Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.

'Get It Done'


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


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... :)


Wolfram - Aug 30, 2003 7:08:26 pm PDT #4999 of 10005
Visilurking

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.


DXMachina - Aug 30, 2003 7:19:21 pm PDT #5000 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

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.


DCJensen - Aug 30, 2003 11:22:50 pm PDT #5001 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.

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


DCJensen - Aug 30, 2003 11:23:55 pm PDT #5002 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.

Okay, C'mon, you can't expect me to ignore this number. I't the middle of the night. No traffic.

psst! number slut .


Jon B. - Sep 01, 2003 4:54:24 pm PDT #5003 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Nutty's rough draft of Buffista procedure is here.

Comments needed. Since she wrote it back in May, and I've been the slothiest sloth in Slotheldania, some things are out of date. I updated a couple of things but I'm sure more work in needed.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 01, 2003 5:08:21 pm PDT #5004 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Aargh. I am not sure how I used to have the time to be so into voting procedures...


Jesse - Sep 02, 2003 4:31:32 am PDT #5005 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wow, you guys!

I notice this about the moratorium:

The vote of confidence was scheduled to take place June 29, 2003, but never occurred.

So, it seems like 6 months turned out to be just right, then? As we're almost there and no one's brought it up?