All,

Fairfax Underground (and the server hosting it) was taken offline by an unfounded abuse complaint to my previous ISP Carpathia Hosting. The specifics will be available shortly but needless to say I am very disappointed in the way Carpathia handled this case.

This server now has a new home with InfoRelay in Herndon, VA and for the first time since 2007 will once again reside in Fairfax County proper.

Since there was a massive outage I took the opportunity to transition this website to a brand new (MUCH faster) server and upgraded the operating system and all software. These upgrades included a much stricter "HTMLPurifer" module so any non-basic HTML is now disabled. Unfortunately this includes YouTube embeds, although an exception will be made for this shortly.

I will expand on this post greatly in the coming days, but the most important aspect right now is to bring the server back up as quickly as possible.

This has occurred twice before on 9/27/07 and 3/1/10

For the *nix nerds out there the old server had one hell of an uptime:
root ~ # uptime
19:25:22 up 850 days, 23:55, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00

More information coming shortly.

- Cary (the admin)

edit by Cary 9/11/15 14:11: Unsticky.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2015 02:11PM by Cary.

Thanks for everything!

Glad to have you back, Cary... Can't wait for more of the juicy details...

Signatures are for fags

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/2013 02:25PM by chuckhoffmann.

Well I'm glad that this site is back. I was afraid that FFXU might have been a thing of the past.

I have you now.

I can tell the speed difference. Huge improvement.

I love you Cary. I mean that in a totally non-homo, manly -- I mean brotherly sort of way.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Fairfax Underground has returned!

I am delighted to see this site back up—-and, honestly, I’m surprised by my sense of relief. I have missed this site this week and felt unsettled by its apparent demise. Why, I wondered? Despite years of browsing, I’ve never even registered, and sometimes I start to conclude I’ve visited in vain, as I become bored or bothered by crude humor, rambling diatribes, and nasty battles among individuals with whom I sense I have nothing in common. Yet eventually I always find something interesting—even enlightening. The value the site delivers time and again is in community members’ unvarnished opinions about issues far and wide—the genuinely free speech that one is unlikely to find anywhere that requires that identities be disclosed. I mean, there is so much posturing and window dressing in communications on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And commercial interests can diminish the integrity of consumer news sites.

Yet here nothing compromises one’s willingness to report what one has seen or profess what one believes—and there’s little to no chance that one’s comments will be edited or erased (assuming they're not libelous or indecent). Discourse on threads here is not always shrouded in civility, but kindness and good humor do persist. Despite weedy threads of ugliness and nonsense, goodness and rationality eventually surface in at least a voice or two. For every post that is moronic or mean-spirited, there are others that exemplify a neighborly desire to share helpful information or that reflect individuals’ desire to know one another more deeply--and in so doing, to understand themselves.

I’m not sure if Cary envisions this site as some kind of a city on a hill based on freedom of speech. It is an essential component of the American ethos to desire to create a utopian community based on liberties previously denied or constrained. I see this forum as a somewhat shady but ultimately valuable public square for electronically engaged citizens of my county. And I’m venturing out to celebrate that I, along with whoever else is so inclined, can speak freely here. Welcome back, Fairfax Underground!

Awesome! I was worried!

Thank You Cary !

 

Thank you for your time, and thank you for fairfax underground.

