The FCF and BXC is Down All Weekend...

[CitroJim]

Unfortunately.. This is due to the keeper of the servers issuing a remote reboot command that happened to be a remote shutdown command. The command was issued remotely and said keeper is too remote to switch them back on until Monday morning...

Said keeper says b****ks and his face looks like this:

I'll be putting up temporary engineering pages in a moment...

[Peter.N.]

Ah, that would account for it.

[xmexclusive]

Hi Jim

Cannot get the staff these days.
A competent engineer would have kept a straight face and told you that in view of the distances involved it was going to be a long slow reboot taking around 48hrs.

John

[CitroJim]

Ahh, now that's good thinking John I'll remember that one...

It won't happen again as the servers in question are not a million miles from me and said keeper now thinks it would be an excellent idea if I had a set of keys to where they live

[Duke]

I'll quote your post onto the CCC Forum Jim, just to get the word out - can't have the FCFers and BXCers going cold turkey and not knowing why...

[CitroJim]

Thanks Franklin, that'll be excellent to get it on the CCC site as well

[Duke]

It's on there, and Malcolm has mentioned about going cold turkey...

[CitroJim]

Malcolm has mentioned about going cold turkey...

Oh gawd. That's worrying and serious.... He'll be suffering innuendo loss for one thing...

You'd better send him here then

[Dieselman]

It won't happen again as the servers in question are not a million miles from me and said keeper now thinks it would be an excellent idea if I had a set of keys to where they live

Haven't you got a key already?

[CitroJim]

at that Will...

Just in case anyone needs a desperate FCF Fix there's the test site you can look at here

And if anyone wants a BX Fix then here's the BXC test forum

You can look and search but please don't post as you may not get a reply...

These are hosted on my web server so won't be blindingly fast due to by Internet speed...