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tina f. - Oct 16, 2003 12:32:29 pm PDT #5263 of 10000

As an aside - I am now using the wacky-ness of the Phoenix as my own personal Magic 8 Ball. "If I get an error this time, I am going to go eat another piece of office birthday cake." "If I lose this post, it's a sign to not e-mail that guy." ETC.

Kinda fun.

lori - Oct 16, 2003 12:45:56 pm PDT #5264 of 10000

Hee! I've been sorta doing the same thing, tina!

Liese S. - Oct 16, 2003 12:50:27 pm PDT #5265 of 10000

"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Incidentally, whenever we need to connect to the database, it's the same bit of code that does the job. That's why the error message always points to that line. So no matter what you want to do (load headers, thread lists, posts; write new posts, edit, maintain your profile) it's all got to connect to the database, and it's all going to do it through that one bit of code.

This is not to contribute to the debugging process, but just to let people know it's probably not related to the specific activity you were doing at the time. Since it's a number of connections problem, it's more likely to do with how many things needed doing just at that moment, not what they were, precisely.

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Now to the problem. Huh. That's weird.

It's strange because it's so intermittent. If it never happened, then happened one Sunday night, I would go, hmm, spider. If it happened due to peak usage, I'd go, hmm, it's just our usage and we'll have to find a way to deal. If it happened due to feature usage, I'd look at that feature. If it happened all the time, constantly, I'd go, hmm, code.

But it's just intermittent. So I go, huh.

amyparker - Oct 16, 2003 5:07:22 pm PDT #5266 of 10000

You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

Are we keeping track of browsers? I'm using Galeon and I've had Hell's own time getting in here today.

Jessica - Oct 16, 2003 6:14:35 pm PDT #5267 of 10000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We seemed to have calmed down. [nevermind.]

Theodosia - Oct 16, 2003 7:09:43 pm PDT #5268 of 10000

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Just got a couple more now. I'm using Opera 6 or 7, depending what machine I'm on.

Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 16, 2003 8:08:09 pm PDT #5269 of 10000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

IE 5.2 on Mac System 10.2.3 here, and I just ran into a couple myself.

RobertH - Oct 16, 2003 8:30:51 pm PDT #5270 of 10000

Disaffected college student

I don't get any errors clicking on Buffistas Home. That's been pretty consistent.

Sadly, I have gotten a couple of the errors loading the home page.

DXMachina - Oct 17, 2003 2:24:17 am PDT #5271 of 10000

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Still getting the error at 7:24 a.m. on the east coast. Man, the posting volume is just brutal this time of day.

juliana - Oct 17, 2003 4:44:05 am PDT #5272 of 10000

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Man, the posting volume is just brutal this time of day.

Snerk.

I get the error message in Mozilla and IE, at completely random times of day, with random frequency. It would seem that it's not a browser issue.

However, that's all I've got in the way of mildly useful info, so I'ma go back to lurking now.....

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