On this day in 1881, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was fought between Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, and Billy Clanton on one side and Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday on the other. This happened more than a century before O'Neill came up with the O.K. to Cry Corral, and I think we can all agree that the camp would have been much more interesting if there'd been a shootout involved.The Angst Guy crossed Doc Holliday over with Daria in Death Takes a Holliday, which is worth a read--especially for those interested in the Old West.
The PPMB is currently experiencing technical difficulties, but I'll post the fanfic update that I had as of last night. Obviously the links won't work until the board is back up, but when it does I will also add whatever I may have missed in the meantime. So...enjoy some fanfic fragments for now!
- The Author as a Lesbian, Season 3, by DeacBlue (part 3): "Daria was unsurprised when, later, the intercom said, 'Ms. Morgendorffer, Ms. Burns, and Ms. Lane report to the office after lunch.' All three girls looked at each other and shrugged. Once they entered the office, Ms. Li motioned from her door. 'Come in, ladies.' When they were all seated, she continued. 'I'm sure that you're all aware of why you're here today.' 'Actually, we're not,' Daria said in a dry tone."
- The Esteem of Haruhi Suzumiya, by Walter Kovacs (parts 3 and 4): "DeMartino gazed at Haruhi in a mix of despair and irritation. Then he turned to another student, a black-haired girl with azure eyes who was wearing a red jacket, a black shirt, grey shorts, black leggings. 'I have to apologize to you, Ms. Lane' 'Apologize for what?' 'I never thought I'd meet any students as irritatingly sarcastic as you or..' he turned his eyes to an oriental boy in a green T-shirt 'Your brother Kyon' He took a few deep breaths. 'But apparently the two Morgendorffer sisters are even worse.'" (Part 4)
- Five Minutes to Midnight - 11:56, by untra (parts 1 and 2): "Jane is real, I'm sure of it. Because right now there is glass on my lap and my adrenaline is racing again and the mild northeast wind brushes hair into my eyes, and somewhere down the line someone will have to pay for that side view window. The gun is a revolver of some kind, I think. I don't know much about guns, but I know it holds six bullets. And now it has five. I take a deep breath and squirm uncomfortably as I realize glass shards are getting into my skirt, are brushing against my legs." (Part 2)
- God Save The Esteem ep36: Occupational Hazard, by Charles RB (part 3): "'And then after the pitch, you say you want some fucking money. In those words.' Jake thought it over. 'Maybe say "bastard" again too, you may have to wing that one.' 'I see. And this has worked.' 'YES!' cheered the punks. 'Do you think this possibly might be because you are physically intimidating and the loan officer was afraid you'd hurt him if he turned you down?' 'Nah,' said Jake. 'I did a pie chart.'"
- In My World, by 45Ranger (parts 5/6): "'Well, Daria! As long as you have your hand raised... Last week we began a unit on westward expansion. Perhaps you feel it's unfair to be asked a question on your first day of class.' Daria quirked an eyebrow at this and fixed her gaze on the man. 'I doubt it would make a difference if I did. Ask away.' 'Daria, can you concisely and unemotionally sum up for us the doctrine of Manifest Destiny?' 'Concisely? Yes. Unemotionally? I can try.' Her voice dripped with sarcasm."
- Is It Halloween Yet?, by peapotmaster (part 1): "Meanwhile, at Lawndale High, the students are continuing to decorate the school for the Halloween dance this Saturday, and as usual it’s mandatory. 'Let me get this straight, Daria, you saw a ghost in your kitchen?' Jane Lane asked me. 'What’s next, Kevin will be dating Bigfoot?' 'I’m serious, Jane,' I replied. 'It couldn’t be Quinn, with her figure and all.'"
- Rocksteemsters (Scenes no Daria fanfic should have: Last Friday Night!), by Roentgen (COMPLETE!): "The cougar-skin topped vehicle sailed down the dirt road at an amazing 60 miles per hour, powered entirely by Jake Morgenboulder's racing feet. He managed to avoid the giant flying insects as he drove, and for a man born in an ancient era he was surprisingly able to hold a conversation."
- Unnamed story (Iron Chef - In the movies), by Brother Grimace (COMPLETE!): "JANE: Trent... (Trent smiles.) TRENT: Be sure and write - or whatever it is they do up there. (Daria starts the lift.) JANE: Daria! Daria, wait! (Daria stops the lift as Jane runs over, and steps upon the lift. Jane hugs her, and they both look upward as the lift starts up once more.)"
- Unnamed story (Iron Chef - In the movies), by Chris Tucker (COMPLETE!): "In the background, Angela Li's car explodes, with Li in it. Closeup on Inspector Morgendorffer's battered and bruised face. 'A girl's got to know her limitations.'"
- Unnamed story (Iron Chef - In the movies), by Grifter74 (COMPLETE!): "Daria lifted her Mother's sword once more as she pressed the wound, Count Schretcher the six-fingered man had given her with her other hand. With a wry smile, she said, 'Hello, my name is Daria Morgendorffer. You killed my mother! Prepare to die.'"
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As of 7:03 EDT, Site5 support says that the file system check is still continuing and apologize for the inconvenience.
And as of 7:13 PST...
The important thing is that even though the board isn't accessible, it's not because of a crash or loss of data.
Update from Site5 (this issue is not just affecting PPMB):
Because of the time it has taken for the filesystem check to progress, we have decided to cancel the maintenance and begin a restore from our backups. This decision was ultimately made because the filesystem check had progressed to a point that was going to cause problems with the data on the drive when the system came back online. In order to expedite the server coming back online with usable data, we've decided to proceed with a restore from our latest backups.
The restore can take several hours to complete, though we hope it will progress quickly. We completely understand the frustration caused by this downtime and we are doing everything we can to make sure that the restore process goes smoothly and your server comes back online as soon as possible. If you have any questions at all about the situation, please feel free to contact support for more information.
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Site5 update as of 11:45 AM
Firstly, I want to apologize profusely for the downtime you have all experienced on this server. Although this amount of downtime is extremely rare, it is never the less unacceptable and we are doing everything we can to get this server back online asap. We are doing everything technically possible, but file systems are delicate so we do not want to make any decisions that would compromise the integrity of your data.
As you probably read earlier, we chose to abandon the file system check this morning at 12:28AM US Eastern Time and move to doing a full restore from our internal backup system. Due to an internal miscommunication this morning, we needed to restart this process at 4:45AM US Eastern Time.
The backup restore process is currently using our traditional networking setup (100Mbps) for this data center, which is slower than normal because it is located in an older facility. At 12:15PM US Eastern Time we were able to secure a temporary faster connection (gigabit / 1000Mbps) between the server and the backup machine and our data center staff are in the process of setting this up now. Once gigabit has been configured, we will let you know on this forum thread. Enabling gigabit will allow the restore to complete at a faster pace.
We do have about 1.2 terabytes (~1200 gigabytes) of data to restore from backups, so we are still looking at multiple hours of downtime unfortunately. We have received a few requests from customers to have their account manually migrated to a different server, but this is simply not possible given our current situation. Only one backup process can run simultaneously, so we are focused on restoring all customer data and getting all sites back online at the same time.
Restore process is currently at 45%. Moves between 1% and 3% per hour.
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