Anonymous editor Wrote:
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> I am delighted to see this site back up—-and,
> honestly, I’m surprised by my sense of relief. I
> have missed this site this week and felt unsettled
> by its apparent demise. Why, I wondered? Despite
> years of browsing, I’ve never even registered,
> and sometimes I start to conclude I’ve visited
> in vain, as I become bored or bothered by crude
> humor, rambling diatribes, and nasty battles among
> individuals with whom I sense I have nothing in
> common. Yet eventually I always find something
> interesting—even enlightening. The value the
> site delivers time and again is in community
> members’ unvarnished opinions about issues far
> and wide—the genuinely free speech that one is
> unlikely to find anywhere that requires that
> identities be disclosed. I mean, there is so much
> posturing and window dressing in communications on
> Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And commercial
> interests can diminish the integrity of consumer
> news sites.
>
> Yet here nothing compromises one’s willingness
> to report what one has seen or profess what one
> believes—and there’s little to no chance that
> one’s comments will be edited or erased
> (assuming they're not libelous or indecent).
> Discourse on threads here is not always shrouded
> in civility, but kindness and good humor do
> persist. Despite weedy threads of ugliness and
> nonsense, goodness and rationality eventually
> surface in at least a voice or two. For every post
> that is moronic or mean-spirited, there are others
> that exemplify a neighborly desire to share
> helpful information or that reflect individuals’
> desire to know one another more deeply--and in so
> doing, to understand themselves.
>
> I’m not sure if Cary envisions this site as some
> kind of a city on a hill based on freedom of
> speech. It is an essential component of the
> American ethos to desire to create a utopian
> community based on liberties previously denied or
> constrained. I see this forum as a somewhat shady
> but ultimately valuable public square for
> electronically engaged citizens of my county. And
> I’m venturing out to celebrate that I, along
> with whoever else is so inclined, can speak freely
> here. Welcome back, Fairfax Underground!


tl:dr

fag...

Signatures are for fags

Thank you for all your hard work Cary,,,everyone here appreciates it,,
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7 year lurker...and the only way I'll register is when you pry my un-registeredness from my cold...dead...hands.

As soon as embedded content is permitted again...someone needs to post that freedom of speech clip often seen at the beginning of late 90's porn films. The one with the scantily clad females erecting the flag Iwo-Jima style...

Long live, FU. Long live, Cary. Long live the fighters.

You would think that Patch would have run a story on this outage, as they get so much of their information from FU.

Blame it on the hosting company? Lol it's always the admins fault 100%. You weren't there when shit hit the fan. Fail on your part not carpathia.

LMAO Wrote:
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> Blame it on the hosting company? Lol it's always
> the admins fault 100%. You weren't there when shit
> hit the fan. Fail on your part not carpathia.


FU (and I don't mean Ffx Underground when I say this). This is not his full time job. I was very happy to see the forum back up and running, and those commenting above and many others feel the same way.

Salute, sir.

What a pleasant surprise to see FFU operational this morning. Many thanks to Cary, who seems to have the patience of a saint to put up with all of the BS that happens.

__________________________________
That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

yippy!
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Glad to see the Underground back, because it does serve free speech well, along with the community.

edit

I have you now.



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A big thank you from a longtime lurker.

Maybe consider having a twitter account for emergencies so you can communicate with us if something like this occurs again?

Cary- are you purposely blocking iphone/AT&T posts? They've been blocked for months around here. I brought this up a little while ago and you seemed surprised, but it never got fixed. Surprisingly, they're not blocked on the west coast (like they were for a few years), only blocked around the DC area.

Anyway, just thought I'd bring it up again in case you weren't aware.

This incident has taught us all something, and just how much this site is important for not just us but those who visit it.
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We'll take your site down yet.

Cary,

Thank you for getting the site back up. I had missed it more than I thought, as it provides such valuable local information. It would be great if there was a blog you could post to in case of emergency to let us know updates.

Thanks for the good work, Cary!

Fuck. There goes my productivity at work and attention span in class... Glad to be back though!

So glad to see FU back. Thanks, Cary!

