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We will be moving Pet Talk to a new, faster server the night of Friday April 25th. We are letting you all know now, so you have advanced warning, and need not panic if you cannot log on then. The process will take at least several hours, and is a lot of work - for Paul. Miss Hoppy and I simply "supervise" from another room.
Great, I'll be in England at that time. Karen, you better stay well away and don't give Paul any "smart" comments - except you may superwise the colors and layout. ;) Are you going to align Dog, Cat and Pet with the rest? Give miss Hoppy some noserubs!
Best wishes that it all goes smoothly! :D
Eh ?? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Randi
How'z dat again?
Is sumpin *crooked* now?
:confused:
LOL! I knew you were gonna ask! :p
This is what PT looks like on my browser:
:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Randi
<smirk>
I hate to disappoint the fans!
Are you questioning tha the lil Mousie's photo is "too far to the right"
and doesn't "line up" with the right side vertical border of the text boxes?
:eek: MY lil Mousie pix is 2 inches to the left (inside) of the text boxes!
But I've now got a "WIDE-screen" monitor ('kuz the sales guy said it was the *latest kraze* :rolleyes: ) ...
Some things look kinda *strange* if they spread out to cover the whole thing.
Takes some getting used to when three paragraphs on the old narrow screen now fit on
ONE LINE of this monster! :eek: Gott pack a lunch for the trip across the screen!
And I get a sore neck too - like watchin a tennie ball game sitting too close to the end of the net!
Sooo ... I guess I dunno WHY the lil Mousie doesn't line up ...
But neither does mine!
Ask Fister ---
He might have *scared* the Mousie and he's trying to run off the screen.
:p
Yes, I am! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
I see what you mean, and the reason is that you're using widescreen - I'm not, because I can't stand that blue color - or to put it nicely, it's not good on my eyes. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
That'd be the day! :D Lazy bugger is laying right here under his own little sun, relaxing and asking for tummy rubs the best he's learned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
BLUE ? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Randi
OMG!
And all these years I thunk it was kinda GREEN-ish.
:o
:p
Yes, that blue! :eek: Phred, we may be out of line here, hogging this thread - but I thought it was only red/green you have problems with?
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Originally Posted by Randi
Well ... my "primary" shortcoming is with RED and GREEN ...
BUT ... I don't do too swiftly with ANY colors! :rolleyes:
And if the color choice thingy didn't have pop-up Labels ---
I'd be hopeless coloring in the labels above! I have to SEARCH for the greenie!
BLUE stands out pretty well and I can "recognize" BLUE by itself ...
anything else - I usually can't determine what the color is - without something to
compare it with. I really sweat the driver's license renewals --- I *guess* at the
color test with the lil colored dots that are "supposed" to show a number ...
Ole Mr. Ishihara didn't do me any favour with his darn Dot Test!
See >>>>
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html
And yes, I ALWAYS pull over in the car to let SNOWplows and Tow Trucks go by ...
till the the angry horn honks behind me make me look at the shape of the vehicle that I
was positive had RED emergency lights, stedda the YELLOW I always pull over for, too.
(Note: that "yellow" I used is almost IMPOSSIBLE for me to actually *see* against the white background!)
:p
/s/ One of the Three Blind Mice :D
Phred, don't you worry about the yellow, I can hardly read it myself. I suppose you see all dark and bright colors better. I hope you pass your test with flying colors!! :D
An interesting test... I must admit, I had a bit of a problem with the left bottom one, but I could make out what is was.
The SNOWplows and Tow Trucks people must think you're REAL gentleman! :cool:
Karen, better stock up on some coffee, tea, Tab, or whatever it is that is Paul's fav. Sounds like he has a long night ahead of him that night!
(Oh oh, did I just show my age? Do they still MAKE Tab?)
and .... maybe some of those amazing cookies .... just to give him some extra energy ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Freedom
Thank you again Paul and Karen for doing so much to make this forum a great place to come home to :)
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Originally Posted by Freedom
They do! A young girl (23'ish?) at my office drinks nothing BUT Tab.
*shudder*
Yea, because it is a serious pain in the rear end to move the enitre contents of a server, much less a populated forum with 1,900,492 posts and 131,966 Threads to move too. Trust me, i know :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Freedom
Yes and no; it depends. I recently transferred another forum I frequent from their original server to my own reseller. The entire process took maybe two hours. It just depends. Transferring isn't necessarily what might take awhile.. it's restoring the backup that CAN cause you problems. I just asked my host to do it for me hehe took 'em twenty minutes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Reggie
Now if you are transferring the files over one by one... that would be tedious. But with domains you just make one massive "backup" compressed file that includes the files and database information and "restore" it on the new server. Much easier than some think... unless you have other complications, like the new server has a different version of PHP or whatnot (the problem I ran into and the forum was down for a MONTH while we sorted database problems out...).
