Any trouble accessing MLU lately?

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by aj.lec
What happened then ?
seems to have shut down the whole system and kicked everyone off
came up with software errors and database errors for about an hour

Sounds like a cold boot... maybe they fixed something?

What happens is that the Forum is run off a software set called 'MySQL', which is really just the database and its associated query tools. It's quite efficient, but has to be restarted separately after the server itself is rebooted and confirmed up & running.

Anyway, I was asleep at the time so it didn't actually happen, did it? Besides, it's only you scalliwags Downunder who were affected (you don't have the sense to sleep when the Real World sleeps), so it doesn't really matter...