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Looks like he's taken a position at 123 Reg, a large web hosting company here in the UK.
After 34 hours downtime of their virtual servers they finally admitted that they'd deleted them in an email to customers. Obviously a shedload of their customers were unable to receive this email, but here's an extract:
So what happened to some services? As part of a clean-up process on the 123-reg VPS platform, a script was run at 7am on 16.04.16. This script is run to show us the number of machines active against the master database. An error on the script showed 'zero-records' response from the database for some live VPS. For those customers, this created a 'failure' scenario - showing no VMs and effectively deleting what was on the host. As a result of our team's investigations, we can conclude that the issues faced having resulted in some data loss for some customers. Our teams have been and continue to work to restore. What have we done? We have been working with an extended team of experts and have left no stone unturned. Our teams have been working long into the night to restore as much as we possibly can. We have also invested in external consultants to recover, in the best way possible.
Their status page:
https://www.123-reg.co.uk/support/system-status/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/123regfans
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/123reg
Nightmare. I imagine they are restoring the servers individually which could be a very long job, but no real info on time has been given. In fact they don't seem to have grasped how giving regular updates and information on social media could help limit the damage this spectacular shirtstorm is going to cause them, and maybe even get people back on their side. Some of the 'supportive', 'encouraging' and 'compassionate' messages on Facebook/Twitter are a real joy to read.
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Ummm... The Insider News - CodeProject[^]
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Yes that was a big hoax, but this is real - and fantastic timing by the company involved 
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That's good.
Guys' gotta eat regardless.
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Perfectly right. Also there is a saying in Italy: "Only those who do nothing make no mistakes".
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
/xml>
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I thought you were going to say he got a job at the US State Department, administrating their Exchange server farm.
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Well, given the "learning from your mistakes" thing, he's probably the only person in the world who wouldn't possibly do that in future.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It was a hoax, a marketing gimmick.
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I was reading this thread on CP[^] and couldn't help the irony of the verbiage and general social deterioration that broke out as a consequence of the post.
Arguably, it should have been wisely said that there's nothing better to argue about than why you shouldn't argue.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Isn't that against the rules? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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W∴ Balboos wrote: there's nothing better to argue about than why you shouldn't argue
Ah, negative recursion 
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W∴ Balboos wrote: the irony of the verbiage and general social deterioration t
True. The posts in the Lounge are usually of much higher caliber.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: The posts in the Lounge are usually of much higher caliber
Truer words were never spoken from the bottom of a bottle of Gin Bourbon.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Message Closed
modified 18-Apr-16 12:16pm.
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BillWoodruff wrote: how do you feel about having posted a message about how you feel about a thread ?
Actually, to be completely accurate, he posted a thread about how people should feel about a thread about someone telling how he feels about other not feeling good enough to respect rules for posting a thread.
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Actually, it was a potential volcano of ill-will, so we're lucky it turned out to be so amusing -- both to take part in and to look at.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: Delivery instructions are limited to 24 characters
Seriously? What the actual elephant can I do with 24 characters?
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: can I do with 24 characters?
Leave at front door. 
Or perhaps:
beware of the large angr
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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"Avoid cracks in pavement"
1 2
123456789012345678901234
Or possibly use pictograms? Chinese? FSOW clues?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Plz pack in Bombay gin!!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Sometimes the truly important things need few words:
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Bathroom Out of Order
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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"No sh*t"
0123456
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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13 characters are plenty:
Send it to me
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Use an URL-shortening service 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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