When are results out?*Official Thread*

StephenInsane

Anyone care to shed light on this pressing issue?

kaimera

Officially, Mon 12th Feb.

Unofficially, check the web during the previous week, usually out the weekend prior to the 12th.

cooperguy

kaimera wrote:

Officially, Mon 12th Feb.

Unofficially, check the web during the previous week, usually out the weekend prior to the 12th.

If the website doesnt crash that is:rolleyes:

sceptre

Why does a simple question with a simple answer need an "Official Thread"?

Peteee

sceptre wrote:

Why does a simple question with a simple answer need an "Official Thread"?

Why not?

The use of the official tag lets the peons know that they shouldn't start a thread about results, for fear of the banhammer.

Of course, the thread itself is not official in any way, but still!

kaimera

Peteee wrote:

Why not?

The use of the official tag lets the peons know that they shouldn't start a thread about results, for fear of the banhammer.

Banhammer according to whom exactly?

/me goes to start thread about when are teh results out..unofficially of course.

sceptre

Peteee wrote:

Why not?

Because it's extraneous?

The use of the official tag lets the peons know that they shouldn't start a thread about results, for fear of the banhammer.

Meh, I prefer a ban slipper myself. When I'm not using it, which is about 95% of the day, I can place it on one of my feet to conveniently match its fellow.

Peteee

Well surely (*insert 'Don't call me shirley' joke here*) if one were to make another thread about results, when theres already an official one, it would get deleted. Not the banhammer per se (*insert 'Don't call me percy' joke here*) but a mod action none the less.

Eh, Let me know how those slippers turn out (*insert 'Only old people and girls wear slippers' joke here*)

StephenInsane

The *Official Thread* part was added as an attempt to discourage the riff-raff from making simular threads, thereby clogging up the forum.

No thanks necessary.

Shyster

www.si.ul.ie is down at the momento..... UV8 Error - same as every other semester, I smell results a-brewing - they're on their way!!!

Pixie4

We were told that they would be out Friday eve even though all the notices up say next Monday!

ninty9er

the server normalyy goes down the friday evening from the 2 semesters experience i've had

Funkstard

/\/\ I was able to log on to student records there without any hassle

IrishMike

Just checked student records myself and still no sign im afraid

rmacm

Funkstard wrote:

/\/\ I was able to log on to student records there without any hassle

Unless something drastic has happened (e.g. ITD buying a new server to run the Student Admin software) almost every student expecting results will start checking sometime today which will lead to the server that runs the the website for our results etc. falling over sometime tonight if the last 3.5 years are anything to go by. This will probably continue throughout the weekend as people incessently hammer the site in the hope of getting results.

Cheers
Rory

Burning Eclipse

rmacm wrote:

Unless something drastic has happened (e.g. ITD buying a new server to run the Student Admin software) almost every student expecting results will start checking sometime today which will lead to the server that runs the the website for our results etc. falling over sometime tonight if the last 3.5 years are anything to go by. This will probably continue throughout the weekend as people incessently hammer the site in the hope of getting results.

Cheers
Rory

qft

Couldn't be a more accurate discription of what will happen in the next 72 hours.

Funkstard

Are they always up before the stated date?

hotnipples

Yeah you can usually get them the friday before hand. Last year they popped up in the education part of your student cv a few days before the official date, no sign of them yet though.

hotnipples

They are available for me now in the education part of the student cv. 4 A's a B and a C. Now .... to the nearest off-licence!

kaimera

Aye, edu part of cv.

Happy enough I guess, was expecting maybe a bit better.

Mossin

Finally, the results are up.. Yeah!!

Got 2 A's and 3 B's. ****ing delighted as I thought I'd failed Economics, but came out with a B3. And again Sociology surprises me with a good grade [B2].

If only I wasnt working this evening, I'd be in the pub...

ninty9er

as predicted, the server has now crashed

Attention
An error occurred which prevented the execution of your request.

(Problem-specific error page not found)

Error details :

---

Middleware : UV8
Error# : Failure in the connection to the UNIFACE Application Server
Error Text : Cannot connect to the UNIFACE process on the remote address/port. The system returned: "Connection refused".

---

Please contact your system administrator.

homerjay2005

yep, the results are up.took about 10 seconds to get them, calm before the storm. once word spreads, expect mayhem on that site!!

ublinia2

Are they just in the Education part of the CV or just up properly??
I cant seem to log on to the server .It is taking ages to reply.

