Forums will be down on Wednesday

[Fred]

Hello,

We need to perfom a big maintenance update to upgrade the underlying OS which is powering the forums computers. We have planed this for Wednesday, and if all goes well it should be only a few hours down, if not it could be longer. So don't panic if you can't connect then

[c4s]

Good luck!

[IdeasVacuum]

Horrible IT job, hope it goes smoothly for you.

[Cruster]

Best of luck. Look forward to the forums being back on line afterwards

[Fred]

Done. Unfortunately it didn't went well at all, the Ubuntu update process from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS just failed and the remote computer never rebooted. I did a new clean install of debian 6 and reinstalled all the backups, and believe or not, but it seems to work .

I just re-enabled the english forum for now, so if you find something wierd, just tell. I will re-open the german and french forum later in the day.

[GG]

OK for me, thanks.

[Foz]

I have to admit - since Ubuntu 10.04 was released, I fell out with Ubuntu. The "it just works" policy no longer "just works".

Indeed after preaching Ubuntu to the world and destroying people's machines, it was a switch to Debian. Which, curiously enough, "just works"...

[gekkonier]

Maybe some links are not up yet:

The requested URL /dynamiclinks/PureBasic_4.61_beta_1_x86_(xxxxxx).dmg was not found on this server.

Happens to all links I click in the download section.

[Fred]

It's sorted, thank you

[J. Baker]

Done. Unfortunately it didn't went well at all, the Ubuntu update process from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS just failed and the remote computer never rebooted. I did a new clean install of debian 6 and reinstalled all the backups, and believe or not, but it seems to work .

I just re-enabled the english forum for now, so if you find something wierd, just tell. I will re-open the german and french forum later in the day.

Just did the same thing a few days ago from 8.04 to 10.04. I had to install all the latest updates on 8.04 before it would properly install 10.04. Maybe you did, I dunno.

[Niffo]

On server side, a real Debian is always better than Ubuntu (and even on a workstation since Ubuntu 11.10 and its forced @!#&! Unity desktop)
You should try Debian "Testing" on workstations, it has amazingly improved these last months.

[Fred]

Done. Unfortunately it didn't went well at all, the Ubuntu update process from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS just failed and the remote computer never rebooted. I did a new clean install of debian 6 and reinstalled all the backups, and believe or not, but it seems to work .

I just re-enabled the english forum for now, so if you find something wierd, just tell. I will re-open the german and french forum later in the day.

Just did the same thing a few days ago from 8.04 to 10.04. I had to install all the latest updates on 8.04 before it would properly install 10.04. Maybe you did, I dunno.

Sure i did. As I hadn't physical access to the computer i had only one chance, so i read many topics, but it failed..

[Kurzer]

Fred, do you plan also to update the forum software?
I would be very happy, if I could access the forum via the smartphone-app called "Tapatalk".

You only need to implement an plugin into the forum installation.
The tapatalk-plugin is free (http://www.tapatalk.com/pricing.php) and you only have to activate it once.

[ts-soft]

Fred, do you plan also to update the forum software?
I would be very happy, if I could access the forum via the smartphone-app called "Tapatalk".

You only need to implement an plugin into the forum installation.
The tapatalk-plugin is free (http://www.tapatalk.com/pricing.php) and you only have to activate it once.

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[MachineCode]

I would be very happy, if I could access the forum via the smartphone-app called "Tapatalk".

What's wrong with accessing it via a browser on your smartphone? Works fine for me with Opera Mini.