Harry Tuttle Wrote:
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> Anonymous editor Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I am delighted to see this site back up—-and,
> > honestly, I’m surprised by my sense of relief.
> I
> > have missed this site this week and felt
> unsettled
> > by its apparent demise. Why, I wondered?
> Despite
> > years of browsing, I’ve never even
> registered,
> > and sometimes I start to conclude I’ve
> visited
> > in vain, as I become bored or bothered by crude
> > humor, rambling diatribes, and nasty battles
> among
> > individuals with whom I sense I have nothing in
> > common. Yet eventually I always find something
> > interesting—even enlightening. The value the
> > site delivers time and again is in community
> > members’ unvarnished opinions about issues
> far
> > and wide—the genuinely free speech that one
> is
> > unlikely to find anywhere that requires that
> > identities be disclosed. I mean, there is so
> much
> > posturing and window dressing in communications
> on
> > Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And commercial
> > interests can diminish the integrity of
> consumer
> > news sites.
> >
> > Yet here nothing compromises one’s
> willingness
> > to report what one has seen or profess what one
> > believes—and there’s little to no chance
> that
> > one’s comments will be edited or erased
> > (assuming they're not libelous or indecent).
> > Discourse on threads here is not always
> shrouded
> > in civility, but kindness and good humor do
> > persist. Despite weedy threads of ugliness and
> > nonsense, goodness and rationality eventually
> > surface in at least a voice or two. For every
> post
> > that is moronic or mean-spirited, there are
> others
> > that exemplify a neighborly desire to share
> > helpful information or that reflect
> individuals’
> > desire to know one another more deeply--and in
> so
> > doing, to understand themselves.
> >
> > I’m not sure if Cary envisions this site as
> some
> > kind of a city on a hill based on freedom of
> > speech. It is an essential component of the
> > American ethos to desire to create a utopian
> > community based on liberties previously denied
> or
> > constrained. I see this forum as a somewhat
> shady
> > but ultimately valuable public square for
> > electronically engaged citizens of my county.
> And
> > I’m venturing out to celebrate that I, along
> > with whoever else is so inclined, can speak
> freely
> > here. Welcome back, Fairfax Underground!
>
>
> tl:dr
>
> fag...

FFXU at it's finest...

Glad it's back up!

https://support.inforelay.com/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=submit


click 'abuse', and make your case

as it is obvious the owner of this site is either unwilling or unable to control the threats and defamation generated by users of this forum.

Thanks, Cary. I for one appreciate your time and efforts in keeping this site up and going. What is the cost to you to run FU? Can we help subsidize the site with a donation?

Happyfoot Wrote:
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> Thanks, Cary. I for one appreciate your time and
> efforts in keeping this site up and going. What
> is the cost to you to run FU? Can we help
> subsidize the site with a donation?

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/donations.html

Signatures are for fags

Fuck ya man, nice to have you back.

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/donations.html




$50 - Associate

$100 - Patron Club

$500 - FFXU Fellows

$1000 - Platinum Club

$10,000 and up - Founders Society

We were all lost without FFU!
Thank you for all you do.

eesh Wrote:
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> http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/donations.html
>
>
>
>
> $50 - Associate
>
> $100 - Patron Club
>
> $500 - FFXU Fellows
>
> $1000 - Platinum Club
>
> $10,000 and up - Founders Society


You need more FFXU-centric names for these clubs.

$50 - WNC club
$100 - Failcast Club
$500 - Tinting Club
$1,000 - Fisting Club
$10,000 - Plasma Club.

__________________________________
That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

Quote

root ~ # uptime
19:25:22 up 850 days, 23:55, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00

that's one sweet uptime.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Great to see you back. This is the greatest free speech site around. So glad to live in the USA where we can speak out about anything.

Near GM Wrote:
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> This is the greatest free
> speech site around. So glad to live in the USA
> where we can speak out about anything.

FFXU! FFXU!

Yeah,Yeah,Yeah!!!!!!!! We are back up!!!! Like many others, I thought FFXU was gone for good. So glad we can get together again like old times, minus the assholes that always cause problems. ( I'm really just a lurker, a reader of threads) but I'm thinking of registering to be one of the regulars. You guys are great. I really missed this place. Didn't know what I was going to do with all my down time. Thank you Cary for all your hard work to bring us this wonderful site to use as we see fit.( Not for evil stuff), but for info for everyone in Fairfax. God Bless Us All!!!! Glad to be an American!!!!!!!!!!!! Freedom of speech!!!!!!

Who had the most to gain by it being offline?

