I got this quote:

I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.

Xander, 'Prophecy Girl'

Which I think is from "Bad Eggs" and said by Buffy.

Hi. I appreciate all the hard work you computer type people do; but can I request that MARCIE be bumped a little higher on the to-do list?

I just did something kind of interesting and scary -- I downloaded an entire finished thread "the hard way".

This is, and don't try this at home, by setting your posts per page to 11,000 and clicking on the thread.

I downloaded the whole of Natter 6, 7.6 MB, in fourteen minutes. I found that I couldn't do anything else with the board (like, for instance, set my posts per page back to a much more sensible number) in the meantime. Any page I clicked on timed out until the download was finished.

Probably this is related to the browser not knowing how big the file was, because it was being generated on the fly, unlike with a static file.

I really hope nobody else experienced delays or stalls during this time.

I, on the other hand, set my posts per page to 4000 today to get the last of Natter 6 and set them back to 40 while it was downloading. No problems. Threadsuck is going into the CVS very soon, and then it won't matter.

I finished the threadsuck coding last week and I believe ita is checking it out this weekend (but don't hold her to that!).

I downloaded the whole of Natter 6, 7.6 MB, in fourteen minutes. I found that I couldn't do anything else with the board (like, for instance, set my posts per page back to a much more sensible number) in the meantime. Any page I clicked on timed out until the download was finished.

I had much better performance than that when I did a whole thread download a while back, maybe 30 seconds to a minute for the whole thing on a cable connection. I have noticed lately, though, that I often seem to have trouble actually getting to the board this time of day, so it may not be a browser issue, but rather a server issue.

maybe 30 seconds to a minute for the whole thing on a cable connection

Modem here. Connected at 42667. So that explains it.

Hey guys. I know nothing about the actual workings of the board, but I have noticed that this quote

We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.

appears at least once every time I'm on the board. And I'm here fairly often, so I notice it a lot.

Just FYI. or something.

It's been noted, Vortex, and it appears to be something askew with the "random" feature of the random quotes. The current version of the database seems to like the very first entry in the database more than the others when you ask it to be random.

Note to self. Do not run online casino using this version of mySQL...

Do not run online casino using this version of mySQL...

I dunno, the first entry in an on-line craps database would be snake-eyes, so the house would always win. :)