Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on October 23, 2023, 09:30:53 PMAzul.

The server underwent an unexpected service discontinuity today, 2023-10-23, at about 19:28 Talossan Time, which lasted for about 1 hour, until 20:26 Talossan Time. The affected services were only the web server, which currently hosts Wittenberg, the main web space, the Wiki, and other web services; email remained operational throughout the entire time; backups are still safe.

The nature of this disruption was a hard drive getting filled up to 100%. This should never happen; why this happened was because it was not actively monitored. To prevent such an problem from occurring again, a dedicated lookup/monitor on hard disk utilization has now been put in place.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Danihel Txechescu
MinTech

Today the server had exactly the same kind of problem, even with monitoring (though not as active during the weekend). I can only think of a recent upgrade to Wordpress that's changed things with the database service.

The cause behind these outages is the system losing its available scratch space, due to an aggressive saving of binary logs. While these are a good safety net, we have other kinds of database backups, so I will have this feature disabled entirely as it's causing too much pain.

Apologies again for this outage. This should not happen again once this feature is disabled. We'll see in two weeks' time.

Danihel Txechescu

I would like to nominate and vote for Sir Txec, just to say that I voted for the winner.

Given there was no other nomination before the deadline, I believe Sir Txec has just been elected Premieir of Maricopa!

I claim a seat.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 24, 2023, 03:13:16 PM[...] Our national web presence should be administered redundantly on a server to which other members of the Government or the Civil Service can get access in emergencies, and can be transferred to another administrator seamlessly in case of a change of Government, or Danihel just getting bored. [...]

Just to make this clear, @Sir Lüc has complete access to that server, the backups, and to instructions on how to replicate the service with any other provider. This is not my personal server, it's a server I happened to set up for Talossa.

If I get run over by a plane or I happen to be in a bus crash, I trust Lüc will be able to do exactly what I did to keep the services running.

Azul.

The server underwent an unexpected service discontinuity today, 2023-10-23, at about 19:28 Talossan Time, which lasted for about 1 hour, until 20:26 Talossan Time. The affected services were only the web server, which currently hosts Wittenberg, the main web space, the Wiki, and other web services; email remained operational throughout the entire time; backups are still safe.

The nature of this disruption was a hard drive getting filled up to 100%. This should never happen; why this happened was because it was not actively monitored. To prevent such an problem from occurring again, a dedicated lookup/monitor on hard disk utilization has now been put in place.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Danihel Txechescu
MinTech

As Premieir of Maricopa, it falls to me to open the nomination period for Premier.

The nomination phase will stay open for the following week, that is until the end of the 24th day of October, 2023.

Voting will begin on October 25th, 2023, and will remain open until the end of the 31st day of October, 2023.

As Premieir of Maricopa, I hereby open the call for seats in the Maricopa Cabana.

As a reminder, any citizen of Maricopa may claim a seat in the Cabana -- the hottest spot north of Havana!

Quote from: Bråneu Excelsio on October 17, 2023, 01:14:24 PM[...] y creo que llegaron a un acuerdo de mejor lanzar una pirinola, así se retira la demanda ante el Premier de Maricopa. [...]

No hay tal acuerdo.

Quote from: Þon Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM on October 12, 2023, 05:57:37 PMI am seriously considering renouncing entirely! It is completely unnecessary and unfair to blindly demand someone stop in the middle of their workday (where phones are NOT allowed) to play poker! This is the most ridiculous and disrespectful thing I have seen in a very long time here... making me wonder, why even bother trying anymore

I'd ask you to reconsider. This decision has absolutely nothing to do with the work and contributions that we will see from you in the future, which will be very much valued.

While there were choices to be made, time, and opportunities to voice concerns, this decision is final. It was my call as Premieir of Maricopa and I stand by this decision, not only because of what could have been a great poker match (which I *really* wanted to see happen), but because I was expecting full participation from candidates, at least during these past days.

Please do not construe this as bad faith or anything against you -- time was of the essence and only one of two candidates had to be picked up, even if by mere personal preference.

