All because everyone assumed that everyone had communicated what they wanted. No "oh, I didn't mean that, I meant this. Sorry I didn't make it clear." Instead it was "you dufus of course I know that."

It is really hard in written messages that are not immediate response items to be sure what you wanted to communicate is what was heard. So much easier face to face.

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All because everyone assumed that everyone had communicated what they wanted. No "oh, I didn't mean that, I meant this. Sorry I didn't make it clear." Instead it was "you dufus of course I know that."

It is really hard in written messages that are not immediate response items to be sure what you wanted to communicate is what was heard. So much easier face to face.

Agreed, but that works both ways, y'know?
Also more to it than what was shown there.
But my apologies, I should not have brought that old news up here.

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I have a knack of saying the wrong thing sometimes. Either kills conversations stone dead, or ignites embers that had slipped my mind for a moment. I often think I should think harder before I post ;) then I don't.

Anyway - it's now fixed :) which is what I meant to come in say before, rather than in this edit

I have a knack of saying the wrong thing sometimes. Either kills conversations stone dead, or ignites embers that had slipped my mind for a moment. I often think I should think harder before I post ;) then I don't.

My fault, not yours. I suffer from the same affliction.

Anyway - it's now fixed :) which is what I meant to come in say before, rather than in this edit

Indeed it is ...

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Okidoki. You guys all sorted yourselves out then?

lol

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Caroline is running but still offline again.

That makes a lot of sense. My reading of the situation (but without any inside knowledge) is that they may have replaced Carolyn's [*] failing RAID card during the unscheduled outage on Monday, and gently re-introduced her into the server cluster for light duties only yesterday.

After a few days burn-in to check that the new card (or whatever they did) is working properly and reliably, only then will it be time to expose her to the full hurly-burly of database replication.

* The server was named after Carolyn Porco, planetary scientist.

Richard, is that a bit like only being fed chicken soup while getting over a serious illness?

Richard, is that a bit like only being fed chicken soup ...

well, wouldn't you?

... while getting over a serious illness?

More like while you're coming round after a big operation under anaesthetic, and before they take the stitches out.

Caroline Carolyn is still up...

Actually - and possibly this has only happened in the 10 minutes between you writing that and me starting this reply - she's back online and replicating as we speak.

Replica seconds behind master	  64,780

Please pardon my pedantry, but could we please speak of her using the spelling of her name used on the page we're both referring to? I speak as someone who inherited - with no choice in the matter - a surname variously written Ha {s,ss,z} {el, le} gr {o,a} ve. I'm most intrigued by the people who only know my name by reading it - i.e. I've never met them or spoken to them on the telephone - and have no idea how I pronounce it. But they clearly hear a sound in their head, because when they come to write my name back out - most commonly, on these or SETI's message boards - they use an alternative phonetic spelling from the one they first read.

It's no big deal, but just feels mildly disrespectful - and I think we should show some respect to Professor Porco.

I trust referring to a car engine is not disrespectful to Professor Porco?

From her wikipedia biography, she's a NASA advisor on, among things, "the Solar System Road Map Development Team". I'm sure she'd love to drive your six cylinders on Mars... :-)

Ha {s,ss,z} {el, le} gr {o,a} ve.

Does that make you 'The Grove'? (ref Hasselhoff == "The Hoff") :)

Why do you think I go by Jord? I've had my fair share of people who call me Jordan, Jordi, Jordy, Yarden, Jordun, Jordon. And even Jord's spelled incorrectly by many, who spell it Jort.

No one cares. I usually rehash these people's names in an email back to them, and if they complain about that, I'll point out they started it... :-/

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Well, as the saying goes, just don't call me late for supper.

hello Mr late for Supper,

I shirley won't :-))

LOL....and stop calling me Shirley....

Yeah, it was a funny line.
Especially coming from an actor named Leslie.

Would that be Mr Nielsen from Airplane by any chance?

Aye, that Shirley.

Steam has got an Autumn Sale at the moment, running until November 29th. I just scored Deus Ex Mankind Divided for just half of its retail price. Mafia 3 will have to wait until Christmas, hope it's cheaper then.

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SETI Beta is down! 🙀

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Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos
Pluto is still a planet

SETI Beta is down! 🙀

And back. Who's making syntax errors on Thanksgiving?

I could tell you....

edit: but Deus Ex downloaded and installed, so it's play time!

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I could tell you....

BOINC Adam, judging by the path listed in the error message.