnection issues between us and them. Everything looks to be running a lot smoother now.
Remember, tomorrow starting at 8AM EST Scribbld will be offline along with all of our services. We'll be upgrding our codebase and moving our main web server to the Quad-Core box.
We thank you for your patience and understanding! |
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| Cluster 2 Moved and Scheduled Downtime |
[Aug. 12th, 2008|08:01 am] |
I've moved Cluster 2 to 'palomino' so now at least it sits on a server capable of restarting itself after a power failure. Eventually in time it'll either merge with cluster 1 or we'll find a standalone server for it. At this point it's fine as-is though :)
This weekend starting on Saturday 8AM EST we'll be taking everything down in order to update the code base to something a lot more recent. The code we're running on currently is a bit older then a year which is pretty old! We hope to have it completed within 24 hours but as with all things technology-related...you never know!
Thanks! |
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| Main Database Server Issues |
[Aug. 9th, 2008|11:51 pm] |
Greetings Users,
This evening our master database system had some issues with the boot drive RAID setup. After reviewing the issue we found out no data should have been lost and the RAID system has been rebuilt. Fortunately the drives contained within the RAID set were relatively small (80GB) so the rebuilt didn't take much time. We'll be watching the RAID set closely to make sure it's not a hardware failure, although at this point it doesn't look like one which is good.
We apologize for the downtime and thank you for your patience. |
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