What do you do during the backup?

Xavi6

It's the worst 15 minutes of the day and occurs smack in the middle of some noctural thread browsing.

What do you do to pass the longest quarter of an hour of the night?

LovelyTom

Well I just watched happy tree friends

Gary ITR

You need to have a few threads open and ready in a different tabs with 40 posts per page selected and Bob's your auntie

I just go and have a cup of tea..

Crumble Froo

multi-tabbed browsing ftw. not to mention gettin your cuppa in, and checking out all the youtube links you'd intended getting round to watching, but coudlnt, cos you were reading/replying to something.

the dee

Is that what that is? I thought my work computer was getting touchy because I'd been on boards for too long.

Greetings from Brisbane!

Gary ITR

Greetings yourself

Kazuma

I tend to panic and press F5 repeatedly.
Getting quite late/early, and a bloody bird just came a hairs breadth away from entering my open window. Should possibly consider going to bed...kinda want to go for a cycle first though, but can't. I'd feel strange cycling past a primary school

Abi

In true multi-tasker style, Im usually doing a few different things at the same time; regardless of the slow-down.

• Reading a book
• Making up my earlier referred to runny egg and crispy rasher sambo
• Flicking round the telly-box
• Grooming maself
• Fetching more tea / drink
• Visit the lavatorium
• Cleaning / tidying
• Browsing other sites

Super woman tbh :pac:

Shiminay

I remember in the old days (when I was a night worker) when the backup took about 45 mins. That was hell. It was also conveniently in the middle of my shift and was when I got all my paper work and floor walk done

eVeNtInE

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Shiminay

Every night around 3:20am (I think) boards.ie goes off-line for about 15mins whilst a database backup is made.

Kharn

Kharn wrote: »

Every night around 3:20am (I think) boards.ie goes off-line for about 15mins whilst a database backup is made.

Nearer 03:45 these days, seems to be drifting +20 seconds or so each day( will soon be a 4AM backup

KnifeWRENCH

I just.....wait.

*And the award for most pathetic response goes to....

Sod'o swords

Pc games are my sanctuary.

I'll tell you in 45 mins

Ruu_Old

King of Queens and some tea.

Nerin

i usually go look at other sites. or watch youtube, 2 or 3 "to catch a predators" and boards is usually back.

when im not so corfuzzled IRL, ill be adding a java chatbox dealy to my blog, for any lost souls who want 15 mins of continuous posting

thusspakeblixa

I generally cry non-stop for 15 minutes.
Or, alternatively, I go and tinker with my bebo and various other crappy messaging-site profiles.
OR, and I do this quite often, go to wikipedia and click ''random article''. Highly recommended.

Doctor DooM

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

I generally cry non-stop for 15 minutes.
Or, alternatively, I go and tinker with my bebo and various other crappy messaging-site profiles.
OR, and I do this quite often, go to wikipedia and click ''random article''. Highly recommended.

You should try that on the Doctor Who Wiki. Thats what I do.

Lovely sig btw, I wonder who made it?

thusspakeblixa

SDooM wrote: »

You should try that on the Doctor Who Wiki. Thats what I do.

Lovely sig btw, I wonder who made it?

Heh.
The Doctor Who Wiki has to be one of the most criminally underrused websites of my life.
I'm going to use it far more as of NOW.
Also- random google- ''I'm feeling lucky''

1huge1

Just continue on with my convo's on msn, thats the only reason id be on at that time

gollyitsolly

Play Touchmaster on the DS. JEEZ,how cool would that have been if Id picked that as my name? TOUCH MASTER:D

christophicus

Did it happen at about 11 pm today?? I could have sworn boards went down at around that time.

TBH I didn't know they were doing a backup, Suppose I really should have figured that out though, it just used to piss me off so much, cause thats usually when I remember what I wanted to look for on adverts.ie .

banjopaul

I've usually gone to bed by then..

eVeNtInE

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Black Swan

Xavi6 wrote: »

It's the worst 15 minutes of the day and occurs smack in the middle of some noctural thread browsing.

What do you do to pass the longest quarter of an hour of the night?

I can only imagine what you lad's do...

Nerin

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

I can only imagine what you lad's do...

>_>


<_<

o_O

AHEM

2 stroke

sleep

nkay1985

2 stroke wrote: »

sleep

Sleep is for wusses tbh

Don't be alarmed by the time of my post, my curtains are firmly drawn.

The backup usually catches me by surprise. I'll either go down to the factory floor and have a bit of a chinwag or carry on with whichever "legally downloaded" tv series I'm currently watching ('The Wire' for now - class!).
Have also been known to have so many tabs open that I don't realise it's happened!