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#1 2012-11-29 22:55:59

Lightnin
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Power outage at MIT

Greetings all!

Most of Cambridge, MA had a bad power outage this afternoon - still not sure why.
Unfortunately, that meant our servers went down as well. We had auxilliary power come online soon afterwards, but the servers don't like being shut down without warning, so they took a little coaxing from Vladimir, our resident server ninja.  smile

So: Sorry for the outage! We've got things up and running again, so thanks for being patient and ...

(how else could I end this post?)...

Scratch On!

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#2 2012-11-29 22:57:07

henley
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Well, you certainly stopped my from procrastinating a little longer.

EDIT: Was there any storms nearby?  hmm  Not sure why a random power-outage would occur. Maybe everyone had all their electricity running in a team effort to bring down the Scratch Servers.

EDIT2: First time being the first reply to an Announcements thread!  big_smile

Last edited by henley (2012-11-29 22:58:53)

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#3 2012-11-29 22:57:43

laser314
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Yay! It's back up!

http://alpha.scratch.mit.edu/scratchr2/static//images/logo_sm.png 2.0 Alpha Tester!http://i49.tinypic.com/1zckcqb.png

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#4 2012-11-29 23:00:29

jji7skyline
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Glad it's all back up and running again  smile

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!  big_smile

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#5 2012-11-29 23:00:58

TorbyFork234
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Re: Power outage at MIT

At first, I was going 'OMG 2.0!!!' because it said on the picture that they were doing work on the site, then a few seconds later I saw that it said it was a power outage.
Thanks for the false hope for a few seconds!

Glad the power outage is over though

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#6 2012-11-29 23:06:17

JJROCKER
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Top Loved project section is gone? Is that on purpose or is that because of the outage?

http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3491/signature1y.jpg&link2=http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/5272/signature1sx.jpg&link3=http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8514/signature1et.jpg&link4=http://i.imgur.com/POEpQyZ.png&link5=http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4640/jjrockerfinal.jpg

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#7 2012-11-29 23:07:31

JJROCKER
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Re: Power outage at MIT

And Top Remixed is gone too.

http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3491/signature1y.jpg&link2=http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/5272/signature1sx.jpg&link3=http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8514/signature1et.jpg&link4=http://i.imgur.com/POEpQyZ.png&link5=http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4640/jjrockerfinal.jpg

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#8 2012-11-29 23:09:44

CheeseMunchy
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Lightnin wrote:

We had auxilliary power come online soon afterwards, but the servers don't like being shut down without warning, so they took a little coaxing from Vladimir, our resident server ninja. :)

Scratch was almost destroyed!?!?!??!
:P

Last edited by CheeseMunchy (2012-11-29 23:10:24)

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#9 2012-11-29 23:20:46

tailskirbyyoshifan
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Re: Power outage at MIT

I was worried, because I've had an account on here for three years, and I've never seen that before. I'm glad everything is A-OK now. :3

http://i.imgur.com/H4WAk.png

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#10 2012-11-29 23:21:11

ProgrammingPro01
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Yay!

Bye 1.4!
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#11 2012-11-29 23:25:15

JJROCKER
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Re: Power outage at MIT

The Top Loved Section and Top Remixed Section are both gone.

http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3491/signature1y.jpg&link2=http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/5272/signature1sx.jpg&link3=http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8514/signature1et.jpg&link4=http://i.imgur.com/POEpQyZ.png&link5=http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4640/jjrockerfinal.jpg

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#12 2012-11-29 23:33:49

Magnie
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Re: Power outage at MIT

I'm curious as to why the Alpha (the Scratch 2.0 SWF) site still worked even though the main servers didn't. Care to... explain?  big_smile

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#13 2012-11-29 23:33:52

JJROCKER
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Re: Power outage at MIT

And they're back  big_smile

http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3491/signature1y.jpg&link2=http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/5272/signature1sx.jpg&link3=http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8514/signature1et.jpg&link4=http://i.imgur.com/POEpQyZ.png&link5=http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4640/jjrockerfinal.jpg

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#14 2012-11-29 23:44:05

jji7skyline
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Magnie wrote:

