For those of you very observative Typhoon watchers out there, you will have noticed that Typhoon was down for 45 minutes or so this evening. I was finally rebooting it, in preparation for further changes over the next few days. Trying to reduce the number of things changed at once, so as to not result in a massive downtime. Tonights downtime was prolonged by the letters LI, and the evils of network drivers. Basically, I had lilo configured incorrectly, so it couldn't find the hard drive. Thanks to a boot floppy, and a quick memory of what I worked on 201 day ago, that didn't take too long to fix. Then, the network wouldn't start. Turns out I needed to reinstall the kernel, rerun lilo, etc. Thanks to debian's nice happy fun packaging of kernels, this was a snap. Or, should I say a pop. So, Typhoon is back up and running. Expect it to go down for some upgrades later this week.
Exactly how many observative Tyhpoon watchers do you have? You, probably Tim and Jenny, Maybe Naomi since her site is on there, and there's an off chance of Andrew. So between 1 and 5?
for those like me, who obsessively check their own journal for comments and other journals for entries, it is quite an event when the typhoon goes down.
of course, i thought perhaps it was a snap, and then a crackle, and then a pop. but that wouldn't be general mills sanctioned, so it's probably better just a snap and pop.
- naomi
The number of people potentially affected is not as important to consider as the nature of the reaction. Website withdrawl has been known to cause serious health problems, such as inflamed ears, paranoia, toenail discoloration, shortness of breath, insomnia, self-destructive impulses, gastrointestinal distress, stress, shakiness, weight gain below the torso, and in rare cases, pregnancy. So you see, I clearly do not want to cause any of these problems, and therefore must make every attempt to maintain the stability of the Typhoon.
I fear what color my toenails could be, but I can't see them past my enlarged thighs and ankles! I thought my lack of sleeping abilities was due to the endless siren informing me of the typhoon outage, but once my ears inflamed, I no longer had any excuse. In a rage, I flung myself into the toxic, icy depths of a nearby body of water, which probably caused my hyperventilation and uncontrollable shivering; but who knows, as the stress from these forty-five minutes of downtime also gave me a plethora of stomach pain. Or maybe I'm a rare case...
Although, typhoon withdrawal must also cause one to count incorrectly... as the first commenter did not include herself among the typhoon watchers...
While I do enjoy reading some of the journals on here, I only look at it every four days or so, and therefore have never noticed it being down. I can't really consider myself a typhoon watcher.
Actually you tend to visit somewhere on typhoon a little more often than every other day on average, based on logs over the past 2 weeks.