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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2010, 06:10:15 pm »
Yeah it's better if you got a desktop or something. Otherwise it's better to not take any chance. I hear too much about overheating laptops.

My concern is that when there are snowstorms in October or very windy/rainy weather, power goes out every 5 minutes or so over here, so I myself can't even stay connected all the time.
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2010, 06:40:37 pm »
Quote from: squidgetx on September 23, 2010, 05:48:41 pm
standardized tests are awesome stuff
I second that. :P
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2010, 06:45:04 pm »
Quote from: patriotsfan on September 23, 2010, 06:40:37 pm
Quote from: squidgetx on September 23, 2010, 05:48:41 pm
standardized tests are awesome stuff
I second that. :P

Third :P And the PSAT is Oct 13/16 this year (0o15/0o20).
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2010, 06:46:03 pm »
O_o

I forgot about PSATs, now I have two things on the 13th (I guess it is unlucky :P)
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2010, 06:47:53 pm »
Yep, fun :P And just wondering: How long'll Omni be down (approx.)?
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2010, 06:51:49 pm »
What are standarized tests for, btw? I always wondered why in USA you guys had exams this early in the school year. Over here, we have some small class-specific tests every week or so, but the exams are at the end of each term, meaning we get exams in mid-december, Easter and mid-June. The bulk of them is in June. Besides that sometimes there are a bunch of projects/essays that have deadlines ending around Halloween and Easter, but on some years, there are barely any. For college tests, they are usually in April/May.

As for Omnimaga it will most likely be down sporadically, mostly at night, but in the worst cases, it should be a day or two. There are occasions where a lot of stuff like downloads or attachments might be missing and some features disabled temporary. The database will be the last thing to move, as well as music files/videos.
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2010, 06:55:52 pm »
PSATs are like "practice" SAT tests.  They help prepare your for the actual SAT.  Also, you can win some good scholarships if you do good on them.

SATs are required for entrance into just about every college in the US.  Many schools will only allow you to enter if your SATs are above a certain, pretty high score.

AP tests are tests to earn college credit.

All of these tests are run by the "College Board," which is, essentinally, a big company that makes up lots of tests. :)
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2010, 07:04:13 pm »
Ah ok, thanks for clarifying. Over here, besides the college tests, all that matters is your final average. For example, for Multimedia Integration Technique, only 50 students were allowed and I managed to get in with a 80% average. There were also credits but they weren't used a much it seems, except if you failed an entire school year.
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2010, 07:07:51 pm »
Yeah, here the final average matters, as well as whatever major tests you chose to take (like the SAT or ACT). They're all optional, but a lot of colleges look for the scores.
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #24 on: September 24, 2010, 10:04:42 pm »
I'll be busier/on more based on homework that I cannot predict.  Thus, I did not vote in the poll. :)
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2010, 10:19:03 pm »
Btw it's in my goals to make sure the downtime is not too long, like UTI last Fall or Spring for example. I want to avoid the site going down for like entire days. The first moves will involve copying files over the new host. If for any reason database errors occurs after the move, I'll be asking for help on SMF website, but the omnimaga.org domain name will still redirect to the old host. Once it's certain everything is working properly, I'll temporary make Omni private for maintenance, so nobody posts/register during the move, redo one more database backup (preventing any data rollback following the move) then put the new database at the new location.

Prior any move, I need to learn how to use a VPS, though :P (and maybe some Linux stuff).

If, in any case, hosting move would completly fail and it became clear it would be impossible to switch to anything else than the hosting type we got right now, then we would remain on 1and1, but there are huge chances that TIMGUL would merge with Omnimaga, or that it is dropped from the server if that fails too.
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2010, 07:42:09 pm »
I am noticing that activity has dropped considerably compared to last week. Same for traffic. is everyone busy with non-calc stuff or something? If so, I might simply attempt at performing a site move before the weeks stated in the poll above, since it will not affect more people anyway.
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #27 on: September 25, 2010, 10:06:56 pm »
Hmm, maybe you could do that and extend the contest voting for however many days were lost? Lots of activity this weekend, though...
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #28 on: September 25, 2010, 10:14:06 pm »
Nah actually the activity is considerably lower this weekend than last one (and last week).
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Re: October - which week(s) are you gonna be busy the most in October?
« Reply #29 on: September 25, 2010, 10:39:31 pm »
Well, okay, in that case, I personally wouldn't mind (homework and all that x.x), even if it means pushing the contest results :P
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