Thought the world was coming to an end, meteorites crashing , asteroids fly-bys and all of arduino land crashing the world over.
Relieved to know the human race has yet again survived, though I am humbly reminded by how lost we can be without the things we take for granted.
Must have been some difficult and anxious hours for the sever maintainer person or people.
Many thanks,
Paul.
Yea the site was down for me too. But then I re-burned the bootloader on my Nano and then when I checked the site it was OK, so that appeared to fix it. Sorry it took me so long, I had no idea you were all waiting for me to finish.
rockwallaby:
retro, I guess you just had to re-burn that boot-loader again hu?
It must suck all the arduino electrons in the world to do it, just everything stops.
Try not to do it again ok ]
Sorry once you burn one bootloader it's hard to stop. And then an hour later I feel the need again.
The problem seems to be more extended than previously expected: an hardware issue on our server produces random spikes and kernel panic which force brutal shutdowns of the system, causing - other than temporary unavailability of our web services - damages on database tables abruptly closed.
We are schedulating a massive migration for tomorrow, that will resolve in a long downtime. More news soon on the Arduino blog.
Hello madbob,
Please, let us know if there is something we can do/help. I understand maintenance meas resources, money. Sometimes a donation pot helps.
Maintainance Downtime Scheduled for Thursday, 21 Feb - read here for more details
Is it just me or does anyone else also think that bold black with an underlined link would have been a better color option for the announcement? It's at the top of the page if you missed it.
So about four hours from now then I am guessing?
It's 21h here, yay, in four hours I might be asleep, chuckle chuckle, oops, forgot about the my morning fix of Arduino
Say, Msquare, are you helping out with the upgrade?
Also, I notice that in my profile setting where I can set the time zone offset, it always wants to guess and does not want to keep the value I give it.
Especially as we have daylight saving time, it is out by one hour. I hope if you are going to version 2.x of SMF it will be fixed.