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.)

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.

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.

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.

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!

Well, I sexed it up by using the word "spawns".

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... :)

Not to start a kerfuffle, but if enough people who voted to close the Spoilage lite thread now think they didn't have enough information or that it was closed a bit hastily and possible unnecessarily following the recent mysql drop, and considering the fact that we've probably spent more posts talking about Spoilage lite in this thread than Spoilage lite generally gets in an average month, is there a procedure to re-vote/or otherwise nullify the results of last week's vote (strictly as they pertain to Spoilage lite) without waiting six months for the moratorium to end?

And feel free to say there is no way, because that's sometimes the way these things work out.

We don't currently have a way to do it. The moratorium is pretty specific, I think, that we can't bring it up again in the interim. Six months will be February, and if people want to reopen it then to discuss the Angel season finale episodes, they can.

Six Months? Yeah. I guess that's what we agreed to. No sense in crying over spilt milk.