Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is anyone else finding twitter utterly unusable these days?

2013-08-27 Thread Mike Rosberg
Apparently, The New York Times website, Huffington Post UK's website and Twitter.com were all attacked by the Syrian Electronic Army yesterday http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/08/28/0233202/new-york-times-and-twitter-attacked-by-syrian-electronic-army On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Robert P. J

[OCLUG-Tech] is anyone else finding twitter utterly unusable these days?

2013-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for over a week now, my experience with twitter has been an endless stream of "Internal server error" messages, and outages for sometimes hours at a time. is anyone else seeing this? access to the rest of the intertoobz seems just fine, it's only twitter that's totally borked for me. rday --

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Issue with update manager

2013-08-27 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
The problem came back, so I tried the cleanup again and no joy. Then a little while later things cleared, then the problem returned. So it looks like something intermittent. One posting suggested that there might be a timing problem with update manager not waiting long enough for response. Anyo

[OCLUG-Tech] people out there using non-MMU linux systems on any regular basis?

2013-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just curious ... who are the people locally who are using linux on a regular basis on a non-MMU system? which ones, if you're allowed to mention it? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontar