Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?

Lilah ,'Destiny'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 06, 2007 10:39:01 am PDT #1207 of 4673
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Okay, the board font just jumped about four sizes. Is this me or the board, and how do I change it if it's me?


Polter-Cow - Apr 06, 2007 10:53:11 am PDT #1208 of 4673
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Did you do the mouse wheel thing?

Hold Ctrl and scroll up. The font will go down.


Kevin - Apr 06, 2007 10:57:16 am PDT #1209 of 4673
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

ita, yeah, Redhat 7.3 is seriously behind the times. Later MySQL versions are much, much more stable under heavy load, for instance.

They're on about upgrading you to CentOS 3 from memory, which is a couple of years old. I think from memory it's PHP 4 and MySQL 4 based. I've used VPS hosting for Serenitymovie.org in the past -- it worked, but I had issues with MySQL so ended up moving away from it.


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2007 12:03:27 pm PDT #1210 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jon, this is probably not a good place in the sequence to mention it, but I'm wondering if the CSS (or at least the ids and classes in the HTML) can't be streamlined using inheritance. I'm going to read up this weekend. I'm combing through it now, and it's just so wordy.


Jon B. - Apr 06, 2007 12:23:34 pm PDT #1211 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I agree ita.*

Can you fling me the password to the CSS site? I've got some time and could help out more.

* (See, despite the temptation, I did not write "ITA, ita." Oh, wait, damn).


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2007 2:48:55 pm PDT #1212 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jon, I'll get that to you this evening/tomorrow morning.

It's probably no big surprise, but I've been working on the internals of the code with an eye to fresher platforms.

Current ramifications include much of the site rewritten on paper (okay, text files untested) in PHP 5 and PostgreSQL. By much, okay, I don't mean most. But if in a miracle it didn't need debugging, one could read and post and many of the internals are awaiting presentation for things like editing and deleting and admin stuff.


Jon B. - Apr 06, 2007 5:31:37 pm PDT #1213 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

What's the advantages of PostgreSQL vs. mySQL?


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2007 5:36:55 pm PDT #1214 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't speak for later versions of MySQL, since I haven't developed for it past the version we're running now. I think it's catching up, but PostgreSQL has long had stuff like stored procedures and triggers and the like. It's supposed to be more stable, but like most stuff, it depends who you ask.


Tom Scola - Apr 06, 2007 5:38:06 pm PDT #1215 of 4673
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

You might want to experiment with SQLite, also.


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2007 11:30:59 pm PDT #1216 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

From looking at their web page I don't think they support everything we currently use in terms of SQL commands. Do many hosts offer it?