Rat Chat down

deadliest yukkaflux evvvvvvver....
the most agonizing long-distance call I ever made on the ol' porcelain telephone... :barf::barf::barf:
(I came to...I mean,woke up later the next day with half a lung and 5 feet of my own large intestine on my boot :rolleyes: )
 
Sounds pretty heavy. Smirnoff Blue is strong enough for me at 45% - straight from the freezer in straight shots.......cold then hot ! :D But I usually drink Absolut. :thumbup: That said a bottle lasts me a few months.
I just can't mix alcohol with blades and since I seem to nearly always be doing something with a blade.....:rolleyes:. Not preaching or anything but a man needs to know his limits - so to speak.:p

Day 2,657,234 since we lost our beloved Swamp.....even my mates are still asking me if it's back. :(

I have faith. Oh and a few knives, too ! :cool:

The questions is (for myself) - get a 2nd RatManDu ?
 
Tito's Vodka has been making it into the wintertime White Russians around our place. i believe The Dude would approve. :D
 
Actually,for a really nice vodka that won't break the bank,try Armadale or Chopin.They're harder to find than the Goose but worth looking.
(Grey Goose is owned by Bacardi and tends to be pricey here in Canada: $45+/bottle)
 
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smoked a bone-in pork loin last night. 3lbs only took 2 hrs and it was incredible. highly recommended if you haven't tried it. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
This is a little ridiculous I have been checking everyday if it's up and disappointments all day long. I feel like in this time you could of made a whole new website and copy an paste every thread a know eh
 
Poozooka said:
This is a little ridiculous I have been checking everyday if it's up and disappointments all day long. I feel like in this time you could of made a whole new website and copy an paste every thread a know eh
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Should there be a Rat Chat Death Chat? I can't stop thinking about the Rodent Solution. This has dragged on too long. It is effecting my work and making me drink way to much beer!
 
Day 200 and something.

The Swamp is sadly missed by many.

Neus, Bravo and the other contestants : we shall prevail ( I hope )
 
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This is a little ridiculous I have been checking everyday if it's up and disappointments all day long. I feel like in this time you could of made a whole new website and copy an paste every thread a know eh
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That is probably pretty close to correct. It looks like we will have to upgrade the UBB software before we will be back. That means all of the work we did to fix the old site was wasted. Not certain yet but looks like new forum software may be needed.
 
Eric Isaacson said:
That is probably pretty close to correct. It looks like we will have to upgrade the UBB software before we will be back. That means all of the work we did to fix the old site was wasted. Not certain yet but looks like new forum software may be needed.
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Did they ever figure out what it was that ravaged the Swamp,and where it came from? This is the first time I've seen a site get hit so bad!
(If I were a conspiracy theorist,I'd say it was someone out there who claims to make "the world's toughest" knives...but there's a difference between thinking you know something,and simply Knowing,and Doing something...
and we all know where the toughest knives are born! ;) )
God Speed to the Swamp,
Long Live The Swamp!
As long as just one of us still stands,she lives on :D
 
I'd be very curious to hear what happened in a bit more detail. I do IT to pay my knife bills (and all my other bills), so this sort of minutia is very interesting to me.

I'd suspect that all the forum content is stored in a database (probably MySQL or MSSQL). If that is the case, i see a few possible scenarios, and I'd be very interested to know if/which one it is.

- Validation issue. Something got stored in the DB that the forum software can't interpret, causing the system to hang or crash when trying to load it. This is usually the product of poor validation when storing user info/posts.

- Junk in the trunk. Like above but dealing with an external resource or file. A poorly formatted image file uploaded, or some other artifact in the system that creates unhandled exceptions.

- Content could have outgrown the system, this can happen if the software isn't scalable to handle the content the forum has accumulated.

- Deliberate malicious attack. Someone took the site down for their own reasons. This is usually in the form of SQL injection attacks, but can be accomplished in varying ways.

I don't expect to know the answer but I can be curious if i want. Its interesting that the forum couldn't be recovered from a recent backup. Its possible that there wasn't an adequate backup procedure in place.

This has been a very extended downtime, seems like it had to be a fairly major issue. I hope someone has given Eric a good explanation of what happened, because a multiple week downtime is crazy.

-- Adam
 
I, for one, have never really been able to figure out why Swamp Rat (or Busse Combat) needs two chat rooms. Rather than spend a whole lot more time and money to fix Rat Chat, perhaps the time has come to retire it in favor of this subforum. After all, why not let somebody else deal with the headaches of hosting your forum, especially when you're already paying them to do that?

Just a thought. :)

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my guesses for how the site went down:

1) someone at the shop was having too much fun playing with the cheese and accidentally switched off the computer
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2) Eric had too much egg nog and tried to download an exclusive preview of the 2012 Swyumsuit Edyition from SpyortsIllustriousated.Russia.com :eek:

3) Elves
:D

here's to hoping it's back up soon. good luck, Eric :thumbup:
 
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