A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.

Xander ,'Dirty Girls'


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

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Cindy - Sep 25, 2003 9:12:06 am PDT #5086 of 10000
Nobody

I had trouble loading it about a half an hour ago, for at least 5 or ten minutes.


Fred Pete - Sep 25, 2003 9:15:58 am PDT #5087 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.

I got 404'd, too. Had to open a new window to get access again.


Sean K - Sep 25, 2003 9:26:36 am PDT #5088 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Mine cleared up after about five minutes, and the board's all zippy again now.


DXMachina - Sep 25, 2003 10:10:29 am PDT #5089 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Oooh! I just noticed that the thread adminstration page now lists the thread number. Were about to add our 79th thread.


Sean K - Sep 26, 2003 11:52:30 am PDT #5090 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

For a "no rush" sort of a question, I've grown curious about the links to other b.org posts...

If you just copy and paste the link from your browser's address box, does the board generate the link text on its own? You know, that whole "[JohnQPoster] 'Appropriate Thread Name' date/time stamp" format that I always see?

Or is everybody on the board just spectacularly anal in that one regard?


§ ita § - Sep 26, 2003 11:53:47 am PDT #5091 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If you just copy and paste the link from your browser's address box, does the board generate the link text on its own?

Yes.

You know, that whole "[JohnQPoster] 'Appropriate Thread Name' date/time stamp" format that I always see?

Yes.

Or is everybody on the board just spectacularly anal in that one regard?

C'mon now. Anal? Here?


Sean K - Sep 26, 2003 12:09:34 pm PDT #5092 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Thanks ita! You're the bestest!


tina f. - Sep 26, 2003 1:24:36 pm PDT #5093 of 10000

I knew if I waited long enough, somebody else would ask that question. Thanks sean and ita.


DCJensen - Sep 27, 2003 5:40:18 pm PDT #5094 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Anyone see the notice at livejournal.com on how the are handling their database issues?

I hope you're all enjoying the speed of the site today and yesterday. We're continuing converting all popular and intensive database queries into using our memcached system instead. We're not done, though... we have one last query to convert, and then most of our 20 million+ page views per day won't even hit the databases. Because the databases are generally the limiting factor, involving slow moving parts, removing our dependence on them keeps making the site faster.


DXMachina - Sep 27, 2003 5:52:54 pm PDT #5095 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I hope you're all enjoying the speed of the site today and yesterday.

Yes, it was very fast. It quite snappily brought you to a random page in a random journal, rather than the page you really wanted.