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Clarity;810376; said:
Any time between this very minute, and 24 hours from now.

No sarcasm, that's what the registrar told me when I submitted the change.

It could last just moments for some people when it happens, or hours -- or, if I choose the wrong path on the machine end, longer.
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Thanks for all the info. and all that you do. You are awesome!
Well if it can happen at any moment I'd just like to say I love each and everyone of you....Ok maybe not all of you but most of you. I am glad to be with you guys if this is indeed the end....for 24hrs. :biggrin: I better unload all the positive rep. I can since I won't be able to use it for awhile.
 
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this all sounds extremely technical... all that behind the wire type of stuff I always just take for granted...



does anyone else have the urge to just keep making new posts to see if and when we are denied?

btw, what and where on earth did you come up with the name "edith" and why do you continue to change its' gender? Is there an Edith in your past you dislike immensely? You can tell us, afterall, we might be at the end of our BP existance and well, we can share things like this openly now...
 
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this all sounds extremely technical... all that behind the wire type of stuff I always just take for granted... [/QUOTE]

It's also, to be sure, also comically inept on my part. But I think it gives the broad strokes.

BuckeyeRyn;810386; said:
btw, what and where on earth did you come up with the name "edith" and why do you continue to change its' gender? Is there an Edith in your past you dislike immensely? You can tell us, afterall, we might be at the end of our BP existance and well, we can share things like this openly now...
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True story here, I originally wrote "Susan", with no intent or meaning behind that, completely forgetting my own history. Once I realized that, I changed all references from that to Edith, and the rest stuck. As far as the gender crisis, I take no credit there. We're talking about an amorphous internet monster that both scares and confuses me, one who goes by "Edith", and who may or may not understand for him (or her)-self what she (or he) is.

It could also be that I'm in the habit of random gender placement for the sake of equal time and play in academic-type writing.

I think it's all of the above, but also that I intended to juxtapose a female name with male gender flags, and tripped somewhere along the way.

Ultimately, I'm just not really sure. I partially blame that hail storm that flew through.
 
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Clarity;810388; said:
It's also, to be sure, also comically inept on my part. But I think it gives the broad strokes.

True story here, I originally wrote "Susan", with no intent or meaning behind that, completely forgetting my own history. Once I realized that, I changed all references from that to Edith, and the rest stuck. As far as the gender crisis, I take no credit there. We're talking about an amorphous internet monster that both scares and confuses me, one who goes by "Edith", and who may or may not understand for him (or her)-self what she (or he) is.

It could also be that I'm in the habit of random gender placement for the sake of equal time and play in academic-type writing.

I think it's all of the above, but also that I intended to juxtapose a female name with male gender flags, and tripped somewhere along the way.

Ultimately, I'm just not really sure. I partially blame that hail storm that flew through.
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Peyote must be in season...
 
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Hey, just be glad I *am* technically inept.

If I had some of those "l33t h4x0ring skillz", I'd set the site up to display "ODEN ANNOUNCES DECISION TO ..." just seconds before the site was going to go down. Just to torture those few who happen to be on when it disappears.
 
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osugrad21;810393; said:
Peyote must be in season...
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My policy is, "when you don't say much, make sure what you do is mostly unintelligible and deranged."

Keeps expectations reasonably low, and also serves to distract from the fact that you (I) may (or may not be) mangling the site.
 
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Clarity;810394; said:
Hey, just be glad I *am* technically inept.

If I had some of those "l33t h4x0ring skillz", I'd set the site up to display "ODEN ANNOUNCES DECISION TO ..." just seconds before the site was going to go down. Just to torture those few who happen to be on when it disappears.
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:lol:

Dear IRS:

Please excuse Deety's late tax forms. BP wasn't down long enough to enter all her W-2s.

Sincerely,

Almost Accountants, Inc.
 
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Clarity;810367; said:
Always! :biggrin:

Really, what it comes down to is that when you type buckeyeplanet.com into a browser, some magical dangerous entity on the net (I call him "Edith") tells your browser to go look at a certain numeric IP address. That used to be 140.99.uh.morenumbersIforgetnow. I've now asked Edith to instead point to 69.16.139.250. But Edith is somewhat slow and unpredictable. He could decide to listen to my request 20 minutes, or 20 hours from now, there's just no telling.

At the moment, Edith is still telling people to go to 140.99.other.numbers. Which is all well and good, because our server is sitting there screaming "hey! I'm 140.99.more.stuff, come talk to me for BP". The downtime will come when Edith recognizes the new address I've given her. Then she's sending everyone there, but our server still thinks it's the old address. That's when I'll have to change it over (and I have a few different sets of directions regarding how to accomplish that -- god help all of us), and hopefully then Edith, our machine, and your browsers, will all be singing off of the same sheet of music.
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See, there's your problem. You've asked someone named Edith to remember something to do with numbers. If this at all parallels my experiences with my wife, Edith, this will be a bloodbath.

BuckeyeRyn;810395; said:
Yeah, let's blame it on the hail...

Oh crap... I have that HORRIBLE song in my head now.. "Blame it on the rain."


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Thanks for sharing. Now EVERYBODY gets to hum it. :pissed:
 
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Clarity;810388; said:
this all sounds extremely technical... all that behind the wire type of stuff I always just take for granted...
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Clarity said:
Keeps expectations reasonably low, and also serves to distract from the fact that you (I) may (or may not be) mangling the site.
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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain ...

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