Anywho, it can be a lot of work, but if things go smoothly it should only take a few hours to transfer and restore... now, the domain propogation to "redirect" you to the new server... that can take up to 72 hours :o
Good luck, Karen and Paul!!!
Oooh and PS: more than one domain can be hosted on a server ;)
Trust me, Jessika, we know what moving a forum to a new server involves, and have done so in the past. It's not as simple as just one massive file to copy over, there's lots to back up, move, then reconfigure. It is a lot of work, and it is all on Paul's shoulder's, while I try not to hover or bug him too much. It *should* be easier this time than last, because of software changes, but there's never any guarantee.
No no, I understand, and it wasn't necessarily directed to you nor Paul but in response to Reggie. I know you have to restore the backup, that can be the complicated part, that's what I said :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Karen
In my experiences the hardest part was after you restore the backup if your login name was not the same, you had issues with scripts and accessing the databases. That and if script versions on one server were not the same as versions on the previous server, which was my most recent troubles, such a pain the butt, too.
But I do hope it goes smoothly and only takes a few hours and you don't run into any serious complications; I'm confident he knows what he's doing hehe I was just throwing in my two cents speaking from experience as well
Thanks for the warning Karen. Not being able to get on PT and not knowing why can cause serious side effects. ;) Thanks in advance to Paul for all the hard work he'll be doing to get PT up and running. :)
Exactly what I was thinking. :) Of course we have been warned but I am sure several of us will try and get onto PT and get a quick feeling of panic until our memories kick in. Please tell Paul thank you for all of the hard work he does behind the scenes and, of course, that goes for you too! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatepuppy
Good luck with it Paul! Good job you have such an excellent supervisory team ;)
Just now reading this notice & wanted to wish best of luck with the move.
Hope all runs smoothly for Paul. :)
I just happened to notice this, since I do not frequent the Town Hall often.
Well, it's a good thing I am busy that night. Because I would be one of the ones that *panic* when I couldn't get on PT. So now I know, just in case I do have a minute to try. :D
Thank you Paul and Karen for all that you do here. :)
Thanks for doing this! Maybe you should put a disclaimer on the front page: "Pet Talk may be habit-forming!" :D
Uh, oh! I'll need to see if I can remember where I wrote my password down. Can't rely on my poor brain to remember it!!! ;)
Thanks for all your hard work Paul and Karen and Miss Hoppy. Surpervising can be hard work too! :D
Good luck Paul. Hope everything goes smoothly.
One question...will you be doing it early Friday morning or late Friday night? Just wondering:)
What am I going to do with my Friday now :eek:
Um, see a movie? Clean something you've been putting off doing? Yard work?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brody's Mum
Good luck this Friday, Karen and Paul.
Hope everything goes smoothly! I've finally figured out what was happening on our home computer, got rid of the program that was slowing things down, so I hope to be around more often now. Boy did I miss a lot!!
:) Thanks for the heads up Karen.. I will mark the calendar for tomorrow night.. Thank you for all the hard work that Paul is going to do.. I noticed you said you & Miss Hoppy would help from the next room.. :D
Mayor Karen musta *missed* this ... an Excellent Question!
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Originally Posted by anna_66
Late Friday night, perhaps into the wee hours of Saturday.
You and Miss Hoppy will have to man the coffee pot!!! ;)
Hee hee - we don't even own a coffee pot - but Miss Hoppy and I can deliver more iced tea, and we are well-stocked with such!Quote:
Originally Posted by momoffuzzyfaces
:D Sounds like you and Miss Hoppy have things under control. I agree! I'm a tea drinker too! :D
Thanks for letting us know! And a big thank you to Paul for the hard work (and to you and Miss Hoppy for supervising! ;)).
I was having many problems with Pet Talk again the last weeks, sometimes I couldn't even open the threads or post; the connection was slow or there was no connection at all. Hope things will be back to normal with the new server! :)
Kirsten
Ten o'clock tonight - 10 PM Eastern Standard time - we will be closing Pet Talk to move it to the new server.
Panic not!
OK fellow PTers, we have been warned! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
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Originally Posted by Karen
Having considered all the above I think I will schedule in a few more games of fetch with the boys!
Thanks for the heads up Karen :)