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We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Sean K - Aug 19, 2003 8:35:11 pm PDT #4658 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
amych - Aug 19, 2003 8:49:12 pm PDT #4659 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
But what we can't provide, as far as I know, are links to independent bookstores and music stores.
For booktores, at least, we can -- www.booksense.com (which is the American Bookseller's Association's online joint marketing thingy) has an affiliate program that sells books through whatever member bookstore is near them. I don't know of anything comparable for music or vids, but there may very well be something.
Michele T. - Aug 19, 2003 8:59:46 pm PDT #4660 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
What's the size of the source file it pulls from? I was told that a non-SQL solution for a similar volume would be slower, since it's all file reads, whereas the SQL solution would use more RAM caching.
It's just a plain txt file, so it's as big as it needs to be. Dunno if speed would be an issue or not. Check it out here.
§ ita § - Aug 19, 2003 9:04:26 pm PDT #4661 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's not so much a speed issue, as a tapping other resources issue.
Can you e-mail me the code? I am leaning, however to the cronned QotD -- I just have to think it out, and find out what command line options we have with this account.
Jim - Aug 19, 2003 10:08:37 pm PDT #4662 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
My tuppenorth - I think we should make all endeavours to stay with IH. We ain't going to get such good, personal, and funny support as we do from kristen. If we have to ditch quotes, so be it.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 20, 2003 1:26:21 am PDT #4663 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Deena-
What I do is just keep hitting read new at the end of every page I am reading. I don't know if this is better or not.
Jon B. - Aug 20, 2003 3:04:43 am PDT #4664 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I never quite understood the value of the message center.
Do you read every single thread? I don't (fanfic for instance). The message center displays only those threads to which you're subscribed. It removes some of the clutter. Using message center won't help the sql resource issue. It might, however, make your experience on the board friendlier.
Cindy - Aug 20, 2003 3:12:18 am PDT #4665 of 10000
Nobody
Deena-
What I do is just keep hitting read new at the end of every page I am reading. I don't know if this is better or not.
This is only going to be good for you Deena (in a personal sense) if you only subscribe to the threads you always want to read. If you subscribe to threads you only sometimes read when things are slow, you're going to get in there with the read new function, whether you choose to, or not.
Deena - Aug 20, 2003 3:55:42 am PDT #4666 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thanks everyone. I tried Read New, but I ended up being in threads I didn't expect to land in and not realizing it at first and, when I have time (which doesn't seem to be a commodity right now) I like to catch up in the threads I don't regularly read. I think the only threads I don't at least skim every once in awhile are Farscape and Due South.
Fred Pete - Aug 20, 2003 4:24:01 am PDT #4667 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
But what we can't provide, as far as I know, are links to independent bookstores and music stores.
Actually, I imagine we could by doing a little digging. For example, Powell's has a program. What we might not be able to do (or, per amych's post, maybe we could) is promote small local stores or even small chains that can't afford partnerships.
OTOH, it sounds like, with a little tinkering like QOTD and possibly increasing the default number of posts (to 20?), we aren't likely to need our own server for a while. So for now, we can probably keep it at the loose talk level.
(Edit because I screwed up a link.)