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GMail Experiences Serious Outage
JacobSteelsmith was one of many readers to note an ongoing problem with Gmail: "As I type this, GMail is experiencing a major outage. The application status page says there is a problem with GMail affecting a majority of its users. It states a resolution is expected within the next 1.2 hours (no, not a typo on my part). However, email can still be accessed via POP or IMAP, but not, it appears, through an Android device such as the G1." It's also affecting corporate users: Reader David Lechnyr writes "We run a hosted Google Apps system and have been receiving 502 Server Error responses for the past hour. The unusual thing about this is that our Google phone support rep (which paid accounts get) indicated that this outage is also affecting Google employees as well, making it difficult to coordinate."
Great job slashdotting my email, dammit.
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The cloud is falling! The cloud is falling!!
Although my Thunderbird access to Google Apps works fine. :)
When its a cloud ... expect it to rain.
WTF how did you get access to my gmail account?
I use my gmail account whenever I sign up for free services. This is serious people! Where will all my spam go? Oh, wait, nevermind...
Solution: Hire food tasters, engineers should only be fed a set number of days after if the tasters aren't dead. Also resolves the issue of engineers complaining about being fed dog food.
Didn't you get the memo?
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I think the memo was distributed in early-to-mid 2006.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
No problem. That'll be the same exec's that laid off the in-house staff and demanded IT costs are reduced.
Solution: Make the beancounters eat the dogfood, not the engineers. Sure, you'll lose a few, but that's just solving another problem. Any BOFH would know that.
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That'd be a good name for a superhero: Apocryphal Guy. You always hear about his exploits but never actually see them.
Lemme call up Marvel. I mean, Disney.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
ya'll'll
I'm from from Texas and that even makes my head hurt.
There's some poor schmuck in Bosnia right now googling how to pronounce it.
TL;DR - Southern boy using colloquialism, move along
Hahahaha, I'm from Houston, but grew up even further in the south (think mid Georgia/mid Alabama). Yeah, it's a little tricky, but it'll build character, no?
For the rest of the world, who don't quite grok our quaint pronunciation here in the good ole South, the word ya'll is pronounced like [yawl] similar to [yawn]. It should also be interesting to note that I have used one of the two forms of the conjunction, and I'm often told I use it wrong, but it's a little closer to how we pronounce it. The other spelling is y'all, but that would be pronounced like [ya-awl] and that's just a little to hick-ish even for me.
So if you can get to [yawl] then just tack an extra [ull] on the end and you'll have ya'll'll. You might notice that I tend to conjoin a lot of words, but that's just the spoken style where I've grown up, and as literary style derives from spoken style, well, yeah.
So, ya'll'll have to get a kick out of reading this, and just shake yer heads and mumble something about "that poor southern boy" and if you'd be so kind, drop a dollar in me alms cup as you pass by.
Ok, I've tried now to enlighten the world to some Southern-isms, and I tried to do at least part of it in properly written English, so we'll see. Also, I know it's WAY OT, so hit me with the mod, let's get this over with.
PS, it just means "you all will"
TL;DR - Southern boy using colloquialism, move along
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Maybe they should have thought twice about taking the beta label off!
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
Actually someone emailed me an awesome link this morning; lemme go check my gmail.... oh dammit.
I doubt they do. Wait, was that a question?
No existe.
So, ya'll'll have to get a kick out of reading this, and just shake yer heads and mumble something about "that poor southern boy" and if you'd be so kind, drop a dollar in me alms cup as you pass by.
Grammar Yankee Alert
The proper plural, when referring to a group, is all'ya'll'll
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
And today, for instance, I was alerted to another situation by the angry cursing of my girlfriend as she attempted to log into her account.
How you can tell when a slashdotter is lying. A 6 digit ID and he claims to have a girlfriend.
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But, what about the business that just signed up with Google three hours ago? They've already had 33% of their time down. That's horrible. I don't know why anyone would use them with that record.
Think of the children!
also, if your email is that important, you'd better have some kind of redundancy and a backup plan in case the redundancy fails.
At least it makes sense for the Labs to eat their own dog food.
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That's why its still it beta... oh wait >_
working for me !
I'm impressed by the age of your Gmail account, seeing as it was launched in 2004...
Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it.