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Ditto
Martin
Thank you for all the effort, maintenance, lack of sleep and the headaches you must have that you put into the site.
That was not much time to fix.
Much longer though and some on here would have ended up in rehab. “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely gamesâ€
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27th Nov 2009 4:33 am
simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
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Nice one Martin.
A trooper indeed
27th Nov 2009 5:47 am
stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
Posts: 2330
Martin wrote:
..but the backup generators did not kick in once the battery backup supplies were exhausted...
Maybe we should point them to the many posts about excellium, ultimate and ultra diesels keeping the injectors clean
Thanks for all your hard work Martin, I'm sure you were pretty ducked last night ( visibly calm but a whirr of activity just under the surface..) Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
27th Nov 2009 7:54 am
PaulP
Member Since: 04 May 2007
Location: Barcelona
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Nice work Martin - I hope you finally got some sleep and don't have too much of a headache this morning.
One other thing - there's no need to apologise. This is a free site for users so no-one has any right to expect 100% uptime - especially when something so serious happens that is way beyond your control.
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27th Nov 2009 8:40 am
SN
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Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
Excellent work Martin Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
27th Nov 2009 8:53 am
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27th Nov 2009 9:20 am
SJR
Member Since: 09 Aug 2006
Location: East Manchester
Posts: 4030
Good work Boss I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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27th Nov 2009 9:28 am
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15264
Thank goodness we're back
Was just about to twit/tweet/post/blog/blag or whatever you do on that Tweeter link sent out.
Never Twitted in my life, and didn't fancy starting now!...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
Top man Martin.
"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you read is not what I meant"
27th Nov 2009 1:27 pm
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Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Agreed, good job getting our virtual home from home up & running again! Sanity saved.
27th Nov 2009 1:39 pm
TallPaul
Member Since: 03 Jan 2008
Location: Near Reading
Posts: 1214
Yeah I did wonder why I was getting some errors about a table marked as corrupt
The great thing about backup generators is people are usually very reluctant to take the entire DC off the grid and test that they start as expected in case it all goes wrong
Still keeps the people who work in IT for companies selling backup hardware rich enough to be able to afford another tank of Diesel for the D3
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Location: Swine Town
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I worked at a data centre that had five diesel turbines continuously spinning ready to take on the hundreds of Kw of load should the triple redundant sub-station feeds fail. They had an x tonne( I forget if it was 15 or 20) flywheel on each turbine, which had enough inertia to provide power for the 0.3 seconds required for the diesel turbines to start up after power failure. There were weekly tests so that a) the gennies could be tested and b) the diesel in the bunkers could be topped up to ensure it never went stale. Assuming the power wasn't required in the datacentre, it could have been used to supply 50% of the power needs of the 100,000 population town it was located in. In 1990 it was at the peak of state of the art.
That all sounds really dandy until the day they hit the test switch, and one of the generators started up backwards The power surge detonated the multi-square-inch bussbars connecting the failed genny. The remainder carried on working
The engineer who started the test claimed that the first thing he did after hitting the emergency shut-down was go and change his shorts
Never did hear how the flywheel started spinning the wrong way without anyone or any system noticing; the whole unit was shipped by low loader/ferry to Norway for examination as it had never happened before.Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
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27th Nov 2009 5:55 pm
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As D3 owners Martin, i think that we all know and understand that sometimes s&!t happens, outside your or even Gods control, it's how you deal with it that really counts
And i for one am really glad we had such an outstanding driver at the wheel when it did
Nice one chap
Stapldm, I blame Bill Gates myself
27th Nov 2009 5:59 pm
sarumlight
Member Since: 06 Nov 2008
Location: Off the Plain
Posts: 1592
Hi Martin,
Hats off for recovering the site from a situation like that so quickly. I don't think people realise how much work and planning is involved in running a site like this until things go wrong.
Noticed the briskoda forum got hacked badly and that really does sound a nightmare. That runs on vBulletin rather than phpBB so it's not the same software. (and no I'm not thinking of buying one - just looking for a part number for my mother's!)
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The power surge detonated the multi-square-inch bussbars connecting the failed genny. The remainder carried on working 