I'm curious as to why the Alpha (the Scratch 2.0 SWF) site still worked even though the main servers didn't. Care to... explain?  big_smile

They're actually not working at the moment (I'm a beta tester).  hmm

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!  big_smile

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#15 2012-11-29 23:45:59

Lightnin
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Magnie wrote:

I'm curious as to why the Alpha (the Scratch 2.0 SWF) site still worked even though the main servers didn't. Care to... explain?  big_smile

The main Scratch webserver server had trouble coming back up after reboot - it needed to do a file system check, and it was difficult to skip it remotely. We ended up having to boot from a cent os rescue CD, so Vladimir could work some magic on it. And just as we were about to bring it back up....

The power went out (again!), because they were switching from generators back to mains.  sad

So - it was a lot of little things all going wrong at once.

Thankfully, the 2.0 site is newer (as are the servers), and had less trouble coming back up.

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#16 2012-11-29 23:54:48

Laternenpfahl
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Re: Power outage at MIT

scratch 2.0 not working (translator)

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#17 2012-11-30 00:13:08

jji7skyline
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Laternenpfahl wrote:

scratch 2.0 not working (translator)

It's not working for me either. 502 error.

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!  big_smile

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#18 2012-11-30 01:58:10

lolfan85
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Re: Power outage at MIT

henley wrote:

Well, you certainly stopped my from procrastinating a little longer.

EDIT: Was there any storms nearby?  hmm  Not sure why a random power-outage would occur. Maybe everyone had all their electricity running in a team effort to bring down the Scratch Servers.

EDIT2: First time being the first reply to an Announcements thread!  big_smile

i dont know if the reasons for power outages here is the same there is maybe the electric company shut down the power maybe because of testing the lines or there are emergencies or any other reason that is reasonable.. i dont know if its the same there but i think its like that.

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#19 2012-11-30 06:49:59

LiFaytheGoblin
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Re: Power outage at MIT

jji7skyline wrote:

Laternenpfahl wrote:

scratch 2.0 not working (translator)

It's not working for me either. 502 error.

same here  sad

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#20 2012-11-30 08:00:41

fire219
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Glad that you're up again.  smile

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#21 2012-11-30 08:37:11

dvd4
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Re: Power outage at MIT

LiFaytheGoblin wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Laternenpfahl wrote:

scratch 2.0 not working (translator)

It's not working for me either. 502 error.

same here  sad

same here  yikes

I made a mod  big_smile  It's called blook!
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#22 2012-11-30 10:39:26

Magnie
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Re: Power outage at MIT

jji7skyline wrote:

Magnie wrote:

I'm curious as to why the Alpha (the Scratch 2.0 SWF) site still worked even though the main servers didn't. Care to... explain?  big_smile

They're actually not working at the moment (I'm a beta tester).  hmm

I was actually able to directly access the Scratch Player file, but the main web page did give a 502 error. It seems to be up now though.  smile

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#23 2012-11-30 10:40:30

dvd4
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Re: Power outage at MIT

Magnie wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Magnie wrote:

I'm curious as to why the Alpha (the Scratch 2.0 SWF) site still worked even though the main servers didn't. Care to... explain?  big_smile

They're actually not working at the moment (I'm a beta tester).  hmm

I was actually able to directly access the Scratch Player file, but the main web page did give a 502 error. It seems to be up now though.  smile

I just checked it, and yeah, they are up  smile

I made a mod  big_smile  It's called blook!
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#24 2012-11-30 10:52:38

Nomolos
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Re: Power outage at MIT

I left the site right before the power outage. I exited, reopened, and it wouldn't let me in. Glad that it is working fine now!  smile

Goodbye 1.4. I'll always remember you and treasure your awesomeness in my heart.
RIP 1.4: 2007-2013 *Sniffles* *Sobs* *Bursts into tears*

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#25 2012-11-30 12:13:51

jvvg
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Re: Power outage at MIT

My brother at Harvard also lost power.

It's good that it's all back, though.  smile

(Also, I learned how addicted I am to this website yesterday  tongue )

http://tiny.cc/zwgbewhttp://tiny.cc/e1gbewhttp://tiny.cc/zygbewhttp://tiny.cc/izgbew
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