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Posted: May 16 2007,21:35

Re "AND HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING ABOUT A BORED MECHANIC."

What, you missed the conversation about the Maytag repairman?

Henry

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Posted: May 23 2007,20:13

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ May 16 2007,20:00)

Sorry bout that if you tried to post in the last fifteen minutes. Making some tweaks to the code.

Could you make some tweaks to your mail folders? Like, empty them?

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Posted: May 25 2007,14:15

They'll just fill up again.

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Posted: May 25 2007,16:10

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Posted: May 25 2007,16:44

Now, Steve, that's hardly fair... where can I get a picture of you?

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Posted: May 25 2007,17:00

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ May 25 2007,16:44)

Now, Steve, that's hardly fair... where can I get a picture of you?

The bar?

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Posted: May 25 2007,21:00

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ May 25 2007,16:44)

Now, Steve, that's hardly fair... where can I get a picture of you?

That's easy Wesley.

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Posted: May 25 2007,21:02

And while I was looking about for that pic of Steve I came across a fantastic set of solar images.
http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/~sac/

Paul

edit:Unfortunately I can only figure out how to get one image to come up. Sun Pic

second edit:Ah, my own tardness comes to the fore. The images are here.

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Posted: May 30 2007,21:56

I just thought of something that might save a bit of bandwidth around here - maybe the "reply with quote" option could automatically omit images (especially large ones, if it could tell that) from the post being quotes, perhaps replacing with some text that says the image was omitted.

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Posted: May 31 2007,12:47

Since the images are hosted on other servers, the only bandwidth that will save is each user's.

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Posted: May 31 2007,15:12

Re "the only bandwidth that will save is each user's."

Exactly! Some of those image-heavy threads can take a long time to load, and when they have several copies of each image, it takes that much longer.

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Posted: May 31 2007,17:18

board v. slow. Why board slow?

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Posted: May 31 2007,20:36

Denial Of Service attack.

Reed has whacked a few IP's to fix it, but it appears the collateral damage is indeed extensive.

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Posted: May 31 2007,22:50

Quote (Ichthyic @ May 31 2007,20:36)

Denial Of Service attack.

Wow, maybe DaveTard is NOT really as stupid as he looks . . . .!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted: May 31 2007,23:07

I rather think the "goldstein" clan is behind it, myself.

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Posted: May 31 2007,23:19

TODAY WAS RUBBISH. ME AND FTK WERE GOING TO HAVE TEH SEXI_HAWT_CHAT BUT IT WAS RUINED BY SERVER GLITCHES. WHAT IS THIS, UD? I EVEN PUT SOME MONIES IN TEH PAYPALS AND OBVIOUSLY WESLEY JUST USED IT FOR HIS EVERQUEST SUBSCRIPTION.

GRRRrrrrrrr.

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Posted: June 02 2007,15:57

for those that use it, there is a new version of firefox out.

includes a very nice automatic spell checker which you don't even need to configure.

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Posted: June 02 2007,23:47

Everclear? Rest assured I buy better stuff than that.

Reed is working on configuring the new server this weekend. Things are progressing. The new server is a dual Zeon 2.8GHz box with 4GB of RAM and two 250GB hard disks.

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Posted: June 03 2007,01:17

what database is he using for the backend?

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Posted: June 03 2007,01:48

MySQL for AE, Austringer, Baywing, and PostgresSQL for PT.

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Posted: June 03 2007,06:22

sounds fine and dandy.

postgres would have been exactly what I would have suggested if going open source. MYSQL was always a bit clunky for large jobs i tried it on; at least a few years back, anyway.

Postgres shouldn't have any problems at all with either request type or load from something like PT.

should be positively zippy when he's done.

I bet he's looking forward to it!

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Posted: June 07 2007,12:27

On June 6th, the server for PT, AE, and a slew of other domains developed some hardware issues.

We have managed to get the data transferred to the development server, which has been pressed into service a bit before we expected to do so. Let me know if you find problems: the software setup has changed a bit, so things are not exactly the same as before.

Kudos to Reed Cartwright, who did the transfers and setup on the new server, and Marc and Zach Nowell, who did the hands-on work with reconfiguring the old server so that we could get to the data.

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Posted: June 07 2007,12:45

major speed increase in display!

getting 404 errors trying to post to threads on PT.

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Posted: June 07 2007,15:19

The PT backend is not yet set up, so no new post, comments, trackbacks, etc. There is a hand-edited note at the top of the PT home page explaining that. Hopefully, Reed will get that sorted this evening. He's got to juggle having both the legacy PT system and the new PT system on the same box now.

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Posted: June 07 2007,15:23

fun fun fun!

no worries from my end; the speed increase is already obvious, even unfinished.

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Posted: June 07 2007,19:01

Re "configuring the new server"

But it's still a server! It hasn't evolved into a new species!!!!!!!

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Posted: June 08 2007,10:46

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ June 07 2007,12:27)

On June 6th, the server for PT, AE, and a slew of other domains developed some hardware issues.

We have managed to get the data transferred to the development server, which has been pressed into service a bit before we expected to do so. Let me know if you find problems: the software setup has changed a bit, so things are not exactly the same as before.

Kudos to Reed Cartwright, who did the transfers and setup on the new server, and Marc and Zach Nowell, who did the hands-on work with reconfiguring the old server so that we could get to the data.

Thanks - A New Server for My Birthday! Just what I wanted!

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Posted: June 10 2007,11:48

Absolutly, congratulations.

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