How many students can the results server take at any given time?

justfortherecor

Site appears to be down already; same 'ol, same 'ol

ublinia2

waiting 20 mins to get on !!

meanturtle

i got in to the main page after 15 minutes when it got in i got that bland non decorated look and none of the ****ing links worked grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr itd are nazis and scrooges buy a better server and stick linux and apache on it

Funkstard

Ah feck sake does anyone have an idea of how long the server will be broken for?

ninty9er

might take a spin out later and see if there's any computers available on campus this evening with a direct link to the server

rmacm

meanturtle wrote:

itd are nazis and scrooges buy a better server and stick linux and apache on it

Unfortunately Linux and Apache won't do any good in this case, the Student Information software is based on ASP.net so it needs Windows and IIS (not strictly true with Mono etc.) but it makes sense in this case. Also Apache by default handles about 100 concurrent connections although this can be changed. What would make the most sense to me would be to buy a second server and implement load balancing across both.

@Funkstard the site isn't down it's just very slow and refusing any new connections due to the volume already there. It'll only get better when the number of requests starts to fall off and if it does indeed crash it'll be Monday morning before someone comes in and reboots the thing.

@ninty9er using a machine within the college won't make any difference as you're still making a connection to the same machine infact the only difference is that the route from the machine you're using will be shorter than from your home machine.

Best of luck everyone hope you all do well.

Cheers
Rory

cooperguy

Ok, now for some reason when u get on to www.si.ul.ie it says the student portal is down and gives a link to get the results somewhere else. Only problem is I keep timing out. Why dont ITD ever learn their lesson and improve the damn server.

meanturtle

rmacm wrote:

Unfortunately Linux and Apache won't do any good in this case, the Student Information software is based on ASP.net so it needs Windows and IIS (not strictly true with Mono etc.) but it makes sense in this case. Also Apache by default handles about 100 concurrent connections although this can be changed. What would make the most sense to me would be to buy a second server and implement load balancing across both.

it appears that there is a server there running red hat and apache as i got a message saying server down.

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at www.si.ul.ie Port 80

which makes no sense as it does use asp. weird


Kevin

ublinia2

I am getting "Error during execution of HTTP request" - Does this mean that the server is down for good for the weekend or that it is just too busy at this time ?

Will the student records be out of operation all weekend?

rmacm

ublinia2 wrote:

I am getting "Error during execution of HTTP request" - Does this mean that the server is down for good for the weekend or that it is just too busy at this time ?

Will the student records be out of operation all weekend?

It's not down just still too busy.....I got mine ah if anyone wants to know how to get them PM me. There's a way to do it from outside that works and is quicker than waiting.

Cheers
Rory

ublinia2

Pm sent Rory

How long did it take you to get them ? When did you log on?

smcgiff

ublinia2 wrote:

Pm sent

Ditto

ninty9er

Went to college and there was a link on the homepage to an internal computer.....

2 B1s and 3 C1s....could have been better, but I'll live:rolleyes:

Peteee

3 B1's, 1 B3

Mint

As for the server, I suppose it just goes to show how incompetent ITD are. ASP on Linux/Apache....I dunno, maybe theyre running it in a virtual machine

rmacm

For anyone that I helped I'll be in the Stables on Sunday just look for the person who looks like a bastard ........joking btw just incase anyone is wondering.

Good luck to everyone.

Cheers
Rory

smcgiff

rmacm wrote:

For anyone that I helped I'll be ...
Rory

... the one with a disgruntled look on his face wondering why no ungrateful bugger has bought him a drink yet!:D

rmacm

smcgiff wrote:

... the one with a disgruntled look on his face wondering why no ungrateful bugger has bought him a drink yet!:D

Lol something like that yeah granted me having a disgruntled look on my face is nothing new

Cheers
Rory

kaimera

rmacm wrote:

For anyone that I helped I'll be in the Stables on Sunday just look for the person who looks like a bastard

Don't we know. :rolleyes:

Old habits die hard etc etc

Funkstard

Whats the highest your QCA can be?


EDIT: Nevermind, found out it's 4.0. Woohoo!

ublinia2

Just got them there now - Happy Days!!

Burning Eclipse

2 B1's, 2 B2's, a B3 and a C2 in FIA.... I'll never have to do accounting again. Thanks for the memories Heneghan

justfortherecor

John Heneghan: Financial Showman Extraordinaire.

Burning Eclipse

justfortherecor wrote:

John Heneghan: Financial Showman Extraordinaire.

He really is, and even though he'll kick your ass out of a lecture for being 2 minutes late, he really knows his stuff and is the nicest guy you could meet outside of said lecture!