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For virtualbox.org it's planned maintenance from April 27th to April 30th. The announcement was on the main page.

by kia 14y ago

eagsalazar 14y ago
Planned downtime is handled like this? It isn't hard to put up a temporary page. Just taking it down, even with notice is really poor form.
- bdunbar 14y ago
  At times like this I think of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine character: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're Oracle!" (I've been dealing with Oracle for a few years. It started with just database stuff, but they kept buying applications I supported, now they own Solaris ... anyway.)
  - re_todd 14y ago
    I got a job where we don't deal with Oracle at all, life is so much better! I'd recommend it to anyone. Eat your veggies, exercise regularly, and work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness!
    - bdunbar 14y ago
      work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness! In Big Enterprise the alternative [1] to Oracle is Microsoft. You're darned if you do and darned if you don't. [1] Don't even mention open source. Not going to fly at BE, in my experience.
  - beedogs 14y ago
    When they bought Sun, the quality of Sun service dropped to the point where I can't imagine why anyone still buys their kit. It was remarkable.
    - bdunbar 14y ago
      Sun support was remarkable. About five years ago I had a critical problem ... There I was in the data center at 3 a.m., trying to figure out why my mirrored drive server wasn't booting on it's surviving disk. I was groggy as heck, and even basic vi commands required a lot of thought. Actual thinking took more effort. The Support Engineer walked me through even the basic stuff "Okay, now 'yank-yank put' to copy that line" And a few minutes later the server booted and all was well. We're moving as quickly as possible away from Solaris, to Linux. But service quality isn't the driver - it never is. The problem is cost.
- streptomycin 14y ago
  especially for 3 days..
- reustle 14y ago
  That's what happens when Sun takes over.
quink 14y ago
Hang on... WTH??? The most popular virtualisation software out there that's full-featured and free to use... is shutting down their website for three days for planned maintenance? This is something that would have happened in 1993. Maybe. Between this and java.sun.com being offline it's pretty much the biggest red flag to stay away from Oracle as far as possible I could imagine.
- llimllib 14y ago
  And the coursera compilers class is distributing its dev environment as a virtualbox image. I'm lucky I have a copy already.
  - harshreality 14y ago
    Downloads are still there. http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/ http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/
    - HaakonKL 14y ago
      Worst case scenario, you'd get it from your package manager. There's likely a few downloads on torrent sites for the download as well. Since it's FLOSS it should be legal to grab it from torrents anyway.
      - checkers 14y ago
        http://techiest.blogspot.com/ http://techiest.blogspot.com/
- jsprinkles 14y ago
  Could be any number of things, operationally, and could also have a buffer built-in to the maintenance window to avoid unexpected issues. Take a breath, you have more important things to worry about.

For virtualbox.org it's planned maintenance from April 27th to April 30th. The announcement was on the main page.

by kia 14y ago

For virtualbox.org it's planned maintenance from April 27th to April 30th. The announcement was on the main page.

Planned downtime is handled like this? It isn't hard to put up a temporary page. Just taking it down, even with notice is really poor form.

bdunbar 14y ago
At times like this I think of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine character: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're Oracle!" (I've been dealing with Oracle for a few years. It started with just database stuff, but they kept buying applications I supported, now they own Solaris ... anyway.)
- re_todd 14y ago
  I got a job where we don't deal with Oracle at all, life is so much better! I'd recommend it to anyone. Eat your veggies, exercise regularly, and work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness!
  - bdunbar 14y ago
    work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness! In Big Enterprise the alternative [1] to Oracle is Microsoft. You're darned if you do and darned if you don't. [1] Don't even mention open source. Not going to fly at BE, in my experience.
- beedogs 14y ago
  When they bought Sun, the quality of Sun service dropped to the point where I can't imagine why anyone still buys their kit. It was remarkable.
  - bdunbar 14y ago
    Sun support was remarkable. About five years ago I had a critical problem ... There I was in the data center at 3 a.m., trying to figure out why my mirrored drive server wasn't booting on it's surviving disk. I was groggy as heck, and even basic vi commands required a lot of thought. Actual thinking took more effort. The Support Engineer walked me through even the basic stuff "Okay, now 'yank-yank put' to copy that line" And a few minutes later the server booted and all was well. We're moving as quickly as possible away from Solaris, to Linux. But service quality isn't the driver - it never is. The problem is cost.
streptomycin 14y ago
especially for 3 days..
reustle 14y ago
That's what happens when Sun takes over.

quink 14y ago

Hang on... WTH??? The most popular virtualisation software out there that's full-featured and free to use... is shutting down their website for three days for planned maintenance? This is something that would have happened in 1993. Maybe. Between this and java.sun.com being offline it's pretty much the biggest red flag to stay away from Oracle as far as possible I could imagine.

llimllib 14y ago
And the coursera compilers class is distributing its dev environment as a virtualbox image. I'm lucky I have a copy already.
- harshreality 14y ago
  Downloads are still there. http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/ http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/
  - HaakonKL 14y ago
    Worst case scenario, you'd get it from your package manager. There's likely a few downloads on torrent sites for the download as well. Since it's FLOSS it should be legal to grab it from torrents anyway.
    - checkers 14y ago
      http://techiest.blogspot.com/ http://techiest.blogspot.com/
jsprinkles 14y ago
Could be any number of things, operationally, and could also have a buffer built-in to the maintenance window to avoid unexpected issues. Take a breath, you have more important things to worry about.