I got a class action settlement check in the mail yesterday. Thank god for lawyers, I say!
Did you sue Kraft over the man n' cheese confusion?
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Allyson - Nov 26, 2003 9:58:22 am PST #6165 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
DXMachina - Nov 26, 2003 10:00:23 am PST #6166 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Heh. No, that one is still pending.
Nutty - Nov 29, 2003 2:32:07 pm PST #6167 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
P.S. That "Message Center Goes Away" phenomenon? In Netscape 4.51, which I use at home, when the error happens right away, I get the funny error message, but when the error happens halfway through the page load, I get the thread header and nothing else. Including no error message. So that might be where a bit of the confusion lies.
No big for me, since I am on IE more often anyway, and have gotten used to the rule of "if it looks wrong-y, just reload on principle", but the non-error-message showing of certain versions of Netscape might answer that question.
Beverly - Nov 30, 2003 6:20:11 am PST #6168 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Early-ish this morning, 2-3AM EDST, I logged in, but every time I clicked on "read new" I got logged out. No posting box, and an invitation to register or log in. Also, when I logged in, the home page came up un-logged. Just FYI. Seems fine today.
Gudanov - Dec 01, 2003 6:28:37 am PST #6169 of 10000
Coding and Sleeping
I haven't been following this thread. But the chicken problem is too many connections to MySQL right? Maybe, the board could be modified to cache requests into a file and have a fixed record index to the posts. Then when a read request is made, the read comes from the cache rather than the database and we could drastically reduce the number of connections. (Editing would be an issue, so would deleting but that's easier, taglines would work a little different, threadsucks would be cake.)
Some other things might be able to be moved to file based as well such as member profiles and such, to reduce the database traffic.
Just some ideas, I can elaborate if there is any merit.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2003 6:30:27 am PST #6170 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gud, the problem is MySQL incorrectly totalling the connections. I'm hesitant to start rearchitecting the site because of their bugs (unless it would be to change back ends).
However, on a server we can bounce, the issue is easily, if temporarily cleared up.
Gudanov - Dec 02, 2003 6:04:03 am PST #6171 of 10000
Coding and Sleeping
Okay. I was just trying thinking of a way to maybe help without totally rewriting stuff, but if there is already a solution in the pipe then that's cool.
DCJensen - Dec 02, 2003 1:05:50 pm PST #6172 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
From reading up, it seems it is in the pipe, but yet unsmoked.
Or at least no one covered up the hole with their finger.
Kristen - Dec 03, 2003 7:42:29 am PST #6173 of 10000
Ha. Totally not the right thread for this but...
ita, way back when we set up the Buffistas account, did I tell you in an email that, until the DNS resolved, you could access your account at [link] somethingIcan'tremembernow? I know I told someone.
It's making me nuts.
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2003 7:46:29 am PST #6174 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When I get home, I'll check through my support e-mails and see. Because I am your twin in "huh? really? And I was there?"
But I may have documentation.