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Down all evening yesterday (GMT), and Teaos is your sig misbehaving?

EDIT: It is. All the spoiler boxes are kaput.
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Hmmm. I thought that was just me.
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Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe: Albert Einstein.
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Well we're back up now. I'm back from Galapagos now so I can investigate a little better. I've fixed the issue that was preventing access now and we'll have to see if it holds. I've a few other things to look at before I say it's 'fixed' but it at least should work for now. We will have some downtime this weekend for upgrades but it shouldn't be too long. As for the spoilers I know why it changed but I don't know why it's different. Very odd.
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OK, another outage. This time we've tracked the cause. One of the search bots on MSN was hogging all the connections to the server. The bot has now been banned.
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Damn microsoft!
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Interesting. Those bots can do that?
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McAvoy wrote:Interesting. Those bots can do that?
When they go wrong, yes...
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So... Neo... you defeated them then?
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It's skynet, calling it now.
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Had an outage for a couple of hours.
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Me too, the end of the world truly cometh!
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Yes, presumably between about 6:30pm and 8:30pm on Thursday (GMT). It was at 8:30 that I slew the beast.
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Clearly something more is going on. More investigations....
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