Radiophile aka Mark Webster

Inkahootz

Washingtonelocian

Meade Skelton

Mike O'Meara

Dan Meier

Whoever of these (or someone else) with the motivation to see the site end is probably responsible for the recent downtime. My money is on Mark or Lourdes Webster.

You left out Glory Days

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/2013 02:20PM by chuckhoffmann.

why would WTL want to see this site down? He loved this place.

Why Wrote:
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> why would WTL want to see this site down? He
> loved this place.


It was also his undoing. His marriage and family life suffered as a result of this place.

Thank goodness it's back!!! Since this site has gone down, there was suddenly "massive unscheduled overtime" at work due to the missing employees ending up stuffed away in "addiction cure" programs because they could not spend their working days and nights getting their "fix" (meaning eyeball deep in FFU 24 hours a day to include work) any more!

Now that the overtime is over for the non-FFU addicted ones, and the still-addicted ones are trickling back shaking off the brainwashing from the anti-addiction centers, things should get back to normal again soon.

Thanks for being here, and many thanks for carrying on!

Glad the site is back up. I was going through withdrawals.

BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> Glad the site is back up. I was going through
> withdrawals.

Brian, I challenge you to mention Fairfax Underground the next time you run.

Two Cents Wrote:
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> Brian, I challenge you to mention Fairfax
> Underground the next time you run.

Personally, I'd much rather see Fairfax Underground sponsor/moderate a debate.

I'M A FIVE-STAR MAN!!

Any updates you can share with us, Cary?

Anything about the legal kerfuffle? Anything about embedding Youtube?

Signatures are for fags

jhey Wrote:
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> Two Cents Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Brian, I challenge you to mention Fairfax
> > Underground the next time you run.
>
> Personally, I'd much rather see Fairfax
> Underground sponsor/moderate a debate.

That'd be the first debate in history where saying your opponent's argument is invalid because he's a knob-gobbling fag would be considered a legitimate answer.

When are you going to open up the HTMLPurifier to allow PICs and YouTube Links?

Cary Wrote:
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>
> More information coming shortly.
>
> - Cary (the admin)


I guess there is more than 1 meaning for shortly...and was this downtime inspired by the likes of a dancing black man...

Who was the guy that was terrorizing the community for a couple months by posting his rantings on here and on the facebook page of an elementary school? I hope he got the medical treatment that he needed...

Herder Wrote:
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> Cary Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >
> > More information coming shortly.
> >
> > - Cary (the admin)
>
>
> I guess there is more than 1 meaning for
> shortly...and was this downtime inspired by the
> likes of a dancing black man...
>
> Who was the guy that was terrorizing the community
> for a couple months by posting his rantings on
> here and on the facebook page of an elementary
> school? I hope he got the medical treatment that
> he needed...


SHHHHHHHHH!

Why is this thread still stuck on the top of the forum?

Anonymous editor Wrote:
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> I am delighted to see this site back up—-and,
> honestly, I’m surprised by my sense of relief. I
> have missed this site this week and felt unsettled
> by its apparent demise. Why, I wondered? Despite
> years of browsing, I’ve never even registered,
> and sometimes I start to conclude I’ve visited
> in vain, as I become bored or bothered by crude
> humor, rambling diatribes, and nasty battles among
> individuals with whom I sense I have nothing in
> common. Yet eventually I always find something
> interesting—even enlightening. The value the
> site delivers time and again is in community
> members’ unvarnished opinions about issues far
> and wide—the genuinely free speech that one is
> unlikely to find anywhere that requires that
> identities be disclosed. I mean, there is so much
> posturing and window dressing in communications on
> Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And commercial
> interests can diminish the integrity of consumer
> news sites.
>
> Yet here nothing compromises one’s willingness
> to report what one has seen or profess what one
> believes—and there’s little to no chance that
> one’s comments will be edited or erased
> (assuming they're not libelous or indecent).
> Discourse on threads here is not always shrouded
> in civility, but kindness and good humor do
> persist. Despite weedy threads of ugliness and
> nonsense, goodness and rationality eventually
> surface in at least a voice or two. For every post
> that is moronic or mean-spirited, there are others
> that exemplify a neighborly desire to share
> helpful information or that reflect individuals’
> desire to know one another more deeply--and in so
> doing, to understand themselves.
>
> I’m not sure if Cary envisions this site as some
> kind of a city on a hill based on freedom of
> speech. It is an essential component of the
> American ethos to desire to create a utopian
> community based on liberties previously denied or
> constrained. I see this forum as a somewhat shady
> but ultimately valuable public square for
> electronically engaged citizens of my county. And
> I’m venturing out to celebrate that I, along
> with whoever else is so inclined, can speak freely
> here. Welcome back, Fairfax Underground!


