Archive for February, 2009

Server Upgrade Today

Friday, February 27th, 2009

You may have noticed some downtime at LakePlace.com today – we just upgraded our servers (again). You may notice a faster LakePlace.com as we are now running on 8 processors, an ungodly amount of RAM and more hard drive space than you want to hear about.

Top of the line stuff..as of today.

We also upgraded our database software to the latest and greatest…so if you run into any bugs or issues, PLEASE let us know about it at d-a-v-e-g-@-l-a-k-e-p-l-a-c-e-.-c-o-m (obviously, remove the “-”).

Cheers!

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Minnesota Ahead Of Its Time

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.

One week later, The Pioneer Press, a local newspaper in Minnesota, reported the following: After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Embarass , Minnesota , Ole Olson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Minnesota had already gone wireless.

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