Yeah, if we're trying to decrease table space, it seems to me the *first* thing to do is get all the closed threads off the board. And possibly figure out if there's some way to automate the process, since we go through Natter threads hella fast.
Wesley: I stabbed you. I should apologize for that. But I'm honestly not sure how. I think it'll just be awkward. Gunn: Good call. Wesley: Okay.
'Time Bomb'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Michele T. - Aug 29, 2003 2:41:32 pm PDT #4989 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
lori - Aug 29, 2003 2:47:16 pm PDT #4990 of 10005
We ARE getting the closed threads off the board. But as DX has pointed out, there are some niggly not-automated time-consuming details that slow this process down a bit. But he and others are working that task.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2003 3:59:41 pm PDT #4991 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DCJ, you can read closed threads in the normal fashion, but not archived threads. There's a difference. It's not archived until it shows up on the actual archive page.
Lyra Jane - Aug 29, 2003 5:16:20 pm PDT #4992 of 10005
Up with the sun
I just read the original Buffista Bureaucracy.
I was a strident little newbie, wasn't I? Thank you for not holding it against me forever.
(As for lite, any route is fine with me. Greatest utility might be allowing whitefonted titles and writers in the main thread before the promos air, and allowing them with no restrictions post-promo, assuming Cindy's poll shows most of us are okay with that.)
Noumenon - Aug 29, 2003 5:48:56 pm PDT #4993 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I was a strident little newbie, wasn't I? Thank you for not holding it against me forever.
I think I remember you asking/daring everybody to ENUF you one time, and I was ready to take you up on it, but now I never would. That's happened to me a couple times, with people I would've Marcied if I could have on W/X, but who eventually won me over to like them. If we ever get PaulJ's noisy user filter here, I'm going to try to remember to clear my list every three months and give everyone a second chance.
P.M. Marc - Aug 29, 2003 6:28:50 pm PDT #4994 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
We ARE getting the closed threads off the board. But as DX has pointed out, there are some niggly not-automated time-consuming details that slow this process down a bit. But he and others are working that task.
And I should be able to finish the ones I started this weekend, as it's three days of Not Working.
If I'm good, that means we should get most of them off the board.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2003 6:31:33 pm PDT #4995 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Everything that's already been marked archived (well, as of this morning) is off the board. I go through periodically and check to see what's been cleaned up.
Noumenon - Aug 29, 2003 7:46:01 pm PDT #4996 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
My theory is that when PHP is running as a module compiled into Apache, it defers cleaning up resources (like unclosed MySQL links) until the module is unloaded. That's only going to happen when the child process Apache spawns to handle connections goes away,
That is one sexy theory. I understand this now, the attraction of Shawn's lawyertalk and Rob's sexy techspeak. See, I can parse all the sentences, and I understand the technical terms, but these people make sentences that my brain would never produce, because it takes expertise to think in that way. It's like, if I were watching an expert sitar player, I'd be thinking, "Huh. How does he do that?", but watching an expert trumpet player, because I know how to play the trumpet, it's like, "Whoa! I can't believe he's doing that!" Fingerwork, triple tongueing, etc. (actually, that sounds kind of sexy on its own. Even a little kinky, if they use a mute...)
So, in summary, Rob = so sexay, Shawn = come back soon!
Rob - Aug 29, 2003 9:48:47 pm PDT #4997 of 10005
Well, I sexed it up by using the word "spawns".
DXMachina - Aug 30, 2003 2:35:02 am PDT #4998 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I was a strident little newbie, wasn't I? Thank you for not holding it against me forever.
Hee. Yes, you were. It was so adorable... :)