www.python.org website is down?

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Mon Aug 10 15:38:39 EDT 2009


>>>>> MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> (M) wrote:

>M> r wrote:
>>> On Aug 8, 8:48 am, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>>> ...(snip)
>>>> Bothwww.python.organd svn.python.org are down.  They're hosted on
>>>> the same machine, and it seems to have run into disk problems and
>>>> hasn't rebooted even after power-cycling.  Thomas Wouters will be
>>>> visiting the machine physically tomorrow to try to diagnose the
>>>> problem.
>>> 
>>> Oh stop lying MRAB, everybody knows Guido hosts Python.org from his
>>> attic on an old Linux box :-)

>M> That was a quote from A.M. Kuchling.

>M> It's actually hosted on a matchbox-sized multi-core multi-terabyte
>M> wifi-enabled Linux machine that Guido brought back from 2050.
>M> Unfortunately, the dog ate it, so he's had to go and buy another one!

The 2050 models can run on the internal heat of a dog !!
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