Hello all,
next
FRIDAY, 13. September 19:00-22:00 UTC
I will update our Linux-hosts with all non-critical updates that happened since the last maintenance-window. This will include the userland-hosts and the database-servers. Several downtimes may occur during that window. After the update I will prepare the upgrade from Debian Squeeeze (oldstable) to Debian Wheezy (stable). The upgrade will surely break some stuff, because several important packages will switch to a new major release (for example perl from 5.10 to 5.14, php from 5.3 to 5.4). I will send a further mail after Friday with details. The upgrade is planed to happen 1 or 2 weeks later.
Sincerely, DaB.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:45 AM, DaB. ts@dabpunkt.eu wrote:
Hello all,
next
FRIDAY, 13. September 19:00-22:00 UTC
"Next", Do you mean This Friday?
Hi!
On 2013-09-09 07:36, K. Peachey wrote:
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:45 AM, DaB. ts@dabpunkt.eu wrote:
next
FRIDAY, 13. September 19:00-22:00 UTC
"Next", Do you mean This Friday?
Sorry, but this question is not very intelligent, because the auther gave a redundant information on that by telling the exact date.
"next" and "this" together with weekdays are synonymous in many cases. Unfortunately "next" may have more than one meaning in such contexts. Sometimes it means "next week's X" and sometimes it means "the next X from now on", or to be more precise "the X that is next to present in our unidirectional timeline". Actually "this" is also ambiguous, because the timeline is not necessarily understood as unidirectional, but the tense of the verb or other context normally identifies the meant date. So, if anybody says "this" (or "next") and does not give more information, then don't ask him, whether he meant "next" (or "this"), because this won't make it clear. There are better posibilities to talk about dates, e.g. by useing absolute dates. DaB. did that. Thus imho the question was superfluous. :-p
Btw. this is not a pure English problem. For example German has got the same disambiguity.
bye seth
Hello all,
the maintenance worked without problems. The userland-hosts were rebooted after the update. SGE is running again (thanks to Merl who coordinated the calendar-setting with our window). Nosy still imports commons like announced (thanks to her for the help). In the next days I will prepare the userland-servers for the Debian upgrade; I will keep you informed.
Sincerely, DaB.
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