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posted by martyb on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:58AM   Printer-friendly

[Update 5: All done. Nuttin but net. --TMB]

[Update 4: As of 20180509 @ 11:55 UTC, beryllium has been successfully rebooted. This leaves hydrogen to be rebooted in just over 13 hours. --martyb]

[Update 3: As of 20180509 @ 0414 UTC, both lithium and sodium appear to have successfully completed their reboots. That leaves beryllium (1hr45m from now) and hydrogen (20h45m from now) to complete their reboots. --martyb]

[Update 2: The second round of reboots went peachy keen as well. Next round starts at 3AM UTC (7 hours from this story's time) with our dev server (lithium). An hour later the load balancer (sodium) that I switched us off of this morning will reboot. Two hours after that the box (beryllium) that hosts the wiki, mail, IRC, and some other lesser-used stuff will get bounced. If you can't stand being disconnected from IRC for a few minutes, add irc2.sylnt.us (6667/6697) to the list of servers for this network. --TMB]

[Update 1: The first scheduled reboot (of fluorine) was successful. The two-hour reboot window for helium starts 1.5 hours from the date/time stamp for this story. Two hours after that marks the commencement of the two-hour reboot window for boron, magnesium, and neon. We do not anticipate any site interruption as a result of these reboots. --martyb]

We have been informed by Linode (on which all of the SoylentNews servers are hosted) that maintenance is required to mitigate against the Spectre (v1 and v2) attacks. As a result, all of our servers will require a reboot. Historically, any given server is down for anywhere from 15-30 minutes. We have redundancies in place for many of our operations, but there may be some unavoidable downtime. We ask your patience and understanding during this process.

The scheduled reboots are:

Sat 2018-05-05 1:00:00 AM UTC fluorine [1] Production Cluster Completed
Tue 2018-05-08 1:00:00 AM UTC helium Production Cluster Completed
Tue 2018-05-08 3:00:00 AM UTC boron Services Cluster Completed
Tue 2018-05-08 3:00:00 AM UTC magnesium Frontend Proxy Completed
Tue 2018-05-08 3:00:00 AM UTC neon Production Cluster Completed
Wed 2018-05-09 3:00:00 AM UTC lithium Development Cluster Completed
Wed 2018-05-09 4:00:00 AM UTC sodium Frontend Proxy Completed
Wed 2018-05-09 6:00:00 AM UTC beryllium [2] Services Cluster Completed
Thu 2018-05-10 1:00:00 AM UTC hydrogen Production Cluster Completed

[1] Unable to process subscriptions or update comment counts or deliver messages until it reboots.

[2] IRC (Internet Relay Chat) server will be unavailable.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday May 07 2018, @11:45PM (7 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday May 07 2018, @11:45PM (#676835)

    Worry about the big scary Nucleon, and you may miss the fact that most of the alternates are killing and/or polluting an order of magnitude more.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @08:01AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @08:01AM (#676945)

    The nuclear industry hasn't figured out a PERMANENT solution for ANY of the waste they have created since 1943.
    That's now in the kilotons and mostly it's sitting within a few hundred yards of where it became waste.

    ...and it's carcinogenic and mutagenic.
    ...and a tiny spec of the stuff will do the trick.

    Trying to extract someone from a wrecked Tesla that still contains a 360 volt battery in there somewhere would rightfully make someone wary.
    A wrecked nuke, where just breathing the dust|vapors could give a rescue worker cancer, shouldn't make him any less worried.

    ...and, word is, the materials from those rechargeable batteries are extremely recyclable.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 08 2018, @12:19PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday May 08 2018, @12:19PM (#676996) Homepage Journal

      Bzipitidoo asked, "what's the biggest expense of running the SoylentNews website?" And the answer wasn't the electric. That's amazing, because electric is so important to cyber. Electric makes it run. If the electric goes on and off, on and off, off, on, off it makes big big problems for cyber. You need electric that runs all the time. 100%. And the only electric that runs all the time is COAL & NUCLEAR. Our coal & nuclear are amazingly cheap -- so cheap that people forget about them. And so cheap that they're closing down. We can't let them close down, because it will put our Energy Grid in TOTAL CHAOS. Like the Energy Grid in Puerto Rico. And our cyber industry will go overseas. It'll follow our factories.

      Folks, we need a SUBSIDY for coal & nuclear. So they stay in business. So we can have electric all the time. Not just when the sun shines, not just when the wind blows. I asked my FERC to do the subsidy for Grid Reliability and Resiliency -- but they told me "no." Every last one voted "no." Very sad situation. And it would be great if we had new people on the FERC. And there's nothing I can do about that. Although, the Second Amendment people -- maybe they can do something, I don’t know.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:20PM (3 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:20PM (#677027) Journal

      The nuclear industry hasn't figured out a PERMANENT solution for ANY of the waste they have created since 1943.

      Disagree.

      They have.

      Permanently keep it in temporary storage.

      Problem solved.

      --
      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
      • (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday May 08 2018, @08:56PM (2 children)

        by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday May 08 2018, @08:56PM (#677182)

        Temporary storage can easily be reopened and reused if we somehow run low on nukes during a fifth pass at blowing up the whole world. Strategic asset!

        If we wanted to get rid of it, we'd bury it deep near a subduction zone, and be permanently and safely done.
        Whatever OriginalOwner implies, it's only a few thousand cubic meters, and we know how to move that puny amount of material really easily when we want to, and do that every single day.

        • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2018, @12:26AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2018, @12:26AM (#677267)

          It was a concept car.
          It never saw production.
          In fact, it never made it past the stage of being a scale-model mock-up.

          The folks at Ford anticipated that a submarine-sized nuclear reactor would, in time, be reduced in size to something car-sized.
          Now, the things they put on space probes use the heat from fission to power a thermopile.
          OTOH, Ford envisioned using a mobile reactor to generate steam and have that drive a turbine.

          A couple of things occur to me:

          There was a model of Chevy's Corvair that had a turbocharger.
          It used a water injection system to control pre-ignition.
          The thing there was that some of the car owners weren't fastidious about keeping water in the reservoir, resulting in engine damage.

          Another thing is that Navy personnel who operate nuclear reactors spend something like 6 months being trained on those systems.

          I don't think that the notion of a nuke-powered car ever would have ever seen production, even if a suitably-sized power plant -had- been available.

          .
          Now, the early models of GM's 1996/1997 EV-1 used lead-acid batteries.[1]
          Lead in car batteries gets recycled routinely.

          Additionally, going back to the early 20th Century, there were some electric cars, so the notion has had some popularity since the advent of the horseless carriage.

          So, they've had options all along other than burning fossil fuels[2] for transportation.
          ...and most EV-1 drivers[3] were really pissed when GM wanted them all back so that they could destroy them.

          [1] The EV-1 used IGBTs for pulse-width modulation to attain speed control.
          That had to be better efficiency-wise than earlier efforts, but clearly they had things working a century ago.

          [2] The buses here burn natural gas and produce CO2 and water which dribbles out the tailpipe.
          So, a bit better than gasoline|diesel (and they hadn't yet extrapolated Venus' runaway greenhouse effect to man-made pollution in Earth's biosphere in the 1950s).

          [3] Just *drivers*; NOT **owners**.
          GM would only lease the things.

          -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday May 09 2018, @05:10PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 09 2018, @05:10PM (#677505) Journal

          Yep. If we really wanted to get rid of it, we would.

          --
          People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
  • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:31AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:31AM (#677714) Homepage Journal

    "Wing bangers" -- the name given to wind turbines by bird lovers for the thousands of birds they kill in the U.S.