Well fuck me I got it working again

[Slartibartfast]

I'm really sorry for the prolonged outage. The server got borked in several interesting ways for unknown reasons.

The site will be doing ol' Whores-Drawers dance for a bit while I fix stuff properly so apologies for that.

[Aston Martin]

Is this what heroin withdrawal is like? 

[Rust Collector]

I’ve been at trade shows for two days, not having access to autoshite was agony! I had to speak to clients instead, and all sorts of other awful things.

 Cheers @Slartibartfast for getting it sorted.

[Datsuncog]

Boom! Well done chaps!

The old 'Kit-Kat foil across the fuse terminals' trick works every time.

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, Aston Martin said:

Is this what heroin withdrawal is like? 

I'm jonesing here! 🤪 Clearly hammering a bigger socket over it was successful.

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Slartibartfast said:

I'm really sorry for the prolonged outage. The server got borked in several interesting ways for unknown reasons.

The site will be doing ol' Whores-Drawers dance for a bit while I fix stuff properly so apologies for that.

Woo the shite is back! thank you for fixing it!  

if you find out what went tits up and why the computer nerd side of would love to know LOL

[JJ0063]

2 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Woo the shite is back! thank you for fixing it!  

if you find out what went tits up and why the computer nerd side of would love to know LOL

I was going to ask whether you panicked thinking you’d lost the million pages of Invapedia but I assume you’ve got it stored on an offshore server and also multiple copies in paper, papyrus, slate, braille and a backup of that in a safety deposit box? 

[St.Jude]

You never know what loss feels like until Autoshite goes down.

[JJ0063]

1 minute ago, St.Jude said:

You never know what loss feels like until Autoshite goes down.

I had to talk to the Mrs! Turns out she doesn’t work in Woolworths anymore.

[St.Jude]

9 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

I had to talk to the Mrs! Turns out she doesn’t work in Woolworths anymore.

We had to have a drink in order to actually “talk” to each other. I had a cider, she had 6.

[bobdisk]

Glad favourite forum is back on. Had me tearing what little hair I have out 😇

[JakeT]

In completely unrelated* matters, I had a very productive day at work. Can’t think why at all…

 

Well done on having things back up though. Great efforts.

[sutty2006]

4 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

Is this what heroin withdrawal is like? 

I never want to go through that again…… I’d rather take the drugs instead! 
 

Well done for getting this den back up and running. It may take a day for the shakes to pass. 

[brownnova]

Good news! 
Well done @Slartibartfast !! 

[beko1987]

Excellent news! 

[Cookiesouwest]

Thank fcuk for that.

Well done @Slartibartfast

I did have therapy booked for today. I can now cancel it

 

[SteersWithThrottle]

[SRi05]

Thank you Internet boffins x

[Dick Longbridge]

2 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

I had to talk to the Mrs! Turns out she doesn’t work in Woolworths anymore.

Almost spat my coffee out with this one! Great to see this place back. 

[bunglebus]

You have no idea. I painted an entire 10 x 15 foot shed, changed a ball joint on a Zafira, bought my summer wardrobe (3 pairs of shorts), and did my tax return. Awful.

[St.Jude]

Just now, bunglebus said:

You have no idea. I painted an entire 10 x 15 foot shed, changed a ball joint on a Zafira and bought my summer wardrobe (3 pairs of shorts), and did my tax return. Awful.

There really should be a support group for this sort of thing.

[UltraWomble]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

 

The old 'Kit-Kat foil across the fuse terminals' trick works every time.

Its only a temp fix mind you - eventually it melts

[AxWomble]

Cracking job! I’ve never pressed F5 so much across a day before...

[MikeR]

I nearly looked at Pistonheads ..

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, Slartibartfast said:

I'm really sorry for the prolonged outage. The server got borked in several interesting ways for unknown reasons.

The site will be doing ol' Whores-Drawers dance for a bit while I fix stuff properly so apologies for that.

Thanks for our hard work.

Question is who installed the a mush hated  Smart meter? Do we have a parliamentary enquire into this?

[bunglebus]

19 minutes ago, St.Jude said:

There really should be a support group for this sort of thing.

In all seriousness there needs to be a guest group on another forum (probably not that one) or a FB page to lurk on in tines of emergency. Tried Autoshite 2.0 on FB but it was very quiet

[grogee]

I was bereft. Thank you for CTRL+ALT+DEL'ing the punched card reader. 

I also had to talk to my wife and now I've got a list of jobs to do. Never let this happen again. 

[Schaefft]

Withdrawal syndrome is real, thanks for fixing the page. Life has a purpose again.

[Stinkwheel]

Well done that man, its a bit of a worry i missed it as much as i did

[Twiggy]

Pathetically grateful to you Slarti.  My life is complete again................................