ita: I remember being about to buy something peach, but then Prince cancelled the concert and I didn't need to anymore.
You too, huh? You try buying a peach and black outfit as a 15-year-old boy in 1987 in Exeter...
I fell down and got confused. Willow fixed me. She's gay.
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Jim - Sep 09, 2003 3:10:26 am PDT #4908 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Cindy - Sep 09, 2003 4:34:27 am PDT #4909 of 10000
Nobody
I am not reporting any kind of problem. I'm just noting an oddity, to make sure it isn't a problem.
On my bookmarks page, there are a bunch of blank spaces, with check boxes to the left of them. I assume I had posts bookmarked, that lived in threads that have since been closed and/or archived.
Should I just check the boxes, so that they go away? Is anything going to blow up if I do or don't?
DXMachina - Sep 09, 2003 4:42:21 am PDT #4910 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The blank bookmarks are most likely the result of the threads they pointed to getting archived and removed from the database.
You can check them off and delete. It shouldn't hurt anything.
Jesse - Sep 09, 2003 7:15:34 am PDT #4911 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have a question about the board over use issue: How come we users don't have any problem, and we just find out later when we're using too many connections or whatever? Is there a way to put the breaks on the board or something? I mean, I'd rather not be able to connect for five minutes rather than end up getting booted from fangeek or whatever. Am I making any sense? I only have a vague idea what I'm trying to say.
I know we think we're OK for now, but assuming we have bumps in usage in the future....
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2003 7:17:08 am PDT #4912 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse, we (the coders) have no way to tell how many connections we're using at any given time, so we can't take the board down for a breather, or anything.
Jesse - Sep 09, 2003 7:20:01 am PDT #4913 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Lame. Not you, the system. If we only "have" 30 connections, they should stop us from using 80! Ah well.
Kristen - Sep 09, 2003 7:22:15 am PDT #4914 of 10000
If we only "have" 30 connections, they should stop us from using 80!
I dunno. I think it would suck for you guys if we suspended you every time you went over 50.
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2003 7:25:54 am PDT #4915 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Any word on how we're doing this week, ma'am?
I think it would suck for you guys if we suspended you every time you went over 50.
I don't think suspended is what Jesse was thinking of. It wasn't what I was, anyway -- since we can and have been suspended for overuse. But if *our* code could check the connection level and just tell some people to wait, or something. Well, there'd be a riot, but you get the drift.
Jessica - Sep 09, 2003 7:27:49 am PDT #4916 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The problem with putting people in a queue to be connected is that people at the back would just keep hitting "Read New" (or hitting "Refresh" or whatever) because their computer would be unresponsive. I think it would ultimately create more connections, and make everything reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally slow.
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2003 7:28:59 am PDT #4917 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
think it would ultimately create more connections, and make everything reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally slow.
Not if checking redirected one to a "too busy" page without using any connections at all.
No, I don't like the thought of doing that -- I'd rather rein the code in. But I get the point.