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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 02:25
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Ooo.. The tension rises!!

I wonder what we shall see on the other side?!

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 02:33
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With any luck, exactly what you see on this side!!!! Just a bit faster.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
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David R
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That's very ironic, since I'm listening to 'The Other side' by David Gray

Also; Did the newsletter say there would be a new website, or was that my imangination?


Tension .....

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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 02:35
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... Imminent is such a cool word


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 02:37
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@Rich - When is Appollo V2/3/4/5/6 coming out?

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Benjamin
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 02:49
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Quote: "I wonder what we shall see on the other side?!"

These forums I hope


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And a partridge in a pear tree


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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 03:45 Edited at: 27th Jul 2005 03:46
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Who knew imminent was over an hour..whew... got what I needed anyway.

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Quote: "EXPECT SOME DOWN-TIME"

If imminent is over an hour then how much is some?
It's server bug week!!

Breaking Stuff=Fun!,Bug Testing<>Fun!, Bug Testing=Breaking Stuff, so...
Bug Testing=Fun! Hmmmm....
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 04:23
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if we dont all make it, please know, I loved you all...

(with the exception of Jimmy - thank you )

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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 04:53
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What would have happened if the forums shutdown permanantly? I can already see Mouse rocking back and forth in his chair with his arms wrapped around his knees.


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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 05:20 Edited at: 27th Jul 2005 05:20
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Speaking of the devil, I haven't seen him for a while...


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Benjamin
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 05:29
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Quote: "I can already see Mouse rocking back and forth in his chair with his arms wrapped around his knees."

Haha.


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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 12:58
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Quote: "@Rich - When is Appollo V2/3/4/5/6 coming out?"


Apollo 2004 has an unspecified release date at this time.


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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 13:02
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if they shut down everyone can join my websites!

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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 16:07
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Who would want to if we have dbspot!
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 18:09
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Hmm.. Seems iminent - 16hours+

If this forum shut down - I'd have nothing to do while i'm at work!!

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Benjamin
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 19:31 Edited at: 27th Jul 2005 19:32
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If this forum shut down - I'd have nothing to do while i'm at work!! "

Then you would have to stop bloody winking


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 19:42
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hehe

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 22:49
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Rich - when you said imminently - did you actually mean imminently this week?

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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 23:20 Edited at: 27th Jul 2005 23:20
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You hear that? That's the sound of a thousand terrible and gigantic plugs being pulled...


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Benjamin
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 23:21
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I think he meant imminently this year.


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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 10:42
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Rich, it doesn't qualify as "IMMINENT" unless the server change is with a few hours, as opposed to 24+ hours





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WINK ATTACK!


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 18:45
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Rich - I dont think any of us mind it taking longer (it means we get to be part of our beloved community for longer ) but just out of idle curiosity (and procrastination from doing work) - whats the hold up?

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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 20:04
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LMAO!

Well that would certainly explain it. Its an amatuer mistake.. Cocoa relateding Drink Coding... It should be outlawed!

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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 20:17
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And remember not to wink too much as it makes you blind.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 21:36
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LMAO! How the heck did you splice that image together?


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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 22:18
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LMAO !!

HAHAHA!

I think he actually made that himself...

Then just photoshopped the text...

Nice work


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Posted: 29th Jul 2005 01:18 Edited at: 29th Jul 2005 01:26
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Ooooo... the new server is fast.

Edit: I just noticed that a bunch of files I recently attached to messages weren't copied to the new server. :-(
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Eric T
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Posted: 29th Jul 2005 01:46
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New server is actually kinda slow on my end compared to alot of the other sites i'm browsing. Or maybe its just IE7... funny thing is the ping is fine, just slow in browser. So maybe it's just me.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 29th Jul 2005 01:49
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Have been re-starting Apache quite a bit over the past hour trying to trap some errors, but will leave it be for now. Give it time to settle down. Have enabled gzip and it's flying down the pipe now. Much quicker page loads from here (UK). MailBacks aren't working at the moment, but I'll delve into the error logs tomorrow and work out why - too late now and I've an FPSC video to prep.