What a load of shit.

JustanFYI Wrote:
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> Why is this thread still stuck on the top of the
> forum?

Because Cary wants to be sure that everyone knows how to take down the site with DMCA notices(?)

I'm still wondering what the content in question was.

bump! anniversary edition coming up soon

bumpymcbumpersoft Wrote:
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> bump! anniversary edition coming up soon

Bumping a "sticky"... that's brilliant!

almost as brilliant as scheduling an unscheduled downtime, and keeping the sticky up a year later.


BUMP 4 JUSTICE

Good thing! I was offer a job at Carpathia and ended not liking it neither ;)

anyone watching purple rain right now?

bump

Fairfax underground is the stupidest shit ever!!! The runners of this site are pot heads i looked up their backgrounds on a google background check and all of them have been arrested at least twice or more. And none of them have college degrees and barley passed high school i bet. You guys just come on here to bitch about your traffic ticket that you dissevered or a drug charge that you got because you where caught with drugs that you bought and used but you say the police put it on you. Or you complain about the county you live in. If your ass doesn't like it here move the fuck out.

woah, bad name and comment. calm down its just a website of opinions

Fuck your opinion no one cares.

Why is this still stickied after almost two years?

adsoaasiod Wrote:
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> Why is this still stickied after almost two years?


FUCK OFF. We'll sticky shit to eternity if we want.

496 Wrote:
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> adsoaasiod Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Why is this still stickied after almost two
> years?
>
>
> FUCK OFF. We'll sticky shit to eternity if we
> want.


Who the fuck is "we?" You act as if you own the site with Cary or are him. We all know you are not and that you are nothing but a pathetic loser, who should have killed himself years ago.

Good

Welp.... I better kill myself now

Is this sticky necessary at this late date?

The incident in question took place over two years ago. Few remember it, fewer considerate it relevant to the vital and pressing issues which confront today's FU.

Yet it remains pinned, stuck like a ghost in a haunted mansion, a toxic blight on the site's psychic well-being.

Cary, you need to let go of your memory ghost, and move on with your life.

LEVELL CRAWFORD
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i see no problem what is this dreary drool about ?

if your unhappy with the money ...

Ask yourself why rich political kids / familiies are getting grants for $2,000,000 /yr (that's million) for worse web sites / pages.

whatever...

i get error on all images except off-site (they change - one can only guarantee they won't be there after posting using them, unless on ffu)

did google/amazone cloud storage delete your images?

did you delete all images by mistake ? (undelete(1) or forget that. if you use ms and try recover: beware - old one ruined HDs i'm sure)

or are they still on disk and the software doesn't see them, SNAFU, a little task to do, due to upgrade ? (i'd bet file perms, first)

rhetorical

Why is this a sticky again? Lol

Sticky icky

die already Wrote:
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> Who the fuck is "we?"

"We" is the new "I". Just listen to a liberal/democrat/progressive/socialist.

Thank you for this very important information.

Let me also say that in 1987 there will be a stock market crash. You're welcome.

The "sticky" function can probably be turned off for this post now.

_Sticky_ Wrote:
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> The "sticky" function can probably be turned off
> for this post now.

You sure about that?

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