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[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.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @11:45AM (2 children)
The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by university physicists. The element, tentatively named "Administratium," has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 15 assistant neutrons, 70 vice neutrons, and 161 assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 247. These 247 particles are held together in the nucleus by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called "morons." Since it has no electrons, Administratium, is inert.
However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction with which it comes in contact. According to discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium added to one reaction caused it to take over four days to complete. Without the Administratium, the reaction occurs in less than one second. Administratium has a half life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Studies seem to show that the atomic mass actually increases after each reorganization.
Research indicates that Administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate in certain locations such as governments, large corporations, and especially in universities. It can usually be found polluting the best appointed and best maintained buildings. Scientists warn that Administratium is known to be toxic and recommend plenty of alcoholic fluids followed by bed rest after even low levels of exposure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @10:51AM
copypasta, see http://www.manbottle.com/humor/administratium [manbottle.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @10:25PM
Finally someone cracked the dark matter / energy problem.
As everyone has long suspected we're surrounded by assholes!