Downtime Notice: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) Thursday, October 30th

[Nestroy]

My uncle was one of the original IBM techies!!!!

He told me how in 1962 they were so excited because they actually had 8K of memory and they connected one of those big phone cable things(switchboard operators fromthe 1930 through 1950s) to access it.

Yes, that is 8,000 bytes of memory.

Well, my dad collects old hardware in his retirement leisure activities. He actually has several 12 and 16 inch modules of ferromagnetic memory cards, with 144 and 576 bit memory capacity respectively. That has been a lot back then in the era of the 50ies mainframe machines... 2nd generation computing (using the first transistors instead of vacuum tubes) is a very interesting topic for the hardcore nerd and something to turn off any conversation for nearly the rest of mankind ^^. Man, I miss the ddo servers open already .

[D-molisher]

Well i see their issue didnt get fixed to 6 pm.
Gonna grab a beer and watch some S.H.I.E.L.D cause i am bored.
Laterz all ...

[SymphonicTheory]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNDDDD Still down.

[Nestroy]

Star Trek's 1st Pilot was made in 1965

The show took another 2-3 Years to actually get made however!

Yeah, but it took Gene Roddenberry some time to collect all the ideas from the Techies. So whatever Startrek showed in the late 60ies was fictionally invented in the 50ies - by techies and writers that catered to the SF 1-cent-booklet crowd. I happen to have read some of that 50ies stuff and it´s astonishing what these guys then envisioned we have realized today. Microcomputing, mobile phones, the internet. Well, some of the things came somewhat different from what these writers envisioned. but hell, they were talking about powerful computers as big as pocket watches - I now only say Apple. They envisioned (and showed on Startrek 10 years later) handheld communicators.

We are still short of warp drives, teleporters and cloaking devices. But give mankind some time, I am sure some Startrek infused genius will invent these too.

[settoloki]

I wonder how many things they will break with this hotfix?

[moomooprincess]

Yeah, but it took Gene Roddenberry some time to collect all the ideas from the Techies. So whatever Startrek showed in the late 60ies was fictionally invented in the 50ies - by techies and writers that catered to the SF 1-cent-booklet crowd. I happen to have read some of that 50ies stuff and it´s astonishing what these guys then envisioned we have realized today. Microcomputing, mobile phones, the internet. Well, some of the things came somewhat different from what these writers envisioned. but hell, they were talking about powerful computers as big as pocket watches - I now only say Apple. They envisioned (and showed on Startrek 10 years later) handheld communicators.

We are still short of warp drives, teleporters and cloaking devices. But give mankind some time, I am sure some Startrek infused genius will invent these too.

Cloaking devices are close.

There is the light deflection cloak that exists and then there is the radar reducing airplane technology materials.

http://www.livescience.com/28171-inv...ics-light.html

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul...hing-disappear

[silvarianddo]

The downtime has been extended until 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT). We apologize for the additional delay.

Seems even longer than that

[moomooprincess]

LoTRO players claim to be playing.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...nnectin-closed

[Nestroy]

I wonder how many things they will break with this hotfix?

According to the untold laws in computing for every fix there will be two new issues, so here you go.

DDO is old and meanwhile patched and fixed several hundret times. So it´s save to assume that somehting will be broken after the hotfix. Hopefully it will only be something minor.

[Draculetta]

Seems even longer than that

Um it's only 1:21 PM EST as of the time I write this... so there is still 40 plus minutes to do in the SCHEDULED timeslot..

[Cordovan]

The DDO game worlds have reopened. Thank you for your patience, and we will see you in the game!

[Nestroy]

LoTRO players claim to be playing.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...nnectin-closed

Update Servers DDO still down.

[apacheizm23]

You guys are messing with my play time. Let's go, let's get this patched up and online!

[Draculetta]

LoTRO players claim to be playing.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...nnectin-closed

To my knowledge LOTRO did not have any downtime today for a hotifx... it was just DDO...

[Nestroy]

The DDO game worlds have reopened. Thank you for your patience, and we will see you in the game!

Update Servers down, Cordo!

[apacheizm23]

Update Servers down, Cordo!

They're still down..

[Thrudh]

They do them during the day when people are working

This.

Doing the updates during normal working hours is maybe not the absolutely LEAST disruptive time, but it's pretty low on the scale, since most of us ALSO have jobs with normal working hours.

Hard to keep good people if you ask them to come in a lot at 2:00 am in the morning. And no one does their best work at 2:00 am anyway, so mistakes are more likely at that time, and troubleshooting skills will be impaired as well.

Seems to be a wise business decision to me to do updates and hotfixes during normal working hours.

[Revolted]

The DDO game worlds have reopened. Thank you for your patience, and we will see you in the game!

Still failing to connect to the patch server, thank you for the enthusiasm though :P

[Leatherneck]

Update Servers DDO still down.

Deja' Vous

[moomooprincess]

Patch Server FAIL