Please Accept My Appologies For Yesterday's Down Time

[arbilab]

Piliwi ole a piliwi mai, (believe it or not in Hawaiian) on Charter cable I get "unable to locate server" on google at times. Can you imagine? An internet portal that can't find the GOOGLE DNS?

We've become quite proficient at conjuring up new technostuff. Inversely so at conjuring stuff that WORKS. From my 3rd floor hilltop resort ghetto I have 6 bars on my AT&T cellphone but it still drops entire PARAGRAPHS of speech if not the whole call. I can remove the battery from my 1986 Celica and when it wakes up again it still remembers it's a car. Try that on a 2006 ANYthing. You have to drive it for 150 miles before it will pass exhaust inspection or shift right.

Here's one you probably didn't know about: Elevator software that can open the cab door while it's moving 350 feet per minute. Here's one you might did know: Windows XP with Microsoft Essentials goes to update, can't because it's "no longer supported", and suddenly your whole harddrive becomes inaccessible. Now would be a good time to turn off auto-update.

Hell, we can't even count on buying limes when it rains in Mexico during flowering season (it just did).

If you can't get aw.org, do NOT ask your doctor if Abilify is right for you. Read the 3 pages of side effects instead. And thanks for the added week Robert. Us socalled-security reciprocants would definitely bend over to pick up a quarter, even though it may take a para-medics to get us upright again. I speak from expedience. (sic)(sic)(sic)

 

[philr]

Robert, I think most of us are more concerned about the trouble it gives you to deal with these situations than being bothered by it. You certainly had better things to do on your birthday!

 

[jeffg]

"Here's one you might did know: Windows XP with Microsoft Essentials goes to update, can't because it's "no longer supported", and suddenly your whole harddrive becomes inaccessible. Now would be a good time to turn off auto-update."

The joke can and will only get worse, until the internet is protected as a common carrier. I was going to say 'as a utility' but I'll avoid repeated use of that word.

I really REALLY wish this qualified as wacko conspiracy theory, but the current status quo is a corporate fascist state: a single company now controls two-thirds of all global web searches, and they currently have legal green lights (at least in the U.S.) to censor, rearrange, obfuscate and otherwise do whatever they wish with their search results. Absolutely ridiculous, but it's the primary reason their stock price is well over $1000. They're being allowed (again at least currently and in our country) to control the limits of their own competition, in addition to the limits of 1000 other things -- exposure of political sites, freeware sites etc. It's the precise equivalent of calling 411 directory assistance and having AT&T claim no numbers exist for Comcast. Simply because telling you Comcast's number would potentially eat into AT&T's profit margin.

Trust me on this: the only and immutable eventuality is a nationalized internet, simply because it's much too essential a utility to have it decay into the same bottomless cesspool of corporate greed that destroyed everything from FM radio to cable TV. The fix for this must come from our federal government imo.

 

[jeffg]

"Here's one you might did know: Windows XP with Microsoft Essentials goes to update, can't because it's "no longer supported", and suddenly your whole harddrive becomes inaccessible. Now would be a good time to turn off auto-update."

Maybe that's what happened to Robert's host.

 

[58limited]

Absolutely no need to apologize for something out of your control, Robert. Thanks for keeping this great site running, visiting here is a nice break from a busy stressful day.

 

[bendixmark]

Loads of Thanks Robert

When the site was down the other day my first thought of course was terrorism,they go after great american institutions why not this one?Then I thought maybe Ive been banned because my posts are too strange and nobody gets my humor.Then I thought maybe he thinks we dont appreciate all he has done to create this wonderful site,Robert giveth and Robert taketh away.No need to apologize Robert thanks so much...taint your fault!