This is why I don't come to BaBB. All I hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But when I don't come where, I miss exciting things like maps!
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
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.
Rayne - May 28, 2004 8:16:49 am PDT #7765 of 10000
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Gus - May 28, 2004 8:39:06 am PDT #7766 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Buffistas in the Cradles Of Civilisation
Are up. No plans for South America or elsewhere, for now, unless requested.
Next up: zooming
§ ita § - May 28, 2004 8:41:21 am PDT #7767 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would switching to Postgres help at all, or is it more difficult to interface with PHP, or is the stuff you're running into unrelated to the stuff that Postgres does better than MySQL?
That's being investigated right now -- tommyrot's been working on it.
Rob - May 28, 2004 9:23:54 am PDT #7768 of 10000
iStrata charges $400/month for a co-located box, vs. $99/month for the dedicated server we're using.
Finding a place that offers cheaper virtual dedicated servers might be another alternative. Board users might not like the slower board performance, but we wouldn't have to worry about getting booted again for using too much server horsepower and it should be a lot cheaper.
iStrata isn't offering those right now, but I think I've seen places that are.
§ ita § - May 28, 2004 9:26:37 am PDT #7769 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It might be an idea to investigate that, but since tommyrot's getting along in the Postgres investigation, plus it has other benefits, I don't think we're in an either-or situation.
Gus - May 28, 2004 6:08:33 pm PDT #7770 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
The USA map will be broken for a few minutes, while I install zoom. Please don't create or move pins until we're clear...
... and we're clear. The USA map is only one that zooms.
aurelia - May 28, 2004 8:33:33 pm PDT #7771 of 10000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Now I want to move all the Chicago area pins to the right spots, but I realize that would be, well... crazy and obsessive, so I'm refraining.
Awww, now we know where Seamus is.
Would switching to Postgres help at all, or is it more difficult to interface with PHP, or is the stuff you're running into unrelated to the stuff that Postgres does better than MySQL?
NovaChild, if you read back in this thread you'll probably get a pretty good idea of what technical issues have been and how they are being addressed. I'd try to nilly the specifics for you but I don't really know what most of this stuff means.
DXMachina - May 29, 2004 2:27:37 am PDT #7772 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
When I zoom the US map, it goes black, except for the midwest, where I get the counties. All the pins are still there, even in the black part.
Also, is there any way to make the control/submit box smaller? We're losing the lower part of Texas.
Gus - May 29, 2004 5:40:37 am PDT #7773 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
DX, I think I wacked the control box size problem. I could only reproduce it on Netscape. I can't reproduce the black-out problem. What OS are you seeing that on?
DXMachina - May 29, 2004 5:54:07 am PDT #7774 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Mozilla on Win 98. It works fine here at work with Mozilla on XP.