For a little while now CD has been inaccessible to many people. You are not alone. The site was down.
Brandon’s Away message during the CD troubles and the Slashdot article of the explosion at ThePlanet database server went hand in hand and explained the crisis to many FIRSTers right away.
Pavan
Yep – the server ChiefDelphi (and firstwiki) is on is hosted in Dallas, so it wasn’t in any danger. Our DNS, however, is hosted in Houston … so most people couldn’t get to the server.
Glad you are back…and no one was injured
Except for our collective psyche…
I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?
I did. sigh
You should see my workshop… going to take a week to clean it up.
Its funny how “Hooked on Robotics” one can get… and how badly we start going to pieces and slinging tools around when our mainline goes down. :eek:
It wasn’t pretty!
-p 
Whew! The twitch in my left eye is starting to subside now…
But it had absolutely nothing to do with CD being inaccessible…
-d
It’s a good thing it was off season and not say the last Sunday in February or March. Then it would have got ugly.
I would’ve fixed it way faster, then.
Off-season … I just let things work out on their own.
Well, lack of CD has made me a mite philosophical.
There was a time not too long ago when communications like this were not so instant, wide spread, and influential.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Regarding CD - it is a lonely thing when it is gone, I do know that. 
Thank you to the folks who restored access.
I was (kind of) freaking out because I had stuff I needed to post about Mayhem in Merrimack.
I even logged on before going to school to get it out.
I’m not exactly a morning person and I like being early to get a good parking space, so having any downtime in the morning is rare.
I noticed that the TIMs accounts for teams were also down… Are the FIRST servers in Texas?
Ha, go figure, some network servers at work were messed up. I contributed inability to get on CD to the inability to get on any external site altogether and vice versa, hence I never tried anything else on the internet until lunch time. See what happens when we use any one thing as a metric for other things?
Not quite, but I realized how much time I actually spend here when I kept checking to see if I could get on every half hour. I guess Chief Delphi kind of spoils all of us, what would do if we didn’t have Chief Delphi?:ahh:
Funny–first one of my computers at work dies (which was followed by much configuring of a new one), then CD. What next? :eek:
(and yeah, add another one to the therapy set.)
i was freaking out not knowing what to do im so happy that i have my cd back
Im glad to see others survived the great CD blackout of '08 only to be rivaled to the Northeast Blackout of '03
Gee I thought I was the only GEEK!! LOL It’s amazing how addicting this site can be. There should be a 12 step program available for people who want to kick the processor…Hahaha Welcome Back All!!