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apterous update
Will post a longer update when I have time, but just to keep you informed: due to a faulty disk, the database experienced some quite serious corruption last night and neither the game nor the site can work without it. I'm currently investigating whether we can retrieve it all without resorting to a full restore from backup (which would lose the history since the last backup).
Fortunately, I was in the process of building a new server anyway, thanks to a very generous donation from Supee that was left to apterous in Phil Collinge's will. So although the transition will be a bit more painful than I would've liked, we should be back with considerably more powerful hardware in the next few days.
Thanks for your patience -- subscriptions will be extended obviously.
Fortunately, I was in the process of building a new server anyway, thanks to a very generous donation from Supee that was left to apterous in Phil Collinge's will. So although the transition will be a bit more painful than I would've liked, we should be back with considerably more powerful hardware in the next few days.
Thanks for your patience -- subscriptions will be extended obviously.
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Thanks for all your work Charlie, much appreciated
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That's amazing that Phil did that. What a man. Much love as ever to him and Supee.
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Very touching to hear about Supee and Phil's donation. Keep up the good work, Charlie - apterous and c4c are your babies and they have engendered a great community spirit among their members. It's incredible that Phil has honoured that community togetherness in this way.
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C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
C2: SEATING (7)
Score: 108–16 (max 113)
Another niner for Adam and yet another century. Well done, that man."
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I agree, absolutely amazing what Phil as done!!
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Thanks for the update Charlie, and for all your hard work.
Special thanks to Phil and Supee as well. Great to know Phil's memory will be honoured when we get the new server.
Special thanks to Phil and Supee as well. Great to know Phil's memory will be honoured when we get the new server.
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First of all, does that mean all ourn games will be deleted when the new server comes into effect?
Second, what happened to Phil?
Second, what happened to Phil?
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Phil died, Jason.
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Geez Mark! What happened?
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How did you all find out about Phil's passing anyway?
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Supee announced the news on Apterous. I don't think anything was said on this forum.
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Phil didn't die of Covid, did he?
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No, it was before the pandemic happened. The newspaper report said he had undetected cancer.
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Oh my god! Interestingly enough, when I last saw Phil on Apterous, there were other people in the room besides him, so I figured I shouldn't bother him with a game. There were times when Phil was the only one in the room besides me and he almost blocked me because I was harassing him too much. Then I eventually learned and played one game with him.
He was quite young, wasn't he?
He was quite young, wasn't he?
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It happened back in January Jason.
Supee told people on facebook, and on apterous. It was a big shock to us all.
Incredibly generous of him to leave a gift to support the site, and shows what a big part of his life apterous was.
Supee told people on facebook, and on apterous. It was a big shock to us all.
Incredibly generous of him to leave a gift to support the site, and shows what a big part of his life apterous was.
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Yes, it must have been, Fiona!
Were Supee and Phil boyfriend and girlfriend?
Great job Charlie!
Were Supee and Phil boyfriend and girlfriend?
Great job Charlie!
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Thank you Charlie we appreciate your hard work, looking forward to being back On-line again, but what a generous gift left by Phil and Supee, I had some amazing battles with him on apterous. Phil was a big part of the community and his seniors tournament were really enjoyable, we will never forget you Phil you are still sadly missed.
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They were married I think, Jason. It's probably best to not discuss their private life on this thread either.Jason William Larsen wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:26 pm Yes, it must have been, Fiona!
Were Supee and Phil boyfriend and girlfriend?
Great job Charlie!
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Ok
I'm glad to know Phil's memory will be honored when the new server comes up though!
I'm glad to know Phil's memory will be honored when the new server comes up though!
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That is an amazing gesture from Phil/Supee. Charlie - is there any specific or non-specific help that members of the C4C/Apterous community can provide with respect to the rebuild?
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I hope so!
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That is an incredible gesture from Phil and I only add to the voices above, it's brilliant.
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Wow, that's really awesome of Phil.
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Yes, it's really good and it's amazing that Apterous and this community have had such an effect on someone that they wanted to do this.
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Isn't it Supee that is arranging for this to happen since she's the one still alive?
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Interesting that CDB is down, but the Wiki is up. I would have thought that since they were both [site].apterous.org, there would have been more of a correlation there?
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Not necessarily. A subdomain (e.g. whatever.example.com) can point anywhere, often to a different server to the main domain or other subdomains. The only thing that necessarily unites them is ownership of the domain.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 5:35 pm Interesting that CDB is down, but the Wiki is up. I would have thought that since they were both [site].apterous.org, there would have been more of a correlation there?
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No pun intended
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Oh shit it gives me one less site to shitspam. I love spamming. Ashton won’t find me arse him again
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Thanks Mark for arsing me up.
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Charlie is getting close to fixing it!
Hooray!
Hooray!
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I hope so!
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That's still true, Ronan
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Apterous is back. Bigger and better than ever (well certainly a whole lot faster)
Enjoy. I certainly intend to
Enjoy. I certainly intend to
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Thank you Anthony!