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Posted: 29th Jul 2005 01:50
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Much faster so far - specially now that green message bar thingy at top of page has now gone.

PS UK users need to change time offset to +6 hours in case you can't work it out!

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The green flash ticker shouldn't make any difference at all! But I can't be arsed to add it back in, so it can stay gone for now.

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holy crap! this is like lightning... I hit the middle mouse button on a thread and it appears in mere milliseconds! Awesome!


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Posted: 29th Jul 2005 02:41
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It is pretty damned quick! Rich - whats the spec on this new toy then?

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Posted: 29th Jul 2005 02:49 Edited at: 29th Jul 2005 02:49
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Working alot better now. It is pretty damn fast I must say. Though firefox renders (is that the word for it in the web design world?) it a bit faster then IE7 it seems... only by a slight bit though (not to start a war or anything... just a follow up to what i said earlier... besides, the page looks better in IE7).

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Posted: 29th Jul 2005 02:55
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It's an AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ server with a gig of RAM and a very fast hard drive. The extra memory helps Apache and MySQL cache, the gzip compression helps everyone other than ancient browser users and the new network location should help just about everyone (other than people in France, sorry!) - I pumped it up with PHP 4.4.0, which is the absolute latest version, and added some judicious lib tweaking. New box is even running daily updated anti-virus software, so all user attachments are scanned before being saved. I virus scanned the lot when moving over from the old server and was pleased to see not a single one had a virus Aren't you all good? All in all took about 4 hours of configuration and 2 hours of code changes.

I've increased the file attachment limit from 1MB to 10MB, mostly because we've got a terrabyte worth of bandwidth to play with every month *just for the forum* Direct Savvis Tier-1 connectivity, 100Mbps uplink, beautiful.

Tomorrow I'll configure our new file server (a fully stacked RAIDed beast) - we're gonna need it with FPSC V1 nearing completion.

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Quote: "(other than people in France, sorry!)"

Doh

Quote: "I've increased the file attachment limit from 1MB to 10MB"

Holy something, nice one!


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@mold rat
i used that have that same carpet...

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The French comment was because the old server was hosted in France, so I hope would have been pretty speedy for people located there. This one is in Texas, so is bound to be a little slower for French people than before, but probably not much.

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The server is TOO fast...

If I go back shortly after reading the last message, it will say that I didn't read that message... Took a while before I realized that.

10MB ATTACHMENTS!!! that is Generious... almost too generious...

Do you block new users uploads? 10MB sounds VERY exploitable...

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Could we get advanced search ability? Like search by username, date searches, message body text search, and so on.
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Quote: "This one is in Texas, so is bound to be a little slower for French people than before, but probably not much.
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Actually, I was gonna say it does seem a bit slower tonight but I thought perhaps it might be just my connection playing up again.


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It's a DELAY???

Looking closer, it appears that it isn't that I am receiving data before it is completly processed (doesn't make much sense anyways) but I am receiving data before ANYTHING is processed...

I don't know what to say... it is just very weird...

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Im now in server time +1 instead of -6...Yay
Lightning fast! clickity click!

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Well now that i know the thing can handal 10mb files i won't mind making bigger tutorials (although i'v only released 1 in like 6 months) lol and uhh won't mind putting up my vue 5 creations anymore lol.

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Quote: "1MB to 10MB, mostly because we've got a terrabyte worth of bandwidth to play with every month "

holy shnikey!

so umm, i've noticed a few previous attachments aren't attached anymore.

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Very Fast! I have a tool that opens 8 windows simoultaneously, across 8 different boards. It's still fast!

And no more looking for file hosting space for demos etc!

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Nice update! The pages are loading a LOT faster now!

Yay!

One small thing, though, now that the server time has changed, I am on +15, but the drop-down only goes to +12

I'll get confused...

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sweet improvement !

good work if no ones mentioned it yet Rich

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WhooooooooHHooooooo!
I am now at the center of the TGC Forum World with a server off set time of .................... 0........ yes.............. 0. It's good to be me.

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