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on October 06, 2023, 09:33:38 AMIt falls to the Premieir of Maricopa, @Danihel Txechescu, to break the tie that exists between Carlus Vilacafat and Txotue Davinescu for the position of Senator of Maricopa.

Please advise at your earliest convenience so that the new Senator may be duly seated.




Secretár d'Estat/Secretary of State

Estimat @Sir Txec dal Nordselvă,

As Premieir of Maricopa it is my pleasure to announce the tie for the Senatorial race has now inclined in favor of @Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat, making him the newly elected Senator for our province.

Danihel Txechescu
Premieir of Maricopa

Quote from: Bråneu Excelsio on October 11, 2023, 12:53:16 PMI can set up a Poker game with the same rules of the Maricopan Poker Tournament if you want.

Thanks for the help! You're the right person to set this up.

Please create a poker tournament for two Grand Contestants for tomorrow, Thursday, October 12th at 1:00 pm CDT / 7:00 pm BST (that's 6:00 pm UTC).

Quote from: Bråneu Excelsio on October 10, 2023, 08:43:14 PMIn a given situation where one candidate can't make it to the tournament, what if they can choose a Champion to represent them in a Poker Duel?

That's not allowed. Candidates need to face each other and win their own hand.

That said, I'm not seeing engagement for this important procedure from @Þon Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM. Can you confirm you are able to continue with this challenge and for the whole term?

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on October 09, 2023, 10:43:08 AM

Quote from: Þon Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM on October 08, 2023, 09:01:23 PMI'm fine with the tie breaker

Can you also clarify which method is preferred? This is the current order of preference:
1) Poker
2) Pirinola
3) Coin toss

Gentle reminder, @Þon Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM, please respond ASAP as the challenge currently stands on Poker.

Quote from: Þon Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM on October 08, 2023, 09:01:23 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 07, 2023, 03:39:55 PMDo you need consent from Txoteu Davinescu, or is Carlüs going to win by default if you don't hear from him? Because I think he's away for the weekend.

I'm fine with the tie breaker

Can you also clarify which method is preferred? This is the current order of preference:
1) Poker
2) Pirinola
3) Coin toss

Quote from: Bråneu Excelsio on October 06, 2023, 08:12:03 PM[...](What about a Poker duel, since it's Maricopa?)

That was my first thought, but I wouldn't know how to organize that. I'll leave that option open too because that's a legitimate way to settle things in Maricopa.

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on October 06, 2023, 09:33:38 AMIt falls to the Premieir of Maricopa, @Danihel Txechescu, to break the tie that exists between Carlus Vilacafat and Txotue Davinescu for the position of Senator of Maricopa.

Please advise at your earliest convenience so that the new Senator may be duly seated.

This is so exciting! A few days ago I was thinking we could host a Death Match cage in our very own province, but then I looked at the safe box and how much we need to allocate to this, and, well, I'm not sure we can afford this even if we rent it the following thousand weekends.

Anyway and first of all, are the two candidates still up for the task? Please confirm you're still on for this race.

Second is the method with which we'll break this tie. Because, clearly, you guys have already made a bad decision by choosing ME as Premieir of Maricopa, I'll continue this tradition of bad choices by employing a traditional game of chance.

My first and natural choice is a coin toss; not any coin, you see, but a $10 pesos coin, which is the only instrument that can be used for the most important decisions in life, and this one too.

I can also offer my kids' preferred method: La Pirinola. It's a spinning top with 8-sides, used for a very entertaining game, but the one I have has two colors (red and blue), so a single spin will decide the winner.

Should you decide for flipping a coin or for spinning la pirinola, I'll assign the sides of the coin or the colors of the pirinola randomly. I can set up a live event covering this and the selection itself.

Let me know your method of choice. If there is no agreement on the method, my kids will decide. Or if you really insist on the Death Match cage, I'll see what we can arrange.

I've just added this to my Watch Later:

I'm interested. Can confirm Monday.

Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on August 08, 2023, 05:17:57 PMis it only me ? page says that the domain name expired on 2023-08-07 (see attached screenshot)

Please refer to this post: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=2583.msg21540#msg21540

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on July 28, 2023, 11:44:44 AMThank you. The Chancery will conduct the election.

Very much appreciated, Sir Txec.