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Changes today were implemented to the login routine, but most of you shouldn't notice any difference. However, if you suddenly experience problems logging in, please email me and let me know ( elad@democraticunderground.com ). Thanks!
There was a glitch that caused a number of people to be unexpectedly logged out. Everything should be fine now, but a small number of people may be experiencing strangeness with their login that makes it appear as if they're not logged in some of the time.
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We've been experiencing network trouble since the early AM off and on today. If you've had slow response time trying to get to DU, that's why. We believe we have a handle on the problem for the time being and will continue to work on it.
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Democratic Underground may be unavailable tonight from around 11pm eastern till 2am eastern. Our ISP is doing network maintenance that may or may not cause service interruptions.
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I will be working on some database issues that may slow down the response time, or make the website unavailable for short periods of time tonight. I expect this work will be starting around 1am eastern. Hopefully it won't last longer than an hour or two.
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For some reason Paypal's automated system that processes our donations is taking a long time to notify our server that payments have been received. Normally, this notification is sent virtually instantaneously, and our server processes the payment and gives your account on DU credit.
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One of our database hard drives started to fail this afternoon causing some brief downtime and general buginess. We have are going to be performing some maintenance over the next hour or two to replace the failing drive. This maintenance may result in slow response time for the site, and/or periods where the site is unavailable.
We apologize for the inconvenience this will cause but we want to fix the problem as soon as possible.
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And everything looks good so far.
Thanks for your patience while we dealt with this.
The failing hard drive has been replaced and the new drive is in place. The system now has to rebuild the RAID array with the new drive in place. We expect this to take a few hours to complete. While it is completing, we will continue to have sub-par performance and may need to stay at level 1 or level 2. Once it is complete, we should return to normal.
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We experienced a server crash today that was caused by one of the hard drives of our database server starting to fail. We are currently running at level 2 to offset the performance loss that this is causing.
The new hard drive is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow morning, and we expect to be able to replace the failing drive immediately after it arrives. There will likely be some downtime, possibly an hour or more, while we replace the failing drive. It is also possible that we could experience unforeseen downtime today and tonight if the drive gets worse.
Unfortunately this is just one of those things, hard drives will fail, but hopefully we've already dealt with the worst of it.
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We experienced some significant downtime today due to a problem with our database server. We have determined that one of the hard drives in our server is failing and needs to be replaced. We are working as fast as we can to replace it. In the meantime, we expect to have sub-par performance and potential periods of downtime.
Please also note that this is a specific hardware issue unrelated to the problems we were having the past several weeks.
We will keep you posted when we have updates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/opinion/... -snip-
Rosenthal and Shipley said that, over time, they try to publish a variety of voices on the most important issues. Regular op-ed readers have seen a wide range of views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and have a lot of other information to help judge Yousef’s statements.
This wasn’t the case, however, with a May 21 op-ed by Nina Planck, an author who writes about food and nutrition. Sensationally headlined “Death by Veganism,” Planck’s piece hit much closer to home than Yousef’s. It said in no uncertain terms that vegans — vegetarians who shun even eggs and dairy products — were endangering the health and even the lives of their children.
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Rachelle Leesen, a clinical nutritionist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told me that Planck’s article “was extremely inflammatory and full of misinformation.” She and her colleague Brenda Waber pointed me to a 2003 paper by the American Dietetic Association, the nation’s largest organization for food and nutrition professionals. After reviewing the current science, the A.D.A., together with the Dietitians of Canada, declared, “Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence.”
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I won’t rehash the scientific dispute in a case in which Planck has her experts and the A.D.A. paper cited more than 250 studies, but I think The Times owes its readers the other side, published on the op-ed page, not just in five letters to the editor that briefly took issue with her.
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The prosecutor argued — and the jury believed — that Crown’s parents intentionally starved him to death. News coverage at the time said that the medical examiner, doctors at the hospital to which Crown’s body was taken and an expert nutritionist testified that the baby was not given enough food to survive, regardless of what the food was.
Charles Boring, the Fulton County prosecutor who handled the case, told me it was “absolutely not” about veganism. Planck and Shipley said they were aware of the prosecutor’s contention. Shipley said, “We were also aware, though, that the convicted couple continues to insist that they were trying to raise their infant on a vegan diet.”
But the jury didn’t believe them, and leaving that out put Planck’s whole column on a shaky foundation.
Op-ed pages are for debate, but if you get only one side, that’s not debate. And that’s not healthy.
We were able to complete the server maintenance we wanted to complete today. Thank you all so much for your patience during the downtime.
The upgrades we performed today were a necessary stepping stone that will allow us to tweak and reconfigure the server to take full advantage of its potential. Therefore, it's important to note that the work is not yet finished. Over the next several days, we will be experimenting and adjusting things to find the optimal configuration. This work will likely result in brief periods of downtime, but nothing like the several hours we were down today.
Also, if you notice any weird behavior on the forums or any bugs, please let me know. It is possible that some of the changes could result in a few bugs in the software.
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DU will be unavailable for an extended period Tuesday. We will be performing an important upgrade to our main database server. The downtime could last anywhere from 4 to 16 hours. We will be beginning the work sometime around 8am (eastern time) Tuesday morning.
We believe we have a handle on our recent stability issues. As some of you may have noticed, we have not had problems with crashes or corruptions all week, thanks to some changes that were implemented last Tuesday. The upgrade this coming Tuesday should hopefully put all remnants of those stability issues behind us and prepare the server for the upcoming primaries and 2008 election.
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We will be performing multiple maintenance tasks to one of our servers today and possibly later into the week that will require periods of downtime. Hopefully these periods will be short and infrequent, but I can't predict exactly how many there will be or how long they will last.
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