Attention: The Support Forums will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance

[Cheryl Griffin]

Attention: The Support Forums will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance and upgrades this Friday 8-July-2005 from 08:00 EST to 16:00 EST. We apologize for any inconvenience.

[Pete Randall]

Cheryl,

Thanks for the notice and . . . . .

Good Luck!!


Pete

[Christopher Caldwell]

I don't want to shoot the messenger, but the outage timing and duration strikes me as strange.

The forums are such a useful tool, that you're almost saying "you'll be unable to call tech support from 8:00 EST to 16:00 EST, while we take scheduled maintenance".

I'd like to see the infrastructure available to mininize or eliminate the outages altogether. Given that you can't meet us there, off hours (1:00 - 4:00 and/or weekends) would be nice.

[Pete Randall]

To borrow from Jeff Schussele:

"How about a little whine with that cheese?"

;^)


Pete

[Dave Hutton]

Off hours for who? There is never a good time to do these types of things in a global environment.

Just have to grin and bear it.

[Stuart Browne]

Cheryl, what are those times in GMT?

I'm not sure what the time difference between GMT and EST are so I can't figure it out for my timezone (GMT+10).

thanks

[Pete Randall]

Noon to 8:00PM GMT, I believe.


Pete

[Patrick Wallek]

I believe that EST is currently 4 hours behind GMT so the times would be 12:00 to 20:00 GMT.

[Stuart Browne]

Great, thanks guys. That means for my local it's 2200-0600 ;) I'll be asleep for most of that anyway :)

... he says at 0425 local :-| go figure ...

[Cheryl Griffin]

ping

[Pete Randall]

Seems like an appropriate time to ping this!


Pete

[Stuart Browne]

Whoa! Speedy! :) Nice! :)

[Stuart Browne]

.. and while I'm at it, they look much prettier than the JA ITRC forums. They have a little reddish sun instead of a light-bulb too :P

It's amazing what you do when you're waiting for a maintenance window to end ;)

[Cheryl Griffin]

Thank you for all the feedback and pinging this to the top.

Maintenance is complete.