How long will Stardock servers will be out of correct working ?
Friday, January 23, 2009 by neophil78 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Since today (french time) it seems that all Stardock's servers are out of correctly working.
SDC unable to connect ... Impulse unable to connect ... Will it be a new permanent way of practising ?
Reply #2 Friday, January 23, 2009 2:41 PM
The server techs are working on fixing this as I type.
Reply #5 Friday, January 23, 2009 2:50 PM
thanx...my Impulse (logon) to pick up a lost Dream can wait. 
Reply #6 Friday, January 23, 2009 2:50 PM
Why have your three got time to comment here - shouldn't you be working? 
Reply #8 Friday, January 23, 2009 3:29 PM
Just like the U.S. road workers: 1 guy in the hole and 5 guys standing around watching.
Reply #11 Friday, January 23, 2009 6:17 PM
That's road workers everywhere, not just the US.
Besides.....watching is an important component of all roadworks.....
....or so it seems....
Reply #12 Friday, January 23, 2009 6:36 PM
I hate to tell you Jafo but ya got the wrong country. Thats Germany where ya have 1 working and 5 watching. Used to amaze me when I was stationed there.
Reply #13 Friday, January 23, 2009 7:01 PM
Being in the industry for over 25 years I can verfiy this.. 
Reply #14 Friday, January 23, 2009 7:17 PM
Yup...putting slots in coffins to slip the 1040's in.
That's road workers everywhere, not just the US.
Besides.....watching is an important component of all roadworks.....
....or so it seems....
Not just roadwork, Jafo...in the US there are windows cut at various heights in fences around lots where buildings are going up so folks can watch.
Being in the industry for over 25 years I can verfiy this..
Kibbitzing is world wide...nothing more fascinating that watching construction of a skyscraper, imo. Not better than beer and pizza, though. If you offered those, the 5 guys would disappear (as well as the guy working) and NOTHING would ever get done.
There must be lotsa bars and Pizzarias in Washington.
Reply #15 Friday, January 23, 2009 11:07 PM
Same here in Oz. It's like the Oz road worker whose working life had come to an end.... instead of a gold watch he got a golden shovel... so he had something to lean on in retirement.
Which reminds me... of the 6 council roadworkers here in Goodna. They were sent out to fix a large pothole in a major thoroughfare but didn't have enough material to fill it, so one of them dug it up and put it on the back of a truck to fix the problem that way. All was going well until they were pulling away from a red light, and the pothole rolled off the back of the truck and damaged the bonnet of the car behind them.
Naturally, the driver sued the council for negligence...and won. However, the council budget didn't allow for a pothole repair AND a damages bill - or the subsequent trauma and stress/loss of income compensation package the court also awarded, so the pothole was loaded on another truck and returned to its original location and has remained there ever since. Well that's the council's story and they're sticking to it.
That was 15 years ago... so if you have a pothole in your area that's been there for an eternity, you'll now know why. The authority responsible for it has heard about this case and is afraid of a similar accident and getting sued.
Reply #16 Saturday, January 24, 2009 3:46 AM
Wrong. Here they start work about 9:30 ish. After ten minutes setting up, putting up traffic cones to delay and inconvenience drivers as much as possible, they go for a break. They return about 4 ish to put up traffic lights for the night, of which only one of the pair work causing as much confusion as possible.
Reply #17 Saturday, January 24, 2009 4:05 AM
Here they get €60,000 per annum for watching, they do howewver do lots of weekend nixers for folk willing to pay for driveway tarmac, landscaping etc - government and/or council officials would never defraud their own would they? Then be off sick or with pulled muscles half the remaining time.
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Reply #1 Friday, January 23, 2009 2:41 PM
We're looking into it right now.