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[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Same here.

[tgsnoopy]

Harden up, try the NAC Forum, this one goes like a rocket in comparison most of the time

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Harden up, try the NAC Forum, this one goes like a rocket in comparison most of the time

NAC, it's called Air New Zealand , these days
...but that's not relevant to NZ weather, but if you want to join, then join

[tgsnoopy]

I still frequent it, hope to go back there later this year. Fantastic thunderstorms.

[Willoughby]

It's been pretty fast for me whenever I use this. I will monitor CPU load times. What times of days does it seem to get bad and how many seconds?

[jamie]

Im noticing the forum has not switched over the clock since DLST ended. I only use a browser at work. Phone app at home hence im only noticing now. Doesn't it do it automatically usually?

[Tornado Tim]

Im noticing the forum has not switched over the clock since DLST ended. I only use a browser at work. Phone app at home hence im only noticing now. Doesn't it do it automatically usually?

Change it in your profile options just select no to DST in effect.

[jamie]

yea I did that as soon as I noticed it......more just a point that I thought it used to change automatically as of about the last year or two?

[Tornado Tim]

yea I did that as soon as I noticed it......more just a point that I thought it used to change automatically as of about the last year or two?

Nah, I think Willo has had to change everyone who has a NZ timezone to turn off DST.

[Nev]

Willoughby normally readjusts the forum's overall time settings. Of course not having DST in Darwin, this sometimes get overlooked. I've just flicked him a quick reminder.

[tgsnoopy]

Willo is in Europe, his sister just got married, so you may need to give him a little while to react.

[Willoughby]

Sorry I'm out of the country without my laptop so I don't have passwords saved to do it automatically. Users will need to adjust themselves, but I've just changed the default setting.

[Willoughby]

Notice
Auckland core network planned maintenance
Posted Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:46 AM

We have been advised that work by our network upstream to update security capabilities their network core
" As part of our continuous improvement programme, we have a requirement to deploy a service pack upgrade to our aggregation network devices as instructed by our vendor. This requires a reload and as such there will be a small outage to your services* while the nodes are reloaded. "

The following schedule has been advised for each task.

Change 1: 2 May 2015 23:00 NZST - 3 May 2015 05:00 NZST
Change 2: 3 May 2015 23:00 NZST - 4 May 2015 05:00 NZST

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I wish these people would stop downloading movies at peak time on FLICKNET.
Interferes with my internet. and lodging on to the Forum

[petem8nz]

Test

[petem8nz]

Test

I've noticed the post times have not changed with DST - Mod please delete these posts and pass on if necessary

[Manukau heads obs]

you can untick summer DST in effect in your user profile settings

[petem8nz]

you can untick summer DST in effect in your user profile settings

Sorry, Thanks

[Willoughby]

A big thanks to Razor for taking on moderating responsibilities.

[Willoughby]

Regarding tonight's outage:

Multiple servers unreachable in NZ data center
Posted Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:34 AM UTC
Last Update Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:56 AM UTC (26 minutes ago)
Status Open
Affected Data Center: Auckland

Update Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:51 AM UTC: We have the following report from the datacenter, there was some planned maintenance that should not cause any issues:
We have been preparing the final stages of upgrades to our core network, work to complete the second part of the migration to the new Cisco platform was completed successfully last Monday night. At 19:27 as we were preparing for the final stage of the migration due to kick off at 22:00, our network engineers accidentally pushed a configuration change that adversely affected two of the old core devices that were scheduled to be retired tonight.
This inadvertently resulted in some Datacentre Customers IP transit services being unavailable.

Remedial work and post Incident Action Items:
Further fault diagnosis is being undertaken with the engineers responsible.

We are confident that the upgrades we are performing to our network going forward will enhance overall resiliency and redundancy.

We are disappointed that this has happened as our core network uptime over the past 12 months has been excellent, this has affected our high standards of service delivery to you our customer.

Update Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:36 AM UTC: Servers are responding again, we are awaiting details about the issue

Update Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:13 AM UTC: problem has been detected at the edge network core systems, engineers are working on the issue, there is no ETA yet.

Update: Datacenter engineers picked up on the issue and are working on it as we speak.
We noticed some servers were unreachable in NZ data center. We're investigating.

[tgsnoopy]

At the risk of getting in trouble from Nazi moderators for staying off topic

Hard to follow this topic as some posts have disappeared / been deleted?? Not worth contributing really...

Never encountered a forum quite so anal re keeping on topic & where moderators just move posts from topic to topic like they do on this one. I don't approve, I would expect moderators to largely leave off topics alone unless there were complaints or it had substantially taken a different direction worthy of a new topic, even then I expect them to ask if they'd like it split off. They are suppost to work for the members not dictate to them. I don't recall the forum members stating they wanted this hard line approach. Without members, you have no forum.

I'd encourage members of this forum to voice how they feel about the moderators approach to off topic postings. Keep it simple though, the goal here is to let the forum continue, but be a place where conversations can have the little twists in different directions as conversations do, without fear of being slammed for being off topic.

[Skywatcher]

I think this forum is fairly lightly moderated - on one aviation forum the mods will simply delete off topic posts or even whole topics which stray even slightly from a board's description!

It made sense to me that the mods moved the posts to the other topic which covered the same subject. Unfortunately, the order of posts is based on time so the result isn't always perfect.

[Nev]

From what I can tell, these are the only posts that weren't included when Tornado Tim moved those posts from the 'Frost' thread to the 'Car Thermometers' thread as requested (btw, thanks John for creating the latter thread )...

Keep on topic guys......

Keep on topic guys......

Feel free to move the posts i cant do that.

Feel free to move the posts i cant do that.

Ditto that comment!

To my mind it would have made even less sense to retain the above posts in the new thread, except of course in relation to tgsnoopy's comment about 'Nazi moderators', which I personally find deeply offensive. Even if Tornado Tim's comment about keeping on-topic may have sounded a little 'dictatorial', hurling abuse at moderators is not the best way to get anything sorted.

With regard to splitting posts into new threads, moderators do get PM's from members asking them to either do this or update the title of existing threads (not to mention various complaints about the conduct of some members, etc). Generally, anything more than five or six off-topic posts would automatically warrant enough interest to create a new thread. Firstly because anyone wanting to post on-topic comments aren't put off for fear of their post becoming lost in entirely different conversation, and secondly because admin prefer to encourage topic-specific threads, rather than have long rolling ones. I'm not saying don't post off-topic stuff (some of our most interesting threads have stemmed from other threads), but I fail to see why anyone would get upset if a new topic emerges from an existing thread, or a discussion is moved to a more appropriate thread.

Btw, re the last time tgsnoopy bailed me up for splitting a thread, I (along with other mods it seems) decided to sit back and not intervene. It wasn't long before the forum became an incoherent shambles, postings started tailing off, and PM's started rolling in asking if threads could be sorted out.

Obviously it's impossible to please everyone all of time... all mods can do is give it their best shot.

[jamie]

First time I have been on the webpage in a while and I've only just seen that brain actually created a poll. On tappatalk you do not see the poll or get the chance to vote.

[Manukau heads obs]

should do a poll about how many use tappatalk then lol